As I understand it (though I could be wrong) it means that if you work, say, as a British Gas engineer from home your working day begins when you leave home to drive to your first appointment, rather than when you arrive, as it was British Gas that made the appointment and arranged the allocated time-slot, and you travel there as a representative of British Gas. A commute is different as that is you just going to work.
Yes, that seems to be what the court is saying, and I can't see how one could argue against it. It is, after all, completely consistent with the treatment of travel expenses and IIRC also with the health & safety responsibility of the employer.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
The morning thread will discuss this.
The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
The risk in leaving it is that somehow Corbyn becomes popular and can then dismiss the attacks as nothing more than smears. It's a small risk, but it does exist. A departure after eighteen months and yet another leadership contest would surely suit the Tories.
So if you work too long, simply move further away and you can replace hours of work with time sleeping on the train .
In some jobs, e.g. rail work, time spent travelling to work is counted as 'work time' for the purposes of working hours. There have been incidents and near-misses where people have worked over their allotted hours when you count travel. For safety-related jobs, it's a good idea. For everything else, no.
Does that mean that people get paid for the time spent travelling to work?? If I am allowed by working time directive to work 48 hours then we must presume I do and get paid for 48 hours work. If I spend 1hr per day travelling to work - each way - then that is 10 hours per week I am not allowed to earn money out of my 48hr working week. Someone living 5 mins way round the corner effectively still get 48 hrs pay compared to my 38 hours. Unless my company pay me 48hrs pay for 38hrs work. Is there something lost in interpreting this regulation?
As I understand it (though I could be wrong) it means that if you work, say, as a British Gas engineer from home your working day begins when you leave home to drive to your first appointment, rather than when you arrive, as it was British Gas that made the appointment and arranged the allocated time-slot, and you travel there as a representative of British Gas. A commute is different as that is you just going to work.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
He's more the Jerry Sadowitz of left wing politics. Likely to get his lights punched out by an audience member...
But the latter is much much more damaging because he would effectively be saying that, even though there is a risk to Britain and British citizens, he will not authorise the action designed to keep them safe.
"LOTO refuses to keep Britain safe from terrorists" is not a voter-winning headline for Labour.
It doesn't matter the only thing the public will hear is "Corbyn would spare their lives". The nuances of the issue are irrelevant.
The Tories are basically playing politics on "Easy" level now:
He's not wrong.
"Mr Corbyn questioned whether the RAF airstrike which killed Khan and a fellow UK jihadist Ruhul Amin was legal and confirmed he would not have authorised the attack."
That's the 11% opinion, the Tories have the 66%.
So is he saying that he would not have authorised an illegal attack - which I think would also be Cameron's position - or is he saying that, even if legal, he still would not have authorised?
Either will do, the public aren't fretting about the rights of ISIS terrorists.
But the latter is much much more damaging because he would effectively be saying that, even though there is a risk to Britain and British citizens, he will not authorise the action designed to keep them safe.
"LOTO refuses to keep Britain safe from terrorists" is not a voter-winning headline for Labour.
"LOTO refuses to keep Britain safe from his terrorist friends" is nearer to how it will be played out.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
You mean the Tom Watson modus operandi approach to sullying your opponents? #McAlpine
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
The morning thread will discuss this.
The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
Stories should be peppered out over the next 4 years, so by the time we get to the pre-campaign period of the 2020GE his credibility is shot to shreds.
Then they go in hard, very hard, with the full salvos over the last 6 months. As soon as the last Labour conference is out of the way.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
The morning thread will discuss this.
The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
The risk in leaving it is that somehow Corbyn becomes popular and can then dismiss the attacks as nothing more than smears. It's a small risk, but it does exist. A departure after eighteen months and yet another leadership contest would surely suit the Tories.
Smears are not smears if they're true. Particularly if Corbyn is basking in them. If he can be popular while he's doing that then the Tories have lost the argument anyway.
Probably the bigger risk for the Tories is becoming too fixated on Corbyn and his nutcase associates and failing to make the positive case for their own policies, only to find that Labour neutralise the attacks by dumping Corbyn, putting the Tories behind the game against a fresh new Labour leader (even allowing for there being a fresh new Tory leader too).
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
You mean the Tom Watson modus operandi approach to sullying your opponents? #McAlpine
Saw an article in the Speccy earlier about how Tom Watson could be Labour's saviour. If Tom Watson is the answer, you're asking the wrong feckin' question.
Just been having a debate on Twitter with an intelligent europhile who hadn't worked out why mass Syrian/3rd World migration into Sweden/Germany was a problem for his side in the euroref.
