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it shows that we have a bigger share of the vote since the general election despite the economic forecasts and that people are blaming the Lib Dems for the problems

I agree with him tbh Welfare should be a TEMPORARY safety net until someone has found work it should not be a lifestyle choice, a career option or pay better than work does, it should provide just enough to survive on and enough to get to job interviews. Those in genuine need like the chronically sick and the disabled should be looked after but welfare should just be a temporary safety net till someone has got a job. The whole welfare system needs overhauling, yes there should be fairness but equally there needs to be fairness to the hard working taxpayer that foots the bill for people doing nothing

Suppose I started a school tomorrow where 90% of pupils had to be white and I had a token 10% black but the school was aimed at local whites how long do you think it would be before the police were carting me off to jail ? Minutes I would say and rightly so Why should a school be allowed to discriminate on grounds of religion when they are not allowed to on the basis of skin colour ?

Yeah he was well witty, one of my fave people to listen to or read along with Peter Cook and William Donaldson ^_^

if the positive news is a lagging indicator then so must the negative news be a lagging indicator too, evens itself out

LMAO :rofl: :rofl: that comment made me laugh lol, bless him, Call My Bluff was great with him on

I don't think David Milliband would have or will now connect with the public, Ed is a better orator even if he is more left wing than David

I don't mean close the schools themselves just ban selection on the basis of religion and make them available to everyone subject to the regular criteria (location etc) Nothing against the schools just that religious based selection is evil, there would be an outcry and arrests if someone tried to start a school based on colour and rightly so so it is unfair that religion has these powers

All this stuff is further example of why religion should have no place in schools, there should not be schools for jews or catholics or CoE any more than there should be white only or black only schools, it is ridiculous that people have to fake liking religion just to get into a school The government should ban all religious schools of all persuasions

I never said 150 :unsure: I thought it would be somewhere between 60 and 100 ? But somehow Brown managed to connect with more of the public than I imagined

They will lose drastic support, it is inevitable as cuts start biting, I fully expect that Milliband will have a 20% lead inside the next 2 years, am sure the Tories and Lib Dems are of the same way of thinking to me there and have that factored in

That is why it would never happen, there would be rioting in the streets and the Murdoch press would spit venom like never before Cameron has a mandate from the queen to govern even if he didn't win a majority in parliament, plus Labour/Lib Dems don't have enough between them to form a majority government, technically with the SDLP/Plaid Cymru/Greens/SNP they do just about but it will never happen

LMAO :/ how sad

Never had you down as a churchgoer :o You should have just said it lol

I still don't believe Labour would dare bring down the government even if the Lib Dems cancelled the coalition, there is a possibility of Milliband winning in 5 years time but it is traditional in this country for a party to win 2 terms or more and I believe Cameron will be given another 5 years in 2015

I shop at Waitrose, admittedly I do not see very many poor or chavvy types in there so it could be the middle to upper classes simply spending more but Sainsbury's luxury food is flying off the shelves too, I bought the last 2 packs of Taste The Difference Ecuadorian prawns today, so nice :heart:

You spend your life searching for negatives I spend my life searching for positives :) it may not be a massive positive but it is better than doom and gloom

Agree, can add racism to the charge sheet of the upper levels of the catholic church alongside perversion, paedophilia, theft of gold etc Just hope there is another Mehmet Ali Agca out there tomorrow who will shoot the pope between the eyes

But Sainsbury's premium products are selling well too while more downmarket rivals are suffering big time I think the fact that shoppers are buying more upmarket products is a sign of economic confidence

Have Labour and Lib Dems found a money fairy at the bottom of the garden ? both parties are SKINT, they can afford another election in the near future as much as I can afford a Bugatti Veyron They can huff and they can puff but they haven't got the money to blow the house down

Another sign that the general public seem to be feeling good about the government and their prospects B) Asda falling behind rivals as shoppers move upmarket Asda is under intense pressure to reverse its gloomy run after losing market share to rivals for the ninth consecutive quarter. The embattled grocer has been struggling to woo shoppers after its strategy of focusing on low-price products was found wanting. Just last month, chief executive Andy Clarke admitted the quality of Asda’s food had not been as good as it might have been, which was borne out by the latest figures from the industry yesterday. Data from market research firm Kantar Worldpanel revealed that Britain’s second largest grocer enjoyed slower growth than all of its main rivals over the summer. The market grew by 4.3pc during the 12 weeks to September 5, according to Kantar. But Asda underperformed with growth of just 2.6pc as many shoppers opted for more upmarket offerings from competitors, the data shows. Sainsbury’s saw its sales growth rise 5.5pc along with Morrisons, up 5.9pc, while the purveyor of the poshest food of all – Waitrose – notched up growth of 9.3pc. Tesco remained virtually unchanged at 4pc. The figures were driven by shoppers’s growing preference for premium products, according to Kantar spokesman Edward Garner. ‘While uncertainty in the economy means that value is still important consumers are placing increasing importance on the freshness and quality of the food they buy,’ The figures also showed the discounters continuing to languish behind the market with only Lidl recording a slight increase in market share and Netto, which was recently bought by Asda for £778m, experiencing a decline in underlying growth of 6pc When people feel bad about their prospects and about the government the first thing they tend to do is eat cheaper and buy more bargain food so the fact that the likes of Waitrose are positively BOOMING and upmarket and quality food sales are going through the roof is a sign that the general public feel confident about the economy and confident about the government

There was still 121,000 new full time jobs that were created during that period too, indeed a lot of new jobs were part time but 121,000 new full time ones is a good positive And the figures to me also suggest that the majority of new jobs are going to immigrants as the number of actutal unemployed hasn't changed much so it is up to the unemployed to search harder for jobs and to lower their sights and expectations a bit if they are to take jobs that immigrants are getting, immigrants have a strong work ethic which sadly the indigenous population don't seem to judging by these figures

The quarterly rise in employment, which was the largest since the ONS began collecting the data in 1971, was driven by a rise in both part-time and full-time workers. Those in part-time work increased by 166,000 quarter-on-quarter to 7.9 million in the three months to July. But the number of full-time workers soared by 121,000 to 21.2 million in an encouraging sign for the UK labour market. The number of full-time students in employment rose by 47,000 in the three months to July, while those students classed as economically inactive fell by 62,000. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Business/...al_Statistics__

Britain has seen the largest rise in employment since records began - with 286,000 people landing new jobs in the last quarter Strange how doom and gloom gets such high attention on here but positive news never gets a mention ;)

There isn't a general election until May 2015 so any lead Labour may or may not have over the next few years is largely irrelevant, they could have a 30 point lead at xmas and it would count for nothing. Of course there will be a drop in support for us over the next couple of years, I will be surprised infact shocked if Labour don't have a 20 point lead at some point in the next 3 years as the cuts kick in But Obama is doing as badly in the polls as Bush was, Rudd was kicked out, Sarkozy is as hated in France, it is natural that the public take things out on the leader during tough times