Osborne is failing (he is) so Labour must match the Tory strategy?
2015 may be a pivotal election. It should be. The edifice upon which much conservative "success" is built is not just crumbling, it is slumping into the sea.
How does that square with the unstoppable rise of UKIP?
@JohnRentoul: RT @DPMcBride: One thing's for sure: no sensible, loyal person in Labour wants that story out now, so whoever briefed it is either a snake or a half-wit.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
#DCRISuspect 1: Mike Mulugeta DEAD Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi ON THE RUN
Wonder who the one they are questioning is then, a third party. Bah with 24/7 news you can never get information fast enough!!!
Who knows. It's a fog at the moment.
But the guy being led away naked makes sense - if he's a suspect, they'd want to remove him from anything that could be used as a trigger. If you strip him, there're less places to hide anything.
Although I'm probably wrong. And there're still (ahem) some places to hide things...
And someone's released video of a shoot-out - can't seem much, but there're plenty of shots fired.
News conference ongoing: it looks like one officer killed at MIT. The suspects were chased in a car and there was another shoot-out. One suspect was shot and taken into custody. The other fled on foot and is still at loose.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Only problem....that building is not the Shard on the south bank, but a new one in the City of London next to the Gherkin.....The Shard would be to the right of this photo, not directly ahead,...
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Is that The Daily Mail? looks like The Currant Bun
BenM the housebuilders paid ALOT for their landbanks didn't they? If they then develop the properties and sell the houses they will still be very epxensive. So...yes...the market is where it is because of the planning law. If planning was deregulated then the value of these land banks would plummet. But Joe Blow could also buy land and get a house built for much less than is the case today. House prices would fall, the construction industry and employment would gain. The market is currently badly distorted - by successive governments.
As is usuually the case, things would be better if governments let a free but sensibly regulated market operate. I'm not suggesting that it should be OK to put a MacDonalds in the middle of Stonehenge, but we are now sort of at the other extreme where land is not as freely owned for its owner to do with as he pleases as should be the case. Your (abslolutely correct) comment about landbanks and developers kind of proves my point. They exist because there is not a free market.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
There's nothing wrong with that post apart from the building not being the Shard and the paper not being The Mail
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
I hadn't heard of the Cheesegrater until just now.. shows how long i've been away!
It's very big. Taller than the Gherkin. I heard they are now going ahead with the Pinnacle, too.
London is getting dramatic new skyscrapers. Still not sure about the 'Walkie Talkie' tho.
Have you tried the Duck & Waffle on the 40th Floor of the Heron Tower? Food not bad and views to die for. First time I went a drunk bint thinking she could escape her bar bill pulled the fire alarm and we had to trek down 40 floors...when you pull a fire alarm you get sprayed with UV visible dye....
EDIT 4:34 EDT: Suspect 1 died to [with?] explosive attached to chest! White Hat might have one as well. EDIT 4:34 EDT: "White Hat" reported to have explosive device on him. EDIT 4:31 EDT: Suspect "White Hat" has been spotted.
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
Perhaps you didn't notice it wasn't my tweet. Not being a regular self-pleasurer over London's skyline, I'm happy to be advised otherwise. Why do you think a pic was cobbled together?
@Theuniondivvie "Perhaps you didn't notice it wasn't my tweet"
But you posted it thinking you'd show Mail = shoddy journalism & big crowds at Thatcher funeral = lies
A little corroborating research wouldn't have been hard; ffs all you had to do was scroll down to see it completely debunked in the comments underneath about 12 hours ago.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
@THemingford If all these people existing on benefits were living this "life of luxury" the govt & media portray, the economy would have been booming.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
I hadn't heard of the Cheesegrater until just now.. shows how long i've been away!
It's very big. Taller than the Gherkin. I heard they are now going ahead with the Pinnacle, too.
London is getting dramatic new skyscrapers. Still not sure about the 'Walkie Talkie' tho.
