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Morning

Mortgages are now the most affordable since the mid-1990s, says Halifax


https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/ ... ns-halifax" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... transwomen" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Legal challenge to Labour over shortlists and transwomen
Campaign launched as Labour states women-only shortlists are open to self-defining women
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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... transwomen


Legal challenge to Labour over shortlists and transwomen
Campaign launched as Labour states women-only shortlists are open to self-defining women
I don't know about the legal side, but I don't see why Labour choosing to allow trans women on "all women lists" should be a big deal.

The wider legal argument, about prisons, toilets and women's safe spaces is a bit of a quagmire though. At the end of the day, a trans woman living as a woman but before surgery, is in a bit of a no man's land in many ways and there are no easy answers.
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Good morfternoon.
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PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
Good morfternoon, everyone
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It's a big deal to the we get to define/discriminate against others controlists,sisters.You don't have a dick to be one.
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Council Tax Bill arrived this morning
4% increase
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HindleA wrote:It's a big deal to the we get to define/discriminate against others controlists,sisters.You don't have a dick to be one.
Sez you?
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I agree with CT increases,I don't in method of application
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I'm a dick,no pretence otherwise.
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HindleA wrote:I agree with CT increases,I don't in method of application
It's a regressive tax favoured by Tory governments hitting those with the least the hardest
'get your f****** queen to pay for it', I shouted
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Whether I have one ,very much depends on eyesight or access to electron microscope/weather conditions etc.
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Method of application,I should pay more.
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4.2% Council Tax increase
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bastards
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HindleA wrote:Method of application,I should pay more.
Why should you?
You're regular people
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Other side of fighting for support when necessary,situation changes,we all share appropriately,it's a consistent argument or meant to be.
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That Staffordshire Tory Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) was the largest increase - over twice that of the next, Social Care
He's got how many personal attendants now?
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HindleA wrote:Other side of fighting for support when necessary,situation changes,we all share appropriately,it's a consistent argument or meant to be.
We aren't all sharing appropriately
The Tory Few don't share and they take wealth off regular people
Their too expensive, the Tory, we can't afford them
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No martyrdom,not the only thing by any means,reciprocity works both ways.
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I've got a god awful flu, people, I feel like a ferocious, cornered cat
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Hello.
Was indeed sleeping on the job - for what feels like the first time in 3 weeks.
9 hours sleep (despite the wakefulness between 3 and 6); about what I've had cumulatively until last night.
Still knackered but much better for it.
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HindleA wrote:No martyrdom,not the only thing by any means,reciprocity works both ways.
Send me the updated martyr list for the Sacred Spring Rituals
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@tinyclanger2
Sleep is a good cure
I'm glad you've had some
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... gation-frc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Highly offended at the very concept I am regular.Not being rich doesn't remove your Societal responsibility which includes paying a bit more,certainly whilst those that ,as we were,are lowered to beneath the minimum the law allows.
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Snowing. Council tax bill arrived yesterday. Joy uncontained!
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3% increase in council tax on last year. But now (as from last year) everyone has to pay "some" council tax. I used not to have to pay any at all.
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corb ... -qmj55f263" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

corbyn-not-given-access-to-top-secret-information
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tinyclanger2 wrote:Hello.
Was indeed sleeping on the job - for what feels like the first time in 3 weeks.
9 hours sleep (despite the wakefulness between 3 and 6); about what I've had cumulatively until last night.
Still knackered but much better for it.
key: vermouth
Good!
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/corb ... -qmj55f263

corbyn-not-given-access-to-top-secret-information
I got a quick glimpse of the article before it was whisked away.
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The preferred default position of Government,use of bribery was involved in setting.
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Theresa May on TV extending love to the many Russians who have made their home here. I wonder who she can be talking about?
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Theresa May did not offer the Labour leadership the same access to highly classified information this week as David Cameron gave to Ed Miliband over Syria in 2013, The Times understands.

An intelligence briefing on the Salisbury nerve agent attack was extended to Jeremy Corbyn under privy council terms before the prime minister updated the Commons on Wednesday. However, he was not offered the same level of briefing that Mr Cameron gave to Mr Miliband and Tim Livesey, his chief of staff, before a parliamentary vote on military action in Syria.

Mr Cameron invited Mr Miliband and Mr Livesey into Downing Street for a national security council meeting in Mr Cameron’s study. He is likely to have wanted to bind Mr Miliband in to his plan of military action in Syria by sharing the highest level of intelligence with him, though in the end the Labour Party did not vote in support of the proposals.
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Privy council briefings extend to information that is classified as “secret”, but it is at the discretion of the prime minister to share the very top level of information classified above that category with an opposition leader who has been security vetted. Mr Corbyn and Karie Murphy, his chief of staff, were not invited to a national security council meeting this week and no briefing at all was extended to Ms Murphy, it is understood.

The disparity is likely to cause anger among allies of the Labour leader. Downing Street declined to comment.


