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- Fri 26 Jan, 2018 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2018
- Replies: 62
- Views: 16435
Re: Friday 26th January 2018
JRM is not going to be the next Tory leader, even after everything else that has happened in the last few years. Bookies odds on these things are notoriously unreliable, you only have too look at the betting on "next Labour leader" in the Sept '15-June '17 period to see that. Well quite, ...
- Fri 26 Jan, 2018 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2018
- Replies: 62
- Views: 16435
Re: Friday 26th January 2018
There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party ...
- Fri 26 Jan, 2018 11:17 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 26th January 2018
- Replies: 62
- Views: 16435
Re: Friday 26th January 2018
There are lots of 'lets get real' opportunities for May at the moment and she is showing absolutely no sign at all of taking any of them. It seems more likely that if she does shift further to Hammond then she will have to fight and survive a confidence vote of the parliamentary conservative party ...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
Things I am *certain* Tessa Jowell thinks. 1. The Tories are terrible. 2. Corbyn is a disaster. 3. It would be better if people with her views ran things. How do we know these things.? Because of the thousands upon thousands of words, in print and spoken, by her expressing those opinions. This Eliza...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
More sensible stuff
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http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2018/0 ... -a-border/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
I see. So a post in praise of Tessa Jowell, expressing something I am completely certain she agrees with, is inhumane. I think you're searching for offence to take. Ignorance mistaking itself for virtue. There is a nice quiet board where everyone agrees with one another, and where no disagreeable d...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
http://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-sto ... -1-5368187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Quite so.
Quite so.
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
I see. So a post in praise of Tessa Jowell, expressing something I am completely certain she agrees with, is inhumane. I think you're searching for offence to take. Ignorance mistaking itself for virtue. There is a nice quiet board where everyone agrees with one another, and where no disagreeable di...
- Thu 25 Jan, 2018 6:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 25th January 2018
- Replies: 122
- Views: 31748
Re: Thursday 25th January 2018
I miss people like Tessa Jowell running the country. No prospect, whatever happens, of them doing so again for decades.
I want a government opposed by the Daily Mail and the Morning Star.
I want a government opposed by the Daily Mail and the Morning Star.
- Wed 24 Jan, 2018 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th January 2018
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14846
Re: Wednesday 24th January 2018
AnatolyKasparov wrote:RIP Mark E Smith
Cut up about this
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- Wed 24 Jan, 2018 5:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th January 2018
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14846
Re: Wednesday 24th January 2018
More depressing polling, this time from Germany.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany ... d-in-poll/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
the retreat of the left looks Europe wide.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany ... d-in-poll/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
the retreat of the left looks Europe wide.
- Wed 24 Jan, 2018 12:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 24th January 2018
- Replies: 64
- Views: 14846
Re: Wednesday 24th January 2018
What a waste of time PMQs now is. I was used to there being no answers, but this no questions thing is not an improvement.
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Labour NEC intervenes in Haringey development row Labour's National Executive Committee has called on the party's councillors in a north London borough to halt a controversial housing project. It has advised Labour-run Haringey to pause the project - which has split the local party - if mediation a...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 8:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
RoT Did you see the offer the FT has for free subscriptions to secondary school children? They can register if their school registers. I don't know whether you're still involved as a governor(??) but it is a good offer I think. The FT and the Economist are the best papers by far for secondary school...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 8:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
This is an appalling read
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- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
By all accounts Diane Abbott didn't know if she was for or against staying in the Customs Union the other day, so there may be some room for manoeuvre. :) All of Labour's policy on the EU is like Schrödinger's cat in a sense. And that ambiguity has served them well electorally. But the bottom line ...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
On tax hypothecation
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https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/10348" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 1:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
I find it difficult to try to make a comparison as who is worse when comparing two despicable people Mind you Blair seems to have been prey close to Berlusconi The possibility of Berlusconi coming back emphasises for me why EEA/CU from outside EU would not be acceptable - this individual would have...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Donald Trump has set a new bar for politicians that is so low, even Berlusconi is now found to be credible in comparison. I think Berlusconi is considerably worse. He is a convicted fraudster whose control of the media poisons Italian politics. Fox doesn't dominate the media in the way that Berlusc...
