Friday 31st August 2018

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 6:32 am

Morning

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:44 am

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

Sadiq Khan calls for rollout of universal credit to be paused

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 8:36 am

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... y-councils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

England faces school places emergency, say councils
By 2023 more than half of councils will be unable to meet secondary demand, says LGA

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 8:40 am

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-question-of-word ... eferendum/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"A question of wording? Another look at polling on a second referendum"
John Furtive on whether there's been an increase in favour of a second referendum/vote & importance of wording in polling question.

In short, polls that ask people whether the ‘public’ should have a vote usually record a higher level of support than those that just ask whether there should be another referendum. Equally, polls that do not specify what the alternative would be to endorsing whatever deal is reached tend to secure higher levels of support than those that indicate that the choice would be between leaving (on whatever terms have been agreed) and remaining.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 8:44 am

More support to help schools with costs

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/more ... with-costs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Post by **PaulfromYorkshire** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 8:56 am

https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-roge ... yn-problem" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Good on Jon Snow for promoting this piece on Israel and Corbyn

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 9:03 am

http://ukandeu.ac.uk/what-low-skilled-w ... er-brexit/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"What low-skilled worker programmes should the government rely on after Brexit?"

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 11:15 am

London Crossrail opening postponed until autumn next year

Spokesman for £15bn project says it will miss its planned December opening date

Andrew Adonis, the former chair of the national infrastructure commission, said: “It’s clearly a further massive catastrophe for Chris Grayling, who didn’t say a word in public about the scale of the crisis." (Guardian - my emphasis)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... -next-year

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 12:29 pm

tinybgoat wrote:http://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-question-of-word ... eferendum/
"A question of wording? Another look at polling on a second referendum"
John Furtive on whether there's been an increase in favour of a second referendum/vote & importance of wording in polling question.

In short, polls that ask people whether the ‘public’ should have a vote usually record a higher level of support than those that just ask whether there should be another referendum. Equally, polls that do not specify what the alternative would be to endorsing whatever deal is reached tend to secure higher levels of support than those that indicate that the choice would be between leaving (on whatever terms have been agreed) and remaining.

That's a great typo tbf.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 12:41 pm

Good-afternoon, everyone

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 12:51 pm

In my defence it's the curse of predictive texting,
'curtice' becomes furtive.
Seems that Androids make lousy spell checkers, as well as terrible PMs.

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 12:54 pm

Yes, I suspected some sort of spill chucker.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 1:02 pm

Closed consultation

Personal health budgets and integrated personal budgets: extending legal rights

Woefully underused,certainly a possible way to usurp the soggy wet flannel fifteen minutes if you are lucky ,State controlled or need for profit thing.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 1:06 pm

Not left or right meaningful emancipatory independent living,choice facillitation that others take for granted .

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 1:09 pm

Take control

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 1:19 pm

Frank Field thinks he would hold his seat if he forced a by-election, does he?

DO IT, THEN.

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 2:12 pm

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"

The best way for other world leaders is to humour his ego. Let him go away thinking he has personally saved the world’s trading system. The only regret is that his threat to exit the WTO won’t be taken seriously enough and so will not create an opportunity to reform world trade in the way the barking at Kim Jong un reformed North Korea’s relations with the world. But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.

Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 3:25 pm

RDA - Recommended Daily Angst.

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 3:30 pm

Trump poised to cut all US funding for key UN Palestinian refugee programme

US administration to withdraw from services affecting 5 million people, reports say (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -programme

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 4:29 pm

PorFavor wrote:
Trump poised to cut all US funding for key UN Palestinian refugee programme

US administration to withdraw from services affecting 5 million people, reports say (Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... -programme

he can't do that by executive command

edited to add
can he?

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 4:36 pm

tinybgoat wrote:https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"
---
But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.
Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

(cJA edit)

The author of this piece, Ross Clark, is mistaken in his final line posted above. He might have meant it as irony or something and I didn't get it; I'm not feeling so great today.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 4:41 pm

tinybgoat wrote:---
Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?

(cJA edit)
It's not healthy, chronic worry. Keep your health and strength as best you can; no fortune can buy good health if it's gone.

Edited to add
Apologies if I sound cranky. I don't like being ill; I've got so much I want and need to do.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:08 pm

https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/hom ... .cpEdGERQe" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Home Office Has Created A Secret Process To Solve Immigration Cases That Generate Negative Headlines

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:14 pm

Have a "worry half hour period"a day etc ,send it all there?

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:15 pm

But don't spend the other 23 and a half worrying when to have it.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:17 pm

Stress can be good/essential,it's a balance.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:26 pm

HindleA wrote:Stress can be good/essential,it's a balance.

Yes, for a limited amount of time, stress is essential.
Undoing Perpetual Stress: The Missing Connection Between Depression, Anxiety, and 21st Century Illness, by Richard O'Connor, Ph.D.

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:29 pm

HindleA wrote:Have a "worry half hour period"a day etc ,send it all there?

