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Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:23 pm
by AngryAsWell
Interesting that JC has re tweeted this

Richard CorbettVerified account
‏@RCorbettMEP
#Corbyn #labour #brexit

A little reminder of the resolution adopted unanimously by Labour Party conference in September:

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Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:27 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ies-mating" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Snow monkey attempts sex with deer in rare example of interspecies mating

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:29 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/ ... ve-bedford" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Sebastian Coe defies select committee over Russia corruption scandal

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:31 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Gee, I see "Andy Holmes", who I recall as a rather annoying Osborne stooge, is talking perfect sense BTL on the Independent about Brexit.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:33 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
AngryAsWell wrote:Interesting that JC has re tweeted this

Richard CorbettVerified account
‏@RCorbettMEP
#Corbyn #labour #brexit

A little reminder of the resolution adopted unanimously by Labour Party conference in September:

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What he thinks on Brexit is what the last person he talked to said. It is reassuring in a way though.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:33 pm
by citizenJA
AngryAsWell wrote:Interesting that JC has re tweeted this

Richard CorbettVerified account
‏@RCorbettMEP
#Corbyn #labour #brexit

A little reminder of the resolution adopted unanimously by Labour Party conference in September:

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good news

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:34 pm
by WelshIan
citizenJA wrote:
SpinningHugo wrote:
citizenJA wrote: Don't be silly, Tories will hold with their use of force, nothing more. It'll break them. I'm voting for principle by voting Labour.
I disagree with ending freedom of movement. It's not the beginning and end of my relationship with the Labour party.
Are you? Why do you want to end freedom of movement? Don't you want to stay in the single market? Why do you want to make us poorer by doing these things, so that we can't afford better social care and so on?

These things are interrelated.
Don't claim I want something I've made clear I don't. I'll not respond to another not communicating in good faith.
I don't want an end to freedom of movement, not poorer, not out of the single market, no 'Brexit'. The UK has all
the resources it needs to fund UK infrastructure. It's Tory government making the choice not to fund them.
Well said, cJA. It would appear SH thinks that voting for a party entails supporting everything they say.

I assume, as a Green voter, that he supports:
a wealth tax on the top 1%
a Robin Hood Tax on the banks
banning fracking, phasing out coal power stations and no new nuclear power stations
scrapping of university tuition fees
capping of rent for housing
re-nationalisation of the railways
introduction of a Citizens Income

I look forward to reading his arguments in support of all of these, rather than his 2 topics of choice - Jeremy Corbyn and how useless Labour are on Brexit.

Good night!

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:35 pm
by HindleA
Lab Lords-Drawn vote - 222 to 222 - on our #WalesBill amendt re: public services' industrial relations & devolution. HoL rules means amendt falls

I thought it went to penalties?

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:37 pm
by citizenJA
HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/science/201 ... ies-mating


Snow monkey attempts sex with deer in rare example of interspecies mating
That's disturbing. Is it precedented? Our ecosystem is messed up.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:38 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Brexit is the core issue though, Ian.

Among other things, it makes Robin Hood Tax much less a good idea.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:39 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Citizens Income is being "looked at" only, I think.

I give that less chance than there was of Foinavon winning the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:44 pm
by citizenJA
Update
citizenJA wrote:You all know a little about me - a pagan, Jesus-loving, communist (not a comprehensive list). I'd love to give the Cuba model
of communal work and study for all the people living together on an embargoed, relatively small land mass a go. There's a kind
of perfect beauty for the UK, a formerly successful colonising nation, retiring from the world stage into calm, sustenance
living. I gotta suspicion it's not what others want and I probably don't really want it either.
Mr citizen and I have talked it over and we're okay with this, as long as resources are equably shared amongst us all.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:46 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
UKlPvoter
‏@UKlPVoter
@BenChu_ @SpinningHugo @IndyVoices Corbyn (quite rightly) despises the EU. I am pleased he is Labour leader unlike a globalist such as Blair
Corbyn praised for hating the EU by "UKIP voter". That just about sums it up.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:47 pm
by citizenJA
@WelshIan
Thank you!
Have a good night.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:52 pm
by HindleA
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/l ... mg00000004" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


‘Grow up!’ Tory Peer Launches Extraordinary Attack On His Own Party Over Social Care Funding
Lord Porter did not hold back in his words for the Government

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 7:52 pm
by AngryAsWell
RIP Clare Hollingworth, aged 105.
Clare was the first to report the outbreak of the second world war

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/ ... ?CMP=fb_gu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:00 pm
by HindleA
https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi ... .soQ2mYk9Q" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Trump Moves To Challenge Vaccine Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who published a controversial book about the preservatives in vaccines being dangerous for children, will chair a commission on vaccine safety. Scientists reject his views