He hadn't worked out that Free Movement means they can come here, in time.
If that's the calibre of europhile thinking the INNERS have a big problem.
This seems to be one of those occasions where the more "intelligent" someone apparently is the more stupid they are when it comes to noticing the obvious.
Intelligence does not equal being correct or more likely to reach the right conclusion, only that you have a very good innate ability to learn. But that doesn't mean it's consistently exercised.
In Sweden, before the war, the educated elites though euthanasia was a jolly good thing.
Intelligent people tend to think they have no prejudices when, in fact, they do, it's just they are more sophisticated in their explanation of those so they end up both sounding like they are rationalised positions and, through that, convincing themselves that they are too.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
The morning thread will discuss this.
The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
The risk in leaving it is that somehow Corbyn becomes popular and can then dismiss the attacks as nothing more than smears. It's a small risk, but it does exist. A departure after eighteen months and yet another leadership contest would surely suit the Tories.
Smears are not smears if they're true. Particularly if Corbyn is basking in them. If he can be popular while he's doing that then the Tories have lost the argument anyway.
Probably the bigger risk for the Tories is becoming too fixated on Corbyn and his nutcase associates and failing to make the positive case for their own policies, only to find that Labour neutralise the attacks by dumping Corbyn, putting the Tories behind the game against a fresh new Labour leader (even allowing for there being a fresh new Tory leader too).
Very good point. The Tories sailed dangerously close to the wind with Miliband on that in the last parliament, IMHO.
Just been having a debate on Twitter with an intelligent europhile who hadn't worked out why mass Syrian/3rd World migration into Sweden/Germany was a problem for his side in the euroref.
He hadn't worked out that Free Movement means they can come here, in time.
If that's the calibre of europhile thinking the INNERS have a big problem.
This seems to be one of those occasions where the more "intelligent" someone apparently is the more stupid they are when it comes to noticing the obvious.
Intelligence does not equal being correct or more likely to reach the right conclusion, only that you have a very good innate ability to learn. But that doesn't mean it's consistently exercised.
In Sweden, before the war, the educated elites though euthanasia was a jolly good thing.
Intelligent people tend to think they have no prejudices when, in fact, they do, it's just they are more sophisticated in their explanation of those so they end up both sounding like they are rationalised positions and, through that, convincing themselves that they are too.
Remember the poll which showed 29% wanted to allow zero Syrian refugees into the country and which Newsnight and Channel 4 News found so objectionable? Well actually those 29% know perfectly well that if the official target was zero the reality would be tens of thousands at least, because that's how the real world works. There's always a substantial gap between the official target and what actually happens. Ordinary people are smart enough to realise that, others not so.
I have heard the Tory strategy will be use House of Commons privilege and accuse associates of Corbyn of being anti-semites/anti British etc then that will give the media the cover to go medieval on Corbyn
What's worse, Corbyn will KEEP giving them material. He's 66 years old. He's not going to change his views now. And what's more, he likes virtue signalling. He's a moral narcissist, so he will want to parade his "braver" views, to bask in the adoration of his fellow Trots - and he will be Leader of the Opposition, so he will have ample scope.
And some of his material will be pretty fecking outrageous, not fit for TV. Jeremy Corbyn: the Roy "Chubby" Brown of left wing politics. Discuss.
The morning thread will discuss this.
The only issue is the Tories do it now, or risk Labour removing him, or wait closer to the Genera election?
The risk in leaving it is that somehow Corbyn becomes popular and can then dismiss the attacks as nothing more than smears. It's a small risk, but it does exist. A departure after eighteen months and yet another leadership contest would surely suit the Tories.
I disagree. Another leadership contest in 2021 filled with recriminations would be best for the Tories.
Their tactic should be to launch a flurry of criticism now, so that he is quickly defined in the UK public's mind but too soon to be replaced, let him recover a bit in the polls so that he stays, and then leave off until late 2018.
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Just been having a debate on Twitter with an intelligent europhile who hadn't worked out why mass Syrian/3rd World migration into Sweden/Germany was a problem for his side in the euroref.
He hadn't worked out that Free Movement means they can come here, in time.
If that's the calibre of europhile thinking the INNERS have a big problem.
This seems to be one of those occasions where the more "intelligent" someone apparently is the more stupid they are when it comes to noticing the obvious.
Intelligence does not equal being correct or more likely to reach the right conclusion, only that you have a very good innate ability to learn. But that doesn't mean it's consistently exercised.
In Sweden, before the war, the educated elites though euthanasia was a jolly good thing.
