Friday 20th November 2015
Posted: Fri 20 Nov, 2015 7:18 am
Morning all.
They really assume that Umunna is a 'likely successor' to Corbyn, do they. So out of touch.James Forsyth @JGForsyth 15m15 minutes ago
By my count, @ChukaUmunna comments indicate that three of Corbyn's most likely successors are inclined to back action against IS in Syria
James Forsyth @JGForsyth 16m16 minutes ago
Interesting, @ChukaUmunna calling for a free vote on Syria and indicating that he'll defy the whip if one isn't granted
Looks like banner from October poll graphics been 'accidentally' left on November one.LadyCentauria wrote: " Acting Leader of the Labour Party" !!!???
None of the results are great but it's a relief to see Corbyn at the top
Labour's Health Team @LabourHealth 2m2 minutes ago
.@heidi_mp has had an Urgent Question granted on the junior doctor contract negotiations. It will be heard at 11.00am in the Commons.
Guess she was too young to be a Rollers fan.tinybgoat wrote:Nicola Sturgeon is guest on Desert Island Discs,
DuranDuran, I despair.
I can't take Duran Duran seriously as I (kind of) knew them before they made it big - not exactly "pub band" status, but smaller venues - through some of the people I worked with at Harrods. Most of them were pretty cool, but Simon (very much the latecomer anyway) always came across as a bit of a tool.yahyah wrote:To be fair to her (not something I say often) music was pretty crap for her generation.
I'd go to a desert island to avoid listening to most of the stuff from that era.
Tru dat. I was also into Genesis, Kate Bush & the Police back then, all of which still gets radio play, but you rarely hear the likes of The Selecter or The Beat on the oldie stations now (apart from when Pauline Black has done the odd show on 6 Music); bit of Madness is their token nod to that particular genre.RobertSnozers wrote:I turned the radio off as soon as I realised who the guest was.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:I can't take Duran Duran seriously as I (kind of) knew them before they made it big - not exactly "pub band" status, but smaller venues - through some of the people I worked with at Harrods. Most of them were pretty cool, but Simon (very much the latecomer anyway) always came across as a bit of a tool.yahyah wrote:To be fair to her (not something I say often) music was pretty crap for her generation.
I'd go to a desert island to avoid listening to most of the stuff from that era.
There was a lot of good stuff around then too (I was big into 2 Tone ska) but a helluva lot of dross to boot.
The thing about 80s music, as it seems to me anyway, is that the stuff that is widely remembered now is the commercial dross rather than the less popular but musically more interesting tunes. A bit like if the 60s were chiefly thought of today as the decade that brought us Herman's Hermits.
That's quite strong stuff for the ICAEW, embedded in the heart of the establishment as they are.Ross Campbell, director for public policy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, says:
The government is seeing a lack of significant progress on reducing the deficit ahead of the autumn statement next week. This current trend could prove more problematic ahead for the chancellor. Our recent business confidence monitor suggests the economic recovery is slowing which could have an impact on tax revenues, which have been slowing and actually fell back year-on-year in October.
At a time of constrained public finances, impending cuts and tight departmental budgets, the UK government still needs to modernise its approach to financial management. With further austerity measures due to be announced, a comprehensive financial review would ensure sustainability is at the heart of long-term decision making. What is needed is a modern finance ministry to ensure all aspects of financial management – income, expenditure, liabilities, and assets – are taken into account, not just spending.”
Who are the other two "likely successors" then?rebeccariots2 wrote:Morning. Looks like it's going to be another one of those ...
They really assume that Umunna is a 'likely successor' to Corbyn, do they. So out of touch.James Forsyth @JGForsyth 15m15 minutes ago
By my count, @ChukaUmunna comments indicate that three of Corbyn's most likely successors are inclined to back action against IS in Syria
James Forsyth @JGForsyth 16m16 minutes ago
Interesting, @ChukaUmunna calling for a free vote on Syria and indicating that he'll defy the whip if one isn't granted
There was always Brian Pern, singer of Thotch, the man who invented World music & the first singer to have plasticine on his face:TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Tru dat. I was also into Genesis, Kate Bush & the Police back then, all of which still gets radio play, but you rarely hear the likes of The Selecter or The Beat on the oldie stations now (apart from when Pauline Black has done the odd show on 6 Music); bit of Madness is their token nod to that particular genre.RobertSnozers wrote:I turned the radio off as soon as I realised who the guest was.TheGrimSqueaker wrote: I can't take Duran Duran seriously as I (kind of) knew them before they made it big - not exactly "pub band" status, but smaller venues - through some of the people I worked with at Harrods. Most of them were pretty cool, but Simon (very much the latecomer anyway) always came across as a bit of a tool.
There was a lot of good stuff around then too (I was big into 2 Tone ska) but a helluva lot of dross to boot.
The thing about 80s music, as it seems to me anyway, is that the stuff that is widely remembered now is the commercial dross rather than the less popular but musically more interesting tunes. A bit like if the 60s were chiefly thought of today as the decade that brought us Herman's Hermits.
