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.

How do you calculate your average?

Ring Andrew Neil up.

I suspect hes used the figures from the table above, ie, Institute For Fiscal Studies that Camoron and his pal Giddeon love to quote as long as it backs their argument up.

NOW who does that remind me of.

Manuel!

gf
If you think the figure is wrong then how do you come to that conclusion?

Update - Labour lead at 4
by YouGov in Politics
Wed January 22, 2014 6 a.m. GMT

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 21st January - Con 34%, Lab 38%, LD 9%, UKIP 13%;

David Blanchflower, Gordon Brown’s favourite former appointee to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, has come as close as his arrogance allows him to admitting he was totally wrong about everything. Back in 2009 the out-of-luck economist gazed into his faulty crystal ball and predicted that unemployment would top 5 million if the Tories came into power. In 2010 he forecast that unemployment would surge past 3 million to 3.4 million and in 2012 he predicted unemployment would go up the day before it dipped below 8%. So today’s painful admission that UK unemployment is ‘falling surprisingly fast’, which ‘is welcome good news and better than I had expected’, is a bit of an understatement. Better than expected… to the tune of millions of jobs.

hays - for all that, the criticism raised here that a lot of the additional employment is in part-time jobs has some validity .... however, far better that than no job at all and the improving trend is incontrovertible, whatever certain critics like to voice here

Given a choice between a job at lower pay or no job it is clear which wins? Lower pay and part time work are the result of supply side policies. As the economy grows the balance will shift into more permanent and better paid jobs.

Hays cant accept the figures when they are their in black and white right in front of his nose.

And if things are so good please be so kind to explain the continuing growth in trends of the list below............

1.Food Banks (record levels)
2.Pay Day Loans (record levels)
3.Savings accounts at lowest level in history
4.Credit Card Debt at highest level ever
5.Charity Shops, increasing by the day
6.Red Cross having to feed poor families
7.Kids going to school not having had a breakfast
8.Tax credits and housing benefit at historic highs
9. Shopping at cheap supermarkets Lidl and Aldi.

The usual boring crap!

sticky - don't start on that boring old mantra yet again, not least because so much of it is nonsense and irrelevant - in particular 5,7 and 9

"Kids going to school not having had a breakfast" - possibly because the parents are spending too much money in the pub, or on luxury items they cannot afford. My parents were poor when I was growing up, but my mother made sure I had eaten a plate of porridge every morning before I left for school.

electionista ‏@electionista 7h
A map of minimum wage across Europe ............. UK a low wage economy make no wonder living standards are falling.

But Cyners its the truth no matter how boring you and (deny everything) Hays find it.

Are you really living in the REAL World or are you like Camoron and a selective few toffs who have no ideas whats really going on.

a very pretty map, but does it not show that all the brown areas pay pretty much the same? ..... if not, what are the colours all about?

is it true that LIDL is doing well?
yes, but that is because they are deemed to offer better/best value

is it true that there are lots of charity shops in the high street?
yes, but it's a way for landlords to to escape all sorts of taxes and/or to keep some income coming in and/or because high street rents are too high to support local biz and/or because while peeps are happy to whinge about the decline of choice etc in their high streets, they didn't support the local businesses when they were there etc etc

is it true that some children go to school without breakfast?
yes, but that has long been so and is the result of a great many factors

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so which truth would you care to pick

Pretty much the same??????????????work it out over a full year. Its monthly pay.

Wont belong now before Carney is forced to raise interest rates, under pressure from world wide circumstances or we become uncompetitive and the recovery is chocked off.

People are looking too much into internal inflation and not the bigger picture.

Yes Cyners but look at the RELATIVE increase during the Coalition years.