Wednesday 10th October 2018
Posted: Wed 10 Oct, 2018 7:02 am
Morning all.
There was in interesting point made in one of the articles about all of this recently - that election campaigning in the US at the moment is not about trying to convince people to vote for you, it's about trying to convince your supporters to vote.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Trump's problem is that there aren't enough of those people to guarantee him hegemony. Though the groups opposed to him are often less well organised and motivated.
He [Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office] said he thought Chris Grayling’s Department for Transport was being over-confident about its ability to handle the problems posed by Brexit. (Politics Live, Guardian)
I wouldn't be reassured even if Morse said he thought Grayling could handle it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Now, that's reassuring.
Yes; about 58% voter turnout in the last US presidential electionadam wrote:There was in interesting point made in one of the articles about all of this recently - that election campaigning in the US at the moment is not about trying to convince people to vote for you, it's about trying to convince your supporters to vote.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Trump's problem is that there aren't enough of those people to guarantee him hegemony. Though the groups opposed to him are often less well organised and motivated.
Did May expand on this? Are accounts credited?PaulfromYorkshire wrote:CCHQ Press Office
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PM: There are £2.4 billion of unpaid credits under the Labour Party – these are now being made available to people under Universal Credit #PMQs
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Let's call it offPorFavor wrote:Did anyone else see Sky News around lunchtime (post-PMQs)? Rather a weird outburst by Anna Soubry. She was meant to be answering a question on "Brexit" but insisted on first giving a speech on how terrible was Jeremy Corbyn's performance at PMQs, and wouldn't be stopped. Very strange. Operating under instructions?
By the way, should we now be calling it "Brex" ("Brexit" without end)? Or "Brexi"? "Brex" sounds tough and like the title of an American TV police procedural, but "Brexi" actually sounds quite cuddly.
You're a master at understatement, MorseSenior civil servants are in constant contact with the NAO, and Morse said he had been surprised by the level of secrecy within departments, which may have hindered Brexit preparations.
“Members of the civil service have been using our reports to find out what’s happening on Brexit … if you’re asking people to be behind what you’re doing, you need to make sure they do know what the overall enterprise is,” he said."
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Morse said money spent on no-deal preparations would not have been wasted if the UK secured a Brexit deal. “I think it is very important to not criticise that, unless it has really been careless, because it insured us against a real risk that is still there now.”
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It's not a hyperbolic titleHurricane Michael makes landfall: Florida homes fully submerged – live
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Which ones are the Jets and which are the Sharks..A group of remain-backing Tory MPs are plotting to form a rival movement to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s highly effective Eurosceptics, with the aim of voting down Theresa May’s Brexit deal amid concerns that it would wreck the economy.
What could possibly go wrong?GOV.UK Verify programme: Written statement - HCWS978 - Cabinet Office - 09 October 2018 - Oliver Dowden (Minister for the Implementation )GOV.UK Verify overview
GOV.UK Verify is a secure way to prove who you are online.
It makes it safe, quick and easy to access government services like filing your tax or checking the information on your driving licence.
When you use GOV.UK Verify, you don’t need to prove your identity in person or wait for something to arrive in the post.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... vuk-verify" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"I want to update the House on the GOV.UK Verify programme, on the creation of a digital identity market, and the provision of a digital identity service to Government.
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GOV.UK Verify is now sufficiently mature to move to the next phase of its development. The private sector will take responsibility for broadening the usage and application of digital identity in the UK. I can confirm that contracts have been signed with a number of private sector identity providers..."
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Haven't seen it in full, but apparently A Sparrow gave Corbyn a rave review today?PorFavor wrote:Did anyone else see Sky News around lunchtime (post-PMQs)? Rather a weird outburst by Anna Soubry. She was meant to be answering a question on "Brexit" but insisted on first giving a speech on how terrible was Jeremy Corbyn's performance at PMQs, and wouldn't be stopped. Very strange. Operating under instructions?
Yes - it wasn't half bad. It even appeared as a separate article (distinct from Politics Live) which I stumbled upon, which was a new departure - to me at any rate.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Haven't seen it in full, but apparently A Sparrow gave Corbyn a rave review today?PorFavor wrote:Did anyone else see Sky News around lunchtime (post-PMQs)? Rather a weird outburst by Anna Soubry. She was meant to be answering a question on "Brexit" but insisted on first giving a speech on how terrible was Jeremy Corbyn's performance at PMQs, and wouldn't be stopped. Very strange. Operating under instructions?
Sounds like it's already gone wrong, and it's next stage of development' is stopping Gvt. funding.citizenJA wrote:Did we have this?What could possibly go wrong?GOV.UK Verify programme: Written statement - HCWS978 - Cabinet Office - 09 October 2018 - Oliver Dowden (Minister for the Implementation )GOV.UK Verify overview
GOV.UK Verify is a secure way to prove who you are online.
It makes it safe, quick and easy to access government services like filing your tax or checking the information on your driving licence.
When you use GOV.UK Verify, you don’t need to prove your identity in person or wait for something to arrive in the post.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... vuk-verify" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
"I want to update the House on the GOV.UK Verify programme, on the creation of a digital identity market, and the provision of a digital identity service to Government.
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GOV.UK Verify is now sufficiently mature to move to the next phase of its development. The private sector will take responsibility for broadening the usage and application of digital identity in the UK. I can confirm that contracts have been signed with a number of private sector identity providers..."
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publ ... 09/HCWS978" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Com ... an-for-GDS" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The future of Verify is already in question after government watchdog the Infrastructure and Projects Authority recommended it be scrapped, which would mean writing off more than £130m spent so far by GDS rather than throwing more money at a programme that many in Whitehall see as a failure.
States, debt, nationalisation and moneyChris Cook
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I've written a thing about the IMF report on fiscal policy, and why it helps see why Labour's nationalisation stuff is less SCARY than some think