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.

Ed Balls to reject SNP’s £180bn spending demand

DAVID MADDOX
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ED BALLS will come to Scotland today to ­reject Nicola Sturgeon’s demands that the next government spends an extra £180 billion in the next five years.

In a tough message Labour’s shadow chancellor – on a visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow – will warn that a Labour government will have to “balance the books”.

Earlier this month the First Minister visited London to state the price of the SNP propping up a Labour government would be an increase in spending of 0.5 per cent, a total of £180 billion, and dropping plans to balance the books by 2020.

Speaking at University College London, she said: “Labour is far too slavishly attached to the Westminster fixation on deficit reduction in isolation.”

However, despite insisting Labour will end the deficit by 2020, Mr Balls will challenge SNP claims his party will repeat Tory austerity policies.

Mr Balls will highlight Labour’s planned mansion tax on homes worth £2 million or more, ending zero hours contracts, raising the minimum wage to £8 an hour and restoring the 50p tax rate for those earning £150,000 or more. He will say: “This is the change Scotland needs but only ­Labour or the Tories can form the next government and every vote for the SNP is another vote which will make it more likely the ­Tories will form the next ­government.”

His speech comes as Scottish Labour launches its first election broadcast under Jim Murphy’s leadership, repeating the message of “balancing the books” in a “fair way”.

Labour’s shadow Scottish Secretary Margaret Curran also pressed home the message yesterday during Scottish questions in the Commons where she revealed Commons’ library figures showed 82 per cent of the 27,000 new jobs north of the Border since 2010 were low paid while 28 per cent were zero hours contracts.
She said: “This government stands up for the wrong people: they help out their friends who have been avoiding their taxes, yet they do not help those who work hard and play by the rules, but do not even get a decent wage in return.”

However, Tory Scotland ­Office minister David Mundell hit back: “You [Labour] could start by endorsing [Scottish Tory leader] Ruth Davidson’s proposal to incentivise the paying of the minimum wage, and that is actually a fact, not rhetoric.”

Just in case some of the Conners Party missed it or are in denial about the dear leader.

Immigration to Britain rises in pre-election blow to Cameron
BY KYLIE MACLELLAN
LONDON Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:27pm GMT

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(Reuters) - The number of people moving to Britain surged last year, an embarrassment for Prime Minister David Cameron, whose Conservatives had pledged to cut net annual migration to the tens of thousands, close to a national election.

Official data published on Thursday showed a net 298,000 people moved to Britain in the year to September 2014, a 40 percent rise from the previous 12 months and more than when the Conservative-led coalition government took power in 2010.

With polls showing the Conservatives neck-and-neck with the opposition Labour party ahead of the May 7 vote and immigration one of voters' top concerns, the rise is awkward for Cameron. His party is also under pressure from the UK Independence Party (UKIP), which favours strong curbs on immigration.

Both Labour and UKIP said Cameron's immigration pledge was now "in tatters."

"This government's policy is fatally holed beneath the water line and is sinking fast," said UKIP migration spokesman Steven Woolfe, describing the numbers as "absolutely staggering."

A ComRes poll for ITV on Thursday showed UKIP was by far the most trusted party to control immigration, and 40 percent of Britons said immigration had a negative impact on the economy.

A spokeswoman for Cameron said the figures were "disappointing" but that the government had taken several steps to tackle the levels of migration and the prime minister did not regret making the promise.

"He thinks it is in the interests of our country, that we will have a better, stronger country if we had lower net migration," she said.

Cameron, who has pledged to re-negotiate Britain's ties with the EU ahead of a 2017 membership referendum if re-elected, has set out plans to restrict EU migrants' access to welfare benefit payments in a bid to make it less attractive to come to Britain.

Releasing its final migration data before the election, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the number of EU citizens coming to Britain increased by 43,000 to 251,000 during the period.

The number of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, whose restrictions on working in Britain were removed on Jan. 1 last year, was 37,000, up from 24,000 over the same period in 2013.

With British economic growth outpacing most of the EU it has become an increasingly appealing destination for those seeking work. The ONS said that between October and December 2014 employment of EU nationals in Britain was 269,000 higher than a year earlier.

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Pledges have a different meaning for Dodgy Dave before and after the deal!

strewth!
so much verbiage today; i can see why i'm not bothering much

it's the contents that count Rosco... got it -):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31637320

Another case of a "Con" servative Government putting money before in this case child abuse, a quite despicable outfit.

And Noo Lab knew nothing about it?

You will have to ask them.

My point is that this "Con" Government that most of you lot have voted for had 5 years to address action on the subject, needless to say they decided not to, Why not?

ever one in my street voting ukip ever one from the club voting ukip

their going to be some shocks

cons lab libs greens do not give a shite about the brits so we will be voting ukip
lets put the boot in were it hurts , last week my doctor said in the club non of these current mps give a dam . will be voting ukip my doctor

Mr.Al McGrahi

i take it that is apropos MrT
in fact MrT's fairly harmless .... he's just a reminder of why we need to allow some back into the general community

So many wasted votes T.
2517

SSSSh.

MAYOR REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU... EXPLAINS WHY


Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb.

The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval, has refused, and the town clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why...

“Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that's where they chose to immigrate.

“They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec.

“They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the Canadians who so generously welcomed them.

“They must understand that Canadians are neither racist nor xenophobic, they accepted many immigrants before Muslims (whereas the reverse is not true, in that Muslim states do not accept non-Muslim immigrants).

“That no more than other nations, Canadians are not willing to give up their identity, their culture.

“And if Canada is a land of welcome, it's not the Mayor of Dorval who welcomes foreigners, but the Canadian-Quebecois people as a whole.

“Finally, they must understand that in Canada (Quebec) with its Judeo-Christian roots, Christmas trees, churches and religious festivals, religion must remain in the private domain.

The municipality of Dorval was right to refuse any concessions to Islam and Sharia.

“For Muslims who disagree with secularism and do not feel comfortable in Canada, there are 57 beautiful ?? Muslim countries in the world, most of them under-populated and ready to receive them with open halal arms in accordance with Shariah.

“If you left your country for Canada, and not for other Muslim countries, it is because you have considered that life is better in Canada than elsewhere.

“Ask yourself the question, just once, “Why is it better here in Canada than where you come from?”

“A canteen with pork is part of the answer.”

JB,

That post should be repeated again and again.

So nice to hear that jimmyb.

Meanwhile.....



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/shopping-and-consumer-news/11409835/Schools-stop-serving-pork-for-religious-reasons.html


https://www.britainfirst.org/demand-the-ban-on-pork-in-british-schools-is-lifted/

MaxK ,i can't even comment .

Britain is weak ,like i said yesterday you won't know Britain in 20 years

Britain isn't weak jimmy, it's just it's leaders who have another agenda.

And that is why Millibandus will lose GE if he continues to rule out a EU referendum. Hoorayyyy!