Wednesday 25th October 2017

[HindleA]

There wasn't a "swearing at Tories",option as a leisure pursuit,obvious bias

[HindleA]

Seriously,why stop there.Accessible,wheelchair friendly,adapted,trained staff,dialysis if required just rejig the pipes,and put the Braun back in.Rolling in it.Doctor Death's Sanctuary may need a rethink.

[HindleA]

"May says the government has been making changes. But why was it introduced. Under Labour the low-paid paid tax, and then had it paid back in benefits. The number of people in workless households doubled."

How do they get away with just making it up?

[HindleA]

http://press.labour.org.uk/post/1667869 ... cktrack-on" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

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


NAACP warns black passengers of flying American Airlines after 'disturbing incidents'

[PorFavor]

Watching a programme, on BBC2 TV, called "Further Back in Time for Dinner". It's about rationing. Seems appropriate, somehow. Oh, look! A Royal Wedding to cheer up the restive population. Oh - and "National Banana Day". We're now up to the bit about the foundation of the NHS.

[PorFavor]

Have opponents of the British sales of arms to Saudi Arabia been called "the enemy" yet?

[AnatolyKasparov]

Watching a programme, on BBC2 TV, called "Further Back in Time for Dinner". It's about rationing. Seems appropriate, somehow. Oh, look! A Royal Wedding to cheer up the restive population. Oh - and "National Banana Day". We're now up to the bit about the foundation of the NHS.

Reminds me of a glorious Neil Kinnock moment - in the days before he became Labour leader he was lectured by some pompous old Tory buffer in the HoC about how he had sacrificed so much during WW2; "what did YOU do for the war effort??" he asked.

Kinnock's reply - "well I was born in 1942, but I did go without bananas for 4 years"

[RogerOThornhill]

Evening all. Decent day in the library poring over old road and building plans, and directories. Some "Oh that's where it is" and some "Oh, he typed the street name incorrectly" but all useful stuff.

So...300 yesterday, 250 today. We'll be down to about 25 by the end of the week I reckon.

[adam]

Watching a programme, on BBC2 TV, called "Further Back in Time for Dinner". It's about rationing. Seems appropriate, somehow. Oh, look! A Royal Wedding to cheer up the restive population. Oh - and "National Banana Day". We're now up to the bit about the foundation of the NHS.

Reminds me of a glorious Neil Kinnock moment - in the days before he became Labour leader he was lectured by some pompous old Tory buffer in the HoC about how he had sacrificed so much during WW2; "what did YOU do for the war effort??" he asked.

Kinnock's reply - "well I was born in 1942, but I did go without bananas for 4 years"

My grandfather was a fire warden for a food warehouse during WWII and had a habit of going up to women in pubs saying "I bet you haven't seen one of these for a while" with a banana in his pocket.

Thankfully he never subsequently became a Labour MP.

[adam]

Do we or don't we like green eggs with ham?

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[Willow904]

https://www.politico.eu/article/ivan-ro ... sador/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

LONDON — The U.K. has been “screwed” in Brexit negotiations because it triggered Article 50 too soon, the country’s former EU ambassador said.

Ivan Rogers, who resigned as the U.K.’s permanent representative to the EU in January, also warned that a “bloody” no-deal scenario could be set in motion as early as December, and could end up with the two sides in a “trade war” and wanting to “knock chunks out of each other.”

Cheery stuff. Hope he's wrong.

If exit negotiations are still struggling along at an impasse this time next year, a no confidence vote could come into play, but if May and co actively walk away now blaming the EU, I'm really not sure how Tory and DUP MPs would respond.

[tinyclanger2]

Occasional visitor 1: regular contributer 0

[HindleA]

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

[PorFavor]

Brexit is hindering research collaboration, say EU universities

Institutions across Europe demand clarification of whether and how UK will be able to participate in academic projectsBritain has said it wants to remain in the EU’s flagship €75bn (£66bn) Horizon 2020 research programme after Brexit, but has not said how, while its future in the Erasmus+ student mobility scheme, which helps nearly 300,000 students – including 30,000 Britons – study abroad each year, is unclear. (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... iversities

[tinyclanger2]

The NAACP has issued a warning to black travelers about flying with American Airlines, following what the US’s oldest and most well-known civil rights organization called a series of “disturbing incidents”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... n-airlines" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[frog222]

Forget baked beans, invest in butter !

