Re: Tuesday 13th January 2015
Posted: Tue 13 Jan, 2015 1:18 pm
Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Hah! Since my last post we now have bright blue skies and wall to wall sunshine. Cold though. Weird weather.HindleA wrote:@ohsocynical
Stay safe.
Good idea.giselle97 wrote:I think I'll go to this meeting on Wednesday night.
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Hinchin ... story.html
Osborne can say what he wants, that doesn't mean the media have to parrot him. And enough people understand that low prices mean low wages for the whole "wages will soon being growing in real terms" gambit to come across as a bit too uncertain and in the future to create any kind of pre-election feelgood factor.mikems wrote:I suppose Osborne has limited choices : say low inflation is a good thing or blame it all on the last Labour government.
Definitely. Ta very much. As long as they're not UKIP fruit buns.ohsocynical wrote:Hah! Since my last post we now have bright blue skies and wall to wall sunshine. Cold though. Weird weather.HindleA wrote:@ohsocynical
Stay safe.
I'm baking fruit buns today. Anyone?
Here you are giselle, its callled Fast Stone Capture 5.3 this is the version i have - the last free version. There is a charge for all the newer ones but this one works fine. http://www.oldapps.com/fast_stone_captu ... 7#download" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;giselle97 wrote:@TobyLatimer
Hi Toby. I wonder if you could remind me of the name of the prog for capturing images and saving them that you told me about many moons back please. It's on my desktop in the other room but I don't have a monitor for it at the moment so I can't get to it. Many thanks, in anticipation!
GM crops to be fast-tracked in UK following EU vote
GM maize likely to be authorised in near future, as MEPs vote in favour of new rules to allow countries to choose whether to grow GM crops
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... ng-eu-vote
Where to start? The report says comments made by Lord de Mauley have been taken as a tacit confirmation that GM planting will go ahead from 2017 if the Conservatives are elected to government again.Friends of the Earth’s food campaigner, Clare Oxborrow, said: “This decision is good news for nations like Scotland and Wales, whose political leaders have opposed GM crops and can now ban them from their fields. But this ruling is a double-edged sword that could open the door to GM crops being grown in England.”
The new law does allow governments to opt out of GM cultivation either by negotiating with the firms for a territorial exclusion, which the companies may refuse, or by imposing national bans on single crops – which the companies can challenge.
In practice, environmentalists fear that countries wishing to ban GM will face protracted national court cases that graduate to the European court of justice and afford corporate protagonists equal or greater rights to national governments.
That's the one Toby! Many thanks.Toby Latimer wrote:Here you are giselle, its callled Fast Stone Capture 5.3 this is the version i have - the last free version. There is a charge for all the newer ones but this one works fine. http://www.oldapps.com/fast_stone_captu ... 7#download" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;giselle97 wrote:@TobyLatimer
Hi Toby. I wonder if you could remind me of the name of the prog for capturing images and saving them that you told me about many moons back please. It's on my desktop in the other room but I don't have a monitor for it at the moment so I can't get to it. Many thanks, in anticipation!
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 34m 34 minutes ago
Bold @Stephentall doing what I'm not ready to do yet. Predict GE15 with seats & GB vote shares. http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 31m 31 minutes ago
The @stephentall predictions
CON 35 291 MPs
LAB 32 283 MPs
LD 12 32 MPs
UKIP: 11 3 MPs
22 SNP MPs
http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Stephen Doughty @SDoughtyMP 9m9 minutes ago
It's all gone a bit quiet on Tory benches as @edballsmp exposes failure of government to meet promises. I raised low wages + cost of living.
Gordon Marsden MP @GordonMarsden 13m13 minutes ago
#Budget debate Ed Balls forensically laying out why Osborne so wrong on deficit Low wages, poorly paid new/p time jobs, reduced tax receipts
Tom Blenkinsop @TomBlenkinsop 17m17 minutes ago
Osborne has stopped smiling and the benches behind him are now very quiet.
Iain McKenzie MP @InverclydeMP 7m7 minutes ago
SNP very quiet as Ed Balls in HoC spells out just how Labour will balance the books diff than Tories. SNP fail understand Fiscal mandate.