Intelligent people tend to think they have no prejudices when, in fact, they do, it's just they are more sophisticated in their explanation of those so they end up both sounding like they are rationalised positions and, through that, convincing themselves that they are too.
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
By the point she will retract there will be several million on the ground in Europe. It would take a level of mobilisation equivalent to the D-Day landings to send even half of them back.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
By the point she will retract there will be several million on the ground in Europe. It would take a level of mobilisation equivalent to the D-Day landings to send even half of them back.
Yes. I can't see how it could possibly be allowed to be otherwise. So far as our establishment/security services go, Corbyn has got 'security risk' written all over him. There is absolutely no way he will be allowed to be a potential PM.
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Perhaps its fate that day is the 12th of Septmber, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution - but from Austerity. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 12th of September will no longer be known as a Labour Party holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"
NFL starts tonight - Steelers at Patriots. Tom Brady in search of redemption and they unveil their Super Bowl banner. NFL Sunday Ticket starts this weekend, with the amazing Red Zone Channel. America's Team host the Giants on the NBC Sunday Night game.
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I still have not visited Jerry World, something I need to rectify soon.
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
Well, that depends how many have already upped sticks and are on their way.
1 million? 10 million?
'Ach, but you kant come here, I only zaid 800,000'
Merkel's probably made one of the worst decisions and announcements by a European politician, ever.
Just been having a debate on Twitter with an intelligent europhile who hadn't worked out why mass Syrian/3rd World migration into Sweden/Germany was a problem for his side in the euroref.
He hadn't worked out that Free Movement means they can come here, in time.
If that's the calibre of europhile thinking the INNERS have a big problem.
This seems to be one of those occasions where the more "intelligent" someone apparently is the more stupid they are when it comes to noticing the obvious.
Intelligence does not equal being correct or more likely to reach the right conclusion, only that you have a very good innate ability to learn. But that doesn't mean it's consistently exercised.
In Sweden, before the war, the educated elites though euthanasia was a jolly good thing.
Intelligent people tend to think they have no prejudices when, in fact, they do, it's just they are more sophisticated in their explanation of those so they end up both sounding like they are rationalised positions and, through that, convincing themselves that they are too.
Remember the poll which showed 29% wanted to allow zero Syrian refugees into the country and which Newsnight and Channel 4 News found so objectionable? Well actually those 29% know perfectly well that if the official target was zero the reality would be tens of thousands at least, because that's how the real world works. There's always a substantial gap between the official target and what actually happens. Ordinary people are smart enough to realise that, others not so.
What links 'ordinary' and intelligent people together, if it's not too patronising to put it that way, is social proof.
Intelligence people tend to hang around with other intelligent people and will tend to socially prove themselves for social acceptance within their own peer group, with its attitudes and perspectives, and against others. It usually ends in brandishing 'ordinary' people as bigoted, or stupid.
I wonder if it was as much as £10 that caused Abbott's odds to shorten. Sometimes people need to remember just how little money is bet on politics in this country compared to racing, football or even the forthcoming Rugby World Cup.
I don't have a dog in the Labour leadership race either - I've got better things to spend £3 on. I will be fascinated to see how Corbyn reacts to victory - if memory serves, Michael Foot had stood against Callaghan after Wilson's resignation so the expectation wasn't perhaps the same.
The process has been shambolic and the degree to which that weakens the legitimacy of any successful candidate will depend on the margin of victory. I've talked about Corbyn before - I believe his weakness will be the inability to adapt to the quickfire, media driven atmosphere of modern politics.
The direction of Labour between now and 2020 is harder to fathom - the evolution of more combative and distinctive policies seems likely and it may be that audacity and credibility will become strange bedfellows in Labour going forward. None of that is unreasonable - parties should think the unthinkable. After all, no one thought much of monetarism or privatisation in Conservative ranks for many years as the Party was wedded to Butskellism.
The Conservatives, as this week has shown, have problems of their own on a number of issues and the inevitable midterm dip (or slump) in popularity may give Labour a boost and as I opined this morning, given we are barely four months into a sixty month electoral cycle, attempting to define the look of the world in 2019-20 now is a thankless task indeed.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
''I've talked about Corbyn before - I believe his weakness will be the inability to adapt to the quickfire, media driven atmosphere of modern politics.''
B8llocks. Corbyns beliefs and policies are his weakness.
Yes. I can't see how it could possibly be allowed to be otherwise. So far as our establishment/security services go, Corbyn has got 'security risk' written all over him. There is absolutely no way he will be allowed to be a potential PM.
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
Well, that depends how many have already upped sticks and are on their way.
