FlyTheNest

How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics

A spokesman for NHS England said that by the end of this week, plans for at least half of the reviews would be published - and the intention had always been to consult on the final plans if major changes were going to be made.
"I am sure there are things that could be learnt about the process. But when you are trying to improve care across a whole system, things are never going to be straightforward," added Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's medical director.
However, Councillor Izzi Seccombe, of the Local Government Association, which represents councils, suggested the stance was a sham - as the public would in effect be consulted on "pre-determined solutions".

Obama’s chance for the most perfect revenge that would never be picked up on as revenge at all...................he would have treated Trump like an equal, and brought the discussion to a level that assumes far more of Trump than anyone has so far. Assumes that he’s an adult who’s been paying attention. Statistics, esoteric minutiae about the executive branch procedure, economic growth numbers, labor figures, domestic policies, countries Trump has never even heard of, shit that would never in a million years have been in Trump’s campaign soundbites or digestible summaries.
No way to escape. No aides to remember any of it for him. Just the two of them.

England’s higher education system is “in tatters”, according to a leading think-tank, with some qualifications “on the verge of total collapse”.

A report by Professor Alison Wolf of King’s College London has found that an increase in university graduates has resulted in “an unsustainable” funding system, while technical qualifications below degree level have suffered a “steep decline” in student numbers.

The growing number of graduates, meanwhile, has resulted in 30 per cent of the English workforce being overqualified for their role, compared with an OECD average of 22 per cent.

Baroness Wolf warned that increasing numbers of graduate students would lead to more government debt, as 70 per cent of full-time students taking out a loan are forecast not to repay it.

The trend of rising graduate numbers and declining technical qualifications will result in “huge costs for both the taxpayer and for students carrying loans for university study”, she said.

the STPs. Why is everyone on their case?

Think about it. There is huge demand and virtually no way to do much about it, other than analyse flow and divert it. Segment the users, redefine what care looks like, who does it and where.

That's called having a plan. To give the plans traction we have to have an overarching group of people who can pull the plan together. That's what we used to call a strategic health authority. Before that, a Regional Health Authority.

LaLa scrapped them and we are paying the price for trying to work without them. Hence STPs. They are a cobbled together, make-do-and-mend, lashed up solutions.

Most STPs plans are far from oven-ready and need the time and space to get heads around what happens next. Leaking half baked documents is childish and feeds the egos of the 'know-betters' and deceives the public who may not realise, by law, in the end, will always have to be consulted in the normal way.

MPs, nervous about keeping their seats, shouldn't start hares running; it invites questions about why they voted for austerity economics that's made all this dismantling necessary.

We have to allow the STPs to do their job. Some will fail and we will learn. Some will be stunning and we will learn.

STPs are not the new kids on the block. They are the only kids on the block; to see us though the life and death weeks that we have left.

SpinningHugo wrote:What Trump and Corbyn had in common was social media. People like living in their closed bubble worlds, untroubled by voices they don't want to hear. Particularly voices saying "it is more complex than that."

The other thing in common seems to be dislike for Nato, and deep sympathy for Putin, bit that is rather different.

NonOxCol wrote:Normalization in action:

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frightful_oik wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:What Trump and Corbyn had in common was social media. People like living in their closed bubble worlds, untroubled by voices they don't want to hear. Particularly voices saying "it is more complex than that."

The other thing in common seems to be dislike for Nato, and deep sympathy for Putin, bit that is rather different.

Fortunately, we have you to think for us Hugo.

ScarletGas wrote:So the reason/excuse given for the remembrance day interview with Marine Le Pen was to "hold her to account"

We are living in an age where we are constantly surprised but I am genuinely amazed that anyone can really think that any BBC TV interviewer (with the possible exception of Andrew Neil/James O'Brien) can hold anyone to account.

Blimey if Andrew Marr is the best you've got then we really are in trouble!

Pre scripted questions with very little in the way of allowance for follow up or questioning of answers means that we rarely get any light or substance from any interviewee save for the message they want to put across.

We are now subject to "post truth" politics like never before and there seems very little any of the broadcasting organisations are willing/able to counteract the ability of politicians or any public figure to (lets call it what it really is) lie with impunity.

Now with proven liars at the heart of our political systems with no one to call them out it is staggering (to me) that the political class (and here I include political reporters/interviewers) are confused as to the disdain and disrepute they are currently viewed by the general public.

But whether they really care is another question.......................

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Andrew Marr is a notoriously "soft" interviewer (except when he is quizzing somebody to the left of Blair, anyway)

Sweden's chief prosecutor is questioning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about a rape allegation at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

tinybgoat wrote:

frightful_oik wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:What Trump and Corbyn had in common was social media. People like living in their closed bubble worlds, untroubled by voices they don't want to hear. Particularly voices saying "it is more complex than that."

The other thing in common seems to be dislike for Nato, and deep sympathy for Putin, bit that is rather different.

Fortunately, we have you to think for us Hugo.

Hmm, there are remarkable similarities though,
The 'make America great again' baseball cap bears a strikingly similarity to the 'JezWeCan' one for starters.

NonOxCol wrote:55-year-old English man fluent in Spanish, after working in media for two decades, has somehow never come across the word "dystopia".

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Willow904 wrote:Yvette Cooper was just on Daily Politics making the case for staying in the single market. She was very effective with her arguments as well. Hopefully we'll see more of this.

Willow904 wrote:Yvette Cooper was just on Daily Politics making the case for staying in the single market. She was very effective with her arguments as well. Hopefully we'll see more of this.

JP Morgan: Trump's stimulus plan would be dangerous

Donald Trump’s plan to boost US economic growth by rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure is dangerous and unnecessary, claims JP Morgan’s chief global strategist, David Kelly.

Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers shares JP Morgan’s concerns about Trump’s infrastructure investment plan.

Writing in the Financial Times, Summers argues that the scheme won’t address the parts of America that most need improving, won’t get key private sector investors involved, and risks pushing borrowing to dangerous levels

NonOxCol wrote:

So the BBC, which went after Labour anti-Semitism like the proverbial dog with a bone, has failed to use the term in connection with Steve Bannon.

What a fucking surprise. What a bloody disgrace it is.

JonnyT1234 wrote:The none too subtle message from the news that Obama is having to tutor Trump on how to be a president: Americans, you just elected an idiot.

Do you think many of them will notice?

JonnyT1234 wrote:Staying in the single market and limits on free movement cannot exist. It's a pipe dream. The EU is never going to agree to it, particularly the Eastern European components of it. At least, not without extracting an extortionate cost from us. Which the Tories are probably stupid enough to agree to. I remain to be convinced that the majority of the PLP is less stupid.

"There have been heavy losses across the government bond markets today, both in developed and emerging economies"

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Tory MP Attacks Theresa May On Bedroom Tax And Disability Cuts

(John Redwood)

JonnyT1234 wrote:The none too subtle message from the news that Obama is having to tutor Trump on how to be a president: Americans, you just elected an idiot.

Do you think many of them will notice?

yahyah wrote:Good old Carwyn Jones pointing out Farage's hypocrisy.

Farage is a ''grinning poppyless poppinjay in a gold lift with Donald Trump.''

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I will never insist that anyone must wear a poppy, or attend remembrance events. This is a free country, and people choose to remember in different ways.

But, hypocrisy is something else altogether. You don’t get to appropriate the Battle of Britain in your campaign literature, only to prioritise transatlantic photo-ops a few months later. (Independent)