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One is 'Red Ed' threatening central Government interference in a free market by controlling prices, the other is the Prime Minister acting in the national interest to secure our energy future by controlling prices.

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'Call me Dave' blaming 'green taxes' is a sop to the nimby readership of the Daily Mail / Express. Renewables will always operate at a disadvantage in the current economic environment as start-up and infrastructure costs penalise development. I find it puzzling that UK Government is talking about cutting this 'taxpayer subsidy' yet our nuclear program is about to get a boost that is almost entirely funded from French and Chinese Government coffers.

He didn't win them for me - never been a member of any political party. Yes I voted Labour in his first win, but voted LibDem subsequently - my vote is always wasted anyway as it's usually a fairly safe Tory seat.

Maggie's bastard offspring in 'Mea Culpa' shock - don't EVER accuse Bliar of being a Labour politician.

JARVIS Cocker probably has quite a bit as well.

"What's the point in being rich, if you don't know what to do with it, 'cause you're so bleeding thick" J Cocker ( "Mishapes" )

I'd be a banker, rake in huge bonuses for gambling with other people's money, and duck out just before the world wide crash.

Two of our four dogs are 'Charlie' and 'George', though the connection wasn't intentional.

Is this still your opinion ?

"As one sided a match as I've seen this season" - 'tater's comments sums it up. Wish J-Rods volley had gone in as the performance deserved more goals and he deserved a second.

I thought I'd posted those comments before !

It's Lee Dixon.

From memory the driving standard is quite poor, and they don't like the Germans. ( Did a walk around Fort St Elmo, which is the main WW2 museum, following directly behind a coach load of Germans - spent about half an hour muttering things like "And vich of zese bombs did you drop ?" and "Is that your crashed stuka ?". )

Of course, we could all be subject to the activities of The Adjustment Bureau, in which case our path through life is set by 'the plan'.

Possibly, but how do you know you would be happier ? Look back at any point in your life, even a relatively minor choice, and consider how the subsequent chain of events might have been affected. For instance, somebody who in reality met their life partner on a bus might with another earlier option, say stopping to buy a newspaper, been sufficiently delayed that they missed that bus, or even got knocked down running to catch it.

Articulate does not equate with correct.

Surely if you were back at a particular historical decision point, you wouldn't be any better informed as the likely outcomes of the various options, so would inevitably chose the same one.

Just wait 'til the next wave of public sector cuts start to bite.

The Institute of Directors' chief economist Graeme Leach said: ............ "However, strong headwinds remain and the annual growth rate year on year is nothing to get too excited about yet. Though inflationary pressures are likely to remain benign, debt and inflation are rising faster than earnings. 'More to be done' "By far the biggest challenges remain on the supply side, not the demand side. Supply side constraints mean that the current growth spurt is unlikely to extend beyond next year. "This stage of our economic recovery is likely to be short and sweet, instead of long and strong."

Have you seen this BBC article ? I wonder if a certain TMS activist is involved in such activities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24614830

Well, keep up with the practice, I'm sure you'll get better at it.

What’s a better way to use £12 million? Buying Christopher Samba or putting it in a pile and setting it on fire? #AskHarry

But aren't you sometimes tempted to converse in engineering acronyms to get your own back ? I know that in conversing with less IT "techy" colleagues/customers I often have to convert what I want to say into 'real' English.

When does 'blue sky thinking' cross into Cloud Cuckoo Land ? A question that I saw asked in a managerial job advertisement was 'Are all your ducks in a row?".