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General election 2017: Tories move to dampen tax hike fears
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39676922 I suspect we will hear all sorts of promises from all parties over the next few weeks whilst they produce their manifestos. No one knows what the short term effects of Brexit will be so a smart position for all parties will be not to promise too much, once Brexit has finally happened and the negotiations sorted then HMG at that time will be in a better position to judge the finances, I expect we'll still have the usual ping-pong trade offs about parties not making promises fed by press vultures.
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European parliament president Antonio Tajani says process could easily be reversed if election brings in new British government
Could this set the cat amongst the pigeons?
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(No-one believes them anyway as they broke nearly all their manifesto promises) Corbyn on the other hand can promise anything and everything because he has no chance. |
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Soon after she became PM, because of the fiasco not to mention back-stabbing she wasn't directly elected remember, she stated NO NO NO I will NOT hold an early election, this parliament will run its term up to 2020.
With no massive change of circumstances from then we now have a U-turn. This is a perfect example of why I have no trust in any politician. Come June 8 I wonder how many will vote directly for the party they actually want in control and how many will vote strategically to minimise a party they don't want in control winning ? If there was a box after the choices ' none of the above ' I wonder how many would mark it ? Could they be the largest group ? What message would that send to them all ? Would they finally realise how distant they are from those they believe they represent ? |
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I'd like to think that the negotiations will go better than this but I noted the opening gambit on Gibraltar and I was deeply offended by it. It is possible that Mr Tusk agreed to Spanish blandishments on that one without appreciating how very badly the British would react and, having tasted the flavour of the British response, might be considering whether the Spanish have deceived him into a false position. I hope so. But if this is to be the character of the EU approach to the discussions we shall need to be extremely tough about defending our corner and to be sincere about no deal being better than a bad deal because anything less will guarantee that we will be shafted.
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Practically all of us sell our labour from a postman to a brain surgeon.Teachers, barristers,estate agents. That does not make them "working Class" in the Marx/Keir Hardie book, and think of a "farm labourer" driving his air conditioned tractor listening to its stereo while he plans his next holiday in Majorca. I agree about the mortgages, property prices are outrageous. But that was the result of removing lending restrictions by banks and building societies.I could only have a mortgage amounting to 2.5 years income and this rule pegged prices.Thatcher made home ownership available to nearly all , she did not reduce the housing stock in any way , the people living in the houses were the same people.The situation is exacerbated by family breakdown so we need more houses to deal with that. |
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General election: Tory victory 'will not strengthen May's Brexit hand'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39681186 Theresa May's claims that a general election victory will strengthen her hand in Brexit negotiations have been called "nonsensical" by the European Parliament's chief Brexit co-ordinator. Guy Verhofstadt, a long-standing critic of Brexit, wrote in The Observer that it was "irrelevant" whether the Conservatives increased their majority. Mr Verhofstadt wrote: "The theory espoused by some, that Theresa May is calling a general election on Brexit in order to secure a better deal with the EU, is nonsensical. "Will the election of more Tory MPs give Theresa May a greater chance of securing a better Brexit deal? "For those sitting around the table in Brussels, this is an irrelevance." Well for many of us in the UK what an overpaid Eurocrat thinks is also an irrelevance. What sort of deal we get is still wide open however what we do not want is a deal that goes through to Parliament being blocked by other parties. HMG should be allowed to conduct negotiations and present the best deal, by that time we will know how much good/ill will the EU showed at each stage and MPs can vote on that deal. The election is not just about securing a better deal, we could get a great deal and the Lib Dems would still vote it down as they are unshakeable Europhiles. Labour has already said there would not be another referendum and I seriously doubt they could negotiate a better deal if elected. I suspect we'd get the status quo just heroically renamed
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Perhaps we'll have to agree to disagree but I would just say that the generation growing up now, struggling by with the help of parents and uncles like me, cannot aspire to a better standard of living that we had - probably for the first time in a long time. I wonder if that experience will change their views on the matter and whether they will try to create a more equal society? |
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I see Paul Nuttall of the UKIPS wants to introduce a burka ban if his party wins.
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It's all about headline grabbing now like Corbyn's bank holiday idea. The papers will be full of such touchy feely gimmicks from all sides for the next few months.
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