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Air Conditioning 18th May 2015 12:44 AM

When anyone says to me "I can save you money" over the long term, it usually costs a lot in the short term to find out how. I would also guess that it is risky business wise making financial claims, unless you can prove it mathmatically and offer a full refund should your claims be wrong.... My 1000 post

There will always be political infighting, even the Conservatives will have it during there current term in office. At the end of the day if the SNP can have a leader who is not an elected MP then so can UKIP. I think once they get past the current arguing they will come back stronger and better. I wouldn't be surprised if they eventually ended up merging in the future with another party...

I would have preferred another coalition, but overall am happy with the outcome. It would have been way to dangerous to have Labour back in control, you cannot fight an election when you have a vice chancellor of the exchequer bouncing cheques, it's just one big no no that Labour are still paying the price for their last stint in power...and rightly so as they cannot be trusted.

The Lib Dems, were always going to take a hit over the tuition fees scandal. Not only will students have voted against the Lib Dems but their parents will also have voted against.

UKIP, sorry to see Nigel resign, I wish they had done better and got a few more seats. I do think they need to up their game overall rather than just arguing over immigration and the Europe. But they did get 3 million votes and came second in 118 constituencies. It's also good to have a political thorn in the backside of the main political parties. I think UKIP have forced the others into taking onboard peoples concerns over the EU and immigration.... Onwards and upwards

The conservatives, must stick to their promise over the referendum on the EU by 2017, if not there will probably be a vote of no confidence in the Government. Hopefully there will be more welfare cuts, forcing more people back into work and encouraging more to set up businesses on their own.I think the new Government should also start getting tougher with ISIS and the Middle East, the western governments seem to be just sitting on the fence over this and we cannot just let this carry on as it has gone on for far too long. It needs to be stamped out now.

 

I think Miliband, has been ridiculed by the press to much to even stand a chance. Having Ed Balls as vice chancellor isn't going to give much confidence to the British voter if he cannot manage his own finances and bounces cheques to traders. Should have sacked him a long time ago.

I think the door has been left wide open for Cameron and the Lib Dems will get through with a small margin as I think they will also be taking some punishment from their last manifesto. As I have said previously I don't think the coalition has done too much of a bad job and prefer not to have anyone party have total control. 

Reviews 5th May 2015 11:39 AM

If you mean something like the Freeindex widget that you can display on your website, we've talked about it for a long while but never got round to it. It's on the to do list  We are looking at a major site upgrade next year, so will probably include this functionality then, either a widget or an iframe. 

 

Does that answer your question?”

 

That bit does.... Thanks

Reviews 2nd May 2015 4:51 PM

Is there a way of linking the business reviews on here to websites? The reason I ask is, is that someone would specifically have to search for reviews rather than they automatically show up... unless as usual I'm missing something..

UK inflation now officially zero 26th April 2015 11:39 PM

I think both high and low inflation figures must effect everyone, regardless of whether their business owners or not as it effects interest rates. It would seem low inflation is the better of the two according to the Bank of England but with low inflation comes low interest rates.

For those with large savings deposited like pensioners, low inflation is bad as their money is not generating hardly any income, so they end up spending their savings to survive. I currently get 0.1 percent with one particular account with the Halifax, but as there is only £7.50 in the account I'm not overly fussed nor losing any sleep about it.

If as is stated we're now at zero rate inflation, then according to the Bank of England's formula the interest base rate should fall again, I can't see that happening though But low interest rates have certainly benefited borrowers (me included)

As for the current state of inflation, I think it will be short lived. Over the last quarter we have had a relatively mild winter, so the demand for fuel will have been less than normal, as I said previously the cost of crude oil is actually rising slowly...

UK inflation now officially zero 25th April 2015 1:27 AM

Over the last month the cost of Brent oil has gone up by around $10 a barrel to currently be $65 per barrel, April 2nd the price stood at $55 in January it stood at it's lowest of around $46 per barrel. So it is gradually creeping back up, I'm sure many people still believe that it is still at its low price in January and think they are getting ripped off at the petrol forecourt. The former BP CEO Tony Haywood believes that the oil price is going to soar. The collapse in the oil price was down to OPEC trying stop shale oil exploration in the US (they need to operate at $80 per barrel) Many of these US oil companies raise funds on the AIM on the London Stock Exchange, the collapse of the oil price has seen the collapse of the share price and consequently many of these companies either being suspended or collapsing altogether with investors losing thousands. But that is the risk you take.

And talking of oil, there has been a lot of news about the recent potential oil find at Gatwick covering an area of 55 sq miles. The Horse Hill License which this is has had an independent report carried out by a company called Nutech which states in it's report that with the data that it has there could be as much as 158 million barrels of oil per square mile. If after the flow tests are carried out and if proved successful, this will allow the UK to stick 2 fingers up to OPEC, cut all our ties to the middle east, it will be larger than North Sea Gas, in fact it will put the UK right back to being a world leader again. Apart from the Green party any other political party in Government will be exploiting this find to the maximum. If and it is a calculated if, because it's ok knowing you have oil lying beneath your feet, but extracting it is a bit different this country will change dramatically overnight. And with a bit of luck I'll be retiring sooner than I thought... This will be mega for the UK if it comes of....


SNPs primary responsibility is to Scotland & to Scottish interests.

 

 

And that's the problem, you cannot have a political party that wants independence from the UK, running the UK, it makes no sense. If she does get in, the whole country will be in turmoil for years to come. The problem with the SNP is they want everything for nothing, but at the expense of the UK. I think more people will end up voting Conservative to keep the SNP out, if the SNP get in the independence vote will be back on the agenda...

I only caught the last one and a half questions on the television debate and not sure whether I missed very much anyway, probably the usual hot air that gets blown prior to an election, but once elected whichever party that may be the manifesto they were elected on, simply goes out the window. It's been said by political commentators that the days of the two main political parties ruling the roost are numbered and I think they are right and think both parties are going to get their backsides whipped in the forthcoming election. I think the mood of the country wants a political change where those who are elected are held accountable. From a business point of view I could not vote Labour, from a personal point of view I'd struggle to vote Conservative, I don't give the Liberal Democrats a second thought. So that leaves me with UKIP, their not going to be to everyone's taste I will admit, but when you look at this country over the last 30 odd years and see what the 2 main parties have created, then we need something to take us in a different direction, we need major industry's to start thriving again, not just down here in London but in Northern counties and in the places like Wales where they once had industry, once the mine were closed down everything that supported that industry went as well, with nothing put in place for those who lost their jobs. Now what do they have? call centers that pester the rest of the country all day long. We also need to end the 'open border' policy not to protect jobs but to protect the UK, we have absolutely no idea who's coming or who's leaving this country. Those that do come have no checks done on them. we should at the very least have immigration security as tough as both the US and Australia at present the authorities have no idea who's in this country.