They've finally activated the all Germany page now, rendering my spreadsheet redundant. But it wasn't available half an hour ago which is why I started doing it:
About 37 minutes into Marr, Miliband says that the apprentice scheme will be "about training up our people".
Who are "our people"?
He meant British people, until it was pointed at that would be illegal. The new line is "he meant anyone in the EU, but that's OK cos they won't come"
It's desperate stuff
To be honest, I don't think he necessarily did. He never mentions Britain or British at all, and does mention (of course) "hard working families". By this I assume he means people paying taxes (and their children) which, given the EU law, could include any familes that chose to come here from another EU country. So long as the parents have jobs (else they wouldn't be hard working).
What I object to is EU nationals coming here without jobs in order to, and being able to, claim from our benefit system. Trouble is, we're not allowed to discriminate, once they're here, against them. We are though allowed to discriminate against them at the border if they don't have sufficient wealth to be able to survive without a job, and I can't work out why the hell we don't do that.
The first part of your post is correct, and sensible. As a British family can move to Munich so a Polish family can move from Kracow, it's a single market.
But given that it's a single market with free movement of Labour, why would you want to erect borders against British people moving around Europe, would you stop someone moving from New Orleans to New York? No, it's a single market, it's what three different Tory PM's have supported.
I've posted a link on here before (which I can't be bothered to find now) to the EU website stating exactly what I said I would prefer - ie that countries are allowed to stop people who are suspected of coming to the country without a job and without funds to support themselves.
One of Germany's biggest problems coming is that it still has not "rehabilitated" the old East Germany: young people still leave, incomes are depressed, and the population disproportionately old and getting more so.
If it wasn't Germany, I'd say what the old East Germany needs is a party like the SNP. What they don't need is anything resembling 'Scottish' Labour.
'The demography won’t change: an aging, and ailing, population coupled with a declining birth rate. Nor will the geography: peripheral to the United Kingdom, never mind Europe, never mind the world. Or the economics: that we will be, forever, in the shadow of our much larger neighbour. Or even the reality that our major natural resource, oil, is declining both in quantity and fashion. '
So we could have Scotland twinned with East Germany ? I wouldn't say that would do much for Scotland divvie.
You're pre-empting separation, I was thinking more of a party effective at pressuring Berlin while making a fist of running the country/region/Länder. I doot Germany is ready for any kind of mainstream 'national' party for a few decades though.
They've finally activated the all Germany page now, rendering my spreadsheet redundant. But it wasn't available half an hour ago which is why I started doing it:
I've posted a link on here before (which I can't be bothered to find now) to the EU website stating exactly what I said I would prefer - ie that countries are allowed to stop people who are suspected of coming to the country without a job and without funds to support themselves.
Under Ed's plan people coming here for one of his Apprenticeships would be guaranteed a job
A good wine and very well designed website, Mr. Brooke.
I know it as the vineyard is only a few miles away from my brother's house which also nestles at the foot of the South Downs. It is certainly better than most champagnes but probably not quite up there with the finest grande marque vintages.
Still it would be suitable drink to quaff when we overtake France in GDP.
My brother became less of fan though when they would only offer a 10% discount on supplies for his village's charity fête in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
He claims the nearby Upperton sparkling wines from Tillington village are better, but I suspect this may be due to the latter's superior generosity to West Sussex charitable causes.
One of Germany's biggest problems coming is that it still has not "rehabilitated" the old East Germany: young people still leave, incomes are depressed, and the population disproportionately old and getting more so.
If it wasn't Germany, I'd say what the old East Germany needs is a party like the SNP. What they don't need is anything resembling 'Scottish' Labour.
'The demography won’t change: an aging, and ailing, population coupled with a declining birth rate. Nor will the geography: peripheral to the United Kingdom, never mind Europe, never mind the world. Or the economics: that we will be, forever, in the shadow of our much larger neighbour. Or even the reality that our major natural resource, oil, is declining both in quantity and fashion. '
So we could have Scotland twinned with East Germany ? I wouldn't say that would do much for Scotland divvie.
You're pre-empting separation, I was thinking more of a party effective at pressuring Berlin while making a fist of running the country/region/Länder. I doot Germany is ready for any kind of mainstream 'national' party for a few decades though.
