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Trident isn't even the issue and it's not actually the Tory target of the day, merely a convenient issue to highlight to English voters the danger of voting Labour and ending up with a government heavily (and probably unduly) influenced by a party they were unable to even vote for who are desperate to break their country away from England at the expense of the English taxpayer. In that respect today will be effective and we probably expect more of it.

Given that all Party manifestos are hypothetical, should we not talk about them at all?

A Premier League side that needed some filler to beef up their reserve team, maybe. See Man Utd and Andy Kellett.

SCUMMER!!!!!

It's the oldest trick in the book, pap. Cheeky tax cuts in the year before an election are always a good bet.

The squeaky voice guy?

The correct answer to the question, aintforever, is "whatever level maximises taxation revenue for the exchequer in the short, medium and long term."

I don't quite understand it either, but I suspect a lot of it has to do with getting one over the nasty tax man. In which case, the game is always afoot and there's always a challenge to be met no matter what the current tax legislation is. Surely the aim has to be to maximise the overall taxation revenue received from the most wealthy, not hit them with a some populist, headline-grabbing mega-rate that actually decreases tax revenues? That's where both sides of the argument fall down; the left for wanting to "hit the rich hard" for idealogical reasons, and those opposing it for not making the argument in way that the average dimwit in the street can understand that it's proven that a higher top-level rate is entirely counter-productive.

My point is that this: didn't take up any of the time of my GP, or your GP, or the time of 99.99% of GPs across the country. It's got bugger all to do with your point that GPs are too busy worrying about IT, guttering and wasp nests to see any patients. Of course it does - but how else do you propose patient records are held? Or prescriptions issued? Or appointments with hospital consultants made? If GPs were forced to go back to paper records, hand-written prescriptions and hand-writing referrals do you think that would take less time and be progress? Or would you be blaming the inventor of the Biro for wasting GP time? Special K also pointed out that the majority of the "business" work done was done by partners, as owners of the business. If they didn't want to do it, they could always sell up and go back to being salaried GPs and concentrate more on patient care. Would any of them do that? Would they ******** - they're all quite happy to buy a new Jag every year, thank you very much.

You claimed that GPs were too busy worrying out who was going clear dead leaves form the guttering every autumn to care for their patients, which is patently nonsense.

All of which may be true, but it's not the domain of your average family GP, is it?

Which is exactly why these specialist skills are often outsourced to the private sector, to ensure that the specialists supply the wide range of skills required. Then all you need is someone to manage them, not actually do the work themselves. But that's privatisation, and that's bad.

Like one rule for some people who happen to live in an expensive house, and one for everybody else, Ed?

Source? That's exactly what GP Practice Managers are there for. GPs themselves don't get involved in this and suggesting they do is a nonsense.

Yes mate, of course.

After all of the Scumhunter General's failed attempts to flush me and everyone else from POL, can you believe I've forgotten my login details?

Steve Grant seems to have got both for Shrewsbury. How crap must Pompey be?

Yeah, but it's fan-owned mediocrity #jealous

They're like a crapper version of Neighbours.

I believe they amended the online version after print. Idiots.

Today's Daily Mirror gives Lallana and Gerrard the same mark out of 10 for yesterday's performances

He's the new Hazel Blears.

Fixed.

Oh aye, Jeff. That's all your income is it? Defo no cheeky dividends being paid?

I always have an image of you as the Skate version of West Ham Lass, who used to get her norks out on the internet every time the Hammers won.