Sandro Raniere

They can get on the housing ladder with rising house prices It means that they have to borrow more but more first time buyers are getting on the property ladder, 40% up on last year am pretty sure I read so people are getting on the housing ladder

I don't live in either of those places I live in Christchurch which while relatively prosperous is certainly no Sandbanks

It is a cartel, more than likely they collude with each other to fix prices so Cameron is talking out of his ass tbh I am a free market capitalist and proud of it but i am against abuse of power and energy companies are abusing that as are rail companies to some extent I would put the energy system under state control with the pricing underpinned by law

Ed didn't go far enough IMHO Even though I am a die hard Tory (UKIP sympathiser) I believe the energy companies (gas/electricity/water) should be renationalised and put under state control with a ban on any price rises more than 1% above the rate of inflation

That was before the recent rises, sure i expected rises but nothing on that scale and the anger about it is justified so of course short term Ed is getting a boost from his plan, i believe it will just be a short term boost though

Labour have extended their lead a little but imho it is a blip because of energy prices, Ed's energy price freeze while flawed is very popular atm while energy companies are scamming us all with 9-10% rises but i am confident our poll ratings will bounce back in the new year when next years salary increases are announced to voters With businesses doing well atm i think pay rises for the next tax year will be pretty high which will make voters more confident

I can only speak for my area (south coast) but i see far more cars on the road than in recent years, many with new plates, queues in shops seem more than this time last year, I am finding my local Waitrose car park far more full, in this part of the country people seem confident about the recovery

The last bit is the important bit One of our sales team left a few weeks ago, according to his Facebook he has borrowed £38k against the value of his house to set up his own business, rising house prices clearly gave him the confidence to do it, given the first 6 months of the year were a record for new business start ups in this country I think a lot of people have done what he did

While I don't particularly believe in regions I also realise the only way to get a majority at the next election is to win seats that labour currently hold so it is important to make people in labour seats feeling more confident about their jobs and the value of their house Virtually the whole of the south east votes tory so house price rises there are just preaching to the converted

It is not the be all and end all, not even close, but rising house prices give people a feeling of wealth even if it is just on paper It swings the balance between buying that new car or not or that new 3D TV or that luxury holiday

Apparently house prices are rising in the North East faster than any part of the country bar central london North East is a strong labour territory so rising house prices and geordies feeling richer could change that in May 2015

Iconic figure, a major part of my youth It was probably inevitable that his lifestyle would catch up with him one day, he made Amy Winehouse seem like a nun when it came to drug use, but he left behind a great legacy of music

True music fans will always appreciate the music of the past Sheep who just go and buy what Simon Cowell tells them they should be buying are not true music fans

The other day i replied to 7 posts in one spree, i reply to everything i can

For one quarter yes, if that was maintained over a year that is 3.2% over a year, it won't be as high as that but probably end up about 2.5% for the year which is very strong indeed Most countries out there atm 0.8% over a year would be a wet dream let alone achieving that in one quarter

http://research.yougov.co.uk/news/2013/10/...pur-gdp-growth/ Another piece of great news, consumers feeling good too Soon this will filter into the opinion polls

No mention then on here of the hugely impressive growth figures Conservatives - Putting the Great back into Britain

Not at all, she just seemed to be the stereotypical blonde bimbo/eye candy on the TV AM sofa, she didn't strike me as a woman of great intelligence, nothing to do with class, look at the Ecclestone sisters, everything handed to them on a plate, best education going yet both come across as thick as pig shit

That shows then that none of those 3 hail from traditional tory heartlands?

I don't know too much about McVey although when i remember her as a tv presenter she didn't seem the sharpest tool in the box and Hague went to a comprehensive so Hague is definitely not one of the upper middle class Eton types like Cameron/Osborne etc

William Hague and Eric Pickles are born and bred yorkshiremen, Esther McVey is from Liverpool Thats 3 off the top of a semi drunk head

An inspection at the time of their claim for JSA Again a one off example and not reflective of things in general but i know of someone who owned a highly expensive Hublot watch, I have seen them go for 5 figure sums online, he filed a claim for JSA after his business went 'bust' Surely common sense suggests he should not be entitled to JSA while having such a watch, even though it was bought while the business was doing well The value of the watch is 3+ years worth of adult rate JSA

Only one way to find out, a war crimes trial in The Hague, will never happen sadly but that is where they both belong If they had attacked military targets, soldiers etc then fine, no issue with that, but targetting civilians is vile

Initial costs would be high but money would be saved over time It is essential that the welfare state is rolled back to what it was originally created for, a safety net for those genuinely in need, an idea I support Welfare should not be there for handouts for millionaires, it should not be there to subsidise the feckless who can't keep their legs closed and churn out kid after kid, it should not be there to subsidise career claimants who can't be bothered looking for work, it should not be there for immigrants who have never paid a penny in NI Whole welfare system needs reforming radically

Whether they are or not they are still legally entitled to it Lord Sugar is legally entitled to a state pension, free prescriptions and eye tests and the winter fuel allowance despite being a billionaire, its absurd http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...nt-want-it.html