Thursday 6th August 2015
Posted: Thu 06 Aug, 2015 7:11 am
Morning all.
If the 'about 4%' of Green candidates were prepared to stand up and ask to be elected for the Greens in May, and presumably shovelled out some amount of anti-Labour s*** along the way - how can they suddenly sign up as people who support Labour and don't belong to organisations that oppose Labour ? Shows just how strong their commitment to the Green Party actually was, if they are being actually honest, which isn't a given.RobertSnozers wrote:To be fair, they could presumably be returning Labour supporters?yahyah wrote:Surprise, surprise. This is what worried me.
If I do finally vote for Corbyn it isn't because I want Labour to become an offshoot of the Greens, there were reasons why I wouldn't vote for them and this sort of thing is one of the reasons.
''Labour leadership: 100 Green Party candidates have joined party in latest evidence of 'entryism'
A trawl of Green candidates in this May’s general and local elections by Labour officials found that about 4 per cent of them have applied to join Labour since then. Between 100 and 150 Greens have had their applications rejected.''
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 41692.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They should be getting rid of their own leader useless leaders Bennett & Bartolotti instead of poking their nose in another party's business.
That could be true.RobertSnozers wrote:To be fair, they could presumably be returning Labour supporters?yahyah wrote:Surprise, surprise. This is what worried me.
If I do finally vote for Corbyn it isn't because I want Labour to become an offshoot of the Greens, there were reasons why I wouldn't vote for them and this sort of thing is one of the reasons.
''Labour leadership: 100 Green Party candidates have joined party in latest evidence of 'entryism'
A trawl of Green candidates in this May’s general and local elections by Labour officials found that about 4 per cent of them have applied to join Labour since then. Between 100 and 150 Greens have had their applications rejected.''
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 41692.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They should be getting rid of their own leader useless leaders Bennett & Bartolotti instead of poking their nose in another party's business.
He mentions buses!yahyah wrote:Burnham's manifesto document:
http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/th ... 1438791117" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
And most unforgivably of all, parroted the "Labour signed up to £30 billion of cuts" BIG LIEyahyah wrote:If the 'about 4%' of Green candidates were prepared to stand up and ask to be elected for the Greens in May, and presumably shovelled out some amount of anti-Labour s*** along the way - how can they suddenly sign up as people who support Labour and don't belong to organisations that oppose Labour ? Shows just how strong their commitment to the Green Party actually was, if they are being actually honest, which isn't a given.RobertSnozers wrote:To be fair, they could presumably be returning Labour supporters?yahyah wrote:Surprise, surprise. This is what worried me.
If I do finally vote for Corbyn it isn't because I want Labour to become an offshoot of the Greens, there were reasons why I wouldn't vote for them and this sort of thing is one of the reasons.
''Labour leadership: 100 Green Party candidates have joined party in latest evidence of 'entryism'
A trawl of Green candidates in this May’s general and local elections by Labour officials found that about 4 per cent of them have applied to join Labour since then. Between 100 and 150 Greens have had their applications rejected.''
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 41692.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They should be getting rid of their own leader useless leaders Bennett & Bartolotti instead of poking their nose in another party's business.
yahyah wrote:Burnham's manifesto document:
http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/th ... 1438791117" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Sorry, that's bollocks as far as education is concerned.SpinningHugo wrote: (iii) The usual pro-producer stuff on education and health. that we are used to from Burnham. He is anti-choice for poor people.
Manchester 'Oyster card' in chaos as contractor admits it cannot deliver
George Osborne’s northern powerhouse suffers fresh blow as Transport for Greater Manchester severs contract with firm hired to install smart ticketing
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... powerhouse" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Do I need to say more?... Now Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has torn up its contract with Atos, the firm it hired in 2012 to design and build the system, after it became apparent the contractor cannot deliver what it promised.
In a statement to councillors obtained by the Manchester Evening News, TfGM and Atos said: “TfGM contracted Atos in 2012 to design, build and operate a smart ticketing system for Greater Manchester to be rolled out initially on Metrolink and with options to roll the system out subsequently to bus and rail.