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 12:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Its still amazing that Berlusconi is making any sort of comeback, now *there's* somebody who I thought had been irretrievably discredited.
Trump syndrome. Or perhaps Trump is Berlusconi syndrome.
I don't think the UK is (quite) a plutocracy yet.
- Tue 23 Jan, 2018 12:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Replies: 61
- Views: 21153
Re: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Yes, the Italy situation is concerning. Despite my disagreements on some things, Renzi was a genuinely outstanding politician (very reminiscent of early period Blair, and I mean that in a good way) But he overreached himself a few years ago and his party has never really recovered from that. Trying...
- Mon 22 Jan, 2018 7:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 22nd January 2018
- Replies: 60
- Views: 15825
Re: Monday 22nd January 2018
I see that Blair has been holding forth on stuff today, again. Again he is urging us to be chummy with Trump - is he after a job? Not, of course, anything remotely like anything he said. Probably what you'd like him to say https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/tony-blair-hq-fitzrovia-bre...
- Sun 21 Jan, 2018 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st January 2018
- Replies: 128
- Views: 27132
Re: Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st January 2018
This is the last agreement made on EU policy at Labour conference in 2016 "Unless the final settlement proves to be acceptable, then the option of retaining EU membership should be retained. The final settlement should therefore be subject to approval, through Parliament and potentially throug...
- Fri 19 Jan, 2018 7:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 19th January 2018
- Replies: 70
- Views: 18120
Re: Friday 19th January 2018
Poor old Phil Collins https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/labour-moderates-must-show-they-ve-got-guts-wkmlm7pmf?shareToken=ebd7b7e0270db4f20fd28983b2c10aeb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The idea the old Labour MPs have the guts to do this is a joke. They'll try to outlast C...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 9:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
The German verb ausgliedern is made up of the prefix "aus", which means both "outside" and "to exit", and the verb "gliedern", which means "to organise", so when translated into English it becomes "to outsource" or " to hive off "...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
Again, I think you've conflated two things (see above) 1. The ACT of outsourcing. For something to be put out it needs to be in. 2. Whetehr something is in fact outseourced. For something to be out it may always have been out. So, in the cleaning example, the work is outsourced (ie sourced outside ...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 6:10 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I note in passing that Stella Creasy has been making some good comments re what to do about PFI contracts now. You see, this is what Labour "moderates" should be doing. Party members will notice, as will the leadership (despite what SH claims to the contrary) Whining and moaning in the ba...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 4:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I note in passing that Stella Creasy has been making some good comments re what to do about PFI contracts now. You see, this is what Labour "moderates" should be doing. Party members will notice, as will the leadership (despite what SH claims to the contrary) Whining and moaning in the ba...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
So, if,say, I start a company, and always use outside contractors to do the cleaning, you'd say that the cleaning work was not outsourced? do we have another word for this service that is not (and has never been) done inhouse? No, it's not outsourcing. No particular word for it - just buying in a s...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 1:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I think Roger's point is that outsourcing doesn't usually refer to building work, whether the building people are "in house" or not. And my point is that it is not correct to simply assume that it is always best to have goods or services delivered inhouse. A quick and easy way of showing ...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 1:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I think you need to differentiate two different things. If I outsource something, I put it out. If something is outsourced it is out. So building work (and catering and transport and cleaning) may all be outsourced, even though they were never 'insourced'. Sorry but that is completely wrong. The te...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 1:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Nice
It is indeed a nice question to what extent collective responsibility ends with a change in management.
As I think we've been through before, the Labour proposals to end currrent PFI deals are all a bit silly. Just hand waving about special purpose vehicles.
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 1:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I think you need to differentiate two different things. If I outsource something, I put it out. If something is outsourced it is out. So building work (and catering and transport and cleaning) may all be outsourced, even though they were never 'insourced'. And as I've said before, there is no reason...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 12:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
I see Rentoul comments on this but mistakenly. https://twitter.com/JohnRentoul/status/953953222007427072" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; John RentoulVerified account @JohnRentoul Follow Follow @JohnRentoul More He seems to think it's self-evident govt shouldn't build its o...
