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You really think the Labour Party are a party of the left these days Henry? But that wasn't my point. Talking in terms of left and right is often used to dismiss the point. I'd rather talk in terms of fairness and accountability. On the wreckless actions of some of those within the banking industry, we are talking about people high up the chain on the whole, with the kind of power that had serious consequences for billions of people accross the world. At the core of that is a culture and mentality the says profit over people, greed at any cost. Many experts warned a long time ago about the dangers of what was going on. We live in a culture of Milton Friedman Free Market economics. What have we learned? That the masters of the Universe can't be trusted to behave responsibly with that free market.

Keeky.....You are neither funny nor well informed.

Hmm Henry, Who lied to fix their Libor rates? Just remind us of that again! I really hate it when any criticism of the far from perfect banking system is mentioned in the same sentence as the left. This is not about left or right. It's about fixing the flaws in regulation that allow our free marketeers to break rules and be wreckless in the pursuit of personal profit. A wrecklessness that has had a devastating impact on people who had nothing to do with any of it. We have an economic system, or rather a form of capitalism (because there are many forms of that) in place atm that does not work in the interests of ordinary people. And we seem to live in an age where those who do best by it, decry any criticism. Like there can't possibly be a better system. This is nonsense. Any changes in regulation to the banking industry have merely tinkered at the edges. It's worth remembering that after the 1930's Wall Street Crash, many measures were brought in to prevent that happening again. As soon as they were got rid of, from the 80s onwards, we've had nothing but boom and bust and through that, an ongoing decline in the value of wages and labour (for most people) whilst the value of capital assets has rocketted. In fact, home ownership is now the only means of upward social mobility for most people, and even that is becoming a pipe dream for the youngest generations. Banks have been totally complicit in that process.

Sure it wasn't an ANPR check? Police tend to use one way roads for that.

You can also now get dashboard cameras for cars. Might be worth getting one of those in case of accident. Then you will have proof of who was at fault. They are not expensive.

And the millions of brits currently working in the EU will be sent back to replace the immigrants we boot out. You are such an idiot Tarot. No migration from the EU also will mean no migration to the EU for UK nationals. 56% of our exports are to the EU. Exports that will be hit with a trade tariff if we leave the EU making the suppliers no longer competitive to EU importers. And just to put that in a context you can understand - 3.5 million jobs in the UK are reliant on exports to the EU, 2.5 million of which are directly affected and 900,000 indirectly. That is what Blair is worried about, and rightly so imo.

Louisa and.....Elvis? :D

Cold Play centre staff. One Direction proposal for Lordship Lane. Meatloaf a bit off at the Clock House.

Yes have suffered with them here too. Holes in everything made of cotton and wool.

There's a thing called knock for knock.

Plenty of people live on a diet of the wrong food as rising rates of obesity clearly show.

Battery hens often produce poorer quality eggs with thinner shells. So any idea that quality control can only be measured in battery egg production is nonsense. Free range hens do not forage. They are fed just the same as battery hens. The difference is though that they get to stretch their legs instead of being pinned in all day and forced to lay eggs. The same is true for cows. Cows that roam free and eat grass a far healthier than cows that are corn fed and kept in factories for mass burger production. Free range chickens also, are not living in their own excrement all day and night, in barns with no windows. And they have more of a chance of not dying before they can be turned into your fast food. One of the daily tasks of a factory chicken farmer is to remove the dead chickens. Free range chicken is far healthier.

I agree with green Goose. And I'd also add that street robbery happens all over Southwark, even in the poorer areas, and more so in some cases.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SNP will not go into formal coalition. They would > support Labour when they feel like it, which would > make Miliband's premiership almost impossible and > we'll be back at the polls within a year. I totally agree Loz. In fact I think they would only use coalition to get another referendum on independance. They are nationalists with no interest in a UK or England. It could be argued they shouldn't have been part of that debate at all.

What are UKIPs policies (apart from leaving Europe) Tarot? Do you even know? And btw, Farage is married to a German!

lol I might too after that.

I think Farage did well to be honest.

And now it's over...what a disappointment that was!

Uh oh...cameron mentioned the 100 business leaders. Cue david Carnell :D

I'm getting really irked on the housing debate. Not one of those politicians has as yet put home building as a priority over help to buy, rent to buy and all the other bonkers schemes they dream up to keep the market inflated.

It's why he didn't want to go head to head with Miliband. One thing that struck me about the Paxman interview was the squirming body language when Paxman pushed him on food banks and anything else he found difficult. I think here Cameron comes accross as a broken record, and lacks any charisma whatsoever (the only good news for him is that he's not the only one).

That in work benefits bill is up Loz. It has a lot to do with low wages and increasing costs of living, namely rent. I disagree with you Loz in that a growing economy where tax receipts, productivity and exports are down, it reflects the scenario that what growth there is, is being hoovered up by a few sectors (finance being one). So for me, it is not the sign of a healthy economy at all. Low wages, poor exorts, productivity etc, affect things like national debt. We are still borrowing more than we did in 2010. We've done nothing to change the aspects of the economy that caused the crash. Business in banking is the same as ever, and we gave them billions of our money to get back there. What I would say is that these are the problems of an economy that has been in decline for the last 50 years. And yes Osbourne has been as lucky as Gordon Brown was unlucky to be the scapegoat of a massive global crash. Well that's just the ways it goes. But to think for one minute that Osbourne is delivering anything but more of the same, when we all know that more of the same hasnt worked for at least two decades, is fantasy. We think the last financial crash was bad. We are heading for something far worse unless we get back in control of our wealth. There isn't much left to give away to foreign shareholders tbh. The free market does NOT take care of all. the cost of housing IS out of control, the over 65's are going to become even more expensive to the state finances etc and no-one in government or in opposition really seems bothred enough by any of it. But then it seems, nor are we!

Ditto what many have said above, that we do care. But what can we do when regulations around food production/ slaughter are not enforced enough and suppliers like Happy Eggs, who are supposedly supplying free range eggs use farms where the hens are trained to not go outdoors before they reach hen laying age. The door is open but they stay inside. It's a loophole producers use to circumvent the true definition of free range. Why does it take undercover activists to expose this stuff? http://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/rspca-hits-back-at-viva-happy-eggs-expos.htm Why aren't the regulatory authorities already doing it on a regular basis? If you want to do something about chicken welfare, a good place to start is by not buying from fast food chicken businesses. If you saw the conditions in which that chicken is reared, you'd certainly never eat it again.

So we need to put lights everywhere now so that Police Officers don't have to go anywhere in the dark? What when Police have to go into any of our parks at night? Is this Police Officer going to ask the same of those areas? If this Police Officer is scared of the dark then maybe she should change career. They are btw equiped with powerful torches, pepper spray, radios etc and they also travel in twos, so it's not as though she ever has to negotiate this path alone after dark. Am I the only person somewhat bemused by this?

Excellent posts David Carnell. I'll just throw in that under the coalition we spend ?28 billion a year subsidising low paid workers with child tax credits and Housing Benefit. Everything the Tories claim about Britain recovering with a strong economy is crap. Is productiity up under the coalition? No. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32143552 Are tax receipts up now all those jobs have been created under the coalition? No. Are exports up? No. In fact they are down. http://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/how-has-uks-coalition-government-performed Osbourne is a fantasist.