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John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s

Council documents reveal how Carroll, right, used to visit Allen, left, at his children's home.
Two notorious paedophiles were at the centre of a nationwide network of abusers which allegedly included both Labour and Tory politicians, a Mirror investigation has found.

Their links can be revealed on the day Allen was jailed for life for sexually abusing 19 children he was paid to look after.

Margaret Thatcher's former aide Sir Peter Morrison is suspected of abusing boys in Allen's care in Wales while a former minister in Tony Blair's government is currently being probed over his alleged visits to Carroll's Angell Road children's home in Lambeth, south London.

yahyah wrote:From today's Mirror, more pieces in the jig saw ?

John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s

Council documents reveal how Carroll, right, used to visit Allen, left, at his children's home.
Two notorious paedophiles were at the centre of a nationwide network of abusers which allegedly included both Labour and Tory politicians, a Mirror investigation has found.

Their links can be revealed on the day Allen was jailed for life for sexually abusing 19 children he was paid to look after.

Margaret Thatcher's former aide Sir Peter Morrison is suspected of abusing boys in Allen's care in Wales while a former minister in Tony Blair's government is currently being probed over his alleged visits to Carroll's Angell Road children's home in Lambeth, south London.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tw ... de-4727494" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Lonewolfie wrote:

yahyah wrote:From today's Mirror, more pieces in the jig saw ?

John Allen, 73, and Michael John Carroll, 66, were friends when they were abusing youngsters North Wales and London respectively in the 1980s

Council documents reveal how Carroll, right, used to visit Allen, left, at his children's home.
Two notorious paedophiles were at the centre of a nationwide network of abusers which allegedly included both Labour and Tory politicians, a Mirror investigation has found.

Their links can be revealed on the day Allen was jailed for life for sexually abusing 19 children he was paid to look after.

Margaret Thatcher's former aide Sir Peter Morrison is suspected of abusing boys in Allen's care in Wales while a former minister in Tony Blair's government is currently being probed over his alleged visits to Carroll's Angell Road children's home in Lambeth, south London.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tw ... de-4727494" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Indeed...there's still much more to come (all horrible, as far as I can tell) - latest (well for the last month or so) rumour from police is a mass 200 person arrest has been in planning for quite a while...and the wait for the CSA Inquiry to start has now lasted more days than Coulson spent inside (this time)...but on #csainquiry no-one seems to be forgetting Patrick Rock....you remember, the one Dodgy Dave trusted to oversee online pornography filters

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/da ... ls-4409569

So, in reality it looks like flood defence spending is actually being cut:

According to Liz Truss, spending over the five year term of the Coalition government will be £3.2bn.

Spending over the next six years will be £2.3bn, and presumably some of that figure is included in the current five year expenditure.

So, over the current 5 years, that's £640m per year.

Over the coming 6 years thats £383m per year.

Which looks to me like a massive cut.

My partner's parents and her brother live in the Somerset Levels. Virtually none of the promised flood defence work has been carried out yet.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:This place was very slow again for me last night - anybody else have the same problem?

AnatolyKasparov wrote:This place was very slow again for me last night - anybody else have the same problem?

Sir Alan Beith, the committee chairman, goes first. He says the committee received evidence last night from the Ministry of Justice and from others.

Elfyn Llywd, the Plaid Cymru MP, goes first.

Q: In the absence of any credible evidence on the safety of the probation reforms, what can you say to assure us that they are safe?

Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, says the committee has the evidence in front of it that he will use when he takes his decision tomorrow on whether to press ahead with his reforms.

Sir Alan Beith says it is “not satisfactory” for Grayling to give documents to the committee so late.

mikems wrote:I had a fair bit of waiting for the comments to download.

Andy Slaughter MP retweeted
Jack Blanchard ‏@Jack_Blanchard_ 11m11 minutes ago
Chris Grayling tells MPs that the 69% surge in suicides in his overcrowded, understaffed prisons last year was a "blip".