There is one nr Liverpool St station that is so high I got vertigo looking up at it last week, The Heron Tower
The Heron Tower is glittering and sleek: impressive. But the Shard still outshines them all. I saw it last night from Highgate Hill at dusk. A pale silver-sapphire sword, up thrust from the London clay. It's stunning. A masterpiece. The way it changes in the light.
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
Did a parade go down that street during the jubilee, or is it just the skyline which has been photoshopped?
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
It's the fecking Cheesegrater, uniondivvie, not the Shard. You moron.
I hadn't heard of the Cheesegrater until just now.. shows how long i've been away!
It's very big. Taller than the Gherkin. I heard they are now going ahead with the Pinnacle, too.
London is getting dramatic new skyscrapers. Still not sure about the 'Walkie Talkie' tho.
There is one nr Liverpool St station that is so high I got vertigo looking up at it last week, The Heron Tower
Useless Factoid:
The Heron Tower on Bishopsgate was built on the site of Crosby Hall, a mansion built by London Merchant Sir John Crosby in the 1370s. The dinning hall from that mansion was taken down brick by brick in 1908 and subsequently re-erected in Chelsea just North East of Battersea Bridge where it now forms the Eastern side of a mock Tudor building.
@JohnRentoul: RT @DPMcBride: One thing's for sure: no sensible, loyal person in Labour wants that story out now, so whoever briefed it is either a snake or a half-wit.
Could easily be both...
Oh dear - what an omnishambles.
Marched poor Ben up to the top of the spending hill only to disappoint.
If you could care still, my point about UKIP/cutting-nose-to-spite-face-ism was that I also respect your point about voting for parties whose policies you believe in. Plenty of Green Party voters think as you do and undoubtedly they have to a certain extent shaped the narrative. Thing is, they are viewed as powerless (and worse) and will never be in a position to enact their manifesto.
If you are happy for the mainstream parties to have their policies tweaked by your UKIP membership then I get that (and a euro referendum was more than "tweaking").
I suppose it is about getting the best outcome possible rather than the best possible outcome....
But you posted it thinking you'd show Mail = shoddy journalism & big crowds at Thatcher funeral = lies A little corroborating research wouldn't have been hard; ffs all you had to do was scroll down to see it completely debunked in the comments underneath about 12 hours ago.
In light of recent events I think I might do a bit of research before posting a tweet making an accusation of paedophillia. Accusations regarding the shoddiness and political bias of the British press, not so much.
Yes, well I think if UKIP get 10% of the vote or more in 2015 then it will make them very likely to get a couple of seats in 2020, and who knows what might happen after that. If people of my mindset voted for Lab or Con forever then we forfeit our right to complain when they do things that we completely disagree with.
@Theuniondivvie "In light of recent events I think I might do a bit of research before posting a tweet making an accusation of paedophillia. Accusations regarding the shoddiness and political bias of the British press, not so much."
In that case why should anyone on a politics blog show you any respect? You obviously have none for your own output.
On the multi-cultural poll, I checked the pdf, and it seems (I could've missed it) that they've omitted the white figures for and against.
Now, I fully expect a white majority in favour, but it's perverse to have a question like that and break it down into multiple ethnicities but miss out the largest one.
@Morris_Dancer there were two polls on it; one of just ethnic minorities, the other of the general public. I haven't checked the tables for either, and I don't know what you're looking at, but that may be why.
Ah, that could be it, Mr. Jimmy. Yes, you're right.
I only looked at that one question (wanted to see how it was phrased). I wonder if there's a status quo element. Being against multi-culturalism entirely would mean a drastic change.
"Blair 'deserves a funeral as big as Thatcher's': Minister who arranged Iron Lady's service suggests he could get similar ceremony because he won three elections
Miss Vance, it's hard to say. He did win many elections, but the changes he made to Britain are nowhere near as significant as Thatcher's. I also think he'll be remembered less by history. Thatcher has vehement supporters and opponents, but Blair's not exactly popular with the left or the right.