“Although the system is currently operational for use by our 500,000 concessionary card holders, after a considerable period of delay it has become clear that Atos cannot deliver the smart ticketing system as contracted...
http://www.labourteachers.org.uk/non-te ... lexbigham/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Jonathan Simons @PXEducation Aug 4
Great post from @alexbigham on what Labour should think about on education and its general approach to the topic http://www.labourteachers.org.uk/non-te ... lexbigham/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …
Well it might be a plan but if the evidence is mixed - and it is as recognised by almost everyone apart from the DfE- why on earth is it continuing to happen?Academisation has been controversial, and the evidence is mixed to its effectiveness now the programme has been diluted and lost its original focus on improving schools that are inadequate. But at least it is a plan. But such a solution is a creature of its time. We need to embrace educational reform that will match the needs of our economy today, without lapsing into the lazy clichés of 21st century skills.
I honestly don't know what to say to this. Is it satire?RobertSnozers wrote:Adam Smith Institute: Britain Needs More Slums
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/planning- ... ore-slums/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I very much agree that the current system doesn't work.FWIIW.RogerOThornhill wrote:Sorry, that's bollocks as far as education is concerned.SpinningHugo wrote: (iii) The usual pro-producer stuff on education and health. that we are used to from Burnham. He is anti-choice for poor people.
The only way you'll veer get true choice is for every school to have as much spare capacity so that any parent who wants to send their kid to a particular school can do so.
Ultimately schools have always been the ones who choose not parents.
Free schools are increasingly being set up by academy chains - local community groups and parents are very much the minority. And the proportion of good or outstanding free schools is less than the national average.
Stick to what you know eh? Which isn't education.
I followed the link through to young Theo's own website and read some of his other articles. I can't make him out, to be honest.Willow904 wrote:I honestly don't know what to say to this. Is it satire?RobertSnozers wrote:Adam Smith Institute: Britain Needs More Slums
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/planning- ... ore-slums/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It is bollocks on health as well. What does choice mean for Joe public in health exactly?RogerOThornhill wrote:Sorry, that's bollocks as far as education is concerned.SpinningHugo wrote: (iii) The usual pro-producer stuff on education and health. that we are used to from Burnham. He is anti-choice for poor people.
The only way you'll veer get true choice is for every school to have as much spare capacity so that any parent who wants to send their kid to a particular school can do so.
Ultimately schools have always been the ones who choose not parents.
Free schools are increasingly being set up by academy chains - local community groups and parents are very much the minority. And the proportion of good or outstanding free schools is less than the national average.
Stick to what you know eh? Which isn't education.
Well said.RobertSnozers wrote:I did check the date.Willow904 wrote:I honestly don't know what to say to this. Is it satire?RobertSnozers wrote:Adam Smith Institute: Britain Needs More Slums
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/planning- ... ore-slums/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
If any if the Blairite undead try to tell you that the original purpose for the Labour Party no longer exists, show them this.
Chris Bryant MP @RhonddaBryant 10m10 minutes ago
Funny how things go. Despite being a Plaid member @esthernagle has registered as a labour supporter! Does that mean she too has lied?
Edited to add the second tweet.Chris Bryant MP @RhonddaBryant 9m9 minutes ago
To be clear @Esthernagle was a Plaid candidate at the last council elections. So has she really joined Labour or is she just lying?
Can we? Genuine question, as student loan repayments are recovered through payroll deductions.(v) No fees and a graduate tax. Will this undea idea never die? We know it is impractical, and still it comes back.
I really cannot comprehend why the left is so obsessed with iving out free University eduucation.
*It is not a common good shared by all.* It is not like healthcare or secondary education. It disproportionately benefits the children of the wealthy and people who go on to be wealthy. make the beneficiaries pay. It is much better to get them pay through a loan system (with very generous repayment terms: and no payments at all if our income is too low) becaue it means
1. we can charge EU stuents which otherwise we cannot (see Scotland)
and
2. We can recover the money if people take this nice generous state funded benefit and choose to earn lots of money outside the UK with it.
Labour party members are clearly to the left of the parliamentary party, but are they also to the left of Labour voters in general? Could be a real problem for Labour if Corbyn wins.When Labour supporters were asked which of the four candidates they would vote to be the next Labour leader if they had a vote in the election the results read as follows:
Burnham 39%, Jeremy Corbyn 24% , YvetteCooper 22%, Liz Kendall 15%.
