Thinking as quickly on his feet as he ever does, Corbyn barely responded to the jibe at the time. But a helpful aide, armed with Google, later tweeted what he claimed was a quote by Einstein: "If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies."
Wise words and often found in online lists of quotations, but the TMS diary reports that Einstein never said it. It's been misattributed to him for years.
As Abraham Lincoln once said: "30 per cent of quotes on the internet are made up."
Given that Corbyn is notable mainly for having held and propagated for the last 40 years some of the shabbiest ideas and philosophies around, he has quite a nerve quoting this saying, whoever said it.
Not Hungarian, but I'd guess it's a dead cert, and a way of getting clear popular support for a hardline stance.
It's a good example of what Margaret Thatcher meant when she said that the referendum was a device of demagogues and dictators.
David Cameron has now held three referendums.
Which one do you think he is?
Was it Maggie who said that? I thought it was Churchill.
My thought is was Attlee.
Googled it and it appears to be Attlee’s originially. Thatcher credited him with it in her 1975 speech on the matter. Can’t find where Attlee said it, so iot might have been in conversation or an interview. Attlee actually said despots not demagogues.
Again from memory it was in response to a suggestion by Churchill in 1945 that a referendum be held on continuing the wartime coalition beyond the defeat of Germany to further postpone the date of the general election.
Why do you hate immigrants ? Listen to the podcast and the love Carswell has for immigrants.
I don't, but along with the aging population it puts more pressure on housing and services. In particular the idea of a free market for housing is a complete non starter given most of the country supports some form of planning laws.
The combination of unfettered immigration and a perfectly natural desire to have some sort of planning rule on housing is one of free market demand and de facto state controlled supply. It is a poor combination.
I urge you to take this message to Page Hall in the upcoming Brightside by-election.
Well if I'm chosen as the Tory candidate, I shall.
Have you put your name into the hat ?
Not yet, but I've been urged to.
For some reason people think I should become an MP or possibly the Sheffield City Region Mayor.
I think you should stand.
My problem, apart from the pay cut, is that I'm commendably honest. I'd get into constant trouble with my utterances.
Like 'If you lost out on the job market to someone who moved here and can barely speak English, stop whining about immigrants and improve your skill set'
Perhaps Tony Blair was right about ID cards for NHS treatment. Perhaps ensuring it was very difficult to be either a benefit or health care tourist would mean a warmer welcome for working migrants ?
As a rule I'm opposed to ID cards.
But I see that idea having merits.
My Grandfather was genuinely touched by how warmly he was received as a working immigrant here, so it would work to dip into the majority of Brits who welcome working immigrants.
Perhaps if you had a British passport you wouldnt need one - or something.
But surely its not beyond the wit nor will of a government ?
Press Gazette Rotherham sex gang victim: 'Only reason police started this investigation is because The Times printed my story' https://t.co/8MfJtYbyxb
The Independent Police Commission has begun 55 investigations into alleged police misconduct linked to Rotherham child sex crimes. It has received complaints against 92 named officers.
Jesus wept..... What the hell was going on in South Yorkshire Police?
One thing that needs to be said in favour of new arrivals from EU2 countries, and indeed EU8 ones, is that they have a very high employment rate - higher than UK nationals, in fact.
When we look at the detail of poor employment rates and high rates of welfare dependency, it's other groups from beyond the EU that figure most prominently.
How does that break down? Presumably if they are non-EU nationals then they are here under some kind of visa that we have decided it's in Britain's interests to grant. I can see that foreign students would skew the employment figures, and refugees are taken on compassionate grounds whereby we accept that they may not be a net benefit to our economy (in the short-medium term at least), but what on basis would the remaining under-employed/welfare dependent non-EU groups be here?
I found this, but its from 2008 so maybe out of date.
Lowest rate is Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. Highest rate is South Africans.
Thanks. Interesting study. Does appear to be based on country of birth though, not non-UK nationals, you'd assume many of those referred to hold UK passports.