@Morris_Dancer there were two polls on it; one of just ethnic minorities, the other of the general public. I haven't checked the tables for either, and I don't know what you're looking at, but that may be why.
@Morris_Dancer there were two polls on it; one of just ethnic minorities, the other of the general public. I haven't checked the tables for either, and I don't know what you're looking at, but that may be why.
The support for multiculturalism among Conservatives is likely far more nuanced than your typically simple reaction to it. First of all, I expect many hear the question as "are you racist?", so they answer to avoid that accusation. Second, I'm sure that more of the people "supporting" multiculturalism think they're supporting the fact that there's cultural diversity in this country, rather than supporting the institutionalisation of cultural diversity, ie they're more Trevor Phillips than Ken Livingstone. I'd contend that most "PB Tories" understand the nuance and are against in the same way as Phillips.
Are PB Labour supporters representative of Labour supporters around they country? If they are I'm dying to know who the one in six are who wish Maggie was PM...
MacMillan I assume, before the Tories became ideologically bent on selling council houses and not replacing them?
Well, it certainly wasn't Blair or Brown, that's for sure. Quite where they thought the net 2.2 million immigrants were supposed to live, Lord only knows.
In that case why should anyone on a politics blog show you any respect? You obviously have none for your own output.
I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but I can get by quite well without your (and that of a great many others) respect.
You could just have said "oops, that was stupid" and maintained some dignity. Instead you come out looking like even more of an idiot. How nice for you.
@tim - Yes, Macmillan, from memory I think it was 1957.
I don't know what Ed wants, or how he proposes to pay for it. The known facts are that Labour failed absolutely miserably even in the boom times to build more houses, and that they have systematically opposed even the modest proposals the current government has made to ease the log-jam. The affordable housing requirement is the most brain-dead, since the only effect is to prevent any houses, affordable or not, being built at all on many small sites where the environmental and amenity damage would be very small.
Please would either BenM or tim provide a direct quotation from the answer Christine Lagarde gave to Ed Conway in Washington DC yesterday which substantiates the claim that the IMF has criticised the current fiscal consolidation policy of the UK government.
Christine Lagarde twice iterated her support for the UK government's fiscal management at the beginning of her answer. She then went on to state that the IMF's position had not changed from its most recent report on the UK economy, namely that the UK should continue with its existing plan unless growth substantially weakens, in which case further fiscal or monetary stimulus should be considered.
In that case why should anyone on a politics blog show you any respect? You obviously have none for your own output.
I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but I can get by quite well without your (and that of a great many others) respect.
You could just have said "oops, that was stupid" and maintained some dignity. Instead you come out looking like even more of an idiot. How nice for you.
Hope he has a big shovel to help keep digging that hole
Seriously - who actually wants to live in a council house - people want to own their own home.
Labour just want more clients dependant on it - job provided by the government , house provided by the government - its not Macmillan - its Brezhnev...
The “do something” consensus is piling pressure on Ed Miliband (Labour List)
"There’s an interesting splash in the Indy this morning that claims the Shadow Cabinet are coaelscing around plans to spend more than George Osborne is planning to – or to put it another way, to reject Tory spending plans and the limitations of that.
It’s entirely plausible that the Shadow Cabinet will come to that decision at some point, but they aren’t there yet. The Independent piece leans heavily on a report from the Fabian Society, and although the Fabians are influential in Labour circles, that doesn’t automatically mean their pamphlet will be adopted wholesale as party policy.
On the contrary, a source in the shadow Treasury team texted me this morning describing the Indy piece as “total rubbish”, as well as saying:
“As we have always said, we will not make our tax and spending commitments until the time of the election…it would be irresponsible to do otherwise.”