That has the makings of a good practice for many contemporary, long-term stresses people deal with

citizenJA · Post by **citizenJA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:30 pm

HindleA wrote:https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/hom ... .cpEdGERQe

The Home Office Has Created A Secret Process To Solve Immigration Cases That Generate Negative Headlines

I'm sending this to the half-hour stress session
I can't look at it now

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:32 pm

Maybe because the ultimate ,death, no longer holds any fear nothing can "hurt " me.I welcome worry as it means I am alive and responsive.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:40 pm

Not my idea,I heard it somewhere.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:44 pm

Witnessing incredible resilience to a constant increasing level,certainly helps.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:48 pm

A blueprint suitably personally adjusted.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:56 pm

Zero self pity/why me,merely another challenge.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 5:58 pm

I'm resistent to the word "struggle",insist on challenge.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 6:04 pm

Constance doing a jigsaw

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 6:10 pm

[youtube]uJ2cEc_TCH8[/youtube]

PorFavor · Post by **PorFavor** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 6:46 pm

Chris Difford had something about him . . .

I used to live up the road from Jools Holland when he lived above a Barber's shop.

frog222 · Post by **frog222** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:21 pm

citizenJA wrote:
tinybgoat wrote:https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/d ... table/amp/
"Donald Trump’s WTO threat shows he is becoming predictable"
---
But as for Brexit, I wouldn’t worry too much – the WTO will continue to be a fallback for UK-EU trade – even though a deal is still far preferable.
Is there a recommended maximum daily worrying target?
(cJA edit)
The author of this piece, Ross Clark, is mistaken in his final line posted above. He might have meant it as irony or something and I didn't get it; I'm not feeling so great today.

I thought the article was a bit daft, when he wrote that DJT had a peacemaking deal on North Korea ? On the WTO, surely Congress decides ?

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:28 pm

PorFavor wrote:Chris Difford had something about him . . .

I used to live up the road from Jools Holland when he lived above a Barber's shop.

Phew, I panicked when you said had ...
His voice (can't vouch for anything else) improves with age

[youtube]in-Lvhl2DB4[/youtube]

tinybgoat · Post by **tinybgoat** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:31 pm

https://www.politico.eu/article/michel- ... rning/amp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"Barnier asks for ‘who, when, where and how’ of Irish border plan"

LONDON — The unacceptable is becoming a bit more acceptable, it seems.
At a joint press conference with his British counterpart, Dominic Raab, in Brussels on Friday, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier revealed he had asked the U.K. for details about how an internal border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland would work in practice should it ever be needed.

frog222 · Post by **frog222** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:37 pm

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:https://www.opendemocracy.net/paul-roge ... yn-problem
Good on Jon Snow for promoting this piece on Israel and Corbyn

Thanks PFY, good article -- " What of the situation in Britain? Independent assessments of anti-Semitism tend to suggest that, overall, Labour supporters are less likely to hold such views than Conservative supporters, and that anti-Semitism among Labour supporters may actually have declined in the first two years since Corbyn was elected leader."
and the link to Jonathan Cook and the Israeli activists sums up the situation very well --
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/isra ... -139423040" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If anyone believes that the Israeli government is not linked to the anti-Corbyn mania, I'm sure someone could sell them a bridge . Or two !

AnatolyKasparov · Post by **AnatolyKasparov** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 7:54 pm

Just one local council byelection this week:

Sevenoaks DC - Tory hold with 55% of the vote, a small decrease since the last election in 2015. This ward returned two LibDems in 2003, but the Tories took a seat in 2007 and easily won both in 2011 (after the other LibDem had joined their ranks, where they remain to this day) when they had a sole Labour opponent - last time round they comfortably saw off both Labour and Green opposition. The latter absented themselves now, but the LibDems reappeared for the first time since they last won a seat here - they took over a quarter of the vote, quite a respectable showing but still some way off their former strength. Labour thus relegated to third, and like the Tories slightly down overall.

That concludes August - the new month begins with four contests.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 9:24 pm

https://welfareweekly.com/severely-disa ... adaptions/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Severely disabled child left waiting three years for special home adaptions

https://www.lgo.org.uk/information-cent ... hree-years" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Ombudsman has the power to make recommendations to improve a council’s processes for the wider public. In this case the council has agreed to review its policies and procedures to ensure it fully meets its duties to disabled children and their families in arranging adaptations to their housing, based on need rather than tenure.

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 9:44 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45377336" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

US ends aid to Palestinian refugee agency Unrwa

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 9:46 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... -of-pupils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Dozens of secondary schools exclude at least 20% of pupils
Call for government to act after Guardian investigation reveals high suspension rates in England

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 9:49 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ons-pupils" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 10:28 pm

[youtube]sn4Tb61WA0A[/youtube]

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 10:31 pm

Constance hunting for the missing piece

HindleA · Post by **HindleA** » Fri 31 Aug, 2018 10:32 pm

Will not find it,symbolic.

PTO