buctootim

Everywhere is getting more homogenised and samey though. New York delis are disappearing and being replaced by Pret a Manger on every corner.

Tescos carpark lacks a little something tho.

Whereas the previous one was so much older, double figures easy!

Hayman's Old Tom is nice enough - not particularly distinctive though. tbh Im not sure that you can really taste much difference with any spirit that is drunk with a mixer as long as you avoid the really bad cheap ones (and Gordons which makes me slightly sick for some reason). I like trying new malts and wines but spending more on specialist gin and vodka seems a bit of a waste to me.

Last time the Sun had supported Labour previously and then switched at the 2010 election to the Tories. It was the Sun changing sides that pulled some voters with them. Simply backing Cameron again wont have the effect on voting patterns that switching back to Labour would.

You seem to have overlooked the fact that Labour are polling 33% compared with 29% last time despite being annihilated in Scotland since 2010. That means their share of the English vote is up by proportionally more. It would be interesting to see an England only poll because the Scottish situation is hiding what is happening in England. I suspect Labour will do better than expected.

Thats a spectacularly ill informed view imo. Its too close to say who will win, but Labour are clearly going to have more seats and the Conservatives and Lib Dems both fewer. In 2010 the Tories got 36% of the vote, Labour 29% and the LDs 23%. The poll numbers now are around 34%, 33% and 8%. The most likely result imo is that the Tories will be the largest party by a narrow margin but will be unable to find a coalition partner. They will then either accept they cant govern, at which point Labour will be asked to form a government - or they will try and run a minority government. Running a minority government with a 70 seat plus deficit would be all but impossible

There seems to be an anti semitic neo Nazi group who spam up message boards regardless of the actual publication. I doubt they regularly read the paper. I can honestly say Id never come across anti semitism in the UK until the internet.

The Russian oligarch owner has looked at his bank balance and then the mansion tax and 50% income tax and come to the independent conclusion he, sorry the country, would be better off with another Tory / Lib Dem coalition.

True story from my 12 year olds HSE class last week. Teacher asked the class a question and picked one kid to answer it. " If a boy has 33 sweets and eats 28, what does he have now?" "five sir" "no, diabetes"

Dont ask for the lightning. Mine finished me off with a taser

Its actually because he lives in a tent

I only went to the theatre twice last year and he was in the bar at both (Snape, not Bearsy).

Probably she demanded change on redline issues and Miliband said no. Nuclear disarmanent / referendum and / or more money for Scotland.

I dont know whats in that little bottle of medicine, but its asking a lot for it solve that guy's issues!

An awful lots of new hospital and school buildings were constructed under PFI at zero initial cost to the tax payer. PFI might have been the wrong way to go, but its risible to pretend all the PFI contract money is waste and would magically plug the unfunded Tories spending commitment.

canoodle

You had me with your analysis until the lame Hitler reference. Then I was sick in my hands.

An old Warren Buffet quote now, but one he has stuck to. Hes got it right. "My kids are going , to carve out their own place in this world, and they know I'm for them whatever they want to do.'' But he believes that setting up his heirs with ''a lifetime supply of food stamps just because they came out of the right womb'' can be ''harmful'' for them and is ''an antisocial act.'' To him the perfect amount to leave children is ''enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.'' For a college graduate, Buffett reckons ''a few hundred thousand dollars'' sounds about right." http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1986/09/29/68098/index.htm

If you want a dynamic economy which rewards innovation and risk taking then you would abolish inheritance entirely. The trouble is what is best for society as a whole is different to what is best for your own offspring. A compromise imo would be as tax threshold not on how much you can leave tax free, but how much you can inherit / gifted during your lifetime tax free. That would mean big estates are shared between more people.

Thats getting a bit close to Catch 22 - low income = no savings = have to stay in expensive rented accommodation and probably claiming housing benefit. Shared equity on a HA house is probably the best way to go for them and the taxpayer .