In reality, today’s Indy splash seems less like a clear indication of Labour policy, and more like the latest phase in a growing consensus in the party – let’s call it the “do something” consensus. Blair’s comments last week could be part of it. Anyone urging Ed Miliband to form any particular hard and fast policy position is part of it (that includes me then). Friends of Miliband who want him to be bolder are part of it. Critics who want him to change course are part of it too. Even Compass – who are broadly supportive of the Miliband agenda – have caught him with something of a broadside today. Their “Future Shock” paper argues that if Miliband doesn’t sketch out a clear enough vision, and that he could be buffeted in office in the same way that Francois Hollande is suffering in France.
All of a sudden the Labour Party’s fears have shifted, rather than fearing Miliband is a Kinnock – some now fear he could be a Hollande.
And until Labour’s policy agenda is cleared sketched out, rather than talking about a new settlement as Miliband is expected to do in Scotland today, the “do something” consensus will only grow.
Yet those who wish for greater policy definition, or a keynote policy idea (building millions of homes, for example) in the next few months are likely to be disappointed. As Jon Cruddas told the One Nation conference yesterday, that would be to “put the cart before the horse” – although there is still the possibility that the policy review timetable that I sketched out in February may still apply............
The problem is not that Labour doesn’t have enough policy, or even that it’s not good enough. Instead, the problem is that too much of what Labour is saying is abstract and a bit vague. The debates at the One Nation conference yesterday were necessarily academic – but so say that many of the ideas underpinning One Nation Labour are not “leaflet ready” would be an understatement. Pre-distribution is only the tip of the abstract iceberg."
Council House completions under One Nation Macmillan in 1957 - 150,000
Going on abut housebuilding in the 1950s is slightly disingenuous - we were still rebuilding housing stock after the war. The need was so much greater and dramatic than it is now.
Latest YouGov / The Sun results 18th April - CON 33%, LAB 40%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%; APP -28
Internals showing downward drift for Labour too....
tim should note that the closing gap between Tories and Labour is now so confirmed by polling trends that the Sun are happy to wait til the following morning to release the YouGov figures.
We should only expect a late night leak now when crossover occurs.
'It's basically the Hollande approach - but spending more.'
A couple of years of fantasy economics by the two Ed's endorsed by the Fabian society,interest rates rocket as the market loses confidence and then a big crash back to reality. The damage will be immense.
Ed Miliband is facing fierce internal dissent amid claims that plum seats in the European Parliament are being “stitched up” for union-backed candidates. Rows have broken out across the country within Labour after previously popular candidates were excluded in favour of others supported by the party’s biggest financial backers.
With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing under Churchill, who entrusted Macmillan with fulfilling the latter's conference promise to build 300,000 houses per year. 'It is a gamble—it will make or mar your political career,' Churchill said, 'but every humble home will bless your name if you succeed.'[42] Macmillan achieved the target a year ahead of schedule.[
So the peak of council house building in this country, very sensibly, was under Churchill and Macmillan.
I can see Ed's speechwriters using that line can't you?
The peak of housebuilding occurred after a war in which a large proportion of the housing stock was destroyed or damaged. A comparison between then and now is stupid.
In addition, much of the non-damaged housing stock was seen as being not fit for purpose for a whole variety of reasons. Terraces that were partially destroyed, tenement blocks, or back-to-backs that were no longer seen as being fit for purpose.
If Ed tries comparing the two he'll be shot down. The two situations, problems and requirements are very different.
If we have sent you to Romania it's only fair that we get all the Cheeky Girls they have to offer in return. Think of it as your contribution to good Coalition relations.
Seriously - who actually wants to live in a council house - people want to own their own home.
Labour just want more clients dependant on it - job provided by the government , house provided by the government - its not Macmillan - its Brezhnev...
Two points:
1. There's a huge waiting list of people who would like a council house in preference to renting one in the private rental market.
2. If you build more council houses you can combine that with right-to-buy without running out of the council houses that you need to house the needy and desperate.
Dare I mention that this might represent a "third-way" between the Thatcherite position of selling off all social housing, and the stuck-in-the-distant-past position of the Left who would have council houses for all?
