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Thursday 9th November 2017
Morning all.
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European parliament contradicts UK claim on deal on citizens' rights
Letter to both negotiating teams challenges assertion deal ‘within touching distance’ as it warns major issues needs to be addressed.
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European parliament contradicts UK claim on deal on citizens' rights
Letter to both negotiating teams challenges assertion deal ‘within touching distance’ as it warns major issues needs to be addressed.
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Mordaunt favourite as replacement,apparently.
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What do government departments spend their money on?
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Morning.
Will the BBC never stop it?
Will the BBC never stop it?
There's no "row". She has said she was wrong and has resigned. Again the BBC make it appear as though this is nuanced.Priti Patel quits cabinet over Israel meetings row
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Committee presses for Universal Credit business case
The Work and Pensions Committee publishes two further letters to the Department of Work and Pensions, pressing it on the lack of published data or a current business case for its flagship welfare reform.
Lack of data being published is 'troubling'
Rt Hon Frank Field MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said:
"The lack of data being collected and published on Universal Credit is troubling, to put it mildly.
It gives the impression that this mega reform is driven by blind faith rather than evidence of the impact it is having on the lives of the poor.
We hear about the DWP’s "test and learn" approach to improving Universal Credit, but how can it hope to learn if it is not testing its most basic effects?
Committee presses for Universal Credit business case
The Work and Pensions Committee publishes two further letters to the Department of Work and Pensions, pressing it on the lack of published data or a current business case for its flagship welfare reform.
Lack of data being published is 'troubling'
Rt Hon Frank Field MP, Chair of the Work and Pensions Committee, said:
"The lack of data being collected and published on Universal Credit is troubling, to put it mildly.
It gives the impression that this mega reform is driven by blind faith rather than evidence of the impact it is having on the lives of the poor.
We hear about the DWP’s "test and learn" approach to improving Universal Credit, but how can it hope to learn if it is not testing its most basic effects?
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How much of your area is built on?
How much of your area is built on?
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"The Commonwealth, A place for Israel?"
and associate membership for USA, apparently.
All seems a bit barking.
edit to add, but the "Royal Commonwealth Society" has opened a branch in Mississippi, so maybe there's something in it.
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It probably all makes sense from a Brexiteers point of view.
Will now have coffee, and try to ignore any germinating conspiracy theories.
"The Commonwealth, A place for Israel?"
and associate membership for USA, apparently.
All seems a bit barking.
edit to add, but the "Royal Commonwealth Society" has opened a branch in Mississippi, so maybe there's something in it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09 ... ssissippi/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It probably all makes sense from a Brexiteers point of view.
Will now have coffee, and try to ignore any germinating conspiracy theories.
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Morning all.
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
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"All I know," a source close to the negotiations told me, "is that I don't know the UK as I thought I did."
"Are they so clouded by sex scandals and losing ministers in Westminster that they don't see: Brexit time is running out?
"They want a deal. Fine. Then now's the time to rip off the Band Aid. To admit to the UK public and the Conservative Party: 'We want to leave and it's time to pay'."
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Yes.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
And that's wrong. Johnson is even more deserving of dismissal than Patel, but survives essentially because he's an establishment white male.
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Charities criticise foster care exclusion from free childcare policy
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I would have said that it is also because the press can't focus on more than one big political story at a time.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Yes.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
And that's wrong. Johnson is even more deserving of dismissal than Patel, but survives essentially because he's an establishment white male.
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
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Let’s have that Brexit-promised £350m a week now – the NHS can’t afford to wait
Frances O'Grady
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Frances O'Grady
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Can't be said often enough.How the NHS is funded is a political choice – one that shows the priorities of a government. Tory cuts to corporation tax cost £8bn a year. Raising the personal tax allowance cost the taxpayer another £5.4bn. Freezing fuel duty costs about £0.72bn a year.
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LGA responds to NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens’ speech
"There cannot be a sustainable NHS without a sustainable adult social care system."
