Good idea for a thread - maybe after referendum if it is in June.
@georgeeaton McDonnell says Treasury should be broken up into economic ministry and finance ministry (as Blair considered). #LSEMcDonnell
We could have the Department of Economic Affairs, as under Wilson, Led by George Brown!
Presumably the finance ministry would raise all the money and the economic ministry would waste it all on so-called "investments". Perhaps we could resuscitate British Leyland, while we're about it.
Back to the future, indeed.
Just shows what a joke McDonnell is.
Done correctly I could see merit in this, in that in targeting UK debts the current government have focussed very largely on getting the government deficit down, the finance aspect. The other 5/6 or so of the UK's debt - personal, private sector and banking, the economic aspect, has been substantially ignored. How much is pure party political - painting a crash where public sector looms large - and how much is practical, waiting until the economy is on the up before trying to deleverage the private sector in some kind of soft landing, I don't exactly know. But there is still a hell of a lot of work to be done to recover from the crash, and an economic ministry with the right mindset could be exactly what is needed for the job.
Whether that is what McDonnell is actually proposing is another matter.
I read it that McDonnell wants to be in charge of the ministry of spending money, and wants some other mug to be in charge of raising it!
I see - so not a ministry for public sector and a ministry for meddling in regulating the private sector then, as I had it. He just wants to be Mrs McDonnell the stereotypical 50s housewife... Pity.
@Reuters: BREAKING: Former French President Sarkozy being investigated in campaign funding probe: Paris prosecutor
Good news for Marine Le Pen
Not really: it makes it much more likely Juppe is Les Republicans candidate, and he hammers her.
Marine needs Sarkozy to be Les Republicans candidate, because that means that Hollande may beat out out Sarkozy in the first round, and in a Le Pen vs Hollande match-up she stands a chance.
Sarkozy will run against Juppe whether he wins the official centre right nomination or not, he has that big an ego, so that still helps Le Pen and also makes a Hollande v Le Pen run-off more likely
No he won't. The Les Republicans donors will not fund Sarkozy.
Sarkozy has quite enough wealthy friends to fund himself and his brother works on Wall Street and is worth $100 million
He wouldn't do it. The rebranding of the right as the Republicans is his pet project so it would come at too great a cost to his legacy to stand against his own party.
Of course he will do it, Sarkozy has a bigger ego than Napoleon. He is a former presidentnot Juppe and he sees it as his historic destiny to save France. He only founded the party as his personal vehicle anyway
If the Les Republicans primary process chooses Juppe, which it will, then he will have no choice.
He's not going to start Les Republicans Part Deux with a third of his former party.
He could get the backing of a smaller party or set up another party to back him, it is not uncommon in France
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
@Reuters: BREAKING: Former French President Sarkozy being investigated in campaign funding probe: Paris prosecutor
Good news for Marine Le Pen
Not really: it makes it much more likely Juppe is Les Republicans candidate, and he hammers her.
Marine needs Sarkozy to be Les Republicans candidate, because that means that Hollande may beat out out Sarkozy in the first round, and in a Le Pen vs Hollande match-up she stands a chance.
Sarkozy will run against Juppe whether he wins the official centre right nomination or not, he has that big an ego, so that still helps Le Pen and also makes a Hollande v Le Pen run-off more likely
No he won't. The Les Republicans donors will not fund Sarkozy.
Sarkozy has quite enough wealthy friends to fund himself and his brother works on Wall Street and is worth $100 million
I'll offer you 3-1, up to £1,000 stake on two Les Republicans candidates if you're so sure
There will only be one Led Republicans candidate but he will run regardless as Chirac and Balladur ran against each other in round 1 in 1995. I will bet £100 but no more than that
So, the bet is "should Alain Juppe be the Les Republicans candidate, Sarkozy will run"
Void if anyone else other than Juppe is Les Republicans candidate.
The guy needs to seek some serious help. He is a total mess.
He hasn't killed anyone. Unlike those who slaughtered 87 people in front of his eyes last November.
I think the band deserve kudos for coming back to Paris to do this concert. Some of the relatives of those killed are going. I hope doing so brings them whatever comfort it can.
The guy needs to seek some serious help. He is a total mess.
He hasn't killed anyone. Unlike those who slaughtered 87 people in front of his eyes last November.
I think the band deserve kudos for coming back to Paris to do this concert. Some of the relatives of those killed are going. I hope doing so brings them whatever comfort it can.
You misunderstood my post. I was being serious in terms of the incident has really messed him up and he needs to seek help (unsurprisingly given what he witnessed). He has a really troubled past before all of this.
I presume you were thinking I was talking about his NRA support or something. I wasn't.
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Is UK life expectancy about to start heading downwards or is it a blip?
Prince William's subtle as a sledgehammer non-intervention intervention in the EU debate headline news on BBC News at Ten. Kensington Palace have issued a denial.
Whoever came up with this totally f-ing stupid idea needs sacking.
The guy needs to seek some serious help. He is a total mess.
He hasn't killed anyone. Unlike those who slaughtered 87 people in front of his eyes last November.
I think the band deserve kudos for coming back to Paris to do this concert. Some of the relatives of those killed are going. I hope doing so brings them whatever comfort it can.
You misunderstood my post. I was being serious in terms of the incident has really messed him up and he needs to seek help (unsurprisingly given what he witnessed). He has a really troubled past before all of this.
I presume you were thinking I was talking about his NRA support or something. I wasn't.
Fair enough. Apologies. I can well imagine he - and the rest of the band - must be traumatised after what they witnessed.
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Better than that: researchers in the US have trialled a new cancer cure involving the body's own cells being "trained" to attack cancer cells in the blood (for Leukaemia sufferers) that resulted in total remission of 90% of the terminally ill patients it was trialled on:
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Is UK life expectancy about to start heading downwards or is it a blip?
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Is UK life expectancy about to start heading downwards or is it a blip?
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Better than that: researchers in the US have trialled a new cancer cure involving the body's own cells being "trained" to attack cancer cells in the blood (for Leukaemia sufferers) that resulted in total remission of 90% of the terminally ill patients it was trialled on:
Can we have a Euro referendum free thread at some point. I want to talk about the unelectability of Corbyn, the invisibility of Farron, and the hairlessness of Cameron. Anything, really, rather than EU Ref Thread Part 821
* The new X-Files series 10 is weirdly compulsive * SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented. * Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm * BBC Three went online-only today * Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices * The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down * There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies * Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
Is UK life expectancy about to start heading downwards or is it a blip?
Should be given just as serious consideration as Mid-Staffs or the weekend effect until we know one way or the other.
Obviously the BBC are trying to tie it to "Cuts Kill" meme. It seems unlikely you would get such a sudden spike like that. They aren't even the final properly adjusted figures.
It is also wise to take one year figures with a massive caution. The classic example is speed cameras. Labour government used to pump out how speed cameras reduced deaths, because deaths went down after their installation, but they were only installed at sites that had seen a rise in deaths...a proper statistical analysis showed it was all basically regression to the mean.
That all been said it wouldn't surprise me if a reduction in quality of care for the elderly would result in some increase. The current state of affairs is terrible and has been building for a long long time, not just the past 6 years.
Prince William's subtle as a sledgehammer non-intervention intervention in the EU debate headline news on BBC News at Ten. Kensington Palace have issued a denial.
Whoever came up with this totally f-ing stupid idea needs sacking.
From what has been quoted by Guido it could also indicate he supports Brexit:
“we have always sought to explore what is beyond the horizon”...
... praise for Britain’s “sense of mission and curiosity”
Prince William's subtle as a sledgehammer non-intervention intervention in the EU debate headline news on BBC News at Ten. Kensington Palace have issued a denial.
Whoever came up with this totally f-ing stupid idea needs sacking.
From what has been quoted by Guido it could also indicate he supports Brexit:
“we have always sought to explore what is beyond the horizon”...
... praise for Britain’s “sense of mission and curiosity”
The timing was no accident, neither was the choice of words, or the location, or the fact he delivered a speech in the Foreign Office at a very politically charged time with Philip Hammond.
This was an absolutely intentional, and planned, intervention - with some plausible deniability designed in by deliberately omitting the words "EU" and "Europe".
And it was a very, very stupid (and desperate) idea.
If Boris wimps out, she'll be wonderfully placed for the leadership. Why would the party not go for someone on the right who Labour will find impossible to attack?
Should be given just as serious consideration as Mid-Staffs or the weekend effect until we know one way or the other.
Obviously the BBC are trying to tie it to "Cuts Kill" meme. It seems unlikely you would get such a sudden spike like that. They aren't even the final properly adjusted figures.
It is also wise to take one year figures with a massive caution. The classic example is speed cameras. Labour government used to pump out how speed cameras reduced deaths, because deaths went down after their installation, but they were only installed at sites that had seen a rise in deaths...a proper statistical analysis showed it was all basically regression to the mean.
That all been said it wouldn't surprise me if a reduction in quality of care for the elderly would result in some increase. The current state of affairs is terrible and has been building for a long long time, not just the past 6 years.
Agreed - though Cuts Kill is clearly a suspect, I would hesitate to lead with such an overtly political interpretation until the numbers are looked at. Taking it deadly seriously and urgently is a must though - a lot of the damage at Mid-Staffs came from the fact that the data analysis producing excess death numbers was a brand new method and the numbers were disbelieved for too long.
I never got how the speed camera thing became such a statistical problem. Even with regression to mean, if some of those speed cameras were still doing some good at real danger spots, that should have quite sharply reduced the number of black spots overall. I remember Top Gear kebabing Steven Ladyman (I think) at the time, but I didn't entirely accept regression to mean as the full explanation simply from Clarkson saying so.
If Boris wimps out, she'll be wonderfully placed for the leadership. Why would the party not go for someone on the right who Labour will find impossible to attack?
Harriet Harman's head will explode.
Isn't she too right wing for leadership? A pro-death penalty type will lose a lot of centrist voters like me.
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meddling inregulating the private sector then, as I had it. He just wants to be Mrs McDonnell the stereotypical 50s housewife... Pity.https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408
* SNL skits provides a quick primer to US politics and Kate McKinnon and Jason Sudekis are very talented.
* Laura Branigan died in 2004 of an aneurysm
* BBC Three went online-only today
* Osborne's decision to preannounce the April 1 stamp duty increases for BTL properties have caused an inflationary pulse in house prices
* The Houses of Parliament complex (the Palace of Westminster) is not the original building but a Gothic Revival building built in the mid-nineteenth century after the original burnt down
* There are no bad ballet movies. There are no bad submarine movies
* Since 2000 we have discovered the Higgs boson, detected gravitational waves, innumerable extrasolar planets, and (at the microscopic level) demonstrated invisibility and a tractor beam
Where would you like to start?
I think the band deserve kudos for coming back to Paris to do this concert. Some of the relatives of those killed are going. I hope doing so brings them whatever comfort it can.
I presume you were thinking I was talking about his NRA support or something. I wasn't.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35589564
Should be given just as serious consideration as Mid-Staffs or the weekend effect until we know one way or the other.
Whoever came up with this totally f-ing stupid idea needs sacking.
Fair enough. Apologies. I can well imagine he - and the rest of the band - must be traumatised after what they witnessed.
Utterly fantastic news.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rate-middle-age-white-americans/
It is also wise to take one year figures with a massive caution. The classic example is speed cameras. Labour government used to pump out how speed cameras reduced deaths, because deaths went down after their installation, but they were only installed at sites that had seen a rise in deaths...a proper statistical analysis showed it was all basically regression to the mean.
That all been said it wouldn't surprise me if a reduction in quality of care for the elderly would result in some increase. The current state of affairs is terrible and has been building for a long long time, not just the past 6 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ1TQYjCwYc
Beatles legend filmed being turned away from party organised by rapper Tyga after the Grammy awards in Los Angeles
Sir Paul was refused entry along with singer Beck and actor Woody Harrelson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12160602/How-VIP-do-we-gotta-get-Sir-Paul-McCartney-turned-away-from-Grammys-after-party.html
Not much has been written about them.
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The timing was no accident, neither was the choice of words, or the location, or the fact he delivered a speech in the Foreign Office at a very politically charged time with Philip Hammond.
This was an absolutely intentional, and planned, intervention - with some plausible deniability designed in by deliberately omitting the words "EU" and "Europe".
And it was a very, very stupid (and desperate) idea.
Harriet Harman's head will explode.
I never got how the speed camera thing became such a statistical problem. Even with regression to mean, if some of those speed cameras were still doing some good at real danger spots, that should have quite sharply reduced the number of black spots overall. I remember Top Gear kebabing Steven Ladyman (I think) at the time, but I didn't entirely accept regression to mean as the full explanation simply from Clarkson saying so.