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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31535635
No taxpayers' money for Greens or any other party.
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"Poll shows UKIP closing in on Tory seats in two south Essex battlegrounds
UKIP are closing in on top Tories in two key south Essex election battlegrounds, a shock new poll suggests.
The poll published by Lord Ashcroft today shows the Conservatives just one point ahead in Castle Point and just six points up in South Basildon and East Thurrock."
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/11805461.Poll_shows_UKIP_closing_in_on_Tory_seats_in_two_south_Essex_battlegrounds/
https://twitter.com/matsJpersson/status/568474687782694912
Another German demand: they think Greek banks are solvent enough to no longer require a €10.9bn buffer from Europe's financial stability fund.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/business/business_news/49831/scicluna_eurogroup_might_not_oppose_grexit#.VOYvs_mUfkW
On the subject of three policewomen strip searching a suspect.....there's a life size cartoon on Blackpool pier of a police woman interviewing a suspect "Anything you say will be taken down....."
"Knickers!"
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/19/nigel-farage-predicts-david-cameron-will-lead-largest-party-after-election
Peter Baldwin, an electrician at BAE Systems in Lancashire, challenged the Labour leader over his failure to back a vote on Britain’s membership of the European Union during a factory visit.
He said the party’s refusal to propose a referendum was putting him off voting Labour and warned that the scale of immigration was forcing British workers out of jobs.
The episode, caught on camera by the BBC, has echoes of the moment Gordon Brown got challenged over immigration while campaigning in Rochester by Gillian Duffy.
It came as Mr Miliband was being introduced to workers at the jet fighter factory in front of the cameras.
“At this moment in time I don’t feel like voting Labour,” Mr Baldwin told the Labour leader when they met.
Asked by Mr Miliband what his “biggest issues” with the party were, Mr Baldwin continued: “This morning we were sat in the brewery over there [for workers].
“They’re all leaning now towards Ukip. Now, the question on everybody’s mind is the referendum. I know what you’re going to say, but the working class man in here wants to have a say.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ed-miliband/11423668/Ed-Miliband-confronted-by-working-class-voter-over-Europe.html
I just have to select a location and think who I dare let run,some of our runners are very eloquent in their views. Filming next week,I will report back.
The message from Greece is loud and clear. Democratic will is no substitute for an ability to pay the bills. Or as we used to say in Scotland before we became a nation of socialist loons, "he who pays the piper picks the tune."
It is a lesson the tories really need to be shouting from the rooftops. If you want to know what will happen if Labour get a hold of the economy again, just look at what is happening to Greece.
It even has the merit of being arguably true.
Ukraine, Crimea, land link to Crimea, Black sea ports and coastline, the area of Ukraine with most shale oil and gas. Job just about done. International reaction tested.
Baltic is next for a Putin test. NATO, EU, what will they do. How scared and impotent are they?
Popular nationalism at home.
He is a very dangerous man.
Curious.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2960121/Blow-Farage-polls-reveal-Ukip-poised-lose-key-marginal-battles-against-Tories.html
What would NATO do if a 'pro-Russian' rebellion 'broke out' in part of Lithunia or Estonia with a Russian majority population. I suspect more sanctions, and a small naval fleet would position itself off Riga doing flying displays, and we might supply arms to those Baltic states. But that's it.
Poland is different. First because of history, no one would stand for any shenanigans there, second there are minimal Russian minorities there, and third Poland has fully learnt the lessons of not relying on others for its defence and will arm itself and fight back if pushed.
My guess in the election lottery (forecast sounds wildly optimistic) the other day was 2 MPs for UKIP and that is probably the bit of my guess that I am least worried about.
In all cases it is a waste of time and money.
German Soldiers Used Broomsticks Instead of Guns During NATO Exercise http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/german-soldiers-used-broomsticks-instead-of-guns-during-nato-exercise … #Germany #NRF #Norway
Way to go NATO!
The Americans set out their withdrawal positions to which they would fall back once the Soviet tanks made it onto the Hohne Heath past the Harz mountains. The British did the same. The French planned to fall back somewhere north of Paris.
All morning the Germans said nothing and someone finally noticed and asked their plans. The answer was simple: "We are going to Berlin".
At that time West Germany was the only NATO country whose kit was on a par with the US and their discipline, efficiency and speed was evident even to a child like me. My father certainly thought very highly of them.
The mistake was made in 2012 when Greece needed a far more radical default than it got slicing their debt to a manageable level. They still need this, arguably even more so. If that is not compatible with EZ membership (and it almost certainly isn't) they have to leave.
WATCH: Miliband confronted by UKIP-supporting electrician about EU referendum http://order-order.com/2015/02/19/awkward-ed-meets-a-voter/ …
Tee hee.......!