1 million? 10 million?
'Ach, but you kant come here, I only zaid 800,000'
Merkel's probably made one of the worst decisions and announcements by a European politician, ever.
And to announce it without agreement with the EU demonstrates an arrogance that is undemocratic and shows all that is wrong in the EU
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
Well, the writ has to be moved. So the window is smaller.
Probably the bigger risk for the Tories is becoming too fixated on Corbyn and his nutcase associates and failing to make the positive case for their own policies, only to find that Labour neutralise the attacks by dumping Corbyn, putting the Tories behind the game against a fresh new Labour leader (even allowing for there being a fresh new Tory leader too).
Clive Lewis will swoop in and take over from Corbyn about a year before the election. He's a lefty economically and also a bit "doveish" on foreign policy, but has (a) served in the Army so it would literally be impossible for the Tories to paint him as "anti-British", and (b) is more charismatic than Corbyn.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
We could still have 100+ by-election this year - if enough Labour MP's resign in disgust at LOTO Corbyn....
"B8llocks. Corbyns beliefs and policies are his weakness."
If people voted on policy then Labour would have won in May (majorities agreed with most of their flagship policies). They didn't because they didn't seem fit to govern and Ed Miliband wasn't prime minister-like.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
O/T From this weeks Popbitch: Every day, the BBC updates its Papers Review blog – a page which includes a picture of the front page of each of the UK's major national newspapers.
But someone ought to be a bit more careful where they source these pictures from. The images are accurate, but the filenames can sometimes be a little... well, let's say injudicious.
This week saw these filenames appear. See if you can guess which is which:
@MSmithsonPB: So I didn't after all get a LAB leadership vote. I want my £3 back.
"Those Labour Leadership candidates you sold me, they won't mate. They just walk around, pontificating, and not mating. You sold me... queer candidates. I want my £3 back."
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
Well, that depends how many have already upped sticks and are on their way.
1 million? 10 million?
'Ach, but you kant come here, I only zaid 800,000'
Merkel's probably made one of the worst decisions and announcements by a European politician, ever.
The ultimate self flagellation. A German leader inviting close on a million Asian refugees whose men have fondness for blue eyed blondes into the country
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Probably the bigger risk for the Tories is becoming too fixated on Corbyn and his nutcase associates and failing to make the positive case for their own policies, only to find that Labour neutralise the attacks by dumping Corbyn, putting the Tories behind the game against a fresh new Labour leader (even allowing for there being a fresh new Tory leader too).
Clive Lewis will swoop in and take over from Corbyn about a year before the election. He's a lefty economically and also a bit "doveish" on foreign policy, but has (a) served in the Army so it would literally be impossible for the Tories to paint him as "anti-British", and (b) is more charismatic than Corbyn.
This Clive Lewis? I think Angela Merkel just killed his chances....
"“On the record, I’ve questioned our rhetoric on immigration… I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for immigration and the fact that my dad came from the West Indies. Everything this country has done for me I am so grateful for and I’ve made the most of it. I don’t think that should be denied to others who want to come here and contribute to our economy and society”.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
I had Cooper down as a winner in the Election game based on two main considerations: 1. Take no notice of the tw*ttersphere, especially with regard to "leftie" issues. 2. A friend who's a Labour activists says that, when he asks his mates how they're going to vote, JC is markedly less poplar that YC and AB.
Not very scientific approach, I know, - and almost certainly wrong, it would appear. Oh well, at least I haven't staked any money on the outcome...
But I have been wondering lately how people see the vote share for other parties being affected if JC is installed as leader? To me, it would look like the Conservatives, Ukip and the LibDems should benefit but maybe the Greens could lose a few votes?
''I've talked about Corbyn before - I believe his weakness will be the inability to adapt to the quickfire, media driven atmosphere of modern politics.''
B8llocks. Corbyns beliefs and policies are his weakness.
Wrong. We don't know the extent to which Corbyn, as leader, will "allow" his beliefs and policies to become those of the Party. It's perfectly possible that, in order to maintain party unity, he will tack toward some of the elements of the Brown/Miliband era.
The same will be true for the next Conservative Party leader - he or she will need to accommodate those who did not vote with David Cameron in the EU Referendum as an example.
O/T From this weeks Popbitch: Every day, the BBC updates its Papers Review blog – a page which includes a picture of the front page of each of the UK's major national newspapers.
But someone ought to be a bit more careful where they source these pictures from. The images are accurate, but the filenames can sometimes be a little... well, let's say injudicious.
This week saw these filenames appear. See if you can guess which is which:
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
But realistically about a month for something to "happen" which results in a 2015 by-election...