Just as there is no point in Labour aping the Tories when such inclined people have the real Tories to vote for, I am equally wary of aping the Greens for the same reason. These people may prefer Corbyn, but I suspect they will still vote Green regardless. Labour needs a party that represents its own voters, not other peoples' voters, as a base to win over wider support. It needs to start from where the 9m people who just voted Labour start from or it risks losing them too.Green voters prefer Corbyn by a large margin – Burnham 13%, Corbyn 32%, Cooper 6%, Kendall. 9%.
Couldn't agree more.RobertSnozers wrote:The current system is crap. We're told debt is evil, and then we tell poor kids that they'll have debt forever but don't worry, they'll never have to pay it off because they'll still be poor.
Yesterday I read somewhere on Twitter that to join a political party when belonging to another was illegal.yahyah wrote:Surprise, surprise. This is what worried me.
If I do finally vote for Corbyn it isn't because I want Labour to become an offshoot of the Greens, there were reasons why I wouldn't vote for them and this sort of thing is one of the reasons.
''Labour leadership: 100 Green Party candidates have joined party in latest evidence of 'entryism'
A trawl of Green candidates in this May’s general and local elections by Labour officials found that about 4 per cent of them have applied to join Labour since then. Between 100 and 150 Greens have had their applications rejected.''
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 41692.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
They should be getting rid of their own useless leaders Bennett & Bartolotti instead of poking their nose in another party's business.
Crap/no mobile signal but excellent 4G where I live. Odd.rebeccariots2 wrote:Good to see you back citizen. Well sort of back by the sound of it. We are also having endless IT problems but that's mainly caused by the population here massively increasing for 8 weeks or so - rainy weather - and the IT infrastructure not having anything like the capacity to deal with the demands on it.
I see press reports re how everyone's lifestyle and habits are changing with the advent of 4G and despair. We'd love a mobile signal - never mind what G it is. And reliable internet of a reasonable speed. Is that too much to ask? It seems it is.
(my bold)TechnicalEphemera wrote:It is bollocks on health as well. What does choice mean for Joe public in health exactly?RogerOThornhill wrote:Sorry, that's bollocks as far as education is concerned.SpinningHugo wrote: (iii) The usual pro-producer stuff on education and health. that we are used to from Burnham. He is anti-choice for poor people.
The only way you'll veer get true choice is for every school to have as much spare capacity so that any parent who wants to send their kid to a particular school can do so.
Ultimately schools have always been the ones who choose not parents.
Free schools are increasingly being set up by academy chains - local community groups and parents are very much the minority. And the proportion of good or outstanding free schools is less than the national average.
Stick to what you know eh? Which isn't education.
Free markets simply do not work in healthcare, those that argue they do are either paid by private healthcare or hope to be paid by private healthcare.
Completely agree, Labour can't "out-Green" the Greens or "out-Nat" the SNP any more than it can "out-Tory" the Tories.Willow904 wrote:http://labourlist.org/2015/08/andy-burn ... oll-finds/
Labour party members are clearly to the left of the parliamentary party, but are they also to the left of Labour voters in general? Could be a real problem for Labour if Corbyn wins.When Labour supporters were asked which of the four candidates they would vote to be the next Labour leader if they had a vote in the election the results read as follows:
Burnham 39%, Jeremy Corbyn 24% , YvetteCooper 22%, Liz Kendall 15%.
Just as there is no point in Labour aping the Tories when such inclined people have the real Tories to vote for, I am equally wary of aping the Greens for the same reason. These people may prefer Corbyn, but I suspect they will still vote Green regardless. Labour needs a party that represents its own voters, not other peoples' voters, as a base to win over wider support. It needs to start from where the 9m people who just voted Labour start from or it risks losing them too.Green voters prefer Corbyn by a large margin – Burnham 13%, Corbyn 32%, Cooper 6%, Kendall. 9%.
Welsh council rejects plans for new opencast coal mine
Green groups offer legal support to Caerphilly council after mining company Miller Argent threatens to sue them for costs
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... -coal-mine" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I think threatening is the correct adjective for the tone of that letter. This is the kind of activity that terrifies me for the future ... democracy made powerless by lack of funds to match big business.... Miller Argent CEO Neil Brown last week week wrote to Caerphilly councillors threatening to try to recover “substantial” costs from the financially vulnerable council if they voted down the mine.
