Will the chancellor cane house owners in the budget?

Quite right. In fact the Liberals have, so-called more left policies than New Lab.

Do you mean prices will still keep rising? How do you figure this out?

No. More that you're about to plug in tape no. 3 - the one about land redistribution, land value tax, Henry George, Kevin Cahill, Paxo, Elizabeth Windsor and the House of Lords.

Why don't you post all your material on a web site, then all you would need to do is post a URL. Think of the time saving and the extra cha cha cha that you could enjoy.

Everybody else could out together another site refuting all your arguments and life would be really simple.

.andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

I am?

Not forgetting the tango, of which I am a master.

It would?

Can we also have a separate site for the "cheap, crappy tools replaced frequently v. quality tools that last" debate? Happy to host both of those for free.

Which is why I am going to vote Lib Dem next time (as I did last time, but not in 1997, when I voted Labour and rue it to this day).

MM

Okay. Please send me a cheque for £10,000. Ta muchly!

MM

The potential problem would appear to be that they increased the mortgage by £25K, spent the rest on a new car, and the £10K kitchen may or may not make a difference to the value of the house when they sell.

Very true - I didn't want to get into that whole "lets borrow on the house to finance our lifestyle" thing, but it's very prevalent.

I'm constantly amazed by how friends who are in very similar financial and employment circumstances to us can manage to buy things which we would simply not consider to be within our means.

I'll respond by quoting the response I get when I complain about the crappy trains; "Move".

Blair is aiming where it matters; constitutional change. That is very important to the Medieval UK.

Is that your thing? get your jollies from that?

What, hosting? Yes, it very much is my thing. Very enjoyable it is too.

So far his record after nearly 7 years is pretty poor, even by New Labour standards.

The Jenkins report on electoral reform is gathering dust on a shelf somewhere, and whilst he made a step forward by reducing (and eventually doing away with) hereditary peers in the House of Lords, he immediatly took an equal (if not larger) step backwards by trying to insist on a majority of unelected appointees to the Upper House. Oh, and then there's the Scottish and Welsh Assemblies; one a money pit and the other a near irrelevance to many of its constituents. And in the case of the Scottish Assembly, he completely failed to address the West Lothian Question.

So whilst he has made some constitional change - note change, not necessarily progress - he has completely failed from a democratic perspective. In fact with the increased politicisation of the Civil Service and the greater numbers of unelected officials (Charlie Falconer, Alistair Campbell) wielding substantial power, we may well have taken steps backwards democratically.

Oh, and to save IMM time, here's a

for him to cut around.

Cheers Clive

It is zestful compared to the previous 400 years.

I just saw Tone on the TV at question time in the HP. What a man! Brilliant!

Well said IMM

Beer?

Actually I think you are in error on one count - MPs are always thinking about their old age and pensions. Don't forget they voted themselves a 25% increase paid for from public funds not so long ago.

However I don't see this as a Labour-only problem. They are all at it with their snout in the trough.

PoP

Sending email to my published email address isn't guaranteed to reach me.

Mmmm...Beer.....