How can that happen? I didn't think usernames could be duplicated - or has that regulation gone by the board? (Or am I being dense and not spotting the difference - a bit like "Paris in the the spring"?)RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all. Just popped by to stick this on record...wonder who might do this?
If you look closely there is a zero instead of a capital O.PorFavor wrote:
How can that happen? I didn't think usernames could be duplicated - or has that regulation gone by the board? (Or am I being dense and not spotting the difference - a bit like "Paris in the the spring"?)
Unbelievable.RogerOThornhill wrote:If you look closely there is a zero instead of a capital O.PorFavor wrote:
How can that happen? I didn't think usernames could be duplicated - or has that regulation gone by the board? (Or am I being dense and not spotting the difference - a bit like "Paris in the the spring"?)
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Almost the same on first viewing.
Not sacked and yet they've clearly been told that CfBT aren't right for them? OK...However new chairman of the governors, Tricia Prichard, claims that the letter – leaked 24 hours ahead of it due to be sent- has caused unnecessary concern.
She told parents in a separate note: “You may be aware of reports in the local media suggesting that CfBT Schools Trust has been ‘sacked’ as the sponsor of Ely College.
“These reports are categorically untrue and result from inaccurate reporting of an early draft of a letter that you were to receive from me today, which we believe was leaked to the media.
“Although it has now been somewhat overtaken by events, I have attached the correct letter for your information so that you can read it in full as was originally intended.
“The purpose of this letter was to let you know that the trust has agreed to begin talks with the Department for Education about the possibility of transferring Ely College to another academy sponsor.
“The trust has not been sacked, or removed. It will continue to work closely with our senior leadership team and supporting the college until a new sponsor has been identified, whereupon the transition process will begin.
Again.Ms Prichard, recently appointed chairman of governors, tells parents that their current academy sponsor CfBT Schools Trust is based in Reading with no other schools in this area.
She said that given this geography CfBT has agreed with the Department for Education (DfE) that the “scale and style of support needed to bring about wholesale, rapid change” could only be done by replacing it.
Thanks for the explanation. But - why would they\he bother? (No offence!) Strange behaviour.RogerOThornhill wrote:If you look closely there is a zero instead of a capital O.PorFavor wrote:
How can that happen? I didn't think usernames could be duplicated - or has that regulation gone by the board? (Or am I being dense and not spotting the difference - a bit like "Paris in the the spring"?)
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Almost the same on first viewing.
Strictly speaking Thotch were very much a 70s band, Brian had gone solo by the 80s.danesclose wrote:There was always Brian Pern, singer of Thotch, the man who invented World music & the first singer to have plasticine on his face:TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Tru dat. I was also into Genesis, Kate Bush & the Police back then, all of which still gets radio play, but you rarely hear the likes of The Selecter or The Beat on the oldie stations now (apart from when Pauline Black has done the odd show on 6 Music); bit of Madness is their token nod to that particular genre.RobertSnozers wrote: I turned the radio off as soon as I realised who the guest was.
The thing about 80s music, as it seems to me anyway, is that the stuff that is widely remembered now is the commercial dross rather than the less popular but musically more interesting tunes. A bit like if the 60s were chiefly thought of today as the decade that brought us Herman's Hermits.
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What are any of them still doing in government?Shock UK deficit figures dent George Osborne's economic plan
Gap between state spending and revenue is worst in October for six years with economists warning chancellor will need further austerity or miss annual target
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... ge-osborne
Why do they bother posting the junk they post?PorFavor wrote:Thanks for the explanation. But - why would they\he bother? (No offence!) Strange behaviour.RogerOThornhill wrote:If you look closely there is a zero instead of a capital O.PorFavor wrote:
How can that happen? I didn't think usernames could be duplicated - or has that regulation gone by the board? (Or am I being dense and not spotting the difference - a bit like "Paris in the the spring"?)
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Almost the same on first viewing.
Hello.citizenJA wrote:I've been away from the media for a few days.What are any of them still doing in government?Shock UK deficit figures dent George Osborne's economic plan
Gap between state spending and revenue is worst in October for six years with economists warning chancellor will need further austerity or miss annual target
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... ge-osborne
Look at the sub-heading.PorFavor wrote:Hello.citizenJA wrote:I've been away from the media for a few days.What are any of them still doing in government?Shock UK deficit figures dent George Osborne's economic plan
Gap between state spending and revenue is worst in October for six years with economists warning chancellor will need further austerity or miss annual target
http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... ge-osborne
The fact that this isn't plastered over every front page might go a long way to answering your question!
Pretending to be another long established poster is one of the most blatant and crudest forms of trolling.RobertSnozers wrote:In case anyone thought Hugo (or should that be Hug0?) was just a harmless obsessive... I assume it's him, the voice is certainly similar, and getting splatted so quickly is consistent.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all. Just popped by to stick this on record...wonder who might do this?
Trying to pass one's own posts off as those of a longstanding and widely respected commenter is completely unnacceptable. That someone would stoop to that level sheds a little light on why he was banned in the first place.
