Oh, and where was he?
Shocked etc.People in Britain have more control over their lives than they've ever had before," he told an event hosted by the think tank Policy Exchange.
Shocked etc.People in Britain have more control over their lives than they've ever had before," he told an event hosted by the think tank Policy Exchange.
Quite a lot of people have been asking me, directly and via social media, whether now Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected I will bury the hatchet and work with him again.
Thanks for your kind thoughts YahYah.Perhaps I exagerate the weather situation somewhat as,for the end of September its been OK.Back home tomorrow.yahyah wrote:Hope the weather improves for you ScarletGas and you have a good holiday.
The World Service now is not a patch on how it used to be when it was under the Foreign Office.
Another thing to blame the Tories for, offloading it onto the BBC with no extra funding I believe.
The whole ethos has changed, a lot of the informative, sad or heartmwarming stories they reported from around the world seem to have been ditched. There's now more emphasis on business.
For a lot of the night there's a couple of low talent presenters trying to sound cheerful and well informed. To cap it all there's the awful computer generated loud music that wakes you up if you did manage to nod off. All the worst of the BBC and little of the best.
Willow904 wrote:Further to my previous comments about McDonnell's panel of economists, I came across this, which more or less reflects what I suggested, that the panel idea is pretty much dead, but expert economic advice is still available to those in Labour willing to listen:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016 ... th-labour/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Quite a lot of people have been asking me, directly and via social media, whether now Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected I will bury the hatchet and work with him again.
HindleA wrote:http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/our- ... -1-7597920
‘Accept that your government is responsible’ - Council leader fires back at Peterborough MP over £1m hotel bill for homeless families
'Wholly misleading'?The Government has already hit back at the council for having to house people at a Travelodge. A spokesman said: ”There are many reasons for homelessness and to suggest that it is due to welfare reforms is wholly misleading".
If it had been organised they would have waited a year.refitman wrote:How can Hague be right, if there was no organised coup attempt?SpinningHugo wrote:Three contrasting pieces this morning
Toynbee
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... rence-2016" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Hague
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09 ... should-fo/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Ganesh
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bf4bd252-83cd ... z4LR4gRt8a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
All three are probably right in a way. Toynbee right on electabilty, Hague on the strategy to oust Corbyn, Ganesh on why that won't work.
But, but, but. Commentators spend too long on all this. The problem with Corbyn is not that he is right but unelectable. The latter is unprovable. The problem is he is wrong. Engage on the substance, on housing, or the £500bn investment pledge, or the random living wage figure, or University funding, or NHS provision, or rail nationalisation, or Syria, or having 'access to' the sengle market (Toynbee in particular misunderstands that) etc etc etc. He is wrong about all of these. Engage with the substance, don't say "I agree with him, but he won't win.".
Whether credible or not, his advice is available, as is that of Joseph Stiglitz and Ann Pettifor. Not the grand committee originally envisaged and I'm disappointed by that, but there is still some reasonable breadth of expert economic opinion on offer that is well worth having and I hope Corbyn makes use of all the advice he can get.SpinningHugo wrote:Willow904 wrote:Further to my previous comments about McDonnell's panel of economists, I came across this, which more or less reflects what I suggested, that the panel idea is pretty much dead, but expert economic advice is still available to those in Labour willing to listen:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016 ... th-labour/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Quite a lot of people have been asking me, directly and via social media, whether now Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected I will bury the hatchet and work with him again.
Richard Murphy really is not credible.
Simon Wren-Lewis is A list. Murphy isn't an economist.
JonnyT1234 wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:'You're not in the real country!' Angry Labour members heckle top Blair chief - Mirror Online
https://apple.news/AXcVxBtafTjGhqUhQbeqrYA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;I have been waiting for over 3 years for super fast [sic] broadband to be installed in our exchange. In zone 3 of London. The capital city. There is still no indication of when if ever this will happen from BT Openreach. This too is a REAL thing."A waiting list to get a telephone? Most people don't remember a waiting list to get a telephone. It was a real thing."
Members of my family have been waiting for years to get broadband faster than the paltry sub-1 MB/s they get now. They live in the countryside. This too is a REAL thing.
So don't give me that bullshit about waiting lists for telephones prior to privatisation, you egregious ignorant fucking prick.
Thanks, I like his view of Chris Leslie:Willow904 wrote:Further to my previous comments about McDonnell's panel of economists, I came across this, which more or less reflects what I suggested, that the panel idea is pretty much dead, but expert economic advice is still available to those in Labour willing to listen:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016 ... th-labour/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Quite a lot of people have been asking me, directly and via social media, whether now Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected I will bury the hatchet and work with him again.
....Fourth, in that case Jeremy will lead the Opposition and, presumably, Labour into the next election. Whether he can win or not is not worth speculating upon, not least because it is usually for governments to lose elections and this government has ample opportunity to do that over the next four years. The reality is, whatever happens, that this is the Opposition we have.
Fifth, when the alternative might be Chris Leslie MP – whose economic illiteracy seems to have almost no limits – then there are some reasons for thanking the Labour electorate for what we got.
Well, that's what he believes, in that special way Tory DWP ministers do.gilsey wrote:HindleA wrote:http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/our- ... -1-7597920
‘Accept that your government is responsible’ - Council leader fires back at Peterborough MP over £1m hotel bill for homeless families'Wholly misleading'?The Government has already hit back at the council for having to house people at a Travelodge. A spokesman said: ”There are many reasons for homelessness and to suggest that it is due to welfare reforms is wholly misleading".
'Many reasons' but none of them is welfare reform?
It's utter bollocks isn't it.RogerOThornhill wrote:That "waiting list for a telephone" has been doing the rounds for years with the pro "public sector reform" cheerleaders.
Oh, and where was he?
