Thursday 5th November 2015
Posted: Thu 05 Nov, 2015 7:10 am
Morning all.
Should be essential reading and absorbing for all Labour MPs - especially those charged with countering Osborne's next proposals in his Autumn Statement.George Osborne can find £4.4bn without cutting tax credits, says thinktank
Resolution Foundation says chancellor should abandon politically damaging cuts and meet target by adjusting taxation and pension thresholds
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -thinktank" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's very very irritating. That site is just vile to look at on a laptop now - acres of white space - and zilch functionality.yahyah wrote:RR@
The Indie scroll bar has disappeared on my lap top too.
Thanks Toby - I've just switched to Firefox to take a look and it's much better for the Indie.TobyLatimer wrote:Just noticed, the scroll bar is still there on my Firefox browser (laptop) It must be something to do with Chromium based browsers such as Chrome & Opera.
The IFS say that most tenants will see their housing benefit reduce by a corresponding amount. Those that might benefit are those with the higher incomes. They also look at the Pay To Stay policy ... verdict damning.Social rent cut will have 'little or no benefit' to tenants
Cuts to social rents will have “little or no benefit” to most of the 3.9 million households living in social housing, a comprehensive new study claims.
https://www.politicshome.com/communitie ... %20tenants" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
AnatolyKasparov wrote:I can find just one prominent pundit who thinks that Cameron trounced Corbyn at yesterday's PMQs. Have a guess who it was?
Police cars with logos from corporate sponsors on their sides next? Branded uniforms? Or do we already have such things?Speeding drivers targeted by desperate police commissioner
Bedfordshire’s PCC says he is running out of ways to keep force financially viable
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... mmissioner" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
yahyah wrote:I bought the paper Guardian yesterday when we were in Aber.
Have to say, it works much better in print than on the net.
Maybe it's an age thing, but I tend to value words in print more than on the net.
Macbeth was worth seeing by the way, Fassbender is no great actor but he did ok and has charisma which helped carry the role.
Made me get the play text down off the shelf and re-read it, which can't be a bad thing.
Bah, right first timerebeccariots2 wrote:AnatolyKasparov wrote:I can find just one prominent pundit who thinks that Cameron trounced Corbyn at yesterday's PMQs. Have a guess who it was?
Ooooh - at a guess - Hodges?
Read that, and then thisseeingclearly wrote:http://www.welfareweekly.com/universal- ... -credible/
Universal Credit stuck in the slow lane as government tiold roll out plans not credible.
Too depressing for words.Hospitals are now so short-staffed and underequipped that people are also dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment. The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Staff are too rushed to improve levels of care that have in many areas fallen below countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Poland. Almost 75,000 more doctors and nurses are needed to match standards in similar countries the OECD said in its annual Health at a Glance study comparing the quality of healthcare across 34 countries.
NHS funding had remained static between 2009 and 2013, the OECD report said. Mr Pearson said the UK was spending “considerably less” than many OECD countries and that “you get what you pay for” in healthcare.
Just so you know what he's been doing.David Cameron @David_Cameron 6m6 minutes ago
I've chaired a COBRA meeting -ensuring everything is being done to make sure British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh are flown home safely.
He's going to don his Superman outfit, fly over and bring them back all by himself. What a wonderfully brave chap we have for our beloved PM. Makes one wonder how we ever managed without him before.rebeccariots2 wrote:Just so you know what he's been doing.David Cameron @David_Cameron 6m6 minutes ago
I've chaired a COBRA meeting -ensuring everything is being done to make sure British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh are flown home safely.
rebeccariots2 wrote:Just so you know what he's been doing.David Cameron @David_Cameron 6m6 minutes ago
I've chaired a COBRA meeting -ensuring everything is being done to make sure British tourists in Sharm el-Sheikh are flown home safely.
I see the inevitable vultures circling around the near-corpse of the NHS are shrieking "Private insurance! Break it up! Sell it off!"RobertSnozers wrote:It really is. When I think of where we were in 2010... it's enough to make you weepgilsey wrote:Read that, and then thisseeingclearly wrote:http://www.welfareweekly.com/universal- ... -credible/
Universal Credit stuck in the slow lane as government tiold roll out plans not credible.
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 21401.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Too depressing for words.Hospitals are now so short-staffed and underequipped that people are also dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment. The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Staff are too rushed to improve levels of care that have in many areas fallen below countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Poland. Almost 75,000 more doctors and nurses are needed to match standards in similar countries the OECD said in its annual Health at a Glance study comparing the quality of healthcare across 34 countries.
Plug a mouse with a rolling scroll function (I've only seen those located in the middle) into your laptop.rebeccariots2 wrote:It's very very irritating. That site is just vile to look at on a laptop now - acres of white space - and zilch functionality.yahyah wrote:RR@
The Indie scroll bar has disappeared on my lap top too.
