FlyTheNest

GeoffWhit NicholasB 3m ago

Presumably you're in favour of a concomitant reduction in VAT rates, similar to the one that 'prevailed almost all the time under Labour'?

RogerOThornhill wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Barry Sheerman ‏@BarrySheerman 51m51 minutes ago
A new concept "we will re-broker failing academies" Nicky Morgan @BBCr4today

It's not new - they've been doing this for a while - something like 60 academies (IIRC) have changed sponsors.

AET handed back 8 academies because they couldn't cope with the geographical spread - shame they didn't point this out when they were handed to them eh?

StephenDolan wrote:I miss Ed.

The SNP have protested strongly after it was reported that ministers intend to announce on Thursday plans to introduce “English votes for English laws” (Evel) by changing Commons standing orders. Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Wesminster, said he has written to David Cameron about this.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

citizenJA wrote:"Would Greeks still be able to travel abroad and withdraw their money from the nearest foreign cashpoint, or are all their accounts completely frozen?"

http://discussion.theguardian.com/comme ... k/54627152" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Anyone know the answer to this here?

Assume there are daily limits outside Greece.

Cyprus had capital controls- finally lifted a couple of months ago.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Like this chap.

GeoffWhit NicholasB 3m ago

Presumably you're in favour of a concomitant reduction in VAT rates, similar to the one that 'prevailed almost all the time under Labour'?

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

The SNP have protested strongly after it was reported that ministers intend to announce on Thursday plans to introduce “English votes for English laws” (Evel) by changing Commons standing orders. Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Wesminster, said he has written to David Cameron about this.

You wanted them to win.

You'd better hope that Cameron keep his swivel eyed loons in check, so that the two of you can play the same mutually-reinforcing game again in 2020.

As news of the third bailout request sent ripples through the eurozone, Greece’s finance minister left the finance ministry.
His destination -- the prime minister’s residence, Maximos Mansion, for a meeting. First though, Yanis Varoufakis had to negotiate his way through the Athens traffic, and the gridlock of reporters outside his office. Other members of Greece’s negotiating team have joined Yanis Varoufakis and Alexis Tsipras at the PM’s mansion to discuss the situation
(in a blow for photographers, they didn’t all arrive on motorbikes)
http://www.theguardian.com/business/liv ... bfe53fc0a5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

RogerOThornhill wrote:Talking of academy chains...two reports from yesterday.

1. South Shore Academy.
Last Ofsted in Jan 2013 - Inadequate
Sponsored w.e.f. 1st Dec 2013 with Bright Futures
Latest Ofsted - Inadequate and in special measures

Leadership is inadequate and has been so since the academy’s opening.
The governance provided by the trust and the local governing body is inadequate.

2. Manchester Creative and Media Academy
Sponsored since Sept 2009 by The Manchester College (although Ofsted says Microsoft and Manchester City Council which is a bit odd)
Last Ofsted in June 2013 - Requires Improvement
Latest Ofsted - Inadequate with serious weaknesses

Wait for it...

The sponsorship of the academy is in a transitional phase. Current sponsors, Microsoft and Manchester City Council, are in the process of handing over to the Bright Futures Educational Trust.

Doh!

ohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.

Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.

ephemerid wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.

Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.

Hello OhSo.

Sending you and Mr.OhSo a big hug.

Everyone - I'm not sure that the Greek crisis is as urgent as everyone seems to think; the creditors have 30 days to report a default, so there is plenty of wriggle-room yet.

Meanwhile - I am very sure that some of the people holding high office in the EU and elsewhere have forgotten the basic principle of democracy. The people decide.

Why this idea that Tsipras is wrong to do what he's doing has gained traction is beyond me. He's doing what he said he would do if elected. Others would do well to emulate him.

I can't help it. I fancy Yanis Varoufakis something chronic.......

HindleA wrote:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/30 ... 5686833466

Universal Credit white elephant needs 'urgent breakthrough' says MP


The policy as it stands is unimplementable and needs to be reworked at a political level," said independent consultant and analyst Brian Wernham. "The civil service has tried three times now to implement the policy and have failed. When you keep banging your head against a brick wall and its hurting, the logical thing to do is stop."

PorFavor wrote:Goodnight, everyone.

Greeks abroad have credit cards rejected amid confusion over capital controls
Analysts say Greek banks are interpreting rules in different ways, with some authorising foreign transactions and others refusing payments

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/j ... edit-cards" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

citizenJA wrote:

Greeks abroad have credit cards rejected amid confusion over capital controls
Analysts say Greek banks are interpreting rules in different ways, with some authorising foreign transactions and others refusing payments

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/j ... edit-cards" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This horseshit doesn't need to be happening.
We are all Greeks.

