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Lib Dem Polls - How Low Can They Go?

SpineyNorman said:
Thanks, that'll do nicely. I read somewhere that for every £1 they spend on tax investigation they get something like £35 back, so 20% is more than enough. This can't possibly be a cost saving cut - it's a help those nice people who fund our party cut and a bleeding obvious one at that.
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absolutely.
That website's useful too
 
moon23 said:
I'll be celebrating my successful election to office.
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Streathamite said:
Transpires I got it only half-right -they arecutting it by 20%,with more to come(a birdie tells me)
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In passing:

Three years ago parliament’s public accounts committee was critical of the taxman’s failure to extract penalties from tax dodging multinationals after learning that it penalised companies dealt with by it large business service “in only 19 cases, totalling £15 million”. This was around 0.6% of under-declared tax and HMRC promised to try harder in future.

Figures obtained by the Eye under freedom of information laws show the position is now dramatically worse. In 2009/10 just 6 penalties were charged totaling £442,000 or less; and as this financial year draws to a close “fewer than five” penalties have been charged for just £322,000. These figures represent less than 0.01% of tax under-declared. The rate for smaller businesses is about two hundred times this figure.

Treasury select committee chairman Andrew Tyrie said last week that HMRC was "close to being a failing institution" in light of other cock-ups. When it comes to taxing big business, it's already there."
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Liberal Democrat South West support in slump ahead of poll

17% drop in popularity since the election according to the article.

Support for the Liberal Democrats has crashed in its South West heartlands since the general election, startling new polling data has shown.

A 17 per cent fall in support since the May 6 ballot underlines how voters in the region are deserting the party in the wake of the coalition with the Conservatives.
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Lib Dem support, suffering from the student protests that followed abandoning a pledge to scrap tuition fees, is now just 18 per cent in the region, down from 35 per cent.
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Lib-dem wipeout in the South west (their stronghold remember) is in the post:


Voting intention in the South West (with changes from the vote shares in 2010) currently stands at CON 39%(-4), LAB 29%(+14), LDEM 18%(-17), UKIP 6%(+1), GRN 6%(+5).

The pattern is broadly the same as the country as a whole, with Liberal Democrat support collapsing towards Labour. With a drop of 17 points the Lib Dem drop is larger than in national polls… but the Lib Dems had more support here to start with. Also noteworthy is the significant boost for the Greens, who also seem to have benefitted from the Lib Dem drop.

In the 2010 and past elections the South West has largely been a battle between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats – Labour have very little support outside of the Bristol area, Plymouth, Exeter and Swindon. As a result if these figures were repeated at a general election the Conservatives would benefit almost as much as Labour, despite their own support dropping.

On a uniform swing, on a brief glance it looks to me as though Labour would gain 10 seats, but the Conservatives would gain 9. Only three Liberal Democrat seats in the South West would be held – Thornbury and Yate, Bath and Yeovil (of course, in practice there will probably be boundary changes anyway before the election and we don’t know to what extent the personal votes of sitting Liberal Democrat MPs will be enough to protect them from a collapse in their party’s support.)
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Thornbury and Yate, and Bath are already gone - 100%. Yeovil is the only one they'll keep - thanks to Paddy's good husbandry, not any love of the thief David Laws.
 
Yeah, shit day today, at least there's something to make me smile. If they are dropping that much in SW they'll be wiped out everywhere else. Roll on may 5th for the lolz
 
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