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.

The welfare cuts that Labour wouldn't reverse if elected.

Camoron just like IDS a lousy liar and manipulater of data.

Tories in total denial.

STILL... looks like im going to get a tax cut down to 40%.............isnt that just dandy when all the poor around me will have their worst christmas ever.

Dont forget Hays were all in this together.

The David Cameron versus Ed Balls prime minister's questions feud continued today, with Cameron gleefully seizing on the shadow chancellor's car-crash Commons performance last week.

On thursday a red-faced Balls was shouted down by rowdy Tory MPs as he tried to respond to George Osborne's Autumn Statement. It was not his finest hour. And Cameron took great pleasure in reminding him of it today.

The prime minister told MPs that Labour had a "new duo" in charge. "Red Ed and redder Ed."

Balls, who spends most of of PMQs heckling Cameron in order to goad him into a reaction, had recovered from last week and spent a lot of time today shouting and pointing down at the floor to indicate a fall in living standards.

"He's at it again, heckling again," Cameron interrupted his own answer to hit back."We learned something, he can dish it out, but he can't take it. I tell you what’s going down, his career, that’s what's going down."

Miliband appeared to enjoy that joke more than Balls may have liked.

Going down.

When he gets as low as Cameron is, then it will be time for Ed Balls to worry.

Cameroon is getting to be known as the international creeper.

Or was that leper?

hays, after the statement balls got far higher ratings for content than osbourne. remember the polls.

Or do you just ignorantly blank them.

GF>

No, Hazyone just genuflects to Party HQ, gets the next mantra, tries to remember it and then repeats it.


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LOL. Wheres manuel today?.

Home buying will be out of reach for an 'entire generation'

Average prices in London will soar by more than 43pc to £650,000, research by the National Housing Federation and Oxford Economics warns


By Szu Ping Chan

10 Dec 2013

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/houseprices/10505909/Home-buying-will-be-out-of-reach-for-an-entire-generation.html


Soaring house prices will leave home ownership permanently out of reach for an entire generation by the end of the decade unless action is taken to build more homes, it has been claimed.


The National Housing Federation (NHF) said house prices were on course to soar by 35pc over the next seven years, taking the average price of a home in England to £331,387 by 2020, while average prices in London would soar by more than 43pc to £650,000. “With house prices set to rocket ... an entire generation will be locked out of home ownership forever and be forced to rent for life,” the report said.




David Orr, NHF chief executive, said the lowest peacetime levels of housebuilding on record meant some parts of England were near crisis point. A lack of affordable housing had put a “brake on economic growth”, said Mr Orr, with businesses unable to expand because workers could not afford to live in areas where economic opportunities were highest, such as London and Cambridge.

“We know that the nation is heading towards a population of 70m, but at the moment we’re building the same number of new homes as we did in the 1920s, when the population of the country was about half what iut will be in 2030," he said.

"Successive governments have failed to provide the investment needed to generate the housing supply the nation needs, and all of the problems we see now - very high rents, very high house prices, the ratio between people’s incomes and the cost of buying a new home - all of these things are going to get worse unless we tackle the fundamental ussue at the centre of this. We have to build more homes."

The warning came as expectations for house prices surged to their highest levels in more than 14 years. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warned that without a “meaningful increase” in the supply of homes, prices and rents would become more unaffordable.

A balance of 59pc more surveyors in November predicted prices would rise rather than fall over the next three months, the highest level since 1999.

The housing market has been showing strong signs of recovery throughout 2013 following a string of Government schemes such as Help to Buy.

Mr Orr said Help to Buy was helping to create another bubble. “Where a market is fundamentally characterised by a lack of supply, a demand side subsidy is just going to put prices up,” he said

“We get trapped into the conversations about how we can make it easier for some people to access the scarce supply, the answer is we need to build more homes."

The report also found that people living in England would spend almost 57pc of their disposable income on rent by 2020, with the east of England and East Midlands seeing the sharpest increases in rental prices, up from current levels of 50pc.

“That’s not sustainable in the long term," said Mr Orr.

Cameron was in very good form at PMQs today, he was obviously revelling in the fact that he was on the front page of a lot of newspapers pictured alongside Obama and a very attractive blonde, who just happens to be the Danish PM and married to the Kinnock's son!

The Danish PM obviously has better taste in husbands than "selfies".

Married to Kinnock's son - are you joking Fred? A chip off the old block and a drip as well. :-) And just imagine the poor woman having Neil & Glenys for in-laws.

Who in their right minds would want to steal Damien Hirst paintings? I wouldn't pay them a fiver for that load of nonsense - Constable or Monet, okay I would break down a door with a crowbar for that art, but Hirst - who want's that nonsense on the walls of their house.

Royal Mail to join FTSE100. That should push it up,

Imagine the Cameroons for neighbours.

UGGGGH!

They seem like very nice people.

He means the people at the Royal Mail of course.

cynic.

read the last dozen or so posts (if you haven't already)

they are you to a tee :-)


http://uk.advfn.com/cmn/fbb/thread.php3?id=948390

98.8% Say Iain Duncan Smith Should Resign
BY STEVEN PREECE · 11 DECEMBER, 2013


Iain Duncan Smith MP at a Colchester Work Programme provider. Photo Credit: Regional Cabinet via photopin cc

A Poll carried out by the Welfare News Service shows that 98.8% of people believe the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, should resign.

We asked 3,101 of our readers whether Iain Duncan Smith should be forced to resign. 3,063 agreed, but many added that resigning would be too much of an ‘easy way out’ and that he ‘should be sacked’.

Only 32 respondents said that they felt he should be allowed to keep his job and a further 6 said they were unsure, or didn’t know.

The result of our poll comes after Iain Duncan Smith was questioned by a MP’s Select Committee on Monday over his use of what many would regard as misleading, or in some cases wildly inaccurate benefit statistics to justify controversial reforms to welfare benefits, as well as delays in the national roll-out of the coalition government’s flagship Universal Credit.

Iain Duncan Smith was also questioned over the costs of introducing and implementing Universal Credit and the £140 million which is said to have been wasted so far, part of which includes at least £40 million which has been written off due to issues with software.

Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Rachel Reeves, has said that Iain Duncan Smith is in denial over Universal Credit delays and believes the roll-out of the new benefit – which replaces a number of existing benefits and tax credits by merging them into one single monthly payment – is running at least two years behind schedule.

General Secretary of the PCS union, Mark Serwotka told Union News prior to Mr Duncan Smith being questioned on Monday:

“The fact Iain Duncan Smith has clung on for so long is one of the great political mysteries of our time and the question must be asked, how is he still in a job?

“He has presided over not only a disgusting campaign of vilification towards the most vulnerable people in our society but also an absolutely scandalous waste of public money that could have been better spent supporting the sick, disabled and unemployed.”

Dunky Smiff must have the goods on Call Me Dave, cos he's long past his sell by date.