Lord Duckhunter

I have unlimited overtime going this time of year, my guys on WFTC do not do as much as they want to because it will affect next years credits. I'm sure you could adjust people's tax code to suit their individual circumstances. I have people who work for me with 1 or 2 other jobs, their codes are all differant. In this computor day and age it cant be that difficult to factor in your entittlement and adjust you tax code..

Spot on. I didn't watch the debate as I was working late but watched "this week" afterwards. Rory Bremner made the same point, he went on to say he could see some people in the polling booth on May 6th, looking up and down their ballot paper and saying "where's Brown, Where's Clegg". If these debates lead to local debates in town halls ect up and down the country, between local candidates, then they could be a force for good. It may encourage people to come out and listen to politics and re engage. Since the decline of the unions the working man,has no real forum to discuss and get involved in politics. I fear that people will not get off their backsides and go and attend local debates as they wont be on TV. The debates are here to stay, but they need to be amended. I would have 1 leaders debate not 3, and then I would have 3 one hour debates with each party. At these debates the whole team would be questioned by the likes of Paxman and Andrew Neil. For example, Labour in their 1 hour will have Brown, Darling, Alan Johnson, Harriet Harman, Ed Balls and Jack Straw along with Brown, questioned by professional political figures and the same for the other two parties.

It discourages some of the people who work for me doing overtime, and in one instance a promotion which involved a pay rise. WFTC is a benefit and I dont think people who pay 40% tax should be on benefits. I also think that people subject to the new 50% should not get Child benefit. The whole thing should be simplefied. It is possible for somebody to pay £350 a month in tax, and get £80 per month in WFTC.Surely we should just tax them £270, rather than take the £80 and then give it back via their bank account.It's another example of the crazy public sector. If it's a tax credit, then knock it off the tax paid, leaving only the people who dont pay enough tax to receive the benefit directly into their banks.

"Both Party's" what about the Lib/Dems The majority of the donations during this campaign were from Alpha Healthcare, a company that is owned by a "non-dom", despite Clegg's campaigning against the practice.No double standars there then

The double standards over ascroft is truely breathtaking. Gordon Brown made Lord Paul a privy councillor and deputy speaker of the Lords, before he was made to stand down due to financial irregularities.He has donated vast amounts to the Labour Party (although not as much as Ashcroft). He is also a non dom (like Ashcroft). The Labour line seems to be, we can make a non dom a Lord and a privvy councillor, we can also accept money from a non dom, but the Torys can't because he donates too much. You either are against the principle, or you're not. You cant accept money from a non dom and then complain about another party doing so.

What!!!! they had a Greek Gordon Brown.

There was only one party that had the chance to give us the promised referendum, the Labour Party. All the Torys could do was table an amendment and hope that enough Labour MP's had the moral decency to honour their manifesto promise. The Tory party tabled an amendment to the ratification of the treaty through Parliament.This amendment called for a referendum, and was defeated by 63 votes.29 Labour rebels voted to honour their manifesto pledge and 13 Lib/Dems voted to honour their's. There was nothing more that Cameron could do. Once the treaty had gone through all the European Parliaments it was legally binding and could not be blocked at a later date.

I'm going to Kos in Aug. Bit worried about the wave of strikes the news seem to be reporting, will they affect airports?

I know he lied to the Chilcott enquiry. I know he has one face in public and one when he thinks he's off camera. I Know he sold our gold at rock bottom prices, costing us more money than was ever lost on Black Wednesday. I know he promised me a vote on the Lisbon Treaty and then went back on his word. I know he told us he'd abolished boom and bust. I know he pays tax credits to people earning more than £40,000 I know he set up the tripartite regulation system for the banks. I know his tax raid decimated private pension's in this country. If I only voted for people I'd met, the choice would be pretty narrow.

The Labour party have always, and will always be incapable of running things efficiently. They have poured money into the unreformed public sector despite promising to reform them first. Gordon Bean stopped every one of Tony Blair's reforms. NHS Managers increased 5 times the rate of nurses last year (whilst we were in recession). NHS productivity fell by 3 per cent, or 0.4 per cent a year on average, since 2001. There is not one Private Company that would accept figures like that. Tesco or Unilever wouldn't accept pouring millions into extra Managers, and productivity going down and yet we taxpayers are expected to do so. There is plenty of cuts that can be made, it justs needs someone with the will to do it.

