Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th March 2017

[HindleA]

Doing the same thing twice, expecting different results.


Nearly Legal


Re.HB cuts for 18-21 yr.olds.

[tinybgoat]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-election

By ruling out an election, Mrs May is taking a rather enormous bet that all versions of tomorrow will look pretty much the same as today. The vicar’s daughter is actually taking quite the gamble.

[Willow904]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-election

By ruling out an election, Mrs May is taking a rather enormous bet that all versions of tomorrow will look pretty much the same as today. The vicar’s daughter is actually taking quite the gamble.

Going to the country means coming up with a detailed post-Brexit policy to be savaged by her opponents and expected by her supporters. Why on earth would she do that, when she can keep her plans secret and claim anything she achieves is what she wanted all along?

[Willow904]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... exit-trump" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The UK’s privacy watchdog is launching an inquiry into how voters’ personal data is being captured and exploited in political campaigns, cited as a key factor in both the Brexit and Trump victories last year.

The intervention by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) follows revelations in last week’s Observer that a technology company part-owned by a US billionaire played a key role in the campaign to persuade Britons to vote to leave the European Union.

Too late now, though, isn't it? Hope the rest of Europe has learned from Brexit and Trump and is better prepared.

BTW, does anyone know if anything is going to happen with the Tory electoral fraud allegations?

[gilsey]

BTW, does anyone know if anything is going to happen with the Tory electoral fraud allegations?

It cropped up on my twitter feed a couple of times, about 6 including Thanet being taken forward, if I see it again I'll be sure to post it here.

Nothing here after November.
http://www.electionexpenses.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tinybgoat]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... y-election

By ruling out an election, Mrs May is taking a rather enormous bet that all versions of tomorrow will look pretty much the same as today. The vicar’s daughter is actually taking quite the gamble.

Going to the country means coming up with a detailed post-Brexit policy to be savaged by her opponents and expected by her supporters. Why on earth would she do that, when she can keep her plans secret and claim anything she achieves is what she wanted all along?

Good point, Keegan seems to be saying she should stand saying she's delivering on leaving Europe, so I suppose a manifesto wouldn't have to detail post brexit strategy, but then, why bother, it might give a few more years until the next year's but could (partly because of article 50 process, partly through possible changes to fixed term rule) increase likelihood of another election before then

[gilsey]

There was an article in the Times, follow Mike Smithson as well as Michael Crick for news.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elect ... -w8r5cdmn2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[gilsey]

In praise of cash
https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-repla ... ll-be-lost" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tinybgoat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03 ... u-citizens

Theresa May is facing growing Brexit pressure on multiple fronts as Tories challenge her renegotiation stance and fresh questions about the impact on the economy arise.

[Willow904]

There was an article in the Times, follow Mike Smithson as well as Michael Crick for news.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/elect ... -w8r5cdmn2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good tip. I found this:

Michael Crick Retweeted

4 Mar
Mike Smithson‏ @MSmithsonPB
CON GE2015 expenses probe: Times on Number 10 says issue now “occupying as much as 20 per cent of non-governing head space”.

That's a lot of head space!

[Willow904]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03 ... u-citizens

Theresa May is facing growing Brexit pressure on multiple fronts as Tories challenge her renegotiation stance and fresh questions about the impact on the economy arise.

The article suggests that the Lords will support an amendment on Tuesday for a parliament vote on the final deal, but that this is likely to be rejected when it comes back to the Commons. As such, it makes Theresa May's concession on a 'meaningful' vote look pretty worthless.

[HindleA]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hou ... 12321.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Getting rid of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds won't even save us that much money – it's ideological cruelty

[Willow904]

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hou ... 12321.html


Getting rid of housing benefit for 18 to 21-year-olds won't even save us that much money – it's ideological cruelty

The pattern is extremely clear. Many welfare cuts are being aimed solely at new claimants. The welfare state is being dismantled by stealth, by withdrawing benefits from the next generation that the current one receives, safe in the knowledge that those affected are not numerous enough to outvote those who aren't affected and are also unaware of what's happening because of the lack of outrage and reporting in the popular press.

[HindleA]

Doing the same thing twice, expecting different results.


