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The point not made loudly enough about 'death taxes' and so on is that, overwhelmingly, the 'wealth' people are seeking to protect by saying that it shouldn't be spent on social care is wealth that has accumulated largely, or even solely, because of the performance of the housing market and is weal...

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And of course no one will have even ventured to do an impact assessment. Running a health service on homeopathic levels of funding (and intelligence).

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40058482 Proposals to reduce the number of children being diagnosed with autism are being considered by NHS commissioners in south-west London. The idea of restricting an autism diagnosis to only the most severe cases was discussed earlier this month. That is ludicrous...

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No words. Thoughts are all with the families.

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citizenJA wrote:I've got the one Tories started with
Why on earth would I trust them not to change it?

They'll change it. For the worse. Guaranteed.

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Torygraph stories at their worst I see. Let us bring discord, etc. etc.
The bastards will win of course, and we will all know why.
Make no bones, it wouldn't matter who the opposition, it will always be destroy destrooy.
Its what they do.

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Hmmmm. The media strike again?

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HindleA wrote:???? You get your newspapers delivered at this time of night?

TV. Interesting, will they have been changed this morning?

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Front pages interesting. Take a peek....

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I've today received a "personalised" letter, aimed at postal voters, from the Conservative candidate (Penny Mordaunt) asking for my vote. There's no mention of "strong and stable" or, indeed, Theresa May (not by name, anyway). Instead, I'm asked to support Penny Mordaunt to &quo...

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Just been watching footage of this mornings events in Birmingham. John McD great on education. "Education is the gift of one generation to the next. " People who could not get in were watching live in the nearby pubs in Broad street. All speakers were recieved well. Except in my case the m...

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Not just the pensioners/the elderly receive social care by any means.The Tory manifesto is replete with mention of "the elderly care system" no such ####ing system exists. Agreed, it is just social care. At any age. I have a similar niggle over TM policy on this being called dementia tax....

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The press did not magically decide to back Blair. They swapped sides when it became clear that Blair was going to win. The hard work was done by Blair, Brown (and previously Smith and Kinnock) and a huge team of competent focussed people. It helped that Major screwed up the economy, but that only w...

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Any Greens (or pretend ones) on here who would like to comment https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/20/green-party-proposes-scrapping-all-existing-student-debt" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Truly dumb, but as that is under 10% of the cost to government finances o...

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The press did not magically decide to back Blair. They swapped sides when it became clear that Blair was going to win. The hard work was done by Blair, Brown (and previously Smith and Kinnock) and a huge team of competent focussed people. It helped that Major screwed up the economy, but that only w...

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You mean the undoubted media bias, so overt that commentators from other nations are able to observe it and wonder where the famed British sense of fairness has gone. That you call " the usual excuse". Forgive me for saying so but these are very unusual times. We have a prime minister who...

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You mean the undoubted media bias, so overt that commentators from other nations are able to observe it and wonder where the famed British sense of fairness has gone. That you call " the usual excuse". Forgive me for saying so but these are very unusual times. We have a prime minister who ...

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I believe (apologies) that some figures show a very different picture if you remove Scotland from the picture. In some ways theres an argument for that, but impossible retrospectively. They are fighting an entirely different election up there. Cameron and co. knew what they were doing by shoring up ...

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Taking childrens school lunches might be just as powerful a vote loser as anything else.

Theresa May went out to play
And took the children's lunches away

might just resonate.

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The Tories have been accused of being “utter hypocrites” after it emerged that they want to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners in England but not in Scotland I'm trying to think of the right word, but I can't quite get it: gall; chutzpah; audacity; brass neck or just good, old fashioned hubris...

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I suspect that Brexit strikes again, and is the enabler of the Tories in spite of every rabblerousing SNP activists hot denial that Scottish politics does not affect England. The single biggest factor likely to warp results/polls/etc. this time round seems to be the almost even split in Scotland bet...

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/donald-trump-presidency-media-coverage-russia-scandal" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Trump: 'No politician in history has been treated more unfairly' Malcolm X Nelson Mandela John F Kennedy Aung San Suu Kyi et al Not to menti...

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Right-wing nutter sending economic markets into tail spins and threatening the global wa (和) all because he's the US President Thankyou. New to me. But yes, what of it we humans can muster. Need to recognise properly the contributions here too and turn them around. We have our own shoe loving versi...

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/17/lib-dem-defence-48-rubbish-politics-tim-farron-brexit-manifesto lib-dem-defence-48-rubbish-politics-tim-farron-brexit-manifesto "His pitch to an open, tolerant Britain" - you see, this is the sort of framing that gets peoples backs up....

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I am a bit bloodyminded. Ban me, or whatever. But I'll show my contempt for someone who displays it to all, by not being what he professes to be. At least I am exactly who I am, a pissed off older person seeing a generations worth and more of good social gains go down the pan due to the kind of poli...

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It's the referral to democratic socialism that confuses me. Was it accidental? Used as a clumsy synonym for social democracy? From John McDonnell, that seems unlikely. In which case, does this mean Labour is a party of democratic socialism now? Is it becoming fundamentally anti-capitalist? Is this ...