Also appears to be looking at labour market participation rather than unemployment, which is a different issue... obviously the entitlement to out-of-work benefits etc is very limited in the case of a non-working spouse.
Mr. Mark, collusion, incompetence and literally turning a blind eye to widespread rape in the name of political correctness, if the allegations are true.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
I went to a primary school close to Leeds. Vague memories of discussing Savile being a kiddy fiddler were occasionally had in the playground.
We must have been very informed children to discuss matters that even Savile's own colleagues didn't apparently know about.
Saville’s colleagues appear to have been aware, according to the report as published on the BBC site. They just didn’t pass anything up the chain, largely because he was “talent” and as such any improprieties should be ignored.
With unemployment down to 5.1% and the number of vacancies per unemployed having halved in just over two years, it's just as well we've got all these immigrants coming to fill them.
Net immigration will reduce under one of the following circumstances:
1) Britain's economy falters. 2) The rest of the EU's economy picks up. 3) We voluntarily decide to sabotage our own economy by preventing people from coming to do the jobs that employers think need doing.
There is a very longterm solution of training more of our economically inactive to do the work, but that's not going to happen overnight or indeed in a few years.
If we have this nirvana on employment , why is the benefits bill so colossal.
With unemployment down to 5.1% and the number of vacancies per unemployed having halved in just over two years, it's just as well we've got all these immigrants coming to fill them.
Net immigration will reduce under one of the following circumstances:
1) Britain's economy falters. 2) The rest of the EU's economy picks up. 3) We voluntarily decide to sabotage our own economy by preventing people from coming to do the jobs that employers think need doing.
There is a very longterm solution of training more of our economically inactive to do the work, but that's not going to happen overnight or indeed in a few years.
If we have this nirvana on employment , why is the benefits bill so colossal.
In work benefits that can only be cured by progressive move to higher wages as per new National Living Wage
Mr. Mark, collusion, incompetence and literally turning a blind eye to widespread rape in the name of political correctness, if the allegations are true.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
Agree; I suspect that “trust” was largely a middle-class thing and that the change is that the middle and ipper classes are now as suspicious of the police as the working class were once upon a time.
I'm not entirely sure what the grievance is with people that come into the country, support themselves, integrate reasonably well, have cultural compatibility, work hard and pay taxes.
The problem is people that expect or need to be supported, who won't integrate and who drain taxes.
We grow enough of our own who fulfil at least two of those criteria.
My Grandfather was genuinely touched by how warmly he was received as a working immigrant here, so it would work to dip into the majority of Brits who welcome working immigrants.
Perhaps we could call them "Entitlement Cards"
I mentioned on here a month or two ago that ID cards were going to come back on the agenda. There have been the odd article her and there in the press pushing their benefits, they are also, so I am told, being again mentioned in civil service discussion papers and now they are cropping up on here. Once we vote to stay in the EU and Cameron goes I think we can expect them to come back into politicians' open speech. The idea of ID cards is beloved by the Civil Service and they are too useful a tool of government in the modern age to be ignored for long.
I went to a primary school close to Leeds. Vague memories of discussing Savile being a kiddy fiddler were occasionally had in the playground.
We must have been very informed children to discuss matters that even Savile's own colleagues didn't apparently know about.
Saville’s colleagues appear to have been aware, according to the report as published on the BBC site. They just didn’t pass anything up the chain, largely because he was “talent” and as such any improprieties should be ignored.
Very believable. Everybody knew, except when it got to a certain level. The upper management must be really cut off from the shop floor. Sounds like a terribly run business if that is true.
With unemployment down to 5.1% and the number of vacancies per unemployed having halved in just over two years, it's just as well we've got all these immigrants coming to fill them.
Net immigration will reduce under one of the following circumstances:
1) Britain's economy falters. 2) The rest of the EU's economy picks up. 3) We voluntarily decide to sabotage our own economy by preventing people from coming to do the jobs that employers think need doing.
