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A month today, on January 19th, the investigation into what went wrong with the general election polling will be announcing its findings at a special event in London.
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It looks a lot like they will repeat the same trick... surely there's no way back for Corbyn?
https://twitter.com/ncpoliticsuk/status/601115131041423361
Which is why it's so baffling that people are projecting an Osborne-led Tory party to win a landslide when he has such terrible personal ratings.
In the mid-term of the parliament, I think Miliband's "satisfaction" ratings were often ahead of Cameron's, but the "best PM" question always showed a comfortable Cameron lead I think throughout the parliament.
However I think a better view is that OsCon would comfortably beat CorLab but not by a landslide. MayCon would do a lot better than OsCon imo.
"British universities have become too politically correct and are stifling free speech by banning anything that causes the least offence to anyone, a group of leading academics warns on Saturday.
A whole generation of students is being denied the “intellectual challenge of debating conflicting views” because self-censorship is turning campuses into over-sanitised “safe spaces”, they say."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12059161/Politically-correct-universities-are-killing-free-speech.html
Could Gus be following Jose to the job centre?
Luton South and Luton North CLPs voted against his re-selection but the Bedfordshire CLPs outside Luton backed him.
If I'm right about the reason, couldn't the gas distribution network be supplied with LNG supplies once North Sea gas runs out?
There is some stat I saw that said no team who was top at Christmas has ever finished outside of the top 4. Leicester in Champions League next season....
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/huge-change-facing-property-world-as-gas-looks-set-to-be-phased-out/ Sounds like a vote winner.
I have a mate who is a damp expert working for insurance companies.
He has been passionately against cavity wall insulation for precisely the reasons you outlined.
The flats where I live had this done recently, my bit wasn't done as I refused consent.
P.S. You asked: my email is HurstLlama at gmail dot com
Those EXPERTS in full on when Ranieri was appointed:
Gary Lineker "Claudio Ranieri? Really? Ranieri is clearly experienced, but this is an uninspired choice by Leicester."
Robbie Savage "Ranieri, good manager but for me not Leicester."
Harry Redknapp "Ranieri is a nice guy, but he's done well to get the Leicester job."
Maybe a perfect candidate for Bedfordshire Lib-Dhimmies...?
his opponent's ratings will be even worse, but there is no guarantee of that even with Corbyn leading Labour, and of course he may not be at the time.
That'd be pretty hard for the UK. It sounds a bit hyperbolic to me.
The quote is from someone with a vested interest in scrapping them, it seems
He said: “Gas cookers will be phased out, probably as soon as possible.
“I suspect manufacturers will simply stop making them.”
Oh, they will, will they?
:paĺace-spanner:
And on the flip side, Chelsea had a terrible end, and their form has just continued on into this season.
It does indeed, Mr. Felix, but such stupidity is not beyond the reach of our politicians - see the Climate Change Act as a starter for ten. So who knows they may yet go for it, after all I keep reading that insulating my home will reduce the amount of electricity I use.
Given that I heat the place with gas and the only electricity involved is in running the pump for a few hours each day for a couple of months each year, I have to wonder about the intellectual capacity of the people who come out with such guff.
Given that I heat the place with gas and the only electricity involved is in running the pump for a few hours each day for a couple of months each year, I have to wonder about the intellectual capacity of the people who come out with such guff.
Some people do heat their homes with electric power, perhaps they are who the advice is aimed at?
But that's just my view.
Fair comment, but what percentage of homes do use electric heating? A very small one I think.
He said: “Gas cookers will be phased out, probably as soon as possible.
“I suspect manufacturers will simply stop making them.”
Oh, they will, will they?
Ah well.
1.9 million as of 2011:
http://tinyurl.com/pddzy8n
http://www.propertyindustryeye.com/huge-change-facing-property-world-as-gas-looks-set-to-be-phased-out/ Sounds like a vote winner.
That'd be pretty hard for the UK. It sounds a bit hyperbolic to me.
It does indeed, Mr. Felix, but such stupidity is not beyond the reach of our politicians - see the Climate Change Act as a starter for ten. So who knows they may yet go for it, after all I keep reading that insulating my home will reduce the amount of electricity I use.
Given that I heat the place with gas and the only electricity involved is in running the pump for a few hours each day for a couple of months each year, I have to wonder about the intellectual capacity of the people who come out with such guff.
Some people do heat their homes with electric power, perhaps they are who the advice is aimed at?
We are all electric on the Spanish coast with no gas despite an underground pipeline laid a few hundred metres from our [very rural] home. To be fair despite electricity here being the one thing more expensive than the UK - we never need to use our heaters except for 2/3 months in the winter evenings. The heatwave currently affecting the UK would be considered a bit of a cold snap here.
Take the inexplicably popular quiz that Labour's soft left can't stop tweeting about: https://t.co/9ey8T2FWbC
I don't find it surprising that the winning leader is pretty much always more popular than his opponent but it seems a little meaningless in itself. If PM Osborne is still providing a jobs miracle, rising real wages, zero inflation, a reducing deficit (hopefully to zero by then) and generally competent government in 2020 then it is inevitable that he will be more popular than any leader of the Labour party, let alone Corbyn.
Conversely, a Labour party led by Corbyn is bound to be unpopular and lose. It is just inevitable.
Page 46, looks like about 10%:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/345141/uk_housing_fact_file_2013.pdf
"You are Progress. You can’t admit it in polite company – or on Facebook – but you secretly lust for the return of Tony. Every time you switch on the TV and see Jeremy Corbyn you just hanker for the sweet caress of Peter Mandelson. You are the third way. You are three election victories in a row."
And with that I need to take a shower, as I feel rather grubby...
As so often, Alistair Meeks hits the nail on the head, when he says Osbourne gives the impression he enjoys pulling wings off flies.
I'm Labour First, but I'd guessed that anyway,
"Why can't we declare open seasons on Tories? I'd be the first one out there with a gun, and I know who would be the first target. Bloody Osborne."
This followed someone discussing badgers being culled, so clearly tensions were high, but curious that Osborne was listed as first target even so, what is that issue to do with him?
Ah, family Xmas time, cannot beat it.
'Lord Janner has died and so have his secrets. Justice is the loser'