Labour Environment ‏@LabourDefra 38m38 minutes ago
The Government still claim they've spent record amount on flood protection. @NAOorguk say they've actually cut it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29902472" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … …

Sadiq Khan MP ‏@SadiqKhan 2h2 hours ago
The night the Lib Dems gave up their last remaining principles – not even a whimper from them on #JudicialReview http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2014/12 ... g-principl" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB · 2h 2 hours ago
New TNS-BMRB poll has
LAB 31%, CON 30%, UKIP 19%, LD 6%, GRN 6%

Sarah Wollaston MP ‏@drwollastonmp 14h14 hours ago
If the Scottish Parliament are giving us Salmond, can we give them Gordon Brown?

Diane Abbott MP ‏@HackneyAbbott 28m28 minutes ago
.@drwollastonmp that is, for sure, a bad deal for us..

Tory MP says those who live in “outlying regions” are “dog-end voters”
http://labourlist.org/2014/12/tory-mp-s ... nd-voters/
... Tory MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier has been overheard saying some voters can be ignored because they are “dog-end” and live in “outlying regions”.

Speaking to the Institute of Economic Affairs, Garnier – a former banker – said:

“We need to be giving a much clearer message to them [“wealth creators”] that they don’t have to worry about politicians mucking around with tax rates in order to try and attract a few dog-end voters in the outlying regions of the country”.

It’s reported that he quickly tried to cover his tracks by explaining “Not that they’re not important – but what is important is that businesses can feel surety in what is happening within tax rates”...

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Tory MP says those who live in “outlying regions” are “dog-end voters”
http://labourlist.org/2014/12/tory-mp-s ... nd-voters/
... Tory MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier has been overheard saying some voters can be ignored because they are “dog-end” and live in “outlying regions”.

Speaking to the Institute of Economic Affairs, Garnier – a former banker – said:

“We need to be giving a much clearer message to them [“wealth creators”] that they don’t have to worry about politicians mucking around with tax rates in order to try and attract a few dog-end voters in the outlying regions of the country”.

It’s reported that he quickly tried to cover his tracks by explaining “Not that they’re not important – but what is important is that businesses can feel surety in what is happening within tax rates”...

Calling all fellow dog-ends .... let us rise up and boot these superior shites into the political abyss ... what a pillock.

frightful_oik wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Tory MP says those who live in “outlying regions” are “dog-end voters”
http://labourlist.org/2014/12/tory-mp-s ... nd-voters/
... Tory MP for Wyre Forest, Mark Garnier has been overheard saying some voters can be ignored because they are “dog-end” and live in “outlying regions”.

Speaking to the Institute of Economic Affairs, Garnier – a former banker – said:

“We need to be giving a much clearer message to them [“wealth creators”] that they don’t have to worry about politicians mucking around with tax rates in order to try and attract a few dog-end voters in the outlying regions of the country”.

It’s reported that he quickly tried to cover his tracks by explaining “Not that they’re not important – but what is important is that businesses can feel surety in what is happening within tax rates”...

Calling all fellow dog-ends .... let us rise up and boot these superior shites into the political abyss ... what a pillock.

Same bloke who 'had a word' with Tom Watson. And the arrogance of assuming he's going to be anywhere near office after May. I've decided he's an odious individual.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Indeed, what a dickhead.

Reminds me of that government "advisor" who basically called for places like Barrow to be abandoned.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Indeed, what a dickhead.

Reminds me of that government "advisor" who basically called for places like Barrow to be abandoned.

Isn't he someone's father or father in law? Or are you remembering somebody else? I'm thinking of the one who called for fracking to be done in the desolate, barren places like the North East .... another right charmer. Cos nobody would give a monkeys about awful places like that, would they.

Eight questions about the autumn statement answered

Ahead of the chancellor’s autumn statement tomorrow, here are eight questions answered:

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refitman wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Indeed, what a dickhead.

Reminds me of that government "advisor" who basically called for places like Barrow to be abandoned.

Isn't he someone's father or father in law? Or are you remembering somebody else? I'm thinking of the one who called for fracking to be done in the desolate, barren places like the North East .... another right charmer. Cos nobody would give a monkeys about awful places like that, would they.

