Comments on: Tax cuts for the many

By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:51:40 +0000

Harrumph, yes, but leaving that aside, she is the only interviewer I have seen discomfiting the awful Mandelson. More, please.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:07:45 +0000

Certainly, but, um, vocal support where ?
Emails to the Daily Politics saying JR was good, have him more often ?
Letters to the BBC saying we want JR on Question Time ?
Comments on BBC/newspaper blog sites ?
Sorry, but I have no idea which, if any, of these are helpful for you.

Reply: I’m not fishing for praise, but Yes, if you want your view more represented on the media it does help to tell the media you want that view represented.

By: bill

bill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:52:08 +0000

I spent a bit of time yesterday trawling through some political blogs &message boards subscribed to by members of all parties .It is a way of finding out what people are thinking. I did not find a single mention of inheritance tax anywhere.People have other preoccupations at the moment and will have until the next election.

The only reason this subject came up is because Mr Clarke does not happen to like conservative policy on this matter and for that reason he is prepared to split the party, cause division and allow labour to exploit it.

His loyalty to the party lies along way south of his personal ambition and agenda. The man is a menace.

By: APL

APL — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:15:35 +0000

Johathan Cook: “Your blog needs some sort of Obama-esque ‘donate £5 button’.”

Have paypal account, prepared to donate.

Reply: Thanks. I don’t need to raise money. I read , think and write for myself and do not need more people to help me do that. What I need is more vocal support so I get more airtime as well having the blogshpere to communicate through.

By: Stuart Fairney

Stuart Fairney — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:06:04 +0000

If that’s legal, that’s a great idea. Is it legal?

By: Stuart Fairney

Stuart Fairney — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:05:05 +0000

I am able to think of several jobs better suited to where Ms Raworth’s manifest talents lie.

By: Stuart Fairney

Stuart Fairney — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:02:38 +0000

Could they concentrate on limiting it to zero perhaps?

By: Mike Paterson

Mike Paterson — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:21:34 +0000

I think you are grasping at straws on this one. If the Conservatives can’t get their act together on this simple, sensible and inexpensive tax policy, one has to wonder how they will cope on bigger, more complex policies. Words are important. It’s no use bleating about BBC this and BBC that. You have in front of you a government that is just about out for the count and it’s your (ie the Conservatives) job to knuckle down and attack it on every front, every day. I don’t see this happening. A child of five could do better. The Conservatives WILL win the next GE by default, but they don’t look like a government in waiting, and that worries me. Examine Cameron’s lot with Thatcher’s team in 1979 – it doesn’t bear comparison. It’s no use parading Clarke around like some prize bull at an agricultural show.

By: APL

APL — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:20:34 +0000

Tonights BBC news about Tony McNulty and his innovative and lucrative expense scheme.

Huw Edwards: [Introduced the item along the following lines;] More financial scandal for MPs, “THIS TIME WITH A GOVERNMENT MINISTER”.

Excuse me? The last time was a government minister too, her name was Jackie Smith.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:56:26 +0000

” … in all sorts of areas the national broadcaster pursues a left leaning agenda…. ”

Such as their increasingly bonkers adherence to the religion of global warming.

P.S. Sophie Raworth for Director General !