Vince Cable lost the plot - VAT

The only reason you could have posted that s**te was in order to elicit a response. Here you are:

I doubt if anyone - even your mother - ever thought highly of you - but thanks for trying to contribute anyway.

Tuition fees don't have to be paid by the student - they're paid by the adult worker, and when they are working all debts are written off when they are 35 yrs old. Pretty good deal!

I think the Tories are thinking up ever more outlandish ideas just to see how much the LibDems will take. At this rate we could have public hangings and floggings, child slavery and mass genocide and Clegg would still be nodding and applauding at PMQs.

Not true, but what does it have to do with the price of chips?

Only when they are forced to - compromise is almost unheard of when the incumbent has a large majority. Why bother with party politics at all then? Either they have principles or they don't. LD is not saying 'we have no choice' - they are saying, it wasn't a firm promise, thus confirming that they are as scummy as the others.

Six years ago I remember picking up 200 cigarettes in a shop in Antigua for the equivalent of about £14.

JPS Silver............manufactured in England, flown out to Antigua for tourists to fly back into England.

Crazy.

It appears that they were well aware a couple of months before the election:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clegg is, however, experiencing a bumpy time himself after shedding what had appeared to be pretty sacred commitments. A new book on the coalition negotiations by the former Tory whip Rob Wilson, serialised in Saturday's Guardian, shows that the Lib Dems accepted two months before the general election they would have to scrap their pledge to abolish tuition fees.

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Do you ever write anything else - other than trying to blame the Labour Party for everything?

In fairness, I was born in 1963 and so the only three real Government administrations I've had any informed knowledge/experience of have been Labour 1974/1978 (why am I walking to school with all these piles of uncollected rubbish and rats running around everywhere and why is the economy screwed?), Conservative 1979-1997 (got myself into work, bought a property, did very nicely thank you) and Labour 1997-2010 (why can't I take photographs without being arrested and why is the economy screwed?)

The evidence is fairly compelling; Labour can't be trusted...........just 47 years worth of experience talking here, YMMV.

Wrong, but you're not particularly intelligent, are you?

Hmm. That makes a change from being called a socialist

And while they let big companies get away with avoiding billions in tax they steal pennies from the poor and say they have no choice.

They also said they would repeal the digital economy act, so all the pro-freedom sites were encouraging everyone to vote liberal. The extra several million votes they would have got on that promise alone probably secured most of their seats.

The evil twins of Thatcher, separated at birth and reunited at public school during a game of kick the cruches away from beggars.

As I remember it, they agreed to a referendum. They didn't say anything about what they would do when they had the results of that referendum. By allowing the referendum at all they will have fulfilled their obligations and done everything that they promised to do.

How much would it cost to block off tax avoidance loopholes like this? I can't see it would cost anywhere near as much as the changes in benefit rules are going to cost, and the net gains would be considerably higher.

"JMS" wrote

He could never decide which political party he wanted to be a member of, so why are your surprised that he's changed his policy coat since becoming gorged with power?

John.

It could potentially cost billions as companies move the head offices to lower tax economies , look at the republic of ireland , 12.5% Corperation tax rate , attracted the likes of microsoft , digital river , google etc ,

All governments are aware of the pitfalls of pissing off big business , we operate within a global economy now where logistics , offices functions and corperate headquarters can be moved at the push of a button .

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ffs - are you actually daft. (Rhetorical - I can see that you are)

They (all three parties) knew that there was a very great possibility of there being a hung parliament.

Therefore the Tories were sounding out the LibDems as they realised that they were going to loose the election (by not winning outright) - and would most likely have to form a coalition.

Therefore two months before the election the Libdems were well aware that they could be the coalition partner - and neither Tory nor Labour would accept reversal on tuition fees.

Therefore Libdems would have to give up their pledge.

They just kept pushing the line - knowing that they would have to back down.

In message , AlanG wrote

Just charge VAT and an administration fee as the goods come into the country.