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:03 pm
by 55DegreesNorth
Evening folks,
Here's an interesting article about how and why the Guardian's (and Observer's) views on Jeremy *whomustnotbenamed* changed. Found it on twitter.
http://novaramedia.com/2017/01/08/how-t ... s-readers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:19 pm
by StephenDolan
For those of the health and /or Yorkshire persuasion. Have you come across Babylon Health? Heard a rumour of regarding 111 and Dr appts.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:19 pm
by citizenJA
HindleA wrote:https://www.buzzfeed.com/azeenghorayshi ... .soQ2mYk9Q

Trump Moves To Challenge Vaccine Science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who published a controversial book about the preservatives in vaccines being dangerous for children, will chair a commission on vaccine safety. Scientists reject his views
slouching towards bethlehem

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:20 pm
by citizenJA
I've got to call it an early night, everyone.
I love you.
cJA

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:22 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... w-progress" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Cyprus reunification talks making slow progress
Negotiators grapple with detailed matters of property transfers and governance as issue of security guarantees looms large


Happened to live there for three years,leaving before the Turkish invasion.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:29 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 3h3 hours ago
Under Labour, Britain will not buy outsourced public services from companies whose owners and executives are creaming off profits.

What does that mean?

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:29 pm
by HindleA
No personal experience,have heard of them.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:37 pm
by pk1
Indy editorial

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/edi ... 20081.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:40 pm
by pk1
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 3h3 hours ago
Under Labour, Britain will not buy outsourced public services from companies whose owners and executives are creaming off profits.

What does that mean?
It means he'd have a devil of a job finding privately owned companies to tender for govt contracts.

Bang go all those houses he wants building then :wall:

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:41 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... al-cartoon" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn's maximum wage proposal

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:42 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
A Jez fan puts us straight.
He did not unveil a plan for a maximum wage. I know you have no experience of hearing new ideas from politicians so your listening skills are a little rusty, but he expressed an interest in the idea of a maximum wage.

Hope that helped.
Supporting the Southern Rail strikes? Well done, Jez, that's a winner. I suppose we're lucky he didn't support the strikes against Sadiq Khan, as his "Jeremy for PM" fanclub did.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:53 pm
by WelshIan
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Brexit is the core issue though, Ian.

Among other things, it makes Robin Hood Tax much less a good idea.
SH can obviously vote for any party he likes, for any reason he likes but when you start urging people to vote for a particular party then you need to support that party on more than 1 issue, no matter how important that 1 issue is.

To do otherwise would display an astonishing level of insincerity.

Citizen's Income was in the Green manifesto for the 2015 GE, just something that would not be implemented in that 1st parliament.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:55 pm
by SpinningHugo
Optimism for the Greens

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Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 8:58 pm
by SpinningHugo
WelshIan wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Brexit is the core issue though, Ian.

Among other things, it makes Robin Hood Tax much less a good idea.
SH can obviously vote for any party he likes, for any reason he likes but when you start urging people to vote for a particular party then you need to support that party on more than 1 issue, no matter how important that 1 issue is.

To do otherwise would display an astonishing level of insincerity.

Citizen's Income was in the Green manifesto for the 2015 GE, just something that would not be implemented in that 1st parliament.

I also have certain issues with terrorism that, for me personally, mean that I can't vote for Labour with Corbyn and McDonnell in the leadership. That means the Greens.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:01 pm
by GetYou
55DegreesNorth wrote:Evening folks,
Here's an interesting article about how and why the Guardian's (and Observer's) views on Jeremy *whomustnotbenamed* changed. Found it on twitter.
http://novaramedia.com/2017/01/08/how-t ... s-readers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Thanks very much for this 55Degrees. It's the best takedown of the G on this I've read and I can point people to it who ask why I don't read that rag anymore.
What made the newspaper feel so claustrophobic was that most of these wrote essentially the same column, repeatedly. There was almost theological agreement around a shared article of faith.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:02 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
pk1 wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Jeremy Corbyn MP ‏@jeremycorbyn 3h3 hours ago
Under Labour, Britain will not buy outsourced public services from companies whose owners and executives are creaming off profits.

What does that mean?
It means he'd have a devil of a job finding privately owned companies to tender for govt contracts.

Bang go all those houses he wants building then :wall:
Public investment generally might be a problem. Or they could just outsource the low paid, if they haven't done that already.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:04 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
What made the newspaper feel so claustrophobic was that most of these wrote essentially the same column, repeatedly. There was almost theological agreement around a shared article of faith.
Hello Mr Pot, my name's Mr Kettle.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:13 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Apparently the contractors thing is illegal under EU law.

