Friday 18th December 2020
Posted: Fri 18 Dec, 2020 7:02 am
Morning all.
Spot the right wingers on this thread...Katharine Birbalsingh
@Miss_Snuffy
It isn’t conservatism that creates chaos. It is the state.
The state cannot move with dynamism and speed.
If you lean right, you want a smaller state so committees don’t get in the way of efficiency as is now happening.
Times like this make me wonder why some love state power
That was what O'Donnell was for.His remarkable success in the 2017 general election was achieved by promising everything to everybody and suggesting that someone else would pay for it - a formula which did not work so well in 2019. To govern is to compromise, to disappoint, to balance competing interests and decide between them. Corbyn has no experience in this. Had he by any chance stumbled into government, he would rapidly have proved a disappointment to his followers. That, not his views on Israel, is the main case against him.
We'll find out how much of the City/Canary Wharf is wfh and how much has quietly decamped to the EU after the worst of the pandemic has unwound.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Has anyone heard anything about the finance sector with respect to the Brexit deal?
I suppose I’m waiting to find that miraculously the City will be able to continue trading normally, while the rest of us get thrown under the Brexit bus.
Quite.AnatolyKasparov wrote:That's not really my recollection of how 2017 went either, tbh.
Not impressed...David Phillips
@al_ackof
In the @educationgovuk webinar. No questions answered properly. 3 slides of basic info and told the rest of the guidance will come out. Never told when
Rubbish
1:43 PM · Dec 18, 2020·Twitter for Android
I remember reading a bit about arrangements for the financial sector under May's WA which were going to be pretty reasonable but I have no idea if Boris' WA carried it over. As you say, there's been virtually nothing on how Boris' deal or no deal will affect the City of London.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Has anyone heard anything about the finance sector with respect to the Brexit deal?
I suppose I’m waiting to find that miraculously the City will be able to continue trading normally, while the rest of us get thrown under the Brexit bus.
Well, that's rather like them telling us to "get ready for December 31" re the EU - whilst saying literally nothing about HOW.RogerOThornhill wrote:From a HT...
Not impressed...David Phillips
@al_ackof
In the @educationgovuk webinar. No questions answered properly. 3 slides of basic info and told the rest of the guidance will come out. Never told when
Rubbish
1:43 PM · Dec 18, 2020·Twitter for Android
Baroness Fox...55. The trust has a number of connections with another charity “Battle of Ideas,”
including senior management links and a large single purchase transaction (£14,400)
from a linked company (Academy of Ideas Ltd). The investigation team were unable to
locate any formal trust documents confirming the nature of the relationships. The trust
must ensure it produces a comprehensive policy covering relationships with key
connected entities and ensure this captures any individual connections, value for money
considerations and management of conflicts.
56. The invoice for £14,400 from Academy of Ideas Ltd was paid in advance on 20
September 2019 for an event in November but there was no evidence to show how the
connections, and potential conflict, were managed. In addition, there was no evidence to
show trust consideration regarding whether this transaction classed as a related party
transaction. This breaches the AFH requirements around managing conflicts.
Not any more...she resigned in July.She currently teaches English part-time for an education charity, is a governor at an east London secondary school, and is a member of the Academy of Ideas Education Forum.