Nearly Legal


Re.HB cuts for 18-21 yr.olds.

Missing link


https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2017/03/thing ... t-results/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tinybgoat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03 ... u-citizens

Theresa May is facing growing Brexit pressure on multiple fronts as Tories challenge her renegotiation stance and fresh questions about the impact on the economy arise.

The article suggests that the Lords will support an amendment on Tuesday for a parliament vote on the final deal, but that this is likely to be rejected when it comes back to the Commons. As such, it makes Theresa May's concession on a 'meaningful' vote look pretty worthless.

Have to admit i'd misread article slightly, taking senior Eurosceptics as meaning mps not just peers, but it does suggest that pressure is increasing for some of the amendments.
If house of lords amendments are rejected, is there not still the possibility of them being revisited separate to the article 50 bill, ie. there's 2 years before the final deal, before which other legislation could be brought in?

[HindleA]

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/boo ... ch-us-abou" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Fictions of fascism: what twentieth century dystopia can (and can't) teach us about Trump

[citizenJA]

Good-evening, everyone.

[citizenJA]

The housing benefit cap was first announced by George Osborne as part of a drive to cut £10bn from the benefits bill. But the policy is backfiring, and hitting those in work and landing local authorities with the bill for emergency housing for the homeless.

The number of households that have become homeless after an eviction over the past year is up 12% compared with a year ago at 18,820 while the total number of households in temporary accommodation has risen to 74,630, up 9% on a year earlier. Eviction by private landlord is now the most common cause of homelessness.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... melessness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Tory government don't help regular people, they cause misery. We need a functional Labour government. Deliver us from evil. It hurts, people are hurting and leadership got to sort it out or we die before our time. Catastrophic changes happening caused by leadership choosing harm.

[howsillyofme1]

The housing benefit cap was first announced by George Osborne as part of a drive to cut £10bn from the benefits bill. But the policy is backfiring, and hitting those in work and landing local authorities with the bill for emergency housing for the homeless.

The number of households that have become homeless after an eviction over the past year is up 12% compared with a year ago at 18,820 while the total number of households in temporary accommodation has risen to 74,630, up 9% on a year earlier. Eviction by private landlord is now the most common cause of homelessness.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... melessness" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Tory government don't help regular people, they cause misery. We need a functional Labour government. Deliver us from evil. It hurts, people are hurting and leadership got to sort it out or we die before our time. Catastrophic changes happening caused by leadership choosing harm.

Either May goes tot he country earlier because she thinks she will win a big majority, and even then it is unlikely, or she thinks in some way Labour could win then she will not do so and the next election will be 2020.......so 2020 is the very best option

Shows you what a disaster the loss in 2015 was

Boundary changes
Labour non-existant in Scotland
Lib Dems wiped out in the South
EU Referendum
A divided Labour Party (this is self-inflicted)

The people who should look in the mirror were the ones who let the Tories blame Labour for 2008 crash, who allowed Miliband to be used as the proxies in the Scottish referendum and those in the party who couldn't stop undermining the 'wrong' brother - remeber the indecent haste in which Progress blamed the loss on being 'too left wing'

The current situation is due to this defeat...and are those who were culpable for it in the Labour movement ever apologised to us....or have they just carried on as they did before - plotting and undermining the party

Changing the leadership will not change anything...there is poison in the party

[citizenJA]

I wrote nothing about changing Labour leadership, I asked for a functional Labour party in government.

[HindleA]

https://speye.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/ ... it-policy/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Many hostels to close next month due to idiotic Tory benefit policy

[HindleA]

A couple of links,I know others are appreciative of,SH obvious attempts to undermine only makes me link more rather than less.From Friday


https://www.nao.org.uk/report/personali ... cial-care/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://www.nao.org.uk/report/local-sup ... isability/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


National Audit Office Reports into personalised commissioning and local support for people with learning disabilities(and related de incarceration)

[HindleA]

http://www.parliament.uk/business/commi ... ort-16-17/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Government must commit to closing social care funding gap



DCLG Select Committee

[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... nds-budget" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


BMA calls for extra £10bn a year for NHS in Hammond's budget

[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... a-of-japan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


North Korea fires four missiles into Sea of Japan