The problem is the national capital sits right in the middle of the old DDR so it's not that the distance problem to the seat of power is that great. It's just that the East hasn't recovered it;s industrial base and the Wessis have been pretty good at stitching the place up by imposing solutions that don't work. In any case given Ossis have the two top jobs in Merkel and Gauck it's hard to think of how much more influence they could have.
I've posted a link on here before (which I can't be bothered to find now) to the EU website stating exactly what I said I would prefer - ie that countries are allowed to stop people who are suspected of coming to the country without a job and without funds to support themselves.
Under Ed's plan people coming here for one of his Apprenticeships would be guaranteed a job
Any EU citizen can take one of the apprenticeships currently promoted by the govt.
How many do, come on Scotty, we're waiting.
The fact this policy relies on a contingent and not a necessary factor demonstrates just how odd a way of approaching either immigration or apprenticeships it is.
A good wine and very well designed website, Mr. Brooke.
I know it as the vineyard is only a few miles away from my brother's house which also nestles at the foot of the South Downs. It is certainly better than most champagnes but probably not quite up there with the finest grande marque vintages.
Still it would be suitable drink to quaff when we overtake France in GDP.
My brother became less of fan though when they would only offer a 10% discount on supplies for his village's charity fête in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
He claims the nearby Upperton sparkling wines from Tillington village are better, but I suspect this may be due to the latter's superior generosity to West Sussex charitable causes.
Still in wine terms these are early days for English fizz so I reckon your quality gap may not have much longer to go. In any case I noticed Nyetimber list one of their distributors as
One of Germany's biggest problems coming is that it still has not "rehabilitated" the old East Germany: young people still leave, incomes are depressed, and the population disproportionately old and getting more so.
If it wasn't Germany, I'd say what the old East Germany needs is a party like the SNP. What they don't need is anything resembling 'Scottish' Labour.
'The demography won’t change: an aging, and ailing, population coupled with a declining birth rate. Nor will the geography: peripheral to the United Kingdom, never mind Europe, never mind the world. Or the economics: that we will be, forever, in the shadow of our much larger neighbour. Or even the reality that our major natural resource, oil, is declining both in quantity and fashion. '
So we could have Scotland twinned with East Germany ? I wouldn't say that would do much for Scotland divvie.
You're pre-empting separation, I was thinking more of a party effective at pressuring Berlin while making a fist of running the country/region/Länder. I doot Germany is ready for any kind of mainstream 'national' party for a few decades though.
The problem is the national capital sits right in the middle of the old DDR so it's not that the distance problem to the seat of power is that great. It's just that the East hasn't recovered it;s industrial base and the Wessis have been pretty good at stitching the place up by imposing solutions that don't work. In any case given Ossis have the two top jobs in Merkel and Gauck it's hard to think of how much more influence they could have.
Distance is a state of mind. How far in miles is your bit from Westminsterland? How far down the list of strategic priorities?
They've finally activated the all Germany page now, rendering my spreadsheet redundant. But it wasn't available half an hour ago which is why I started doing it:
Many thanks once again Andy for the efforts you put in.
One of Germany's biggest problems coming is that it still has not "rehabilitated" the old East Germany: young people still leave, incomes are depressed, and the population disproportionately old and getting more so.
If it wasn't Germany, I'd say what the old East Germany needs is a party like the SNP. What they don't need is anything resembling 'Scottish' Labour.
'The demography won’t change: an aging, and ailing, population coupled with a declining birth rate. Nor will the geography: peripheral to the United Kingdom, never mind Europe, never mind the world. Or the economics: that we will be, forever, in the shadow of our much larger neighbour. Or even the reality that our major natural resource, oil, is declining both in quantity and fashion. '
So we could have Scotland twinned with East Germany ? I wouldn't say that would do much for Scotland divvie.
You're pre-empting separation, I was thinking more of a party effective at pressuring Berlin while making a fist of running the country/region/Länder. I doot Germany is ready for any kind of mainstream 'national' party for a few decades though.
