Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Forum rules
Welcome to FTN. New posters are welcome to join the conversation. You can follow us on Twitter @FlythenestHaven You are responsible for the content you post. This is a public forum. Treat it as if you are speaking in a crowded room. Site admin and Moderators are volunteers who will respond as quickly as they are able to when made aware of any complaints. Please do not post copyrighted material without the original authors permission.
Welcome to FTN. New posters are welcome to join the conversation. You can follow us on Twitter @FlythenestHaven You are responsible for the content you post. This is a public forum. Treat it as if you are speaking in a crowded room. Site admin and Moderators are volunteers who will respond as quickly as they are able to when made aware of any complaints. Please do not post copyrighted material without the original authors permission.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
@RR2 presume this written statement
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... 15-to-2016" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... 15-to-2016" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Can somebody please ask the little weasel if he is volunteering? He blocked me, because I kept needling him.Spacedone wrote:Armchair General Dan Hodges wants to send in the troops.Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 6 mins6 minutes ago Camberwell, London
If we're no prepared to use ground troops to deal with ISIS what exactly is the point of having ground troops.
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Why is the Observer employing a Mail journalist to smear Ed Miliband?
https://tompride.wordpress.com/2014/11/ ... -miliband/
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Thank you. So if I get the gist of it right ... they put out some figures and say they've 'consulted' on them and have decided to go ahead with the figures they put out anyway.HindleA wrote:@RR2 presume this written statement
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... 15-to-2016" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Working on the wild side.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Anyone read this blog before? I've just had the link passed on to me by someone on Twitter.
Looks useful.
http://www.scoop.it/t/the-greater-fool" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Looks useful.
http://www.scoop.it/t/the-greater-fool" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 27400
- Joined: Tue 26 Aug, 2014 12:40 am
- Location: Three quarters way to hell
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Forgot to say ,partial u-turn with regard to local welfare provision mentioned in link.
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I got that earlier, got round it by posting the pic onto twitter - once it is on there right click it and select open image in new tab, when the new tab opens copy the url of that page then post it here using the *Img* tab in full editor.rebeccariots2 wrote:Just been given a message - when posting - saying 'Sorry board attachment quota is full' or words to that effect. So not able to post a pic. Anyone shed any light?
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Mealy mouthed apologies aren't worth shit.Retired gardener takes his own life after change in benefits system, inquest hears
Malcolm Burge was left owing more than £800 to Newham council in London, after backlog in implementing government changes to welfare
A Newham council spokesperson said: “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mr Burge following his tragic death. In our submission to the coroner, we acknowledged delays and deficiencies in our extensive correspondence through letters and phone calls with Mr Burge. We are sorry if this contributed to his death in any way.
We are sorry if this contributed to his death in any way.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015 ... are_btn_tw
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Kris Hopkins MP
Written statement to Parliament
Final local government finance settlement 2015 to 2016
3 February 2015
Written statement to Parliament
Final local government finance settlement 2015 to 2016
3 February 2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... 15-to-2016Every bit of the public sector needs to do its bit to pay off the deficit left by the last government, including local government which accounts for a quarter of all public spending.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Thanks Toby - but I'm guessing I need to have a Twitter account for that? I've resisted that so far. I fear it would be addictive and unhealthy - not a bit like FTN.Toby Latimer wrote:I got that earlier, got round it by posting the pic onto twitter - once it is on there right click it and select open image in new tab, when the new tab opens copy the url of that page then post it here using the *Img* tab in full editor.rebeccariots2 wrote:Just been given a message - when posting - saying 'Sorry board attachment quota is full' or words to that effect. So not able to post a pic. Anyone shed any light?
Working on the wild side.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis 18h18 hours ago
@PaulGambles2
Our promise = solid. Debt will be rendered sustainable, even if we replace haircut with euphemisms & swaps. No U-turn!
@PaulGambles2
Our promise = solid. Debt will be rendered sustainable, even if we replace haircut with euphemisms & swaps. No U-turn!
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Hope PF is okay. Not been here again for a few days...
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.New Pembrokeshire council chief's salary 'should be £130k'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-31098965
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:
Councillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be "inconceivable" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.
He also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.
It comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.
Working on the wild side.
