bridge too far

stings

knees

tide

No chips on my shoulders. Like most Labour supporters, I want everyone to be chip free.

Eh? Economical with the truth already :shock: Oh it's so much easier being in opposition

no, she wanted to. Ginger

Do you think he knows what football is? I rather imagine he's a Fives man.

runnings

At last - we can welcome one of our own!

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I beg to differ. One of the main planks of coalition was to be agreement on economic policies. IIRC Osborne's policies were ridiculed by the (non-political) experts.

accurate

I don't think they did 'talk for 2 days'. They had a couple of meetings and then decided they couldn't forsake their own policies in order to form a government. Even the Liberals have said this is the case.

Unless they're wealthy enough to set up complicated trust funds to avoid paying tax.

I would imagine that these can't happen during school holidays as teachers can only take leave then - they're not allowed time off during term time. Like the rest of us, they have to be able to have some choice within that period about when they go on holiday. And I can tell you that the teachers I know work a lot of the school holidays and weekends and weekday evenings. I regularly see my son-in-law looking grey and drained by the end of each week.

ballet (of the Spandau variety)

And this is the bit I don't understand about this deal. The Liberals have ensured they'll never get into power, surely :smt102

No I don't sit on fences and I'm always left, not right. Nice try at humour though

alchemy

What! Even those 'living in sin'? The whole point of their married tax allowance proposal was to try to force people into marriage. As far as IHT is concerned, most estates actually have a threshold of £600K odd as one partner's allowance passes to the widowed partner anyway.

It's called fence-sitting. People (men) who sit too long on fences either get piles or get emasculated.

Why get angry and frustrated with me? I'm just an ordinary person with an ordinary point of view. I'm no more blinkered than you. I'm entitled to my PoV just as you are. I think, FWIW, that the Liberals have made a grave mistake that will haunt them for years to come, that the Tories have sold out on some of their dearest-held policies, and that the Labour Party has refused to go against its own policies. It would be a boring old world if everyone agreed on everything FFS.

Interesting to hear that the Tories have dropped the married tax allowance and the Inheritance Tax proposals. They have sold their souls!

You'll be disappointed then. Do you honestly think the Libs will let Conservative ideolgy dictate economic policy?

No I'm not being cynical at all. What I think would apply to all parties and, indeed, has done so since time immemorial.