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Tubby Isaacs

The "liberal case for leave" in action here. Greg Hands ✔ @GregHands Very warm meeting with Hungarian Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar. On the same page on Brexit, and maintaining a very deep trade relationship. We both believe UK-Hungary relationship can go from strength to strength...

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Labour have certainly spun more towards staying in the Customs Union. But still talk of trade deals. So cake and eat it in policy terms. But spin shifting is how policy shifts in time, so I'm encouraged. Hi Tubby Yes, definitely some inconsistencies but that will become less and less possible as th...

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Labour have certainly spun more towards staying in the Customs Union. But still talk of trade deals. So cake and eat it in policy terms. But spin shifting is how policy shifts in time, so I'm encouraged.

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Seems to have been an election promise. Completely unnecessary.

I don't think the conscription period is going to be very long, seeing he's lined the military up for cuts. Edit- he seems to have scrapped the military cuts.

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Political Scrapbook have run with the Education story Roger found!

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Not the first time this much touted by some on the right "outsourcing model" for local government has fallen flat (see Suffolk CC for another good example) Barnet was another one. Tory majority of one seat going into this May's elections - unfortunately, Labour's current problems with lot...

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I'd very much like to see, as Simon Wren-Lewis said, a decent review of public service provision. Obviously, you don't want reviews to go on forever, but I'd like to see somebody look at which sort of body should be providing the services. Do we need more unitary councils? I think a decent sized org...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Not the first time this much touted by some on the right "outsourcing model" for local government has fallen flat (see Suffolk CC for another good example)

Barnet was another one.

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Morning all. There will be a fair bit of schadenfreude in the university teacher training sector at this news I would imagine. Exclusive: 'First knowledge-based PGCE' will be discontinued https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/exclusive-first-knowledge-based-pgce-will-be-discontinued It...

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Tubby's objections to the John McD "balance sheet neutral " 'nationalisations ' went without comment ? Well, he had a point . For a start, IF you are going to compensate the vultures for future loss of earnings ...... <b>HELP ! </b> It- willl be a poker game . IF the bandits are currently...

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Heard about another PFI being bought out. https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/denbighshire-council-pays-17m-out-10518026" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; £17m paid to leave a PFI which saves estimate £12m over 15 years. There've been a couple of NHS trusts do th...

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I wonder if there's a big move against Foreign Aid coming. The Oxfam story is getting a huge amount of attention in the media. They'd probably have a problem changing the law on foreign aid, but I don't doubt there's some short term trick they can pull. Then doubtless it goes through the legal syste...

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McDonnell is talking rubbish about nationalization costing "absolutely nothing" because you've got an asset. It's deficit neutral, but that isn't the same thing at all. He's also mentioned structuring public services so that it's extremely hard to outsource again. This is going to lead to ...

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I think a big report on outsourcing/ state ownership is needed. The rail case exists, for sure, but it's been bolstered by bullshit.

Do something like the fiscal advisory group. Pick friends of Labour, no need for libertarians for balance, but make sure you get experts in £67bn is a lot of money.

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This is absolutely outstanding on Soros and the Telegraph.

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The Sivier decision sounded pretty bad- is it the job of Jews to explain KEN SPOKE FACT to him?

But agree generally. You wouldn't have somebody close to Corbyn being associated with this filth.

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gilsey wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Alan Beattie has properly got Dan Hodges.

He's not the only one.

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I saw that. Very good by Ford.

I've always associated him with that Goodwin bloke. Ford is much better.

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Russian Embassy, UK
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@RussianEmbassy
A Russian company spends 72p on Facebook ads: interference, hybrid war, parliamentary inquiry
Soros spends £400K on bringing down UK Government: nothing to worry about
11:36 AM - Feb 8, 2018

State of that country.

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Absolutely.

Robert Halfon produced "he supports Israel" as a defence. So do the people doing this anti-Semitic shit v Soros.

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Hodges has now said it's ok because he knowsNick Timothy isn't an anti-Semite.

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Alan Beattie has properly got Dan Hodges. (((Dan Hodges))) ‏Verified account @DPJHodges 3h3 hours ago Not entirely sure what all the criticism of @NickJTimothy is this morning. I've read his piece. Seems like good, solid journalism. Alan Beattie ‏ @alanbeattie 3h3 hours ago This is in the main piece...

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Jonathan Portes and a few others rightly not letting Nick Timothy off with his "I didn't write the box" shit. Jonathan Portes‏ @jdportes I also note @NickJTimothy *did* write "Soros ..has been accused of undermining the democracies of several European nations." Is he claiming thi...

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A great run of links there, AAW. Hope you're well!

Nick Timothy has gone full Alt Right. George Soros is leading a "secret plot" against Brexit.

No anti-Semitic overtones there. Nice gift to Orban.

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Ultra right is a bit unfair. Very neoliberal is a better word. The FDP are very good on civil liberties.

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If Die Linke are going to replace the SPD, they will. In the meantime, a Grand Coalition is better than having the ultra right Free Democrats in.