There is a very longterm solution of training more of our economically inactive to do the work, but that's not going to happen overnight or indeed in a few years.
If we have this nirvana on employment , why is the benefits bill so colossal.
Because Gordon Brown thought it was a good idea to subsidise employers by giving larger in work benefits.
Mr. Llama, I hope you're wrong on ID cards. They're a rancid idea that belong in dystopian fiction, like perpetual revisionism of history or the Ministry of Justice.
Wow. Employment rate of Somali women is just 10%!!
Is the male rate that much higher?
Male rate for Somalis is 40%, so four times higher, similar to Iranian men. But Iranian women are higher - 49%!!
So still piss poor basically.
What on earth are they doing here ?
Adding to the cultural gaiety of the nation ?? At least the polish builders & plumbers fix up your kitchen and bathroom.
It is basically impossible to send anybody back to Somalia. And 2nd generation as a group are performing badly at school etc etc etc, where as Polish offspring are boosting attainment figures.
Mr. Mark, collusion, incompetence and literally turning a blind eye to widespread rape in the name of political correctness, if the allegations are true.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
Agree; I suspect that “trust” was larfgely a middle-class thing and that the change is that the middle and ipper classes are now as suspicious of the police as the working class were once upon a time.
I remember reading an analysis that dated the change to the spread of motoring prosecutions, aided by speed cameras. Before that, most middle-class people never encountered the police except as customers seeking their help, so they saw them as entirely benevolent. Once they'd had a few speeding tickets, in some cases with marginal arguments about fairness, they started to share the resentment which working-class people often had after comparable minor brushes with the law.
An anecdote that I've mentioned before: a teenage constituent told me that he and a friend had been "moved on" by a policeman for sitting chatting on a public bench, because a householder a hundred yards away had complained that they might be discussing how to break into his house. The teenager, a well-spoken young man dressed unexceptionably, felt that the policeman had clearly decided that the irrational fears of householders took priority over young people sitting harmlessly in a public space, and that had made him less favourable to the police than before. Assuming the facts were as described, I thought he had a perfectly reasonable point. I've heard similar things from black people, who say they get stopped when just going about their business.
It's clearly not easy for the police to strike the right balance, but it only takes the odd incident like that to sour people.
Wow. Employment rate of Somali women is just 10%!!
Is the male rate that much higher?
Male rate for Somalis is 40%, so four times higher, similar to Iranian men. But Iranian women are higher - 49%!!
So still piss poor basically.
What on earth are they doing here ?
Adding to the cultural gaiety of the nation ?? At least the polish builders & plumbers fix up your kitchen and bathroom.
It is basically impossible to send anybody back to Somalia. And 2nd generation as a group are performing badly at school etc etc etc, where as Polish offspring are boosting attainment figures.
Major athletics figures? And there are very old, long integrated, Somali communities in Cardiff and South Shields.
Press Gazette Rotherham sex gang victim: 'Only reason police started this investigation is because The Times printed my story' https://t.co/8MfJtYbyxb
The Independent Police Commission has begun 55 investigations into alleged police misconduct linked to Rotherham child sex crimes. It has received complaints against 92 named officers.
Jesus wept..... What the hell was going on in South Yorkshire Police?
Jahangir Khan involved I see... Posts mentioning him used to get deleted by 'the moderator'
Mr. Mark, collusion, incompetence and literally turning a blind eye to widespread rape in the name of political correctness, if the allegations are true.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
Agree; I suspect that “trust” was larfgely a middle-class thing and that the change is that the middle and ipper classes are now as suspicious of the police as the working class were once upon a time.
Mr. Cole, your suspicions are greatly misplaced. My wife was a copper for nearly twenty years working both shitty council estates in Brighton and "nice" areas. She always maintained that the reception she received from the denizens of Moulscomb (expressed in cups of tea per hour) was much higher than in Middle Class areas.
She is of the opinion that the difference between how the police are perceived now (and she has very little time for them) and then is due to the fact that the police have removed themselves from the community and have lost their integrity ("fat, lazy, ill-disciplined and useless").
