UKIP vs Lib Dems match bet
UKIP 2/5
LD 7/4
Quite tempted by the Lib Dems price.
http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/match-bet
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- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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UKIP vs Lib Dems match bet
UKIP 2/5
LD 7/4
Quite tempted by the Lib Dems price.
http://www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politics/next-uk-general-election/match-bet
mikeyjh
Well-known member
I thought this was a joke, until I read about IDS' speech. Fug me, it's classic tory isn't it, try and remove any modicum of dignity for those trying to scrape together a living, why not force them to where a yellow badge or something, lets really make sure they lose any self respect. Forcing them to use specific retailers, then will henceforth be known as dole shops or something far less polite.
It really is so typical of the nasties, invent a policy that is right in tune with the middle classes opinion of the poor, ne'er do well scroungers that spend all their dole on booze, fags & Sky. Breaks my heart stuff like this - There was a bloke on the radio a couple of months back, who worked part time but had some support benefits, said his only treat was 4 cans of cheap lager every other week but he couldn't afford it anymore........shame on us.
I am too - that's insane
Even if LDs lost two-thirds of their seats, UKIP have got to go some to win more than a dozen. Bookies have lost the plot on that one
Seagull on the wing
New member
Hello Che Guevara....(you'd like to be) when are you starting your revolution then...your politics of envy stand out a mile.
Before you talk about the right wing politics let me tell you after the war I was bought up in a Labour supporting family,most of the street were Labour supporters,due to this,'They stand up for the working man'...really.(Tell that to Tony Blair).
When Maggie released council houses to the right to buy scheme there was a rush to buy them, my father and his Labour supporting neighbours were first in the queue, (miners bought them as well)...many sold on for a quick killing on the housing market.
Then Labour opened the floodgates to immigrants,they flooded across and continue to do so,which in turn caused a housing shortage...so what do the left say 'It's Maggies fault for selling off the housing stock',just how many Labour supporters can honestly say 'They or their family never bought a house cheap through right to buy'.
Double standards from the left...If the Right gave every working man a £5,000 bonus every year,you'd snatch their hands off...but would then say,there must be a plot behind this for their rich friends.
If Labour increased benefits to White Dee and her ilk Labourites would rejoice and declared...See we are for the workers...(Hum!...White Dee,workers,doesn't seem to go together but hey ho,you get the drift.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Agree completely with you. The very worst case scenario will see Lib Dems with about 12 seats in the South-West, Scottish Islands and a few where the incumbent MP has a very high personal standing amongst his constituency...Cable, Baker et al. There's absolutely no way at all that UKIP will win more than a couple of seats, and my gut feeling is they won't win a single seat at the GE.
father_and_son
Well-known member
But they are categorically NOT hoarding it!
Yes, the banks have been told to increase their capital reserves to reflect the risk they are carrying - so that they are not putting themselves at risk of collapse (and so requiring a bailout again). This is required and prudent and should have been happening throughout the past 20 years, but the regulators dropped the ball!
To do this they have to lend less money (risky) so that they can invest more money (less risky).
What they are not doing is sitting on a pile of cash, Scrooge McDuck style!
The money they have on deposit is used to invest in various things
a. some long term investments... eg property
b. some medium term... eg bonds, shares
c. some short term... eg currency markets, derivatives
Each and every penny, cent and yen they have (bar a tiny proportion that they are required to carry in cash - and this is miniscule!) that isn't out in lending is being invested in the economy (local, national or global) and so is being used to generate jobs & pay wages and so fuel that economy.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Funny that Osborne brought in the tax on Pension Pot inheritance now he wants praise for abolishing it, I wonder if the fact that the people who will benefit are people like himself and Cameron has altered his thinking ?
I wonder when MP's will receive pre paid cards instead of making expense claims for things like a £39 breakfast to ensure us hard working tax payers are getting value for money ?
I wonder when MP's will receive pre paid cards instead of making expense claims for things like a £39 breakfast to ensure us hard working tax payers are getting value for money ?
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
To be honest that 7/4 is giving money away, the LD's are already a political party with plenty of MP's and many will hang onto their seats through local factors whilst UKIP basically are a bunch of nutters and even Farage may struggle to get a seat
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Translates as people who don't agree with my point of view just don't get it, they're not so clever. Yes, you've already told us about your low opinion of those who don't see eye to eye with you.
Interesting that you're a strong supporter of secular nationhood in the Middle East, a dictatorship based around the cult of personality in Cuba and N Korea, yet in the most advanced, fair and stable societies - the ones you keep telling us are broken and doomed for imminent catastrophe, you're advocating breaking them up into communities without central or even regional government and with compulsory political education on the cards, by the looks of it. Great - how liberating.
Hold your horses, looks like that bet is vote share rather than total seats
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Its the beneficiaries of the middle classes who have managed to build a private pension pot and go into income drawdown who will benefit.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
What Osborne initially brought in was the possibility of keeping an inheritance pot after the age of 75 and passing it on to your heirs, subject to an income tax charge of 55%. Before that change you had to take an annuity and would have nothing to pass on to your heirs at all. Now he has gone further and abolished the income tax charge when it is passed on. However, the beneficiaries will still pay income tax at their marginal rate when drawing income from the pension. Only the transfer of the fund is now tax free.
Leekbrookgull
Well-known member
Exactly[/QU
You know as well as me,he will become Lord Clegg of Hallam. It's just a shame.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
The ignorance of those that slag of the banking industry is beyond contempt.
The banking industry covers 20% of the UK economy, get rid of that and we will be third world within a year.
The banking industry covers 20% of the UK economy, get rid of that and we will be third world within a year.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Funny how we did without them very nicely for hundreds of years then
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
We didn't you total fool, banking has a long history.
Basically if the UK Government decided to marginalise banking London would be as important as Norwich.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,312
really? who'd be providing finance and banking for the industry and commerce built up by the empire then? theres no coincidene that London has such wide reaching international financial services.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
And look where it's got us. Time to kick them OUT
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Interesting, how do you intend to do that?
Like they're obviously gonna welcome us with open arms when we rock up at their border with some flowers, box of choccy's and a sorry card.
You do realise they don't actually want our aid etc ?