Right to buy might not apply here anyway. A bill from '14 means that the RTB stops in August '16.
http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Built-Environment/Housing/16342/rtb
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Do we need a GE2015 thread?
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Just got rung by Populus ? Pollsters.
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I do the YouGov polls. In a year or two I'll get a tenner.
SNP candidate was round the doors earlier.
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Heard that early version of thatcher referred to above on R4 this a.m. they should put a warning out before ever playing her voice it is still chilling and evil in my opinion
ADVARSEL THATCHER VARNING
Tricky on the council house front as my grandparents and parents paid lot of rent over the years and I can see why people might want to get something back but as no houses were being built to replace them it would have meant if I had stayed in the village I would not have had access to my own council flat. The housing association is just a rerun of this.
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The new 'right to buy' proposal from the tories seems to be well criticised - "economically illiterate and morally wrong" in the Telegraph; it would be 'Another nail in the coffin of social housing' Shelter. The Mirror reports 'The son of a former Tory Housing Minister and Mrs Thatcher aide during the peak years of right-to-buy owns at least 40 ex-council property'.
The Telegraph also re-issued the story on one of the the first council houses sold 'Margaret Thatcher herself, who was pictured handing over the keys to its new owners, the Patterson family...The Pattersons' marriage broke down amid the financial pressure of meeting the mortgage payments, which were rocketing due to high interest rates.
Mrs Patterson ... eventually being forced to sell up and move into a mobile home. I was desperate in a house I couldn’t manage and wished I’d never bought.Posted 9 years ago # -
I apologise in advance for a link from the Mail but it's about Richard Coles and the right to buy thing. Apparently he is famously gay.
I like the Rev a lot more than I like the Mail.
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"Apparently he is famously gay."
Yes.
"I like the Rev a lot more than I like the Mail."
Not hard!
That piece - which isn't news - is because he said something critical about a party's policy?!
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he might now feel free to attack others for seeking the right to buy their own home
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I suspect he wouldn't do anything of the sort. He'd probably 'forgive' anyone taking (legal) advantage of something he didn't agree with!
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If there does end up being no party with an overall majority and some kind of deal has to be put together, the manifestos of the relevant parties will become the starting point for talks.
In that case, policy pledges which politicians enthuse about over the next three weeks will suddenly become promises to be bargained away rather than commitments to be implemented.
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Oh but the Lib Dems have said that if they are part of a coalition government then they will push for their manifesto pledges to become policy.
Like they did last time.
How'd that work out for you Nick?
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"How'd that work out for you Nick?"
He said in an interview the other day that he got 3 of 4 policies through. Only one he didn't was of course monumentally disastrous for him.
£10,600 before tax was certainly a Lib Dem policy...
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I'm pretty sure their last manifesto had more than 4 policies in it...
*off to dig out how much they missed*
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Very quick Google
Scrap tuition fees
Voted to increase feesPut a mansion tax in place
Voted against itLords reform
Abandoned it when he couldn't get Tory support3,000 more police on the beat
Backed Tory plans to cut 15,000Actually, got their 2010 manifesto now, and it makes interesting reading (as would the Tory one I suspect).
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Rev Coles has forgiven me for drifting his threads towards bicycles. He and his partner have Bromptons.
He's ok with the Mail piece as his last book is about to come out in paperback.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32316116
Lib Dem manifesto apparently launched in a Nick Clegg-themed nightclub. UKIP chose a hotel in a coastal town they forgot to close down (or was it the seaside town that they forgot to bomb?).
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@Baldcyclist, that's brilliant!
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Nick Clegg has said no party will win an outright election victory and warned voters they face a choice between the Lib Dems, the SNP and UKIP over who holds the balance of power.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32311736
That's a very curious assessment.
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"He [Cleggers] said the Lib Dems' "gutsy" decision to join the Conservatives in coalition in 2010"
That's an even more curious assessment!
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Not quite my idea of a "seaside town", but there is a song -
http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/billy_bragg/a13_trunk_road_to_the_sea-lyrics-1271511.html
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Leigh-on-Sea, panyagua? In which case, Sheriff Fatman by CUSM.
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@PS
Thanks - wasn't familiar with that, and it mentions the place twice!
CCE: the place where you learn at least one new thing every day...
... and also seamlessly topical (homelessness, dodgy landlords) in the wake of the Tories' new Right to Buy policy announcement. Phew - back on topic...
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It's an odd reading of the poll from Jim given it shows the gap Labour have to bridge widening significantly since the February poll by TNS with SNP picking up 1% increase for every 1% lost by Labour.
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Was he not ten years at university but then still did not graduate. I do not wish to sound supercilious. On the plus side, he is quite tall. So can conceal his thinning hair. Again, I do not wish to sound baldist, but our hairs are our antennae which allow us to pick up messages from other planets and once 363 day Alec douglas Hume went, prime ministers have alll had fairly full heads of hair, VAROITUS Thatcher ADVARSEL was the hairiest so it is not a correlation over 0.7
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It was only 9 years and for some of those years he was on secondment to the NUS.
It was there that he changed their policy to supporting tuition fees… although he managed to dodge them himself.
No hair at all but I was wearing a rather nice black Jaxon straw pork pie hat today.
Saw a great baker's van in Byre's Rd. On the back it said "No pies left in van overnight". Unfortunately I was driving a car at the time and by the time I walked back up the road it had gone so no photo.
Saw the new Cinderella movie. I liked it, boy 4 and memsahib didn't.
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An exit poll of visitors to the Commercial Vehicle Show conducted by the Road Haulage Association yesterday, indicated the vast majority of people working in the road haulage and logistics industry want a Conservative led government.
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It's an odd poll though, as there were more people who said "don't know" or refused to answer than said they'd vote for anyof the parties. So any of the parties could win, if they persuade enough of those who haven't already said who they'll vote for.
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@gembo
Mr Murphy may be adequately coiffured, but we should still strangle him instantly in case he starts trying to make friends with us.
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