“Your officers have highlighted the potential for a substantial award of costs against the council. Please ask yourself what services could be provided by the council with that money?”...
Thank you, RR2!rebeccariots2 wrote:Good to see you back citizen. Well sort of back by the sound of it. We are also having endless IT problems but that's mainly caused by the population here massively increasing for 8 weeks or so - rainy weather - and the IT infrastructure not having anything like the capacity to deal with the demands on it.
I see press reports re how everyone's lifestyle and habits are changing with the advent of 4G and despair. We'd love a mobile signal - never mind what G it is. And reliable internet of a reasonable speed. Is that too much to ask? It seems it is.
Fewer and fewer companies in the US, are providing health insurance for their employees these days. When the bank crisis hit over there a lot of companies quit the scheme.citizenJA wrote:(my bold)TechnicalEphemera wrote:It is bollocks on health as well. What does choice mean for Joe public in health exactly?RogerOThornhill wrote: Sorry, that's bollocks as far as education is concerned.
The only way you'll veer get true choice is for every school to have as much spare capacity so that any parent who wants to send their kid to a particular school can do so.
Ultimately schools have always been the ones who choose not parents.
Free schools are increasingly being set up by academy chains - local community groups and parents are very much the minority. And the proportion of good or outstanding free schools is less than the national average.
Stick to what you know eh? Which isn't education.
Free markets simply do not work in healthcare, those that argue they do are either paid by private healthcare or hope to be paid by private healthcare.
Correct. I lived in the USA some years ago. Health care provision & delivery there is expensive, not cost effective, incoherently provided & millions of people living in the US are prevented from living a healthy life due to the unaffordable cost of healthcare.
From the local (city, county, state) level on up to the national (federal level), people (individuals, families) navigate on their own, typically reliant on an employer, paying for costly healthcare insurance, most of that cost paid for by the employee, that insurance often pays a fraction of total healthcare expense the individual has to pay for to complete "the sale" - that is, pay the healthcare provider bill. Insane expenditures for the simplest medical procedures are common.
Please understand this fully, appreciate that currently the UK's NHS still manages to provide a superior level of healthcare for all the people in a way nonexistent in the USA.
President Obama may have done the best he could do with his legislation, I don't know. Regardless of his role, I can't blame one person for the US healthcare system. I do blame those powerful enough to do something better but don't & won't.
US government subsidised healthcare provision for people over the age of sixty-five (I'm uncertain the exact age people become eligible) has demonstrated well enough the USA is capable of cutting the crap & provide all their people with affordable healthcare. Even that subsidy for older people in the US isn't as good as healthcare provision & delivery compared to other wealthy nations. But it's demonstrated affordable healthcare delivery can be done in the US. Leadership in that country has made the decision not to provide affordable, adequate & comprehensive healthcare for all the people. A disgraceful, senseless choice made.
Well if it's the same sort of deal that sold off the Olympic Village to the Saudi's then without a doubt, it oinks.ScarletGas wrote:For filing under "if it looks like a pig, smells like a pig, grunts like a pig then it probably is a pig.
Programme on the, what looks like, unbelievably generous deal, that West Ham Utd got for the purchase of the Olympic stadium on BBC 1 London tonight at 7pm then after on IPlayer.
I will not make definitive accusations on the basis of one article or before seeing the programme but it looks like a reward to Baroness Brady (a director of said club) for services rendered. Of course boneheaded Boris is involved!
I saw this on Twitter this morning and posted it over at The Other Place. It's a staggering piece and I couldn't work him out, either. He genuinely seems to be saying people want to choose to live in "proper" slums. As if anyone is saying:RobertSnozers wrote:I did the same after you said that - I was expecting a fanatical free-market evangelist, but what little I saw was rather more nuanced.PorFavor wrote:I followed the link through to young Theo's own website and read some of his other articles. I can't make him out, to be honest.Willow904 wrote: I honestly don't know what to say to this. Is it satire?
Good morfternoon, everyone.
He's dead wrong on slums though.
