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- Wed 05 Nov, 2014 3:32 am
- Forum: Pub
- Topic: Atos invitation.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16013
Re: Atos invitation.
"And just to confirm.that I am officially mad" There was a guy who used to frequent a local hostelry some time back who had spent some time in an asylum,he kept a very worn out letter that be got on leaving and used to announce at regularly intervals "I'm the only one here that has a ...
- Tue 04 Nov, 2014 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th November 2014
- Replies: 137
- Views: 56776
Re: Tuesday 5th November 2014
@TubbyIsaacs thanks for link.
- Tue 04 Nov, 2014 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th November 2014
- Replies: 137
- Views: 56776
Re: Tuesday 5th November 2014
"Is Government really going to send this nonsense to all taxpayers?"
Declan Gaffney
http://lartsocial.org/taxsummary" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Declan Gaffney
http://lartsocial.org/taxsummary" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Tue 04 Nov, 2014 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th November 2014
- Replies: 137
- Views: 56776
Re: Tuesday 5th November 2014
Not only do I read manifestos I keep them for posterity (sad git)
- Tue 04 Nov, 2014 11:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th November 2014
- Replies: 137
- Views: 56776
Re: Tuesday 5th November 2014
Declan Gaffney :tax statements overstated "welfare" by 39 %
- Tue 04 Nov, 2014 11:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 4th November 2014
- Replies: 137
- Views: 56776
Re: Tuesday 5th November 2014
Morning.
The IFS on the "personal tax statements"
http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
IDS appearing in front of the DWP Select Committee tomorrow at 09.30.
The IFS on the "personal tax statements"
http://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7424" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
IDS appearing in front of the DWP Select Committee tomorrow at 09.30.
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/rev ... 912?lskjdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
The state pension is separated out. Benefits to pensioners aren't. State Pension expenditure isn't part of the ("welfare") social security budget? Please clarify because that's not my understanding. "Welfare " according to the personal tax statements. http://lartsocial.org/COFOG...
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
The truth as ever is hard to disseminate.24 million propaganda sheets,journalists either too lazy or complicit in the farce versus a few left that care about such things and can be bothered to investigate.Bad times indeed.
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
"Welfare" as in non pension benefits overstated by at least twenty per cent in personal tax statements-Declan Gaffney
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 11:34 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
How Gov.derived figures https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary/how-public-spending-was-calculated-in-your-tax-summary" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; As regards welfare,basically "social protection" minus p...
- Mon 03 Nov, 2014 8:38 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 3rd November 2014
- Replies: 177
- Views: 72000
Re: Monday 3rd November 2014
Also seeing as VAT and similar are excluded, how have these calculations actually been done? How does the Treasury know that % of income tax has gone on "welfare"? Some analysis here. http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2014/11/03/why-personal-tax-statements-are-so-wildly-inaccurate/"...
- Sun 02 Nov, 2014 11:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
Fyi "the shenanigans involved"-assuming they haven't changed since April
http://lartsocial.org/COFOG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://lartsocial.org/COFOG" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Sun 02 Nov, 2014 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
Oh dear,let the hate fest begin
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29871522" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Taxpayers to receive summary detailing how takings are spent"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29871522" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Taxpayers to receive summary detailing how takings are spent"
- Sun 02 Nov, 2014 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
"This immoral Government"
Robin Lustig.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/robin-l ... _hp_ref=tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Robin Lustig.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/robin-l ... _hp_ref=tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Sun 02 Nov, 2014 5:10 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
Mike Smithson thinks the Rochester and Strood byelection will be tighter than it appears.
http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index. ... s-suggest/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index. ... s-suggest/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Sun 02 Nov, 2014 1:19 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
Will Hutton in scathing form http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/02/david-cameron-is-immoral-not-our-tax-system" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "It is a fiction that Britain does not flourish because of high taxation and a bloated welfare state; neither is...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
Long article but worth a read IMHO.About legal aid changes. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n21/frederick-wilmot-smith/necessity-or-ideology" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The Government has not delegalised various classes of dispute; instead, various classes of people have been e...