The problem is the national capital sits right in the middle of the old DDR so it's not that the distance problem to the seat of power is that great. It's just that the East hasn't recovered it;s industrial base and the Wessis have been pretty good at stitching the place up by imposing solutions that don't work. In any case given Ossis have the two top jobs in Merkel and Gauck it's hard to think of how much more influence they could have.
Distance is a state of mind. How far in miles is your bit from Westminsterland? How far down the list of strategic priorities?
Round here we're not too bad as we have stacks of marginals, we get joyful proposals like HS2. However as you know I always feel closer to Scotland than Westminsterland :-)
Sunderland have "parted company" with boss Paolo Di Canio, the club confirms in a statement on their website
Has he avoided Mussolini's fate?
He nearly got it when he faced the sunderland fans at the end of the match against west brom ;-)
What is this thing club chairmen have with West Brom ? IIRC, McCarthy got the chop from Wolves, and Vilas-Boas from Chelsea after losing to the Baggies.
My brother became less of fan though when they would only offer a 10% discount on supplies for his village's charity fête in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
He claims the nearby Upperton sparkling wines from Tillington village are better, but I suspect this may be due to the latter's superior generosity to West Sussex charitable causes.
Any EU citizen can take one of the apprenticeships currently promoted by the govt.
How many do, come on Scotty, we're waiting.
I think you've slightly missed the point, tim.
Once Ed's quotas get onto the statute books, lots of enterprising pan-European recruitment agents will be on the case.
'Dear Director of Human Resources,
Are you recruiting lots of bright Indian IT graduates this year? Need to make up your Miliband quota of apprentices? We're here to help - we can supply bulk Romanians and Bulgarians. We supply only quality candidates, so we can offer a unique a money-back guarantee that they'll speak and write English, be polite, and turn up on time. Why run the risk of sourcing your make-weights locally?"
The Staggers @TheStaggers Balls to announce tomorrow that the OBR will audit Labour's manifesto.
Ahem.
As predicted here by yours truly, May or June 2010, to much derision from Labour posters, IIRC. Only Hopi Sen - the thinking man's lefty - was smart enough to see the point.
Osborne has changed the terms of political trade in the UK, probably for ever.
As predicted here by yours truly, May or June 2010, to much derision from Labour posters, IIRC. Only Hopi Sen - the thinking man's lefty - was smart enough to see the point.
Osborne has changed the terms of trade, probably for ever.
Douglas Alexander has been blamed for one of the most toxic leaks of the Gordon Brown era as Damian McBride, the former Prime Minister’s disgraced spin doctor, threatened to wreak havoc throughout the rest of this week’s Labour Party conference.
Mr McBride will cause further disruption to Ed Miliband’s key conference when he arrives in Brighton amid calls for a police investigation into his “hacking” of Mr Brown’s e-mails.
Any EU citizen can take one of the apprenticeships currently promoted by the govt.
How many do, come on Scotty, we're waiting.
I think you've slightly missed the point, tim.
Once Ed's quotas get onto the statute books, lots of enterprising pan-European recruitment agents will be on the case.
'Dear Director of Human Resources,
Are you recruiting lots of bright Indian IT graduates this year? Need to make up your Miliband quota of apprentices? We're here to help - we can supply bulk Romanians and Bulgarians. We supply only quality candidates, so we can offer a unique a money-back guarantee that they'll speak English, be polite, and turn up on time. Why run the risk of sourcing your make-weights locally?"
Same applies now with apprentice schemes. All jobs an apprenticeships are for EU workers, surprised anyone would be surprised, Thatcherism in motion
If you encourage people to take up apprenticeships by creating them and then suggesting young people take them when leaving school, then you disproportionately capture Britons. If employers are going to go and seek apprentices, then that's not going to be the case.
Douglas Alexander has been blamed for one of the most toxic leaks of the Gordon Brown era as Damian McBride, the former Prime Minister’s disgraced spin doctor, threatened to wreak havoc throughout the rest of this week’s Labour Party conference.
Mr McBride will cause further disruption to Ed Miliband’s key conference when he arrives in Brighton amid calls for a police investigation into his “hacking” of Mr Brown’s e-mails.