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Should be fixed now, sorryrebeccariots2 wrote:Thanks Toby - but I'm guessing I need to have a Twitter account for that? I've resisted that so far. I fear it would be addictive and unhealthy - not a bit like FTN.Toby Latimer wrote:I got that earlier, got round it by posting the pic onto twitter - once it is on there right click it and select open image in new tab, when the new tab opens copy the url of that page then post it here using the *Img* tab in full editor.rebeccariots2 wrote:Just been given a message - when posting - saying 'Sorry board attachment quota is full' or words to that effect. So not able to post a pic. Anyone shed any light?
- TechnicalEphemera
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2967
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 11:21 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Jesus a 90K Porsche as a company car.rebeccariots2 wrote:No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.New Pembrokeshire council chief's salary 'should be £130k'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-31098965
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:Councillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be "inconceivable" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.
He also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.
It comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.
He is paying £1,050 in tax - every month!!!!
Muppet, BMW 320d with all the extras might run to 45K but he would only be paying £300 per month in tax.
Release the Guardvarks.
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Testing , testing , how about a cowardly lion
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Quite. Bryn Parry-Jones was absolutely raking it in - massive salary £190,000 and every perk imaginable. But it does seem that it's the Porsche that really really smacks home the obscene greed and spending that's been going on in PCC ... that's the bit that everybody on the doorstep has immediately latched on to anyway.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Jesus a 90K Porsche as a company car.rebeccariots2 wrote:No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.New Pembrokeshire council chief's salary 'should be £130k'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-31098965
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:Councillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be "inconceivable" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.
He also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.
It comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.
He is paying £1,050 in tax - every month!!!!
Muppet, BMW 320d with all the extras might run to 45K but he would only be paying £300 per month in tax.
Working on the wild side.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... be-welcome
There have been many complaints about the essentially cosmetic changes to the Guardian’s website (Open door, 2 February). Yet in a change that coincides with the launch of the general election campaign and may have to do with the Guardian’s heart and soul there has been plenty of disturbing silence. I refer to the arrival of one regular Tory guest columnist, Matthew d’Ancona, and one intermittent, Anne McElvoy, both normally to be found rubbishing Labour in the right-of-centre London Evening Standard, but now carrying on their business in the Guardian.
With the entire might and circulation of the national press, aside from the Guardian, Independent and Mirror, already rampantly Conservative, what on Earth explains the decision to import these unlovely, predictable cuckoos into your nest?
Nicholas de Jongh
London
Working on the wild side.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Only if you told him it was a fish.RobertSnozers wrote:I bet Cameron could point at that lion
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Or maybe he is trying to help the lion to safety?RobertSnozers wrote:I bet Cameron could point at that lion
- Attachments
-
- Dave-Helping.jpg (114.35 KiB) Viewed 7806 times
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Mr Riots has got dreadful backache this evening. He's been out in the freezing cold this afternoon making a bespoke entrance for the cats into the side wall of what will be our new porch. They will have their own little set of slate steps up to the cat flap set back within a square arch recess in the stone wall. We didn't want another cat flap in the door as the wind blows them open all the time. The killer job was angle grinding the blocks and mixing up the mortar in icy chill. I hope those little buggers appreciate the trouble we have gone to.
Working on the wild side.
- TechnicalEphemera
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2967
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 11:21 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Actually at £190k he is paying £1150 a month for the Porsche.rebeccariots2 wrote:Quite. Bryn Parry-Jones was absolutely raking it in - massive salary £190,000 and every perk imaginable. But it does seem that it's the Porsche that really really smacks home the obscene greed and spending that's been going on in PCC ... that's the bit that everybody on the doorstep has immediately latched on to anyway.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Jesus a 90K Porsche as a company car.rebeccariots2 wrote: No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:
He is paying £1,050 in tax - every month!!!!
Muppet, BMW 320d with all the extras might run to 45K but he would only be paying £300 per month in tax.
The car allowance isn't really an issue, at chief exec level it is usually unlimited, the car probably costs slightly more each month to lease than he is paying in tax. Certainly trivial in terms of salary.
Maybe £1500 per month, assuming full maintenance?
Most CEOs would have a less ostentatious car, why pay stupid tax?
Release the Guardvarks.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
What I want to know is; how is he allowed to get away with it.IDS Fails on Freedom of Information - As He Did With Us in 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nick-st ... _hp_ref=tw
Have ministers always been able to break the rules and remain in position with not even a slapped wrist?
