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A fraction of Persimmon boss’s £110m bonus could house all homeless of York

Top executives of property developer that benefited from help-to-buy scheme face calls to donate part of their ‘obscene’ bonuses to charities (Guardian)

refitman wrote:You're the same with trains. Pump up the prices, only the middle class use them and they can afford to pay through the nose. The poor can just not travel, 'cause they don't need to go anywhere.

SpinningHugo wrote:

refitman wrote:You're the same with trains. Pump up the prices, only the middle class use them and they can afford to pay through the nose. The poor can just not travel, 'cause they don't need to go anywhere.

Of course not only the middle class use these goods.

But disproportionately they do.

So subsidies like this are regressive.

Which is why left wing governments (Labour 1997-2010, may it rest in peace) opposed these popular but rightwing policies.

Help the poorest by giving them more money.

Don't help the middle classes by these distorting regressive policies. Free hospital parking is daft, which is why the Labour government I voted for opposed it.

New Labour was right. But sadly those evidence driven days are over and populists of left and right are now in charge, pandering to those driven by instinct.

Lord Adonis calls on Grayling to quit and slams ‘broken’ Brexit government

Government bailout of Stagecoach-Virgin run East Coast line causes Labour peer to criticise ‘radical Brexiter subordinate to hard-right ideology’

Lord Adonis is calling for the resignation of transport secretary Chris Grayling for using hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ money to bail out private rail companies – a decision which the former government infrastructure tsar says is symptomatic of a government that has “broken down” under the strain of Brexit.

Adonis, who resigned as head of the government-backed National Infrastructure Commission on Friday, says in an interview with the Observer that the decision has landed taxpayers with a potential bill running into billions and will lead to higher fares and less investment in the network. (Guardian)

Nurses and GPs are to be sent to answer 999 calls ahead of ambulance crews in the latest evidence of the winter crisis engulfing the NHS, The Independent can reveal.

Health chiefs in the North East have told nurses and GPs they may have to act as “first responders” for patients who have fallen in their own homes or residential homes and may even need to administer painkillers, including intravenous morphine, if ambulances are delayed.

Bosses said the scheme was necessary because of a massive increase in demand and was intended to avert more “tragic” cases involving older patients with serious fractures and no pain relief. But senior doctors have said the move could affect patient safety.

Not all nurses are routinely trained to the levels that paramedics are, but even where nurses are trained experts have warned that morphine should only be administered where there are facilities for ‘continuous observation and respiratory support should it be required’. Because this is unlikely to be available at peoples’ homes, some say safer alternatives should be considered. (Independent)

AngryAsWell wrote:Andrew Adonis‏Verified account
@Andrew_Adonis

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John, my 2018 strategy is: persuade people that Brexit is wrong, precipitate a referendum on Mrs May’s ‘deal’ in a year’s time, forge a bold Attlee-style approach to tackling the social crisis within Britain, & keep us in the EU. I’m not contemplating national self-mutilation.

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AngryAsWell wrote:The thing you seen to ignore Hugo is that today's (so called) middle class are not in the same middle class as they were in the Blair years.
Everyone's living standards have slipped down a notch or at best stayed static, whilst daily living has become more expensive.
To have a car is no longer middle class. Where I live (1 bus every now and then, twice a day if lucky) you have to have a car or become isolated & unable to get to work. Far from enriching life it simply makes working so much more expensive & shrinks the disposable income you have left at the end of the month.
When you start adding additional charges (for being ill in this case) life just gets a little harder. Grinds people down.

PorFavor wrote:Night night.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:Andrew Adonis‏Verified account
@Andrew_Adonis

More Andrew Adonis Retweeted John Rentoul
John, my 2018 strategy is: persuade people that Brexit is wrong, precipitate a referendum on Mrs May’s ‘deal’ in a year’s time, forge a bold Attlee-style approach to tackling the social crisis within Britain, & keep us in the EU. I’m not contemplating national self-mutilation.

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Interesting that, coming from him.

HindleA wrote:Meanwhile the obvious working class guy millionaire from Stoke because he plays a pub game,,through to the World Final.

Ministers consider using volunteers to guard UK borders

Home Office says it is discussing plan to bolster Border Force with scheme similar to police use of special constables (Guardian)

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PorFavor wrote:

Ministers consider using volunteers to guard UK borders

Home Office says it is discussing plan to bolster Border Force with scheme similar to police use of special constables (Guardian)

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Figures slipped out by the Department for Transport before Christmas reveal a 9.4% drop in season ticket sales between July and September 2017 compared with the same quarter the previous year. There was a double-digit drop the previous quarter.

The Office of Rail and Road quarterly figures note that the number of journeys between July and September 2017 made using season tickets fell to its “lowest since 2010-11 Q2, with 15 million fewer journeys made compared to this time last year”.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well, I think there is a good chance he will.

Though it may still be significant that Adonis has so rubbished the idea of a shiny new "centrist" party saving the day for us all. Especially since Phil Collins (no, not that one) made yet another attempt to breathe life into that corpse just the other day.

Tubby Isaacs wrote:The old Adonis could have done a job for Corbyn at Transport, though I don't think he supports nationalization. But the new Adonis can go on LBC.

SpinningHugo wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well, I think there is a good chance he will.

Though it may still be significant that Adonis has so rubbished the idea of a shiny new "centrist" party saving the day for us all. Especially since Phil Collins (no, not that one) made yet another attempt to breathe life into that corpse just the other day.

LOL.
There is a reason Richard Burgon is shadow Lord Chancellor, and it isn't because Corbyn is able to work with people of divergent views.

He won't work with a Europhile Blairite like Adonis.

refitman wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well, I think there is a good chance he will.

Though it may still be significant that Adonis has so rubbished the idea of a shiny new "centrist" party saving the day for us all. Especially since Phil Collins (no, not that one) made yet another attempt to breathe life into that corpse just the other day.

LOL.
There is a reason Richard Burgon is shadow Lord Chancellor, and it isn't because Corbyn is able to work with people of divergent views.

He won't work with a Europhile Blairite like Adonis.

He's working with Cooper though. How does that fit into you narrative? Smith's also there in what could become an increasingly important role.