Lord Duckhunter

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

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?