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.

It's in the Guardian, so it must be true!



Conservatives take six-point lead in Guardian/ICM poll


Support for Tories rises three points to 39% as Labour drops two to 33%, Lib Dems remain at 8% and Ukip drops back two points to tie with Greens on 7%



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/13/conservatives-six-point-lead-guardian-icm-poll-labour

Blimey.....why such a lead ?.....has Milliband put his foot in it ?....

Basically the two Ed's haven't got a clue.
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The financial crisis caused the deficit that Labour ran in 2002/3?

And grew in 2003/4?

And in 2004/5?

And in 2005/6?

“It was the financial crisis that caused the deficit…” in 2006/7?

And in 2007/8?

Really, Ed?

Call me Dave drops the big one....



David Cameron revives right to buy and says Tories are the 'party of working people'

The Conservative leader will declare 'we are the true party of working people' as he revives the right to buy scheme and announces that people earning minimum wage will not pay tax under a Tory government.






By Peter Dominiczak, Political Editor

10:30PM BST 13 Apr 2015



David Cameron will declare that the Conservatives are “the party of working people” as he revives the right to buy scheme and announces that people earning minimum wage will not pay tax under a Tory government.


Unveiling the Tory manifesto in Wiltshire, the Conservatives will attempt to reach out to working-class voters by outlining the two policies aimed squarely at those on low incomes.


The move will be seen as an attempt to emulate the success of Margaret Thatcher by broadening the party's support base outside of the middle classes.


And it will aim to take advantage of the perception that Labour under Ed Miliband have abandoned their traditional working class heartlands.


Mr Cameron will make an emotional appeal to voters and ask them not to “waste the past five years” by backing Mr Miliband in next month’s election.

The Prime Minister will promise to give voters “security at every stage of your life” by revolutionising the right to buy housing scheme to ensure it applies to housing association tenants.

And he is also expected to unveil a policy to ensure that a person on the minimum wage does not pay income tax.



more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/11533924/David-Cameron-revives-right-to-buy-and-says-Tories-are-the-party-of-working-people.html

Just put a bet on DC becoming PM after GE.....risky of course....but good odds....

Post 58580

THIS is tory responsibility with future debt going into the "private pockets".

For immediate release

In response to the Conservative manifesto announcement that Right to Buy will be extended to include housing association homes.

Ruth Davison, Director of Policy and External Affairs at the National Housing Federation said,

“We fully support the aspiration of homeownership but extending Right to Buy to housing associations is the wrong solution to our housing crisis…”

Blah blah blah, etcetera.

That would be Ruth Davison who is a member of Islington North constituency Labour Party.

That is one of the most left wing constituencies in the country.

Marc Stears, Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of University College, Oxford, is not merely an old university friend of the Labour leader, he is one of Ed’s closest advisers and his chief speech-writer. More importantly he is the co-author of the Labour manifesto.

In 2012 Stears wrote approvingly in the New Statesman about an IPPR report calling on the left to favour letting housing association tenants have a right-to-buy:

The stable patterns of social interaction that are associated with communities of ownership are preconditions for the kind of social reciprocity that the left champions, as well as the more conservative disposition that is more usually commented upon. There is, in other words, a social argument for ownership…

An argument being made by the author of the Labour Party manifesto, for a policy appearing in Conservative Party Manifesto…

RF.

Why don't you double your bet.

Encourage Haze to do the same.

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Tories "rights to buy their own home", but not the the "free income" to do so!

Laughable.

I reckon that UKIP will side with the Tories.....and with the referendum (which I'm not too happy with) and deals on immigration (which I would be happy with) will entice Farages lot; so the maths could be : DC + NF > EM + others.....

RF.

The values of the KIPPERS are the same as the present tories.

They would be a perfect fit!

If Call Me did a credible deal with the kippers, he would be home and dry.

But he wont, cos his bosses in Brussels wont let him.



Meanwhile, the great white waits in the wings.