Mr. Mark, collusion, incompetence and literally turning a blind eye to widespread rape in the name of political correctness, if the allegations are true.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
Agree; I suspect that “trust” was larfgely a middle-class thing and that the change is that the middle and ipper classes are now as suspicious of the police as the working class were once upon a time.
Mr. Cole, your suspicions are greatly misplaced. My wife was a copper for nearly twenty years working both shitty council estates in Brighton and "nice" areas. She always maintained that the reception she received from the denizens of Moulscomb (expressed in cups of tea per hour) was much higher than in Middle Class areas.
She is of the opinion that the difference between how the police are perceived now (and she has very little time for them) and then is due to the fact that the police have removed themselves from the community and have lost their integrity ("fat, lazy, ill-disciplined and useless").
I went to a primary school close to Leeds. Vague memories of discussing Savile being a kiddy fiddler were occasionally had in the playground.
We must have been very informed children to discuss matters that even Savile's own colleagues didn't apparently know about.
Saville’s colleagues appear to have been aware, according to the report as published on the BBC site. They just didn’t pass anything up the chain, largely because he was “talent” and as such any improprieties should be ignored.
Very believable. Everybody knew, except when it got to a certain level. The upper management must be really cut off from the shop floor. Sounds like a terribly run business if that is true.
There is a very longterm solution of training more of our economically inactive to do the work, but that's not going to happen overnight or indeed in a few years.
The most valuable training by far happens in the workplace and is never going to happen while employers have a cheaper option.
I went to a primary school close to Leeds. Vague memories of discussing Savile being a kiddy fiddler were occasionally had in the playground.
We must have been very informed children to discuss matters that even Savile's own colleagues didn't apparently know about.
Saville’s colleagues appear to have been aware, according to the report as published on the BBC site. They just didn’t pass anything up the chain, largely because he was “talent” and as such any improprieties should be ignored.
Very believable. Everybody knew, except when it got to a certain level. The upper management must be really cut off from the shop floor. Sounds like a terribly run business if that is true.
Come on, Miss Plato, you know how the game is played. La Smith has said she found no evidence that senior figures knew what was going on. I am sure that is true. Whether she looked or how hard she looked is another matter.
I am reminded of the Desmond Glazebrook approach to investigation of financial impropriety in the City, "First hint of trouble, have the chap up for lunch and ask him, straight out, if there is anything in it".
Electoral Commission We've just published details on donations and loans made to political parties in Q4 2015. See our release here: https://t.co/gpHshx73iP
One thing I am concerned about - is that the progress of the EU will inevitably lead to the scrapping of the Jury system in the UK as the legal processes are harmonised.
Dan Hodges According to Smith report "In 1973, Douglas Muggeridge, the Controller of Radio 1 and 2 heard rumours about Savile’s sexual impropriety"...
Apparently these weren't senior managers. FFS.
Interesting description of not senior manager. Controller of R1 / R2 just a lowly drone.
Perhaps the relevant semantics here are not around the definition of 'senior', but the distinction between 'knew' and 'heard rumours'? The extent to which that distinction was tested when asking what Muggeridge (and others) knew would be key in assessing whether the report has come to a reasonable final conclusion on this specific point.
Honestly, watch Dame Janet on replay, she's awful.
Her bit claiming to regret that victims didn't feel her report was accurate is just urgh. She's as high handed and unconvincing as I've ever heard. She sounded like she was talking to the bottom of her shoe.
My mouth fell open.
Tony Hall was pretty good, Rhona Fairhead is reading a press release with zero feeling
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Honestly, watch Dame Janet on replay, she's awful.
Her bit claiming to regret that victims didn't feel her report was accurate is just urgh. She's as high handed and unconvincing as I've ever heard. She sounded like she was talking to the bottom of her shoe.
My mouth fell open.
Tony Hall was pretty good, Rhona Fairhead is reading a press release with zero feeling
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Louis Theroux....