"that's all", what a load of pony. He was all smiles asking about her family,saying "nice to see you" and laughing. He got into the car and then we saw his true personality. The Labour party had spent the whole election campaign shielding Bean from ordinary voters, and now we know why. He has utter contempt for the ordinary working people he purportes to represent. She was a Labour supporter from her top to toe. Generations of her family supported the party, and she had her vote ready to go. She even told reporters she was voting Labour after her chat with Bean and before she heard his remarks. Look at the look of shock on her face when first told what he'd said, she was genuinely upset and shocked.As Andrew Neil pointed out on the Daily Politics today, he lied with the answer he did giv Mrs Duffy. He said that a million Brits were living in Europe and a million Europeans were living in UK. When figures show that net immigration is higher in than out. He just can not be stright with the British people, he even lied at the Chilcott enquiry . He is unfit to be leader of a great political party, a party that has had many honourable people in it, and he is certainly unfit for the highest office in the land.

Didn't a Labour candidate get sacked for making obscene comments on Twitter?

Brown meeting "Gillian" was not the same as Cameron meeting the disabled boys father. The Cameron meeting was a lot tougher, the man was obvioulsy highly educated and articulate. It could have been a very tricky front page moment for Cameron, but he played it well. They came a cross as 2 passionate fathers wanting the same thing, but having differences over the means to get there.I doubt very much if Cameron got in the car and started ranting at his aides and slagging off the father, although we'll never know. Brown handled "Gillian's" gentle questions well, but with a forced smile on his face.She was hardly paxman and was a Labour supporter, prasing schools and other aspects of policy.Nobody in their right mind would have called that a disaster. To compound the problem he then went on Radio and made a half hearted apology, with his head held in hands, making him look weak and foolish. Brown is now a figure of fun, Mr Bean, as Cable called him.

Said he miss heard her words, what a liar.

First Elvis and now this, what's happened to the Labour Election machine? Tony Blair must be wetting himself.

There was a bloke on Sky saying that the Labour spin doctors are breathing a sigh of relief. He said it could have been so much worse as he normally uses Anglo Saxon langague when he loses it. He said that was a 3/10 for Gordon, his normal is a 8/10.:smt043

The only thing than worse than being called a bigot is having Brown calling round your house.

Sky just showed the whole meeting with the Women and there was nothing on there that should have caused him a problem. She was praising some aspects of his record and questioning others, she was hardly Paxman like. Cameron's clash with the disabled boys Father was certainly tougher yesterday. To then get in the car and say "who put that Women in front of me" and "it was a disaster", shows how out of touch with his core vote he is. Not many will be surprised by this and that's his problem. Had Cameron or Clegg been recorded acting in the same manner, people would have been geniunely surprised, Agree or disagree with their policies, they do come across as normal (upper class, but normal for the upper classs). Brown comes across as a foul tempered misreable Scottish weirdo, protected by his puppet master Mandy.Stories have been coming out of Westminster for years, of his bullying, of his attack dogs running rivals down in secret briefings, and the way he undermined Tony Blair. This just plays to the widely held view of him already in a lot of the public's mind.

I thought Clegg was doing away with the "old Politics". Surely letting the speaker stand unopposed is old fashioned and "old Politics"? Is the Lib/Dems policy that every vote counts, but not in Buckingham?

If the Lib/Dems are so keen on every vote counting. If they are so keen on giving everyone the chance to shape the Govt, why are they not putting up a candidate in the Speakers seat? Don't people in that seat deserve a choice, shouldn't their vote count?

I agree with an earlier poster; the funny thing is him moaning about her being put in front of him. He wants to meet ordinary people, but only if they doff their cap, and suck up to him. Watch the Labour spin macine go into overdrive, as they dig for dirt on this women. Alister campbell and Mandy must be tearing their hair out, they've tried to cover up his " psychological flaws" but he keeps putting his great clunking fist in it.

If I made the statement "British jobs for British workers" my Mother, far from being proud, would be quite ashamed. It's part of her "moral compass" not to make crass statements like that in this day and age.

Michael Portillo was on "This week" last night, he said Clegg was talking too much and therefore could make a big mistake.

The British public are not ready for massive cuts, they are in denial. Hense the reason all 3 parties are skirting round the issue. There is no magic formula for getting the deficit down, it's going to be painful and the sooner the British public get their heads round it the better. Ireland have started, my mate works in St James hospital in Dublin, he's taken a pay freeze and also had or is having (I'm not sure if it's in force yet) a 10% pension levy added. He's in the frontline working in A&E and yet he's taking some of the pain. The Tory's "we're all in this together" phrase is corny and wierd when it comes to this "big society" thing, but when it comes to the deficit, we really are all in it together.To pass debt like this on to future generations is morally wrong in my opinion. We need to knuckle down, take the pain and get it down to reasonable levels.

That's right. It's like Browns "Economic tests" in the '97 Parliament. They were so wooly, that they could be manipulated and bent to suit any outcome. The only condition that the Lib/Dems and Labour want right is the opinion polls. If they think they can win a referendum, the "economic conditions" will suddenly be "right".