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@JohnRentoul: RT @DPMcBride: One thing's for sure: no sensible, loyal person in Labour wants that story out now, so whoever briefed it is either a snake or a half-wit.
Could easily be both...
Geff @GeffStrikgeff now
#DCRISuspect 1: Mike Mulugeta DEAD Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi ON THE RUN
http://t.co/PTql7BvAOg
Kevin Blowe @copwatcher 13h
DAILY MAIL LIARS: check out picture of "Thatcher's funeral". Shard still being built. It's from last year's Jubilee http://tinyurl.com/brltjw4
@GuidoFawkes: Indy front page splash that Labour will promise to spend more. In other news I may have a drink down the pub later since it is Friday.
But the guy being led away naked makes sense - if he's a suspect, they'd want to remove him from anything that could be used as a trigger. If you strip him, there're less places to hide anything.
Although I'm probably wrong. And there're still (ahem) some places to hide things...
And someone's released video of a shoot-out - can't seem much, but there're plenty of shots fired.
none of the suspects is dead. One's in custody one's on the run.
How did it get from theft at 7/11 to MIT cop getting shot?
View from The Shard:
http://www.willpearson.co.uk/virtual-tour/gigapixel-view-from-the-top-of-the-shard/
And it isn't the Mail either - it's the Sun.
And you were complaining about accuracy?
very brave, googling "dirty dicks"
not at work, then....
Is that The Daily Mail? looks like The Currant Bun
As is usuually the case, things would be better if governments let a free but sensibly regulated market operate. I'm not suggesting that it should be OK to put a MacDonalds in the middle of Stonehenge, but we are now sort of at the other extreme where land is not as freely owned for its owner to do with as he pleases as should be the case. Your (abslolutely correct) comment about landbanks and developers kind of proves my point. They exist because there is not a free market.
It's like googling medical symptoms - too much information, all of it conflicting, you might as well go to see a doctor.
I hadn't heard of the Cheesegrater until just now.. shows how long i've been away!
@JonAshworth
Extraordinary stuff - Osborne used to love citing IMF as endorsing his cuts, now IMF criticise him so his henchmen brief against them
EDIT 4:34 EDT: Suspect 1 died to [with?] explosive attached to chest! White Hat might have one as well.
EDIT 4:34 EDT: "White Hat" reported to have explosive device on him.
EDIT 4:31 EDT: Suspect "White Hat" has been spotted.
But you posted it thinking you'd show Mail = shoddy journalism & big crowds at Thatcher funeral = lies
A little corroborating research wouldn't have been hard; ffs all you had to do was scroll down to see it completely debunked in the comments underneath about 12 hours ago.
@IanDunt
Majority of Tory, Labour and Lib Dem voters believe multiculturalism is a good thing http://bit.ly/10mxuw7
@THemingford
If all these people existing on benefits were living this "life of luxury" the govt & media portray, the economy would have been booming.
The Heron Tower on Bishopsgate was built on the site of Crosby Hall, a mansion built by London Merchant Sir John Crosby in the 1370s. The dinning hall from that mansion was taken down brick by brick in 1908 and subsequently re-erected in Chelsea just North East of Battersea Bridge where it now forms the Eastern side of a mock Tudor building.
/ Useless Factoid
Marched poor Ben up to the top of the spending hill only to disappoint.
Ferrari: "Where you involved in selling off the gold?" Balls: "ermmmmmmmmmmmmm" #CallBalls
All going well then....
sorry had to rush out last night after posting.
If you could care still, my point about UKIP/cutting-nose-to-spite-face-ism was that I also respect your point about voting for parties whose policies you believe in. Plenty of Green Party voters think as you do and undoubtedly they have to a certain extent shaped the narrative. Thing is, they are viewed as powerless (and worse) and will never be in a position to enact their manifesto.
If you are happy for the mainstream parties to have their policies tweaked by your UKIP membership then I get that (and a euro referendum was more than "tweaking").
