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- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
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Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Thanks to Gilsey and Paul. With read.
- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 4:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
- Replies: 73
- Views: 26723
Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
I don't really understand the problem with the internal market- I'm professing ignorance, not making a rhetorical point there. Lots of stuff would need to happen as part of measuring costs, I think. But I know from what people say that more is involved than that. I wish I could find the report I re...
- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 3:09 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
- Replies: 73
- Views: 26723
Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
May's just shouted, ' And which government started bringing the private sector into health? ' at Corbyn The internal market was introduced into the NHS by Thatcher's government The internal market is quite different from the involvement of the private sector. The private sector has always been invo...
- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
- Replies: 73
- Views: 26723
Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
I don't really understand the problem with the internal market- I'm professing ignorance, not making a rhetorical point there. Lots of stuff would need to happen as part of measuring costs, I think. But I know from what people say that more is involved than that.
- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 3:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
- Replies: 73
- Views: 26723
Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Devestating on rail policy. Some actual facts and analysis. http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/01/10/welfare-for-the-rich-the-truth-about-rail-nationalisation" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Ah yes, James Ball - one of the loudest voices in the "means test...
- Wed 10 Jan, 2018 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 10th January 2018
- Replies: 73
- Views: 26723
Re: Wednesday 10th January 2018
the masterly study by Crewe and King, “The Blunders of Our Governments” (Oneworld, 2013). I've known about that book for a while and still can't decide whether I really want to read it or I really don't. I'll read your link and see if it helps me make my mind up. I had a bit of a reaction to the la...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Nah, I've done this clodhopping crassness before. I need to learn.HindleA wrote:Takes two to be fair,I knee jerked.
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
You're not a pain in the arse, I put it badly.HindleA wrote:Realise I am pain in the arse on this,but I don't see it as any different than the "client State" stuff from the Right.
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 10:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
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Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Shameless "apparent" bribing of pensioners/future pensioners clarification.I would be wary of the presentation rather than detail.Similarly the social care musings last GE (with eventual cap) was a vast increase in passing on ability for in a home situation. Sorry, my bad. I meant relativ...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
That's very good.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article ... s-children
toby-young-remains-threat-nations-children
An uncompromising piece!
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Cameron was hopeless and had burned all his bridges for his own personal gain. Come the day, possible allies across the continent, including Labour, were simply unable to stand with him, because, in simple terms, he had shafted them all in the past. It really, really was Cameron's fault from start ...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Corbyn refused https://labourlist.org/2016/03/corbyn-refuses-to-share-a-platform-with-cameron-on-the-eu/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; and it wasn't just Cameron he wouldn't be seen alongside https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corbyn-refused-to-share-eu-platform-with-blai...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 6:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Cameron put that decision off as long as he could. He knew it was stupid.
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 6:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
I'm still not sure there won't be a conversion to Freedom of Movement, but I'm not encouraged. I think Corbyn had to find some way out of the SNP-led talks because the Tories would make hay with it, but it wasn't really a good enough excuse. And to repeat, it's not all on Corbyn's head, there are l...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 6:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
I'm still not sure there won't be a conversion to Freedom of Movement, but I'm not encouraged. I think Corbyn had to find some way out of the SNP-led talks because the Tories would make hay with it, but it wasn't really a good enough excuse. And to repeat, it's not all on Corbyn's head, there are l...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Oh Christ.
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
I think that odds on Soft Brexit have gone down!
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
UK Prime Minister Verified account @Number10gov 1h1 hour ago More Suella Fernandes MP becomes Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at Department for Exiting the European Union @DExEUgov #Reshuffle Thankfully nothing to do with education. She seems to have lost interest - not chair of Michaela, d...
- Tue 09 Jan, 2018 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 9th January 2018
- Replies: 154
- Views: 44056
Re: Tuesday 9th January 2018
I'm still not sure there won't be a conversion to Freedom of Movement, but I'm not encouraged. I think Corbyn had to find some way out of the SNP-led talks because the Tories would make hay with it, but it wasn't really a good enough excuse. And to repeat, it's not all on Corbyn's head, there are lo...
- Mon 08 Jan, 2018 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th January 2018
- Replies: 133
- Views: 37844
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
I do wonder about moving abroad https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/950451733880299520#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I do know that all other coutries have their problems (I like Australia for example, but it has a worse problem with race than the UK IMO for example), b...
- Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th January 2018
- Replies: 133
- Views: 37844
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Please no!howsillyofme1 wrote:McVile?
Her plus Nick Gibb getting Education would just about finish me of.
But I reckon a moneyman like Greg Hands is more likely. He's a charmer.
- Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:55 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th January 2018
- Replies: 133
- Views: 37844
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Greening has a marginal Remainer constituency that she needs to tend.
I wouldn't be surprised if May now has another Nicky Morgan on her hands.
I wouldn't be surprised if May now has another Nicky Morgan on her hands.
- Mon 08 Jan, 2018 7:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 8th January 2018
- Replies: 133
- Views: 37844
Re: Monday 8th January 2018
Well done, Greening, if that's true.
Nobody wants Universal Credit. Trouble is, some far right goon will probably stick his hand up, and cause even more mayhem.