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HSOM! some would say earlier with the withdrawal of media support for Brown, and subsequent two pronged assault on every aspect of who he was, which of course reached a shrill pitch that I will never forget just before the love in in the rose Garden betwenn Clegg and Cameron. And through all that La...

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I will vote for whoever maintains a direction of travel back to a balanced society instead of the unbalanced on we have now. Unfortunately, by voting for Corbyn or equivalent you guaranteed that the direction of travel would be in the opposite direction (ie not even steady state). The Tories have m...

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Buying capital assets like railways is fine, if they are then run on a commercial basis. No opportunity cost, save for the political time spent doing it. Spending £12bn on abolishing tuition fees is not so bright. That is a regressive policy, that is not just a capital purchase. Much better to spen...

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Hugo, you have me completely wrong. I am no great supporter of Corbyn, but very interested in the movement around him, but more than that how it actually is on the ground, rather than how our intransigent media report it. My personal reason for being here at all has been because I utterly oppose wha...

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We would be in good company, Willow. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand, etc. I guess if we renationalised things it would change matters and maybe we would be.... but who am I to know? I'm not sure I follow. Social democracy and nationalisation is a common theme in the ...

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We would be in good company, Willow. Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Canada, New Zealand, etc.

I guess if we renationalised things it would change matters and maybe we would be.... but who am I to know?

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Hugo said: That franchise now makes considerably more money for the UK than it did when nationalised. That is the franchise system working. At huge expense to the average citizen who is paying for profit that gets ploughed into other nations infrastructure rather than that of their own. Thus we have...

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Plenty of reason to believe that any profit made will accrue to our government though, rather than the government of another country. Of course it could also create opportunities for people here too, in how to best run and manage large assets in a 21st century world. Yes, that is one of the dafter ...

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Subjecting decisions to targets. Well we all knew that the targets were there, perhaps not so large, (wasn't there a 30% target on ESA that the awful McVeigh chortled about having exceeded) but 87% seems very excessive especially in matters of support and quality of life for people already strugglin...

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Plenty of reason to believe that any profit made will accrue to our government though, rather than the government of another country. Of course it could also create opportunities for people here too, in how to best run and manage large assets in a 21st century world.

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Morning, Refitman, and thanks for opening up in time for me to post this: Something to mitigate the gloom perhaps. A little meat on the bones of my assertions that the negative views of Corbyn and Labour might not be an accurate picture. I cite you video footage of appearances in York, Hebdon Bridge...

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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... re-cartoon

Martin Rowson on Theresa May and welfare

This really should be an image link.
Thank you, Martin Rowson.

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Very glad to see some spine here. Like Tem, I have not given up on this site, probably a bit of cussedness, but also because there are people here whose voices I value albeit they are often drowned out or over ridden by onesided arguments that do not really reflect the combined diverse views of said...

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"Guaranteed training , advice and support." Delivered by who? Work and health programme, and nice cosy Crapita et al. And integrated into UC perhaps.

Apologies, just reading runes, tea leaves etc.

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Big wide hole for returners between self employed and medium-large employers then, and no plans to monitor. Not an election promise, then as is cross party initiative. why gender bias for carer returnees. Many are men. Some never even get started, plenty of child carers evolved into adults, and very...

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"Q: But carers benefit is just £62 a week. Green says that is not meant to be a benefit you can live on. It is designed to top up other income. And it is means-tested. He says people worry about giving up a job, and not being able to return." Damian Green head honcho DWP thinks Carers All...

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So are ingrowing toenails, but would we want them?

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How is Lennie, Has he been spotted recently?

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/14/lord-rogers-and-leading-uk-architects-call-for-clarity-on-eu-nationals-brexit Lord Rogers and leading UK architects call for clarity on EU nationals Cultural cross-fertilisation of ideas etc. vital to progress, creative industries understand this...

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Thanks AK.
Do you have data on turnout? The Mayorals were pretty abysmal for that.
And do you have a view on how that affects things at GE time.
I do not recall what it was in 2015.

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Not what I am seeing, mate. I don't know where your influences lie. I am well and truly incapacitated, with a lot of time on my hands. The people I know are not like that at all. See my post re Hugo. With a media as bent as ours, how else do we judge the mood except through the evidence of lived ex...

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With regard to the absence of Jeremy Hunt in the wake of cyberattacks on our health service, have to not his negligence is more than shored up by decisions made by the previous government (during which Theresa May was in place the Home Office, a Cabinet member, and therefore not outside of decision ...

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"When I received our copy of the Derbyshire Times last week my first response was to pick up the 'phone and complain to the newsagent that I had wrongly sent a copy of the Daily Mail-and then I looked more carefully and realised the correct delivery had in fact been made neatly packaged with T...

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Stop trying to delegitimise,belittle others people,situation and views,cheers. Not a fucking game to all of us. statement. It most certainly isn't a game. Which is why anecdotes that are contrary to the overwhelming evidence need to be challenged. If we want to effect change in a democracy we need ...

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