Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Re: Wednesday 25th February 2015
Sorry for your loss rr2
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Re: Wednesday 25th February 2015
Sorry to hear that rr2, take care xrebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica
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According to Severin Carroll and the Guardian the Scottish Government are rolling out a form of ID scheme.
Funnily enough the only time "SNP" is mentioned is from a quote from Margaret Curran. The cynic in me suggests if Labour tried, again to enact such a proposal "LABOUR" would be screamed in ten inch letters.
Funnily enough the only time "SNP" is mentioned is from a quote from Margaret Curran. The cynic in me suggests if Labour tried, again to enact such a proposal "LABOUR" would be screamed in ten inch letters.
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http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/20 ... istraction" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Osborne's dramatic Manchester NHS plan is a dangerous distraction"
"Osborne's dramatic Manchester NHS plan is a dangerous distraction"
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I bet that made him some fans in Fleet St.John Cleese Compares Journalists To Murderers At Confrontational Hacked Off Meeting
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Sorry to hear about your sad news RR 2
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Changed my mind.
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" Though the Conservatives will protest otherwise, the move risks being the first step in the ultimate unravelling of a truly national health service. "
This.
This.
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They're right civil libertarians.letsskiptotheleft wrote:According to Severin Carroll and the Guardian the Scottish Government are rolling out a form of ID scheme.
Funnily enough the only time "SNP" is mentioned is from a quote from Margaret Curran. The cynic in me suggests if Labour tried, again to enact such a proposal "LABOUR" would be screamed in ten inch letters.
Their nationalized cops stop and search far more than Boris Johnson's Met. If Scotland had significant ethnic minority populations, they'd never get away with that.
Salmond did a snarky line v England during the riots. "Different kind of society" apparently.
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Via Fiasal Islam, Tom Brake speaking against Labour's motion ''we don't want vacuous functionaries here''.
As opposed to what?
As opposed to what?
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Nobody could look at Tom Brake and think those words.letsskiptotheleft wrote:Via Fiasal Islam, Tom Brake speaking against Labour's motion ''we don't want vacuous functionaries here''.
As opposed to what?
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So sorry, Rebeccarebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica
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The NHS is one of the largest organisations, one of the largest employers in the world. Few private companies have experience of running such a huge operation, in the world of health there are no private providers that come anywhere close. If you break the NHS up into smaller chunks, however, you create several health service providers, all with much smaller budgets and workforces, more in line with the kind of size of organisation private health providers are used to running. This move raises the spectre of a different scale of privatisation altogether. Rather than just a public body outsourcing much of it's service to the private sector through many small contracts, you could actually outsource the running of the whole shebang as well. Rather like the way Somerset Council outsourced the whole of its back office work to Southwest One, with disastrous results ending in legal action. I really am quite alarmed by this move and am very disappointed that any Labour council would support this fragmentation of the NHS, as it will so obviously lead to its demise. If it's not national, it's not a national health service. Indeed, hospitals were run by local councils before the NHS came into being in 1948. If it was such a good way of running things, why was it changed in the first place?HindleA wrote:" Though the Conservatives will protest otherwise, the move risks being the first step in the ultimate unravelling of a truly national health service. "
This.
Bevan quickly came to the decision that the 1944 white paper's proposal for local authority control of voluntary hospitals was not workable, as the local authorities were too poor and too small to manage hospitals.[9] He decided that "the only thing to do was to create an entirely new hospital service, to take over the voluntary hospitals, and to take over the local government hospitals and to organise them as a single hospital service".[10] This structure of the NHS in England and Wales was established by the National Health Service Act 1946 which received Royal Assent on 6 November 1946.
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Re: Wednesday 25th February 2015
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Sorry from me too.daydreamer wrote:So sorry, Rebeccarebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica
Heartbreak in the Riots home this evening.
Very sad.
Re: Wednesday 25th February 2015
From the ONS, big housing data release.
Apologies for posting just England's figures.
I'm unable to format the post with NI, Wales & Scotland included to make sense.
Please do see the ONS website for that full table I've only partially posted below.
The number of houses completed are only more shockingly low.
