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Not at all. I have no problem with the system even though I will likely pay in far more than I take out I'm glad we have a safety net based on need It's you who seems to be angry and looking for someone to blame. Why not have a go at your mum. If she is 91 she's been drawing a pension for 31 years. How many years did she work for? Not enough to fund that no doubt doubt. Tell her she is a scrounger. It seems to be what you want. You don't want to be a hypocrite eh

YOU are the gullet of the state. Pensions and the NHS are far and away the biggest slices of government spending, absolutely dwarfing things like unemployment benefit or education. The retired account for most of the NHS workload and spend. You are being supported by people working now just as your contributions supported pensioners previously. It has always been a pay as you go system no one has ever pretended differently.

Sad news Whitey. Your "lifetime of contributions" were spent long ago, in the year you made them. Your pension now is being funded by working people who are mostly on an income lower than yours.

There are two differences 1, Real ale is live - ie it has not been pasteurised (heat treated) to kill off the yeast and any bugs. 2. It is not artificially gassed up with Co2 in a pressurised keg. It's like the difference between raw milk and long life.

As with almost all past governments we wont pay off any substantial amount. It will simply be allowed to decline as proportion of GDP as the economy grows. If we get 20 years where growth averages 2.5% (Im not claiming it will) then the debt will have halved to around 40% of GDP. Obviously if the global economy stagnates, we're stuffed.

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This. It will be informal support of a Labour minority government imo, with Labour reying on an ad hoc block of SNP, LDs and Greens which changes depending on the issue and vote. Could be interesting.

All that is true. There is a sneaking suspicion of echoes of Ernest Saunders though. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/profile-ernest-saunders-out-of-jail-and-back-in-business-1347932.html

I don't disagree with any of the analysis. The LD's have clearly had a moderating influence on the Conservatives, ironically more to the Conservatives electoral benefit than their own. I doubt though that the LDs would sign up for another Conservative / LD coalition this time, the relationship seems to have broken down, so its a moot point.

You know it reduces respect for your views, right?

2011. Or are you going to claim Alternative Vote wasn't the exact form of PR you would have chosen so doesn't count and therefore you are justified in using childlike epithets?

You've forgotten the referendum already?

This election is harder to call than most. I fear support will start to hemorrhage away from UKIP as Farage collapses under the tighter scrutiny and the LDs recover a bit as Clegg is a decent performer. Both of those will work against labour

I've been pulled over by traffic cops twice in the states. Both times they stood four or five feet behind me, out of eyeline, hand on holster and gave instructions. There was not eye contact, conversation or 'please sir'. Its a different mentality - one of police force rather than police service. I know which I prefer.

Chichester too bolshevik for you?

Sebastian ffs? He'll only get into a gay porn movie with that name, not Eton.

This really. Sure people who use these places often have underlying issues - chaotic lifestyles or mental health issues or just unbelievably thick - but that doesn't mean they should starve. Around 600,000 people are not disabled but just have an inability to hold down jobs, budget properly or maintain a tenancy without help. Writing people off as scroungers because they are getting some free canned food most of us wouldnt deign to eat says more about us than them. Put it in perspective, its 1% of the population

Typical Mail article. She wasnt the HA tenant she simply bought at an open auction a house that the HA were disposing of, probably because it was so valuable it was better to sell it and build three others.

Irs not irrelevant. In government you have collective responsibility for all actions carried out by that government. You cant pick and choose which bits you agree with and run to the press on the ones you dont.

1,700 isnt too many. There are 2.5million HA houses so thats an average of 1,500 homes each. A lot of them are niche needs providers.

That link doesnt say its Labour's fault.

Something like that would help too. The frustrating thing is that apparently 85% of the population agree we have a housing crisis but none of the parties are making it their number 1 policy priority.

Probably. Local authorities are required to stipulate that a certain percentage (40%?) of any development is social housing. The solution needs to be nationally led and more strategic than that.