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Coalition of the willing

Let's look at a list* of some of the main things have been made illegal (or might be made illegal) for no good reason (whether such a ban is actually enforced or not in practice is by-the-by) and the two most stupid traffic regulations:

Making work pay!

Ask your MP to sign Early Day Motion 1407, calling for the personal allowance for Income Tax and NIC to be increased to £10,000.

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=35657&SESSION=891

Affordable housing

Excellent, if prices keep falling at 2.5% per month for a year or two, housing will be affordable again!

Growth? What growth?

If you think about it for a bit and grind the numbers, real growth in the UK economy has only been about 1% a year for the last ten years.

100 days, 100 allegations

How will the next PM deal with things like this?

Brown or Miliband?

...putting John McDonnell to one side for now, whom would people on this site prefer, even if it means choosing the lesser of two evils.

Freud Review shows little understanding of the issues

According to page 9 of the summary, the UK has "virtually eliminated the unemployment trap"

One third of households rely on the State ...

... for more than half their income. Where did Civitas get this figure from?

Sauce for the goose ...

A lot of people (on left and right) say that Scotland should not be allowed to have independence because ...

Carbon tax, carbon benefit

The fairest "green tax" would be to significantly increase taxes on all fuel (including red diessel and aircraft fuel) and increase VAT on domestic power to 17.5% to whatever figure is needed to reflect the CO2 that they produce and damage to the environment etc (assuming that anybody knows what the true cost of this is - I certainly don't).

The government should then distribute the total receipts per capita to everybody in the UK as a Universal Benefit.


Well...

Harriet Harmann always starts her answers with the word "Well"

Does nuclear testing cause earthquakes?

My old Mum, who was passionately opposed to nuclear anything, once reckoned that nuclear testing caused earthquakes ...

Benefits of EU membership

Can anybody help Platonist who posted the following on ConservativeHome ...

Fun online poll