Wednesday 17th October 2018
Posted: Wed 17 Oct, 2018 7:04 am
Morning all.
They aren't spoilt for choice right now, that's for sure.HindleA wrote:Opposition Day Debates
Universal Fuck Up
Social Care lack of funding.
On the same day that a new "centrist" think tank is launched.gilsey wrote:Chakrabortty
Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... protestersCourt quashes 'excessive' sentences of fracking protesters
Court of appeal gives Simon Blevins, 26, Richard Roberts, 36, Rich Loizou, 31, conditional discharge
(Guardian)
There were questions on Twitter yesterday as to where their funding is coming from. They seem to have missed that off their websiteAnatolyKasparov wrote:On the same day that a new "centrist" think tank is launched.gilsey wrote:Chakrabortty
Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
Maybe they (especially their mentor Chuka, happy 40th birthday today) will take note of the above......or perhaps not.
Excellent news, let's now look into the background of the judge who gave those ridiculously draconian sentences in the first place shall we?PorFavor wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... protestersCourt quashes 'excessive' sentences of fracking protesters
Court of appeal gives Simon Blevins, 26, Richard Roberts, 36, Rich Loizou, 31, conditional discharge
(Guardian)
Faisal Islam
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@faisalislam
Highly significant: French Government publish its draft No Deal law on website of French Senate: “reestablishment of checks of goods and passengers” & “restoration of veterinary, sanitary, phytosanitary, safety controls & customs formalities” .... http://www.senat.fr/leg/pjl18-009.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
12:50 PM - Oct 17, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)
The ECB are feeling defensive. They’ve put out a statement about the weather. “In respect of touring Sri Lanka at this time of year,” it begins, stiffly, “the Future Tours Programme is congested involving 13 Boards whose schedules all interconnect, so there are unfortunately a number of tours that have to take place outside prime match-staging periods.”
You can say that again.
Goodbye to the EHIC card then, unless something cooked up there ...PorFavor wrote:Faisal Islam @faisalislam
Highly significant: French Government publish its draft No Deal law on website of French Senate: “reestablishment of checks of goods and passengers” & “restoration of veterinary, sanitary, phytosanitary, safety controls & customs formalities” .... http://www.senat.fr/leg/pjl18-009.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
12:50 PM - Oct 17, 2018 (Politics Live, Guardian)
(cJA emphasis)Employment & Support Allowance: Written statement - HCWS1017 Department for Work and Pensions - Sarah Newton Minister of State for Disabled People, Health & Work
This Written Statement is a further update to the House on progress in correcting historic ESA underpayments and paying arrears.
The Department began work to assess cases in December 2017. For that stage of the exercise we expect to review around 320,000 cases, of which around 105,000 are likely to be due arrears. We now have a team of over 400 staff working through these cases and have paid around £120m in arrears. We expect to complete the vast majority of this part of the exercise by April 2019, and have to date completed all cases where an individual is terminally ill and responded to the review, thereby ensuring they receive due priority.
The announcement in July, to pay cases back to the point of conversion requires us to review an additional 250,000 cases, of which we estimate around 75,000 could be due arrears. We will undertake this work through the course of 2019. We now have a team of over 400 staff working through these cases, with a further 400 due to join the team through October and November, and will be assigning more staff to review the additional 250,000 cases. This will enable us to complete this important activity at pace.
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There are currently around 2.3million working-age people on Employment and Support Allowance. In 2018/19 £54 billion will be been spent on benefits to support disabled people and people with health conditions this year which is over 6% of all Government spending and a record high.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publ ... 7/HCWS1017" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Please see Tory minister written statement extract posted aboveHindleA wrote:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ ... ssion=true
thank god/goddessPorFavor wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... protestersCourt quashes 'excessive' sentences of fracking protesters
Court of appeal gives Simon Blevins, 26, Richard Roberts, 36, Rich Loizou, 31, conditional discharge
(Guardian)
Indeed.frog222 wrote: But the UK civil service aren't the only ones quite capable of 'Windrushing'
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/ob ... -come-backFrancis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back" (New Statesman)
I've read some of his work, the headline isn't such a shockPorFavor wrote:https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/ob ... -come-backFrancis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back" (New Statesman)
yep“I think people should calm down a little bit."
frog222 wrote:Crace --https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... sas-rescue
This from a brexiteer is rather fun https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 87181.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Matthew Elliot is probably not the most trustworthy of sources (especially if Vince Cable seems to suddenly find him so)Jeremy Corbyn is facing an explosive claim that he congratulated the Leave campaign on its “good work” during the referendum, while publicly opposing Brexit.
Even if it's true, Corbyn was doing good publicly in a way that got Labour's vote out for Remain and bad privately in a way that had no effect. Was he just fooling us? We are what we pretend to be...tinybgoat wrote:frog222 wrote:Crace --https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... sas-rescue
This from a brexiteer is rather fun https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 87181.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Matthew Elliot is probably not the most trustworthy of sources (especially if Vince Cable seems to suddenly find him so)Jeremy Corbyn is facing an explosive claim that he congratulated the Leave campaign on its “good work” during the referendum, while publicly opposing Brexit.
https://badboysofbrexit.com/2017/12/22/matthew-elliott/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If even May loyalist Green is talking this down then we may be on course to just give up now and crash out.Damien Green says the extra year of transition would “solve some problems but not others,” adding that “there are two big problems.” Green says the Irish backstop issue still does not go away and the UK could have to pay the EU an extra year of contributions to the bloc’s budget.
I'm a big fan of "Welcome to Night Vale".adam wrote:Meanwhile, in very exciting news, season 2 of Limetown is arriving on iTunes for Halloween. Thoroughly recommended.Read this...
I'm sure we have. I get a bit faddy with these things, I listened to about the first 40 or so episodes of Night Vale and then let it drift, but I still have it all and am still getting new ones.PorFavor wrote:I'm a big fan of "Welcome to Night Vale".adam wrote:Meanwhile, in very exciting news, season 2 of Limetown is arriving on iTunes for Halloween. Thoroughly recommended.Read this...
(I feel as if we've had this conversation before. Have we?)