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

nn

[tinyclanger2]

Publish or perish eh?
Still. Apolitical - was always gonna work. Right?

[tinyclanger2]

[tinyclanger2]

cleverest person in the room.
my arse.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Watching a programme, on BBC2 TV, called "Further Back in Time for Dinner". It's about rationing. Seems appropriate, somehow. Oh, look! A Royal Wedding to cheer up the restive population. Oh - and "National Banana Day". We're now up to the bit about the foundation of the NHS.

I have a book to recommend to you. Reading it at the moment, tons of interesting stuff about rationing and related scams.

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Very cheap second hand too.

[PorFavor]

Watching a programme, on BBC2 TV, called "Further Back in Time for Dinner". It's about rationing. Seems appropriate, somehow. Oh, look! A Royal Wedding to cheer up the restive population. Oh - and "National Banana Day". We're now up to the bit about the foundation of the NHS.

I have a book to recommend to you. Reading it at the moment, tons of interesting stuff about rationing and related scams.

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Very cheap second hand too.

Thanks. I've just read the blurb and it sounds like great stuff. I'll follow it up.

[PorFavor]

@tinyclanger2

Stream of consciousness night?

[PorFavor]

Night night.

[HindleA]

Mentioning psychology.Mihaly Csikszentmihaly.Because I like his name.

[HindleA]

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[HindleA]

Social Care Debate Hansard for those interested.


https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2 ... 4DC0AB5D86" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

"we have to stop considering health and social care in separate silos"


Says the doctor that repeatedly voted for cuts in both direct and indirect terms to benefits/allowances specifically for extra costs towards care in own home/social care.

[HindleA]

I sometimes wonder if they changed the name or way of paying the knee jerk to "benefits"/historical amnesia could be averted.Another reason why I don't like the universal thing,a lot of this gets hidden either for political expediency or ignorance,or the discretionary/localised ruse.My position is ridiculously simple,you shouldn't as policy make it purposefully harder under unaffordeability when you are willing to splash far more to warehouse people in a strangers spare room as an example.Caring and the facillitation of shouldn't be subject to discretion.

[HindleA]

Eg the hospital/NHS paid towards home haemodialysis as it saves them money and mutually beneficial.Also,links to CT reduction and used to for DLA and related CA,I don't know if this is replicated under PIP or will case law and evidence have to pursued over again.That's integration as it should be for set purpose.

[HindleA]

I'm a fine one to talk about historic amnesia,I forget what I have done half an hour ago.



Well,hopefully this bollox has maintained the usual level of banality and I have made efforts as to the badly written side of things;although I thought it was a forum not an English examination,but at least I can capitalise my forum name correctly,so that is something.

[HindleA]

Flow-zone-groove.

[HindleA]

https://johnbromford.wordpress.com/2017 ... n-support/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


DON’T MENTION SUPPORT


intense lobbying from tenants, carers groups, national and local providers and charities; and after recommendations from MPs on the communities and local government and work and pension committees in parliament; it finally looks as though the government is about to abandon the plans and think again.

It’s certainly good news. Supported housing tenants look set to be spared from a position where their ordinary housing costs would cease to be met through a rights based benefit and where they would have to rely on a discretionary and cash limited local authority pot to keep a roof over their head. But as we’ve stood transfixed by this looming threat of the LHA cap, light fingered local authorities have reached into our back pockets and taken much of what remained of the already depleted Supporting People funding.

If plans to introduce the mother of all postcode lotteries to the funding of essential housing costs has been seen off let’s cheer; but let’s not think that the future of supported housing is safe. Larger than normal communal areas, a lift where there might have been stairs, and perhaps some enhanced security measures, might all be common in supported housing schemes. But they are not enough on their own to make it supported housing.

In many areas floating support has become a distant memory. Now the loss of revenue funding for vital support workers, scheme managers and hostel workers is gathering a pace. Many providers of supported and sheltered housing are having to reduce staffing levels, restrict access to services and generally limit their ambitions for their services and those who use them. As older schemes reach the end of their natural life many are not being replaced in a like for like way.

So one cheer for the end of the LHA cap. Now let’s get back to making the case for a re-imagined and reinvigorated supported housing sector where the housing and the support is adequately and sustainably funded; and the contribution supported housing can make to the wider health and wellbeing agenda is better understood.

[tinybgoat]

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases ... 102517.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Could squirrel trade have contributed to England's medieval leprosy outbreak?

(just liked the headline)