Friday 1st March 2019
Posted: Fri 01 Mar, 2019 7:04 am
Morning all.
Labour must challenge the myth that the working class supports Brexit
Problems with the partial privatisation of the probation system in England and Wales have cost taxpayers almost £500m, the government spending watchdog says.
Under the changes, introduced when Chris Grayling was justice secretary, firms were given contracts to supervise low and medium-risk offenders.
The National Audit Office says reforms were "rushed" and warns more people are being returned to jail for reoffending.
The government said it took the findings "very seriously".
We're treated as individuals when it comes to paying into the system in the form of taxes but treated as households when it comes to drawing out of the system in the form of benefits. Always to the Treasury's advantage, of course.HindleA wrote:Couple penalty ?
Vote Tory.
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At its monthly board meeting on Thursday, NHS England published plans that, if adopted by ministers, would dismantle large parts of the shake-up instigated by Andrew Lansley, who was health secretary in the coalition government from 2010 to 2012.
Theresa May has acknowledged that the 2012 act, which is widely considered to be the most damaging ever to afflict the NHS, is hindering a drive by the health service in England to provide better care by integrating key services.
I get squirrels quite often. (The message which accompanies them puts the blame squarely upon refitman. I always suspected him of being a bit dodgy.) The site's also very slow at times.HindleA wrote:Site playing up,I believe AK had problems recently.Of course ,I can't prove it was caused by the Tories,but the timing suspicious.
Red?HindleA wrote:"Refitman",doesn't look right not in red.
I linked to this on twitter yesterday, from Danny Dorling.Willow904 wrote:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/b ... rts-brexitLabour must challenge the myth that the working class supports Brexit
I read a fairly convincing article the other day saying that in practice large parts of the Act have been completely ignored.RogerOThornhill wrote:Scrap laws driving privatisation of health service, say NHS bosses
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... nhs-bosses
At its monthly board meeting on Thursday, NHS England published plans that, if adopted by ministers, would dismantle large parts of the shake-up instigated by Andrew Lansley, who was health secretary in the coalition government from 2010 to 2012.
Theresa May has acknowledged that the 2012 act, which is widely considered to be the most damaging ever to afflict the NHS, is hindering a drive by the health service in England to provide better care by integrating key services.
When the usual suspects want to "shake up the NHS" this is what happens...
Washington says any UK-US trade deal should remove barriers to US farm goods being sold in UK (Politics Live, Guardian)
Yes, that too. Good day at the office, Theresa?PorFavor wrote:Washington says any UK-US trade deal should remove barriers to US farm goods being sold in UK (Politics Live, Guardian)
Going somewhere interesting?HindleA wrote:I am hoping,and it's looking good,I won't have to indulge in the PTO thing later,but I'll be back
The government will pay £33m to Eurotunnel in an agreement to settle a lawsuit over extra ferry services in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
In December, the Department for Transport (DfT) contracted three suppliers to provide additional freight capacity for lorries.
Eurotunnel said the contracts were handed out in a "secretive" way.
As part of the agreement, Eurotunnel has agreed to make some improvements to its terminal.
One of the firms awarded a contract, Seaborne Freight, has already had its deal cancelled after the Irish company backing it pulled out.
Shortly after it was awarded the contract, the BBC found out that Seaborne had no ships and had never run a ferry service.
Very interesting stuff and very much along the lines of what I've been thinking all along. How can leave be the vote of the "left behind" when leave voters were more likely to own their own home. Some "left behinds" may have helped get leave over the line but they are not the driving force behind this project. When you lose sight of that you lose sight of the importance of resisting that driving force. Dorling's stats on how the UK contributes to the far right within the EU parliament is actually quite chilling. I only hope it's not too late for Labour to wake up to the danger of framing leave as a working class project and all the people at college and on low incomes who voted remain and are campaigning for a soft Brexit or no Brexit as part of some sort of metropolitan neoliberal elite. Many of us are very much part of the "left behind", struggling on stagnating wages and shrinking benefits. Working people who will have to work even harder to combat the costs of leaving the EU.gilsey wrote:I linked to this on twitter yesterday, from Danny Dorling.Willow904 wrote:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/b ... rts-brexitLabour must challenge the myth that the working class supports Brexit
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He's comprehensively proved that southern areas outvoted the north, for leave. Not quite the same thing as working class, but part of the same myth. The last part of the article covers it.
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It's alright, he'll award the tunnel contract to someone who can't dig tunnels.
Labour says Grayling should be sacked for 'serial failure and routine incompetence'
Labour is calling for Chris Grayling’s resignation in the light of the government’s £33m settlement in the Eurotunnel case. Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, said:
On the same day a National Audit Office report highlights that disastrous decisions by Chris Grayling at the Ministry of Justice have wasted nearly half a billion pounds of public money we also learn that the transport secretary’s misjudgement over the award of a ferry contract has left taxpayer’s liable for £33m in compensation to Eurotunnel.
This follows a damning public accounts committee report on Wednesday on his mismanagement of the railways.
His conduct as a minister is one of serial failure and routine incompetence. In any other sphere of life he would have been sacked long ago. I say yet again: this trail of destruction has gone on long enough. It’s time for Chris Grayling to go. (Politics Live, Guardian)
Yes, it was just as arguably much of the prosperous Tory south that swung it for Brexit - but safaris to the likes of Ruislip by John Harris are conspicuous by their absence.gilsey wrote:I linked to this on twitter yesterday, from Danny Dorling.Willow904 wrote:https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/b ... rts-brexitLabour must challenge the myth that the working class supports Brexit
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He's comprehensively proved that southern areas outvoted the north, for leave. Not quite the same thing as working class, but part of the same myth. The last part of the article covers it.
A key plank of Theresa May’s . . . (Politics Live, Guardian)
PM still has confidence in Chris Grayling, says No 10 (Politics Live, Guardian)
"Sacked in the morning, you're getting sacked in the morning!"AnatolyKasparov wrote:And we all know what that means......
The transsexual in question is Miranda Yardley, a Labour Party official who was facing suspension last year for some surprisingly robust and rather rude objections to a transgender woman, Lily Madigan, who had not yet gone through gender reassignment surgery, being shortlisted for Labour Party women's officer. Yardley's main objection seems to be she thought Madigan was a woman hater. I don't know what today's case is about, but it is strange, to say the least.Alison Griffiths
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Marketing officer non trans woman Helen Islan for Mermaids takes transsexual to court for alleged transphobic abuse. Tries to remain anonymoys but judge says no.
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I've a feeling Nigel Farage's march from Sunderland to London is presumably meant to evoke something of the spirit of the Jarrow march. That was however about a fair deal for workers and was not led by a jet-setting former commodities trader.