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5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Gibraltar rocked? · 0 replies · +1 points

Indeed it is. Blair, Hain and Mandelson tried to sellout Gibraltar to the Spanish, talking of 'joint sovereignty' i.n the 2000s the people called a referendum to stay British with 17,000+ votes in favour, only 46 against.
Joint sovereignty by the way, is totally different from the NI-Ireland deal - with dual citizenship - how does 2 sets of laws governing the rock work exactly?
Opposite the Rock is a Spanish territory on the coast of Morocco- the exact mirror situation of Gibraltar, but 3 times bigger. It's not the only one. If 'joint sovereignty' is declared over the rock - Spain can kiss goodbye to all its mirror Gibraltars.

11 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - From @AndrewLilico: We... · 0 replies · +1 points

What many people do not realize is how much it costs to renovate or build a home - not in the actual construction, but in zero carbon scheme nonsense added on.

For example, to rennovate single paned window to double glazed - the major cost is in employing the FENSA government inspector to tick a box thats says yes - its double glazed and carbon reductive - its unbelievable. Its just corruption and rentier activity from the Labour era.

The cost of similar zero carbon rubbish on a new 4 bed is £40,000 according to Ross Clarke on Newsnight 21st Mar 2013, Author of 'A Broom Cupboard of One's Own'. I can well believe it.

Instead of saying - look we have a housing crisis, lets bring the cost of housing down by scrapping the costly redtape - Osborne gets taxpayers to underwrite a bubble - which only benefits the bankers and landed class.

11 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - Harriet Baldwin MP &am... · 0 replies · +6 points

Its a moot point with mass immigration meaning 5000 people settle in the UK each week, while 200 homes are built per week.

However, I was under the illusion that savings funded Housebuilding anyway - could it be that the price of land is too expensive and the tiny amounts released are never going to be enough?

11 years ago @ Left Watch - David Skelton: Conserv... · 0 replies · +4 points

The article is not nonsense in the figures it outlines - it's nonsense that the rich posh boys party can somehow reconnect.

There is a huge swathe of voters out there who need representation. About 10m.

Labour relies on the public sector - Thats only about 6m workers - and the extension of the welfare state via tax credits, housing benefit etc.. which make up a living wage.

Adding the pubic sector and 'client state' together with Labours vote, all in all Labour got just 8.6m votes in 2010. About 5m of its 1997 voters refused to vote Labour - or anyone else.

Thanks to Cameron continuing Labour's policies of Mass Immigration, QE, robbing hardworking and prudent savers, to bail out feckless and irresponsible BTLers and fund tax cuts for them, I fully expect the average C-E worker to vote Labour back in - best to be plucked and get something back in benefits, rather than plucked to give tax cuts for BTL millionares.

11 years ago @ Left Watch - David Skelton: Conserv... · 0 replies · +2 points

I think your right, but UKIP has plenty of room to evolve to get the ex-Labour vote. UKIPs membership is increasing, which could soon reduce the liberterian nonsense, and mellow the party towards a more general Bentham tradition of civic nationalism and liberalism.

11 years ago @ Left Watch - David Skelton: Conserv... · 0 replies · 0 points

Labour betrayed private sector workers, because there are no private sector unions anymore. Labour is now funded 95% by public sector unions.

Labour have betrayed the private sector worker.

Labour relies on the public sector - only about 6m workers - and the extension of the welfare state via tax credits, housing benefit etc.. which make up a living wage.

So, adding the pubic sector and 'client state' together, all in all Labour got just 8.6m votes in 2010. About 5m of its 1997 voters refused to vote Labour - or anyone else.

Thanks to Cameron continuing Labour's policies of Mass Immigration, QE, robbing hardworking and prudent savers, to bail out feckless and irresponsible BTLers and fund tax cuts for them, I fully expect the average C-E worker to vote Labour back in.

My own situation is that of the thousands robbed from my savings by the BOE, thanks to Osborne's funding for lending printed money, vote Labour - even I am thinking at least I will be able to cop some benefits back while my savings, hard work and my own country continues to disappear.

I will be voting UKIP BTW.

Unless Cameron and Osborne are dumped, and the Conservatives take Clegg's up promise of a EU referendum, or jail him for lies, before the election, there is no future for the CONservatives.
http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/files/i...

11 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - Alex Morton: Let&rsquo... · 0 replies · +5 points

Fantastic reply. The aggressive support the Tories give to the Housing pyramid, bankers and the BTL rich and the theft of savers and infliction of inflation on the ordinary working man, along with ignoring mass immigration etc... is in large part why they will lose the next election.

In any supply demand imbalance in essentials like food - we accept rationing for the good of all until the free market kicks in. In the economic rent extraction machine that is housing this can be simply done by removal of the landlord subsidy by aggressive rent caps on existing BTLs with Housing Benefit., while relaxing such rules on new builds.

11 years ago @ Columnists - Stephan Shakespeare: A... · 0 replies · +1 points

We cannot control our own borders, we cannot deal with imported terrorists by sending them back even if we spend millions upon millions but the important thing to take away about all this, is that these are just a few signs of powerlessness over major policy areas. Its the tip of an iceberg - 90% more is unseen.
What possible chance do we have of doing anything to foster real growth - instead of a fake pre-election boom followed by inflation as Osborne is set to implement.

11 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - Lord Ashcroft: Here�... · 1 reply · +34 points

How out of touch the Tory party still are.
As a Saver - I WILL BE VOTING UKIP next time. The scandleous THEFT under the Tories continues unabated.

If Labour get in - so what! We will still have everything we have now - heading to a banana republic under the EU, mass immigration etc... but at least I may get some of my money back which the Tories have given the Bankers as a subsidy to the rich, via subsidies to the poor and higher benefits.

11 years ago @ Conservative Home [OLD] - Newslinks for Saturday... · 0 replies · +2 points

Look - Dave has to spend £13bn on Foreign Aid projects like helping Indias space program and fairgrounds in Afgahistan (rising to 0.7% of all UK economic activity). When things like funding windmills for the upper class are thrown in thats billions more gone. Getting things right here - overzealously cutting benefit even to the needy - and tackling poverty and crime like housing, Anti-social behavour in the UK is simply not as glamorous.

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