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Cameron in Eastleigh
Updated 12:13pm Thursday 14th February 2013 in News
By Sian Davies, Senior News Reporter
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- David Cameron visiting Eastleigh
- Comes day after visit of chancellor George Osborne
- Both visiting to lend support to Tory candidate Maria Hutchings
12:11pm
More stories from the Eastleigh by-election, while he wait for any more news from Eastleigh:
- Liberal Democrat Mike Thornton is new Eastleigh MP
- Clegg hails Lib Dem win in Eastleigh
- New Eastleigh MP's pledge to voters
- I'm overwhelmed by victory, says MPs wife
- Full list of Eastleigh by-election results
- Defeated Tory candidate made a swift exit
- Mike's night but UKIP almost took centre stage
- Lib Dem Mike Thornton is Eastleigh's new MP
11:30am
David Cameron is now taking media questions before leaving B&Q's Chandler's Ford head office.
11:28am
11:27am
Asked if he was a member of the B&Q loyalty club Mr Cameron confessed he was not.
He said: "I am famously bad at DIY. I constructed Ikea furniture - it completely did my head in. My wife however is not only artistic but very good at knocking up a set of shelves."
11:24am
Normal day. The Prime Minister just popped into B&Q. http://t.co/qsJegbv3
— @Amy_Wass 14 February 2013
11:23am
Cameron confesses at B+Q meeting he's bad at DIY. No wonder he has such troubles keeping his Cabinet together
— @MichaelLCrick 14 February 2013
11:21am
Martin Phillips, the B&Q chief executive, David Cameron and Maria Hutchings
11:11am
"Lets be a welcoming country but let's not be a soft touch," Cameron, "We don't allow people to come here and take advantage of us as often happens today."
11:06am
"Good morning prime minister - I have always wanted to say that," says an employee.
11:05am
He fully endorsed Tory candidate Maria Hutchings, below, and said: "I know sitting in the House of Commons Maria is the right person, she knows this area, she will stand up and tell it like it is."
11:03am
Asked what he is doing about people who are reducing their hours at work due to cuts in benefit, Cameron tells them introducing the universal credit always make it worth while working more hours.
11:03am
We became to reliant on the banks and the state we need to be more balanced , says Cameron
11:02am
The PM tells the staff he is ready for any questions after already having decoded the instructions for a Lego city for his seven-year-old's birthday today
11:02am
10:57am
Cameron tells staff he is committed to the green deal, in response to a question about investment in renewable technologies.
10:56am
Taking his trademark jacket off, Mr Cameron begins addressing staff. He tells them the country is in a global race but his party has got a plan.
10:54am
David Cameron meets staff at B&Q
10:52am
ONE worker Nick Moore, 46, said: "When I woke up this morning I didn't think I would be seeing the Prime Minister at work. is very exciting."
10:52am
AROUND 1000 B&Q staff are now gathered in the auditorium at the company's headquarters at Chandler's Ford where the Prime Minister David Cameron has just arrived.
Comments(34)
Beer Monster
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11:44am Thu 14 Feb 13
Jack Herer
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11:48am Thu 14 Feb 13
Pull the other one Dave. If that's the case then what's stopping you standing up for the man in the street already and telling it like it is?
Never forget that a vote for the Tories is a vote for shameless self interests first and foremost. For rich fat cats it's happy days - tax breaks when the rest of the country is struggling to make ends meet. Ditto tax exiles or newspaper owners. All those people love David Cameron because he puts their interests firmly above the average, hard working decent person.
The man on the street seems to be dirt on his shoe to the average Tory MP. That's an undeniable fact when their record is looked at.
Subject48
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11:53am Thu 14 Feb 13
However It is not just the tories. There is little to no difference between them and or labour.
jonnyx
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12:14pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Subject48
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12:20pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy
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12:27pm Thu 14 Feb 13
jonnyx wrote:may the lukes be with you
i wondered to myself why at around 11am "I felt a great disturbance in the Force… as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."