- Sat 01 Nov, 2014 12:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd November 2014
- Replies: 180
- Views: 72198
Re: Saturday 1st November 2014
Morning.
Lovely sunny day here.
Today I voted "Yes" for Unison to retain their political fund and in "trauma" after the visage of Cameron appeared on a Tory Party "survey"-unsolicited mail of a offensive nature,there should be a law against it.
Lovely sunny day here.
Today I voted "Yes" for Unison to retain their political fund and in "trauma" after the visage of Cameron appeared on a Tory Party "survey"-unsolicited mail of a offensive nature,there should be a law against it.
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 10:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/great-council-house-selloff-scandal-righttobuy-council-houses-leave-nowhere-for-poor-to-live-9832339.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; "Council house sell off scandal right to buy Council houses leave nowhere for poor to...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Thomas Cook loses appeal in disability discrimination case.
http://m.travelweekly.co.uk/Article.asp ... s&id=50936" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://m.travelweekly.co.uk/Article.asp ... s&id=50936" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 2:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
tinyclanger2 wrote:"brain showering" sounds very socks-and-sandals.PorFavor wrote:students at my daughter's university have been told not to use the phrase "brain-storming"
(apologies in advance to anyone wearing both).
No socks and my late Uncle's slippers FWIW.
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 2:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
#failinggrayling
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct ... s-grayling" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Senior judge calls on justice secretary Chris Grayling to attend hearing to answer how justice can be delivered
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/oct ... s-grayling" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Senior judge calls on justice secretary Chris Grayling to attend hearing to answer how justice can be delivered
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 1:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Thanks for the info about Labour plans 're buses PaulfromYorkshire.This is a particularly important issue for those of us reliant on public transport/have mobility considerations to take account of.Each separate mode of transport may be accessible but lack of integration can be a nightmare to negoti...
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Apparently Labour vote similar to 2012 on a lower turnout.
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 12:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Missed this.They really should give this Brindle's coverage more prominence IMHO.
Post Winterbourne View
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... -moved-out" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Post Winterbourne View
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... -moved-out" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
"Universal Credit ID logon contract signed by Freud/PayPal in 2012 described by Cabinet Office as "not fit for purpose"
"Cabinet Office abandons plans for level 3 logon required by DWP for UC and PIP.
Information supplied by Brian Wernham
"Cabinet Office abandons plans for level 3 logon required by DWP for UC and PIP.
Information supplied by Brian Wernham
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 9:54 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Judicial review today into the use of counting DLA as income in DHP calculations.
http://www.irwinmitchell.com/newsandmed ... edroom-tax" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.irwinmitchell.com/newsandmed ... edroom-tax" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Fri 31 Oct, 2014 9:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 31st October 2014
- Replies: 185
- Views: 104483
Re: Friday 31st October 2014
Morning . For anyone interested and/or stand much more of the Government's sickening hypocrisy. The Family Test:Assessing the impact of policies on families. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/family-test-assessing-the-impact-of-policies-on-families" onclick="window.open(this.href)...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 12:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 30th October 2014
- Replies: 95
- Views: 57297
Re: Thursday 30th October 2014
For those interested. "Thirty years of independent living for people with disabilities" http://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2014/oct/29/thirty-years-of-independent-living-for-people-with-disabilities?CMP=twt_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www....
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 1:52 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
@Ladycenturia 1.There is considerable churn. 2.It took them.over five years to even start the process of transferring in our case ,and ours was paper only (ie no WCA) 3..Of course the long term cases were higher than expected.Both parties have propagandised the "they're not really ill" lin...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 1:18 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
"Cuts to ESA considered" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29821696" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; So they aren't getting all these people into work, and are just cutting the amount to live on. I'm shocked and stunned. BBC probably seen different possible opt...
