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Again, understood. It is almost as if Mr Salmond lost a battle but could win the war. It needs to be sorted out.

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The Tories are acting pretty dodgy here: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/damian-...to-play-on-me/

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A couple of interesting graphs:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...9&d=1427791452

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...8&d=1427791265

Cameron promises to do the same again if re-elected and achieve the goal of full* employment. It should also be noted that in the last 5 years of the Labour administration less than 300,000 jobs total were created.

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*Defn of full employment

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...03/1.jpg:large

Ah, the good old days of Hobbits, Orcs, Dwarves, Elves, and Sauron - bloody immigrants drove them all away.....

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You seem surprised? This is the way of all politics these days. It'll get dirtier than this over the coming weeks :erm:

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Sadly l don't think we have seen anything yet Kursk.:rolleyes:

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My house is an election free zone, we are not watching any of the news programs, i have binned any election spam that has come through the door and if and its a big IF anyone knocks on my doors canvasing they will be told to fox trot off. I will make my mind up in the booth on election day based on what i feel is best for me and my family.

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Well I'll be taking any parties predictions about what the result of another parties policies will be with a very large pinch of salt. Talk about massaging statistics to suit your own agenda. :(

I'm waiting for that old chestnut about not having EU membership costing 3m jobs. A patent lie if ever there was one.

I prefer to look at the record of each parties tour of power and judge by the results. I still remember The Winter of discontent bodies going unburied, rubbish piled up in the streets as a result of Labour trying to be authoritarian and control everything. A trait they've never abandoned.

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If we leave the EU what is there to stop the EU slapping on an import duty on British made goods if there is such a thing anymore.

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World Trade Organisation. Anyway even if that didn't apply we'd just slap the same tariff on EU goods.:)

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1. The very real risk of us doing the same back to them - and as we have a trade defecit with the EU, it would hurt them more than it would hurt us;
2. The fact that Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon compels all EU states to negotiate a post-membership settlement with any state that announces its intention to leave the EU. Article 50 ensures that things like free trade deals are in place before a country leaves.

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Are you trying to tell me that all the jobs created by the Tories ARE NOT zero hours contracts?

Go figure

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Pretty good marketing if you ask me.

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That's another spurious EU fox shot then.

The EU will stop trading with us if we leave... :rofl:

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YES! Facts are our friends as opposed to hyperbole.

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Wouldn't be so sure about article 50 saving the day

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance...y-for-britain/