Now that is funny. Labour's attempt to shut down the story is to try to get the guy prosecuted?
Now that is funny. Labour's attempt to shut down the story is to try to get the guy prosecuted?
To be fair, Labour's attempt to shut down the story is to claim they all knew exactly what was going on and urged Brown to sack him, while not resigning themselves.
It's the Tories who are going to ask the police to investigate. Let's hope it's quicker than Plebgate...
The Staggers @TheStaggers Balls to announce tomorrow that the OBR will audit Labour's manifesto.
Ahem.
As predicted here by yours truly, May or June 2010, to much derision from Labour posters, IIRC. Only Hopi Sen - the thinking man's lefty - was smart enough to see the point.
Osborne has changed the terms of political trade in the UK, probably for ever.
@ToryTreasury: 2 Labour policies unravel on the same day. Apprenticeships policy illegal and OBR policy is directly contrary to the OBR charter. Shambles
If independent awards were given annually for economic performance, there is no doubt Team Cameron would beat Team Merkel for the 2013 prize.
German unemployment (5.3%) at a 20 year low, vs UK at 7.7%. German current account surplus, vs UK deficit German primary budget surplus vs against UK deficit German private sector debt is less than half the level of the UK German trade account surplus, vs UK deficit German GDP above 2008 levels vs UK below
Now, the UK has been performing better than most of its European peers. But, by and large, Germany has performed better than us.
Impossible! How could Germany be doing better than us when they don't have The City ?
Finance in the UK has, by and large, forgotten that its role is helping savers save, and helping businesses grow by providing capital.
That should be its job, acting as an intermediary between those who wish to defer consumption (i.e. savers), and those who need funds for investment now (i.e. businesses.)
Very true.
Instead the financial services industry now regards itself as more important than either the savers or the businesses.
Indeed much of the financial services would prefer to dispense with both the savers and businesses and instead attempt to make money out of thin air.
Doubtless this activity would make various executives rich and leave the rest of us with the bailout costs.
The Staggers @TheStaggers Balls to announce tomorrow that the OBR will audit Labour's manifesto.
Ahem.
As predicted here by yours truly, May or June 2010, to much derision from Labour posters, IIRC. Only Hopi Sen - the thinking man's lefty - was smart enough to see the point.
Osborne has changed the terms of political trade in the UK, probably for ever.
The Tories are claiming you're wrong, what's going on?
Well if the tories are right,it's a bloody shambles.
"Large firms would have to train local apprentices if they recruited workers from outside the EU."
How do you define apprentice? The chance of would-be Chinese plumbers coming to the UK are tiny. Bulgarians and Rumanians wouldn't trigger that clause anyway.
So isn't it meaningless tosh?
Just curious.
Apprentice – A term so corrupted from the original that today it is almost meaningless.
Local – Equally meaningless as it would encompass all 27 EU countries.
Ah another one turns up.
So could you help where Floater and ScottP are struggling
Prime Minister announces 100,000 new engineering apprentices
How many of those apprenticeships do you expect to go to foreigners? Although it seems like you regard them as meaningless do you?
One is where positive action is being encouraged voluntarily. One is where meaningless talk of compulsion is being done to sound tough.
Spot the difference? 100k useful and voluntary apprentices > meaningless box-ticking exercise to sound tough.
But the 100,000 apprenticeships are all going to foreigners ScottP and Floater are claiming, without any data of course.
I claimed nothing of the sort
but dealing in facts not your strongest point is it whine merchant
My brother became less of fan though when they would only offer a 10% discount on supplies for his village's charity fête in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
He claims the nearby Upperton sparkling wines from Tillington village are better, but I suspect this may be due to the latter's superior generosity to West Sussex charitable causes.
OBR's chote tells FT the @edballsmp plan to get OBR to audit Labour's tax/spend manifesto policy need "cross party support". Empty promise?
shambles ?
None of the above.
A bid by Chote for additional resources.
He fears Roger's innumerate musings over a latte at the Old Compton Street Patisserie Valerie will not withstand the scrutiny of a general election campaign.
