Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Labour looked like idiots as usual.

you have to wonder where all these would be £100k+ a year people are coming from.




London's population boom means housing an extra borough every three years


As nine million people are set to call London home by 2019, the race is on to provide the 400,000 new homes and transport upgrades that will be needed.

David Spittles


06 November 2013


* The popular suburbs are where the population is predicted to grow

* Transport for London is set to gain more control of suburban commuter routes, from Liverpool Street through east London to Stansted airport and Cambridge, taking in Hertfordshire commuter towns such as Bishop’s Stortford and Cheshunt.

* 23 train stations will be upgraded. Areas and new developments to benefit include The Mission in Hackney Wick;Stanmore Place near Canons Park; Kidbrooke Village in Kidbrooke and London Square in Ruislip


London’s population jumped by more than 100,000 last year to a new postwar high, and at the current rate of increase the capital will grow by the equivalent of an extra borough every three years, hitting a total of nine million people by 2019, according to the latest data from the Office for National Statistics.

As a result the city needs a more extensive transport network for commuters, says London Mayor Boris Johnson, and 400,000 new homes over the next 10 years.

The popular suburbs are where the population is predicted to grow. After past flirtations with locating offices out of town, the mood is now for commerce to cluster in the centre of the capital, though this will inevitably put extra strain on the transport system. So London will not just have more people — predicted eventually to reach 10 million by 2030 — it will have more people travelling longer distances to work.

Private car use in London is falling, while journeys by Tube and bus are soaring. Once-quiet public transport routes are crammed, with 3.7 million people using the Tube each day. The Docklands Light Railway carries 100 million passengers a year, up from 66 million in 2008, while the recently completed East London line is already feeling the strain — though its capacity is being boosted by 25 per cent.


more property pumping here: http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/new-homes/londons-population-boom-means-housing-extra-borough-every-three-years-0?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=article

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8938044.ece/ALTERNATES/w940/Letters-cartoon-20131114.jpg

I guess "the next parliament" is after the next election
anyway, we will all be amazed to hear that by then, all will be hunky-dory, uk ltd will be suddenly running a budget surplus and - most staggering of surprises - tax cuts, maybe even juicy ones, are to be the order of the day
surely not an age-old attempt to buy votes?

Yep your right Cyners Labour as the government will be tempted to buy votes in 2020.

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They'll find something else to squander the tax money on.

Balls speech brilliant today, Osbourne was very poor.

Already experts have found out that no provision has been made for funding of childrens school dinners for the three Years they get them.

What a shambles.

Giddeon again making a balls up.

no idea who said what and confess i don't much care ...... however the markets tell us that there was nothing hugely exciting

Ed Balls - with apologies to Shakespeare for the edit - a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

What a shambles it was with Ed Balls.

LOL.........only one thing to say to you........IDS.............In Deep S-it.

Good ol call me dave, you cant trust him as far as you could throw him.




Tory rebellion averted as immigration bill is delayed

Amid fears of revolt over lifting of border controls on Bulgarians and Romanians, ministers delay debate until new year


Rowena Mason, political correspondent


theguardian.com, Thursday 5 December 2013 11.54 GMT



http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/05/tory-rebellion-averted-immigration-bill-delayed