Monday 6th August 2018
Posted: Mon 06 Aug, 2018 6:59 am
Morning.
"In the worst cases, people are losing out on significant amounts of money - hundreds of pounds over the course of a year - simply because of when their paydays and assessment periods fall,” CPAG's report says.HindleA wrote:Universal Credit claimants missing out on hundreds of pounds a year because of when their payday is
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3. (B) The eerie silence post Theresa May’s meeting with Macron (any positives would have been announced with great jubilation)
Yes, its a good one.citizenJA wrote:Special thanks for adam's post on the politics blog here yesterday
It's the last comment on that thread
"RECIPROCAL rights and obligations" = forrin hairsplitting surely can't apply to we inheritors of the British Empire ?citizenJA wrote:Special thanks for adam's post on the politics blog here yesterday
It's the last comment on that thread
And yet others hoping the worse it looks, the more likely it'll lead to remain.AnatolyKasparov wrote:There are people saying "no deal" is becoming more likely because it is what they actually (insanely) want.
There are others saying that in the hope it can sway support behind whatever compromise might eventually be agreed.
Dave Cameron's entreaty to Scotland in the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, his speech before the votes were castgilsey wrote:And yet others hoping the worse it looks, the more likely it'll lead to remain.AnatolyKasparov wrote:There are people saying "no deal" is becoming more likely because it is what they actually (insanely) want.
There are others saying that in the hope it can sway support behind whatever compromise might eventually be agreed.
If only there was a majority for one of these options.
Theresa May, the worst Prime Minister ever except for the last one.
Speaking of Jewish News:RogerOThornhill wrote:Evening all. Library again today - in the middle of writing an article so had to trawl through a few years of local papers on microfilm. Not sure it does my eyesight much good...
Disciplinary case against Margaret Hodge is dropped.
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She "expressed regret" so it was a sort of "sorry-not-sorry". Better than nothing I supposeRogerOThornhill wrote:Evening all. Library again today - in the middle of writing an article so had to trawl through a few years of local papers on microfilm. Not sure it does my eyesight much good...
Disciplinary case against Margaret Hodge is dropped.
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Super thread Gilsey ! Plenty of painful statistics and nugget-quotes from ... Adam Smith !gilsey wrote:This is a good thread, despite the #FBPE.
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In a normal country there can't be more rents than there are production profits and workers wages to pay them. However, we are not a normal country. We invented the offshore tax haven and trust fund system, a product of anglo-saxon law.
The Wealth of Nations is a book that's been sitting on my shelf for a long time nudging me to read it. I could take it on holiday, although obviously, as the last time I visited an almost deserted island I took Robinson Crusoe, and last year read The French Lieutenant's Woman in Lyme Regis, so this year I should really take Dracula.frog222 wrote:Super thread Gilsey ! Plenty of painful statistics and nugget-quotes from ... Adam Smith !gilsey wrote:This is a good thread, despite the #FBPE.
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In a normal country there can't be more rents than there are production profits and workers wages to pay them. However, we are not a normal country. We invented the offshore tax haven and trust fund system, a product of anglo-saxon law.
There's an alright Raphael Behr article on the graun this evening saying that the French press were more interested in the fact that the Presidential Summer Retreat was back in use.gilsey wrote:Re PF's question about why we haven't heard anything about May's meeting with Macron, here's one theory
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3. (B) The eerie silence post Theresa May’s meeting with Macron (any positives would have been announced with great jubilation)
There is a photo though, of Macron pointing, probably to the far distance he wants her to **** off to.
My favourite mad BTL comment at the guardian about all of this started by saying something like 'after we saved the world and especially France and Italy from Germany and in doing so gave up the greatest and most beneficial empire the world has ever seen...'frog222 wrote:"RECIPROCAL rights and obligations" = forrin hairsplitting surely can't apply to we inheritors of the British Empire ?
Take your point but think it's more of frustration that the person most responsible for where are simply walked away from it.adam wrote:David Lammy pretending he can do a Danny Dyer impression is an opportuntity to remember that, whilst Dyer was indeed good enough to call Cameron a Twat on TV, he's also the man who wrote an advice column in Zoo magazine where he advised a reader to slash his ex girlfriend's face so nobody else would want her.
I've had the temptation on and off for quite a few years/decades? to buy a decent edition of TWON ... inspired to do so by those ideological charlatans at the Adam Smith Institute . My most recent reading was reasonably serious -- Angus Calder's blockbuster Peoples War, Alex Nunn's Candidate, and WTF by Peston -- so I may have the stamina for it .adam wrote:The Wealth of Nations is a book that's been sitting on my shelf for a long time nudging me to read it. I could take it on holiday, although obviously, as the last time I visited an almost deserted island I took Robinson Crusoe, and last year read The French Lieutenant's Woman in Lyme Regis, so this year I should really take Dracula.frog222 wrote:Super thread Gilsey ! Plenty of painful statistics and nugget-quotes from ... Adam Smith !gilsey wrote:This is a good thread, despite the #FBPE.
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In a normal country there can't be more rents than there are production profits and workers wages to pay them. However, we are not a normal country. We invented the offshore tax haven and trust fund system, a product of anglo-saxon law.
God yes.RogerOThornhill wrote:Take your point but think it's more of frustration that the person most responsible for where are simply walked away from it.adam wrote:David Lammy pretending he can do a Danny Dyer impression is an opportuntity to remember that, whilst Dyer was indeed good enough to call Cameron a Twat on TV, he's also the man who wrote an advice column in Zoo magazine where he advised a reader to slash his ex girlfriend's face so nobody else would want her.
A more public-spitited individual might have stood down as PM but carried on as an MP to at least give the impression that he was conscious that he needed to be seen to assist sorting it out.
Whitby - or further afield?adam wrote:The Wealth of Nations is a book that's been sitting on my shelf for a long time nudging me to read it. I could take it on holiday, although obviously, as the last time I visited an almost deserted island I took Robinson Crusoe, and last year read The French Lieutenant's Woman in Lyme Regis, so this year I should really take Dracula.frog222 wrote:Super thread Gilsey ! Plenty of painful statistics and nugget-quotes from ... Adam Smith !gilsey wrote:This is a good thread, despite the #FBPE.
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@tfoale
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In a normal country there can't be more rents than there are production profits and workers wages to pay them. However, we are not a normal country. We invented the offshore tax haven and trust fund system, a product of anglo-saxon law.
Whitby - I've been before but years ago, before we had kids, when the only holidays we had involved camping. Now my older daughter is at uni in York and goes there for the weekend...PorFavor wrote:Whitby - or further afield?
So either Whitby or Romania, if it's the latter that's where my brother currently is on holiday and why I'm looking after his house and chickens. He emailed me from Sighisoara, birthplace of Vlad the Impaler a couple of days ago to tell me that he'd been eaten alive by bedbugs then got food poisoning and didn't dare venture more than 20 yards from a toilet. The bedbug bloodsucking was obviously amusing given the location but if vampires made you shit yourself repeatedly I doubt Twilight would have been such a success.adam wrote:The Wealth of Nations is a book that's been sitting on my shelf for a long time nudging me to read it. I could take it on holiday, although obviously, as the last time I visited an almost deserted island I took Robinson Crusoe, and last year read The French Lieutenant's Woman in Lyme Regis, so this year I should really take Dracula.
See that depends on what you regard to be a goth.gilsey wrote:The trouble with goth weekend is that there’s more people gawking at the goths, than there are goths.
It’s not till Halloween, anyway.