"Table 6: Number of house builds [England]completed by country, financial years 2003/04 to 2013/14
Number of completed house builds"
Financial Year ........ England
2003-04 ........ 143,960
2004-05 ......... 155,890
2005-06 ........ 163,400
2006-07 ......... 167,680
2007-08 ......... 170,610
2008-09 ......... 140,990
2009-10 ........ 119,910
2010-11 ........ 107,870
2011-12 ......... 118,510
2012-13 ......... 107,980
2013-14 ......... 112,370
"Using the same figures, it is possible to examine the number of houses completed by country, and by financial year 2012/13, the number of houses completed in Scotland and Wales were at post-war record lows, with England reaching a post-war record low in the financial year 2010/11.
...shows the number of completed houses by country and details that in England in financial year 2012/13 houses were being built at only 63% of the peak rate before the financial crisis, while the comparable figure for Scotland was 55% and Wales was 58%. Northern Ireland reached its low in financial year 2011/12, however as of financial year 2012/13, the number of houses built compared to its pre-financial crisis peak was only 45%."
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/hpi/house ... ompletions
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... le209.xlsx
Apologies for posting just England's figures.
I'm unable to format the post with NI, Wales & Scotland included to make sense.
Please do see the ONS website for that full table I've only partially posted below.
The number of houses completed are only more shockingly low.
"Table 6: Number of house builds [England]
Number of completed house builds"
Financial Year ........ England
2003-04 ........ 143,960
2004-05 ......... 155,890
2005-06 ........ 163,400
2006-07 ......... 167,680
2007-08 ......... 170,610
2008-09 ......... 140,990
2009-10 ........ 119,910
2010-11 ........ 107,870
2011-12 ......... 118,510
2012-13 ......... 107,980
2013-14 ......... 112,370
"Using the same figures, it is possible to examine the number of houses completed by country, and by financial year 2012/13, the number of houses completed in Scotland and Wales were at post-war record lows, with England reaching a post-war record low in the financial year 2010/11.
...shows the number of completed houses by country and details that in England in financial year 2012/13 houses were being built at only 63% of the peak rate before the financial crisis, while the comparable figure for Scotland was 55% and Wales was 58%. Northern Ireland reached its low in financial year 2011/12, however as of financial year 2012/13, the number of houses built compared to its pre-financial crisis peak was only 45%."
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/hpi/house ... ompletions
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... le209.xlsx
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Thinking of Ernst.Ivan Lewis @IvanLewis_MP 30m30 minutes ago
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
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'we don't want vacuous functionaries'? I don't understand what that means. What does this mean in relation to Labour's motion?letsskiptotheleft wrote:Via Fiasal Islam, Tom Brake speaking against Labour's motion ''we don't want vacuous functionaries here''.
As opposed to what?
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I'm not sure just how much say they have in it, I get the feeling its being imposed not negotiated. The council were in "northern power house" discussion with Osborne and I wonder if he has just tossed this out there like a hand grenade. This morning a Labour councillor was tweeting "nothing has been settled yet" (forget which one sorry)Willow904 wrote:The NHS is one of the largest organisations, one of the largest employers in the world. Few private companies have experience of running such a huge operation, in the world of health there are no private providers that come anywhere close. If you break the NHS up into smaller chunks, however, you create several health service providers, all with much smaller budgets and workforces, more in line with the kind of size of organisation private health providers are used to running. This move raises the spectre of a different scale of privatisation altogether. Rather than just a public body outsourcing much of it's service to the private sector through many small contracts, you could actually outsource the running of the whole shebang as well. Rather like the way Somerset Council outsourced the whole of its back office work to Southwest One, with disastrous results ending in legal action. I really am quite alarmed by this move and am very disappointed that any Labour council would support this fragmentation of the NHS, as it will so obviously lead to its demise. If it's not national, it's not a national health service. Indeed, hospitals were run by local councils before the NHS came into being in 1948. If it was such a good way of running things, why was it changed in the first place?HindleA wrote:" Though the Conservatives will protest otherwise, the move risks being the first step in the ultimate unravelling of a truly national health service. "
This.
