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  • How can the Tories talk about sorting out the economy, when we are borrowing more than ever?

    So we have the Tory's harping on about the new jobs that have been created.

    They wax lyrical about how they are bringing the economy into line.

    Yet as announced today, they have borrowed more this Month than last year, our actual debt is catapulting towards £1.4 Trillion.

    These things are not compatible. More in work should mean more tax revenue, but the revenue is not going up. Why, simple, low and compressed wages, people earning less than the amount needed to qualify to pay tax. That is why, not just immigrants although they are in large numbers and of course with low wages comes higher benefit requirements.

    When will people understand that the Tory plan is all smoke and mirrors, they have already borrowed more in less than 5 years than Labour did in 13 and it is only getting worse.

    3 AnswersOther - Politics & Government7 years ago
  • Did I hear correctly, Harriet Harperson talking about limiting immigration?

    The Andrew Marr show this morning, Harriet Harperson was talking about getting controls on our borders, she was acknowledging that fact that mass uncontrolled unskilled immigration is compressing wages.

    I nearly dropped my tea and toast.

    Labour are more pro Europe than the Tory's and that takes some doing. She knows she cannot get that whilst we are in the EU, just as the Tory's do. Now I do not want to make outlandish suggestions, but do we think that the Heywood and Middleton bye election may have had anything to do with it? Is the Labour party trying to woo those amongst its core voters that want UKIP's immigration policy? Just a thought, what do you think.

    3 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Could this be the new Conservative plan for May 2015?

    We have just seen UKIP take their first seat in Westminster, OK, he had been the incumbent MP as a Tory, he was also personally very popular, so it might be argued that he could have stood for anyone (Except the Libtard Bumblecrats (Lost deposit)), and been elected.

    But for me, the bigger problem for Cameron and the one which I think will determine his new strategy in the run up to the GE was Heywood and Middleton.

    A safe Labour seat, where UKIP had come nowhere at the last election. Labour win the seat with a slight increase in their vote, but and it is a massive but, they only beat UKIP by a little over 600 votes. UKIP's increase in votes was absolutely staggering.

    Cameron and his number one drone Granty boy have been bandying around the "Go to bed with Farage, wake up with Millibland" bit for days now.... Guess what guys, it ain't washing.

    So does anyone agree with me that it is possible (because we all know what a self serving bunch the Tory's are), that Cameron will advise support from Tory's for UKIP in Labour safe seats where UKIP are polling well above the Conservatives. This would of course bring about more UKIP seats, but not enough to stop the Tory's running the Government.

    However, will he forgo Government, and allow Labour in, with all the pain it will cause, just so he does not have to be exposed in regard to his real feelings over the EU.

    Anyway you cut it, no UKIP voter is going to vote Tory if the polls continue the way they are. So what do you think?

    2 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Why do Labour and Tory supporters, continue to lie about and or misquote UKIP Policy?

    On virtually every site available I have read, although seldom responded too reactions from Labour and Tory supporters in regard to the policy announcements at UKIP's recent conference.

    I would not mind in the least if the statements were true, but by and large they are not.

    Example, UKIP want to privatise the NHS.

    This was absolutely rebuked by UKIP and a firm commitment was made about doing precisely the opposite.

    It was pointed out that Labour introduced PFI which sucks the life out of the NHS.

    Labour started and the Tory's brought about the bedroom tax.

    UKIP will scrap it. Yet some have blamed UKIP for that, how? we have not been in power so cannot have brought any of these things into legislation?

    Your views please.

    6 AnswersGovernment7 years ago
  • Have the Tory's underestimated the damage to their vote that HS2 will cause in 2015?

    Given the very different circumstances in the UK now as opposed to the last election, one might think that every seat is vital come May 2015.

    HS2 is going to have far reaching and very damaging effects on people in many of the traditionally Tory faithful shires. I think Cameron's blind ignorance to the people that this will affect directly could prove expensive.

    2 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Have you been fooled by Cameron's apparent EU scepticism ?

    For me, Cameron is keenly aware that vast numbers in the UK are fed up with the unending flow of cheap labour into the UK (4000 per week), which is now being clearly linked with suppressed wages.

    He knows that under the terms and conditions of our membership, we cannot stop anyone from an EU member state coming into the UK.

    He knows that we cannot apply our own values when it comes to such things as deportation of EU Nationals, because the European Convention on Human Rights, overrides anything our law can do.

    So what does he do? Well he is clearly playing the EU sceptic card, trying to convince all and sundry that he has given EU sceptics top jobs, and that he is not afraid to tackle the problems.

    But much more sinister is the truth. Because it is all a smoke screen. He absolutely wants to stay in the EU. He may genuinely want to arrest back control of immigration and the powers of the ECHR.

    But both of these things are not negotiable, it has been said time and again, even by the newly appointed Jean-Claude Juncker.

    So he is blagging it. He is making all sorts of noises around the changes he can effect, in fact he is doing everything he can to divert attention away from these 2 fundamental issue.

    Are you being fooled by him?

    4 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Why didn't Cameron mention this?

    The loss of vetoes in 43 areas of public policy will occur on November 1 under a provision of the Lisbon Treaty. It will come as Home Secretary Theresa May also opts back into EU control of 35 justice and policing measures.

    Cameron has been posturing over the EU for weeks now, his opposition to Jean-Claude Juncker, was little more than a well choreographed act, designed to convince the UK public that he is a no nonsense Prime Minister who can sort out all of our problems with the EU.

    Bottom line, he cannot. The 43 vetoes that we lose are yet another step towards being powerless to stop the unelected EU hierarchy from imposing whatever they want on the UK. They are already baying fore the UK Government to increase Council tax rates in the UK, what next?