The right of residence for more than three months remains subject to certain conditions. Applicants must:
either be engaged in economic activity (on an employed or self-employed basis); or have sufficient resources and sickness insurance to ensure that they do not become a burden on the social services of the host Member State during their stay. The Member States may not specify a minimum amount which they deem sufficient, but they must take account of personal circumstances; or be following vocational training as a student and have sufficient resources and sickness insurance to ensure that they do not become a burden on the social services of the host Member State during their stay; or be a family member of a Union citizen who falls into one of the above categories.
The Tories are claiming you're wrong, what's going on?
My dear tim, I'm disappointed in you.
What's going on is very clear: Osborne, slightly ahead of me, rightly anticipated in 2010 that Labour would seek to get their plans endorsed by the OBR, and therefore blocked that possibility when he set up the OBR.
A smart move. A very smart move. Labour will of course have to reverse it if they do form the next government.
How many people move across borders to take up apprenticeships. Its a simple question that you should be able to answer given the case you are trying to make.
The question isn't how many do it now, but how many people might do it in the future if people set up schemes to circumvent the "hire one foreigner, hire one apprentice" policy.
The other possibility is that the scheme is unworkable due to the ability of companies to claim that anyone is an apprentice.
As I understand Chotes comments the Tories will have to vote it down in Parliament. Which wouldn't be smart.
Why should they vote it down? An entire debate where Tory MP after Tory MP can point to Labour's irresponsibility, and agree with the honourable members on the other side that Labour can't possibly be trusted to write a manifesto without a minder. Plus the fact that it will torpedo Ed's money-tree spending plans. That's good for the country, and good for the Conservative Party - do you think all those Labour insults about the OBR have been lost from Google's archive, or that the Labour core vote will be content to discover that an independent body is in a position to veto any reversals to Osborne's cuts?
Not sure Australia has any obligation under the ECHR.
In any case, why withdraw benefits? Why not simply make it illegal and prosecute? In my view, the Government has no right discriminating against people for doing something that is not illegal.
Ed Miliband has come up with a brilliant way of helping the BBC save money. It’s called the Self-Interview. This morning the Labour leader treated viewers of The Andrew Marr Show to a special demonstration.
Currently, the BBC spends a lot of money employing professional interviewers. Mr Miliband was determined to prove that this was unnecessary. He did it in two ways. First, by ignoring Andrew Marr’s questions; second, by asking himself questions of his own, which he would then answer. Today the questions he asked himself included, “Who is best placed to tackle the standard-of-living crisis the country faces?”, “Is there a party that can tackle that?”, “What sort of set of priorities is that?”, “Why is it so important?” and (twice) “Now, why do I say that?”
As a helpless Marr looked on, gloomily reflecting on his own obsolescence, Mr Miliband grilled himself rigorously, probing and probing, fearlessly asking himself questions from which lesser interviewers would have flinched. Unfortunately there isn’t space here to transcribe the Self-Interview in full, but essentially it went as follows. >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10326820/Sketch-Forget-FrostNixon-heres-MilibandMiliband.html
In any case, why withdraw benefits? Why not simply make it illegal and prosecute? In my view, the Government has no right discriminating against people for doing something that is not illegal.
That's true. Either it's a legal obligation on parents, or it's not. Ed Miliband seems to want to make it a de-facto obligation on any parent not rich enough to be able to tell him where to stuff his MMR jab. That's completely bonkers.
In any case, why withdraw benefits? Why not simply make it illegal and prosecute? In my view, the Government has no right discriminating against people for doing something that is not illegal.
That's true. Either it's a legal obligation on parents, or it's not. Ed Miliband seems to want to make it a de-facto obligation on any parent not rich enough to be able to tell him where to stuff his MMR jab. That's completely bonkers.
The Tories are claiming you're wrong, what's going on?
My dear tim, I'm disappointed in you.
What's going on is very clear: Osborne, slightly ahead of me, rightly anticipated in 2010 that Labour would seek to get their plans endorsed by the OBR, and therefore blocked that possibility when he set up the OBR.
A smart move. A very smart move. Labour will of course have to reverse it if they do form the next government.
Richard
Are you sure the OBR are up to validating manifesto plans?
I find their monthly commentaries on the Public Sector Finances hasty and opaque. This is partly because the attempt to produce a commentary in two and half hours from the ONS publication is unnecessarily restrictive.
