General Election 2015 - chat, predictions, results and post election discussion

[tbtommyb]

shoot them and give them closure

the markets may not like it though

politicians like to talk about what business needs so maybe they'll do the honourable thing and do it themselves.

greater good, innit.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Milliband has pledged to scrap the non-dom tax dodge. Smart move - the tories will have a hard time arguing against it. Why this wasn't done decades ago is a mystery - we'd expect it from blair, but why didn't Atlee or Wilson scrap it?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/07/ed-miliband-non-dom-tax-status-labour

 

[DotCommunist]

because its a useful bribe to gift useful rich foreigners with?

 

[Kaka Tim]

Nicky Morgan was wriggling very uncomfortably over Non doms on radio 4 this morning. Refused to say weather she thought they should pay tax in the UK if they were living here.

 

[belboid]

Guardian has a largely dull bit on likely new SNP MP's.

The most interesting bit is about a Mr Chris Law. I think I am right in thinking that, if elected (and he will be) he'll be the first ever pony-tailed male in the House.

 

[butchersapron]

Must have been loads of bewigged pony tails in the old days.

 

[belboid]

Wigs dont count (nor Whigs)

 

[danny la rouge]

Guardian has a largely dull bit on likely new SNP MP's.

The most interesting bit is about a Mr Chris Law. I think I am right in thinking that, if elected (and he will be) he'll be the first ever pony-tailed male in the House.

Perhaps the Guardian could employ that Sam guy with his tracing paper. He could "say" something about the different hairstyles there might be on May 8th.

 

[danny la rouge]

"I am content with my hairstyle".

 

[Lo Siento.]

ha, like a shit Pablo Iglesias!

 

[SpookyFrank]

Milliband has pledged to scrap the non-dom tax dodge. Smart move - the tories will have a hard time arguing against it. Why this wasn't done decades ago is a mystery - we'd expect it from blair, but why didn't Atlee or Wilson scrap it?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/07/ed-miliband-non-dom-tax-status-labour

Surprising display of backbone from Milipede on this.

As for Atlee and Wilson, I don't think the non-dom loophole was as well known back in their day. It certainly wasn't being exploited on the scale we see today.

 

[bi0boy]

Milliband has pledged to scrap the non-dom tax dodge. Smart move - the tories will have a hard time arguing against it. Why this wasn't done decades ago is a mystery - we'd expect it from blair, but why didn't Atlee or Wilson scrap it?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/07/ed-miliband-non-dom-tax-status-labour

Is that what he proposed? It seems a bit of a mess to me

 

[gosub]

Surprising display of backbone from Milipede on this.

As for Atlee and Wilson, I don't think the non-dom loophole was as well known back in their day. It certainly wasn't being exploited on the scale we see today.

so the Stones et al fucked off abroad for a holiday did they?

 

[butchersapron]

Is that what he proposed? It seems a bit of a mess to me

Where's the mess? That article you link to describes the PR back and forth around it not the actual content of the proposed policy - which seems pretty straightforward:

• From April 2016 no new-doms would be allowed;
• Existing non-doms would be given a short period to settle their affairs;
• Labour would stress that foreigners in the UK for a genuinely temporary, short period would not have to pay tax on overseas income – the principal benefit of the non-dom rule. Balls said the temporary period would be for the equivalent length of a normal postgraduate university degree of two to three years.

 

[butchersapron]

so the Stones et al fucked off abroad for a holiday did they?

He didn't say that it didn't exist then, he said it didn't exist on the scale that it does now. And it didn't. From 67 000 in 1997 to 137 000 ten years later - and around the same figure today.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

This could all be cleared up by a bit of simple differentiation between 'wealth creators' and 'value thieves'.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[two sheds]

Caption competition time?

 

[J Ed]

"Quick Jonny, one of his nonce mates is coming, play dead like this!"

 

[danny la rouge]

Caption competition time?

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The girl is saying:

"I fucking told the fucking last one...It's.Pronounced. Gruff-a-lo. Not fucking Grew-faah-loo".

*bang. bang. bang*

 

[chilango]

A disturbing number of people talking to me about the election are defending Clegg.

Fortunately I don't think they'll get around to voting.

 

[gosub]

Caption competition time?

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And if you turn to page four, this is an estimate of how much debt you'll be in by the time you leave school

 

[danny la rouge]

A disturbing number of people talking to me about the election are defending Clegg.

Fortunately I don't think they'll get around to voting.

Give them some of this and tell them to get busy. They'll be happily occupied for weeks.

 

[brogdale]

"wot a confusion"

 

[chilango]

A disturbing number of people talking to me about the election are defending Clegg.

Fortunately I don't think they'll get around to voting.

They're the same sort of people that think:

Miliband's lack of "presence" will actually have a harmful effect on the international stage.

That the economy not only has recovered but is doing really well.

That people voting Green are naive because "obviously" the Green Party's manifesto isn't a realistic plan for government.

...and such "sensible" positions parroted uncritically from "sensible" newspapers and TV shows.

Yet, at least one of these "sensible" voters is on holiday for the election and won't get around to organising a postal vote.

I'm not going to remind them

 

[two sheds]

"You had MICHAEL GOVE as Education Secretary????"

 

[skyscraper101]

Guardian has a largely dull bit on likely new SNP MP's.

The most interesting bit is about a Mr Chris Law. I think I am right in thinking that, if elected (and he will be) he'll be the first ever pony-tailed male in the House.

Sweden also had a pony tailed politician until last year In fact, he was the finance minister Anders Borg.

 

[DotCommunist]

Sweden also had a pony tailed politician until last year In fact, he was the finance minister Anders Borg.

Lest we forget, the leader of Spain's Podemos also rocks a pony tail and trainers. Perhaps pony tail is the new commie beard?

 

[butchersapron]

Lest we forget, the leader of Spain's Podemos also rocks a pony tail and trainers. Perhaps pony tail is the new commie beard?

Pretty sure the capitalist Nationalist pictureded above and Moderate party (their real names,i kid you not) are not communist.

 

[tbtommyb]

Surprising display of backbone from Milipede on this.

I'm sure Gordon Brown displayed similar backbone in 1996 when he promised to get rid of it then.

The Evening Standard says it imperils London's success. I wonder if the writers ever stop to look at themselves: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...y-ends-up-costing-britain-money-10161987.html

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Some really interesting stuff about funding in key marginals.

The findings are part of a study by the Bureau to examine all cash and non-cash donations to the top 20 swing seats as defined by BBC electoral data. It is a repeat of a previous Bureau analysis in July 2014, which showed the Conservatives had received the most gifts in the marginals and that these finances were being deployed against precarious Lib Dem constituencies.

But the latest research suggests Lib Dem supporters are bankrolling a fightback in the marginals, where their donations have grown to more than £460,000 from around £183,000 last summer. It suggests the party is concentrating its fundraising efforts to try and cling on to existing seats and possibly to try and snatch other constituencies that also hang in the balance: of the top 20 marginals, the Lib Dems won only three in 2010 but came second in six.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.co...-britains-top-20-marginal-seats-tories-third/