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[polar fox] 22/11/2019 13:13

In his speech this morning, Farage said Downing St. will be launching their manifesto on Sunday. BJ will be after every vote he can get, of course.

In that context, we all know that free TV licences for the over-75s is a key issue for them and many of them vote.

The LDem manifesto has NO mention at all of the issue. The Labour manifesto has a single sentence - "We will protect free TV licences for the over-75s." Weasel word that, "protect". Could mean anything or nothing.

So BJ has a golden opportunity, on Sunday, to please those millions of people with a financial interest after May next year.

The Sun, Nov.2:

BORIS Johnson has vowed to save free TV licences for over-75s as a top election priority.

The PM has ordered officials to find a way to pay for the £745million-a-year perk, warning: “It’s crucial we do this.”

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Watch for it, on Sunday. When you consider all the billions being thrown around, less than one billion has the potential to buy a lot of votes, or so it seems to me. We'll see just how smart they really are in No.10. Or not.

[delphiman] 22/11/2019 12:42

FSTE up 100 points RBS up 2.4, there was a time it would have gone up 1p to every 10 on FTSE, Thats a lot of selling to keep it down like that.

[delphiman] 22/11/2019 12:27

If Jeremy Corbyn was to win, he'd be inheriting all this, it will take him years to sort it out.
on another brexit vote people would have a majority to remain now,
This election I bet there will be the biggest turn out ever and its going to be against the conservatives not for them.
I think the polls said to Teresa May, that she would easily win, him so much for those pols plus the conservatives have to more than just win they have to win a lot extra else we are back in this situation again.
Time for Labour, they are gaining all the time.

[delphiman] 22/11/2019 12:15

we carnt avoid recession now, Brexit is 8% loss of GDP, we only narowly escaped it this month.
around 30% of people cannot afford to see a NHS dentist.
Should this not be free on the NHS.
NHS waiting time diabolical,
Government departments when trying to deal with them again diabolical.
Why do in a hour that can take you 7, mistake after mistake but there computers still spit out threat letters and trying to sort such things, oh thats not us its a different department, try find that department and even there own people cannot put you through to the correct department, round and round,
OY!!! thats my tax money you take off me paying for all this diabolical behaviour.
There is light at the end of the tunnel its a man holding a candle because he carnt afford to switch a light on.

[delphiman] 22/11/2019 12:13

I would normally vote conservative, but I'm voting labour, everything is a mess goverment is a mess, hospitals are a mess councils are a mess.
benefits are a mess our country now floods, how often do you see a drain cleaner,
I remember before we flooded thinking how come this isnt running away and i look down a drain in the city, full of rubbish,
We need change and you wont get change by keeping the same old same old,
education should be free and not put people into life with massive debt before they have earnt a penny.
If you never have to pay it if you dont become employed with wages that are enough then hm why charge interest, to bury bury bury you.
slave your life for an education.
is the struggle not tough enough in life.
look after your young so in turn they are educated to look after the country.
Time for CHANGE!

[polar fox] 22/11/2019 11:38

Ask the question again on Dec.13, if you still haven't figured it out at that point!

[leedskier] 22/11/2019 10:39

Given today's UK PMI manufacturing and services data can the UK avoid recession next year?

[ashbox] 21/11/2019 15:00

Osborne might have changed his mind after Sam Gyimah was hugely embarrassed on the Lib-Dem child care policy on LBC yesterday. An Abbottesque performance.

[polar fox] 21/11/2019 14:24

This is news, published in the ES a few minutes ago:

Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have a clear 16-point lead over Labour while Jo Swinson and Nigel Farage are being hit by a “big squeeze”, an exclusive Ipsos MORI poll for The Standard reveals today.

Voters currently divide: Conservatives, 44 per cent (up three points since last month), Labour 28 per cent (up four), Liberal Democrat 16 (down four), Brexit Party three per cent (down four) and Green Party three (unchanged), after allowing for seats where the Brexit Party is not standing.

The findings are compelling evidence that the Lib Dems and Brexit Party are losing voters as Polling Day on December 12 draws closer and the Labour and Conservative shares rise.
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[polar fox] 21/11/2019 14:15

Not news - he wrote this in the ES weeks ago.

[leedskier] 21/11/2019 12:38

George Osborne has said he is considering voting for the Liberal Democrats next month, becoming the latest former Conservative MP to indicate he may not vote for Boris Johnson’s party in the general election.

The ex-chancellor, who now edits the Evening Standard newspaper, said he was weighing casting his ballot for Sam Gyimah, the Lib Dem candidate for Kensington who he served alongside under David Cameron.

“I like Sam. He’s bright and sensible. So do I vote for him, or for the party that – however wayward it’s become – gave me incredible opportunities for 20 years? We’ll see, but old habits die hard,” he wrote in a column for the Spectator magazine.

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 15:29

I think for the first time ever in this election, when in the past a large percentage of people just carnt be bothered to go out and vote or dont know what to do so dont vote, we are going to see nearly everyone make the effort, because everyone is just sick of brexit.

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 15:16

looks like the conservatives will have to be careful

[leedskier] 20/11/2019 14:07

Given that the psephologists have informed Boris that his pathway to a majority is to win the vote of Workington man, perhaps "lets get Brexit done" is the correct dog whistle.


However in pandering to Workington man, Boris has to be careful not to frighten off Guildford woman.

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 12:45

Snap Poll after last night put BJ and JC level pegging

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 12:14

bloomberg is now reporting a no deal brexit has just become more likley than previously.

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 11:07

I think nurses do, do a 4 day week already, I know a few that do it.
so we are only becoming like them really and if you stagger the work force it could be good.
Teachers get gazillions of holidays as well but I dont know of a standard 9 hour day for them, all be it they do a lot of prep at home etc for the classes with out pay but they get more holidays than anyone else.

[wilc42] 20/11/2019 10:34

9 hr day. Teachers on a basic 10 hr day, nurses to. Apologies to other professions I have missed as well. JC. Old out of date. Tory Boy to win by a 10-12% majority IMO

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 10:13

Try saying free education Jeremy. You would get all the Students then, they did once say something along those lines.

[delphiman] 20/11/2019 10:10

A four day week would be ok if it became a 9 hour day, think I'd quite like that.

[cfc1] 20/11/2019 09:43

Leeds, I agree but I hope Boris gets feedback.

[leedskier] 20/11/2019 09:16

cfc1, Boris should have buried him. Sadly Boris bored everyone to death by following his speech writer's script which demanded that every question, no matter what the issue raised in the question, was to be answered by "Brexit".

[gcom2] 20/11/2019 09:15

does corbyn have one eye higher than the other?