Alex Belardinelli @abelardinelli 4m4 minutes ago
There is nothing competent about borrowing over £200 billion more than you planned - @edballsmp to George Osborne
Stephen Tall? Yahmean Stephen Tall of LibDemVoice?rebeccariots2 wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 34m 34 minutes ago
Bold @Stephentall doing what I'm not ready to do yet. Predict GE15 with seats & GB vote shares. http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 31m 31 minutes ago
The @stephentall predictions
CON 35 291 MPs
LAB 32 283 MPs
LD 12 32 MPs
UKIP: 11 3 MPs
22 SNP MPs
http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTIONS 60: SCOTLAND - EDINBURGH
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/1 ... um=twitter
GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTIONS 61: SCOTLAND - BORDERS & AYRSHIRE
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/1 ... um=twitter
GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTIONS 62: SCOTLAND - GLASGOW SURROUNDS
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/1 ... um=twitter
Idah indeed mean Stephen Tall ex of LibDemVoice! I make no comment on his predictions ... better people read his post for themselves.giselle97 wrote:Stephen Tall? Yahmean Stephen Tall of LibDemVoice?rebeccariots2 wrote:Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 34m 34 minutes ago
Bold @Stephentall doing what I'm not ready to do yet. Predict GE15 with seats & GB vote shares. http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 31m 31 minutes ago
The @stephentall predictions
CON 35 291 MPs
LAB 32 283 MPs
LD 12 32 MPs
UKIP: 11 3 MPs
22 SNP MPs
http://bit.ly/14QiYAe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Government already uses a lot of open source stuff. Also these products are not free, when you start deploying Open source solutions you have a lot of things to consider:mikems wrote:Does anyone know how much the public sector spends on software licenses? I ask because there are obvious savings to be made as they have done in Munich:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/07/muni ... pen-source" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
However, these must be the wrong sort of savings for our government, since it would harm multinational profits if we stopped paying for stuff we don't absolutely need (and which provides a useful gateway into our communications for a foreign power).
This is excellent. Finally, Balls not running scared of fighting Osborne on the economy.rebeccariots2 wrote:Alex Belardinelli @abelardinelli 4m4 minutes ago
There is nothing competent about borrowing over £200 billion more than you planned - @edballsmp to George Osborne
I believe they had 'an intimate dinner' with Mr & Mrs Clooney the other night, chez Geoffrey Robertson QC.giselle97 wrote:I didn't see any reference or hear any reference to the fact that Ed Miliband and Justine Miliband went to Paris at the weekend but this appeared in my Facebook timeline.
Well I wished they'd invited me. George and Ed.gilsey wrote:I believe they had 'an intimate dinner' with Mr & Mrs Clooney the other night, chez Geoffrey Robertson QC.giselle97 wrote:I didn't see any reference or hear any reference to the fact that Ed Miliband and Justine Miliband went to Paris at the weekend but this appeared in my Facebook timeline.
Yes, inflation eats your debt and deflation doesn't, that's the most important thing.mikems wrote:Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Japan has very high levels of public debt and high levels of private savings. That is often offered as an explanation for Japan's decline - people don't buy, business doesn't invest and public stimulus ends up adding to private savings.mikems wrote:
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All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.
Yes, inflation eats your debt and deflation doesn't, that's the most important thing.
Japan has been living with it for 20 years and I wouldn't call it a disaster for them, they're still there.
Are their problems really worse than ours, or the Eurozone's?
Or just different?
Yes, but my point is that isn't always the case and it critically depends on the application and the organisation. As I said government already does lots of open source.mikems wrote:TE,
The link says that despite retraining and other costs there is a pure savings of tens of millions by switching to open source.
giselle97 wrote:Well I wished they'd invited me. George and Ed.gilsey wrote:I believe they had 'an intimate dinner' with Mr & Mrs Clooney the other night, chez Geoffrey Robertson QC.giselle97 wrote:I didn't see any reference or hear any reference to the fact that Ed Miliband and Justine Miliband went to Paris at the weekend but this appeared in my Facebook timeline.
You need a strong stomach to read the tweets in response to him. Cheap, vile abuse follows all politicians so it's hardly surprising some people get 'blocked' by their MP.Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
Everyone was shocked and appalled by the murderous terrorism in France last week. I'm travelling to Paris to join the Unity Rally today.
Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
I was proud to march in solidarity with the French people today #NousSommesCharlie
GENERAL ELECTION PREDICTIONS 63: SCOTLAND - GLASGOW
http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2015/01/1 ... um=twitter
Scotland – Glasgow
Seats: 11
Current Political Makeup: Lab 11
Predicted Political Makeup after May 7: Lab 10, SNP 1
Ditto to the zillioneth power. I'm embarrassed that she's a Labour MP with the stuff she spouts.giselle97 wrote:It's Kate Hooey again. B....r her.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... the-facts/
Not sure about Japan, deflation has been a disaster for them, the good days of the country haven't come back. Just because they still exist doesn't mean they don't have issues.mikems wrote:Japan has very high levels of public debt and high levels of private savings. That is often offered as an explanation for Japan's decline - people don't buy, business doesn't invest and public stimulus ends up adding to private savings.mikems wrote:
Quote:
All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.
Yes, inflation eats your debt and deflation doesn't, that's the most important thing.
Japan has been living with it for 20 years and I wouldn't call it a disaster for them, they're still there.
Are their problems really worse than ours, or the Eurozone's?
Or just different?
But if they didn't have this problem they would have another. The Eurozone problem is really about uneven development in Europe and the dominance of German capital surpluses.