The Labour leader has been highly critical of the government’s position in firmly blaming Russia for the nerve agent attack on the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia on UK soil. Mr Corbyn warned Mrs May not to “rush way ahead of the evidence” and to take a “calm, measured” approach instead of drifting towards conflict.

The “flawed intelligence and dodgy dossiers” used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq should serve as a warning against “hasty judgements”, he said in an article for The Guardian.

Yesterday Stephen Kinnock, the Labour MP for Aberavon and a long-standing critic of Mr Corbyn, condemned the article, saying it “hasn’t helped to clarify the situation”.
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PorFavor wrote:Theresa May on TV extending love to the many Russians who have made their home here. I wonder who she can be talking about?
Well we are a nation that prides itself on loving immigrants.

Maybe we're looking at Rentry (Brexit Europe and Renter Russia?)
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If you are relying on the Tories and/or rich,you'll have long wait
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/0 ... ring-forum" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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HindleA wrote:Not being rich doesn't remove your Societal responsibility which includes paying a bit more...
Of course
We all contribute, we're all a part, none of us defined by things like our personal finances, titles, family, employment, skin colour or allotment produce
Each of us worthy, integrated with the whole
Highly offended at the very concept I am regular.
A regular person doesn't set themselves above the whole, place themselves apart, that's all I mean by that designation. I apologise if I've offended you.
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HindleA wrote:If you are relying on the Tories and/or rich,you'll have long wait
Make them an offer they're not likely to refuse
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Tories are regular people belonging to a bad club
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Very big flakes - but it isn't settling (I hope that remains the case). Any meteorologists (or big flake experts) here?
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PorFavor wrote:Very big flakes - but it isn't settling (I hope that remains the case). Any meteorologists (or big flake experts) here?
It sounds like the same type found in Russia.

You should be scared! :twisted:
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Members of my advisory council include William, Jasper, Edmund, Rick, Cnute, Edward and Alfred
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PorFavor wrote:Very big flakes - but it isn't settling (I hope that remains the case). Any meteorologists (or big flake experts) here?
One moment birds are singing, sun is shining, lots of blue sky
thirty seconds later, wind is blowing heavy snow horizontally
Has someone been chanting from the Sacred Weather Verses? Cut it out, please.
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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:---
watch-live-theresa-may-addresses-conservative-party-spring-forum
I'd prefer not to
I'd rather look at my Council Tax Bill
four fewer Faber-Castell coloured pencils every month
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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -n8gn9pfgq" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



School hours reduced amid cash shortage
Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent
March 17 2018, 12:01am, The Times

The prospect of hours being cut “ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government”
The prospect of hours being cut “ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government”

One in seven head teachers is thinking of cutting teaching hours to save money and some are already letting pupils leave early on Fridays.

A study by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and ITV News on the impact of real-terms funding cuts found that one in 20 heads had already reduced hours.

Among 1,300 respondents, nearly all said that their school faced a funding crisis. About six in ten said that their school had already been affected and three in ten said it was about to be affected. One in eight mentioned redundancies; of those, six in ten had made them or planned to do so next year.



One said: “Year on year we have been making staffing cuts to balance the books. So far this has been done by natural wastage — not replacing when people leave. This puts increased pressure on those remaining.”

Another said: “We have cut support staff by not replacing any lost staff. We are sometimes unable to cover any sickness gaps in support staff.”


One in 20 respondents had cut extracurricular activities such as swimming lessons, which many primary schools run in Year 5. Three in ten said teaching was affected as well, in most cases in terms of hours. A common example was letting pupils go early on Fridays. One in five said that pupils with special needs had borne the brunt of cuts.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT, said: “The idea that some schools are considering cutting school hours ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government. It proves that school budgets are at absolute breaking point
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HindleA wrote:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news ... -n8gn9pfgq



School hours reduced amid cash shortage
Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent
March 17 2018, 12:01am, The Times

The prospect of hours being cut “ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government”
The prospect of hours being cut “ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government”

One in seven head teachers is thinking of cutting teaching hours to save money and some are already letting pupils leave early on Fridays.

A study by the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and ITV News on the impact of real-terms funding cuts found that one in 20 heads had already reduced hours.

Among 1,300 respondents, nearly all said that their school faced a funding crisis. About six in ten said that their school had already been affected and three in ten said it was about to be affected. One in eight mentioned redundancies; of those, six in ten had made them or planned to do so next year.



One said: “Year on year we have been making staffing cuts to balance the books. So far this has been done by natural wastage — not replacing when people leave. This puts increased pressure on those remaining.”

Another said: “We have cut support staff by not replacing any lost staff. We are sometimes unable to cover any sickness gaps in support staff.”


One in 20 respondents had cut extracurricular activities such as swimming lessons, which many primary schools run in Year 5. Three in ten said teaching was affected as well, in most cases in terms of hours. A common example was letting pupils go early on Fridays. One in five said that pupils with special needs had borne the brunt of cuts.

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the NAHT, said: “The idea that some schools are considering cutting school hours ought to be ringing serious alarm bells with the government. It proves that school budgets are at absolute breaking point
I get the impression that Theresa May doesn't recognise that . . .


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