But hey, we're "repatriating" powers, so it's OK! That's well worth pissing the Single Market away for.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:14 pm
by SpinningHugo
55DegreesNorth wrote:Evening folks,
Here's an interesting article about how and why the Guardian's (and Observer's) views on Jeremy *whomustnotbenamed* changed. Found it on twitter.
http://novaramedia.com/2017/01/08/how-t ... s-readers/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"As the organisation Media Lens...."

Ah.

The entire piece does seem to omit the fact that the concerns of those critical of the current leader do seem to have been vindicated.

The Graun has fed the views that led to Corbyn for years. If it wasn't so sad, there would be a certain amount of schadenfreude to be had at the expense of some of its more silly voice of the Blair, Brown and Miliband years.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:20 pm
by SpinningHugo
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Apparently the contractors thing is illegal under EU law.

But hey, we're "repatriating" powers, so it's OK! That's well worth pissing the Single Market away for.
Yeah, it would violate procurement rules.

Lots of the rules for the proper functioning of markets are imposed at EU level. One of the reasons the current leader is a Lexiter.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:24 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Huge Crossrail contractor, Costain Skanska, had the CEO earning £633k 8 years ago. That's a bit more than 20 times the lowest.

I'd venture the other contractors are much the same.

I'd rather we got the darned railway built efficiently, myself.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:26 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
SpinningHugo wrote:
Tubby Isaacs wrote:Apparently the contractors thing is illegal under EU law.

But hey, we're "repatriating" powers, so it's OK! That's well worth pissing the Single Market away for.
Yeah, it would violate procurement rules.

Lots of the rules for the proper functioning of markets are imposed at EU level. One of the reasons the current leader is a Lexiter.
So apart from being illegal, and barring firms we need to carry out enormous projects like Crossrail, it's a great idea?

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:30 pm
by HindleA
https://profile.theguardian.com/agree/G ... entId=jobs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Senate grills attorney general nominee Sessions on KKK, bigotry and 'lock her up'

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:32 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... six-months" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Centrelink drops flawed advice to welfare recipients to keep payslips for six months
Website now specifies no time limit for holding on to proof of earnings after government efforts to recover debts up to six years old

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:35 pm
by AngryAsWell
HindleA wrote:https://profile.theguardian.com/agree/G ... entId=jobs



Senate grills attorney general nominee Sessions on KKK, bigotry and 'lock her up'
Wrong link, goes to Guardian Jobs... (are you fed up of packing pies by any chance?)

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:36 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... ing-fiasco" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


There are lessons to learn from the Centrelink data-matching fiasco

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:38 pm
by HindleA
AngryAsWell wrote:
HindleA wrote:https://profile.theguardian.com/agree/G ... entId=jobs



Senate grills attorney general nominee Sessions on KKK, bigotry and 'lock her up'
Wrong link, goes to Guardian Jobs... (are you fed up of packing pies by any chance?)
Correction

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... ey-general" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:40 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... -bank-2017" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Trump and Brexit put global economic growth at risk, World Bank says

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:45 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... y-election" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Arlene Foster says she is open to Sinn Féin talks to save power sharing
Northern Ireland’s first minister willing to hold discussions after Martin McGuinness’s resignation over green energy scandal

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:47 pm
by tinyclanger2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... -pj-harvey" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The UK was a much more compassionate country two decades ago than it is now, with the tone of public conversation “dragged horribly to the right” by divisive figures such as Nigel Farage, the writer of a new BBC drama inspired by PJ Harvey’s Kosovan notebooks has said.

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:57 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... h-shooting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Dylann Roof sentenced to death for the murders of nine black church members
Jury announced their decision that Roof should be executed after he was convicted last month of 33 federal charges, including murder and hate crimes

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 9:58 pm
by AngryAsWell
WATCH: JEREMY HUNT DOES ACTUAL U-TURN AND RUNS AWAY FROM REPORTERS OVER NHS TARGETS

https://politicalscrapbook.net/2017/01/ ... s-targets/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Well done Beth for trying....

Re: Tuesday 10th January 2017

Posted: Tue 10 Jan, 2017 10:04 pm
by HindleA
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-that-gap" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


However clumsy his manner, the Labour leader is right: pay at the top is an outrage


The minimum wage was once branded by the Conservatives as a job-destroyer. It wasn’t. The living wage took decades to attain the acceptance it enjoys today. There’s no reason pay ratios can’t do the same. But it will take time, well-ordered evidence and political strategy. Having got the ball rolling, Mr Corbyn should run with it.