bridge too far

This must be wrong, surely? These supporters are claiming to be the best. Bloody BBC bias, eh? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-33663621

Apologies! My search didn't throw up anything more recent than the link I posted.

£2bn a year, not £8bn. "In addition, in the 2014 Autumn Statement, Chancellor George Osborne announced an extra £2bn a year - beginning in 2015/16 - for frontline health services across the UK, which he described as a "down payment" on the highlighted £8bn annual shortfall." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30796343

Absolutely this

Hence the ' ' And what's that noise I hear? Whoosh? Oh it's all the upwardly mobile people on their journeys to paradise!

Do you ridicule impoverished Tories in the same way? You know, the ones who aren't true to their 'class'?

Good article in the Indy http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/the-last-thing-labour-needs-is-a-leader-like-jeremy-corbyn-who-people-want-to-vote-for-10411466.html

But we don't actually KNOW that Blair has avoided tax, do we?

As much as Cameron's family? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens Maybe he could learn a trick or two from the Chancellor as well? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154098073834358&set=a.256571124357.183644.629524357&type=1&fref=nf&pnref=story

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You ought to try reigning in Clinical Directors in hospital builds #nightmare

Err no - you obviously haven't heard of the Mayfair Tax Loophole whereby financiers actually pay less tax than their cleaners! http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/private-equity-bosses-using-700m-tax-loophole--and-donating-to-the-tories-10054911.html

You mean like us, the taxpayers, giving and the bankers taking? Grossly unfair!

Wasn't it the fit-out that was over budget? I thought the build was (more or less) complete.

I don't know if it's the case here but, increasingly, local authorities outsource their projects from inception through to tender and project management. It's certainly the case with the NHS and some of the local authorities I've audited in the past. So, the whole project is no longer in house but is in the hands of private contractors

Whereas the current government is intent on selling off OUR NHS, that we all paid and still pay for, by stealth to its own funders.

The people who will be most roundly slated in years to come will be bankers and financiers currently overseeing the demise of Greece and the impoverishment of many working people around the world , to their own advantage.

And in many cases, they're subsidised twice as tenants can be in receipt of housing benefits funded by the taxpayer.

I'd be interested to know your source for these figures. According to the government's own statistics, there were 35K new starts by June this year. These figures would include 'Help to Buy' and other government funded schemes AS WELL AS Housing association starts. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/435136/Housing_Statistics_June_2015.pdf

Quite so although it has been mooted that, because tax relief for buy-to-let mortgages will be pegged at the standard rate rather than potentially 45% as it is at the moment, a number of 'landlords' may well put their properties back on the market.

Sad to see that there will be a reduction in the number of new (affordable) houses built http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/08/fewer-cheap-homes-will-be_n_7754868.html?1436378093&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/jul/07/corporate-welfare-a-93bn-handshake

Sorry for the large font - I can't find a way to reduce it. Interesting figures don't you think?

Early indications are that it's a victory for Oxi!

Greece's finance minister at the London Conference of 1953, signed a treaty agreeing to cancel 50% of Germany's debt. Because it was the right thing to do.