Lord Duckhunter

Haven't voted yet, polling station is next door to a pub,so Will tell Mrs Duck I'm off to vote, and maybe get a swift couple in while she's watching Eastenders.Haven't decided whether UKIP or Torys. Tory majority of 6,000 last time, but a combined Lib/Dem, Labour vote can reign that back, so I might have to forsake UKIP and go Tory.

Let's hope he's ok, we need more people in politics like Nigel. Top, top man.

The lefties wont go out in the rain as it ruins their sandals.

Todays Labour party ar a far cry from the 1970's and 80's and that is because of the Torys. Time and time again the public rejected their core socialist beliefs, so they changed them. To get elected they had to turn to a man who sounded like a Tory, with policies that could appeal to many of the Tory wets. It's telling that once they return to an old Labour figure and engage in a bit of the old class warfare and tax the rich, they're heading for another election defeat. Yet again the Torys will have to come in and clear up Labour's mess.

I'm sure you dont want a history lesson on the Callaghan govt. All Labour Govt's put tax up and run out of money, and this one was no different.

I am old enough to remember what the last labour Govt did to this Country, and of course we all know what this one did.

I thought John Major was leader. The Torys turned against Maggie. Hezza, Ken Clarke, Chris Pattern and the other wet's in the Tory Party caused the massive defeat, their obsession with the ERM as a forerunner of the Euro was a diaster.

It was The Tory's announcement of an inheritance tax cut at the 2007 conference that frightened Brown, and led to him not calling a snap general election (good move Gordon) when Labour were ahead in the polls. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/1565348/Gordon-Brown-Why-I-put-off-an-early-election.html "Senior Labour sources said that the main factor in the decision not to call an election was the "flakiness" of the party's vote in more than 100 marginal constituencies that would decide an election." "They said that Tory proposals to increase to £1 million the threshold above which a household is liable for inheritance tax, announced last week by George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, had proved popular with "Middle Britain" voters." Nowadays you dont need to be super rich (especially in London) to have an estate worth more than £1mil. Inheritance tax is grossly unfair, it is a death tax on money that you've already paid tax on. My Father in Law started life in the 1930's from a very poor background. He had little education, but became quite sucsessful. He is by no means super rich, but will leave an estate of over £1mil when you include his property. He is just an ordinary working man, whose paid his taxes all his life, never claimed any benefit apart from a state pension, and wants his kids to benefit from his hard work, whats wrong with that?

Although supporting Labour from 97 till now, the Sun's slant was always been Tory over most issues. Immigration, Crime and Punishment, Europe, and Taxes, the Sun's position has always been nearer the Tories than Labour.

In the interests of fairness perhaps the Queen should stnad for election.

The whole European "project" has been one big con job on the British people. The establishment have slowly taken laws from Westminster and given them away to the EU. The fact that the eurosceptic Tory party and UKIP came first and second in the recent European elections tells you how out of touch the establishment is with the ordinary people. If you took away our Celtic cousins and had a vote in England only, I'm convinced the outcome would be a resounding "out". The EU has been great for Ireland and the like, but I fail to see how large multi national companies would stop dealing with the UK if we left. In fact less EU regulation could encourage them to trade a bit more with us.

No it doesn't, but that's no reason to make it worse. PR will bring about Party lists, with career politicans towing the party line. We need people entering politics who have run Companies, who have worked up through the unions, who have been police officers, lawyers, teachers and doctors.We then may get more independant thinking representives.You only have to look at Labour's treatment of Frank Field, brought in by Blair to "think the unthinkable" and then sacked for doing so. The whipping of MP's means you have to be an increadbly strong person to stand by your beliefs. The party leaders should encourage debate within their parties and it should become acceptable to disagree with certain aspects of your parties policies, without harming your career.The first thing that should stop is the party leadership imposing candidates on local constituancys, a practise all 3 parties are performing more and more.

I said their policies will make it even worse than it is at present with MORE career politicans.

But Labour's policy of no outside jobs, plus the Sandal wearer's obsession with PR will mean more Career politican's not less.The decline of the unions has also contributed to the lack of normal people, as they provided plenty of normal people from the left.

Gordon Brown also said it, in his speech to the Labour Party Annual Conference, 29. September 1997.

Didn't Churchill come from a posh family? None of them, Brown, Clegg or Cameron are in touch with the normal people. Clegg is a career politican from tip to toe. Lobbyist, then worked for Leon Brittan in the EU,MEP and then MP.How he's managed to pull the wool over people's eyes and play the outsider is beyond me. Luckily, a light is being shone upon the sandal wearer's bizzare policies and they're getting found out. My prediction is a massive swing to the Torys, and a 20-30 majority.

The internal politics of the Labour Party make the Wilde, Lowe, and Crouch years look like a vicars tea party. Dont forget the Brothers, who have funded this campaign will want a massive say in the next leader. Harriet Harman is positioning herself ready to come forward and the Brothers will want a lurch to the left.

Agreed And before Mrs Thatcher the basic rate of tax was 33%.Again, more money went into the revenue after the rate was cut. Leftie's seem incapable of understanding that leaving money in peoples pockets encourages enterprise, hard work and spending. The shops, pubs, cinema's, manufactors of goods ect benefit from people spending more money, and they then need to take people on to fulfill the increased demend.These people then pay tax, come off benefit and the whole cycle starts again. Giving people a tax cut (or not going ahead with a rise) is not taking money out of the economy, no matter how many times Labour repeat this mantra. If tax rises were the answer to all the ecomomic woes, Healy would not have had to call the IMF in the 70's and Brown would win this election hands down. You need to cut public spending and give people more of their money to spend as they feel fit. I remember a Labour Chancellor coming out with some wise words a decade ago, "you can't spend your way out of a recession ", who was that man ? Gordon Brown!!! Of course now he's claiming this is a different sort of recession Labour Govt's always put taxes up and run out of money, always have done, and always will.

Frank Field seems a decent bloke as does Charlie Kennedy, despite his problems.

Spot on, the whole European project has been one big con job on the British people. If the British people could have a "Life On Mars" moment and go back to the mid 70's, I've no doubt in my mind they would have voted to leave.

Balls' Mrs is a bad as Balls.

Yes, see above

Due to boundary changes Balls is fighting the new and marginal seat of Morley and Outwood.Well is shouldn't be a marginal, but Brown has made it thus.Hense why the Torys now think they can win it, when it was a target seat at the start of the election.

I want to know why after 13 years of a Labour administration Brown is still giving a benefit to the richest 1,000 families in the Country Brown's policy appears to be,you're so rich we'll tax your inheritance (which you've already paid tax on) when you die, but while you're alive here's some child benefit to help you bring up your children.

By taxing someone at 40% or 50% the state is making a statemet that you are a high earner (compared to the average). If the state then sees the need to give you benefits, surely your tax rate should come down. Only the Labour party could devise a system where you place someone in a higher tax bracket and then give them benefits