UK General Election 2015

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JustAnotherLogin

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1,127 posts

120 months

Wednesday 18th February 2015
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The Tories best hope?

news said:
The number out of work in the UK fell by 97,000 to 1.86 million in the three months to December.


Average earnings including bonuses rose 2.1% in the quarter from a year earlier.

Excluding bonuses, earnings rose 1.7%.

The ONS also said total pay was 2.4% higher in December compared with the same month in 2013 - the biggest lead over inflation since March 2010.

CPI inflation was 0.5% in December, and new data released on Tuesday showed the rate fell to 0.3% in January, its lowest level since records began.
Sp despite some people's anecdotal evidence, income for the average person is going up, and significantly

wc98

10,334 posts

139 months

Thursday 19th February 2015
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JustAnotherLogin said:
Sp despite some people's anecdotal evidence, income for the average person is going up, and significantly
is the tax take now rising as well ? would be interesting to see the latest figures.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Friday 20th February 2015
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laugh


standard.co.uk said:
A London Tory MP today confessed to “a wrong turning” after he ended up going canvassing in the wrong constituency.

David Burrowes’ blunder came to light because he somehow picked the very street where neighbouring Labour MP Andrew Love is a prominent resident.

The Enfield Southgate backbencher was being mocked by opponents as the MP who did not know where his own constituency was.

Mr Love’s incredulous wife, Ruth Rosenthal, told how one of Mr Burrowes’ team rang her bell and tried to give her a Vote Burrowes leaflet.

“A young woman knocked on my door and told me she was there on behalf of my MP, David Burrowes from Enfield Southgate,” said Ms Rosenthal. “She argued with me when I said that Bush Hill Park is part of Edmonton and the MP is Andy Love. It wasn’t until I told her who I am that she gave up. I told her that she was half a mile from Enfield Southgate.”

A few minutes later, she told LabourList, her next door neighbour phoned to say that Mr Burrowes in person had introduced himself as her MP and tried to hand her a leaflet. After she corrected him, he took the leaflet back. “I then looked out of the window and sure enough Burrowes with the young women were just leaving the street,” said Ms Rosenthal.

Mr Burrowes, who was a local councillor for 12 years before being elected MP in 2005, laughed off the “confusion”.

He told the Standard: “Either my canvassing enthusiasm or the distraction of my phone got the better of me.

“I took a wrong turning through flats in Village Road which on one side of the road are in my constituency and the other in Edmonton. Apologies for any confusion caused but I suppose knocking in those three doors could be good preparation for future boundary changes.”

Enfield Southgate was the scene of one of London’s best-known election upsets in 1997 when former Defence Secretary Michael Portillo was ousted by Labour’s Stephen Twigg.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/tory-mp-david-burrowes-admits-wrong-turn-after-canvassing-in-wrong-constituency-10055789.html

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Friday 20th February 2015
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wc98 said:
JustAnotherLogin said:
Sp despite some people's anecdotal evidence, income for the average person is going up, and significantly
is the tax take now rising as well ? would be interesting to see the latest figures.
Tax receipts are rising.

bbc said:
Tax receipts

The ONS said self-assessed income tax receipts were £12.3bn in January, an increase of £1.7bn, or 15.6%, compared with January 2014.

Meanwhile, Treasury revisions to government spending showed departments spent £1.5bn less in the year to date.

And other revisions, which showed an increase of £0.5bn in VAT receipts and £0.4bn in other tax receipts, all helped to reduce government borrowing.

A £2.9bn payment to the European Commission budget, which skewed last month's borrowing figures, was reduced by £1.2bn in January to £1.7bn as part of an accounting procedure agreed with the Europe Union (EU).

That agreement means the £2.9bn will eventually be reduced by existing refunds and rebates from the EU down to about £850m.

Tax receipts and spending both grew in line with expectations. In the year to date, total current receipts grew by 3.1%, as against the full-year forecast of 3%.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31548170

NailedOn

3,114 posts

234 months

Friday 20th February 2015
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The Treasury had a £8.8 billion surplus in January.
To recap the Two Eds' arguments:
1) Freeze energy prices when they are falling
2) Blame Con-Libs for cost of living crisis when wages are rising and the economy is about to deflate
3) Borrowing would have been lower if spending had been higher
No. I don't think they should be given the keys to Nos 10 £ 11 either.

wc98

10,334 posts

139 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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BlackLabel said:
thanks for that,adds a bit of actual substance to the recovery claims for a change.

Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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NailedOn said:
The Treasury had a £8.8 billion surplus in January.
To recap the Two Eds' arguments:
1) Freeze energy prices when they are falling
2) Blame Con-Libs for cost of living crisis when wages are rising and the economy is about to deflate
3) Borrowing would have been lower if spending had been higher
No. I don't think they should be given the keys to Nos 10 £ 11 either.
No doubt about it, Labour are truly useless when it comes to managing our money, the thought of them with their hands on the purse strings sends a shiver down my spine.

NailedOn

3,114 posts

234 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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Ed Balls' latest wheeze is to cap the 25% tax free lump sum from pensions.
The fact that many people have planned for this sum, perhaps for decades, is not considered. In fact, many saw the lump sum as a reason to pay into pensions even when the returns were poor.
So those who saved for their later life are penalised.
Labour say it will be worth £2b a year, to fund the cut in Uny tuition fees.
That would be assuming that people still took the money and paid the tax. A big assumption.

JustAnotherLogin

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1,127 posts

120 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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NailedOn said:
Ed Balls' latest wheeze is to cap the 25% tax free lump sum from pensions.
The fact that many people have planned for this sum, perhaps for decades, is not considered. In fact, many saw the lump sum as a reason to pay into pensions even when the returns were poor.
So those who saved for their later life are penalised.
Labour say it will be worth £2b a year, to fund the cut in Uny tuition fees.
That would be assuming that people still took the money and paid the tax. A big assumption.
Link?

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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OMG!


John Prescott set to return to front-line politics



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31570861

turbobloke

103,742 posts

259 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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Scuffers said:
OMG!
John Prescott set to return to front-line politics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31570861
Abracadabra, Hey Presclot! He's back!! We're saved!!!

Advising Miliband on fairytales should be right up his street, it might even keep Greenpeas off his roof.

allergictocheese

1,290 posts

112 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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Utter desperation. Won't work.

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Saturday 21st February 2015
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So, two jags Prescott to save the planet!

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

261 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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allergictocheese said:
Utter desperation. Won't work.
Why not?

Scuffers

20,887 posts

273 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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Mojocvh said:
allergictocheese said:
Utter desperation. Won't work.
Why not?
sadly, you may well be right, Prescot is always seem as traditional labour, (hence why Blair put up with him).

as the MP for Grimsby said, some people will just vote for old labour no matter what, and Prescot is old Labour.

allergictocheese

1,290 posts

112 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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It won't work because the problem is Ed Miliband. Until he is removed, Labour won't win an election. Whilst the unions fund and control Labour hierarchy and policy the party won't sufficiently represent the views of the majority. Reintroducing beasts like Prescott is no more than deckchairs on sinking ships.

mjb1

2,552 posts

158 months

Sunday 22nd February 2015
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turbobloke said:
Scuffers said:
OMG!
John Prescott set to return to front-line politics
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31570861
Abracadabra, Hey Presclot! He's back!! We're saved!!!

Advising Miliband on fairytales should be right up his street, it might even keep Greenpeas off his roof.
Perhaps he's going to teach him his left jab, although I can't see the limp wristed puppet picking it up easily.

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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"Ashcroft National Poll: Con 32%, Lab 36%, Lib Dem 7%, UKIP 11%, Green 8%

Monday, 23 February, 2015 "

http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2015/02/ashcroft-nati...


"Tom Mludzinski ‏@tom_ComRes 19m19 minutes ago

New ComRes / @DailyMailUK poll, 2 point Con lead Con 34% (+3) Lab 32% (+2) LD 8% (NC) UKIP 13% (-4) Green 8% (+1) Others 6% (-1)"

BlackLabel

13,251 posts

122 months

Monday 23rd February 2015
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Punters on the other hand think the Tories will be the largest party. (this time last year the prices were the other way round).




Axionknight

8,505 posts

134 months

Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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