Monday 10th June 2019
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Monday 10th June 2019
Morning all.
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Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Reduction in abortion rights
Tax cuts
Thrilling contest, so much variety to choose from.
Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Reduction in abortion rights
Tax cuts
Thrilling contest, so much variety to choose from.
"Fall seven times, get up eight" - Japanese proverb
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Good morfternoon.
I wonder if Michael Gove thought that his drug admission was a canny move or if someone threatened to reveal all (with evidence?) and so he was forced to get in first.
I wonder if Michael Gove thought that his drug admission was a canny move or if someone threatened to reveal all (with evidence?) and so he was forced to get in first.
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Fixed that for you...Willow904 wrote:Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Reduction in abortion rights
Tax cuts for higher earner
NI increase for everyone (apart from pensioners)
Thrilling contest, so much variety to choose from.
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Re Gove - I see the apologists were out in force...
I might be wrong but I don't recall being in your 30s counts as "youthful"...Quentin Letts
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Am not sure I give the remotest monkey's about M Gove's youthful drug-taking. Teetotal goodie-goodies are more worrying.
5:01 PM · Jun 9, 2019 · Mobile Web (M2)
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Andrea Leadsom's word of the day is "feasible".
Brings back memories.
Brings back memories.
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I wonder...can he?
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I will not promise tax cuts or spending which we cannot afford. If we can deliver a pragmatic Brexit my priority would be investing more in Education (particularly mid-life), Infrastructure (particularly in the North) and Housing. But let’s be sensible...please...
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Toby Young claimed 'youthful indiscretion over things he'd been saying on Twitter, even though Twitter didn't exist until he was in his 40s.RogerOThornhill wrote:Re Gove - I see the apologists were out in force...
I might be wrong but I don't recall being in your 30s counts as "youthful"...Quentin Letts
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Am not sure I give the remotest monkey's about M Gove's youthful drug-taking. Teetotal goodie-goodies are more worrying.
5:01 PM · Jun 9, 2019 · Mobile Web (M2)
Gove oversaw the introduction of rules that saw teachers struck off for Class A drug use.
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It's weird that only Gove is getting hammered over this. I don't remember the media being very interested in the gossip about Osborne when he was chancellor, or this about Boris Johnson:PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I wonder if Michael Gove thought that his drug admission was a canny move or if someone threatened to reveal all (with evidence?) and so he was forced to get in first.
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Apparently it's only a problem if you're honest about it and admit it, which does beg the question why Gove would do so when it appears the media are quite happy to turn a blind eye to substantiated third party evidence as long as the minister in question declines to confirm it.Natalie Rowe
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HOLD ON A SEC @BorisJohnson there is NO WAY that your ‘ encounter ‘ with Cocaine was in your University days, you were snorting the stuff up like Nobodies business at the Party in Knightsbridge where you racially abused me and that was early 90’s you absolute LIAR
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I'm sure it's just pure coincidence but that's who I saw had retweeted Letts...maybe they're admitting that the right don't tend to grow up until much later than normal people?adam wrote:RogerOThornhill wrote:
Toby Young claimed 'youthful indiscretion over things he'd been saying on Twitter, even though Twitter didn't exist until he was in his 40s.
Gove oversaw the introduction of rules that saw teachers struck off for Class A drug use.
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I gather Victoria Derbyshire just did the Jeremy C*** thing
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Don't forget suspending parliament, that's a bit of variety.Willow904 wrote:Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Tax cuts
Reduction in abortion rights
Tax cuts
Thrilling contest, so much variety to choose from.
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Oops.
UK economy hit by 'dramatic' fall in car output
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48579630
UK economy hit by 'dramatic' fall in car output
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48579630
A "dramatic" fall in car production and an easing of stockpiling by manufacturers meant the economy shrank in April, official figures show.
The economy contracted 0.4% from the month before, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The contraction meant growth for the three months to April slowed to 0.3%.
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Yep.
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I honestly don't know how you could look at the options of how to spend billions and think "Don't worry those who earn £52k higher than the average salary in the UK, I've got your back."
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Dominic Raab may (according to himself) be the person to deliver "Brexit", but he certainly isn't the person to deliver a speech.