LGA responds to NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens’ speech
"There cannot be a sustainable NHS without a sustainable adult social care system."
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Yes, I agree about David Davis. This Newsthump article is really funny, but it's also really serious. Davis has misled Parliament, either previously or now, over a matter of monumental national importance. He is treating Parliament with contempt and our democracy is in real trouble if Parliament can't hold him to account:RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
http://newsthump.com/2017/11/08/david-d ... ssessment/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
David Davis nominated for Nobel Prize for Physics following discovery of ‘Schrödinger’s Brexit assessment’
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Live tables on "affordable"housing supply
5,380 socially rented in England in total last year.
Live tables on "affordable"housing supply
5,380 socially rented in England in total last year.
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I quite agree Roger.RogerOThornhill wrote:I would have said that it is also because the press can't focus on more than one big political story at a time.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Yes.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
I would think that Patel's resignation has taken the spotlight off Boris Johnson and given him a bit of breathing space.
But as for David Davis - the opposition need to keep plugging away at that for misleading Parliament over the 58 sector analyses. So expect that one to come back after their mini-recess (another one?).
And that's wrong. Johnson is even more deserving of dismissal than Patel, but survives essentially because he's an establishment white male.
My point really is then the choice. White, establishment male? Or BME female?
For clarity I'm not weeping any tears for Patel! Nasty pieces of work both of them.
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Unethical TV programme: Channel 4 'Secret Life of 4,5 and 6 year olds
Michael Rosen
"the children were treated as if they were fodder for experiments, with no volition, sanctity of the person, no sense of their potential, no sense that an experiment could open up new possibilities, new educational insights. In fact, the educational value of the dinosaur experiment was precisely the opposite: it was educational rubbish from several perspectives at the same time."
Unethical TV programme: Channel 4 'Secret Life of 4,5 and 6 year olds
Michael Rosen
"the children were treated as if they were fodder for experiments, with no volition, sanctity of the person, no sense of their potential, no sense that an experiment could open up new possibilities, new educational insights. In fact, the educational value of the dinosaur experiment was precisely the opposite: it was educational rubbish from several perspectives at the same time."
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Theresa May: make all homes safe now
Theresa May: make all homes safe now
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I would have said that , on the basis of these instances alone then , Patel'd offense was worse but Boris has a huge backlog of stuff that would have cost any normal person their job a long time ago.PaulfromYorkshire wrote: I quite agree Roger.
My point really is then the choice. White, establishment male? Or BME female?
For clarity I'm not weeping any tears for Patel! Nasty pieces of work both of them.
One thing that really pisses me off the press coverage of this kind of resingationin this kin is the insistence on saying people are losing their jobs. They are still MPs and raking in a nice chunky salary, hefty expenses, platinum pension and Patel will no doubt get a few non exec director jobs to top up her bank balance.
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Apart from the implicit moral cowardice, its just such lazy tabloid speak.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Morning.
Will the BBC never stop it?There's no "row". She has said she was wrong and has resigned. Again the BBC make it appear as though this is nuanced.Priti Patel quits cabinet over Israel meetings row
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Experience in International Development counts for nothing, apparently, re the replacement for Priti Patel (she of co-authorship of "Britannia Unchained", which suggested that British workers were lazier than those of other nations). Alistair Burt is seemingly being ruled out as he is a "Remainer".
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Good morfternoon.
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Ian Duncan Smith:
Ian Duncan Smith:
So they're all Brexiteers, except with some weighting system, valuing the most extreme views?I think we are all Brexiteers now. So the question is to what degree do you want someone in that job to be in support of David Davis and others, and I think therefore the balance on having strong Brexit views is one that in all probability that the prime minister will certainly look for.