I think the UK maintained 2-3 armoured/infantry divisions there at its peak, but happy to be corrected.
Windy?
Joss Garman www.jossgarman.com/
Hywel Lloyd (founding member of Labour: Coast & Country)
Majid Rahman (Newport Cllr)
Nick Thomas-Symonds nickthomassymonds.com/
Sarah Woodall www.sarahwoodall.org.uk
In 1953, as part of my National Service, I was stationed for 3 weeks in Hanover. The Germans were only starting to recover their defeat and the their new army was still small, but they still had better infantry weapons than we the British were using at that time. Believe it or not we were still using totally outdated Lee Enfield rifles.
To the fellrunners, Respect, as Mr Ali G from Staines would say.
Pick one of the steeper routes and one of the more remote fells...
Made in the 1950's and using propellers those things can be shot with WW2 anti-aircraft defences.
But Labour will survive and possibly even flourish. They may have lost, or are losing the WWC, but they have a large slice of the immigrant vote, the young and the middle class to rely on. That's a growing group so their future looks assured.
Such a switch round to my youth.
Are you going to be a candidate this May?
Which, in winter in Norfolk, was an INCREDIBLY popular activity. Especially at night!
But that was in essence the whole thing about the Cold War, it was impossible to attack the enemy.
The same rules still apply, it is impossible for nuclear states, or alliances with nukes, to go to war with one another.
I suspect you're right. At that time, an ex-schoolfriend had joined the army and was a lieutenant in a tank unit stationed in Germany. On leave, he patiently explained their planned route back to the channel ports as soon as war was declared.
I just think that some UKIP supporters will be scared by the thought of Ed and Ed and will be persuaded to vote tory as a result for the good of the country.
How UKIP get on in Labour seats will be interesting. A lot of SLAB's problems arise from us Scots taking a good look at Miliband and being totally underwhelmed. Whilst I do not think it is likely similar collapses in other parts of the country (outside north London) are possible.
There are plenty of things to criticise Miliband for, but on this occasion I'd say he did fine.
"The Tupolev Tu-95 (Russian: Туполев Ту-95; NATO reporting name: "Bear") is a large, four-engine TURBOPROP-powered strategic bomber and missile platform. First flown in 1952"
You are scared of junk.
Apologists for Putin's aggressive military provocations like you really need a better response than to accuse people who call him out on it as being jingoistic.
"I just think that some UKIP supporters will be scared by the thought of Ed and Ed and will be persuaded to vote tory as a result for the good of the country."
Many Conservative supporters are investing a great deal in that hope.
As hopes go, it's not an unreasonable one. It may well be fulfilled. But sensible supporters like yourself recognise that it is a hope, and no more.
Naturally I have my own hopes, and sometimes I bet on them, but I do like to get decent odds. Not sure what odds I'd want on the outcome you envisage here, but I'm sure it's no certainty.
I repeat the charge, you are running scared of junk.
BOOOO.
More money for Jane though!!!
But if the tories are losing thousands of votes in seats like those in Ld A's samples today and are still polling at about 36% by the election by definition they are doing a lot better in some areas than they did the last time.
I still think Labour largest party, they just have too many advantages, but a more efficient Tory vote is their best bet of holding on.
The Liberal Democrats believe women and young voters switching from the Conservatives will help them secure enough seats to play a key role in another coalition government after the general election.
Over the last year the party has privately conducted just over 100 constituency polls that give it grounds to believe enough women and young voters have switched in recent months to make their participation in a further coalition the most likely outcome of the election in May.
The Lib Dems are spending £350,000 on constituency polling at the insistence of the party’s director of strategy, Ryan Coetzee. He demanded the unprecedented budget, telling the party leader and deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, if he did not poll in key seats he would be “just another person in Westminster with an opinion”.
It is understood the party has the capacity to conduct a marginal seat poll every day, although in practice it is unlikely to poll that much between now and election day.
The party strategists’ decision selectively to share the private polling conducted by Survation is in part an attempt to show strong local performance will prevent a serious wipeout despite dire national polls. The polls show a boost in the party standing in the last six months especially among women and voters aged 18 to 34. The switchers are mainly coming from Tories or undecideds, and predominantly in Tory-held seats.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/19/lib-dem-polling-brings-hope-of-future-coalition-role?utm_content=buffer10dc9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
From the 1980s onwards the difference in the quality of kit, particularly as the Reagan growth in expenditure came online made it obvious that they could not compete.
Also they are way cheaper to use that modern bombers.
That is the point though:"but they are in use and kept in use because they are fighting wars with some third world dictatorships that don't have an airforce anyway."
The russian flying junk is as terrifying to a country that has an aiforce, as a North Korean "please take notice of the mighty dear leader, pleaaaase" ultimatum to America.