Portswoodfoke
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12:27pm Thu 14 Feb 13
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
southy
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12:32pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
IronLady2010
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12:35pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:Shouldn't you be out talking to the man on the street in Eastleigh, promoting your colleague.
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
mushrooms
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12:45pm Thu 14 Feb 13
good-gosh
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12:49pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy
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12:54pm Thu 14 Feb 13
IronLady2010 wrote:Heres one more thing the people will benefit from electing the TUSC candidate he will do the job on a working mans wage, there for saving the state a little bit of money.
southy wrote:Shouldn't you be out talking to the man on the street in Eastleigh, promoting your colleague.
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
IronLady2010
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12:56pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:NO NO NO, not on here, but in Beastleigh!!!
IronLady2010 wrote:Heres one more thing the people will benefit from electing the TUSC candidate he will do the job on a working mans wage, there for saving the state a little bit of money.
southy wrote:Shouldn't you be out talking to the man on the street in Eastleigh, promoting your colleague.
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
Jack Herer
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12:58pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Subject48 wrote:Too true.
Jack Herrer. My compliments, to both; your post and your name.
However It is not just the tories. There is little to no difference between them and or labour.
Under Labour or the Tories, we’ve never been in this together. Labour were absolutely fine with fat cats in the private sector – they knighted them in droves, after all – as long as there were fat cats in the public sector too.
Accordingly, the biggest drift between rich and poor, in both the private and public sector, happened under the last Labour government.
And we are supposed to believe that Labour is on the side of the man in the street? Their shameful record in power tells a completely different story.
Was there any difference between the politics of "Nu-Labour" under Tony Blair or the Tories? If anything he was worse, flying round the world to fawn to dictators like Ghadafi. Much like he does now of course. Zero integrity it seems.
His legacy means we tragically now live in a tabloid world where spin almost always beats decency.
The Lib Dems, for all their faults, make their decisions on what they think is best for the common man. It's such a novel approach they get hammered for it in the press, where decency seems to come at the bottom of the list with spin firmly at the top of course.
The good people of Eastleigh buck that trend normally - decency does beat spin in some places. Hopefully that will happen again, but circumstances could certainly be more favourable!
LeTissiersEarLobe
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1:17pm Thu 14 Feb 13
OSPREYSAINT
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1:18pm Thu 14 Feb 13
behonest
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1:22pm Thu 14 Feb 13
It was not in the last Tory manifesto, he won't wait and put it in the next Tory manifesto (I'm sure most of the public would support it), he just imposes it on the country mid-term, and the public can just shut up and accept what he decides. Democracy!
southy
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1:33pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Stephen J
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2:11pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:Would you like to confirm that you are neither threatening to execute Cameron, nor are you advocating that he should be executed?
Mr Cameron I am formly inviting you to a neck tie party.
mushrooms
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2:30pm Thu 14 Feb 13
good-gosh wrote:If we called them that then we would sound almost as pompus & stupid as them.
Why do socialists call Tories scum? Because insoluble precipitate is too much for them to pronounce.
illhavemysay
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2:39pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Donald2000
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2:53pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy
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2:58pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Stephen J wrote:Do I have to its a surprise neck tie party
southy wrote:Would you like to confirm that you are neither threatening to execute Cameron, nor are you advocating that he should be executed?
Mr Cameron I am formly inviting you to a neck tie party.
southy
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3:00pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:He should of been in the council chambers yesterday
Stephen J wrote:Do I have to its a surprise neck tie party
southy wrote:Would you like to confirm that you are neither threatening to execute Cameron, nor are you advocating that he should be executed?
Mr Cameron I am formly inviting you to a neck tie party.
Stephen J
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3:10pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:Or at the very least stop digging.
Stephen J wrote:Do I have to its a surprise neck tie party
southy wrote:Would you like to confirm that you are neither threatening to execute Cameron, nor are you advocating that he should be executed?
Mr Cameron I am formly inviting you to a neck tie party.
illhavemysay
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3:27pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Vivien Reding just stamped on David Cameron's proposals to limit benefits and housing to non Brits. Breaks EU rules.
