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davieG

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TV star Miranda Hart has announced there will be no more episodes of her hit BBC sitcom after this Christmas. :thumbup: 

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Corky

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TV star Miranda Hart has announced there will be no more episodes of her hit BBC sitcom after this Christmas. :thumbup: 

 

She was good in Not Going Out, playing the incompetent cleaner, but she didn't have a major part in that. Her own show is dreadful so glad that's ending.

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Darkon84

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TV star Miranda Hart has announced there will be no more episodes of her hit BBC sitcom after this Christmas. :thumbup: 

 

I'm a bit of a Scrooge and don't usually look forward to Christmas (apart from feeling rosy cheeked in the pub with a real fire going and some mulled cider), but this has given me a reason to . ROLL ON CHRISTMAS!!

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purpleronnie

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My faith in the people of Britain continue's.

 

British support for EU membership at 23-year high -poll

LONDON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Support among Britons for staying in the European Union is at its highest in 23 years, according to a poll on Wednesday, even though the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP) is gaining popularity.

Under pressure from UKIP and Eurosceptic members of his Conservative party, British Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to hold a referendum in 2017 on Britain's EU membership if his Conservative party wins an election next year.

But the poll by Ipsos MORI showed just over half of Conservative supporters favoured staying in the EU, indicating Cameron has a fine line to tread and could risk losing support by taking too hardline an approach to Europe.

Among the other parties, 73 percent of supporters of the opposition Labour party and 82 percent of backers of the Liberal Democrats, the government's junior coalition partner, favour EU membership.

By contrast, just 11 percent of supporters of UKIP, which earlier this month won its first elected seat in parliament, said they would vote to stay in.

Overall, 56 percent of Britons would back staying in the EU, compared with 36 percent who would choose to leave. That was the highest level of support for Britain's EU membership since 1991, and showed a switch from 2012 when more people said they wanted to exit the bloc than remain in.

"Support for Britain's membership is up significantly since the depths of the eurozone debt crisis in 2011, although that does not mean that the public simply want the relationship to stay the same," said Gideon Skinner, Ipos MORI's head of political research.

Cameron, who has seen UKIP's opinion poll support rise to double figures and two of his lawmakers defect to the anti-EU party, has promised to renegotiate Britain's ties with the 28-nation bloc, before the proposed 2017 referendum.

One in three of those surveyed by Ipsos MORI said they would like Britain to be part of an economic community in Europe without political links. Only 14 percent said they would like to see closer integration with EU member states.

Cameron has long said he would like Britain to stay in a reformed EU, but British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said last week the bloc would have to come up with a meaty reform deal

 

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Guest MattP

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I put an explanation on why I think this in a thread last week, not sure if you saw it? (although it's important to note this poll came out before the 1.7billion bill we got landed with last week). Whats your thoughts on that Ron? Would you cough it up if you were in charge?

 

It does show though that at the very least people do want total reform of it, and only 14 percent said they would like to see closer integration with EU member states. It's to see people finally challenging the statuo quo and see them actually wanting a Europe that works for tjhem rather a Britain that runs for Europe.

 

Anyway he's some other good news. Labour now starting to even hit as low as 30% in some polls.

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1361710/ukip-hits-new-poll-high-after-1-7bn-eu-bill

 

 

Support for UKIP has hit a new high according to a new survey carried out in the wake of the £1.7bn EU surcharge demand.

The ComRes poll, carried out for The Independent newspaper, showed support for the Labour Party has fallen by five points to 30% since last month - its lowest rating under leader Ed Miliband.

The Conservatives were up one percentage point, also putting them at 30%.

But UKIP has climbed four points to 19%, beating their highest previous rating - achieved in June - by 1%.

The poll revealed the Liberal Democrats were down one point on 9%, the Greens remain unchanged on 4% and support for other parties was also unchanged on 7%

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11% of UKIP supporters would vote to stay in the EU? lol.

To be fair I think the fact that business leaders support the EU makes up a good 90% of its support.

 

Don't think it's anywhere near that high anymore, I was having a glance through the FT a while back and coming out seems to also have quite a bit of support in there and more and more business leaders are being vocal about it.

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Interesting graph here showing polling since the last election.

 

The Tories seem an absolute cert to be getting around 30-35% of the vote, Labour's 40% appears long gone and Ed could even be struggling to hang to 30% if he continues to fault as they have been falling consistently now since. Hung parliament looks absolutely nailed on. The Liberals look a spent force in nationwide support levels but could still hang onto a lot of seats thanks to a good ground game.

 

Despite every news channel and media outlet trying to halt support for UKIP they don't seem to be having a problem at all and lots of voters who were supposed to be going back to the maim parties appear not to be. (It's incredible to think UKIP were at 3% just a few years ago)

 

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The next six months are huge, it's the most interesting election in probably all our lifetimes and the outcome could change politics in the UK forever.