I wonder how high it went to decide to cut John Lydon's comments?
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Louis Theroux....
I wonder how high it went to decide to cut John Lydon's comments?
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Louis Theroux....
I wonder how high it went to decide to cut John Lydon's comments?
I can't remember the exact quote, but in 1978 he gave a radio interview and basically he said he would like to kill him because of what an evil man he was and that bit got cut. And he since clarified and said everybody in the biz knew and he was disgusted by it.
Who the hell gave the BNP £180k? And doesn't seem anybody wants to give UKIP much money.
The relatively small number of donors the kippers have are probably pouring all their spare cash into the Leave campaigns, they don't have luxury of the government paying their bills unlike the Remain campaign.
National Day of Action against benefit sanctions on 9th March.I hope Pbers will join their local actions.
What are "benefit sanctions" ?
When you have your benefits reduced because of any one of a number of transgressions, for example, not taking a job when offered
Also when Jobcentre staff decide to change the date or time a claimant is required to sign on. The claimant is sent a letter but if he fails to receive it in time and does not appear at the new time he/she is sanctioned. There has been clear evidence of managers doing this quite deliberately to meet targets imposed on them.
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Louis Theroux....
Much of the stuff about Saville that turned out to be true was on the Popbitch website over a decade ago. Enough people clearly knew, yet nothing happened.
National Day of Action against benefit sanctions on 9th March.I hope Pbers will join their local actions.
What are "benefit sanctions" ?
When you have your benefits reduced because of any one of a number of transgressions, for example, not taking a job when offered
Also when Jobcentre staff decide to change the date or time a claimant is required to sign on. The claimant is sent a letter but if he fails to receive it in time and does not appear at the new time he/she is sanctioned. There has been clear evidence of managers doing this quite deliberately to meet targets imposed on them.
I am acquainted with people at the DWP who do the job and have been pressured by their managers to behave in this way! I also am aware of two people who found this culture so unethical and stressful that they left.
National Day of Action against benefit sanctions on 9th March.I hope Pbers will join their local actions.
What are "benefit sanctions" ?
When you have your benefits reduced because of any one of a number of transgressions, for example, not taking a job when offered
Also when Jobcentre staff decide to change the date or time a claimant is required to sign on. The claimant is sent a letter but if he fails to receive it in time and does not appear at the new time he/she is sanctioned. There has been clear evidence of managers doing this quite deliberately to meet targets imposed on them.
I'm currently claiming JSA. When signing on they tell you what time to sign on in a fortnights time.
National Day of Action against benefit sanctions on 9th March.I hope Pbers will join their local actions.
What are "benefit sanctions" ?
When you have your benefits reduced because of any one of a number of transgressions, for example, not taking a job when offered
Also when Jobcentre staff decide to change the date or time a claimant is required to sign on. The claimant is sent a letter but if he fails to receive it in time and does not appear at the new time he/she is sanctioned. There has been clear evidence of managers doing this quite deliberately to meet targets imposed on them.
I have just started to watch the Tony Hall live interviews and when a journalist "Neil Midgeley" asked him. Qn - I understand that you have not personally sacked a person for bullying or intimidation, why not? Hall waffled on about how there were fewer bullying allegations in 14/15 than 13/14. The journalist repeated the question. Hall offered to go through later, all the last year's cases and then said "does your organisation have less bullying" or words to that effect.
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
National Day of Action against benefit sanctions on 9th March.I hope Pbers will join their local actions.
What are "benefit sanctions" ?
When you have your benefits reduced because of any one of a number of transgressions, for example, not taking a job when offered
Also when Jobcentre staff decide to change the date or time a claimant is required to sign on. The claimant is sent a letter but if he fails to receive it in time and does not appear at the new time he/she is sanctioned. There has been clear evidence of managers doing this quite deliberately to meet targets imposed on them.
I'm currently claiming JSA. When signing on they tell you what time to sign on in a fortnights time.