Pound shops have computer mice for a --- pound each ... Work well too.citizenJA wrote:Plug a mouse with a rolling scroll function (I've only seen those located in the middle) into your laptop.rebeccariots2 wrote:It's very very irritating. That site is just vile to look at on a laptop now - acres of white space - and zilch functionality.yahyah wrote:RR@
The Indie scroll bar has disappeared on my lap top too.
Begin use immediately with mouse. You may have to ask your laptop to recognise it, I doubt that formal introduction will be required though, it's usually plug-in device and go.
Make the mouse 'live', functional on the website by clicking once on the right-hand side of the mouse (as far as I know, that's default functionality, it can be different or changed) anywhere on the web page without a link attached, use the the middle scroll function on the mouse (again, that's a default function) to give you the navigation you require.
Am I helping at all or have I totally misunderstood the irritating problem you've described?
Good-afternoon, everyone.RogerOThornhill wrote:I see the inevitable vultures circling around the near-corpse of the NHS are shrieking "Private insurance! Break it up! Sell it off!"RobertSnozers wrote:It really is. When I think of where we were in 2010... it's enough to make you weepgilsey wrote: Read that, and then this
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 21401.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Too depressing for words.
Private insurance? Benefits private insurance companies who would be rubbing their hands with glee at this happening. Benefits anyone else? Nope. Mountains of additional bureaucracy - which is a bit weird given the frothing about wanting less of it from the usual suspects on the right.
I read Allistair Heath on this - given that he's a one trick pony (reduce spending, reduce taxes ad nauseum) on every subject under the sun it was inevitable that he'd say that the NHS wasn't working. Right. And who's fault is that given who's been in charge for the past 5 years?
"Not our fault. Never our fault. Blame Labour."
Fairly clear - it's your job to come up with the proposals.During the evidence session, we had an exchange on the subject of fairer funding. My Committee welcomes the Government’s commitment to address this very important area. Our current intention is to examine your department’s proposals for reform, once they have been issued for consultation and we will be seeking to arrange access to consultation responses to help us in our work.
Correct, it's inefficient, needlessly expensive and nothing less than organised extortion.ohsocynical wrote:And you see, the snag with a private insurance system is those that are able to afford the large monthly outlay end up paying for those who can't afford any insurance at all.
A&E is swamped with those who aren't insured so the hospital has to make sure they have enough income coming in to cover the extra work load.
The insurance companies don't care. It's all money in the bank for them. Debt collection agencies see a huge jump in custom because even if you can't afford the insurance the hospital will try to get the money you owe. It's win win if you're in business.
I desperately hope it doesn't happen. I shan't be around to see the results but mark my words all those with a bit of spare money who support the Tories are going to be shocked when they see a huge chunk of their income going on medical insurance. I wonder if they realise that'll include paying for their children's dentist, optician etc.
We can't afford Tory government.seeingclearly wrote:http://www.welfareweekly.com/universal- ... -credible/
Universal Credit stuck in the slow lane as government tiold roll out plans not credible.
Cost of collection to pay for the NHS is effectively zero since even if the NHS was fully privatized, tax collection would still go on as is but at a lower level. Quite why anyone would think that going to an insurance system is better given the bureaucracy it would cause beggars belief.citizenJA wrote: We pay for the NHS through general taxation, if taxation needs to increase to pay for essential health and social care services, not profit, mind, paying for the service, so be it. Make sure those wealthy few who get the most from everyone's money and contribute not enough are made to pay fairly. Current Tory government is hostile to the suggestion.
It didn't have to be this way, it doesn't have to be this way. I'm sorry. People made a mistake not voting for a Labour government. Do I think Labour perfect? No. But Ed Miliband would've kept his word, the Labour party would've voted the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 straight to hell where it belongs and given the NHS proper funding. I'm very sorry for us all. Even Tories, they're in over their heads, they don't know how to provide appropriate leadership, they belong in opposition or in a club somewhere innocuous. They'd keep a lot of their wealth, they'd just not have the power to swallow the whole earth.gilsey wrote:Read that, and then thisseeingclearly wrote:http://www.welfareweekly.com/universal- ... -credible/
Universal Credit stuck in the slow lane as government tiold roll out plans not credible.
NHS: UK now has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world, according to OECD report
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 21401.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Too depressing for words.Hospitals are now so short-staffed and underequipped that people are also dying needlessly because of a chronic lack of investment. The verdict, from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will make embarrassing reading for David Cameron who denied the cash-strapped NHS is heading for its worst winter crisis.
Staff are too rushed to improve levels of care that have in many areas fallen below countries such as Turkey, Portugal and Poland. Almost 75,000 more doctors and nurses are needed to match standards in similar countries the OECD said in its annual Health at a Glance study comparing the quality of healthcare across 34 countries.