In my opinion the reality is that Japan's industrial expansion came to its natural end and could find no new markets to continue its growth - end of the 80s early 90s. It is really the world's problem, since profits were declining and could only be increased by turning more and more to financialisation of business rather than production of real things, except for the temporary relief of shifting industry to low wage economies and extending credit in 'platform' economies.
(my bold)gilsey wrote:Yes, inflation eats your debt and deflation doesn't, that's the most important thing.mikems wrote:Very important point if there is deflation - prices may fall but your debts go up.All that private debt Osborne is building up becomes massively toxic.
Japan has been living with it for 20 years and I wouldn't call it a disaster for them, they're still there.
Are their problems really worse than ours, or the Eurozone's?
Or just different?
It is now almost a ritual that the first reply to an Ed tweet is some supreme wit squawking "f*** off beaker"pk1 wrote: Ed announced it on his twitter feed:
You need a strong stomach to read the tweets in response to him. Cheap, vile abuse follows all politicians so it's hardly surprising some people get 'blocked' by their MP.Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
Everyone was shocked and appalled by the murderous terrorism in France last week. I'm travelling to Paris to join the Unity Rally today.
Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
I was proud to march in solidarity with the French people today #NousSommesCharlie
I hate ritual abuse.AnatolyKasparov wrote:It is now almost a ritual that the first reply to an Ed tweet is some supreme wit squawking "f*** off beaker"pk1 wrote: Ed announced it on his twitter feed:
You need a strong stomach to read the tweets in response to him. Cheap, vile abuse follows all politicians so it's hardly surprising some people get 'blocked' by their MP.Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
Everyone was shocked and appalled by the murderous terrorism in France last week. I'm travelling to Paris to join the Unity Rally today.
Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband · Jan 11
I was proud to march in solidarity with the French people today #NousSommesCharlie
(thought that was Danny Alexander's nickname, anyway?)
And so it goes on. Companies still seem to be letting go of lots of people, or folding. What new jobs have been announced recently - well paid or otherwise? (Other than sandwich making jobs from next year which they say they have to recruit in Poland for ...).Sainsbury’s: 500 head office staff to lose jobs amid drive to save £500m
Jobs in London, Coventry and Manchester set to go as new boss Mike Coupe tries to reduce supermarket’s running costs
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... manchester
rebeccariots2 wrote:giselle97 wrote:It's Kate Hooey again. B....r her.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehous ... the-facts/
Ditto to the zillioneth power. I'm embarrassed that she's a Labour MP with the stuff she spouts.
I know why Japan is said to have problems.mikems wrote:Japan is said to have problems because profits are down and cannot be revived. It's got nothing to do with the well-being of the Japanese for heaven's sake!
All economic problems tend to boil down to that simple fact, but it often means total upheaval of society to try and get them back at the same levels as before. That's why Thatcher binned industry, why the US dropped the gold standard and forced that on the rest of the world, why the EU has committed itself to ''free and unfettered markets' in a constitutional treaty, why Japan runs such high levels of debt etc, etc.
It is all about profit levels.
All part of the Tory 'rip up regulations' lust - to allow their monied developer pals to do what they want and profit with no contribution to society. It says something when Tory councils are going on the record saying this policy is a disaster.Affordable rural housing under threat
Fear that scrapping planning rules to build cheaper homes will make villages off limits to all but the wealthiest
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... new-threat
... For Lewis Rose, the Conservative leader of Derbyshire Dales district council, the provision of affordable rural housing has been high on his list of priorities. By using the planning system to raise extra money from developers, his authority created a ringfenced fund to leverage cash from housing associations and plug a hole left by declining government grants.
“It had wide support,” he says. “People realised that youngsters cannot afford to stay in the area unless we do all we can to make it easier for them through reducing housing costs.”
Over the past 10 years, the council has channelled £1.2m to associations to help deliver more than 1,000 homes from shared ownership to social renting. “They torpedoed our scheme at a stroke by an arbitrary change to planning rules,” Rose says of the Pickles directive. “It came out of the blue. It meant that our whole affordable housing strategy was severely damaged. I was appalled.”
The result for Derbyshire Dales was immediate. A further £407,000 of funding in the pipeline was lost. “I am afraid ‘Mr Builder’ will not provide affordable housing left to himself,” Rose says.
He complained to his local Tory MP, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin. “I think he was taken aback because he realises the seriousness of the matter,” says the council leader. McLoughlin is now looking into an issue which, across England, has pitched Tory councils, and many other organisations, against a seemingly obdurate Department for Communities and Local Government...
(my bold)mikems wrote:Japan is said to have problems because profits are down and cannot be revived. It's got nothing to do with the well-being of the Japanese for heaven's sake!
All economic problems tend to boil down to that simple fact, but it often means total upheaval of society to try and get them back at the same levels as before. That's why Thatcher binned industry, why the US dropped the gold standard and forced that on the rest of the world, why the EU has committed itself to ''free and unfettered markets' in a constitutional treaty, why Japan runs such high levels of debt etc, etc.
It is all about profit levels.