- Thu 30 Oct, 2014 12:22 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
"Cuts to ESA considered"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29821696" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29821696" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Whoops! DWP caught out posting fake tweets http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2014/10/28/whoops-dwp-caught-out-posting-fake-tweets/ The tweet seems to have been deleted by a DWP Press Office that should be deeply embarrassed (but probably isn’t). The tweeter quoted above is a person who is known to this...
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 10:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Sorry for posting cockups the sites playing up for me.Hopefully this will posted (but only the once)
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Yougov has
Lab 34
Tory 31
UKIP 17
Green 7
LD 6
Lab 34
Tory 31
UKIP 17
Green 7
LD 6
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Yougov has
Lab 34
Tory 31
UKIP 17
Green 7
LD 6
Lab 34
Tory 31
UKIP 17
Green 7
LD 6
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
"Are critics of Benefits Street Censoring the truth?"
http://mediapovertywelfare.wordpress.co ... shildrick/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://mediapovertywelfare.wordpress.co ... shildrick/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 8:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
FWIW
The reason you cannot get Carer's Allowance when you are a pensioner is because they are both replacement income benefits.
The reason you cannot get Carer's Allowance when you are a pensioner is because they are both replacement income benefits.
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 5:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Continued shenanigans from the Tories to stop Andrew George's Affordable Homes Bill even being debated. Warning includes mention of McVey,particularly happy with herself in denying people basic protections. http://www.24dash.com/news/central_government/2014-10-29-Opinion-An-MPs-valiant-effort-to-cru...
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 2:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Re: Wednesday 29th October 2014
Kate Green on the WCA/Maximus
http://leftfootforward.org/2014/10/labo ... sessments/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://leftfootforward.org/2014/10/labo ... sessments/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 3:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 29th October 2014
- Replies: 104
- Views: 43971
Wednesday 29th October 2014
Morning. Link to the WH debate on PIP Harper with the repeated guff about "other benefits are available" and "backdated".Delays harm,sometimes irretrievably so,it is not just income.All the problems totally foreseeable and repeatedly warned about -the unnecessary face to face med...
- Wed 29 Oct, 2014 12:46 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014 ... ts-confirm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 11:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
TechnicalEphemera wrote:At 2.6 on the Richter scale I doubt it would disrupt a game of snooker.HindleA wrote:letsskiptotheleft wrote: Anything to do with UKIP? They keep promising one.
It's near me but I didn't" feel the Earth move"
True.
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 9:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
@AngryAsWell
I read it a bit earlier and felt the same way.
I read it a bit earlier and felt the same way.
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 9:31 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
letsskiptotheleft wrote:Anything to do with UKIP? They keep promising one.HindleA wrote:Apparently there was an earthquake(2.6) near Mansfield this evening.
It's near me but I didn't" feel the Earth move"
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 9:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Apparently there was an earthquake(2.6) near Mansfield this evening.
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthq ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/earthq ... vents.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 12:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 28th October 2014
- Replies: 131
- Views: 46390
Re: Tuesday 28th October 2014
Opposition Day Debate -Effects of Government Policies on the disabled /vote of no confidence in Freud/Coalfield Communities on BBC Parliament in a few minutes for those interested.
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 4:31 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th October 2014
- Replies: 224
- Views: 88708
Re: Monday 27th October 2014
"Why the Conservatives could still lose seats to Labour even if it manages to get a six point lead" http://www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2014/10/28/why-con-could-still-be-losing-seats-to-lab-even-if-its-manages-to-get-a-6-lead/" onclick="window.open(this.href);retu...
- Tue 28 Oct, 2014 4:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 27th October 2014
- Replies: 224
- Views: 88708
Re: Monday 27th October 2014
The tactic of late is to claim "clumsily phrased",rather like the daily rags printing hatefilled propaganda and then reprinting the hate filled propaganda with an extra line saying it was lies as "clarification".The words are deliberately chosen of course.