It is also in part due to ONS PSF bulletin being opaque and disorganised itself. A fact which the ONS have recognised and are moving slowly to change.
But mostly due to lack of resource (and access to ONS and government ministries?) within the OBR.
Maybe a way of sorting this out would be for the OBR to became an independent branch of the OECD. This would both bolster its independence and give it ad hoc access to all the resource it could possibly use in Paris.
In any case, why withdraw benefits? Why not simply make it illegal and prosecute? In my view, the Government has no right discriminating against people for doing something that is not illegal.
That's true. Either it's a legal obligation on parents, or it's not. Ed Miliband seems to want to make it a de-facto obligation on any parent not rich enough to be able to tell him where to stuff his MMR jab. That's completely bonkers.
You lose your benefits if you turn down enough jobs, but it's not illegal to turn down jobs. Why should the state subsidise people who are deliberately putting their children, and other peoples children at risk?
I really do think this would be defeated in a human rights court,is it just me who thinks this is a bonkers idea.
You lose your benefits if you turn down enough jobs, but it's not illegal to turn down jobs. Why should the state subsidise people who are deliberately putting their children, and other peoples children at risk?
Because the benefits are meant to support you at a time when you unfortunately can't find a job. The purpose of benefits has absolutely zilch to do with the MMR vaccine. In any case, if you're worried about putting people at risk, why should those parents who aren't on benefits be allowed to get away with it?
It's A1 bonkers, a policy which makes no sense whatsoever, either for those who think parents should be able to decide whether or not their children get the jab, or for those who think they shouldn't.
Tom hates Bob. Ed doesn’t have much faith in Iain. Tim has a political tin ear. Anna’s the fixer who doesn’t fix it. Greg is in exile and behaving like it. Torsten wants discipline but puts the Shadow Cabinet’s backs up.
Nobody is quite sure what Jon’s up to, particularly when he’s “thinking” in his new place in the West of Ireland. And there aren’t enough hours in the day for Stewart to sort it all out. When in doubt, they blame the Blairites.
Welcome to Ed Miliband’s inner circle, the group who must now hold the ring for what is shaping up to be a fractious five-day Labour family gathering by the seaside, starting today...In recent months, the adjectives about Mr Miliband’s operation have started to echo those used about Gordon Brown’s Downing Street team, with talk of “guerrilla warfare” between some shadow ministerial offices and “decision-making malaise”. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/conference/article3875246.ece
You lose your benefits if you turn down enough jobs, but it's not illegal to turn down jobs. Why should the state subsidise people who are deliberately putting their children, and other peoples children at risk?
Because the benefits are meant to support you at a time when you unfortunately can't find a job. The purpose of benefits has absolutely zilch to do with the MMR vaccine. In any case, if you're worried about putting people at risk, why should those parents who aren't on benefits be allowed to get away with it?
It's A1 bonkers, a policy which makes no sense whatsoever, either for those who think parents should be able to decide whether or not their children get the jab, or for those who think they shouldn't.
"The measures designed to meet the legislative objective [must be] rationally connected to it": de Freitas v Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Lands and Housing [1999] 1 AC 69 (PC) (and oft-quoted)
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http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/bundesergebnisse/index.html
Currently it's CDU/CSU 44.6, SPD/DL/Green 39.4
Hearing tonight Balls is rattled by exposure of Lab's £27.9bn of unfunded spending commitments - another announcement that's unlawful on way
We nearly won here 1987!!!
Fascists out !
The numbers I posted were the 2nd votes!!!!!
It's less me misunderstanding as you not knowing what you're talking about. ;-)
As as for champagne a quisling's quaff (I expected nothing more from you Pole ) if we pass them I shall be drinking
http://nyetimber.com/
A good wine and very well designed website, Mr. Brooke.
I know it as the vineyard is only a few miles away from my brother's house which also nestles at the foot of the South Downs. It is certainly better than most champagnes but probably not quite up there with the finest grande marque vintages.
Still it would be suitable drink to quaff when we overtake France in GDP.