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From the Penny Mordaunt biog on Wiki:
Should be a shoe-in for the Development Minister job, I reckon.In a May 2016 BBC Television interview during the run-up to the EU membership referendum, Mourdant denied that the UK had a veto on Turkey joining the EU, despite Article 49 of the EU constitution requiring a unanimous vote of all 28 members of the General Council to allowing accession of a candidate state, thus creating a power of veto by a dissenting member nation.[28] She supported the leave, or Brexit option in the campaign.[29] Prime Minister David Cameron stated her opinion was "completely wrong"[30] and Guy Verhofstadt called her statement "contemptible".[31]
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And the winner is -
Penny Mordaunt.
Penny Mordaunt.
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It wasn't exactly a difficult one to call, was it, given the emphasis on needing the "right" Brexit credentials
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No real surprise. She also has an "interesting" history, mind.
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Oh FUCK OFF you worthless degenerate.
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He wants to be OUR Trump.
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My favourite person on Twitter is currently running the #WorstToryMPWorldCup. It's at the quarter-final stage (read previous rounds and system to see how IDS somehow got knocked out)...
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TORIES' AUSTERITY DOUBLETHINK
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Chronic underfunding of social care since 2010 is having a severe impact on local authorities - Barbara Keeley
"Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care, commenting on new figures which show the number of NHS delayed days due to a lack of social care are up by nearly a quarter compared with last year, said:-"
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Chronic underfunding of social care since 2010 is having a severe impact on local authorities - Barbara Keeley
"Barbara Keeley MP, Labour’s Shadow Cabinet Minister for Social Care, commenting on new figures which show the number of NHS delayed days due to a lack of social care are up by nearly a quarter compared with last year, said:-"
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Sarah Newton ,next Minister Of State against Disabled People.
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IDS faced a tricky draw up against heavyweights Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt in round 2, for any curious non-tweeters.NonOxCol wrote:My favourite person on Twitter is currently running the #WorstToryMPWorldCup. It's at the quarter-final stage (read previous rounds and system to see how IDS somehow got knocked out)...
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SN Can't be less knowledgeable about brief,being positive.
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That's a genuine Group Of DeathWillow904 wrote:IDS faced a tricky draw up against heavyweights Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt in round 2, for any curious non-tweeters.NonOxCol wrote:My favourite person on Twitter is currently running the #WorstToryMPWorldCup. It's at the quarter-final stage (read previous rounds and system to see how IDS somehow got knocked out)...
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Local Government Ombudsman Social Care
London council leaves family in limbo without appropriate support
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London council leaves family in limbo without appropriate support
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Former David Cameron speechwriter Ian Birrell makes an interesting observation about what Mordaunt’s elevation says about her previous post.
Ian Birrell @ianbirrell
.@PennyMordaunt's promotion means there will now be 7th minister for disabled people in 7 years. This underscores the political disinterest in the post, let alone actually helping people with disabilities achieve anything close to equality
7:03 am - 9 Nov 2017 (Politics Live, Guardian)
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Read some of the replies to this and despair for your species.
Read some of the replies to this and despair for your species.
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No ta, think I will hammer some rusty nails into my scrotum insteadNonOxCol wrote:
Read some of the replies to this and despair for your species.
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My colleague, Matthew Weaver, has calculated the estimated cost in wasted air fares to taxpayers of Priti Patel’s abortive round trip - just short of £8,000.
Priti Patel's departure clocks up £8,000 bill for taxpayers (Politics Live, Guardian)
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One thing that really pisses me off the press coverage of this kind of resingationin this kin is the insistence on saying people are losing their jobs. They are still MPs and raking in a nice chunky salary, hefty expenses, platinum pension...
Agreed, it's unacceptable. Where's the democratic accountability, here, please? Scary times, no mistake.
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Apparently, the newest member of the government does not share Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm for the US president:
Laura Kuenssberg
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Newest member of govt, Victoria Atkins, called President Trump a 'buffoon and a wazzock'
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Exclusive: Research leads environment secretary to overturn government’s previous opposition, making total EU ban much more likely (Guardian)
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Good-evening, everyone
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Its a bit quiet in here again, any chance that someone could turn the page over please?
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