Shocked etc.People in Britain have more control over their lives than they've ever had before," he told an event hosted by the think tank Policy Exchange.
It'll be that old favourite about how nationalised BT were so useless they failed to supply cheap mobile phones two decades before the technology even existed next.JonnyT1234 wrote:JonnyT1234 wrote:'You're not in the real country!' Angry Labour members heckle top Blair chief - Mirror Online
https://apple.news/AXcVxBtafTjGhqUhQbeqrYA" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;I have been waiting for over 3 years for super fast [sic] broadband to be installed in our exchange. In zone 3 of London. The capital city. There is still no indication of when if ever this will happen from BT Openreach. This too is a REAL thing."A waiting list to get a telephone? Most people don't remember a waiting list to get a telephone. It was a real thing."
Members of my family have been waiting for years to get broadband faster than the paltry sub-1 MB/s they get now. They live in the countryside. This too is a REAL thing.
So don't give me that bullshit about waiting lists for telephones prior to privatisation, you egregious ignorant fucking prick.
The World Service used to fascinate me in the 1980s. The line it would take on events round the world was often quite different to that of the domestic news service amd much more honest.yahyah wrote:Hope the weather improves for you ScarletGas and you have a good holiday.
The World Service now is not a patch on how it used to be when it was under the Foreign Office.
Another thing to blame the Tories for, offloading it onto the BBC with no extra funding I believe.
The whole ethos has changed, a lot of the informative, sad or heartmwarming stories they reported from around the world seem to have been ditched. There's now more emphasis on business.
For a lot of the night there's a couple of low talent presenters trying to sound cheerful and well informed. To cap it all there's the awful computer generated loud music that wakes you up if you did manage to nod off. All the worst of the BBC and little of the best.
Oops.The chair of the Education Funding Agency’s advisory board has cast doubt on plans to convert all schools into academies and questioned proposals for more grammar schools.
Les Walton, who also chairs the Northern Education Trust, told a fringe event organised by teaching unions at the Labour Party Conference that the government had to be “sensible” about what could be achieved in the next five years.
Walton’s comments, which he insisted were based on his personal views and not those of the EFA, follow several other indications the government could be attempting to row back on previous pledges to achieve full academisation in the near future.
Missed that and Watson unfortunately, discussion group clashed. Was impressed by Flynn.PorFavor wrote:I'm enjoying Angela Rayner's speech.
I'm loving the fact, also, that she says "children" and not "kids" (one of my bugbears).
Equal pay for "bints" anyone?
The education secretary has been accused of “hiding” a financial investigation into a controversial academy trust run by the government’s former free schools director.
The Bright Tribe trust was the subject of an Education Funding Agency (EFA) review last month over payments it made to companies connected to its founder, venture capitalist Michael Dwan.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/n ... -1-4241721The former SNP MP Natalie McGarry has been charged in connection with alleged fraud offences involving a five figure sum. Ms McGarry, who has resigned the SNP whip but remains MP for Glasgow East, was also a leading figure in the Yes campaign for Scottish independence. The Scotsman understands that the charges are connected to the finances of the Women for Independence organisation and the Glasgow regional association of the SNP.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/indycamp- ... urn false;A group of independence campaigners, who are fighting to save their Scottish Parliament camp, have told a court that their phones and computers are being hacked...
Campaigners... claim that they have the permission of the Judeo-Christian God to hold a vigil outside the Parliament.
The independence campaigners also claim to have the support of ace military commander, the Archangel Michael, who currently lives in Sheffield ahead of his boss’s predicted return to Earth..
The independence campaigners also believe that the establishment of an independent Scotland is of strategic importance to Jesus Christ. The saviour of humanity has apparently indicated to the campers that an independent Scotland would give a massive boost to his plan to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth.
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Again, those who take this line have to explain the articles in the media months in advance which set out pretty much exactly what actually happened.
Not to mention why many of the resignation letters were so similar? (or, indeed, why Heidi Alexander's was dated 201*5*)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... rexit-vote" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Emails dating back to 2014 show Lib Dem advisers, who were then in government as part of the coalition, complaining repeatedly about May’s interventions.
They claimed internally that the then home secretary was determined to paint a negative picture of Britain’s relationship with European countries when it came to immigration.The exchanges suggested that May wanted to claim that “benefits tourism” was a serious problem, attracting immigrants into Britain.
Stiglitz didn't attend one meeting.Willow904 wrote:Whether credible or not, his advice is available, as is that of Joseph Stiglitz and Ann Pettifor. Not the grand committee originally envisaged and I'm disappointed by that, but there is still some reasonable breadth of expert economic opinion on offer that is well worth having and I hope Corbyn makes use of all the advice he can get.SpinningHugo wrote:Willow904 wrote:Further to my previous comments about McDonnell's panel of economists, I came across this, which more or less reflects what I suggested, that the panel idea is pretty much dead, but expert economic advice is still available to those in Labour willing to listen:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016 ... th-labour/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Richard Murphy really is not credible.
Simon Wren-Lewis is A list. Murphy isn't an economist.
I feel as though someone just kicked me in the stomach. Don't do it, people.HindleA wrote:https://drillordrop.com/2016/09/27/brea ... son-notts/
Planners recommend go-ahead for IGas shale gas plans for Springs Road, Misson, Notts
She was not stitched up over hher tougher than the tories remark. She said it multiple times and reaffirmed it when questioned - all on record - all in the national press, as I pointed out on here ad nauseum at the time.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I do too, and I have defended her in the past (she was very likely stitched up over that supposed "tougher than Tories" comment, for instance)
But she totally seems to have taken leave of her senses here, there have been horrific hate attacks IN HER OWN CONSTITUENCY......and she says *that*?
Just days after paying a seemingly sincere tribute to the late Jo Cox, as well.
Utterly indefensible.