That was Osborne's father-in-law.

rebeccariots2 wrote:

frightful_oik wrote:

rebeccariots2 wrote: All the nasty thoughts and opinions, are finally coming out. Now we're seeing what the majority of them think of us.

I'd say the next five months are going to be a real eye opener.


Calling all fellow dog-ends .... let us rise up and boot these superior shites into the political abyss ... what a pillock.

Same bloke who 'had a word' with Tom Watson. And the arrogance of assuming he's going to be anywhere near office after May. I've decided he's an odious individual.

I knew I'd heard his name before - and not in a particularly good way. Thanks for jogging the old grey cells oiky. I haven't got enough of them to keep up with all the insults and PR slips.

Wokingham council calls for an end to Government's austerity
Dec 02, 2014 12:27 By Laura Miller
Leader Cllr Keith Baker is one of more than 100 leader in England to warn chancellor George Osborne local authorities cannot afford more spending cuts

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local- ... ts-8211758" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"David Cameron was keen to take credit for the G8's Lough Erne declaration in June that "countries should change rules that let companies shift their profits across borders to avoid taxes".
The task of changing the international tax rules fell to the OECD, which last month duly produced a report. Its priority was for major economies to strengthen domestic laws to stop multinationals shunting profits into tax haven subsidiaries - so called "controlled foreign companies" laws. Without these laws, tax haven companies remain tax free and every country suffers.
'Cameron, who welcomed the OECD report, should have a word with his chancellor. For in the last two years, George Osborne has shredded the UK's controlled foreign companies laws to the point that offshore finance companies amounting to no more than shells - in places like Jersey and Luxembourg - will be taxed at 5% and other profits diverted from real economies into British multinationals' tax haven companies will not be taxed at all.

David Cameron’s flagship Big Society Network is being investigated by the Charity Commission over allegations that it misused government funding and made inappropriate payments to its directors – including a Tory donor.

Here’s an examination of what Big Society projects promised - and what they delivered.
Your Square Mile
Your Square Mile’s purpose was to encourage and enable local people to improve their community. It was awarded £830,000 by the Big Lottery Fund – despite officials assessing the application as “weak” in three out of the six criteria.
What happened: In February 2012 the project had attracted just 64 signed-up groups compared with the one million predicted in the funding application.
Get In
Get In aimed to tackle childhood obesity through sport. In April 2012 it was awarded a grant of £299,800 from the Cabinet Office despite officials concluding it was unlikely to meet its stated objectives. They were told to change their selection criteria and approve the grant.
What happened: The project was never even launched.
Britain’s Personal Best
Britain’s Personal Best, which aimed to build on the Olympic Games by encouraging people to excel in athletic, educational or creative challenges. Given £997,960 in April 2013 by the Big Lottery Fund, it claimed it would sign up 120,000 people to take on challenges in their community.
What happened: It was wound up within months after failing to meet all the milestones the Big Lottery Fund had set.
Nesta
A long running investigation by Civil Society News into Big Society Network funding has also discovered that the organisation was given statutory grants totalling £480,000 in 2010 by Nesta – which was then an arms-length body of the Department of Business – without a competitive pitch being held.
About £150,000 was to part-finance the core costs of running the organisation in its early stages and £330,000 was to support four projects – called Nexters, Spring, Your Local Budget and It’s Our Community.

