Poll: General election voting intentions poll

[scorza]

No?

You heard him - no! D.P. has decided that it doesn't as he can quite clearly see that it doesn't from his lofty position in New York or wherever it is that he claims to live and that's the end of that

 

[Mr Jack]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31638174

Good to see David Cameron's pledge to reduce annual UK net immigration to the "tens of thousands" has been achieved - thirty tens of thousands that is.

Nice to see some good news

What makes it even less impressive is that the reductions that the Tories have achieved have been by slashing the numbers of foreign students - yes, that's right, the Tories have managed to drive people off from paying large amounts of money to be educated in our country and, while doing so, helping build strong links between our country and rapidly developing nations such as India *slow clap* - and changing things so that British Citizens actually have less right to live in this country with their family than people from the EU.

 

[mid_gen]

The problem with the UK isn't immigration, it's housing.

You don't realise how abnormally obsessed with home ownership and property prices Brits are, until you leave!

 

[platypus]

You don't realise how abnormally obsessed with home ownership and property prices Brits are, until you leave!

Quite. An utterly daft and nonsensical view that its a right to own ones home.

Still, until a government tackles the housing market and introduces European style rental controls, nothings going to change is it? And what government would be suicidal enough to try doing that.

 

[Mr Jack]

The latest Elections Etc prediction is up, no great change. 87% chance of a hung parliament; 52% chance of Labour-led coalition or arrangement, 35% chance of a Tory-led coalition or arrangement and a 13% chance of the SNP being in a position of being king-makers or just burning the whole thing down depending on which they think is most likely to get them an independent Scotland.

 

[joeyjojo]

Anybody listening to Any Questions? on Radio 4 right now? David Coburn is making a righ tit of himself.

 

[robgmun]

 

[gobbo]

"Tough chouces to make"

Bloody left wing, socialist, EUSSR, lib/lab/con supporting BBC up to their usual tricks making Nigel "Man of the People" Farrage look like he can't talk

 

[Skidder]

Thanet is full of poorly educated disenfranchised knuckle draggers, I'm sure UKIP will do well there.

 

[Destination]

This is the sort of thing, can't wait until this years batch!
It'll be the only good thing about the election campaign.

 

[scorza]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...budget-to-fund-english-tax-cuts-10076356.html

Now that's what I'm talking about.

Ukip is preparing a manifesto pledge to slash billions of pounds from Scotland’s budget to help to pay for tax cuts for English voters.

Under the controversial proposal, announced at the party’s final conference before the election, subsidies currently paid from Westminster to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland under the Barnett formula would be abolished, saving up to £8bn a year.

This bit seemed to be exceptionally poor journalism though:

On the seat of every delegate in the slightly faded Winter Gardens in Margate was a glossy leaflet with a picture of a small African child with the heading “Eight reasons why we must cut foreign aid”.

It appeared to back up a poll released yesterday for ITV news that found that 44 per cent of the public believe that Ukip is a racist party

 

[robgmun]

^

Sounds good to me, Scotland’s been sucking England dry for decades

 

[Mr Jack]

Sounds good to me, Scotland’s been sucking England dry for decades

That rather depends on how you look at it. If you consider North Sea Oil to be primarily Scottish - as it is geographically - then you find that Scotland has been a net contributor to the UK exchequer for decades despite higher spending per head. And, in any case, Scotland has naturally higher costs during to aspects of demography and geography.

 

[scorza]

That rather depends on how you look at it. If you consider North Sea Oil to be primarily Scottish

I consider it to be British.

 

[robgmun]

I think most people outside of Scotland would

 

[Mr Jack]

But all the other geographically varied sources of income get signed to the area they are in so that's not entirely reasonable either.

 

[scorza]

But all the other geographically varied sources of income get signed to the area they are in so that's not entirely reasonable either.

I don't remember the North of England getting any extra government money spent on it while it was powering the country with coal.

 

[robgmun]

Irreverent as Scotland is part of the UK, if they were left to their own devices they'd probably would have never have known anything about Oli in the North Sea

 

[Zethor]

Irreverent as Scotland is part of the UK, if they were left to their own devices they'd probably would have never have known anything about Oli in the North Sea

They?

 

[Mr Jack]

I don't remember the North of England getting any extra government money spent on it while it was powering the country with coal.

I was referring to the balance of payments as robgmum claimed Scotland was bleeding England dry.

In my view no region should get extra money based on its contribution to the exchequer but, instead, the income should be based on need. Where I live government spending is half what it is in London.