Quote of the day 18th November 2014
"You can't just point at things and tax them"
(Myleen Klass gives some advice to Ed Miliband during the debate below)
(Myleen Klass gives some advice to Ed Miliband during the debate below)
Nick Herbert on his visit to flood hit areas of Cumbria
Please note that the post below was published more than ten year ago on 21st November 2009 Nick Herbert MP, shadow cabinet member for the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, was in Cumbria this morning to see the areas affected by the flooding. He writes on Conservative Home about his visit. Here is an extract. I’ve been in Cumbria today to see the areas affected by the floods. I arrived early in Keswick where I met officials from the Environment Agency. Although the river levels had fallen considerably and homes were no longer flooded, the damage to homes had been done. And the water which had got into houses wasn’t just from the river – it was foul water which had risen from the drains. I talked to fire crews who were pumping flood water back into the river, and discovered that they were from Tyne & Wear and Lancashire. They had been called in at an hours’ notice and had been working on the scene ever since, staying at a local hotel. You cannot fail to be impressed by the
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1. A problem is discovered
2. Government solves it the only way it knows how, a new tax
3. New tax raises government intake in short term
4. New tax intake begins to fall (ie problem is being reduced)
5. Government sees income falling (a problem)
6. Government solbes it the only way it knows how, a new tax
To quote Del Amitri, But noting ever happens, nothing happens at all, the needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along like before
the new government never repeal the tax, they just give excuses as to why they wont.
Im quite looking forward to the Rochester and Strood By-election. For the first time in a long time I may well have been wrong about something, and that will make a nice change. I did predict a few weeks ago (not long after Carswell's win, that Mark Reckless would lose his seat. The polls are sugesting i may well have been way off base here.
I will predict, however, that whichever way it turns out this time at the GE it will return to a blue seat (if i get this wrong too then i am going to go for a hat trick, with this particular constituency) cant wait :o)
Though in a GE any major change (party wise, not necessarily candidate)tends to reverse at a GE (when there is more at stake.
Now, this is an odd one as the candidate defected, rightly or wrongly is a different topic for another day.
The thing is though the by-election is a seat for less than 12 months (so its a great way to get a dig in, without too much backlash) the GE will be more thought out, thats a 5 year seat, so I would predict that the seat will be blue following the 2015 GE.
I thought Reckless would lose his, as he is not quite the politician Doug Carswell is, though, if his candidates like him, combined with the "kick the current government for a while" tactic, then it may be a UKIP seat up until 2015, as is suggested by the polls.
That is why i now think my initial prediction is wrong and the polls are not too far away, for this by-election. And that is why i think the torys will win it back pretty quickly. (well that and the fact i think UKIP will come under the hammer a lot more in the coming months on their policies, or rather lack of them)
*well it would harm the candidate as its long been a policy of the Monster Raving Loony Party that if a member is elected, then they were not loony enough to stand, so are kicked out of the party until such as time as they no longer have a seat, so they would resign forcing a by election.