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Nah, they'll just sit in front of the main door, meowing.rebeccariots2 wrote:Mr Riots has got dreadful backache this evening. He's been out in the freezing cold this afternoon making a bespoke entrance for the cats into the side wall of what will be our new porch. They will have their own little set of slate steps up to the cat flap set back within a square arch recess in the stone wall. We didn't want another cat flap in the door as the wind blows them open all the time. The killer job was angle grinding the blocks and mixing up the mortar in icy chill. I hope those little buggers appreciate the trouble we have gone to.
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
*ahem* Mrs Blurt *ahem*ohsocynical wrote:What I want to know is; how is he allowed to get away with it.IDS Fails on Freedom of Information - As He Did With Us in 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nick-st ... _hp_ref=tw
Have ministers always been able to break the rules and remain in position with not even a slapped wrist?
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I wouldn't have put it past Mr Parry-Jones to have found a way of gaining the luxury use of a Porsche without the burden of the luxury tax to go with it. He was very adept at managing payments and systems to his best advantage ... and the Pembrokeshire taxpayers disadvantage.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Actually at £190k he is paying £1150 a month for the Porsche.rebeccariots2 wrote:Quite. Bryn Parry-Jones was absolutely raking it in - massive salary £190,000 and every perk imaginable. But it does seem that it's the Porsche that really really smacks home the obscene greed and spending that's been going on in PCC ... that's the bit that everybody on the doorstep has immediately latched on to anyway.TechnicalEphemera wrote: Jesus a 90K Porsche as a company car.
He is paying £1,050 in tax - every month!!!!
Muppet, BMW 320d with all the extras might run to 45K but he would only be paying £300 per month in tax.
The car allowance isn't really an issue, at chief exec level it is usually unlimited, the car probably costs slightly more each month to lease than he is paying in tax. Certainly trivial in terms of salary.
Maybe £1500 per month, assuming full maintenance?
Most CEOs would have a less ostentatious car, why pay stupid tax?
Working on the wild side.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
This is from last year. I must have missed it.Fri, 14/11/2014
Jobcentre staff to scare schoolkids away from benefits they can't get
http://www.unemployednet.org/jobcentre- ... y-cant-get
Speechless. Again.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
They make the job centre staff sound like Halloween monsters. What are they going to do - issue them all with nasty masks and make them hiss .... 'no housing benefit for you when you leave school - stay at home if you value your life' .... or 'forget child benefit if you have a sprog too soon - you'll be out on the streets in the cold with your begging bowl'?ohsocynical wrote:This is from last year. I must have missed it.Fri, 14/11/2014
Jobcentre staff to scare schoolkids away from benefits they can't get
http://www.unemployednet.org/jobcentre- ... y-cant-get
Speechless. Again.
Working on the wild side.
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
The look on Sam's face is "Please, will somebody rescue me from this prat". Sooty is happy to oblige.
- Attachments
-
- Go-away.jpg (37.07 KiB) Viewed 7784 times
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
- danesclose
- Whip
- Posts: 882
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:06 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
DoneTheGrimSqueaker wrote:Can somebody please ask the little weasel if he is volunteering? He blocked me, because I kept needling him.Spacedone wrote:Armchair General Dan Hodges wants to send in the troops.Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 6 mins6 minutes ago Camberwell, London
If we're no prepared to use ground troops to deal with ISIS what exactly is the point of having ground troops.
Proud to be part of The Indecent Minority.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I know she pops up every so often.refitman wrote:*ahem* Mrs Blurt *ahem*ohsocynical wrote:What I want to know is; how is he allowed to get away with it.IDS Fails on Freedom of Information - As He Did With Us in 2013
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nick-st ... _hp_ref=tw
Have ministers always been able to break the rules and remain in position with not even a slapped wrist?
But in the past surely there was a bit more control over ethics? Some honour left in the Right Honourable? I was never quite so 'deep' into politics so can't remember.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Thanks.danesclose wrote:DoneTheGrimSqueaker wrote:Can somebody please ask the little weasel if he is volunteering? He blocked me, because I kept needling him.Spacedone wrote: Armchair General Dan Hodges wants to send in the troops.
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Who do you think it will be ....? Who's next on that letter list?Jim Pickard @PickardJE 13m13 minutes ago
Mail apparently has another anti-Labour businessman coming out tonight.
Getting sillier and sillier now. I think this is another backfire for the Tories. Don't they get that a lot of people are fed up with very well fed and rewarded businessmen telling us all what should happen ... in their own interests?