Cameron all the Tories Labour and the Libs can say one thing to please you all but its the EU that has the final say. vote UKIP and get us out of the EU
Linesman
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3:56pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Stephen J
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4:46pm Thu 14 Feb 13
illhavemysay wrote:Let's get out of Europe and watch our trade defecit with Europe grow even deeper, as we quickly turn into an insignificant little nation with no clout anywhere that nobody can be bothered to do business with. Don't get me wrong, I hate the EU bureaucracy as much as anyone, but many of the problems we blame on "Europe" are actually of our own making. Yes, we need to change our relationship with the EU; instead of all the negativity and sceptisism we need to be positive about it and ruthlessly exploit every opportunity it offers. After all, we pay enough to be in it! From a business point of view, there's far more we can get out of countries like Bulgaria and Romania being in the EU than they can ever get out of us.
Nigel Farage MEP ·
Vivien Reding just stamped on David Cameron's proposals to limit benefits and housing to non Brits. Breaks EU rules.
Cameron all the Tories Labour and the Libs can say one thing to please you all but its the EU that has the final say. vote UKIP and get us out of the EU
jonnyx
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5:07pm Thu 14 Feb 13
illhavemysay wrote:yeah what's the EU ever done for us eh illhavemysay?
Nigel Farage MEP ·
Vivien Reding just stamped on David Cameron's proposals to limit benefits and housing to non Brits. Breaks EU rules.
Cameron all the Tories Labour and the Libs can say one thing to please you all but its the EU that has the final say. vote UKIP and get us out of the EU
"What did the EEC/EU ever do for us? Not much, apart from: providing 57% of our trade; structural funding to areas hit by industrial decline; clean beaches and rivers; cleaner air; lead free petrol; restrictions on landfill dumping; a recycling culture; cheaper mobile charges; cheaper air travel; improved consumer protection and food labelling; a ban on growth hormones and other harmful food additives; better product safety; single market competition bringing quality improvements and better industrial performance; break up of monopolies; Europe-wide patent and copyright protection; no paperwork or customs for exports throughout the single market; price transparency and removal of commission on currency exchanges across the eurozone; freedom to travel, live and work across Europe; funded opportunities for young people to undertake study or work placements abroad; access to European health services; labour protection and enhanced social welfare; smoke-free workplaces; equal pay legislation; holiday entitlement; the right not to work more than a 48-hour week without overtime; strongest wildlife protection in the world; improved animal welfare in food production; EU-funded research and industrial collaboration; EU representation in international forums; bloc EEA negotiation at the WTO; EU diplomatic efforts to uphold the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; European arrest warrant; cross border policing to combat human trafficking, arms and drug smuggling; counter terrorism intelligence; European civil and military co-operation in post-conflict zones in Europe and Africa; support for democracy and human rights across Europe and beyond; investment across Europe contributing to better living standards and educational, social and cultural capital."
just that that's all! rubbish.
quoted from Simon Sweeney
Lecturer in international political economy, University of York (sorry for the long post).
Tom Redpath
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8:04pm Thu 14 Feb 13
8089
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8:53pm Thu 14 Feb 13
Subject48 wrote:Well said.... Labour supporters are being very naive if they think otherwise!
Jack Herrer. My compliments, to both; your post and your name.
However It is not just the tories. There is little to no difference between them and or labour.
8089
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8:54pm Thu 14 Feb 13
southy wrote:Yeah, just look at Tony Blair now!!!
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
Pikey-Biker
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8:27am Sun 17 Feb 13
8089 wrote:Mr Blair is doing quite well for himself, pity he resigned
southy wrote:Yeah, just look at Tony Blair now!!!
Portswoodfoke wrote:Labour as the best track record out of all the Right Wing Partys, its the lesser of the evils of Capitalism.
ANYONE BUT LABOUR...seriously ANYONE.
They ruined this country...look at THEIR record..
Subject48 says...
11:40am Thu 14 Feb 13
Cameron: "im telling you guys, keep brownosing and eventualy you will be able to get this much pie!"