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

The SNP have protested strongly after it was reported that ministers intend to announce on Thursday plans to introduce “English votes for English laws” (Evel) by changing Commons standing orders. Angus Robertson, the SNP leader at Wesminster, said he has written to David Cameron about this.

You wanted them to win.

You'd better hope that Cameron keep his swivel eyed loons in check, so that the two of you can play the same mutually-reinforcing game again in 2020.

An interesting move, but really if you are going to alter the basis of British parliamentary democracy you should do it via legislation.

ephemerid wrote: I can't help it. I fancy Yanis Varoufakis something chronic.......

rebeccariots2 wrote:

ephemerid wrote: I can't help it. I fancy Yanis Varoufakis something chronic.......

And you've never felt the same way about George Osborne - our newly svelte Chancellor? Funny that.

StephenDolan wrote:I miss Ed.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

citizenJA wrote:

Greeks abroad have credit cards rejected amid confusion over capital controls
Analysts say Greek banks are interpreting rules in different ways, with some authorising foreign transactions and others refusing payments

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/j ... edit-cards" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

This horseshit doesn't need to be happening.
We are all Greeks.

It doesn't, and we are.

Trouble is that it's not a good sign for any Greece "on its own".

LadyCentauria wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:I miss Ed.

Me too

LadyCentauria wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:I miss Ed.

Me too

All of which is unnecessary. Greece made mistakes in its economy, for sure. As a result it has paid an incredible price in the destruction of physical, human and monetary capital over the past five years. It cannot be expected to bear more. The Greek government has been right to say that the time to say enough has arrived. It was time for the EU, IMF and ECB to say debt write down had to be on the agenda. But austerity and more misery for the people of Greece has been instead. It is as if the lessons of 1919 had never been learned, most especially by the Germans.

Recriminations, referenda, and offers can come now but the point where the damage might have become irreparable may have already been reached. Can anyone trust their supposed partners again when they make clear that in an hour of need the answer to the question will be no? Because that is what has been said today.

In that context the argument about ever closer union is meaningless.
And the argument about monetary union is just nonsense.
There is just power. Ugly, brutal, financial power apparently exercise by homo economicus without compassion, as the breed demands.
And when faced with that no one can be sure how homo sapiens will respond.
That’s what worries me: this is a tragedy in the making.

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015 ... weEr2.dpuf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

...whatever it says on the ballot paper in Greece the real choice, according to Europe’s elite, is different. They are saying to the people of Greece that the referendum is about staying in the euro, or not. And there is little, if anything, that is subtle about their approach. It is a ‘shut up, do as you’re told, take the medicine and live under our protection’ argument that many a feudalist would have been entirely familiar with.

And what they are also delivering is a ‘get rid of Syriza and Tsipras’ message. As the Guardian has noted, the unspoken message from Germany is that Tsipras is a dangerous man on a mission who has to be stopped because he is a threat to the European order.

http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015 ... sm8R2.dpuf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

StephenDolan wrote:I miss Ed.

Remarkably, he seems to have taken last month better than most of his supporters

Bonnie Greer retweeted
Noble Francis ‏@NobleFrancis 12h12 hours ago
@Bonn1eGreer Before people get excited, despite the promises, there has been no rebalancing in the UK Economy...

Bonnie Greer retweeted
Noble Francis ‏@NobleFrancis 11h11 hours ago
@Bonn1eGreer Only Services (8.6% higher than where it was seven years ago) has driven the UK economic recovery.

Bonnie Greer retweeted
Noble Francis ‏@NobleFrancis 11h11 hours ago
@Bonn1eGreer UK manufacturing in Q1 was 4.5% below where it was in seven years ago & #construction 3.2% below.

HindleA wrote:@RR2

Construction and production at the weakest growth in two years.

http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2015/06/sa ... everaging/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

John McDonnell ‏@johnmcdonnellMP 39m39 minutes ago
BBC claiming Davies supporting Heathrow 3rd Runway.If correct this will provoke greatest environmental campaign this country has ever seen

rebeccariots2 wrote:

John McDonnell ‏@johnmcdonnellMP 39m39 minutes ago
BBC claiming Davies supporting Heathrow 3rd Runway.If correct this will provoke greatest environmental campaign this country has ever seen