Working on the wild side.
- ErnstRemarx
- Secretary of State
- Posts: 1280
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 11:04 pm
- Location: Bury, in the frozen north of England
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
That is seriously taking the piss. Our chief exec is on about 90 grand (a very big number from where I stand for what he does) and our population isn't that short of 200,000 people. I'd be interested to know what the basic councillor allowance is, to compare it to ours.rebeccariots2 wrote:No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.New Pembrokeshire council chief's salary 'should be £130k'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-31098965
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:Councillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be "inconceivable" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.
He also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.
It comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Green support continues to rise in Wales
http://agreenwales.blogspot.co.uk/2015/ ... wales.html
What was it we were saying about Plaid earlier? They claim to be a 'progressive' party - alongside the SNP - but look at those two potential leadership challengers and their take on key issues ... does that look 'progressive' to you? That's their problem - in a nutshell....But there's no question this latest Welsh poll spells bad news for both the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru, with both of them set to see a drop in their numbers of seats in the Assembly. Plaid in particular will be bitterly disappointed with these poll findings. 9 seats would represent the party's worst ever showing since the creation of the Welsh Assembly in 1999 and - coming on top of yesterday's poll showing a 4 percent drop in their support in May's General Election - is bound to lead to murmurings of discontent among party members about the party's continuing poor showing in the polls.
And while the position of Plaid leader Leanne Wood is likely to be safe if the party retains its 3 Westminister seats this May should they lose one of their MPs then a challenge to Leanne's leadership from the party's more conservative wing cannot be ruled out, with supporters of the pro nuclear Rhun ap iorwerth or the badger culling Elin Jones likely to be key in any moves to oust Leanne before the 2016 Welsh Assembly elections. We certainly live in very 'interesting times' in Welsh politics...
Working on the wild side.
-
- Minister of State
- Posts: 419
- Joined: Wed 27 Aug, 2014 6:13 am
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Without wanting to sound neglected, I did post this link at 8:59 this morning. Mind you, we're used to being ignored by you lot down south.Toby Latimer wrote:Quite possibly the best reporting on the impact of 'austerity' l've seen in ages. From the Telegraph of all places, the sort of thing the Graun used to be good at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... -cuts.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
- RogerOThornhill
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 11130
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 10:18 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I reckon this is all too early - there's still three months until the election. Are they really going to drag them out again at the back end of April?rebeccariots2 wrote:Who do you think it will be ....? Who's next on that letter list?Jim Pickard @PickardJE 13m13 minutes ago
Mail apparently has another anti-Labour businessman coming out tonight.
Getting sillier and sillier now. I think this is another backfire for the Tories. Don't they get that a lot of people are fed up with very well fed and rewarded businessmen telling us all what should happen ... in their own interests?
Once (or rather if) the leaders debates there'd be plenty of opportunity for Miliband to state what he is for and against on the business front.
I'd say that Stuart Rose article came straight out of Conservative central office - it even lied about Ed's speech from 2011.
Well of course it didn't - he made it quite clear that he was pro-business where that entailed doing the right thing - innovation, hiring, investment etc - but anti-predator capitalism...the very sort that Boots now have as a boss.It started with a speech in which Ed Miliband labelled businesses as ‘predators’.
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
rebeccariots2 wrote:Who do you think it will be ....? Who's next on that letter list?Jim Pickard @PickardJE 13m13 minutes ago
Mail apparently has another anti-Labour businessman coming out tonight.
Getting sillier and sillier now. I think this is another backfire for the Tories. Don't they get that a lot of people are fed up with very well fed and rewarded businessmen telling us all what should happen ... in their own interests?
All the times we've said how thick the Tories are but then they sink to even deeper acts of stupidity.
It makes my head spin.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
- danesclose
- Whip
- Posts: 882
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:06 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Dippy's respondedTheGrimSqueaker wrote:Thanks.danesclose wrote:DoneTheGrimSqueaker wrote: Can somebody please ask the little weasel if he is volunteering? He blocked me, because I kept needling him.
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 7m7 minutes ago
@CSWilliams111 No, I think that's best left to those who have volunteered, don't you.
Collapse 0 replies 0 retweets 0 favorites
Proud to be part of The Indecent Minority.
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
He has the self awareness of a dead hedgehog.danesclose wrote:Dippy's respondedTheGrimSqueaker wrote:Thanks.danesclose wrote: Done
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 7m7 minutes ago
@CSWilliams111 No, I think that's best left to those who have volunteered, don't you.
