General Election 2010 - Stafford results

[basil]

'Deputy Prime Minister' erm 'Chief Recruiting Officer' more like........

 

[MarkHeenan]

Clegg bought off with the do nothing role that Prescott and Harman managed so well

ie the title but no authority..

My money is on three elections in 12 months

Alan Sugar to decide the results..

There's no reason why it has to be a "do nothing" role, it was for Geoffrey Howe and Harriet Harmann but it certainly wasn't for John Prescott and Michael Hesletine. It's not a clearly-defined constitutional role so it has as much power and scope as the Prime Minister chooses to give it. And of course when SamCam goes into labour later this year Nick Clegg will be de-facto Prime Minister for a brief period.

 

[John Marwood]

Clegg bought off with the do nothing role that Prescott and Harman managed so well

ie the title but no authority..

My money is on three elections in 12 months

Alan Sugar to decide the results..

There's no reason why it has to be a "do nothing" role, it was for Geoffrey Howe and Harriet Harmann but it certainly wasn't for John Prescott and Michael Hesletine. It's not a clearly-defined constitutional role so it has as much power and scope as the Prime Minister chooses to give it. And of course when SamCam goes into labour later this year Nick Clegg will be de-facto Prime Minister for a brief period.

Blah Blah Blah....

 

[Gramaisc]

And of course when SamCam goes into labour later this year Nick Clegg will be de-facto Prime Minister for a brief period.

Blah Blah Blah....

45 minutes?..

 

[John Marwood]

GIDEON gets the nod over UNCLE VINCE...

Gawdelpus!

Anyone, old,young,ill or poor, or in fact anyone who relies on an income from the state/council/public sector, including the private sector who supply into the public sector, had better start looking for a job in the private/cowboy sector sharpish.. ...

 

[Wyred]

Is it true? Am I now officially getting old, when I’m older than the PM and worryingly find his wife slightly attractive?

 

[tek-monkey]

From the beeb:

* There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year. An emergency Budget will take place within 50 days
* Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments, meaning the next election would not take place until May 2015
* The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax" on properties costing more than £2m, while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
* The new administration will scrap part of Labour's planned rise in National Insurance and will work towards raising income tax thresholds for lower earners
* A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
* The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
* The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system, but Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
* The Lib Dems will drop opposition to a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
* There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded

Vince Cable get responsibility for "business and banks" apparently....

 

[John Marwood]

Is it true? Am I now officially getting old, when I’m older than the PM and worryingly find his wife slightly attractive?

Its a Sunday night

You are working away and staying a crummy hotel in the middle of nowhere

and there she is... a one night solution to feeling sorry for yourself..

Is that the kind of attractive you mean? or are we talking something deeper here ?

 

[John Marwood]

From the beeb:

* There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year. An emergency Budget will take place within 50 days
* Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments, meaning the next election would not take place until May 2015
* The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax" on properties costing more than £2m, while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
* The new administration will scrap part of Labour's planned rise in National Insurance and will work towards raising income tax thresholds for lower earners
* A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
* The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
* The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system, but Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
* The Lib Dems will drop opposition to a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
* There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded

Vince Cable get responsibility for "business and banks" apparently....

so the Tories can point at Uncle Vince and say " It wanna us, IT WERE HIM!" ? lol

 

[basil]

Clegg bought off with the do nothing role that Prescott and Harman managed so well

ie the title but no authority..

My money is on three elections in 12 months

Alan Sugar to decide the results..

There's no reason why it has to be a "do nothing" role, it was for Geoffrey Howe and Harriet Harmann but it certainly wasn't for John Prescott and Michael Hesletine. It's not a clearly-defined constitutional role so it has as much power and scope as the Prime Minister chooses to give it. And of course when SamCam goes into labour later this year Nick Clegg will be de-facto Prime Minister for a brief period.

What?!! his wife is going to defect? there's going to be huge spliit.......

 

[Gramaisc]

 

[basil]

Some funny journo joked that after visiting Liz, Cam got into his car and mumbles summat about a bigoted old woman.......

 

[My Name is URL]

although apparently now the Cons don't want the tax threshold raised to 10k.

From what I heard on the news this morning, the Liberals were hinting that they were "very pleased with the tax solutions to be put in place" when questioned about the £10k threshold... although they couldn't give a definite yes or no until the policy doc comes out later today.

 

[tek-monkey]

I am led to believe it will go to 10k, but gradually over the next few years.

 

[basil]

Is it true? Am I now officially getting old, when I’m older than the PM and worryingly find his wife slightly attractive?

I'm sure there must be a site for preggophiles.......

 

[Wyred]

Some details emerging from the new governments programme:

There will be a "significant acceleration" of efforts to reduce the budget deficit - including £6bn of spending reductions this year. An emergency Budget will take place within 50 days
Plans for five-year, fixed-term parliaments, meaning the next election would not take place until May 2015
The Lib Dems have agreed to drop plans for a "mansion tax" on properties costing more than £2m, while the Conservatives have ditched their pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m
The new administration will scrap part of Labour's planned rise in National Insurance and will work towards raising income tax thresholds for lower earners
A pledge to have a referendum on any further transfer of powers to the EU and a commitment from the Lib Dems not to adopt the euro for the lifetime of the next Parliament
The Lib Dems have agreed to Tory proposals for a cap on non-EU migration
The Conservatives will recognise marriage in the tax system, but Lib Dems will abstain in Commons vote
The Lib Dems will drop opposition to a replacement for Britain's Trident nuclear missiles but the programme will be scrutinised for value for money
There will be a referendum on moving to the Alternative Vote system and enhanced "pupil premium" for deprived children as Lib Dems demanded .

 

[My Name is URL]

Looking good so far then

 

[tek-monkey]

Sure I mentioned that an hour ago

 

[Gramaisc]

Sure I mentioned that an hour ago

From Wyred - 'Somewhere in time'........

 

[tek-monkey]

lol!

On other news from the beeb:

#
0955: The Lib Dems have got another of their big wishes - we've learned that there's going to be wholesale reform of the House of Lords, early in the parliament, to make it fully elected. And the method they're going to use to elect it? Proportional representation, the system the Lib Dems have loved for so long, says the BBC News channel's chief political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg.