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It's obvious they wanted a thread on little Ed's blue labour welfare triangulation.
Let them whine. It's good for them to get it out of their system before Cammie and the chumocracy start calling the more excitable tories swivel-eyed loons again. At least it's a step up from when he called the kippers fruitcakes and closet racists,
I accept all of James Kelly and Mick Pork's arguments on the matter without reservation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/05/peter-cruddas-wins-sunday-times-libel
But I've come here with a question which I hope the assembled experts on here might be able to help with. We elect our council in thirds, however we have boundary changes on the way, so will have an all out election next May on the new boundaries (all 3 member wards)
Thereafter, we move back to elections by thirds. So in tpfkarville ward, 3 people will be elected in May, with only one up for election again in 2015. How is it decided which out of the 3 must face voters again the very next year, and who gets the 2/4 year term? Grateful if anyone can clarify this? Thank you.
I'm sure the papers won't chase that up at all now he's made it open season, so he's perfectly safe.
Or not.
I blame Osborne....
I take it you haven't seen the recent legal opinion?
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/virginia-lt-governor-candidate-yoga-is-satanic.html
That'll help the female vote. And this in the swingiest of swing states.
That it may be possible to secure an exemption from the EU.
The answer, set out in this legal advice, is detailed and complicated, but one thing is clear, it would not be easy.
In fact, in the words of one source familiar with the advice, it would be "very, very difficult".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-22718864
But possible.
If they get independence, who effing cares?? Who cares what the scots do about anything once they are cut loose?? It's their effing business.
For example, why not new Council Tax bands at £1m and £2m? There are very few, if any, impoverished widows living in and struggling to maintain, houses worth £2m.
And if they have they've got wealthy families who can help.
Austria, for example, wanted to introduce restrictions for non-nationals on higher education courses, but its policy was declared illegal.
Similarly, Belgium failed to limit the numbers of non-nationals who could apply to Belgian medical courses, despite arguing that public health would be affected if insufficient doctors were retained in the country."
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/check-your-privilege-obviously-a-colossal-pile-of-twat-2013060570924
And will they exceed the number of threads on vital matters such as "Edward Miliband's name change"? On past form, probably not.
We can also be sure that Panelbase polls that are more favourable to Yes will be less reported here than Ipsos-Mori polls favourable to No, although that may or may not be related to TSE's "prominent pollster" chuckle chum.
A quick skim of the legal advice seems to be that the exemption would mean reserving places for Scots. Even if that gets through, it still means lots of English students studying thanks to the Scottish taxpayer. Maybe independence wouldn't be so bad after all.
That's an odd reading. It would mean reserving grants for those who have been resident in Scotland for a certain length of time, regardless of nationality.
If there is, there is, if there isn't there isn;t. Personally I wouldn't hold my breath
Chances are that straight after Independence the Scots will want to play with the new trainset by doing things that p*ss the English off .Giving Christina Kirchner the freedom of Glasgow, making Anjem Choudhry their Ambassador in London, you know the sort of thing.
I can't see them offering a bunch of middle class English kids a free education. Nor should they.
My favourite was the one where men were glad to have been ripped off by ticket touts
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-entertainment/website-praised-for-take-that-ticket-fraud-201106033903
The legal advice suggests it is "not sufficient to simply assert...that the Higher Education regime would become unsustainable in the absence of a residency requirement.
Rather Scotland may have to prove that the "very existence of the service provided is imperilled".
Other nations have tried and failed to do so."
But possible.
It's "very, very difficult". ...
One can encounter some absolutely dire discussions about "privilege" on the internet, usually amongst upper-middle class graduates from top universities. It's a rich person's version of the Three Yorkshiremen sketch. "You grew up White and gay. Bloody luxury, I was an Asian woman."
Oh, but so was retaking the Falklands, Carlotta. You're not "frit", are you?
Were you bullied by a Scot Nat at school, Alan? There must be something behind all this anger and bitterness.
Oh, I dunno. You had conceded the principle of leaseback.
Set aside your devotion to Mike Nesbitt and I promise you it'll become a whole lot easier.
I've not really heard about this privilege-checking business. It sounds like encouraging people to censor themselves because they aren't downtrodden enough to have a valid opinion.
An outright transfer would be politically unacceptable. The lease-back idea, on similar lines as for Hongkong, is the one Whitehall has been suggesting behind the scenes for some time."
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/112605
Now please don't embarrass yourself by responding to this damning link with the words "that isn't a treaty". It isn't a badger either, and I didn't claim it was either.
Indeed. What could possibly go wrong?
MSmithsonPB According to YouGov 58% of people now think the CON Party is "sleazy and disreputable", up from 48% a year ago.
And very very inconsequential. If an independent Scotland fell foul of the EU, that is its affair. We all fall foul of the EU at some juncture, why should Scotland be any different?
If the Scots want to operate a university policy that discriminates against English people because they are English that is also their affair. It's their decision, they can live with the consequences.
If the Scots go independent I won;t care, just as I don;t care whether the North Korean university policy discriminates against the English because they are English.
As it stands I care what happens in Scotland because its part of the country I live in. If it ceases to be a part of my country, I will care far, far less - if at all.
I've got a better idea. If we all stay one country we can get around this....
What sort of names did he call you, Alan? Come on, it's time to purge this pain.
I think such a carve up would be a bit too much for James Kelly's overweening sanctimony. I could easily imagine Scotland saying something like 'we want no part of these relics of the imperialist land grab of the past... blah, blah blah'
But I could be wrong....
Are those serious questions? I have a horrible feeling they are. Jesus.
OK, just for you, here are the answers to your questions -
1) No.
2) No.
3) No.
Great comment!
Whatever happened to our own beggars and thieves? They will all be voting UKIP to get their old jobs back.
- Stu Pidd , Smarter than the ave DM reader, 06/6/2013 14:36
So maybe I'm not "yer average"!
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/06/06/destined-to-fail/
He's too pessimistic in my view, but he has a point. In order to succeed, the Government would need to declare some redevelopment areas, with compulsory purchases of existing properties within those areas and redeveloping them so that they can accommodate more people in more useful units.
Were the Falklands "very, very difficult" to retake or not, Carlotta?
And talking of admissions, did you ever get round to apologising for misrepresenting Lucinda Creighton?
"But there is a reason why this popular policy has not been pursued by the desperate-to-please governments of Blair, Brown and Cameron. All the houses that can be built in places where people want houses have been built. The rest is:
1 green belt,
2 nice green bits full of nimbys, local councils and planning laws, or
3 run-down parts of north Birmingham and places further north where people don’t want to live."
Actually north Birmingham has some nice spots....
But, Brian, all is not lost. Take solace. By the powers vested in me (and Neil), I herewith declare and proclaim you to be admitted into glorious nobility of the pbTories. (But there is no obligation to breathe on us bearing in mind Mr. Fear's observations).
That's impossible. He's been banned. Have you been banned from the Tories? No. Has Neil been banned from the Tory wing of the Green Party? No. Has Plato been banned from the guild of libertarian floating voters with fiscal conservative twists? No.
If Brian is allowed to join the ranks then I'll do whatever it takes (lose a bet to tim?!) to resign from PB Toryhood!
Must keep an eye out on the blog to see what the reaction will be.
You don't fool me....you're just playing hard to get!
Prisoners ? Over 12s ? Tourists ? Those flying over Scottish airspace within +/- 7 days of the vote, dogs ,cats , Donald Trump ?
As hard to get as an Arsenal striker in the company of Brian Coleman. Euw.
Prisoners ?"
Unlikely, but let's hope so.
"At the heart of the Donside constituency sits the charmingly named Haudagain roundabout. Charming name, hideous challenge.
It has been voted the worst such circle in the UK. (Best was one in Hemel Hempstead, wittily billed "The Magic Roundabout".)
"But it is conceivable that the candidate with the most convincing plan for tackling this entrenched problem will gain a degree of voter support."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-22771838
Finger on the pulse, eh James?
Even more? Crikey.
That is the desperately sad truth of this entire debate.
Hardly. The poll that you've become so obsessed with was self-evidently flawed because it asked adults in the same household how they planned to vote in the referendum, and the results bore no resemblance to recent polling. Correcting for that huge error, the Yes side would have support from about 39-45% of 14-17 year olds.
Of course Labour turn to the stick of central dictat without thinking of the carrot - it is what they do - but usually fail.
1/10 will be such a low return.
Either that, or the north a more attractive place for people to live, companies to set up etc.
Miliband......proposes more jobs, higher pay and lower rents. Why did no one think of this before?"
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100220640/ed-milibands-big-speech-on-welfare-will-make-almost-no-difference-to-anything/
Does anyone know what "full funding" under IORP I would actually look like? This got a bit lost during the IORP II farrago. I guess a buy-out funding level would be the starting point?
I'm not. I'm denigrating your reading comprehension skills. I said nothing at all about Edinburgh University.
"merely confirmed previous polls on Scottish children's voting intentions in next year's referendum."
Let's see the links, then.
"‘This has done for our pay rise, hasn’t it?’ one MP muttered earlier this week after the lobbying scandal broke. I suggested on Monday that yet another row over politicians behaving badly will make it even more difficult for David Cameron to endorse a pay rise for MPs. This is a row that is just waiting in the wings to join the Central School of Conservative Drama.....
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/06/pay-the-next-big-tory-row/