It's a non story! He leads a political party and also had periods in hospital – he can't be in two places at once. Bit of a stupid, cheap shot.

He's had someone in his place for the important votes, like the fishing ones you mentioned, so it doesn't matter him not being there.

Extra Bank Holidays will cost a fortune to business without actually giving people any extra holiday. Except teachers ironically.

Businesses can't tender for government contracts if CEOs on over £350k, like Rolls-Royce, Camell Laird, BAE? Politics of envy and won't work.

£12bn housing benefit to private landlords begin to fall. It will still need to be payed though, just to the local authority. That is even assuming that the houses can be built

Fair enough. Anything other than Garages page that shows this?

By his own admission Farage has failed in everything he has ever tried.

Why then is he important at all?

Because of the american celebrity culture?

They probably think he is the King or PM of England he has been on TV with Trump.

I think UKIP have just 1 parliamentary seat and he is leaving.

Do we hear anything about the Greens for example? Not a thing but did you know that he went to a Crystal Palace football match tried to get in for nothing.

No really thats so amazing hold the front page for the next 2 weeks.

I do as the are a bit late for the party and everyone has gone home. Voting in favour to ban discards has already happened and implemented [Link]

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My god - the EU has reformed parts of itself.

Big chest and massive boobs

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Council borrowing has soared in recent years. Councils have access to very cheap borrowing from central government (Public Works Loan Board), a policy brought in by the Tories in 2010 and extended last year. In order to reduce funding gaps councils have been borrowing and buying income producing assets such as commercial properties.

With borrowing costs at record lows many councils have been borrowing. One recent example is Spelthorne Borough Council which purchased BP's campus in Surrey for £300m. Councils are being forced to supplement their own budgets by making financial investments using tax payers' money, which comes with a risk premium. They also don't tend to have in house expertise so rely on agents etc. and have been guilty of perhaps overpaying for some assets recently.

This policy is in existence already due to cuts in funding and a lack of desire to increase council taxes. Surrey council were recently about to hold a referendum on increasing rates but were given a bung by the government to avoid the embarrassment.

Bromley council bought a hotel on the Isle of White with taxpayer money.

Or...it would have been in the UK's best interests to stay in if Brexit becomes a total mess with no real afterthought. If you trust the shower of sh1te in Parliament then I admire your optimism.

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The Kinnocks have been doing this for years!!

Pro USA & Israel

Funny you should pick South America. Do you know the value of Chilean FTAs compared to the EU?

I would prefer to do a deal with the constituent countries separately, because the Peruvian economy is completely different to the Brazilian, and a blanket one-size-fits-all deal would not adequately leverage the unique interfacing of two economies without excessive compromise to (for example) a pissy Argentina that's getting upset we won't make concessions on "Las Malvinas". Much better to have a deal that is tailored to the interests of the Peruvians without concessions to the Brazilians, along with a deal tailored to Brazil that does not have to make concessions to the Peruvians.

Meanwhile, the plodding EU is still no closer to an Australian trade deal because of Italian tinned fcuking tomatoes. The EU-Canada deal was hamstrung because of Romania getting pissy about Canadian visas.

Can you explain why there should be any "evidence" of UK trade deals when the EU forbids us making any? Have you noticed how they throw their toys out of the pram when it becomes apparent we are currently negotiating our own deals? Pathetic control freaks. They know we can do this, and we can thrive without them.

You'll find plenty of news articles about the nations currently queuing up to sign trade deals with us when we're unshackled. I'd trust the Tories do it considerably more than the party now backed by a Communist Party of Britain that, for the first time in 97 years, will not be fielding candidates.