Re: BBC and the culture of fear permeating it. Best way to fix it is to reduce it in size and allow more media players in. It is the BBC's size and the way it is able to intimidate people not wanting to fall fowl of the folk controlling work and appointments and new contracts etc.
I have just started to watch the Tony Hall live interviews and when a journalist "Neil Midgeley" asked him. Qn - I understand that you have not personally sacked a person for bullying or intimidation, why not? Hall waffled on about how there were fewer bullying allegations in 14/15 than 13/14. The journalist repeated the question. Hall offered to go through later, all the last year's cases and then said "does your organisation have less bullying" or words to that effect.
Re: Blackburn. So the BBC acts against one of its folk on a short term contract who has the least legal protection, whilst no one is disciplined in the hierachy over looking the other way when abuse went on.....
Re: Savile. The Journalist Lynn Barbour put it to Savile in an interview published in 1990 that there were persistent rumours that he was sexually interested in little girls. Of course he denied it.
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
Louis Theroux....
Much of the stuff about Saville that turned out to be true was on the Popbitch website over a decade ago. Enough people clearly knew, yet nothing happened.
Icke outed Savile as a necrophiliac ten years ago.
Popbitch named Rolf Harris at a time when people never have believed it.
Re: BBC and the culture of fear permeating it. Best way to fix it is to reduce it in size and allow more media players in. It is the BBC's size and the way it is able to intimidate people not wanting to fall fowl of the folk controlling work and appointments and new contracts etc.
The same people also do keep recirculating in BBC programmes, its favoured artistes. It strikes me as most notable in comedy and sketch programmes where self indulgence is paraded as talent.
Re: BBC and the culture of fear permeating it. Best way to fix it is to reduce it in size and allow more media players in. It is the BBC's size and the way it is able to intimidate people not wanting to fall fowl of the folk controlling work and appointments and new contracts etc.
The same people also do keep recirculating in BBC programmes, its favoured artistes. It strikes me as most notable in comedy and sketch programmes where self indulgence is paraded as talent.
Very true and into radio 5 interviews to promote their new book and tour etc etc.
Re: Blackburn. So the BBC acts against one of its folk on a short term contract who has the least legal protection, whilst no one is disciplined in the hierachy over looking the other way when abuse went on.....
Indeed - Tony Blackburn appears to have been the DG’s chosen fall guy to carry the can. Fortunately he is not going down without a fight as Blackburn has said he had been left with no choice but to sue and would not allow the corporation to destroy his reputation.
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We must have been very informed children to discuss matters that even Savile's own colleagues didn't apparently know about.
But surely its not beyond the wit nor will of a government ?
Jesus wept..... What the hell was going on in South Yorkshire Police?
Also appears to be looking at labour market participation rather than unemployment, which is a different issue... obviously the entitlement to out-of-work benefits etc is very limited in the case of a non-working spouse.
I do think there's a dangerously low level of trust in policing. Political influence affects not only the Rotherham cases (no action or even active collusion, allegedly) but the zealous persecution, with little or no cause, of old men in London by Hogan-Howe.
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The problem is people that expect or need to be supported, who won't integrate and who drain taxes.
We grow enough of our own who fulfil at least two of those criteria.
I mentioned on here a month or two ago that ID cards were going to come back on the agenda. There have been the odd article her and there in the press pushing their benefits, they are also, so I am told, being again mentioned in civil service discussion papers and now they are cropping up on here. Once we vote to stay in the EU and Cameron goes I think we can expect them to come back into politicians' open speech. The idea of ID cards is beloved by the Civil Service and they are too useful a tool of government in the modern age to be ignored for long.
Adding to the cultural gaiety of the nation ??
At least the polish builders & plumbers fix up your kitchen and bathroom.
