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.

Repeated Just for hays as he seems to get up late in the morning.....

Hays read this and weep..........


Ipsos MORI Autumn Statement 2013 Poll

Britons more likely to agree with Ed Balls that George Osborne in denial about cost of living than to think Osborne’s long term plan for recovery is working

Public split over long term impact of government’s economic policies
An Ipsos MORI snap poll carried out in the evening following the Autumn Statement shows that when asked whether they agree with Ed Balls that George Osborne is in denial about the cost of living crisis or with George Osborne that his long term plan for economic recovery is working, the public agree with Mr Balls over Mr Osborne by 40% to 24%. A quarter (27%) say they agree with neither.

The public are split on the long-term impact of the government’s policies on Britain’s economy: 40% think they will improve the economy, while 38% disagree. However, they are more pessimistic on public services. One in five (21%) think the government’s policies will improve Britain’s public services in the long term, but 54% disagree.
On the Autumn Statement itself, just over half (56%) said they saw, read or heard something about it on the news or online, while another 8% said they watched it in full. A third, 34%, hadn’t seen anything about it - and young people were much less likely to have seen anything about it than older people
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On one of the measures announced today, linking retirement age to life expectancy, 30% support the policy and 58% say they oppose it.

Perhaps not surprisingly, many people are unable to estimate the impact of the Autumn Statement at this early stage (although this is less the case for those who had watched it on the news). Among those who do have a view, they are much more likely to think it will benefit rich people (47% think it was good for rich people, 5% bad) than poor people (14% good, 44% bad). Their initial reactions on the impact for people like themselves are also on balance negative – 42% think it was bad for people like them, compared with 15% who think it was good.

Download the poll topline (PDF)
Download the charts (PDF)

Gideon Skinner, Head of Political Research at Ipsos MORI, said:
“The Conservatives have seen their ratings on managing the economy rise in line with general optimism about the economy. However, many people also feel that the growth in the economy is not benefiting their own standard of living, and this is reflected in the finding that 40% agree with Ed Balls that George Osborne is in denial about the cost of living crisis. But these are people’s initial reactions – there is still time for them to change as they digest the Autumn Statement - and in particular the media’s interpretation of it.”

Technical Note
Ipsos MORI interviewed 1,071 online adults aged between 18 to 75 across Great Britain. Interviews were conducted using Ipsos’ online panel on the evening of 5th December 2013. Data are weighted to match the profile of the population.

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/3309/Ipsos-MORI-Autumn-Statement-2013-Poll.aspx

And hays you have missed this aswel from your own sides wrag.........

Tory boys .......BALLS was right Giddeon is in denial.............and this is the SUN the Tory wrag flagship.

labour go into a 12% lead.......

electionista ‏@electionista 11h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 29%, LAB 41%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 14%

YOU CANT CON THE PUBLIC/ELECTORATE. take note Tories.

NUFF SAID, its their in black and white.

BUT a shock coming up.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh dear David. Can we ever trust you again.........

https://twitter.com/Kieran_Psyl/status/408888441922142208/photo/1

Just a rogue poll as it was 6% day before.

Looks like Milibland will have to axe Balls.

Cameron not just a liar but a hypocrit of the highest order.


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bayp3xaIYAA2t5t.jpg

Nothing to say then hays about Cameron above???????????

Hays,

I think from what I see, that the CON artists should be concentrating on doing a hatchet job on their own leadership rather than hope they can smear labour as they usually do coming up to an election.

This is the reason for being called the NASTY PARTY but now known as the NASTY INCOMPETENT PARTY of LOSERS.

here here...... more more more.

papers waving........ more more more.

Hypocrite's, the lot of em!



Another Clegg betrayal: Now he's accused of U-turn over curbs on High St gambling machines
Nick Clegg posed for pictures in March alongside anti-betting campaigners

Group was trying to reduce the stakes and payouts on machines where punters can lose £100 every 20 seconds

Clegg has backed government plan to keep stakes of up to £500 the same

By Tim Shipman

PUBLISHED: 01:14, 5 December 2013 | UPDATED: 01:14, 5 December 2013

Nick Clegg was yesterday accused of a betrayal on gambling reminiscent of his U-turn on tuition fees as Liberal Democrats refused to act to curb fixed odds betting machines.

The Deputy Prime Minister had posed for pictures in March alongside campaigners trying to reduce the stakes and payouts on the machines where punters can lose £100 every 20 seconds.

They have been dubbed the crack cocaine of the high street. But last night Mr Clegg and senior Lib Dem colleagues backed a government plan to keep the stakes and payouts of up to £500 the same.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2518482/Another-Clegg-betrayal-Now-hes-accused-U-turn-curbs-High-St-gambling-machines.html

This is a better headline

Even the Sun couldn't have thought of a better front page

she certainly scrubs up well, or to be a bit harsher, she knows how to apply her make-up to best advantage ..... 2/3 years ago I saw her out at breakfast without the glam, and it was a bit of a disappointment to put it politely

The increase in student fees would also have happened under Labour. The study set up to advise was their study.

I don't remember the raising of uni fee's to be in any manifesto.

cynic - I don't think any amount of scrubbing up would make her ex husband look any better!

i think saatchi is a very unpleasant piece of work

You have to take Novella's comments with a pinch of salt. They are both engaged on a war of words.

Before the May 2010 election, the Conservative Party made no promises when it came to tuition fee levels. Their manifesto talked about waiting for a review of higher education funding by Lord Browne, the former BP boss asked to look into this question by the Labour government (which also made sure Lord Browne would be reporting back after the election, neatly kicking the issue into touch).

The Conservatives accepted the Browne report and it was written into the coalition agreement before the start of the Coalition government.