My brother became less of fan though when they would only offer a 10% discount on supplies for his village's charity fête in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
He claims the nearby Upperton sparkling wines from Tillington village are better, but I suspect this may be due to the latter's superior generosity to West Sussex charitable causes.
So take your pick: http://www.uppertonvineyards.co.uk/public_html/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24190207
http://www.ridgeview.co.uk/
Still in wine terms these are early days for English fizz so I reckon your quality gap may not have much longer to go. In any case I noticed Nyetimber list one of their distributors as
http://www.averys.com/ :-)
44.1 / 40.1
FDP 4.96
ARD/ZDF
CDU 41.7/41.9
SPD 25.6/25.7
Linke 8.5/8.5
Greens 8.4/8.4
AfD 4.8/4.8
FDP 4.7/4.8
Dear Spain, Ed Miliband promises to force UK firms to offer apprenticeships to your unemployed kids. Nice one Ed! #lab13
IIRC, McCarthy got the chop from Wolves, and Vilas-Boas from Chelsea after losing to the Baggies.
Is there any chance he might make an appearance at PB ?
Balls to announce tomorrow that the OBR will audit Labour's manifesto.
Once Ed's quotas get onto the statute books, lots of enterprising pan-European recruitment agents will be on the case.
'Dear Director of Human Resources,
Are you recruiting lots of bright Indian IT graduates this year? Need to make up your Miliband quota of apprentices? We're here to help - we can supply bulk Romanians and Bulgarians. We supply only quality candidates, so we can offer a unique a money-back guarantee that they'll speak and write English, be polite, and turn up on time. Why run the risk of sourcing your make-weights locally?"
As predicted here by yours truly, May or June 2010, to much derision from Labour posters, IIRC. Only Hopi Sen - the thinking man's lefty - was smart enough to see the point.
Osborne has changed the terms of political trade in the UK, probably for ever.
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/wahlkreisergebnisse/l11/wk075/index.html
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/09/22/the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-labour-policy/
It's the Tories who are going to ask the police to investigate. Let's hope it's quicker than Plebgate...
CCHQ Press Office @RicHolden
From @sajidjavid (1/2): 'Ed Balls knows this is not allowed under the OBR's charter, so this is just a stunt...'
Instead the financial services industry now regards itself as more important than either the savers or the businesses.
Indeed much of the financial services would prefer to dispense with both the savers and businesses and instead attempt to make money out of thin air.
Doubtless this activity would make various executives rich and leave the rest of us with the bailout costs.
OBR's chote tells FT the @edballsmp plan to get OBR to audit Labour's tax/spend manifesto policy need "cross party support". Empty promise?
shambles ?
but dealing in facts not your strongest point is it whine merchant
Cousin Seth appears to be wholly absorbed in enjoying his honeymoon in Cleethorpes with his new wife and digital camera.
The reference to Piers Morgan and phone hacking is unacceptable and is why your comment was moderated.
A bid by Chote for additional resources.
He fears Roger's innumerate musings over a latte at the Old Compton Street Patisserie Valerie will not withstand the scrutiny of a general election campaign.
Balls looks 2 OBR 2 help deal with Labour rep of profligacy but OBR chief Chote says it will cost asks Parly 2 decide http://on.ft.com/1b52IMR
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The right of residence for more than three months remains subject to certain conditions. Applicants must:
either be engaged in economic activity (on an employed or self-employed basis);
or have sufficient resources and sickness insurance to ensure that they do not become a burden on the social services of the host Member State during their stay. The Member States may not specify a minimum amount which they deem sufficient, but they must take account of personal circumstances;
or be following vocational training as a student and have sufficient resources and sickness insurance to ensure that they do not become a burden on the social services of the host Member State during their stay;
or be a family member of a Union citizen who falls into one of the above categories.
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/justice_freedom_security/free_movement_of_persons_asylum_immigration/l33152_en.htm
Christopher Snowdon @cjsnowdon
'Labour will stop benefit if parents refuse MMR'. What next from Miliband's wheel of random policy-making?
What's going on is very clear: Osborne, slightly ahead of me, rightly anticipated in 2010 that Labour would seek to get their plans endorsed by the OBR, and therefore blocked that possibility when he set up the OBR.