Precisely, RogerOThornill, you've written clearer than I've done.RogerOThornhill wrote:Cost of collection to pay for the NHS is effectively zero since even if the NHS was fully privatized, tax collection would still go on as is but at a lower level. Quite why anyone would think that going to an insurance system is better given the bureaucracy it would cause beggars belief.citizenJA wrote: We pay for the NHS through general taxation, if taxation needs to increase to pay for essential health and social care services, not profit, mind, paying for the service, so be it. Make sure those wealthy few who get the most from everyone's money and contribute not enough are made to pay fairly. Current Tory government is hostile to the suggestion.
1. They were having the debate because, as the article goes on to say, Graham Stuart and Ben Bradshaw secured the time for it - nothing to do with 'the government'!Responding to questions about the extra cash injection to which the government has committed in the past two years, Mr Gyimah said: “The government wants to go further than the £390m. That is why we’re having this debate.”
Mr Gyimah said any decision on school funding would be made following this month’s spending review, but he refused to be more specific on timings despite the urging of several colleagues.
He said: “The honourable member is tempting me to preempt our spending review, and that is something that I don’t think is appropriate for a junior minister or something the chancellor of the exchequer will welcome.”
Corbyn got one from them too. Best Campaigner....TobyLatimer wrote:Feckin out of his depth bully boy gets praise from Tory luvvie rag
Set him up on a date with Louise Mensch. That should be torture for both of them ... trying to get a word in, both needing to be right, but most importantly both needing to feel the most important and get the most attention from everyone but especially the media.yahyah wrote:Just seen a tweet that says Danczuk has set up a company called Danczuk Media Ltd 'that will assist in the production of media articles''.
He's made £52,858 so far from his attacks on his own party.
What a slimy, money grabbing git.
Meanwhile his ex is flogging signed pics of herself in Christmas scanties for £10 a pop.
Mr & Mrs Classy.
Ministers will blame Network Rail, and they've certainly got a point. It's widely regarded as inefficient, hence (I suspect) Ed Balls didn't fancy renationalization of the rest now. (From 2020 though, should be fine).A MAJOR infrastructure project which is aimed at linking Oxford and Cambridge by rail has been pushed back by at least three years.
Local authorities in the East West Rail Consortium are concerned that the project to create a new railway for services between Oxford and Bedford, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes may be delayed until at least 2022 after Network Rail said it couldn't be delivered by 2019 as previously planned due to 'cost and deliverability issues'.
The Consortium understands that there is a now draft recommendation for East West Rail to be delivered in three phases, with Bedford to Oxford being rescheduled for completion in 2022; Aylesbury to Milton Keynes in 2024; and enhancements to the line between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough in 2026.
I can't abide that "we want to go further" meme. It's as credible as "dog ate my homework".RogerOThornhill wrote:Here's the Schools Week take on the fairer funding debate from Westminster Hall.
Government ‘wants to go further’ than £390m on fairer school funding – minister
http://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-wan ... -minister/
1. They were having the debate because, as the article goes on to say, Graham Stuart and Ben Bradshaw secured the time for it - nothing to do with 'the government'!Responding to questions about the extra cash injection to which the government has committed in the past two years, Mr Gyimah said: “The government wants to go further than the £390m. That is why we’re having this debate.”
Mr Gyimah said any decision on school funding would be made following this month’s spending review, but he refused to be more specific on timings despite the urging of several colleagues.
He said: “The honourable member is tempting me to preempt our spending review, and that is something that I don’t think is appropriate for a junior minister or something the chancellor of the exchequer will welcome.”
2. I still can't work out why they can't issue a timetable. The Spending review should be irrelevant - this is all about consultation and then methodology. What the Spending review says would be irrelevant as to the methodology - sure, it'll affect the numbers used by the methodology but not the methodology itself.
Not sure the honourable members were too impressed by the inaction by the DfE. You could see it on Graham Stuart and Neil Carmichael's faces.
One of the things that Labour did, and IIRC it was from about 2003, was to institute a LA school funding forum with reps from HTs and governors which actually went through all of the detail and agreed the funding formulae. In this way it wasn't just the LA telling schools what their cash was going to be - it had to be agreed by the forum.Tubby Isaacs wrote: I can't abide that "we want to go further" meme. It's as credible as "dog ate my homework".
As you say, the spending review doesn't stop you doing the work for a formula at all. Whole point of a formula is that you can put any numbers you like into it....
Funny, not noticed a press backlash against him for running his media earnings through a company.yahyah wrote:Just seen a tweet that says Danczuk has set up a company called Danczuk Media Ltd 'that will assist in the production of media articles''.
He's made £52,858 so far from his attacks on his own party.
What a slimy, money grabbing git.
Meanwhile his ex is flogging signed pics of herself in Christmas scanties for £10 a pop.
Mr & Mrs Classy.
If this is true, then surely the consultation will have to be run again?The government announced its intention to scrap GCSE and A-level IT qualifications on the 11th page of a consultation document this week – with concerns raised that final discussions only included bodies running competing vocational qualifications.