Yes, it was unfortunate that so many tory votes were north of the border, without those 12 seats who knows what might have happened.

I notice that there hasn’t been any talk of Excluding Scottish MP’s voting on English only legislation recently……

The reason that you didn’t see them after the Borough Market bombing was that there was no bombing at Borough Market.

And your point is?

Labour increased their share by 9.5%, UKIP lost 10.2%

I saw the opposite to you, he was clearly distressed, and gave a deeply sympathetic response.
It is your own prejudice that provided the political point.
Uncalled for.

Oh, and because I am sure you will try and make it personal, no, for the umpteenth time I am not a Corbyn supporter

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What is slightly awkward for your line of reasoning regarding pensioners, it appears they were the only section of the population who voted in greater numbers for the Tories than Labour. in the ratio of approx 5/2

Every other segment voted more for labour according to a new survey

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-poll-tories-election-voters-support-breakdown-party-yougov-a7788696.html

On another note, it is good to see the rats fighting

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nick-timothy-theresa-may-chief-staff-lynton-crosby-tory-election-campaign-no-conservative-majority-a7789821.html
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Facetious? Probably, but a gentle dig suggesting that putting the same data set in a slighly different graph up time after time rather lessens the impact

My goodness Ryan, something we can agree on is buried in the last post (although are you sure you are feeling OK as there wasn’t a graph contained within it?)

Equalised NI for the self-employed and employed.

However, it got shouted down after the last budget. Dare they try it again?

I only ever paid standard rate tax and NI through PAYE for the first 34 years of my working life, even as a senior teacher and Head of Department I never quite reached the Higher rate tax threshold. When I became self-employed I was surprised how much less NI I was expected to pay on an annual basis compared to my previous monthly payments

I think we have him rattled. Molars on the danglies?

But never mind. He won’t change nor accept he could be wrong even when potential different opinions might be held from the same data set. That’s intellectual dishonesty

On a more interesting topic more directly related to the election, I saw an amusing comment regarding the current tory predicament

So if I’ve got this straight; she’s going to get them out of the mess she has just got them into, and take them back to the mess they were in before she got them to mess they are now in.
Is that right?