Bevan quickly came to the decision that the 1944 white paper's proposal for local authority control of voluntary hospitals was not workable, as the local authorities were too poor and too small to manage hospitals.[9] He decided that "the only thing to do was to create an entirely new hospital service, to take over the voluntary hospitals, and to take over the local government hospitals and to organise them as a single hospital service".[10] This structure of the NHS in England and Wales was established by the National Health Service Act 1946 which received Royal Assent on 6 November 1946.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... England%29
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So, democratised NHS?
Which could have been achieved by electing PCTs- which hilariously made it into the Coalition Agreement before PCTs were abolished.
Which could have been achieved by electing PCTs- which hilariously made it into the Coalition Agreement before PCTs were abolished.
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It was the CEOAngryAsWell wrote:I'm not sure just how much say they have in it, I get the feeling its being imposed not negotiated. The council were in "northern power house" discussion with Osborne and I wonder if he has just tossed this out there like a hand grenade. This morning a Labour councillor was tweeting "nothing has been settled yet" (forget which one sorry)Willow904 wrote:The NHS is one of the largest organisations, one of the largest employers in the world. Few private companies have experience of running such a huge operation, in the world of health there are no private providers that come anywhere close. If you break the NHS up into smaller chunks, however, you create several health service providers, all with much smaller budgets and workforces, more in line with the kind of size of organisation private health providers are used to running. This move raises the spectre of a different scale of privatisation altogether. Rather than just a public body outsourcing much of it's service to the private sector through many small contracts, you could actually outsource the running of the whole shebang as well. Rather like the way Somerset Council outsourced the whole of its back office work to Southwest One, with disastrous results ending in legal action. I really am quite alarmed by this move and am very disappointed that any Labour council would support this fragmentation of the NHS, as it will so obviously lead to its demise. If it's not national, it's not a national health service. Indeed, hospitals were run by local councils before the NHS came into being in 1948. If it was such a good way of running things, why was it changed in the first place?HindleA wrote:" Though the Conservatives will protest otherwise, the move risks being the first step in the ultimate unravelling of a truly national health service. "
This.
Bevan quickly came to the decision that the 1944 white paper's proposal for local authority control of voluntary hospitals was not workable, as the local authorities were too poor and too small to manage hospitals.[9] He decided that "the only thing to do was to create an entirely new hospital service, to take over the voluntary hospitals, and to take over the local government hospitals and to organise them as a single hospital service".[10] This structure of the NHS in England and Wales was established by the National Health Service Act 1946 which received Royal Assent on 6 November 1946.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... England%29
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RR2 - Sorry to hear about Musica.
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Some fantastically illiberal (putting it kindly) comments on LDV re the post about Jo Swinson sticking up for Rachel Reeves over the sexist remarks of the Tory MP basically saying she couldn't / shouldn't carry out a ministerial role if she was pregnant / on maternity leave.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/jo-swinson-d ... 44787.html
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Sending hugs, Rebecca and Mr.Riots.
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Far too little. Far too late.New Whitehall lobbyists register to be launched within weeks
Parliamentarians would have to publicly declare meetings with ministers and permanent secretaries if they are being paid to do so and are VAT registered
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As has been pointed out by a few,IDS received plaudits for taking time off to help his wife.
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Oh, not sure when this was put up...Durham Free School will close.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... notice.pdf
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... notice.pdf
And the LA will pick up the pieces...On 19 January 2015 I gave written notice (under clause 86) of the Secretary of State’s intention to terminate the Funding Agreement and invited you (in accordance with clause 87) to respond with any representations by 3 February 2015.
On 2 February we received the Academy Trust’s representations in a letter of that date from your solicitors, Aughton Ainsworth, and your email (sent on 2 February at 17:25), to which you attached your governance improvement plan and an earlier review of governance. Following my visit to the school on 13 February with an Education Adviser, you sent us a school improvement plan and a letter dated 18 February drawing attention to some areas of improvement. We have also seen Aughton Ainsworth’s letter of 16 February, enclosing further information about pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
In accordance with clause 88(b), the Secretary of State has considered your representations. She has also taken into account representations made in letters and emails from parents and pupils of Durham Free School and others.
