Keith Sansum1
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Certaintly liam isnt giving up going after the mouse
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy The Financial Times tonight.......
Spectre of stagflation returns to haunt UK
Sterling falls to lowest level against dollar since June 2010.
British Pound .....1.14 Euro.....
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Majority of British children will soon be growing up in families struggling 'below the breadline', Government warned
The majority of British children will soon be growing up in families which are struggling "below the breadline"
because of welfare cuts, tax rises and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation's 13m youngsters will be in homes with incomes judged
to be less than the minimum necessary for a decent standard of living, according to a new report.
The figures, which emerged a week ahead of George Osborne's Budget, suggest that an unwanted
legacy of the Coalition's squeeze on spending will be to leave more children living close to poverty.
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Michael Gove hits out at Theresa May for undermining prime minister
Education secretary says speech setting out political creed played into the hands of the Tory party's opponents
Michael Gove's salvo shows that No 10 believes the growing party indiscipline has spread to the highest levels of the
cabinet.
Michael Gove challenged Theresa May to stop undermining David Cameron when he spoke out at a meeting
on Tuesday of the Conservative political cabinet against prominent Tories who are promoting their leadership credentials.
In a sign of Downing Street's extreme irritation with the home secretary, who set out her political creed in a wide-ranging
speech on Saturday, the education secretary made clear that such interventions played into the hands of opponents.
The move by Gove, which came as May and the education secretary achieved a significant victory in killing off No 10's plans for
a minimum alcohol price of 45p a unit, shows that No 10 believes the growing party indiscipline has spread
to the highest levels of the cabinet.
It is understood that Gove did not name May but left the political cabinet in no doubt that he had
the home secretary in mind after her high-profile speech at the weekend in which she
spoke way beyond her formal brief and set out her thoughts on what she called the three pillars of Conservatism.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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comes across to me that election defeat is expected and they are all jockeying for position as next leader.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Three pill 'R's of Conservatism...
-Receptor Partial Agonists (5-HT1A)
-Receptor Partial Agonists (5-HT2)
-Reuptake Inhibitors (Serotonin etc.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_antidepressants
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Jan Higgins
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It might not be a good idea to antagonise backbenchers and I certainly agree with the following comment from Howard's link..........
"One recent Tweet quoted in the press, saw Mrs Wollaston writing: "Inner circle still look far too posh, male and white and Cameron is running out of time to fix it".
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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It's fair to say the mouse is on notice
It will be interesting to see
1; when the challenge takes place
2' who the front runner(s) will be
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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it will be like when 10,000 metre runners hear the bell,l all looking from side to side to see who breaks first.
i bet charlie is racking his brains trying to decide who to align himself with.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Charlie is right wing, sure he will sit on fence then come down on the side of one who defeats the mouse
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Ditch austerity, Angela Merkel and David Cameron are told
EU leaders meeting in Brussels are under pressure from growing popular anger
As popular discontent spreads across Europe, David Cameron and Angela Merkel will come under pressure from other EU
leaders tomorrow to signal an end to the "all-austerity" approach to the economic crisis.
European leaders meeting in Brussels tomorrow and Friday are confronted with a political vacuum in Italy, intractable crises in
Spain and Greece and worrying signs of a renewed economic slide in Britain and France. Above all, they are confronted with
growing popular anger at the EU policy of curing recession with austerity.
Mr Cameron and, above all, the German Chancellor Ms Merkel will be urged to agree a summit statement accepting a more
softly-softly approach to cuts in public spending in the eurozone and the wider European Union. The language is likely to be
cautious and will not commit Mr Cameron to any change in the Coalition's austerity policies in Britain
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I renew my prediction the mouse is on short notice
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George Osborne to delay childcare tax breaks
Worsening public finances mean chancellor will have to reschedule changes that could save some families £1,000
George Osborne is expected to announce in Wednesday's budget that the planned childcare tax break may be put back as late
as 2015. Photograph: Rex Features
A tax break to ease the costs of childcare, which was at the heart of a new year relaunch of the coalition, is to be delayed as
worsening public finances leave George Osborne struggling to balance the nation's books.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg are to join forces on Tuesday to launch a series of childcare initiatives which the prime minister
described last week as a "very major step forward".
But Osborne is expected to announce in the budget on Wednesday that it will take time, possibly until after the general
election in 2015, to add a new tax break of up to £1,000 to existing childcare help.
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Treasury could take an £ 8 Billion hit under QE gamble.
Reversing the Bank of England`s money- printing scheme could deliver £ 8 billion hit to public
finances.
Britains public finances have been `flattered`by Ossie helping himself to interest on gilts bought
by the Bank of England with freshly printed money.
New reseach by the Bank has for the first time exposed the hugh uncertanty for the taxpayer
of unwinding the £ 375 billion of asset purchases under Quatative Easing ( QE )
It goes o show that QE is a huge experiment.
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Budget hit by plunging economic forecast.....weak growth jeopardises borrowing targets.
Ossie is to announce weaker-than-predicted growth figures in Wednesday`s Budget as government
struggles to turn around the embattled economy and to bring down the deficit.
The sharp reduction to this year`s growth outlook......estimated to be slightly more than half previous
``predictions```.......will leave Ossie`s hopes of reducing `borrowing on a knife-edge and open him up
to a fresh assault from Labour..
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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will the lib dems continue to support them
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Tory MPs to fire broadside at Coalition defence cuts
Rebel Conservative MPs have opened a new front against David Cameron by launching a campaign
to fight "devastating" defence cuts.
The size of the army is already set to fall from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020
Members of the new group fear the military is now so depleted that it cannot comply with all of its obligations under
international treaties and would even be too weak to retake the Falkland Islands in the event of another Argentine invasion.
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, has already slashed billions from the armed forces' budget, but senior Liberal
Democrats are now pushing for deeper defence cuts in the Government's spending review in the summer.
The size of the army is already set to fall from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2020.
Details of the backbench revolt, which has already attracted the support of 10 Tory MPs, comes just days after the Prime
Minister was criticised for sacking the head of a pay review body who recommended servicemen were given them a rise as
compensation for the Coalition's defence cuts.
John Baron, the Essex MP leading the new Tory faction, said they will urge the Prime Minister and other ministers to "think
again" about the severity of defence cuts in a high-profile campaign inside and outside Parliament over the coming months.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Dilema number 99 for the mouse
does he;
1; keep lib dems sweet and avoid confrontation
2; take notice of the up and coming leadership election threat?
3; continue as he is and risk being challenged by boris and out of number 10
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Iain Duncan Smith blocks plan for childcare tax breaks in Budget
In a blow to Nick Clegg, Work and Pensions Secretary resists measure, compelling Osborne
to renege on pledge to assist squeezed middle
George Osborne's plans to use the Budget to unveil childcare tax breaks for hard-pressed families have been
blocked by Iain Duncan Smith in a major Cabinet row over funding, it emerged last night.
Parents struggling with rising childcare costs were to be given allowances of up to £1,000 in one of the coalition's
flagship proposals to help the "squeezed middle".
Yet the measures, already delayed from January, have been shelved after an 11th-hour intervention
from the Work and Pensions Secretary, whose departmental budget would have been used to help fund the scheme.
The hold-up is a significant blow to Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, who had made it a personal mission to
help low to middle-income parents with the cost of childcare.
The row leaves a gaping hole in Mr Osborne's Budget, which he will deliver on Wednesday amid
deepening concern across all parties and business that his austerity strategy is harming Britain's
economic future. Growth figures are expected to be weaker than forecast and, besides rising employment
, there is little sign that the economy is turning around.