    Juncker made it very clear that free movement of peoples for whatever reason within the EU is not up for negotiation. Cameron cannot get the changes that we need in order to get back control of our population, to help us rebuild our crumbling NHS etc. Is that we he did not mention it?

    2 AnswersElections7 years ago
  • Is the UK sleepwalking into membership of a Federal Europe?

    David Cameron is doing a grand job of appearing to champion the UK's general objection to a more federal EU.

    He is being further and further isolated by the rest of the EU, and he still bangs the drum.

    Well of course he does, he wants to stay in the EU as much as Milliband, Clegg, or the Green Party for that matter, but he also knows that there is very considerable scepticism in the UK.

    He cannot sit back and agree the appointment of Junker into the role of EU president because this man is very much a Federalist.

    So what does he do, he opposes him, he builds on the Notion that the UK will get powers back, and that in turn will, if he gets elected and is forced to give a referendum, allow him to say that the UK is in a much better place and should remain in the EU.

    If we as a Nation fall for it, then within the next 10 years or so, we will be locked into what a growing number of EU commissioners are calling for, and that is the formation of the United States of Europe.

    That is my view, but what do you think?

    6 AnswersOther - Politics & Government7 years ago
  • Does this not answer the question over Trade if we leave the EU?

    In an interview with BBC business, the Chief Chinese Trade Delegate was asked if the possibility of the UK leaving the EU, would affect possible trade deals between the UK and China.

    The delegate was very clear that there would be no difference at all, whether the UK was in or out.

    We are about to get heavily involved with China, at the moment, we will have to register all trade via the EU under the Rotterdam agreement. The EU will take a piece of the pie, as they do in all our trade deals.

    Surely we can now be certain that we can trade and make maximum profits away from the EU instead of being tied to it and paying it.

  • Should we extend our EU enforced open door immigration policy to the rest of the world?

    It seems to me that UKIP get a lot of flack for wanting to control immigration from the EU, yet nobody has any issue with the UK Government controlling immigration from the rest of the World.

    So, why not allow anyone from anywhere to waltz across and look for work, housing, school places, NHS treatment, benefits etc. It cannot be about numbers because many on here say that the 4 Million (legal) that we already have from Europe and the extra 200,000 plus, or 4000 per week that continue to come in, are OK. The fact that as many as want to come from better than 480 Million people doesn't worry many on here.

    So again, why not?

    1 AnswerImmigration7 years ago
  • Should we continue to give £450 Million per year to a Nation that allows ritual Murder?

    Despite being a Nation that regularly see's Women Murdered, the latest outside a Court of law, in Honour Killings, which on this occasion was carried out with Bricks. We are increasing our gift of financial aid to Pakistan this year to £450 Million per annum.

    A leading Pakistani human rights expert says that these killings are a regular occurrence and that probably less than 10% are reported to the police, of which even less are ever prosecuted.

    A pregnant woman was stoned to death outside a court where she was fighting for her right to marry the man she loved. Her Father is in custody, but none of the others.

    It would appear that under Sharia law, the family can agree that if the Father kills the Daughter, and so long as the Sons then forgive him, he has committed no crime.

    In the vast majority of cases this holds up. Given the outcry about this very public crime, it may not work on this occasion even though only one person is in custody and according to reports, several people were involved. Some Police officers can be seen on some coverage, ignoring it as well.

    This Country has Nuclear weapons, was the home to Osama Bin Laden and its Western borders were the launch centre for Taliban to attack our troops and then return to Pakistan.

    Should we not stop giving money until they prove they are worth it?

    7 AnswersGovernment7 years ago
  • In relation to my last question, have they been right about Eastern Europeans?

    The figures from the Office for National Statistics also showed that an upsurge in new arrivals from Romania and Bulgaria was already in full swing in 2013 as citizens of those countries got ready for Britain to throw open its labour market. Migration from the two countries was 23,000 in 2013, compared to just 9,000 the year before.

    The number of national insurance numbers issued to Romanians in the year ending March 2014 was 47,000, UP by 29,000 on the year before.

    Mr Farage said: "With under a year left to the general election the verdict is clear. David Cameron has broken his solemn promise to the British people on one of the most important political issues. And he has done so because he refuses to take back control of our borders in respect of more than 400 million people from more than two dozen countries on continental Europe.

    "If people want to get both the volume and the quality of immigration under control then it is perfectly clear they should vote UKIP today.

    "It is also clear that we are seeing a very significant surge in immigration into the British labour market from Romania and Bulgaria as well as a more general rise in EU immigration, just as I forecast. We simply cannot go on like this if we are to even begin the task of restoring the living standards and community cohesion available to millions of hard working British families. Enough's enough."

    Given the ONS's credibility, is this not proof that UKIP are right?

    1 AnswerGovernment7 years ago
  • So the Tory immigration stance works does it?

    Posted on May 22, 2014 9:13 AM

    UKIP leader Nigel Farage today condemned David Cameron for "breaking a solemn promise to the British people to get net annual immigration down to the tens of thousands".

    Mr Farage spoke out as new official statistics showed that with less than a year to the end of the parliamentary term, net immigration is running at well above 200,000.

    And it is immigration from other EU countries that is most out of control because Britain is powerless to stem the flow while we remain a member of the Brussels club.

    While immigration from the rest of the world FELL by 11,000 in the year ending December 2013 compared to the year before, it ROSE by 43,000 from EU countries.

    Anyone else think the Tory's have got it right?

    4 AnswersGovernment7 years ago