Having considered all these representations carefully, the Secretary of State remains satisfied that it is appropriate to terminate the Funding Agreement. Consequently, in accordance with clause 88 and on behalf of the Secretary of State, I am issuing you with written notice to terminate the Funding Agreement with effect from Friday 27 March 2015
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If that's the case then that's worrying for a whole new set of reasons. This has been all over the news today as something that is going to happen, a done deal. How has such a misleading impression taken hold if it's just a Tory party proposal?AngryAsWell wrote:I'm not sure just how much say they have in it, I get the feeling its being imposed not negotiated. The council were in "northern power house" discussion with Osborne and I wonder if he has just tossed this out there like a hand grenade. This morning a Labour councillor was tweeting "nothing has been settled yet" (forget which one sorry)Willow904 wrote:The NHS is one of the largest organisations, one of the largest employers in the world. Few private companies have experience of running such a huge operation, in the world of health there are no private providers that come anywhere close. If you break the NHS up into smaller chunks, however, you create several health service providers, all with much smaller budgets and workforces, more in line with the kind of size of organisation private health providers are used to running. This move raises the spectre of a different scale of privatisation altogether. Rather than just a public body outsourcing much of it's service to the private sector through many small contracts, you could actually outsource the running of the whole shebang as well. Rather like the way Somerset Council outsourced the whole of its back office work to Southwest One, with disastrous results ending in legal action. I really am quite alarmed by this move and am very disappointed that any Labour council would support this fragmentation of the NHS, as it will so obviously lead to its demise. If it's not national, it's not a national health service. Indeed, hospitals were run by local councils before the NHS came into being in 1948. If it was such a good way of running things, why was it changed in the first place?HindleA wrote:" Though the Conservatives will protest otherwise, the move risks being the first step in the ultimate unravelling of a truly national health service. "
This.
Bevan quickly came to the decision that the 1944 white paper's proposal for local authority control of voluntary hospitals was not workable, as the local authorities were too poor and too small to manage hospitals.[9] He decided that "the only thing to do was to create an entirely new hospital service, to take over the voluntary hospitals, and to take over the local government hospitals and to organise them as a single hospital service".[10] This structure of the NHS in England and Wales was established by the National Health Service Act 1946 which received Royal Assent on 6 November 1946.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of ... England%29
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Leader of council on TV seems to confirm it will go ahead so not sure at all what's happening or how it's happening.Willow904 wrote:If that's the case then that's worrying for a whole new set of reasons. This has been all over the news today as something that is going to happen, a done deal. How has such a misleading impression taken hold if it's just a Tory party proposal?AngryAsWell wrote:I'm not sure just how much say they have in it, I get the feeling its being imposed not negotiated. The council were in "northern power house" discussion with Osborne and I wonder if he has just tossed this out there like a hand grenade. This morning a Labour councillor was tweeting "nothing has been settled yet" (forget which one sorry)Willow904 wrote: The NHS is one of the largest organisations, one of the largest employers in the world. Few private companies have experience of running such a huge operation, in the world of health there are no private providers that come anywhere close. If you break the NHS up into smaller chunks, however, you create several health service providers, all with much smaller budgets and workforces, more in line with the kind of size of organisation private health providers are used to running. This move raises the spectre of a different scale of privatisation altogether. Rather than just a public body outsourcing much of it's service to the private sector through many small contracts, you could actually outsource the running of the whole shebang as well. Rather like the way Somerset Council outsourced the whole of its back office work to Southwest One, with disastrous results ending in legal action. I really am quite alarmed by this move and am very disappointed that any Labour council would support this fragmentation of the NHS, as it will so obviously lead to its demise. If it's not national, it's not a national health service. Indeed, hospitals were run by local councils before the NHS came into being in 1948. If it was such a good way of running things, why was it changed in the first place?
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So engaging Gerald Howarth didn't work?RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh, not sure when this was put up...Durham Free School will close.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... notice.pdf
And the LA will pick up the pieces...On 19 January 2015 I gave written notice (under clause 86) of the Secretary of State’s intention to terminate the Funding Agreement and invited you (in accordance with clause 87) to respond with any representations by 3 February 2015.