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Behind the paywall but Paul Johnson of the IFS pretty much sums up the position of the candidates right now.
Promises, promises: Tory leadership candidates are horrifying Whitehall
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/busi ... -xf9n92cmc
Promises, promises: Tory leadership candidates are horrifying Whitehall
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/busi ... -xf9n92cmc
Walk down Horse Guards Road, pass the back entrance to Downing Street and the Foreign Office, enjoy the views across St James’s Park and approach the grand entrance to the Treasury. A soft, intermittent thudding sound becomes apparent, the sound of Treasury officials’ heads gently banging on desks as they listen to the promises being made by the contenders vying to become the new first Lord of the Treasury, better known as the prime minister.
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Oh, and that abolition of VAT and replacing by a sales tax that Gove wants?
This is Leavers Brexit all over again - absurd promises with no foundation in reality.
Maybe not then.Paul Johnson
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You can't abolish VAT, which raises £140bn a year, and replace with a sales tax. Not a matter of principle but of practicality.
Sales tax at current VAT rate would not work. That's why all OECD countries bar the US, which has very low rates have a VAT as do nearly 170 worldwide
This is Leavers Brexit all over again - absurd promises with no foundation in reality.
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Hurrah! Jeremy Hunt has a solution to the Irish border problem no one's thought of yet! Jammy git! Theresa May will be spitting. If only he'd shared it with her she could have enjoyed the glory of thrashing it out with Angela Merkel instead of being done up like a kipper by that Barnier bloke.
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And we can be grateful for that, a demagogic type proposing what he does might be genuinely dangerous.PorFavor wrote:Dominic Raab may (according to himself) be the person to deliver "Brexit", but he certainly isn't the person to deliver a speech.
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Very true.AnatolyKasparov wrote:And we can be grateful for that, a demagogic type proposing what he does might be genuinely dangerous.PorFavor wrote:Dominic Raab may (according to himself) be the person to deliver "Brexit", but he certainly isn't the person to deliver a speech.
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It was going to be revealed in a book that's coming out soon. So he 'tried to get ahead' of it.PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
I wonder if Michael Gove thought that his drug admission was a canny move or if someone threatened to reveal all (with evidence?) and so he was forced to get in first.
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Somebody has described McVey as 'the kind of person who would unplug your life support machine so she could charge her phone'.
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HindleA wrote:https://mydaftlife.com/2019/06/09/we-re ... ssion=true
Just under a third of MS claimants have received a lower or no award after DLA to PIP reassessment.“Over two thirds of MS claimants receive the same or a higher award after DLA to PIP reassessment, and we work closely with organisations such as the MS Society to ensure that PIP is working well.”
A third.
Utter bastards.
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I'm not sure about this but it appeared to us that as the transition was starting there seemed to be a policy that instead of being entitled to DLA to 16 if you type 1 diabates, you were only entitled until you were 12. We successfully appealed (and we won in part because of the absurdity of having a 15 year old who qualified and a 12 year old with exactly the same condition who didn't).Willow904 wrote:HindleA wrote:https://mydaftlife.com/2019/06/09/we-re ... ssion=trueJust under a third of MS claimants have received a lower or no award after DLA to PIP reassessment.“Over two thirds of MS claimants receive the same or a higher award after DLA to PIP reassessment, and we work closely with organisations such as the MS Society to ensure that PIP is working well.”
A third.
Utter bastards.
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And she is another chance to observe pundits playing their now familiar "anybody who has a regional accent MUST be working class" game.adam wrote:Somebody has described McVey as 'the kind of person who would unplug your life support machine so she could charge her phone'.
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The "to the most vulnerable /those that really need it " is so pernicious;extra costs retain.Either we decide to account for sickness/disability ,and cash used as wished is evidentially the best way,not least in economic terms or continue
on the misanthropic ,alternative far mote expensive route but as Willow says,too many resent such cost saving accounting as "unfair"
on the misanthropic ,alternative far mote expensive route but as Willow says,too many resent such cost saving accounting as "unfair"
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The most underclaimed allowance.We "see" early judicious investment that saves far more in the long run .As ever,the DWP undermines
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Both the DWP and Home Office need to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.
