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Given how old both Trump and Clinton are then actuarially then the two men who took part in the overnight VP debate have probably got a reasonable chance of becoming President. So although the event will only have attracted a fraction of what Clinton-Trump secured last it is important. It will also get far less post debate coverage.
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UKIP seem in turmoil.
I guess the reality is more likely some kind of wacky mix-up where the Trump campaign thought the RNC were taking care of GOTV and the RNC thought the Trump campaign was doing it.
Both here and the USA it looks as if politics is to be endured rather than enjoyed for the next four years.
The twist is that Trump doesn't seem to have his own organization, and is dependent on the RNC...
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/783543498544910337
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/783195009550024704
Coupled with Amber Rudd's plans, for the first time in my 20 years as a Tory, I'm ashamed to be a Tory
Woolfe this time?
May is the first Tory PM in years to ask Maggies Question "Is he one of us?". She is not aiming to be all inclusive in her reach out to Britons, but she does realise (unlike many senior Tories) that the vast majority of her voters are dependent on the NHS and State education.
I suspect that she meant that in 2025 overseas recruitment will not be needed, rather than long serving doctors being deported to the east for resettlement.
I do think May is a nasty piece of work, with very little empathy with others or compassion in her heart. I think she is a Pharisee.
Does that include people who are (genuinely) unfit for work?
You think you'd have made it as far as the exit.....?
Mrs May is proving very popular with the grass roots....
I'm not saying that the jobs market hasn't performed well, it has. I'm just saying that anyone who wants to say that there are no issues is kidding themselves, the taxpayer wouldn't need to be giving out £30bn worth of in-work benefits and wage subsidies if that were the case.
It would explain a great many things.
I guess nothing has really changed in practice, but there are better ways to discourage migration than tell them they are all going to get deported and any firm which does hire them will be subject to fire bombs.
No wonder UKIPpers and TINOs are turning back to the Conservatives. Sadly, if this is right it means there'll be no home for me in the party.
I am heartened for example of her plan to tie graduates in 2023 into years of state employment in the NHS. The clear implication is that the state will be the deliverer of medical care in a decades time.
Katie's father is a retired nurse, her mother never worked, they have little income. She has never been abroard, they never take holidays, she shares a bedroom in a tiny house.
The local secondary school is in special measures (it’s Wales, there is less funding per pupil here than in areas like London where money is poured in).
Despite all this, she did very well in her GCSEs. I encouraged her in her ambition to become a doctor, and she has recently been to some open days in medicine at various universities.
She returned very depressed. For the first time, she encountered people like her, but from another world -- very different backgrounds, with all the advantages of a privileged education (whether at a well-resourced state school in the South East or an independent school).
She had begun to realise that -- with medical place arbitrarily limited by the Government -- that she would never be able to get into medical school. She has started to look at applying for a degree in nursing instead.
A few weeks ago, her father asked me: “Why when we need doctors, and when we have people who want to become doctors, does the Government restrict the number of places to study medicine at University”.
I am pleased that more people in this country (of whatever background) will have the opportunity to train as doctors and realise their full potential.
Seems most unlikely - at University her friends were in the TRG (eg Damien Green) - not the Monday Club.
http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbon-on-politics/tories-increase-majority-dup-deal/33628
UKIP leadership challenge round two, or is it three? Wolfe must be in with a good chance this time?
Diane James has quit as Ukip leader after just 18 days. Nigel Farage has been on pub crawls which have lasted longer.
The rhetoric really is bad
This is one of the reasons we've left. If the EU was really interested in blocking illegal state aid then they should step in now and block this contract.
Amber Rudd says already having 'early conversations' with sectors such as adult social care that have v.high proportion of foreign workers
Medicine (but to be frank any degree / job) requires 2 things - good results and a decent CV showing how rounded the person is. A good application form mentioning other things that she has done (voluntary work, experience at Doctor's hospitals).... are what she needs.... Speak to the HR department at your local hospital and see what if they can point you at someone who can help her....