Collapse 0 replies 0 retweets 0 favorites
- Attachments
-
- Hedgehodges.jpg (40.4 KiB) Viewed 7707 times
Last edited by TheGrimSqueaker on Tue 03 Feb, 2015 9:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
-
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 10937
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 9:10 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local- ... es-4922457
Campaigners call Bracknell councillors "Berkshire's fat cats" for high allowances
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. – Aesop
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Ours not to reason why... our but to do as we are told by gung-ho morons.danesclose wrote:Dippy's respondedTheGrimSqueaker wrote:Thanks.danesclose wrote: Done
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 7m7 minutes ago
@CSWilliams111 No, I think that's best left to those who have volunteered, don't you.
Collapse 0 replies 0 retweets 0 favorites
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Here you go Ernst. http://www.pembrokeshire.gov.uk/content ... ory_id=646 The basic is £13,300 plus £500 allowance for IT support. Then there are all kinds of travel etc perks - plus additional perks if you take on roles such as sitting on the National Parks Board ... in the region of £4,500 I believe ... and so on.ErnstRemarx wrote:That is seriously taking the piss. Our chief exec is on about 90 grand (a very big number from where I stand for what he does) and our population isn't that short of 200,000 people. I'd be interested to know what the basic councillor allowance is, to compare it to ours.rebeccariots2 wrote:No it shouldn't. Still far too much IMO. Population of 122,400. The salaries and perks for these paid council officials - and some councillors who get 'allowances' for every position they take up on boards etc - has gone way beyond what is a reasonable level of compensation for their role and responsibilities.New Pembrokeshire council chief's salary 'should be £130k'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-sout ... s-31098965
Sounds like some of the 'ruling' IPPG group on the council still thought it should be even more than this - if this is what our Labour group leader and PPC had to say:Councillor Paul Miller told his colleagues it would be "inconceivable" to set the chief executive's salary higher than the panel's recommendation.
He also said there was now an opportunity to review car allowances for senior officers.
It comes after BBC Wales discovered Mr Parry-Jones had been given a luxury Porsche lease car worth around £90,000 as his work vehicle.
Working on the wild side.
- danesclose
- Whip
- Posts: 882
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:06 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I've asked him what the volunteers have actually volunteered for. Await his response with baited breathTheGrimSqueaker wrote:He has the self awareness of a dead hedgehog.danesclose wrote:Dippy's respondedTheGrimSqueaker wrote: Thanks.
Dan Hodges @DPJHodges 7m7 minutes ago
@CSWilliams111 No, I think that's best left to those who have volunteered, don't you.
Collapse 0 replies 0 retweets 0 favorites
Proud to be part of The Indecent Minority.
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr 9 mins9 minutes ago
Cameron says Parliament looks 'half like a school'. Some schools look more like Gothic palaces than others I suppose. #InsideTheCommons
Moz @marcmozza 2 mins2 minutes ago
#InsideTheCommons Charlotte Leslie stating that boxing kept her from joining a gang, that or her vicar father the £5330 a term Badminton Sch
Last edited by Spacedone on Tue 03 Feb, 2015 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
I do wish his mother would give him a slap and tell him to grow up. Ah well, just four more months and, with luck, we will never hear of him again.danesclose wrote:I've asked him what the volunteers have actually volunteered for. Await his response with baited breathTheGrimSqueaker wrote:He has the self awareness of a dead hedgehog.danesclose wrote: Dippy's responded
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
- rebeccariots2
- Prime Minister
- Posts: 14038
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 8:20 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Yup - they deserve to be called 'fat cats'.ohsocynical wrote:http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local- ... es-4922457
Campaigners call Bracknell councillors "Berkshire's fat cats" for high allowances
Working on the wild side.
- TheGrimSqueaker
- Speaker of the House
- Posts: 2192
- Joined: Thu 28 Aug, 2014 12:23 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Right, that is all from tonight's edition of "Fun With Photoshop".
Night all.
Night all.
COWER BRIEF MORTALS. HO. HO. HO.
-
- First Secretary of State
- Posts: 3725
- Joined: Mon 25 Aug, 2014 10:15 pm
Re: Tuesday 3rd February 2015
Quite enjoying the BBC2 programme. Cameron pushing his phrases is toe curling, especially after seeing Charles Kennedy.