I suppose it is about getting the best outcome possible rather than the best possible outcome....
I'm a flagellating, necrophiliac bestialist - but it's tiring and sometimes I think I'm flogging dead horse.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, well I think if UKIP get 10% of the vote or more in 2015 then it will make them very likely to get a couple of seats in 2020, and who knows what might happen after that. If people of my mindset voted for Lab or Con forever then we forfeit our right to complain when they do things that we completely disagree with.
In that case why should anyone on a politics blog show you any respect? You obviously have none for your own output.
Now, I fully expect a white majority in favour, but it's perverse to have a question like that and break it down into multiple ethnicities but miss out the largest one.
I only looked at that one question (wanted to see how it was phrased). I wonder if there's a status quo element. Being against multi-culturalism entirely would mean a drastic change.
Scratch that...
"Blair 'deserves a funeral as big as Thatcher's': Minister who arranged Iron Lady's service suggests he could get similar ceremony because he won three elections
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2311370/Blair-deserves-funeral-big-Thatchers-Minister-arranged-Iron-Ladys-service-suggests-similar-ceremony-won-elections.html#ixzz2QtqH0GBV
One terrorist dead, one policeman dead in Boston vicinity.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22213651
http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_9782000/9782567.stm
http://www.planningresource.co.uk/news/1152818/
http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2012/october/labour-opposes-government-proposals-to-allow-appeals-on-unviable-section-106-obligations/
This is true to form, of course. The largest number of houses ever built in any year in the UK was under a Conservative government.
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ethnic-minority-survey-April-2013-full-tables.pdf
Comparison:
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Ethnic-minority-poll-Nat-Rep-comparison-full-tables.pdf
Net in favour of Multiculturalism (Comparison)
Con: +42
Lab: +52
LibDem: +78
UKIP: -14
Looks like they updated their immigration policy yesterday
http://www.ukip.org/content/ukip-policies/3038-ukip-immigration-policy
The support for multiculturalism among Conservatives is likely far more nuanced than your typically simple reaction to it. First of all, I expect many hear the question as "are you racist?", so they answer to avoid that accusation. Second, I'm sure that more of the people "supporting" multiculturalism think they're supporting the fact that there's cultural diversity in this country, rather than supporting the institutionalisation of cultural diversity, ie they're more Trevor Phillips than Ken Livingstone. I'd contend that most "PB Tories" understand the nuance and are against in the same way as Phillips.
Are PB Labour supporters representative of Labour supporters around they country? If they are I'm dying to know who the one in six are who wish Maggie was PM...
I don't know what Ed wants, or how he proposes to pay for it. The known facts are that Labour failed absolutely miserably even in the boom times to build more houses, and that they have systematically opposed even the modest proposals the current government has made to ease the log-jam. The affordable housing requirement is the most brain-dead, since the only effect is to prevent any houses, affordable or not, being built at all on many small sites where the environmental and amenity damage would be very small.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=IxPhRsl57dM&feature=endscreen
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/25/sunil-tripathi-missing-brown-university_n_2947997.html
Christine Lagarde twice iterated her support for the UK government's fiscal management at the beginning of her answer. She then went on to state that the IMF's position had not changed from its most recent report on the UK economy, namely that the UK should continue with its existing plan unless growth substantially weakens, in which case further fiscal or monetary stimulus should be considered.
So come on tim and Ben. Put up or shut up.
this One Nation Ed witters on about, is it France ?
Cameron/Osborne: 41
Miliband/Balls: 34
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan
Labour just want more clients dependant on it - job provided by the government , house provided by the government - its not Macmillan - its Brezhnev...
"There’s an interesting splash in the Indy this morning that claims the Shadow Cabinet are coaelscing around plans to spend more than George Osborne is planning to – or to put it another way, to reject Tory spending plans and the limitations of that.
