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Friday 29th January 2021

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Morning all.
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Good morning, everybody.
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Good morfternoon.
Councils flag concerns about 'excessive profits' at children's homes

Local Government Association calls for financial oversight of privately run facilities

Councils have called for financial oversight of England’s privately-run children’s care homes after research showed some of the biggest private equity-owned providers were collectively making hundreds of millions a year in profits.

The Local Government Association (LGA) also warned that the increasing indebtedness of some of the largest private providers risked triggering a Southern Cross-style financial collapse, potentially leaving vulnerable children without a home.

The call for increased regulation comes amid concern about the sustainability of the increasingly privatised children’s care market, as well as the quality of some care provision, highlighted by revelations that thousands of youngsters were placed in unregulated accommodation such as boats and caravans.

A study published on Friday by the LGA found the six biggest private children’s care providers made £219m in profits last year. (Guardian - my bold)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... drenshomes
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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My sleeping and waking times are all over the place. I'll sleep for six hours sometimes, be awake thirty-six hours straight and sleep for a couple of days. My activities aren't detrimentally impacted by it except for Mr citizen sometimes missing me during my long sleeps. He's working from home too. We're staying healthy and mostly happy.

From what I gather, others are experiencing ruptured sleeping and waking patterns too.

I think it's important you all should know.
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Yeah, found myself not to going to bed until 3AM (or even later) more and more in the past year.
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PorFavor wrote:Good morfternoon.
Councils flag concerns about 'excessive profits' at children's homes

Local Government Association calls for financial oversight of privately run facilities

Councils have called for financial oversight of England’s privately-run children’s care homes after research showed some of the biggest private equity-owned providers were collectively making hundreds of millions a year in profits.

The Local Government Association (LGA) also warned that the increasing indebtedness of some of the largest private providers risked triggering a Southern Cross-style financial collapse, potentially leaving vulnerable children without a home.

The call for increased regulation comes amid concern about the sustainability of the increasingly privatised children’s care market, as well as the quality of some care provision, highlighted by revelations that thousands of youngsters were placed in unregulated accommodation such as boats and caravans.

A study published on Friday by the LGA found the six biggest private children’s care providers made £219m in profits last year. (Guardian - my bold)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... drenshomes
Without funding for professional regulators making sure these places are kept safe for children cared for by appropriately vetted staff we won't know if these places are nice or hellish.

Unregulated child care operations is another profound failing of leadership. Funding and UK policy originate in Westminster, from government and it's currently not doing it's job right. They're not protecting people.

I think profit involved in most public service provision is dangerous.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yeah, found myself not to going to bed until 3AM (or even later) more and more in the past year.
If you're feeling okay and it's not bothering you, please don't worry about it, that's my advice. But I'm your friend not your GP.
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The public services everyone must use will be care for by everyone.
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I've made hot chocolate for everyone here. Please enjoy.
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I dream of HindleA more often than I ever met with him in person. I like his company.
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citizenJA wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yeah, found myself not to going to bed until 3AM (or even later) more and more in the past year.
If you're feeling okay and it's not bothering you, please don't worry about it, that's my advice. But I'm your friend not your GP.
Doesn't bother me that much, I usually sleep pretty well once I get there.

But will have to settle into a more "normal" routine when working regularly again!
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I've been a temp most of my career. I'm good at it. Conscientious, eager to learn, eager to share what I know and trustworthy.
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The gigs were local government placements.
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Nancy Sinatra: 'I'll never forgive Trump voters. I hope the anger doesn't kill me'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... nt-kill-me
“We squeaked by [in the election]. I don’t know what I would have done if Biden had lost. It crossed my mind to move to another country.” The last four years, though, have taken a toll on her mental health. “I couldn’t believe that this great nation had sunk so low,” she says. “I’ll never forgive the people that voted for him, ever. I have an angry place inside of me now. I hope it doesn’t kill me.”
I know what you mean Nancy.
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Article about a 'right to regenerate' public land policy that was announced under cover of the 'legal protection for statues no-one actually wants to pull down' nonsense.
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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Nancy Sinatra: 'I'll never forgive Trump voters. I hope the anger doesn't kill me'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/ ... nt-kill-me
“We squeaked by [in the election]. I don’t know what I would have done if Biden had lost. It crossed my mind to move to another country.” The last four years, though, have taken a toll on her mental health. “I couldn’t believe that this great nation had sunk so low,” she says. “I’ll never forgive the people that voted for him, ever. I have an angry place inside of me now. I hope it doesn’t kill me.”
I know what you mean Nancy.
Her late dad would almost certainly have been a fan, of course.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Her late dad would almost certainly have been a fan, of course.
Apparently not.
Her father was no fan of Trump: according to Frank’s former manager, he told Trump to “go fuck himself” after the billionaire refused to meet Frank’s fee for a 1990 performance at an Atlantic City casino.
Though of course there's a big difference between disliking someone because of their politics and being pissed off about not being paid.

