Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Where to start with this latest nonsense from the champagne socialists eh? OK let's remember Dullard Prescott's promise to build ecotowns (no please don't laugh.......oh go on then) up and down the country. Well that went well didn't it along with his promise to deliver his hairbrained scheme to get more people onto public transport when the exact opposite happened.
Let us then consider the idea that these clowns will underwrite this bizarre election bribe to the tune of £10 billion.
Ten billion? Of our money?
Well that might just pay for the land costs but then there is the costs of building these houses. Oh did someone mention the roads, schools, doctors surgeries and other essential infrastructure which would have to be provided to service these new homes? Of course not because we all know it just, well you know, it just happens under labour. That's what they do - click their fingers and hey presto stuff appears.
Of course the average Mirror reader is probably delighted by this announcement (along with any prospective parliamentary labour lobby fodder) but in the real world, well let's be realistic it just ain't gonna happen.
And of course Beaker Miliband considers this a boost to the economy rather than the alternative which is to support a third runway, scrap HS2 and of course best of all scrap the climate change act especially now that the planet is cooling.
Ahhhh. Another day another demolishing of yet another pathetic wheeze from the co-operative labour party if you know what I mean.
Keith Sansum1
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And the tories and UKIP philip?
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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It`s warming up......
Chancellor demanding more spending cuts from departments to fund Autumn Statement giveaways
George Osborne is demanding a round of last-minute spending cuts from Whitehall departments to fund more than £2bn of giveaways in his Autumn Statement on Thursday.
The Chancellor has angered Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers by asking for emergency savings on the eve of his statement so that he can balance the books. The departments under pressure include the Home Office, Justice, Defence, Business and Work and Pensions.
Mr Osborne's move has reopened a Cabinet debate over the previous decision to ring-fence the NHS, schools and overseas aid budgets, meaning any extra savings must be found from the non-protected departments that have already suffered cuts announced since 2010.
Although Cabinet sources say a deal will be done by Thursday, one said there was resentment that Mr Osborne had launched a "mini spending review" to finance moves to cut domestic energy bills by £50 and populist measures announced at this autumn's Tory and Liberal Democrat conferences. These were scrapping a rise of almost 2p a litre in petrol duty due next September (£750m); bringing in free school meals for all five-to seven-year-olds (£700m); and rewarding marriage in the tax system (about £700m).
About £1bn could be raised from a new crackdown on tax avoidance that is likely to affect rich individuals and companies. But extra savings from some departments, and under-spending by others, will be needed to make the Chancellor's sums add up.
Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, are said to have fought off a Treasury attempt to shave the budgets for growth measures, skills training and finance for small businesses. An extra £250m will be handed to the British Investment Bank to help small and medium-sized firms.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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time is running out for this cobbled together lot
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Ed is making his move.................
Secret memo shows key role for Blairites in Labour's election team
Alastair Campbell and Alan Milburn to advise Ed Miliband, according to leaked plan that will infuriate party left
After what a source said were heated arguments, deputy leader Harriet Harman will attend weekly meetings. Photograph: Nick Ansell/PA
New Labour big-hitters Alastair Campbell and Alan Milburn, as well as a batch of other advisers from the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown eras, are to make a dramatic return to Ed Miliband's general election team, according to a top-secret memo obtained by the Observer.
The document - Proposed General Election 2015 Meeting Structure - drawn up in the office of Douglas Alexander, chair of campaign strategy, will infuriate many on the party's left, who believed that Miliband had moved on from New Labour's approaches to campaigning and policy.
As well as detailing meetings between Campbell and the Labour leader, the memo says there will be a select "Sunday group" including two former aides to Peter Mandelson - Ben Wegg-Prosser and Patrick Loughran - Blair's former press officer, Matthew Doyle, and DJ Collins, another former adviser with New Labour links.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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hope this is wrong
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John Buckley
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Hahahaha! Yes Keith, I hope for your sake that you`re wrong as well! Any slight credibility that your party might previously have had would be lost in an instant if you let Alistair Campbell anywhere back into the fold. Still, might give some of your other chums in the party a good chance to question him a bit more about Dr. David Kelly, his memory and conscience might perhaps have improved with age? Probably not though!
Brian Dixon
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The effect of ill-conceived policies are surfacing all the time....
The great housing crisis: Labour beats Tories over new homes
Conservative councils build only half as much affordable and social housing.
Labour councils are building twice as many homes in their areas as Conservatives local authorities, new research reveals today. Since the last election, an average of 403 social and affordable homes have been built in each Labour council area, compared with 201 in each Tory-held authority. There are an average of 618 social and affordable homes in the pipeline, with planning permission and financing in place, in each Labour area compared with 365 homes in each Conservative council.
The figures will fuel concerns about the UK's housing crisis, with George Osborne taking steps to boost housing supply, including for those most in need, in his Autumn Statement last week. There are 1.8 million people on the social housing waiting list, and the number of families in temporary accommodation has increased by 8 per cent in the past year. Shelter estimates that 85,000 children in Britain will wake up on Christmas Day in temporary accommodation.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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And if the labour party, hadn't let all the millions of imiergrunt to flood in ,,we wouldn't need to build all these homes.
Labour the imiergrunt party
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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and the point being kieth,then who would build then and futher more who would live in them.................lots of empty houses etc.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Odd logic Brian - or perhaps no logic.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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logical roger.the government want houses built,with no work force to build them who would live in them.if kieth gets his way.is that clear enough roger.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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lost me totally brian, why would houses be built if there is no demand caused by population rise?
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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because the government wants houses built howard.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Still no logic there Brian.
Roger
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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look roger do I have to spell it out simply.
1/ government wants houses built.
2 /kieth wants all the eastern Europeans sent back,plus all the other imigrants.
3/ who will live in the built houses.
4/who will build more when needed.
dose that make it clear roger.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i will have a glass of what you are drinking brian.
the cobbled together chaps want houses to be built to meet the needs of people on the social housing list not to provide shelter for any future migrants.
John Buckley- Registered: 6 Oct 2013
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Brian, you`re priceless, please don`t change! ( or is this just a wind up? )
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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If Milliband and his lot bring in names like Campbell and others that are linked to mandelson, they will commit political suicide, all being mates of liar Blair.
The tories have shown themselves to be out of touch with the rest of us, incapable of sorting out 'the mess that the previous government has left' (wearing thin as an argument by now) and have been caught out making too maNny u-turns and telling too many lioes, and thge lib dems are a pathetic joke, can't work out if they're puppets or muppets (or both) and should just disband to save themselves further embarrasment. In the absence of Nick Griffin and the BNP, it quite seriously looks like the only party worth voting for is UKIP...all they have to do is show they have more than a couple of policies, and keep their heads down and they can't help but do well.
Good luck UKIP.