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.

Sun mocks Miliband for turning down Help for Heroes photo op


Miliband absent as Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Nigel Farage pose on Sun front page with Help for Heroes wristband


Patrick Wintour, political editor


theguardian.com, Thursday 25 September 2014 10.04 BST




The Sun’s front page today. Photograph: The Sun


Ed Miliband was locked in another war with the powerful Sun newspaper after the news organisation claimed he had refused to join their campaign to support Help for Heroes, which helps British army veterans.

Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Nigel Farage all posed on the front page of the Sun with a Help for Heroes wristband.

However, Miliband’s aides said he was too busy dealing with a shadow cabinet meeting about whether the UK should join attacks on Islamic State (Isis).

According to the newspaper, the Labour party leader turned down four requests to endorse a campaign for Help for Heroes “for fear of offending Labour lefties”.

The Sun’s front page contrasts images of Cameron, Clegg and Farage sporting the wristbands with a white square in place of Miliband.

But a Labour source said: “It’s untrue that Ed refused to back the Help for Heroes campaign. He was busy with the shadow cabinet discussing how to respond to the Isil [Isis] threat in Iraq.”

The Sun said: ““We approached him [Miliband] four times in total. Most recently yesterday [Wednesday] afternoon and told him it was going to happen and he would be empty chaired if he didn’t do it.

“He was not asked to hold up anything Sun branded. Every day this week there has been a Help for Heroes feature or news story, it has been well flagged up. The other three political leaders posed with selfies.

“The idea that it would have been a big chunk out of his day is just wrong. It was absolutely not a stitch up, this was the next part of the campaign.”



More classic millibandus here: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/25/sun-ed-miliband-help-for-heroes

Haystack - 25 Sep 2014 10:27 - 46399 of 46401

It will only be levied on the balance over £2m. There will be special arrangements for people who are asset rich but cash poor to avoid taxing poor pensioners living in expensive houses. That means you might as well just increase income tax on the richest people as it is just that..........ends

dick head they are, they are bringing back the 50% top tax rate.

ohhhhhhhhhhhh dear Hays gets worse and worse.

Labour were intending to reassess the banding for council tax, because the bands had been set years earlier when house prices were much lower, Labour wanted to reassess these outdated band/house prices. So if you have added that conservatory or extention etc, look forward to a higher band. Could be known as the Milli - band, and be as popular as the poll tax
2517

Yep but we need if for the NHS, cant let it run down anymore like under the Tories.

gf chucking more money at the NHS is NOT the answer, it needs to be more efficient, there is so much money being wasted it is unbelievable.
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Some on outsourcing to private companies back pockets!

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Just a thought about mansion tax.

If somebody has a holiday home/s (home or abroad) would that be added together for Taxable total?

quite so george, as the doctors etc will endorse
it's also a sad fact that whereas uk used to set the gold standard for training nurses etc, this is certainly not the case any more

But we are world class when it comes to pen pushers.

http://order-order.com/2014/09/25/miliband-forgets-to-mention-the-deficit-two-more-times/

I see Mili - liar's 'ordinary girl' attended the same school as Samantha Cameron at a cool £15K a year. Another cheap attempt at conning the voters. Red Fred will no doubt be appalled at this, I know from his posts he abhors con artists.
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he doesn't abhor con artists half as much as he does giving a straight answer to a straight question

HAYS id rather have Milli forget than the catalogue of lies weve had from David Camorons mouth the most famous being the Party Political broadcast where he said to the WHOLE NATION " we are reducing the size of the debt here in Britain"............


ohhhhhhhhhh my god I could not believe what I had heard.

cynic, perhaps he's an MP.
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ex civil servants are just as slippery and slithery .... indeed, they probably taught their mp proteges the finer arts of same

lets be honest the plank called milband made a NON SPEECH drivel at best
now back to gf still waiting for your response on living wage and poor pensions
our are they going to live on a third of the living wage if the dimwit brain dead mil gets is way .
if the question is to hard then ask your mum

DATE FEBRUARY 2013
10p tax rate
The Labour leader has pledged to reverse a policy that he himself implemented; his party has offered no credible explanation about how it would be funded. This is magic money politics, disingenuous in the extreme.

Balls and Miliband have announced that they will fund their new flagship policy with a mansion tax on properties worth over £2 million. Just the two problems.

One: Labour have already committed to spending the money raised through a mansion tax on reversing the Coalition’s cuts to tax credits.

Two: Even if the cash had not already been set aside for something else, the mansion tax would only raise £2 billion. That figure is a considerable distance short of the £7 billion required to pay for reversing the abolition of the 10p rate.

DATE SEPTEMBER 2014
10p tax rate
Will now be funded by scrapping the Marriage Tax Allowance
Mansion Tax will now go to the NHS.
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WELL we all now no gf as no answers just a lemming a simple question and he can not answer it so I will

pensioners if the clown gets is way will not be able to live on the poor pension a third
of the living wage great idea ed kill off the old

I have answered you plank TANKER , I answered early yesterday afternoon. You must have gone off the net. Ill find the post, I know as a Tory you will like it.

Here we are TANKER your question and my answer.............

TANKER - 24 Sep 2014 13:41 - 46336 of 46419

gf just answer a simple question if he makes the living wage £320 a week prices will rise
the old age pension giving 2.5% rise till 2020 gives a pension of £131 how are they going to live. just answer the question they will be on £189 a week less than the living wage so how do they live

all posters should be interested in your answer
goldfinger View goldfinger's profile - 24 Sep 2014 14:01 - 46337 of 46419 edit this post

FOOD.

Breakfast...... boiled egg

Lunch ....... Beans on toast

Tea......... Salmon paste sandwich

supper..... piece of toast

Multiply by 7 times per week, at most £15 per week.

ENERGY, heating and hot water. £15 per week at most, 1 bar on fire.

PAPER....just weekends 70px 2 =£1.40

ANNUAL CHARGES, insurance, water rates, phone £2 per week.

Total =£33.40p.

PENSION £113

Therefore £79.60 for savings each week.

LOOKS A DAM GOOD DEAL TO ME PERHAPHS IDS SHOULD THINK OF LOWERING IT £50 per week.

That could go to Foreign Aid help India fatten the cows up.

See TANKER all a Fuss about nothing.