A smart move. A very smart move. Labour will of course have to reverse it if they do form the next government.
The other possibility is that the scheme is unworkable due to the ability of companies to claim that anyone is an apprentice.
So EdM and his team have had three years to dream up new policies and 1st big one they announce breaches EU law #edmishambles
Regardless of the bona fide intent of the policy.
Current: Union 42.9%, left-wing parties 41.5%.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/article2481811.ece#tab-4
But to link an unrelated social benefit payment to a discretionary medical treatment option appears dubious on legal grounds.
Another option might be to make MMR vaccination compulsory.
In any case, why withdraw benefits? Why not simply make it illegal and prosecute? In my view, the Government has no right discriminating against people for doing something that is not illegal.
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/de/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/wahlkreisergebnisse/l05/wk132/index.html
'The “Cost of Living Crisis” Is Labour Policy
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/09/22/the-cost-of-living-crisis-is-labour-policy/
So Labour's strategy is wage increases and much higher unemployment..
Too far too fast- fail,double dip recession- fail,triple dip recession - fail, 4 million unemployed - fail,welfare cuts -fail,benefits cap-fail.
Currently, the BBC spends a lot of money employing professional interviewers. Mr Miliband was determined to prove that this was unnecessary. He did it in two ways. First, by ignoring Andrew Marr’s questions; second, by asking himself questions of his own, which he would then answer. Today the questions he asked himself included, “Who is best placed to tackle the standard-of-living crisis the country faces?”, “Is there a party that can tackle that?”, “What sort of set of priorities is that?”, “Why is it so important?” and (twice) “Now, why do I say that?”
As a helpless Marr looked on, gloomily reflecting on his own obsolescence, Mr Miliband grilled himself rigorously, probing and probing, fearlessly asking himself questions from which lesser interviewers would have flinched. Unfortunately there isn’t space here to transcribe the Self-Interview in full, but essentially it went as follows. >> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10326820/Sketch-Forget-FrostNixon-heres-MilibandMiliband.html
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/status/status_b_99.html
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/wahlkreisergebnisse/l06/wk171/index.html
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/status/
Are you sure the OBR are up to validating manifesto plans?
I find their monthly commentaries on the Public Sector Finances hasty and opaque. This is partly because the attempt to produce a commentary in two and half hours from the ONS publication is unnecessarily restrictive.
It is also in part due to ONS PSF bulletin being opaque and disorganised itself. A fact which the ONS have recognised and are moving slowly to change.
But mostly due to lack of resource (and access to ONS and government ministries?) within the OBR.
Maybe a way of sorting this out would be for the OBR to became an independent branch of the OECD. This would both bolster its independence and give it ad hoc access to all the resource it could possibly use in Paris.
It's A1 bonkers, a policy which makes no sense whatsoever, either for those who think parents should be able to decide whether or not their children get the jab, or for those who think they shouldn't.
'Ed Miliband has come up with a brilliant way of helping the BBC save money. It’s called the Self-Interview'
Ed didn't manage to answer a single question,just a rambling incoherent monologue,can't wait for Paxman.
Tom hates Bob. Ed doesn’t have much faith in Iain. Tim has a political tin ear. Anna’s the fixer who doesn’t fix it. Greg is in exile and behaving like it. Torsten wants discipline but puts the Shadow Cabinet’s backs up.
Nobody is quite sure what Jon’s up to, particularly when he’s “thinking” in his new place in the West of Ireland. And there aren’t enough hours in the day for Stewart to sort it all out. When in doubt, they blame the Blairites.
Welcome to Ed Miliband’s inner circle, the group who must now hold the ring for what is shaping up to be a fractious five-day Labour family gathering by the seaside, starting today...In recent months, the adjectives about Mr Miliband’s operation have started to echo those used about Gordon Brown’s Downing Street team, with talk of “guerrilla warfare” between some shadow ministerial offices and “decision-making malaise”. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/conference/article3875246.ece
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/wahlkreisergebnisse/l15/wk072/index.html
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/en/bundestagswahlen/BTW_BUND_13/ergebnisse/wahlkreisergebnisse/l11/wk082/index.html