Members of the House of Lords have lodged a series of extravagant complaints about their taxpayer-subsidised restaurants, expressing their anger about the size of menus, “chaotic” table layouts and “inferior cappuccinos”.
Peers can enjoy seared scallops, foie gras and champagne risotto at the Barry Room private restaurant, part of a group of facilities catering to them and their guests which are subsidised by the taxpayer at a cost of £1.3m a year. A full roast dinner costs £9.50. Peers also receive a £300-a-day expenses allowance for attending the House of Lords.
But this has not stopped a steady stream of complaints being sent to Lord John Sewel, the Chairman of Committees, which were released in redacted form to The Independent following a Freedom of Information request.
One impassioned Lord complained of a 15-minute wait to be seated, which they said lost “some of the finesse of the afternoon” and left their guests unable to “eat the beautiful cake selection” in time. Another member decried the “chaotic litter of small tables” in the Lords’ tea room after its rearrangement over Easter.
One peer even appealed for the return of “menus printed on light card” for guests to take home as souvenirs, while another said he had been left “scarred” after his dinner booking was cancelled suddenly. He complained that his wife was “unable to lunch elsewhere” because she was wearing a tiara. The Lord recalled: “We were only saved by the kindness of [a fellow peer] who offered us the use of his nearby home to change in and took us out to lunch.”
The installation of a controversial new coffee machine also attracted a series of complaints, which the Lords said was “inferior” and left them “nowhere to go” for a decent cappuccino in the House.
One member complained that the arrival of the new machine was “insulting” and “staggering”, because peers hadn’t been consulted about the change. In his letter to Lord Sewel, the Lord added: “Even by parliamentary standards, that’s an impressive manoeuvre. You could not have calculated a move more likely to spread ill will.”  Another handwritten note called for staff at the canteen to “stop asking whether we want butter on jacket potatoes when what they mean is marge.”
Labour’s Maria Eagle said: “These complaints are completely out of touch at a time when so many families are struggling to make ends meet, thanks to the Government’s cost-of-living crisis. They should be grateful not to be one of the half a million people forced to rely on help from food banks since April, despite Britain being the seventh richest country on the planet.”
In last year’s list of complaints, which were also unearthed through Freedom of Information laws, Lords complained about the quality of their subsidised smoked salmon, scallops and the lack of Chilean wine for a distinguished guest. One peer even suggested they host the director of a Chilean wine association for a tasting to improve the situation.
Last month, an angry Lord accused catering heads at Parliament’s subsidised restaurants of serving food like that produced by high-street chains such as Prezzo and ASK, which he described as “downmarket”.
The peer, who was not named by officials, said the menu was “flimsy”, there was no melba toast, no rice pudding and that the menu at Christmas did not offer turkey. Writing about an experience with his wife in the Barry Room, he added: “There were two adequate pasta dishes which we ordered but I could have had these in a downmarket establishment eg Prezzo, ASK... With fare like this the place will soon be deserted.”
Lord Sewell declined to comment.
By Tom Paine, 02/02/14. The independent.

Tom Newton Dunn @tnewtondunn · 8h 8 hours ago
EXCL: 12 senior Tories to humiliate Cameron by asking MPs to back bid to override EU just before Autumn Statement http://spr.ly/6018t2Hr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ErnstRemarx wrote:Afternoon all. Not been around too much of late (cheers from other FTNers) for one reason or another, but looking in now to report some (welcome) news, to wit, I had an agency contact me last week with the prospect of a job in Salford Quays with K3, a software supplier, who are looking for someone for their support function. The idea was speak to one of the managers today via phone, then a technical phone call later in the week, and if they still liked me, a face to face interview some time after. Well, I had the first phone interview this afternoon, and at the end, the woman I was chatting to said "Well, I think I'll get you over to here so my boss can interview you..." so presumably she liked the cut of my jib. If I can squeak through the face to face one, then it would mean a very merry Xmas chez Remarx, I can tell you.

What's more, it looks like there are contract programming jobs in Leeds and Northampton coming up, so for once things are looking rather brighter than they were towards the end of October, when you may recall I got the bum's rush from those shysters over near Oldham.

ErnstRemarx wrote:Afternoon all. Not been around too much of late (cheers from other FTNers) for one reason or another, but looking in now to report some (welcome) news, to wit, I had an agency contact me last week with the prospect of a job in Salford Quays with K3, a software supplier, who are looking for someone for their support function. The idea was speak to one of the managers today via phone, then a technical phone call later in the week, and if they still liked me, a face to face interview some time after. Well, I had the first phone interview this afternoon, and at the end, the woman I was chatting to said "Well, I think I'll get you over to here so my boss can interview you..." so presumably she liked the cut of my jib. If I can squeak through the face to face one, then it would mean a very merry Xmas chez Remarx, I can tell you.

