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Plato said:

TBH, I'm going to be glued to the Scottish results like nothing else on May 8th small hours.

Whether the Tories win an OM isn't half as entertaining as watching SLAB.

MarqueeMark said:

It is extraordinary to think that at the next PMQs there just might be no Scottish Labour MPs for the Speaker to call.....

SouthamObserver said:

Dave will be asked again and again, and again and again he will seek to blame the LibDems. But he will be asked again and again, and that is the point. Labour needs to motivate its vote. On NI, the Tories promised to reverse the 1% employee rise introduced by Brown. When they took power they didn't.

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

antifrank said:

I didn't see Prime Minister's Questions, but am I right in imagining it as the verbal form of this cartoon?

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/24/58683008_2dc4c01d94_z.jpg?zz=1

isam said:

Cameron won that easily, but I find it a bit intellectually dishonest for the prime minister of a coaltion to be taunting the opposition for them possibly being in a future coalition because 'they can't win on their own'

chestnut said:

Chuka in distress.

Roger said:

watcher

A nice lunch in Quo Vadis will lift your spirits.


Thanks! A man after my own heart.

Pulpstar said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

£150k rate of tax up to 50p is Labour's plan isn't it ?

Richard_Nabavi said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

I doubt if they can afford to rule out an NI increase.

MarqueeMark said:

JEO said:

After performances from David Cameron like that, you have to wonder whether it was a mistake to avoid a one on one debate with Ed Miliband.

But then the risk is that Ed gets the "aw, bless...." sympathy vote from all those traumatised maternal instincts....

RodCrosby said:

Rumours CVR will indicate windscreen failure...
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Sunil_Prasannan said:

Part-ELBOW for the first FIVE polls this week (Populus, Ashcroft, ComRes and two YG) gives Labour a 0.5% lead, which is what they had for week-ending 22nd March.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Pulpstar said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

£150k rate of tax up to 50p is Labour's plan isn't it ?

I think so.

I read somewhere on the reasons why the Tories went along with the big increases on the personal allowance, as it made the national insurance contributions look even larger on the average payslip.

So they could use this line of attack in 2015.

JonathanD said:

chestnut said:

Chuka in distress.

From the BBC feed - is it right for Labour to say they didn't go into politics to tax people?

" we haven't gone into politics to tax people."

Plato said:

What was Mr Danzuch [sp] thinking of getting a PMQ slot after his recent comments?

Does he want to kill off EdM?

TheScreamingEagles said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

Part-ELBOW for the first FIVE polls this week (Populus, Ashcroft, ComRes and two YG) gives Labour a 0.5% lead, which is what they had for week-ending 22nd March.

But that doesn't include the mega YouGov?

SouthamObserver said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

SouthamObserver said:

Dave will be asked again and again, and again and again he will seek to blame the LibDems. But he will be asked again and again, and that is the point. Labour needs to motivate its vote. On NI, the Tories promised to reverse the 1% employee rise introduced by Brown. When they took power they didn't.

It's not a question of 'blaming' the LibDems. It was a budget agreed by both parties after negotiations. That doesn't mean that a budget introduced by either of the two parties alone would have been identical. In particular, the LibDems would no doubt have pushed for the higher income-tax allowances and for changes in spending plans. As a result the difference had to be made up elsewhere.

I'm baffled as to why you are having trouble comprehending this. It's simple enough, surely.

Indeed - the Tories agreed to put up VAT having said that they wouldn't.

Alistair said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Pulpstar said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

£150k rate of tax up to 50p is Labour's plan isn't it ?

I think so.

I read somewhere on the reasons why the Tories went along with the big increases on the personal allowance, as it made the national insurance contributions look even larger on the average payslip.

So they could use this line of attack in 2015.

I've always found it slightly flabbergasting the way the rate of Employee NI gets cut from 12% to 2% when you move to the 40% income tax rate. It effectively means you only have a marginal 10% tax rise rather than 20% on your higher earnings.

JosiasJessop said:

Three points on PMQ's:

1) Miliband asking for a direct answer, getting one, and then saying 'I don't believe you', is incredibly weak. In fact, pathetically so.

2) Cameron was wrong about Crossrail: the bill passed under Labour, as did the contracts for the initial enabling works. The coalition did award all the other major contracts and spend most of the money; then again, the way it is funded meant that, once the ground was broken, it would have been a very hard project to cancel.

