Ex Lion Tamer

I'm pretty disappointed that it's being portrayed as some draconian price freeze. Rents levels will still be decided by the market, it's just that each property rent amount will be set every three years rather than every one year. It's not exactly hard for landlords to average their costs over three years is it? Anyone who rents in London will be saying yes yes yes to this policy, it's so grim bring forced to move every year at the landlord's say so

I was surprised to discover that a couple of my friends are planning to vote lib dem. I don't understand it, but the libs seem to retain a support base

'Most damaging of all are the insiders openly talking on social media about how Cameron wants out. Andrew Neil tweeted: “Spoke to major Tory donor tonight. ‘Tory campaign useless. Cameron’s heart not in it. Not looking good’” – to which the Conservative writer and activist Tim Montgomerie replied: “DC has wanted out for a while. He has just wanted to go out on some sort of high and hasn’t been able to find that high.”' http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/tories-panicking-david-cameron-election

Funny how Ed Miliband was supposed to be the buffoon of this election

Oops http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/04/watch-david-cameron-bizarrely-switches-his-football-allegiance-to-west-ham/

It's this they're referring to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30794472

Well the coalition has made a good start in cracking down on payday loan companies, next we need to bring down house prices in London and the south East

It does feel though like a bit of a generalisation to suggest that everyone in debt considers themselves a victim, and I do personally feel that the government has a responsibility to protect people from themselves (including myself). It's also better for the economy as a whole if we keep people out of debt

Yet for some reason the public is behind public spending cuts, that's why the tories have a lead on the economy and Labour had to include a 'fiscal responsibility' statement in its manifesto?

OK I see what you mean. I agree that private debt is bad and should be discouraged, although I have some sympathy for people who don't have wealth like Mr Portillo and who make bad decisions in moments of weakness. Plus with house prices nowadays we don't really have much option but to get in loads of debt. So what is your solution to the private debt problem? How can we change the culture?

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/14/why-public-debt-is-not-like-credit-card-debt/

But national debt and personal debt are completely different things. That is your blind spot.

I remember when McGoldrick was banging them in for the reserves and was the answer to all our problems

I'm ready for the election now, bored of this campaign

Recessions apparently come in 7-10 year cycles which is pretty worrying, means we'll be due one in 2017/18 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/hamish-mcrae/a-study-of-past-economic-cycles-suggests-that-we-arent-far-away-from-the-next-downturn-9653011.html

Fair enough to make that argument, but pretending that he wasn't invited when he actually engineered the whole situation by refusing from the outset to take part is just blatantly misleading the public

Seriously mate, don't fall for their spin. We can disagree on policy but there's no doubt that the Tories are being utterly devious on this one, as CB says

So Cameron is claiming that he wasn't invited to the debates. Just another example of the way he brazenly lies to the country

I also can't see the left wing of the lib dems accepting another five years with the tories

I'm just saying it's all very well being critical but it's actually a hard job. And you do have the option to prove you're better

If you think you can do better you should stand

A national economy doesn't work in the same way as a household budget, so your comparison is nonsense

Self made billionaires tend to think that because they did it, anyone can. It's not true

His teams always do well for a couple of seasons and then go down the pan

Your grandparents should have worked harder [emoji3]