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Hung parliament looks dead on, but who's going to be the kingmaker this time, I wonder? 

 

I know who I hope it is just to see the reaction on here lol

leicsmac

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I know who I hope it is just to see the reaction on here lol

 

Even as a raging social leftie seeing Cameron trying to make a deal with Natty Nige would be pretty damned funny. 

 

Can't see UKIP getting quite enough seats to put them in a position to do so, though.

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Even as a raging social leftie seeing Cameron trying to make a deal with Natty Nige would be pretty damned funny. 

 

Can't see UKIP getting quite enough seats to put them in a position to do so, though.

 

More chance of Miliband and Farage doing a deal, Nigel wouldn't work with the Tories unless Cameron stepped aside.

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Let's get one thing clear:  When it comes to the European negotiation table, we have the biggest voice in the Union along with ze Germans.  We are not being bullied by the mean other member states. Now, while there may be disputes over the rates, everyone agrees that it is right and proper for each citizen to pay an income tax proportionate to the money that they make, right?  Britain paying £1.7bn is exactly the same thing.  The bill is in all but name a tax on national revenue, national revenue which just happens to be higher in the UK relative to the rest of the EU because of our strong economic performance by comparison.  The charge is a sign of our strength and growth, not an indication that the evil bureaucrats over here are somehow singling us out for a bout of extremely public extortion.  As a nation we should be proud that we are becoming the new Germany: Running a strong economy and using its proceeds to help prop up the smaller, weaker nations.  Bitching and moaning just perpetuates the stereotype that the UK is the spoilt brat of the EU.

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Let's get one thing clear:  When it comes to the European negotiation table, we have the biggest voice in the Union along with ze Germans.  We are not being bullied by the mean other member states. Now, while there may be disputes over the rates, everyone agrees that it is right and proper for each citizen to pay an income tax proportionate to the money that they make, right?  Britain paying £1.7bn is exactly the same thing.  The bill is in all but name a tax on national revenue, national revenue which just happens to be higher in the UK relative to the rest of the EU because of our strong economic performance by comparison.  The charge is a sign of our strength and growth, not an indication that the evil bureaucrats over here are somehow singling us out for a bout of extremely public extortion.  As a nation we should be proud that we are becoming the new Germany: Running a strong economy and using its proceeds to help prop up the smaller, weaker nations.  Bitching and moaning just perpetuates the stereotype that the UK is the spoilt brat of the EU.

 

People pay income tax on the money that they personally get paid, not based on what their company makes. So why should the UK government pay extra money to the EU because the UK economy has done well. The government doesn't turn around to someone earning 35k and say oh you need to pay us more in income tax because your company has made bucket loads this year. Fair enough if the economy paid the extra money to the EU but obviously it can't. 

 

What's worse to me is Poland has the 6th largest economy in the EU, but have the largest net take-out from EU money. They also get a further rebate from the EU this year despite having growth of 1.6% last year (ours was 1.9%). Then you have Germany, who are happy to tell the rest of the eurozone how they can and can't spend their money, getting a rebate whilst ****ed over Greece have to pay more (only a small amount but still).

 

The government can't afford to pay an extra 1.7 billion in just because the economy is doing alright. And why because we are doing alright in recovery should we give away money cos other countries aren't doing so well. Neil Kinnock and Labour learnt in 92 that taxing aspiration is not a good idea, the EU should take note

Webbo

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Britain leapfrogs Germany in list of world's most prosperous nations... but still lags behind Norway, Australia and Iceland
Legatum Institute's 2014 Prosperity Index puts UK 13th and Germany 14th
Britain named as one of the best places in the world to do business 
18.3% think it is a good time to find a job, according to the study
 
 

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sphericalfox

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Britain leapfrogs Germany in list of world's most prosperous nations... but still lags behind Norway, Australia and Iceland
Legatum Institute's 2014 Prosperity Index puts UK 13th and Germany 14th
Britain named as one of the best places in the world to do business 
18.3% think it is a good time to find a job, according to the study
 
 

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The fact that Ireland is above the UK and has been for the last two years, should tell you all you need to know how about this study.

 

A cast of experts indeed. I like a company that isn't afraid to pop in the Cafe Manager's bio in with the rest of the staff.

purpleronnie

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Britain leapfrogs Germany in list of world's most prosperous nations... but still lags behind Norway, Australia and Iceland
Legatum Institute's 2014 Prosperity Index puts UK 13th and Germany 14th
Britain named as one of the best places in the world to do business 
18.3% think it is a good time to find a job, according to the study
 
 

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Almost as high as when we had a Labour government.

sphericalfox

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The fact that Ireland is above the UK and has been for the last two years, should tell you all you need to know how about this study.

 

A cast of experts indeed. I like a company that isn't afraid to pop in the Cafe Manager's bio in with the rest of the staff.

 

Also its interesting to look at Sian Hansen's affiliations and previous work. Very interesting indeed.

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