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Hopefully the SPD membership will tell its leaders what they can do with it :twisted: Am told it's likely to pass with the membership. I hope so. Thousands of people have joined in the past few weeks, most of them to vote against a GroKo apparently. Why are you so keen for the SPD to drop below AfD...

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Re PMQs Inevitably the chorus of #FBPE Tweeters were having a right go at Corbyn for not having mentioned Brexit, despite him having absolutely nailed May on crime. Then Hilary Benn completely floored her on customs union / Irish border. I'm sure they are all apologising for these unwarranted and c...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
Willow904 wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42973419

Germany coalition talks: Merkel's conservatives and SPD clinch deal
Hopefully the SPD membership will tell its leaders what they can do with it

Am told it's likely to pass with the membership. I hope so.

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Night night.

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This is amusing in its own way. Though I dont think many people pretended the Haringey Development Vehicle was going to fix homelessness. - What's the policy on X? - A Labour Government. (See also a "real Labour government", a "proper Labour Government" etc. https://pbs.twimg.com...

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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/alito-denies-pennsylvania-republicans-request-to-preserve-partisan-gerrymander.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Some good news. The egregious Pennsylvania gerrymander is likely over. Unbelievable that this stuff has been allowe...

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Nats were up to 39% in the last poll. I think Indy is probably holed below the water- there's no way Yes is getting away with the economic rubbish it did last time- but they could easily get some of those Labour seats back. MoE stuff, the trend is still against the Nats in the longer term. By a 202...

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How can you criticize the government for providing business with uncertainty if your policy is uncertain too? Unions should be very important in making the case for the Single Market and Customs Union to (perhaps understandably) reticent politicians. But union leaders who see themselves as an extens...

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McCluskey criticized the government for "uncertainty".

How is Labour not providing that?

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Ultimately is it having to rely on the DUP that's preventing the Tories having a potentially workable solution? if it were acceptable to have a customs border between the rest of the UK and N.Ireland, does anyone think the Government's plans (i.e. eu rules for goods destined for eu, separate trade ...

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So today. Len McCluskey attacks the Tories for ruling out the Customs Union, while Labour isn't arguing for it.

How is that a tenable position for either Labour or McCluskey?

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Nats were up to 39% in the last poll. I think Indy is probably holed below the water- there's no way Yes is getting away with the economic rubbish it did last time- but they could easily get some of those Labour seats back.

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Michael Savage‏ @michaelsavage Follow Follow @michaelsavage More So tonight, the civil service is fighting back. Andrew Turnbull, ex-cabinet secretary, says Brexiteer attacks on officials are an echo of the “stab in the back” myth in pre-war Germany - which blamed internal saboteurs for defeat in t...

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If would be interesting,bereft of seeming belief of immunity from the vagaries of life and consequent othering whether ones political views and general attitude,not least in use of language(believing applied to others) would change;before of course whether you would accept what you believe will nev...

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At a very basic level, you can build more cheaper homes on a given piece of land than you can build more expensive homes. If you don't focus on affordable housing then you end up with very expensive rentable values for btl landlords paid out by the state ... edited to add - and very expensive secon...

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At a very basic level, you can build more cheaper homes on a given piece of land than you can build more expensive homes. If you don't focus on affordable housing then you end up with very expensive rentable values for btl landlords paid out by the state ... edited to add - and very expensive secon...

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TINA? Alternatives to some of the schemes? Sure, and the mayor can make sure that happens. Alternatives to redeveloping low density social housing in London? Unless the government is going to find a ton more money for London councils- which hardly sits with its commitment to regions- I'm not sure t...

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Put it another way. I've often got pressed on London getting huge sums for Crossrail and the like. And they are huge sums, objectively, not just in terms of "X times more than the South West" or whatever. It can be defended in terms of adding to the overall economy, which can be reinveste...

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Put it another way. I've often got pressed on London getting huge sums for Crossrail and the like. And they are huge sums, objectively, not just in terms of "X times more than the South West" or whatever. It can be defended in terms of adding to the overall economy, which can be reinvested...

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TINA? Alternatives to some of the schemes? Sure, and the mayor can make sure that happens. Alternatives to redeveloping low density social housing in London? Unless the government is going to find a ton more money for London councils- which hardly sits with its commitment to regions- I'm not sure t...

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Interesting both with respect to housing policy and with respect to whether Khan and Corbyn are mates or not https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/959766055613812737" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Bloody awful nimbyism though. We need more homes, not more barriers to bui...

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Rees-Mogg repeats claim Treasury is 'fiddling' Brexit figures https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/03/jacob-rees-mogg-treasury-fiddling-figures-brexit-report Jacob Rees-Mogg has repeated his accusation that Treasury officials are “fiddling the figures” in their Brexit forecasts, even after...

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Interesting both with respect to housing policy and with respect to whether Khan and Corbyn are mates or not https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/959766055613812737" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Bloody awful nimbyism though. We need more homes, not more barriers to bui...

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Laura Pidcock on her feet right now at a Stop The War meeting, behind a sign referencing Trump. No mention of Putin or Assad. I don't think this is a big deal but you and Hugo seem to have a problem with this As far as I know Assad and Putin are not our allies (although Assad was given a state visi...

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