There are actually other ways into Medicine outside of immediate application - some courses (Medical Research say) provide routes in later and there are other areas of medicine radiography say which provide routes into medicine that are better rewarded than nursing..
More retirements than a boxer.
I'm not sure I like the idea of telling medical students that they have to stay in the NHS or else face a hefty bill, but given that it is oversubscribed, those that get in should realize how lucky they have been to have been chosen.
This story about Grieve chucking Damian Green off Magdalen bridge gives a flavour of the times:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/9796879/Class-rivalry-among-Tories-behind-1977-attack-on-Damian-Green-at-Oxford.html
They must keep it more secret next time.
Seriously, i mean, spouting this is the sort of balls that prevents many non Tories on here (and in the Grauniad, Indy etc) from seeing the real issues facing them. Rubbish NHS privatisation theories.
A high proportion of foreign workers because they're willing/able to exist on the low wages and long hours that goes with the job. If it was better respected and better paid British people might be interested.
Really, this is all reactive, the government needs to look at why British workers are so often considered uncompetitive with foreign workers or (in the case of the medical sector) why we have such systemic shortages of qualified workers.
On and on they drone. Time drips by. I can feel my soul seeping out of me, gram by gram. My body sagging. My bones turning to rubber. I daydream about walking out, but I’m not sure I’d have the strength.
Still, at least I’m getting paid to sit here. Think of the party members. They’ve paid up to £520 each for this. They don’t get to vote on policy, or to express their opinions. They’re paying through the nose for the privilege of clapping. From time to time they get to their feet for a standing ovation. I don’t think they’re actually impressed. They’ve just got pins and needles.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/04/ive-spent-three-days-at-tory-conference-now-i-know-what-death-fe/
@MaxPB Yes - never a good sign when the frothing PB morning shift backs something
I was surprised by the James' resignation last night. Perhaps I shouldn't've been.
Mr. Max, sounds reminiscent of mad Conservative plans to shame restaurants that serve large puddings.
If one was looking to make an argument, one could suggest that the so called liberal elite, the AB metropolitans and Guardianista are even more incandescent than usual at the moment, not just because the masses voted against staying the EU, a touchstone of their faith, but in that act they made politicians remember there were more people in the country what the noisy chattering classes.
The upper middle class, the media, the City and the upper echelons of the public sector have had two decades of being shameless pandered to, first by Blair and then by Cameron, they have grown up, or grown old being used to politicians giving them what they want, or at least sounding as if they wanted to give them what they want, and now all of a sudden the politicians are starting to notice that they have been holding that conversation with a relatively small section of the population, and that large, forgotten sections of the country are starting to get restless at the inattention.
Maybe some people sitting behind their morning Guardian are starting to get a bit nervous, they fear with some justification that politicians are starting to look at the country a bit more broadly, and that their interests might not received the attention that they are used to. Historically they would have looked for a Blair or a Clegg in the other parties to listen to them, but all they can see is navel gazing and irrelevance, and they begin to wonder if the barbarians are at the door.
Indeed. The byproduct is that a generous welfare state means are people are unwilling to accept a standard of living that is tolerable, or even welcomed by immigrants from less well off countries, so those immigrants take the jobs.
There is a basic nexus here that people are really trying hard not to understand, because the implications are too painful. When people do a job, they generate a certain amount of value for their employer, if the employer pays them more than the value they generate for his business, he will rapidly go out of business. In current market conditions, given international competition, the amount of value most unskilled workers can generate is around the minimum wage. If that amount of money doesn't produce an acceptable standard of living with acceptable residue money no one will take the job.
However the standard of living is acceptable for many immigrants, and isn't for many locals, so the immigrants take the jobs. Increasing pay doesn't change the equation, a higher salary means a better standard of living, or more residual cash. At the sort of pay levels an unskilled local would consider acceptable we are moving into the standard of living that many better qualified or more experienced immigrants would find acceptable, so the local still doesn't get the job.
It's about expectation and entitlement.