3) It was boring enough to send my son to sleep. Could letting a nine-month old watch PMQ's be seen as some form of cruel and unusual punishment? :-)

FrankBooth said:

Didn't watch PMQs but having just checkd the reaction on the BBC it seems Cameron did his usual thing of not bothering to anwser the questions put to him. On a different note I see the reaction on here from Tories was that it was yet another stellar peformance by Dave and I'll give you this, he's good at tub thumping and boosting morale on his own side. But succeeding in politics involves persuading the waverers not simply preaching to the converted. Dave seems to have a 35% strategy, he just doesn't realise it.

Tykejohnno said:

@isam

Thanks for those links on sadiq khan you posted the other night,a very dangerous individual if he became leader of anything.

FrankBooth said:

Didn't watch PMQs but having just checkd the reaction on the BBC it seems Cameron did his usual thing of not bothering to anwser the questions put to him. On a different note I see the reaction on here from Tories was that it was yet another stellar peformance by Dave and I'll give you this, he's good at tub thumping and boosting morale on his own side. But succeeding in politics involves persuading the waverers not simply preaching to the converted. Dave seems to have a 35% strategy, he just doesn't realise it.

MaxPB said:

SouthamObserver said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

SouthamObserver said:

Dave will be asked again and again, and again and again he will seek to blame the LibDems. But he will be asked again and again, and that is the point. Labour needs to motivate its vote. On NI, the Tories promised to reverse the 1% employee rise introduced by Brown. When they took power they didn't.

It's not a question of 'blaming' the LibDems. It was a budget agreed by both parties after negotiations. That doesn't mean that a budget introduced by either of the two parties alone would have been identical. In particular, the LibDems would no doubt have pushed for the higher income-tax allowances and for changes in spending plans. As a result the difference had to be made up elsewhere.

I'm baffled as to why you are having trouble comprehending this. It's simple enough, surely.

Indeed - the Tories agreed to put up VAT having said that they wouldn't.

No, Labour's £137bn deficit forced the coalition government to raise taxes.

TheScreamingEagles said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

Part-ELBOW for the first FIVE polls this week (Populus, Ashcroft, ComRes and two YG) gives Labour a 0.5% lead, which is what they had for week-ending 22nd March.

But that doesn't include the mega YouGov?

Has it been de-embargoed??

Yes

Oh I thought you emailed me 'cos it was embargoed! OK, I stick into my ELBOW asap!

I sent it, because I didn't want you to miss it.

weejonnie said:

MarqueeMark said:

JonathanD said:

chestnut said:

Chuka in distress.

From the BBC feed - is it right for Labour to say they didn't go into politics to tax people?

" we haven't gone into politics to tax people."

Well he may have joined the wrong party then!

If he isn't going to tax people he only has two real options.

1) Tax corporations - which will go down like a lead balloon when people realise it's really a tax on their pensions.

2) Cuts worse than Thatcher.

Which one(s) will it be?

Verulamius said:

Is the mega YouGov a separate poll from the daily YouGovs or just their amalgamation?

My PMQs Verdict: Well, that was worth the hype. Normally exchanges at PMQs are heated, but relatively inconsequential. But today we got a proper announcement - a surprise fiscal statement, with a significant implications for a potential Conservative government - and David Cameron deployed it with perfect timing. It is rare to see a PMQs ambush executed with more aplomb.

Alistair said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Pulpstar said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

rottenborough said:

Sounds bleak for Ed. But I predict that no voters will care and the polls will be unmoved until we really get going.

I think Ed will be ruling out a NI tax increase very shortly, if he doesn't, then the Tory attack lines really kick up a notch.

£150k rate of tax up to 50p is Labour's plan isn't it ?

I think so.

I read somewhere on the reasons why the Tories went along with the big increases on the personal allowance, as it made the national insurance contributions look even larger on the average payslip.

So they could use this line of attack in 2015.

I've always found it slightly flabbergasting the way the rate of Employee NI gets cut from 12% to 2% when you move to the 40% income tax rate. It effectively means you only have a marginal 10% tax rise rather than 20% on your higher earnings.

TGOHF said:

James Chapman (Mail) ‏@jameschappers 7m7 minutes ago
Labour says it will continue with Tory VAT bombshell posters even though Cameron has just categorically ruled out a rise #pmqs

Plato said:

Is Mr Galloway standing again?

Tykejohnno said:

FrankBooth said:

Didn't watch PMQs but having just checkd the reaction on the BBC it seems Cameron did his usual thing of not bothering to anwser the questions put to him. On a different note I see the reaction on here from Tories was that it was yet another stellar peformance by Dave and I'll give you this, he's good at tub thumping and boosting morale on his own side. But succeeding in politics involves persuading the waverers not simply preaching to the converted. Dave seems to have a 35% strategy, he just doesn't realise it.

I'm not a tory,I've posted on here when Ed as had a good PMQ's,just reporting how I saw it.