Nobody wants Universal Credit. Trouble is, some far right goon will probably stick his hand up, and cause even more mayhem.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
The TES say this a quote from Rayner. I think it’s because as we’ve tried to deal with some of the issues around race and women’s agendas, around tackling some of the discrimination that’s there, it has actually had a negative impact on the food chain [for] white working boys. Pretty poor. I am deep...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 7:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
That's fair, on reflection.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
The CPS didn't exactly sprint out of the traps.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
The principle is risk of reoffending. I don't think you can say much more than that, because it's confidential and personal to him. I'm sure the judge that passed the sentence expected him to be released now, and I'm not exactly turning cartwheels myself. But I think you have to give the Parole Boa...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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Re: Friday 5th January 2018
Bits of justice are transparent and bits aren't. Younger offenders don't have their names revealed. Nor do new identities of released prisoners.
Nor would I reveal the communications between the Parole Board and a prisoner. Just the decision is fine.
Nor would I reveal the communications between the Parole Board and a prisoner. Just the decision is fine.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 6:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
The principle is risk of reoffending. I don't think you can say much more than that, because it's confidential and personal to him. I'm sure the judge that passed the sentence expected him to be released now, and I'm not exactly turning cartwheels myself. But I think you have to give the Parole Boar...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 6:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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I'm not really all that fussed what Hugo says, HSOM. I expect the shadow Lord Chancellor to be better than he is though.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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Re: Friday 5th January 2018
Tubby called Burgon a 'populist lightweight' for suggesting the decisions of the parole board should be opened up for scrutiny (which could be similarly applied to Cooper who has essentially said the same). We could also open up the CPS files to scrutiny on why he was not prosecuted for other crime...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
Sam Freedman would be a good replacement for Toby Young on that board.RogerOThornhill wrote:
How could anyone claim he was a lefty?
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 3:08 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
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Actually, hang on, this could be interesting. https://www.gov.uk/getting-parole/life-and-indeterminate-sentences" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; The government will apply for parole on your behalf if you have a life or indeterminate sentence - you don’t need to do anything. ...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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Re: Friday 5th January 2018
@RichardBurgon 4m4 minutes ago More Following the John Worboys decision, I've submitted parliamentary questions to the Secretary of State asking whether he plans to change Parole Board rules to increase the transparency of its decisions and seeking clarity on how it prioritises which IPP cases are ...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
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The system shouldn't be changed. The point of the reasons being private is that it helps the offender address them and go straight after release. Does that apply where the decision is to release? I'm minded to accept the parole board chair's view, but am open to persuasion. I think it does. but I'm...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:56 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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The Probation Service, not a private provider, will be overseeing Worboys. Grayling made sure the useless inefficient public sector was stuck with the most serious offenders.
Work that one out.
Work that one out.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:54 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
They'd have to get more cautious if the media was getting stuck into the details of their decisions. It would make reoffending more likely.
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
Can't Chakrabarti have a word?
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37424
Re: Friday 5th January 2018
Burgon is a populist lightweight. If the details of probation decisions need to be made public, that'll have newspapers stirring shit a hundred times a week. The parole board will just get far so cautious that the prison population rockets. Not to mention that it's personal to the offender, and I ca...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
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Julie Bindel, righteously furious https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/05/john-worboys-women-serial-sex-attacker-released" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; She states, but without any links, that the Starmer decision was a "not in the public interest" ...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
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To be fair to Burgon, he is now saying on twitter that we need disclosure of parole board reasons https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I used to work in this area, albeit in 1999. There were reasons to refuse, not reasons to accept. Plus this is...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 2:20 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
- Replies: 127
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Re: Friday 5th January 2018
https://amp.theguardian.com/education/2018/jan/05/ditch-toby-young-from-watchdog-board-top-labour-figures-tell-may ditch-toby-young-from-watchdog-board-top-labour-figures-tell-may It occurred to me that if a 14 year old pupil at one of Toby's schools came out with the remarks that he made on Twitte...
- Fri 05 Jan, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 5th January 2018
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To be fair to Burgon, he is now saying on twitter that we need disclosure of parole board reasons https://twitter.com/RichardBurgon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I used to work in this area, albeit in 1999. There were reasons to refuse, not reasons to accept. Plus this is...
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 11:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
- Views: 42438
Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
Borehamwood has lots of Jewish voters. Would be nice if they were swinging to Labour.
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 11:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
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Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
Beat me to it.
Great stuff.
A few citizens of nowhere round there. Plus others not keen on NHS cuts too, of course.
Great stuff.
A few citizens of nowhere round there. Plus others not keen on NHS cuts too, of course.
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
- Views: 42438
Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
The chair of the Parole Board is a 2016 appointee. But I'd rather Labour didn't go down that route.
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
- Views: 42438
Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
Political ammunition is being loaded and turrets are whirring round towards Kier Starmer MP, who as Director of Public Prosecutions in 2009 is said to have taken the decision that no further proceedings against Worboys were appropriate in light of the indeterminate sentence passed. Read more at: ht...
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 10:44 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
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Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
Yep, agree with that.
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 10:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
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Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
An article in the FT suggest using the NHS much more as anti-Brexit argument. I like that, but it's going to be difficult. I don't think people see the connecti0on. You see the reaction it gets on here. People don't want to know. O_nly the oppostion coould sell it, and they don't want to do so. I t...
- Thu 04 Jan, 2018 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 4th January 2018
- Replies: 141
- Views: 42438
Re: Thursday 4th January 2018
Roger, I looked at the WLFS record with FSM pupils. Is it me, or is that actually worse than average? Despite the much greater entries for ebac. https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/136750?tab=secondary&year=final" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; N...