What's more, it looks like there are contract programming jobs in Leeds and Northampton coming up, so for once things are looking rather brighter than they were towards the end of October, when you may recall I got the bum's rush from those shysters over near Oldham.

Is Uber’s rider database a sitting duck for hackers?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the ... r-hackers/

rebeccariots2 wrote:

ErnstRemarx wrote:Afternoon all. Not been around too much of late (cheers from other FTNers) for one reason or another, but looking in now to report some (welcome) news, to wit, I had an agency contact me last week with the prospect of a job in Salford Quays with K3, a software supplier, who are looking for someone for their support function. The idea was speak to one of the managers today via phone, then a technical phone call later in the week, and if they still liked me, a face to face interview some time after. Well, I had the first phone interview this afternoon, and at the end, the woman I was chatting to said "Well, I think I'll get you over to here so my boss can interview you..." so presumably she liked the cut of my jib. If I can squeak through the face to face one, then it would mean a very merry Xmas chez Remarx, I can tell you.

What's more, it looks like there are contract programming jobs in Leeds and Northampton coming up, so for once things are looking rather brighter than they were towards the end of October, when you may recall I got the bum's rush from those shysters over near Oldham.

Excellent news Ernst. Well done for staying positive despite the bad experience with those unmentionables. Really hope this turns out well - Remarx Towers certainly deserves a very cheerful Xmas.

StephenDolan wrote:

ErnstRemarx wrote:Afternoon all. Not been around too much of late (cheers from other FTNers) for one reason or another, but looking in now to report some (welcome) news, to wit, I had an agency contact me last week with the prospect of a job in Salford Quays with K3, a software supplier, who are looking for someone for their support function. The idea was speak to one of the managers today via phone, then a technical phone call later in the week, and if they still liked me, a face to face interview some time after. Well, I had the first phone interview this afternoon, and at the end, the woman I was chatting to said "Well, I think I'll get you over to here so my boss can interview you..." so presumably she liked the cut of my jib. If I can squeak through the face to face one, then it would mean a very merry Xmas chez Remarx, I can tell you.

What's more, it looks like there are contract programming jobs in Leeds and Northampton coming up, so for once things are looking rather brighter than they were towards the end of October, when you may recall I got the bum's rush from those shysters over near Oldham.

Excellent news ER, fingers crossed it pans out.

Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams · 6h 6 hours ago
Weird that @Adamstoon1 didn't put his UKIP christmas card on his timeline. Almost as if he were REALLY ASHAMED OF HIMSELF

Christian Adams ‏@Adamstoon1 6h6 hours ago
They DID NOT ASK PERMISSION!
RT @zoesqwilliams: Weird that @Adamstoon1 didn't put his UKIP christmas card on his timeline.

Zoe Williams
‏@zoesqwilliams
@Adamstoon1 you should definitely sue them.

Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 · 6h 6 hours ago
Angry Telegraph Syndication are on the case!

Nigel Farage’s Christmas card depicts white van driving over party leaders
Ukip chooses design by Daily Telegraph cartoonist Christian Adams referencing Labour MP’s tweet during byelection
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... CMP=twt_gu

ErnstRemarx wrote:Afternoon all. Not been around too much of late (cheers from other FTNers) for one reason or another, but looking in now to report some (welcome) news, to wit, I had an agency contact me last week with the prospect of a job in Salford Quays with K3, a software supplier, who are looking for someone for their support function. The idea was speak to one of the managers today via phone, then a technical phone call later in the week, and if they still liked me, a face to face interview some time after. Well, I had the first phone interview this afternoon, and at the end, the woman I was chatting to said "Well, I think I'll get you over to here so my boss can interview you..." so presumably she liked the cut of my jib. If I can squeak through the face to face one, then it would mean a very merry Xmas chez Remarx, I can tell you.

What's more, it looks like there are contract programming jobs in Leeds and Northampton coming up, so for once things are looking rather brighter than they were towards the end of October, when you may recall I got the bum's rush from those shysters over near Oldham.