- Thu 18 Jan, 2018 11:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 18th January 2018
- Replies: 100
- Views: 28990
Re: Thursday 18th January 2018
Wren-Lewis on fine form https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/what-carillion-tells-us-about-public.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Although at the end he is too soft on the current Labour leadership. Their answer to the question of whether to outsource is not going...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Missed PMQs today, but I am told May claimed something not totally dissimilar to "Carillion is Emily Thornberry's fault". Anyone actually see it? The other thing you missed was one of Corbyn's questions not really being a question, which got the Twitter trolls very excited :roll: The poin...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 12:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Mason is who he is. His observations frequently begin promisingly and then slide off into all sorts of weird tangents and non-sequiturs. He still offers entertainment and variety. Rentoul "very able"? Pshaw. Maybe he was 20 years ago, his biography of Blair was a genuinely good read and (...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Everyone really should follow Paul Mason on twitter. He is great. Lots of revealing stuff about "elite interlopers" who have been the "deepstate representatives of Labour" of yesteryear. Opened my eyes I can tell you. Finally we'll have some proper international socialism, breaki...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 10:16 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
An amusing point I didn't notice last night. I must have been asleep Two links I gave were actually arguing the same thing. This thread by Paul Mason, arguing that Corbynis outside the Labour tradition ("it starts with Gramsci..." : doesn't everything?) https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/st...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
TBF to Hugo the rest of us have our own scales. That was a right Rentoul. A real crock of White. It's as bad as Kettle calling the pot black. And of course the ultimate insult. You sound like Dan F****** Hodges! White is a terrible writer. Verbose, rambling. Kettle is just boring. Rentoul just does...
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 8:23 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
To be positive, look at this from the same paper
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Actual journalism.
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/ni ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Actual journalism.
- Wed 17 Jan, 2018 8:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 17th January 2018
- Replies: 75
- Views: 25087
Re: Wednesday 17th January 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/17/britain-zombie-elite-politicians-economy britain-zombie-elite-politicians-economy Excellent piece by Aditya Chakrabortty I think Chakrabortty utterly hopeless. His suggestion (repeated here) that orthodox economics is bust, and that they have no...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 9:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
well this is pleasant isn't it? Perhaps a subject to discuss at some point if there is need but the headline when there is chaos going on in the UK? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-too-old-age-labour-election-fears-shadow-ministers-latest-a8162761.html" onclick="windo...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Paul Mason v funny on twitter tonight
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- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Ah yes, Oliver Kamm - maybe the most pompous prat in Christendom :) (confess I did fleetingly wonder if you were him, some time ago - you genuinely aren't that bad though) I rather like him. I don't agree with him on everything (eg Iraq) but he writes well, and is no fool. I (obviously) think him r...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
David Lammy Verified account @DavidLammy 47m47 minutes ago More David Lammy Retweeted Labour Whips I was one of 299 MPs who voted for Amendment 4 to retain EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in UK law. Shame on the Govnt for scrapping hard-won human rights that were not theirs to give away - they b...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
From that David Walker article... The public sector will always buy things from firms, will use firms to build – as with Carillion – houses and railways. But bringing profit-seeking firms into policing and benefits assessment, into schools, clinics, and front as well as back offices, has changed th...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 3:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Quick work by the dynamic Shawcroft
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/c ... a5e19c?puo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Great to see someone so keen in her new role.
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Great to see someone so keen in her new role.
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Galloway hasn't been a party member since 2003, you know. Ms Shawcroft was first elected to the NEC in 2000. https://labourlist.org/2018/01/fresh-row-as-momentum-official-replaces-veteran-chair-of-labour-disciplinary-panel/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I suspect we know ...
- Tue 16 Jan, 2018 3:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 16th January 2018
- Replies: 108
- Views: 37992
Re: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Ben Chu good on Carillion (though he too is too quick on the East Coast mainline story)
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/car ... 62131.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Centrist Dads unite.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/car ... 62131.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Centrist Dads unite.