The right have these outliers that have been part of easing politics that way for 40 years now. Hell, old Milton Friedman started off as one. Set something outrageous as a possibility, watch as those in government with a sympathetic ear make a compromise with it which is still ridiculous but seems sensible by false comparison. Bingo. Now all we have is talk of the Holy Grail Choice in places where the consumerist model doesn't meaningfully apply."I wish I could choose to live in a slum! Curse you, anti-hovel legislation! Only squalor can set us free!"
The kid* who wrote this bills himself as a "recovering Lib Dem" it shows, too obviously.onebuttonmonkey wrote:I saw this on Twitter this morning and posted it over at The Other Place. It's a staggering piece and I couldn't work him out, either. He genuinely seems to be saying people want to choose to live in "proper" slums. As if anyone is saying:RobertSnozers wrote:I did the same after you said that - I was expecting a fanatical free-market evangelist, but what little I saw was rather more nuanced.PorFavor wrote: I followed the link through to young Theo's own website and read some of his other articles. I can't make him out, to be honest.
Good morfternoon, everyone.
He's dead wrong on slums though.
The right have these outliers that have been part of easing politics that way for 40 years now. Hell, old Milton Friedman started off as one. Set something outrageous as a possibility, watch as those in government with a sympathetic ear make a compromise with it which is still ridiculous but seems sensible by false comparison. Bingo. Now all we have is talk of the Holy Grail Choice in places where the consumerist model doesn't meaningfully apply."I wish I could choose to live in a slum! Curse you, anti-hovel legislation! Only squalor can set us free!"
One of the dangers of treating the left as an automatic no-no for so long is the lack of lefty outliers to balance it. *sigh*
Exactly my thoughts too, ScarletGas, when I caught the news clip but thought her name was Karen, albeit probably won't iPlayer it (not on in my region).ScarletGas wrote:... I will not make definitive accusations on the basis of one article or before seeing the programme but it looks like a reward to Baroness Brady (a director of said club) for services rendered...!
The election has to proceed on the basis it was set out - anything else would be an absolute disaster for the way the party looks. Seriously, the fallout from that - "you didn't like the way the result would go so you canned it". It would be shambolic and wrong. For better or worse, this was the way we said we would do it, so let's do it.TechnicalEphemera wrote:I am increasingly of the opinion that the leadership contest needs immediate intervention to:
Roll the eligible voters back to GE+1 month.
Dump the 35K union registrations
Refund every genuine applicant their 3 pounds and apologise profusely.
In the old days you had a years qualifying as a member to stop this sort of thing.
If Corbyn wins on the basis of genuine Labour members good luck to him.
Willow904 wrote:http://www.snappytv.com/tc/731563/205742
This whole Kids Company thing is kicking off a bit. Lots of bitching and accusations on all sides. It's like when different factions of the mob fall out, waiting to see who'll be the last man standing. Hard to know what to make of it.
Given the personal intervention of certain politicians, I too very much doubt we will...ephemerid wrote: I daresay we may never find out what all this si about.
Tis the very same. She was ennobled (I think that's the right word) a couple of years ago.utopiandreams wrote:Exactly my thoughts too, ScarletGas, when I caught the news clip but thought her name was Karen, albeit probably won't iPlayer it (not on in my region).ScarletGas wrote:... I will not make definitive accusations on the basis of one article or before seeing the programme but it looks like a reward to Baroness Brady (a director of said club) for services rendered...!
Edit: I suppose that should be iPlay it.
Our Dave proves time and time again that there's not much under the thatch.ScarletGas wrote:Tis the very same. She was ennobled (I think that's the right word) a couple of years ago.utopiandreams wrote:Exactly my thoughts too, ScarletGas, when I caught the news clip but thought her name was Karen, albeit probably won't iPlayer it (not on in my region).ScarletGas wrote:... I will not make definitive accusations on the basis of one article or before seeing the programme but it looks like a reward to Baroness Brady (a director of said club) for services rendered...!
Edit: I suppose that should be iPlay it.
Our esteemed Prime Minister seems to have developed a penchant (mesmerised seems to be the word of the day....) for ladies of a certain age with an "interesting" history. This years version is the "classy" Lady Michelle Mone.
By the way I take it he is now on holiday....Yet to see any fishpointing.Imagine what the press would say if a Lefty PM took time off during a crisis invoking Cobra meetings!