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I wonder if he will be ennobled if he is cleared by the standards commissioner, you could imagine Cameron offering him this, if he resigned immediately.
Survation - 5% Lab Lead
YG - 1% Con Lead
Ms Nuala, age unknown, having just shot the footman who had bought a copy of the Bedford Bugle featuring the thread cartoon by "Marf" is said to be helping the police with their enquiries at an undisclosed interview room near Luton.
Relatives of Ms Nuala are said to shocked and stunned that she failed to take her full length sable fur coat and crocodile hand luggage to Smithson Towers Health Spa and clearly she has developed PRSD - Post Rikind Stress Disorder.
@MP_SE - SKY headline URL says it all…!
http://news.sky.com/story/1433512/green-leaders-cock-up-will-have-consequences.
Horrible, horrible decision. The long term rating of Sony moves from buy to overweight because of this move, there is clearly no long-term vision at Sony wrt to SPE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJm3v42P7E
Spot on.
The Bennett car crash may have been similar in cause - it's almost the first time anyone has bothered to analyse Green policy in depth.
"What environments will be leveled under the new homes."
Indeed, think of the thousands of worms who will be mercilessly crushed under those mechanical monsters belching out world-destroying fumes.
The horror!
Mate of mine is a developer. His expert view on house building is that all the regulations around new build houses is having 2 effects - makes houses unattractive and less saleable and makes them a lot more expensive to build. If the Green's got in, it wouldn't be a surprise is the cost of just meeting regulations would be £60k a house, excluding any build costs.
The Sir Howard Davies who had to resign from the LSE over its links with the Gaddaffi regime? That Sir Howard? Yes indeed.
Oh dear! Just the man to set the tone from the top - to show bankers that money should not be allowed to blind people to the need - the urgent necessity - to use their judgment and that, sometimes, just because something can be done does not mean that it should.
David Axlerod @AxlerodDavid · 48s 49 seconds ago
Thank Christ I'm not doing the Green's PR campaign for #GE2015 after that car crash interview with @natalieben today.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2966804/Tory-MP-claims-ASTROLOGY-solve-health-service-crisis-taking-pressure-doctors-nurses.html
And if you have a choice between character and skills, you choose character. Every single time.
Too many people who are trying to do a good job see too many people who have an elevated idea of their own importance really do a lot of important jobs really quite badly or in a mediocre way and still waltz into a lot of prestigious and highly paid jobs on the basis of, well, what?
Meritocracy, my ar*e!
Ex chairman of FSA before HBOS collapsed. FT implying that an inquiry into its failure won't surface before summer.
Not sure this looks smart.
Unfortunately Dave the master debater is Frit of putting Ed to the sword in the debates
He is a management consultant by background. So the sort of person who thinks that how an organisation is structured, not what it does or, even more importantly, who does it, is the most important thing about it.
The people who get to the top of these organisations are the cream of society: those who are thick and rich.
LAB - 34% (+4)
CON - 28% (-3)
UKIP - 19% (-4)
LDEM - 10% (+3)
GRN - 4% (+1)
Outlandish outlier?
LAB 31
CON 31
UKIP 21
LD 7
GRN 3
EICIPM
Lab 33, Con 29, LD 10, Kippers 19
I think that's the only consistent thing in the polls
LAB+2
CON-2
UKIP-2
LD+3
GRN +1
Surely 28% is too low for Tories
LAB 33.7
CON 30.5
UKIP 21
LD 10.5
GRN 3
Labour a little more that 3% ahead in England and Wales.
I will be interested to see whether they continually poll around the low double digits for the rest of the week. I expect a bounce after their spring conference and manifesto unveiling.
They've just been out of the limelight for a bit. That will change and I would expect them to pick up again when it does.
From the general fuss, I was expecting something resembling an Alf Garnet tirade. What I saw was a women apparing to admit she was frightened of people with African features, that she accepted she seemed to have a problem and didn't seem to know what to do about it. She didn't imply they were inferior or use intentionally derogatory language (albeit she used a different n word that was considered respectable to her generation but is no longer considered PC). She seemed to me to think she had a phobia, possibly, as she said, due to a long ago repressed bad experience.
Surely monstering her is in this way is wholly counter productive. It strikes me as a modern version of the people who used to go round Bedlam laughing at the inmates in the 18th Century?
Why she decided to discuss something so personal and controversial in front of the cameras only she knows, but it was clearly troubling her. Surely this is someone who needs help not monstering, making political capital out of and having people behaving like the crowd in the scene in Life of Brian when someone said J*****ah?
But sell them if you think the decline will continue. I'm not doing so, not yet, and if I'm wrong I'll pay for it, not for the first time.
But yeah, I'm sceptical too. I think Labour has a modest lead and we're seeing normal noise around that. But I do reckon UKIP is off the boil, and that it's marginally benefiting Labour, because the later, less convinced UKIP adherents came from Labour. David has always been like that - homeopathy is another of his fancies. He's a nice, gentle fellow and other MPs never liked to heckle him but he was always seen as a little...specialised.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/devolution-now-greater-manchester-gets-8712970
Devolution: Now Greater Manchester gets control of its entire £6bn NHS budget
I have a lot of sympathy for any politician who gets the media spin cycle.
Find a line, then edit out the context, and it becomes a fantastic headline.
There have been several of those in the past few weeks, and we can expect a bulk delivery regularly right up to polling day.
elsewhere:
sean thomas knox @thomasknox
The "missing ISIS girls" have now crossed into Syria (says BBC news). So that's it. They've joined ISIS. Which is crime. They are criminals.
Retweeted by Daniel Hannan
I hereby charge you three with becoming brood mares for a bunch of psychopathic halfwits that we have no idea how to deal with in any sensible fashion?
an astonishing 27% of other gullible cap doffers to say they will vote
for them?
Coalition down from 61% in 2010 to 38% in this poll...looks like
the "Booming Britain" garbage from people like Digby Jones
and the obedient Tory lickspittle press isnt resonating
with many sensible people who look at the reality of their
lives and not the fairy tale fiddled figures and dodgy stats that
are fed to them on a tediously regular basis
However, whether UKIP were actually on 23% is irrelevant. Its that we have seen similar drops in three polls in two days . That suggests there is some sort of event impact affecting their vote share.
I seem to remember Andrew Lloyd Webber threatening to leave in 1997. Dont think he ever did.
What stupid spending plans Let me guess the NHS or welfare state?
The IFS by the way thinks the Tory tax cut promises makes them the biggest black hole party
'the "Booming Britain"
At least we won't have to worry about that with the two Ed's, just remember to switch the lights off.
No, I saw it in the news, our stock market is at levels not seen since the dot com bust......but this time it hasn't been artificially pumped up!
It is as sound as our house prices.
it is.....isn't it?