Perhaps this is another example of the dangers of having a process.I suspect the wider argument is that on the Tories' watch, local authorities including asBIrmingham is labour run, its debts are a legacy of several prior administrations, mostly labour.Sure as eggs is eggs, youth crime will explode in Brum in coming years.This is so utterly stupid. We need to spend more on our kids - throw money at early years and you get it back many times over in money saved in crime and health.
Tragic to see my home town brought this low...
Sam Freedman
@Samfr
Birmingham children's services to be cut by around 25%. First wave of cuts include these. This is a very obvious disaster in the making.
https://birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birminghams-vulnerable-kids-families-face-28552371
Idiot Tories. Utter fools.
It also has a large, longstanding, claim for equal pay outstanding.
Still, it is all the Tories fault.
many Tory administrations as Labour are
filing section 114 notices.
But hey I am sure we can blame New Labour or Ed Davey for the last 14 years of mismanagement.
You definitely don't need to be brave to disagree with Frank Luntz, his record of predictions is less than stellar, to put it mildly.Frank Luntz thinks otherwise. Maybe he's exaggerating to get the Democrats to see sense on Biden but it takes a brave person to disagree with him.This is a nice piece on the US Right and populism, about their current obsession with Taylor Swift, but more generally about the nature of conspiratorial thinking and populism: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/31/taylor-swift-conspiracy-theories-gop-00138817Yes I think that this is a clear indication that Trump will lose in November. Swift is as bland, unthreatening and mainstream as they come - she sings highly relatable catchy songs that appeal to teenage girls and is dating a football player - so if MAGA Republicanism has decided that Swift is the enemy it suggests it is way too detached from regular American society to win.
Sad news for Rugby Union fans, especially Welsh ones. Barry John has died. He was 79.I'll tell you a story
I obviously only have a black and white catI made beer!Needs a dog for scale
If you do that, you are an idiot.One can well imagine that the permanent CS think that Yes Minister was a documentary, but indeed it’s a bad look to swear at the staff.Or, as Nicola put it:I can see arguments on both sides here. Although swearing at subordinates is never a good idea!
"Former senior civil servants, men and women trained in the art of diplomacy, recall with a shudder her foul-mouthed phone calls. “I don’t f**ing care about your f**ing process, I just want it done,” was typical of how Sturgeon conducted government business, according to one official I spoke to recently."
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/nicola-sturgeon-s-behaviour-suggests-she-is-a-politician-who-never-grew-up-susan-dalgety/ar-BB1hHpAX