FlyTheNest

Morning,


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/gove ... l-mobility" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


A new report published by the Social Mobility Commission today (Monday 3 July) into the impact of low-cost home ownership schemes found that those benefitting from schemes - such as Help to Buy - earn more than one and a half times the national working age median income.

Around 3 in 5 first-time buyers said that they would have bought anyway and that the scheme merely enabled them to buy a better property, or one in a better area, than they were originally looking for.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ip-schemes" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40476867" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


More UK nurses and midwives leaving than joining profession

Good morfternoon.

From yesterday - (sorry if we've already had it) -

Virgin Trains feels heat after blaming delays on drivers taking rest days

Angry Twitter response after company says rail cancellations were due to drivers not volunteering to work on scheduled days off

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... of-service

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... al-housing" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017 ... table.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Was neo-liberal overreach inevitable

Wren-Lewis

Corbyn supporters are not a cult
Dr Robin Bunce
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analy ... ot-a-cult-" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Much of the concern about a 'Corbyn cult' presupposes that some forms of political participation are legitimate, whilst others are inherently suspicious. Specifically, engaging in policy discussion is put at the top of the hierarchy of legitimate engagement, while cheering at a gig is relegated to the bottom.

what would a society be like if its heroes were cyclists who made jam in their spare time? If Britain's heroes were people who lived in sixties terraces, people who don't know all six verses of the national anthem, people who had opposed Apartheid in the 80s, and the Iraq war in the noughties, maybe a society with that kind of a hero would be a decent one?

IFS Publication from 10th May this year - What's Been Happening to Corporation Tax

Cuts to corporation tax rates announced between 2010 and 2016 are estimated to reduce revenues by at least £16.5 billion a year in the short to medium run. Accounting for measures that raise revenue, including anti-avoidance measures, onshore corporate tax policies over this period reduce revenues by an estimated £12.4 billion a year. Changes to corporate tax have represented some of the largest giveaways in both parliaments since 2010.

Shocked, etc...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... are_btn_tw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

DCMS to become the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport


https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chan ... e-for-dcms" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ccupations" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Research and analysis
Wage growth in Pay Review Body Occupations

"A tie is a mark of birth,marriage,death,role play or interview"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... and-family" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


New Jersey governor Chris Christie lounges on beach he shut to the public.

Good-afternoon, everyone

"4 minute warning"

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

Hinkley Point C is £2.2bn over budget and a year behind schedule, EDF admits

https://nathanleedavies.wordpress.com/2 ... ecipiants/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


CALL OUT TO WELSH INDEPENDENT LIVING GRANT (WILG) RECIPIENTS

Due to close April'19.

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... are_btn_tw

As with basic income, this could be a idea about to come into fashion.

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Personal assistance and the disabled People’s independent living movement.

So looks like the latest u-turn on public sector pay is off. Until it is on again.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:So looks like the latest u-turn on public sector pay is off. Until it is on again.

It's on again.

Difficult to keep up, tbh

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Difficult to keep up, tbh

Perhaps Hammond or May can clarify?

StephenDolan wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Difficult to keep up, tbh

Perhaps Hammond or May can clarify?

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HindleA wrote:http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1625483 ... ours-front

Some decent appointments there, certainly rather them than the overhyped has-been "big names" some in the MSM are still obsessed about.

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One of Britain’s first ever Police and Crime Commissioners passed on confidential information about a criminal investigation into MP Peter Bone to Tory colleagues, a court heard. Adam Simmonds, 40, allegedly disclosed details of the criminal investigation into the Tory MP for Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, between November 2013 and May 2014

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

HindleA wrote:http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1625483 ... ours-front

Some decent appointments there, certainly rather them than the overhyped has-been "big names" some in the MSM are still obsessed about.

Who?

The one I know personally is not very good.

Woke up from brief locally induced catatonia to see this:

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Reverse it,who isn't decent and why.

and because I've not said it for a while:


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Preferably" in comparison",your theme is they are as shit as the Tories,

Had to give my own sound effects.Must be something wrong with the volume.A repeated joke but no worse than the last time.I can't hear the groans/tutting in any case.

Abba exhibition to look at how group lifted Britain in bleak times
The brash Swedes became superstars when UK was a grim, pessimistic nation of strikes, power cuts and Vesta chow mein
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/ ... leak-times" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Yes. We need a new Abba for our current grim pessimistic times.

India plants 66 million trees in 12 hours as part of record-breaking environmental campaign
More than 1.5 million volunteers were involved in the huge operation
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 20416.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Cool

'74?

Decent League Champions for a change,a Minister actually for the disabled,instigation of bespoke benefits/allowances for the first time,school being partially burnt down and replaced with a community centre and a swimming pool which replaced the Victorian death trap experience" .It's only Rock'n'Roll" but I liked it.

Check proximity of light fittings when recreating teenage attempts at Mick Jagger leapings,reminder.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... er-funding" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


'Clock is ticking': 4,000 headteachers urge MPs for clarity over funding
Headteachers from 17 counties across England have written to ministers to warn schools are ‘running on empty and need clarity and support now’

Sad to see the ignorance/objections to a basic reasonable adjustment regarding O'Mara.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... dApp_Tweet" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Martin Rowson on the Conservatives and public sector pay

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

Destitution is back. And we can’t just ignore it

Patrick Butler

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... 16-to-2017" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

DWP annual report and accounts 2016 to 2017

http://www.dictionary.com/slideshows/12 ... ed-Me-What" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Slideshow
12 Insults We Should Bring Back

SpinningHugo wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

HindleA wrote:http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1625483 ... ours-front

Some decent appointments there, certainly rather them than the overhyped has-been "big names" some in the MSM are still obsessed about.

Who?

The one I know personally is not very good.

That's nearly as good as your "dim" moment the other day Hugo.

Are you OK?

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

Damning government report shows scale of public sector pay cuts

(As previously referenced)

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

George Osborne gets job as George Osborne look-alike.

Brexit: Minister appointed to negotiate Britain's withdrawal wants European Union 'wholly torn down'
Exclusive: Steve Baker MP makes comments at right-wing Libertarian Alliance conference in 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... ign=buffer" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Goodnight, everyone
love,
cJA

How power operates in modern Britain: with absolute contempt
Aditya Chakrabortty


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The one I know personally is not very good.

That's nearly as good as your "dim" moment the other day Hugo.

Are you OK?

With Hugo's track record and his own high level of competence in being 'dim' then the person in question is probably the next Einstein!

Has any person in the whole of human history ever been less self-aware?

I may be many things but I don't recall every calling anyone thick or dim, apart from Hugo (with tongue in cheek to be fair) - it takes someone of extreme arrogance to call someone else 'dim' and mean it