It also shows a degree of desperation, which seems to be the hallmark of the anti-Corbyn commentariat at the moment. Gradually rising shock that they haven't been able to get rid of him yet, or that some disaster has not befallen the party.
It's the evenlongerthantheoriginallongtermeconomicplanHindleA wrote:“We’ve learned there’s no shortcut to fixing the public finances to provide economic security for working people – that’s why in the spending review next week we’ll continue the hard work of identifying savings and making reforms necessary to build a resilient economy.”
Complete gobblydygookbollox.
My sides!! I'll give you 'longstanding' though. That he is.RobertSnozers wrote:Trying to pass one's own posts off as those of a longstanding and widely respected commenter is completely unnacceptable. That someone would stoop to that level sheds a little light on why he was banned in the first place.
Good point made by Simon Wren-Lewis here, on those lines.gilsey wrote:A procession of city economists saying Osborne can't ease the spending cuts. Change to tax credits mean more cuts elsewhere.
It hasn't worked so far.
On the other handThat's quite strong stuff for the ICAEW, embedded in the heart of the establishment as they are.Ross Campbell, director for public policy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, says:
The government is seeing a lack of significant progress on reducing the deficit ahead of the autumn statement next week. This current trend could prove more problematic ahead for the chancellor. Our recent business confidence monitor suggests the economic recovery is slowing which could have an impact on tax revenues, which have been slowing and actually fell back year-on-year in October.
At a time of constrained public finances, impending cuts and tight departmental budgets, the UK government still needs to modernise its approach to financial management. With further austerity measures due to be announced, a comprehensive financial review would ensure sustainability is at the heart of long-term decision making. What is needed is a modern finance ministry to ensure all aspects of financial management – income, expenditure, liabilities, and assets – are taken into account, not just spending.”
I have, however, made a general point about finance ministries and independent central banks. Delegating macroeconomic stabilisation means that finance ministries no longer need to have so much in house expertise on how the macroeconomy works. Furthermore in the UK the establishment of the OBR, which took over responsibility from the Treasury for macro and aggregate fiscal forecasting, reduced the need for that expertise still further. This means that in any contest between controlling spending (which finance ministries always have to do) and looking after the broader economy, it has become more likely that the economy will lose out.
Planet Earth is good.tinybgoat wrote:Nicola Sturgeon is guest on Desert Island Discs,
DuranDuran, I despair.
Love that early eighties stuff, it just got worse as time went on. some of the reggae/ska/punk people are still around for live music, and internet radio stations give them airtime, I should know, until my youngest got the hang of understanding I didn't want my ears blasted off all day that was the stuff he listened to. The Beat of course cloned itself, both still perform, Wakeling in the US, Roger over here.TheGrimSqueaker wrote:Tru dat. I was also into Genesis, Kate Bush & the Police back then, all of which still gets radio play, but you rarely hear the likes of The Selecter or The Beat on the oldie stations now (apart from when Pauline Black has done the odd show on 6 Music); bit of Madness is their token nod to that particular genre.RobertSnozers wrote:I turned the radio off as soon as I realised who the guest was.TheGrimSqueaker wrote: I can't take Duran Duran seriously as I (kind of) knew them before they made it big - not exactly "pub band" status, but smaller venues - through some of the people I worked with at Harrods. Most of them were pretty cool, but Simon (very much the latecomer anyway) always came across as a bit of a tool.
There was a lot of good stuff around then too (I was big into 2 Tone ska) but a helluva lot of dross to boot.
The thing about 80s music, as it seems to me anyway, is that the stuff that is widely remembered now is the commercial dross rather than the less popular but musically more interesting tunes. A bit like if the 60s were chiefly thought of today as the decade that brought us Herman's Hermits.
I thought the Chartered Accountants comment posted by gilsey above put it well. All we hear about is spending cuts - what happened to income, assets and liabilities? Why aren't Osborne's cuts being placed in the context of the other measures that are reducing income, decimating assets and piling up liabilities for the future?HindleA wrote:“We’ve learned there’s no shortcut to fixing the public finances to provide economic security for working people – that’s why in the spending review next week we’ll continue the hard work of identifying savings and making reforms necessary to build a resilient economy.”
Complete gobblydygookbollox.
Never mind whether those schools are actually needed in the area or now as Robert Hill says further down.Regional schools commissioners have been told to grant more than 60 new free schools each as the Department for Education formalises plans to meet David Cameron’s “challenging” pledge of 500 new schools by 2020.
Academy chain chief executive Alan Yellup (pictured above), who is also on the headteacher board for West Yorkshire and Lancashire, revealed his region’s target at the Westminster Education Forum last week.
Schools Week understands the directive was sent to all eight regional school commissioner regions as efforts are stepped up to meet Mr Cameron’s pre-election pledge of 500 new free schools.
It was also revealed at the forum on Thursday that the DfE plans to involve local authorities in its free schools programme, a significant shift from the past five years where councils were generally bypassed.
£20bn? That's not very much.The chancellor wants to eliminate the deficit on the public finances by the end of the decade. As part of that push, he will unveil plans in his spending review on 25 November to cut government department spending by around £20bn over the next four years.