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Oh and first
After the disqualified cheat TSE.
@IsabelHardman: Labour MP criticises a 'vacuous soundbite' at PMQs but unfortunately mis-quotes it
I was looking at the polling throughout this parliament, and the 2012 budget was what really buggered the Tories.
I wouldn't bet on Michael Green's career prospects at any odds. Trading bet or otherwise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31918215
Looks rather cool.
Is there a general election in the wind ?? ...
Ed really came across as poorly.
Not that Dave came across much better mind.
Labour will complain it's a political budget anyway, so what's to lose?
Lovely.
http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2015/03/why-arent-the-tories-running-away-with-the-election/
Before this ludicrous pointless piece of political anachronism and theatre enthralls us all there was an interesting piece in yesterday's City AM from that well-known left-winger Ryan Bourne:
http://www.cityam.com/211701/osborne-likes-think-unthinkable-now-he-should-abolish-budget
FPT Many thanks for that. I entirely agree with the conclusion!
That said, a consultation on council tax revaluation would be a high-quality trap for Labour, as it'll almost certainly end up being seen as too difficult/unpopular and have to be scrapped - wouldn't look good for a Labour government to abandon a project designed to tax the rich.
Its a disaster for Pulpstar
UK has seen the largest rise in employment of any G7 country; more young people have got into work than rest of the EU put together
Just to piss off John Bercow...
Any Answers?
"Northern Powerhouse" - ching.
"If so, that is an astonishing statistic."
For a given definition of "employment" it probably has some validity.
The definition, and the differences, are part of the Tories problem.
But few on here are capable of noticing.
I'm hoping to buy a factory there next month. I shall instruct the workforce accordingly :-)
Yorkshire rules apparently
Just saying.
You feel no ones pain but your own Plato.
http://www.bbcchildreninneedshop.co.uk/pudsey-bear.html
Mark my words, a world of pain awaits Labour in West Yorkshire.
Isam will be posting Enoch Powell for the next 4 hours, thereby undermining my 24hr sponsored sledgeathon on Osborne.
80% of jobs created since 2010 have been full-time and just 20% part-time. Under Labour, 46% of net new jobs were part-time. #Budget2015
People are better off
Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson 2m2 minutes ago
Growth was good last year, will be okay in years to come. But overall? The slowest recovery in history #Budget2015
Prof Fisher says slowest recovery in history
Debt as share of GDP to start falling in 2015/16, a year earlier than expected #Budget2015
OH WAIT
Now it has .......
Gone up significantly
From Previous Thread (with apologies);- Well said. The idea that the Left has a monopoly over concern for the disadvantaged is nonsense on stilts and not borne out by evidence from history. The difference it seems to me is that the Left (or some of them) seem to think that the only way to respond to human suffering is by state intervention . And (a) that's simply not true; and (b) can rapidly lead to a belief in a large state as a value in itself irrespective of whether it achieves its intended purpose. It seems to me that that is the cul de sac into which the Left has got itself. It sees a large powerful state as an end in itself. The equivalent on the right is to want a small state almost regardless of what the effects might be.
Surely the better view is to have a state do those things which cannot be effectively done by people either indiviidually or collectively and do them really well, rather than do lots of things not very well or badly?
That's the big unanswered question.
Perhaps he'll have second thoughts.