It’s entirely plausible that the Shadow Cabinet will come to that decision at some point, but they aren’t there yet. The Independent piece leans heavily on a report from the Fabian Society, and although the Fabians are influential in Labour circles, that doesn’t automatically mean their pamphlet will be adopted wholesale as party policy.
On the contrary, a source in the shadow Treasury team texted me this morning describing the Indy piece as “total rubbish”, as well as saying:
“As we have always said, we will not make our tax and spending commitments until the time of the election…it would be irresponsible to do otherwise.”
In reality, today’s Indy splash seems less like a clear indication of Labour policy, and more like the latest phase in a growing consensus in the party – let’s call it the “do something” consensus. Blair’s comments last week could be part of it. Anyone urging Ed Miliband to form any particular hard and fast policy position is part of it (that includes me then). Friends of Miliband who want him to be bolder are part of it. Critics who want him to change course are part of it too. Even Compass – who are broadly supportive of the Miliband agenda – have caught him with something of a broadside today. Their “Future Shock” paper argues that if Miliband doesn’t sketch out a clear enough vision, and that he could be buffeted in office in the same way that Francois Hollande is suffering in France.
All of a sudden the Labour Party’s fears have shifted, rather than fearing Miliband is a Kinnock – some now fear he could be a Hollande.
And until Labour’s policy agenda is cleared sketched out, rather than talking about a new settlement as Miliband is expected to do in Scotland today, the “do something” consensus will only grow.
Yet those who wish for greater policy definition, or a keynote policy idea (building millions of homes, for example) in the next few months are likely to be disappointed. As Jon Cruddas told the One Nation conference yesterday, that would be to “put the cart before the horse” – although there is still the possibility that the policy review timetable that I sketched out in February may still apply............
The problem is not that Labour doesn’t have enough policy, or even that it’s not good enough. Instead, the problem is that too much of what Labour is saying is abstract and a bit vague. The debates at the One Nation conference yesterday were necessarily academic – but so say that many of the ideas underpinning One Nation Labour are not “leaflet ready” would be an understatement. Pre-distribution is only the tip of the abstract iceberg."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/10005253/Margaret-Thatcher-protest-ring-leader-cashed-in-on-right-to-buy-scheme.html
We should only expect a late night leak now when crossover occurs.
In any case LibDem voters split in line with OA on the question....
'It's basically the Hollande approach - but spending more.'
A couple of years of fantasy economics by the two Ed's endorsed by the Fabian society,interest rates rocket as the market loses confidence and then a big crash back to reality.
The damage will be immense.
Ed Miliband is facing fierce internal dissent amid claims that plum seats in the European Parliament are being “stitched up” for union-backed candidates.
Rows have broken out across the country within Labour after previously popular candidates were excluded in favour of others supported by the party’s biggest financial backers.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article3743513.ece
LabourList commented on this a few days back:
"Are these Labour’s least transparent (and most open to abuse) selections?"
http://labourlist.org/2013/04/are-these-labours-least-transparent-and-most-open-to-abuse-selections/
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"Universal benefits which go across the population are an important bedrock of our society" ~ Ed. #ScotLab13
In addition, much of the non-damaged housing stock was seen as being not fit for purpose for a whole variety of reasons. Terraces that were partially destroyed, tenement blocks, or back-to-backs that were no longer seen as being fit for purpose.
If Ed tries comparing the two he'll be shot down. The two situations, problems and requirements are very different.
If we have sent you to Romania it's only fair that we get all the Cheeky Girls they have to offer in return. Think of it as your contribution to good Coalition relations.
So the bombers have succeeded in closing down the world's number one university.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22213651
1. There's a huge waiting list of people who would like a council house in preference to renting one in the private rental market.
2. If you build more council houses you can combine that with right-to-buy without running out of the council houses that you need to house the needy and desperate.
Dare I mention that this might represent a "third-way" between the Thatcherite position of selling off all social housing, and the stuck-in-the-distant-past position of the Left who would have council houses for all?