Tuesday 14th March 2017

[HindleA]

https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2017/03/discr ... rm-awards/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Discretionary Housing Payments and long term awards

(Hammersmith & Fulham)



This was a judicial review of H&F’s refusal of Discretionary Housing Payments to Ms H. Ms H has severe autism and learning and behavioural difficulties. She requires one-to-one care, suffered from extreme anxiety and so had vital and complex accommodation needs, including a very quiet environment.

[tinyclanger2]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ote-brexit" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I voted yes, but feel ill at the thought of another referendum in Scotland

I should be pleased, yet I paused, caught in flashbacks to 2014. The depth of the disappointment. The mental exhaustion. The tattered friendships. Bruised egos. All a heavy price – the weight only apparent when you try to return to normality. I’ve come to the uncomfortable conclusion that wanting independence and desiring a new referendum aren’t necessarily the same.

Yes.

[tinyclanger2]

On the other hand

After the SNP leader announced a renewed drive to break away from the UK, Labour and Liberal Democrat sources cast doubt on whether a campaign uniting the big Westminster parties is possible.

It raises the prospect that Ms Sturgeon may only face the kind of fragmented movement that tried and failed to prevent Brexit, with each political party attempting to make its own different arguments.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 30291.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Divided we fall.

[PorFavor]

Theresa May expected to tour UK in effort to forge Brexit consensus (Guardian)

Theresa May - Unplugged

I hear the support act is rumoured to be Nigel Farage.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -consensus

[citizenJA]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... article-50
Things to do before we POINTLESSLY DIVORCE from Europe

(Don't call Brexit 'divorce' from EU, Theresa May tells MPs - Politics live
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/bl ... itics-live" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

Has she decreed it to be not nisi?

She took control of our hearts, declaring we ALL felt [Approved T May Feeling] inside. We're no longer allowed to called the 'Brexit' divorce a divorce.

[Eric_WLothian]

Theresa May expected to tour UK in effort to forge Brexit consensus (Guardian)

Theresa May - Unplugged

I hear the support act is rumoured to be Nigel Farage.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -consensus

I think there's a 't' missing just before 'Brexit'.

[tinyclanger2]

Divorce means divorce

[citizenJA]

Divorce means divorce

Thou art a BLASPHEMER!

[tinyclanger2]

Divorce means divorce

Thou art a BLASPHEMER!

Theresa May: come-an'ava'go-ifyathinkyer'ardenough

(as we used to say)

[HindleA]

# George Galloway I have been assailed all day by a "children's book community" so vile and vicious I'm amazed they even let them near kids


#Winnie The Pooh Tosser

[PorFavor]

Divorce means divorce

Thou art a BLASPHEMER!

Theresa May: come-an'ava'go-ifyathinkyer'ardenough

(as we used to say)

And the onlookers shouted, "Leave i', Dominic [Grieve]. She might be deranged bu' she's not wurf i'."

So he did.

[citizenJA]

Theresa May was subjected to derisive laughter from opposition MPs after suggesting that she tried to give the EU advice on how best to move forward with the single market after Brexit.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 29136.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't think it'll have much effect, the laughter

The opposition was united in laughing at T May's absurdness
Don't stop feeling the unity, opposition
Laugh some more

[citizenJA]

Hey, 62 Guests!
howdy

[adam]

Have recently started to worry about Shetland ponies. And horses in general.

They are either massive philosophers, bored to death, or a bit limited in their goals.

Which is it?

“It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them.

On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.”

Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

[PorFavor]

Hey, 62 Guests!
howdy

I wish you hadn't said that. I've come over all shy. And I've been saying some very silly things.

[citizenJA]

Hey, 62 Guests!
howdy

I wish you hadn't said that. I've come over all shy. And I've been saying some very silly things.

It's your wit keeping this place alive
laugh, laugh!

[tinyclanger2]

Hey, 62 Guests!
howdy

I wish you hadn't said that. I've come over all shy. And I've been saying some very silly things.

It's your wit keeping this place alive
laugh, laugh!

It's the guerrilla punctuating.

[adam]

Hey, 62 Guests!
howdy

I wish you hadn't said that. I've come over all shy. And I've been saying some very silly things.

Would it make it better or much, much worse if I said that most of them were spiders from search engines?

[citizenJA]

oops

[tinyclanger2]

much much worse

[PorFavor]

I'm zedhausted.

Night night.

[citizenJA]

I'm zedhausted.

Night night.

You're wonderful.
Goodnight, PorFavor.

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

[RogerOThornhill]

So what happens when you institute a policy of competitive tendering?

This - whiny losers throwing their toys out of the pram.

Virgin Care starts legal proceedings against NHS

https://www.hsj.co.uk/topics/legal/virg ... 25.article

A private provider has launched legal proceedings against eight NHS commissioners after losing a bid for a £82m children’s community services contract.

"It's not fair!!"

I fear my stalker* may have missed my point entirely - it's not about who takes who to court after winning or losing a bid - it's the very fact that competitive tendering exists in the first place. This market system that infests the NHS (and yes, I blame the New Labour "public sector reform" types too) needs to go. Too much time and money spent on something which is unnecessary and does nothing about the central issues facing NHS and social care.


* and yes, given these bizarre tweets, that's exactly what he is. Totally beyond my comprehension whys someone would want to tweet this stuff. To get a reaction? Seriously, who cares?

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[HindleA]

#Dr Phil Hammond


NHS wastes a fortune on competitive tendering, & is set to waste even more now VirginCare are suing NHS for not getting awarded a tender


As for rusty & friends,beyond self parody,pass.

[HindleA]

Allison Pearson accusing people of libel on twitter for comments on her piece on Sturgeon-original headline included-off with her head!




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politi ... g_share_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Shetland ponies may want to seek legal advice.

[HindleA]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/liv ... hel-maddow" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Trump tax return: MSNBC report sparks angry White House response – live

[HindleA]

David Cay Johnston opened his interview on the Maddow show by questioning whether Trump might have leaked the returns himself; if he did, he could hardly have chosen a better document. The 1040, with no schedules attached to elucidate the way Trump’s vast empire of holdings breaks down, states merely that Trump paid $38m in taxes for the year 2005 – the very earliest year he’d have disclosed, had he released his taxes the way every president post-Nixon has customarily done.

For that year, the $38m Trump appears to have paid to the federal government works out to a 25% effective rate - in 2005, the very highest tax bracket was only 35%, and capital gains were still 15%. It could easily be the year he paid the absolute most in taxes. The taxes themselves say “client copy” on them, so whoever sent them to Johnston had access to Trump’s personal files, rather than those belonging to his accountant or the Internal Revenue Service.