He was certainly a big fan of Ronald Reagan.
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Willow904 wrote:Article about a 'right to regenerate' public land policy that was announced under cover of the 'legal protection for statues no-one actually wants to pull down' nonsense.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/righ ... ity-assets
The new process will be fast and simple, and the Secretary of State will act as an arbiter to ensure fairness and speedy outcomes in all cases.
Yes Mr Jenrick has quite a track record when it comes to fairness and granting development requests.
Further proposals in the new Right to Regenerate consultation also include: Publishing a definition of unused or underused land, helping to guide and encourage the public to make requests.
It's 100% certain the definition will favour developers over, for example, people who walk their dogs on a bit of council scrubland with trees, brambles and nettles providing a haven for insects and birds.

They've starved councils of the cash to develop or maintain these sites themselves and are now punishing them for it by handing their land to private enterprise. It's cynical and shameless and quite in keeping with modern Conservative values.
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Sky'sGoneOut wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:Her late dad would almost certainly have been a fan, of course.
Apparently not.
Her father was no fan of Trump: according to Frank’s former manager, he told Trump to “go fuck himself” after the billionaire refused to meet Frank’s fee for a 1990 performance at an Atlantic City casino.
Though of course there's a big difference between disliking someone because of their politics and being pissed off about not being paid.

He was certainly a big fan of Ronald Reagan.
It was easier to personally like Ronald Reagan. He was a pleasant enough man to talk with.
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So its a VACCINE WAR is it??
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Minister under fire over tweets about journalist who sent her questions

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/ ... -questions
In a Twitter thread, Kemi Badenoch accused the journalist from HuffPost of “creepy and bizarre” behaviour, and published screenshots of questions sent to her MP’s office and to a ministerial press office, naming the reporter.

In the wake of the tweets, the journalist concerned, Nadine White, had been forced to make her own Twitter account private as she was receiving so much abuse, HuffPost said.
Original Twitter thread from Kemi Badenoch.

https://twitter.com/KemiBadenoch/status ... 0467740672

Response from HuffPo editor.

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Reading through the various Twitter threads relating to the charming Kemi's behaviour she's taking a bit of a kicking and rightly so. Having seen her in action a few times she's a nasty piece of work who makes Suella Braverman look like Einstein*.

*In regard to her intellect of course, though I would very much like to see Suella in a funny wig with a bushy moustache.
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I'm off to get pissed with my drinking support bubble buddy.

Have a good evening all.
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What was "creepy" about that?
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PorFavor wrote:What was "creepy" about that?
nothing
what the MP did with the question was creepy, in my opinion
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Fingers defrosting. Moon looked marvelous.

My friend who works for the council at an art gallery has been told he has a number of choices if he wants to keep being paid.

These range from assisting in the burning of corpses at a crematorium to passing on the news that people's relatives have died.

He does security, the curators of course aren't being forced into such choices.
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He's spent hours of his Covid 'time off' cataloguing prints and editing Wikipedia entries for each single one which is what the gallery manager asked him to do.

But when he complained about being forced to do something he wasn't remotely qualified to do the gallery manager informed him by email (which I have seen) that he was 'most suited to physical work'.

My friend has an MA.
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Anyway.

Growing older is a terrible thing, your freinds become ill more regularly and worry about their savings.
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Night night.
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