On 2 February we received the Academy Trust’s representations in a letter of that date from your solicitors, Aughton Ainsworth, and your email (sent on 2 February at 17:25), to which you attached your governance improvement plan and an earlier review of governance. Following my visit to the school on 13 February with an Education Adviser, you sent us a school improvement plan and a letter dated 18 February drawing attention to some areas of improvement. We have also seen Aughton Ainsworth’s letter of 16 February, enclosing further information about pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
In accordance with clause 88(b), the Secretary of State has considered your representations. She has also taken into account representations made in letters and emails from parents and pupils of Durham Free School and others.
Having considered all these representations carefully, the Secretary of State remains satisfied that it is appropriate to terminate the Funding Agreement. Consequently, in accordance with clause 88 and on behalf of the Secretary of State, I am issuing you with written notice to terminate the Funding Agreement with effect from Friday 27 March 2015
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Obviously not.Tubby Isaacs wrote:So engaging Gerald Howarth didn't work?RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh, not sure when this was put up...Durham Free School will close.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... notice.pdf
And the LA will pick up the pieces...On 19 January 2015 I gave written notice (under clause 86) of the Secretary of State’s intention to terminate the Funding Agreement and invited you (in accordance with clause 87) to respond with any representations by 3 February 2015.
On 2 February we received the Academy Trust’s representations in a letter of that date from your solicitors, Aughton Ainsworth, and your email (sent on 2 February at 17:25), to which you attached your governance improvement plan and an earlier review of governance. Following my visit to the school on 13 February with an Education Adviser, you sent us a school improvement plan and a letter dated 18 February drawing attention to some areas of improvement. We have also seen Aughton Ainsworth’s letter of 16 February, enclosing further information about pupils with special educational needs and disabilities.
In accordance with clause 88(b), the Secretary of State has considered your representations. She has also taken into account representations made in letters and emails from parents and pupils of Durham Free School and others.
Having considered all these representations carefully, the Secretary of State remains satisfied that it is appropriate to terminate the Funding Agreement. Consequently, in accordance with clause 88 and on behalf of the Secretary of State, I am issuing you with written notice to terminate the Funding Agreement with effect from Friday 27 March 2015
Who'd have thunk it eh?
No doubt there'll be silence from the usual suspects that clam up when a Free School gets closed by their own side.
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The Guardian has the details of the Manchester deal :
Labour row over plan to give Greater Manchester control of health spending
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... h-spending" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Labour row over plan to give Greater Manchester control of health spending
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ma ... r-31615218AngryAsWell wrote:Leader of council on TV seems to confirm it will go ahead so not sure at all what's happening or how it's happening.Willow904 wrote:If that's the case then that's worrying for a whole new set of reasons. This has been all over the news today as something that is going to happen, a done deal. How has such a misleading impression taken hold if it's just a Tory party proposal?AngryAsWell wrote: I'm not sure just how much say they have in it, I get the feeling its being imposed not negotiated. The council were in "northern power house" discussion with Osborne and I wonder if he has just tossed this out there like a hand grenade. This morning a Labour councillor was tweeting "nothing has been settled yet" (forget which one sorry)
There's more detail in the above article on the BBC website, but it doesn't really clear anything up. Worryingly Andy Burnham seems as surprised by this as everyone else, despite Labour councillors apparently being responsible for suggesting this. I suspect shenanigans on a grand scale. It's most unusual for something so major to come about apparently without the opposition even knowing about it. The only positive is Burnham seems to have very similar doubts to my own:
Reacting to the proposals, Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow health secretary, said: "This has to be a solution that works everywhere or that could be offered to everywhere.
"If you're going to stick to the idea of a national health service you can't have a Swiss cheese NHS where some bits of the system are operating to different rules or have different powers and freedoms.
"I am a bit worried what I'm hearing because it does point to further break-up of the idea of the National Health Service."
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Unison Lady on C4 news said none of this was in devolution package discussed in November and that this morning (well, late last night) was the first anyone had heard of it. Evidentially it was leaked and it's official announcement was planned for Friday by Osborne.AngryAsWell wrote:The Guardian has the details of the Manchester deal :
Labour row over plan to give Greater Manchester control of health spending
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Here was the presumably hastily arranged question from a LibDem...
