Tuesday 30th April 2019

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Morning.

So no Cabinet today. May will not meet Corbyn. There will be no Queen's Speech.

It seems the PM should be made redundant.

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Reports in the Sun, which I won't read, that a grassroots rebellion to displace May has somehow got off the ground.

Anyone know any more?

[HindleA]

A bit before my time.

http://www.askart.com/artist/Nelson_Aug ... Moore.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[RogerOThornhill]

Morning all.

Humphreys playing a blinder again I see...

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-6023496" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was awake a little earlier and switched on and heard it - constant interruptions of Miliband whereas he allowed Jeremy Hunt to finish every sentence later on.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Interesting email from Sienna Rodgers this morning, claiming that today's "crunch" Labour NEC meeting has been somewhat overhyped.

[citizenJA]

Good afternoon, everyone.

[citizenJA]

Conservative-controlled Northamptonshire county council, dubbed by one local Tory MP “the worst run in the country”, would normally be holding elections this week, along with the county’s seven district and borough councils. However, the communities secretary James Brokenshire decreed in November that they would not take place.

As the councils are due to be abolished in 2020, and replaced by two unitary councils (although this outcome has still to be formally ratified), holding elections, he decided, would “risk confusing voters and would involve significant costs that would be hard to justify”.

- Patrick Butler
No local elections for Northamptonshire council this week? How convenient

[citizenJA]

Interesting email from Sienna Rodgers this morning, claiming that today's "crunch" Labour NEC meeting has been somewhat overhyped.

Perhaps she's distracted. She's tweeted about Game of Thrones a couple hours ago.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Isn't everyone doing that tbf?

[RogerOThornhill]

Well, I'm not - never seen a single episode. Have I missed owt?

[citizenJA]

Morning all.

Humphreys playing a blinder again I see...

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-st ... -1-6023496" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was awake a little earlier and switched on and heard it - constant interruptions of Miliband whereas he allowed Jeremy Hunt to finish every sentence later on.

Imagine the good work we've might have been doing now with a Labour government. We'd all be in an entirely different place right now, a better place. Even the Tory party would be better off. They'd not be crashing everyone else along with themselves.

[AnatolyKasparov]

Well, I'm not - never seen a single episode. Have I missed owt?

Me neither, but then again I don't tweet

[adam]

Well, I'm not - never seen a single episode. Have I missed owt?

Me neither, but then again I don't tweet

I've tried to watch it twice because of lots of people telling me I'm missing out but have hated it so much I've never got to the end of the second episode.

[citizenJA]

Isn't everyone doing that tbf?

Not me. I'm happier with Lessing or LeGuin. Or Asimov.

[citizenJA]

Well, I'm not - never seen a single episode. Have I missed owt?

Me neither, but then again I don't tweet

Neither do I! I looked Rogers up knowing nothing other than the Labour List connection.

[citizenJA]

That damn Humphrys

[citizenJA]

The Patrick Butler article I've quoted from above is well worth reading.

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

[AnatolyKasparov]

The Patrick Butler article I've quoted from above is well worth reading.

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

No elections this week in Buckinghamshire districts either, and for similar reasons (ie pending local government reorganisation)

[citizenJA]

The Patrick Butler article I've quoted from above is well worth reading.

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

No elections this week in Buckinghamshire districts either, and for similar reasons (ie pending local government reorganisation)

Is this precedented action and if so, how common is it?

[gilsey]

Well, I'm not - never seen a single episode. Have I missed owt?

Me neither, but then again I don't tweet

I've tried to watch it twice because of lots of people telling me I'm missing out but have hated it so much I've never got to the end of the second episode.

I think there's 2 kinds of people watch it, those who'd read the books and followed it from the beginning, and those like myself who switched it on at a random point in an early episode and happened upon one of its more unusual scenes. If it doesn't spark your interest in that way there's no point in pursuing it so I'd never tell anyone else to see it.

There were plenty of book lovers who refused to watch it originally but eventually decided that any conclusion is better than waiting for GRRM to finish the series.

[gilsey]

Wren-Lewis on a subject closer to our hearts than GoT.

Buses are about redistribution, productivity and a greener future

[PaulfromYorkshire]

Wren-Lewis on a subject closer to our hearts than GoT.

Buses are about redistribution, productivity and a greener future

Quite. Don't get me started, again!

[HindleA]

https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/ ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[HindleA]

https://www.unison.org.uk/news/2019/04/ ... ssion=true" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"Care of the elderly is too important to be left to the many companies whose business models hinge upon huge levels of private equity serviced debt"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... e-too-late" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


"Damian Green’s proposal that a new system for funding social care for old people"

Like a fart against a hurricane,half spend and a third are not elderly.

You would possibly not get the ridiculousness of being described as being unfair against your own generation via the intergenerational schtick and policy proposals so predicated/justified if basic facts weren't ignored.

[AnatolyKasparov]

The above speculation was correct and not much exciting happened at the Labour NEC meeting.

[citizenJA]

The above speculation was correct and not much exciting happened at the Labour NEC meeting.

Some wanted exciting and seem distressed about not getting it.

[citizenJA]

Goodnight, everyone.
love,
cJA

[AnatolyKasparov]

The above speculation was correct and not much exciting happened at the Labour NEC meeting.

Some wanted exciting and seem distressed about not getting it.

You could even say "nothing has changed"?