Ooh la lala
Who is going to drive looky looky north London minicabs and chew chat if these boys aren't here? Not our feckless yoof
An anecdote that I've mentioned before: a teenage constituent told me that he and a friend had been "moved on" by a policeman for sitting chatting on a public bench, because a householder a hundred yards away had complained that they might be discussing how to break into his house. The teenager, a well-spoken young man dressed unexceptionably, felt that the policeman had clearly decided that the irrational fears of householders took priority over young people sitting harmlessly in a public space, and that had made him less favourable to the police than before. Assuming the facts were as described, I thought he had a perfectly reasonable point. I've heard similar things from black people, who say they get stopped when just going about their business.
It's clearly not easy for the police to strike the right balance, but it only takes the odd incident like that to sour people.
She is of the opinion that the difference between how the police are perceived now (and she has very little time for them) and then is due to the fact that the police have removed themselves from the community and have lost their integrity ("fat, lazy, ill-disciplined and useless").
Clinton 612
Sanders 409
Dame Janet is absolutely appalling in this BBC press conference.
Superior, smug, not interested in victims lack of faith in her conclusions. She's beyond the archetypal Establishment figure. 1/10.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/112R0zDRQLC2cxE1op0TY-IBq_PTtcxpwgfbu87DI45w/edit?usp=sharing
It won't be entirely accurate yet as the polling data for some places is very old.
I expect Sanders to beat that a touch actually.
According to Smith report "In 1973, Douglas Muggeridge, the Controller of Radio 1 and 2 heard rumours about Savile’s sexual impropriety"...
Apparently these weren't senior managers. FFS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ag4nkSh7Q
I am reminded of the Desmond Glazebrook approach to investigation of financial impropriety in the City, "First hint of trouble, have the chap up for lunch and ask him, straight out, if there is anything in it".
We've just published details on donations and loans made to political parties in Q4 2015. See our release here: https://t.co/gpHshx73iP
Your letter was only the start of it
1 letter and now ur a part of it
now you've done it JimJanet has fixed it for u
and u and u
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnson/12171839/The-Prime-Minister-shouldnt-engage-in-hand-to-hand-combat-with-Boris.html
Her bit claiming to regret that victims didn't feel her report was accurate is just urgh. She's as high handed and unconvincing as I've ever heard. She sounded like she was talking to the bottom of her shoe.
My mouth fell open.
Tony Hall was pretty good, Rhona Fairhead is reading a press release with zero feeling
Given that rumours had appeared in print, why didn't senior management insist that children were chaperoned when anywhere near him?
He's never been a target until now, today his life is over 45yrs later.
Conservative Party – £5,152,334
Labour Party – £2,669,241
Liberal Democrats – £828,657
UKIP – £196,282
BNP – £180,000
SNP – £54,030
Who the hell gave the BNP £180k? And doesn't seem anybody wants to give UKIP much money.
Very surprised that the LibDems outraise UKIP 4-1
When signing on they tell you what time to sign on in a fortnights time.
http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/work-and-pensions-committee/benefit-sanctions-policy-beyond-the-oakley-review/written/16165.html
Qn - I understand that you have not personally sacked a person for bullying or intimidation, why not?
Hall waffled on about how there were fewer bullying allegations in 14/15 than 13/14. The journalist repeated the question.
Hall offered to go through later, all the last year's cases and then said "does your organisation have less bullying" or words to that effect.
http://youtu.be/-mJ4a0ODPBM
Then again, I actually wanted to get a job.
So the BBC acts against one of its folk on a short term contract who has the least legal protection, whilst no one is disciplined in the hierachy over looking the other way when abuse went on.....
Popbitch named Rolf Harris at a time when people never have believed it.
I had flu last week and now have a cold. I am thoroughly pissed off.
Will there be less colds outside the EU? If Boris can co can promise me that I might switch.
If there is less immigration and bringing new diseases in, then the answer to your question is yes!
Hope your pestilence abates promptly.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/25/tony-blackburn-says-he-will-sue-the-bbc-after-alleged-sacking
https://twitter.com/DavidCoburnUKip/status/702797562827436032
Oops, just seen Morris_Dancers' post, FEWER colds, naughty me.