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On the third Thursday of May exactly a year ago Mrs. May was enjoying huge leads in the polls as she travelled to key Tory target of Halifax (LAB GE2015 majority 428) to launch the Conservative manifesto.
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Never again will a major political party even consider assessing a person's home to pay for personal at home dementia care costs after the damage it did to May's general election campaign
Robert Smithson's advocacy of a hairy gay men's farting forum is commendable although I'd suggest staying in the big tent might be injurious to certain sensory perceptions. It's a ill wind that blows ....
Presumably you didn't think it laudable enough to disown the opportunistic homophobic leader of your party?
Fixed-odds betting stakes 'to be cut to £2' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44148285
That said, it is likely that betting shops will close, which means job losses.
It is said that Esther McVey opposed plans to cut FOBT stakes, so those who have backed or laid her for next leader should take note. Less worthily, some have linked this to her on/off and now back on again relationship with Philip Davies MP, who is close to the bookies.
This bad news for bookmakers immediately follows the US Supreme Court's ruling that our cousins in the Land of the Free should be free to bet.
If that had been her only screw-up, she still could've won a majority.
Mildly surprised, but pleased, the fixed odds stakes have been cut to £2. Whilst good, one side-effect will probably be more harm for the High Street. That needs addressing.
But just maybe your GE manifesto was not the place to do it.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2017/may/21/jeremy-corbyn-music-festival-tranmere-rovers-ground-video
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/missing-files-motivated-the-leak-of-michael-cohens-financial-records
So it was a whistleblower motivated by the apparent ‘disappearance’ of some from the system.
Perhaps the big bookies will now return to their traditional role of giving odds and laying bets. As for the shops, been in one recently? They are toilets. If they all closed tomorrow nobody would miss them. The staff will find better jobs in more worthwhile outlets. Win, win,win.
Well done the Government!
There is a debate to be had about what risks are to be shared (medical care costs) and which are not but large untaxed legacies increasing inequality into the next generation are completely the wrong priority and May was right to point this out. Unfortunately, as we have seen on so many other things she is no salesman.
If you try and bounce them on the voters during an election campaign, they will smell a rat and vote accordingly.
Have a good morning everyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/16/the-guardian-view-on-renationalising-rail-give-it-a-chance
Crosby's non-campaign campaign also failed to say anything at all about Brexit, which was ostensibly the reason for calling the election in the first place. The result is there is no settled policy to bind the cabinet or party together. New Labour always used to put the tricky stuff in the manifesto, safe in the knowledge no-one ever reads it, so that in the event of a tight vote the whips could remind backbenchers they were elected to send small boys up chimneys or whatever else was buried in the small print on page 94.
All the Tories have is that Brexit should be smooth and orderly (half a dozen times in the manifesto) and who could argue with that? It perfectly encapsulates Jacob Rees-Mogg's view, as well as Ken Clarke's.
Have both in my portfolio as successors to Mrs May.
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/eurokrise/italien-kommentar-der-albtraum-der-eurozone-15593594.html
No wins televised debate on abortion change, Varadkar has sulk with RTE
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/you-cannot-have-this-whooping-jeering-and-hollering-on-such-a-sensitive-matter-ministers-attack-rt-after-debate-win-for-no-36915427.html
The EU-philes were not complaining that the Commons didn't conduct negotiations when it came to throwing away powers they'd be entrusted by the electorate.
I agree we need some version of wealth tax/higher inheritance tax/higher taxes on capital. And that reducing inequality is desirable.
I want us to pool our risks and pay together from general taxation.
To my mind that applies equally for social care as for health, disability allowance and all the rest of welfare. It could happen to any of us and as a society we should be happy to pay to insure that risk.
It put me off those as well to be honest. I don’t like not being in control even if the wins could potentially be much larger.
It's indefensible. Even if you really love the EU and genuinely believe we're better off closer, it makes sense to be in the single market and out of the customs union, not the other way around.
It's wretched. I'll still vote Conservative as long as that far left lunatic is leader of Labour, but once he's gone, if we're in the customs union and there's no plan to change it, I'll be voting elsewhere/spoiling my ballot.
I am with @DavidL on this: while there needs to be collective provision, people with wealth - including valuable homes - should not expect others less well off than them to pay so that they can preserve their wealth. They should use their wealth first before expecting others to contribute.
The 'dementia tax' idea has gone for good
The manifesto was clear that the Tories would leave the EU, the single market and end free movement
2. Amazon seems to cope with its next-day service to those of us living out in the country. No cherry-picking for them....
Did it arrive?
Of course not. It arrived some 3 days later. It would have been quicker for me to walk to Manchester and deliver it by hand.
I have put in an official complaint (by email this time) and request for the return of my money. As yet no reply. I don’t often use the post but and tend only to do so when I need to return parcels or get something delivered and need certainty re delivery. Am not inclined to use this service again if this is what happens.
Add the incompetence and the ditching, then you have a problem.
Isn't there meant to be a Libertarian strand to the Conservatives?
Have you looked at a map of the results from that election?
The Customs Union is just an obsession for a few Leave ideologues
As a stealth tax through steadily rising council tax then maybe.
Increasing social care costs As I have said can be paid through higher national insurance primarily extended too to the over 65s in work and council tax
I like a gamble but betting shops don't bring anything positive to a commercial/shopping area.
Gamble online on your sofa in your underpants like normal people..
As a millionaire lawyer living in central London I can understand they may be less so but for a pensioner or someone out of work living in a small market town they are a vital resource
But as you note - can the 2.10 from Southwell (AW) maintain the high street betting industry? Not so sure.