Because the people in on it were told to keep their mouths shut or the deal's off?Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington) (LD):
Does the Prime Minister agree with me that, hot on the heels of devolving powers on transport and housing, the welcome announcement that Manchester will take control of its £6 billion NHS budget shows the coalition’s commitment to local decision-making for Manchester, in stark contrast to the Labour Government that oversaw the closure of Withington hospital from Whitehall?
The Prime Minister:
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that this is an important breakthrough. It has been made possible by our reforms. It will help to bring the NHS and social care together. The shadow Health Secretary, who presumably knew absolutely nothing about this, does not understand that eight Labour authorities in Greater Manchester have been talking to us and working with us about how to make this a reality. What a contrast: people working together to improve the NHS, instead of trying to weaponise it across the Dispatch Box.
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Ernst
If you at the council meeting please tell them this resident does not want 800k spending on changing bins! I'm happy with how they are. (Assuming you checking in on phone)
If you at the council meeting please tell them this resident does not want 800k spending on changing bins! I'm happy with how they are. (Assuming you checking in on phone)
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Stumbled across this episode of Who Dares Wins from 1988.
First gag is about "SDP leader, Robert MacLennan".
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First gag is about "SDP leader, Robert MacLennan".
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Watching this at the moment: I always knew Michael Sheen was a good 'un!
It's of a Welsh bent, but it could equally apply to any working class area in the country.
23 minutes in is especially good.
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It's of a Welsh bent, but it could equally apply to any working class area in the country.
23 minutes in is especially good.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... -rebellion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Robert Snozers?RogerOThornhill wrote:Here was the presumably hastily arranged question from a LibDem...
Because the people in on it were told to keep their mouths shut or the deal's off?Mr John Leech (Manchester, Withington) (LD):
Does the Prime Minister agree with me that, hot on the heels of devolving powers on transport and housing, the welcome announcement that Manchester will take control of its £6 billion NHS budget shows the coalition’s commitment to local decision-making for Manchester, in stark contrast to the Labour Government that oversaw the closure of Withington hospital from Whitehall?
The Prime Minister:
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to say that this is an important breakthrough. It has been made possible by our reforms. It will help to bring the NHS and social care together. The shadow Health Secretary, who presumably knew absolutely nothing about this, does not understand that eight Labour authorities in Greater Manchester have been talking to us and working with us about how to make this a reality. What a contrast: people working together to improve the NHS, instead of trying to weaponise it across the Dispatch Box.
Was this a reasonable closure?
Re: Wednesday 25th February 2015
So sorry to hear this sad news.rebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica
Heartbreak in the Riots home this evening.
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It'll be better than that old Who Dares Wins that I just put up.letsskiptotheleft wrote:Watching this at the moment: I always knew Michael Sheen was a good 'un!
It's of a Welsh bent, but it could equally apply to any working class area in the country.
23 minutes in is especially good.
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Mind you, this pastiche of Leader of the Pack with Tony Robinson on a a C5 is proper good.
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I met Philip Pope in Soho once. Very patient with me quoting old sketches at him.
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I met Philip Pope in Soho once. Very patient with me quoting old sketches at him.
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Been dreading hearing your sad news Rebecca and Mr Riots. You were Musica's good friends and she knew it. Tears for now for all of you.rebeccariots2 wrote:R.I.P. Musica
Heartbreak in the Riots home this evening.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall 50m50 minutes ago
Glad to see Wings getting his just deserts, for once, for yet another personal smear and mob abuse campaign. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scott ... ed-5232409" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
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After Monday night's level-pegging and Tuesday's 2% CON lead latest YouGov/Sun poll has
CON 33
LAB 33
LD 8
UKIP 15
CON 33
LAB 33
LD 8
UKIP 15
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Have the Greens dropped to zero after yesterday, then?
"IS TONTY BLAIR BEHIND THIS???!!!!111???!!!"
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Green 6%AnatolyKasparov wrote:Have the Greens dropped to zero after yesterday, then?
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