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Tom Peck on Matt Hancock's campaign launch...
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Reaching his high crescendo, Matt Hancock shouts, “I’m fed up with this rancour!”
A large percentage of the sketch writers guild has a terrible outbreak of the giggles.
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I presume everybody here is aware of the old Roy Jenkins/Dennis Skinner gag regarding that word?
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Looking at the replies to this Express poll, it's probably not going the way they hoped...
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Nominations for Tory leader have now closed and we move onto round one: the urine sample.
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So that's all of them given Gyimah dropped out this afternoon.Cheryl Gillan, a member of the 1922 Committee executive, is now reading out the names of the candidates who have had their nomination accepted. They are:
Michael Gove
Matthew Hancock
Mark Harper
Jeremy Hunt
Sajid Javid
Boris Johnson
Andrea Leadsom
Esther McVey
Dominic Raab
Rory Stewart
Gillan says there are 10 valid nominations.
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Squirrels.
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I've just been reading the government reaction to the BBC ending free TV licence for all over-75's and now means testing it.
As was said at the time it was transferred to the BBC from the DWP, this was so that the BBC would be blamed when they cut it back.Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "very disappointed" with the BBC's decision.
A government spokesperson said: "We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession.
"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.
"Taxpayers want to see the BBC using its substantial licence fee income in an appropriate way to ensure it delivers for UK audiences, which includes showing restraint on salaries for senior staff."
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Good evening, everyone.
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A minority Tory government wasting everyone's time and resourcesTory leadership campaigns: 1922 Committee confirms 10 candidates on ballot for first vote – live news
Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including closure of leadership nominations and campaign launches
Matt Hancock’s launch - Summary
Dominic Raab’s launch - Summary
Jeremy Hunt’s launch - Summary
Esther McVey’s launch - Summary
Michael Gove’s launch - Summary
8 things we’ve learnt from today’s Tory leadership campaign launches
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YesAnatolyKasparov wrote:Both the DWP and Home Office need to be scrapped and rebuilt from scratch.
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Do they have confidence in their government right now?
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Simon Jenkins wrote:"Gove has shown himself capable in three high offices of state: education, justice and the environment. Amid the current no-deal Brexit hysteria, he has shown a pragmatism that offers some hope of reaching a plausible trading relationship with the EU. His qualities at present are of critical importance to the state."
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Gove wasn't "capable" at education - him and his deranged adviser decided to wage war on local authorities, told lies to the public about who ran LA schools, and bribed school to become academies.
And when there were so many of them that the DfE realised they wouldn't be able to cope they came up with an on the hoof policy of Regional School Commissioners with no real idea about how it was going to work.
He completely botched curriculum reform and his History curriculum was so laughably bad and unworkable that it had to be revised so much that it ended up looking like the previous one.
More "meddling" than "capable" - I know a lot of the loud voices on edu twitter liked him but they tend to look at the rhetoric and not the detail.
And when there were so many of them that the DfE realised they wouldn't be able to cope they came up with an on the hoof policy of Regional School Commissioners with no real idea about how it was going to work.
He completely botched curriculum reform and his History curriculum was so laughably bad and unworkable that it had to be revised so much that it ended up looking like the previous one.
More "meddling" than "capable" - I know a lot of the loud voices on edu twitter liked him but they tend to look at the rhetoric and not the detail.
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Goodnight, everyone.
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I think many will still blame the government though.RogerOThornhill wrote:I've just been reading the government reaction to the BBC ending free TV licence for all over-75's and now means testing it.
As was said at the time it was transferred to the BBC from the DWP, this was so that the BBC would be blamed when they cut it back.Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "very disappointed" with the BBC's decision.
A government spokesperson said: "We've been clear that we want and expect the BBC to continue this concession.
"People across the country value television as a way to stay connected, and we want the BBC to look at further ways to support older people.
"Taxpayers want to see the BBC using its substantial licence fee income in an appropriate way to ensure it delivers for UK audiences, which includes showing restraint on salaries for senior staff."
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