What's the betting on a Tory 50% poll in this parliament? One can dream.....
"Listen to me. Learn from me. I was not the best because I won elections quickly. I was the best because the Selectorate loved me. Win the Selectorate, and you will win your freedom."
Coupled with Hillary losing to Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire in the polls, keep an eye on November 27th, the filing deadline to participate in the N.H. primary, in fact 15 states have filing deadlines before the end of the year, so Biden will have to make a decision by then.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
But realistically about a month for something to "happen" which results in a 2015 by-election...
According to Wiki:
Longest period without a by-election[edit]
All periods of over a year between by-elections are listed: 20 November 1997 - 10 June 1999: 567 days 7 November 1991 - 6 May 1993: 546 days 12 March 1987 - 14 July 1988: 489 days 14 February 2002 - 18 June 2003: 489 days 12 November 2009 - 13 January 2011: 427 days 23 May 1974 - 26 June 1975: 399 days 18 June 2003 - 15 July 2004: 393 days 29 June 2006 - 19 July 2007: 385 days
1992, 1998 and 2010 are the only calendar years in history without a single by-election. Since 1992 and 2010 were nonetheless general election years, 1998 stands as the only year in British history without any parliamentary election.
As I understand it (though I could be wrong) it means that if you work, say, as a British Gas engineer from home your working day begins when you leave home to drive to your first appointment, rather than when you arrive, as it was British Gas that made the appointment and arranged the allocated time-slot, and you travel there as a representative of British Gas. A commute is different as that is you just going to work.
Yes, that seems to be what the court is saying, and I can't see how one could argue against it. It is, after all, completely consistent with the treatment of travel expenses and IIRC also with the health & safety responsibility of the employer.
It's a perfectly sensible decision. It only affects those without a fixed place of work.
I know care workers who provide support where they spend a large chunk of their time travelling to customers' (clients' ?) homes. And yet they're only on the system for the 30 mns they spend there.
It will also allow progress on employers who abuse the "place of work" provisions in different ways, such as rotating it, which was being obscured by this issue.
So if you work too long, simply move further away and you can replace hours of work with time sleeping on the train .
In some jobs, e.g. rail work, time spent travelling to work is counted as 'work time' for the purposes of working hours. There have been incidents and near-misses where people have worked over their allotted hours when you count travel.
For safety-related jobs, it's a good idea. For everything else, no.
Does that mean that contracts can stipulate how close you live?
Or that asking the question becomes illegal in interviews?
I've wondered about that in the past, but I'm not in that industry. I think it means the employer has to factor in time to get to the workplace. From what I've read, the regulations stipulate a certain maximum time - say twelve hours - and the shift patterns are somewhat less - say ten hours, to account for this.
In the case of train drivers who can start or end a shift in a different town from their home, that can mean the railway company puts them up in hotels (or there used to be railway-run hostels, I've no idea if they've gone with privatisation).
Note IANAE, but I believe the above is about right.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
But realistically about a month for something to "happen" which results in a 2015 by-election...
According to Wiki:
Longest period without a by-election[edit]
All periods of over a year between by-elections are listed: 20 November 1997 - 10 June 1999: 567 days 7 November 1991 - 6 May 1993: 546 days 12 March 1987 - 14 July 1988: 489 days 14 February 2002 - 18 June 2003: 489 days 12 November 2009 - 13 January 2011: 427 days 23 May 1974 - 26 June 1975: 399 days 18 June 2003 - 15 July 2004: 393 days 29 June 2006 - 19 July 2007: 385 days
1992, 1998 and 2010 are the only calendar years in history without a single by-election. Since 1992 and 2010 were nonetheless general election years, 1998 stands as the only year in British history without any parliamentary election.
And it was just before House of Lords by elections too! Wonder if those would have counted.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
But realistically about a month for something to "happen" which results in a 2015 by-election...
According to Wiki:
Longest period without a by-election[edit]
All periods of over a year between by-elections are listed: 20 November 1997 - 10 June 1999: 567 days 7 November 1991 - 6 May 1993: 546 days 12 March 1987 - 14 July 1988: 489 days 14 February 2002 - 18 June 2003: 489 days 12 November 2009 - 13 January 2011: 427 days 23 May 1974 - 26 June 1975: 399 days 18 June 2003 - 15 July 2004: 393 days 29 June 2006 - 19 July 2007: 385 days
1992, 1998 and 2010 are the only calendar years in history without a single by-election. Since 1992 and 2010 were nonetheless general election years, 1998 stands as the only year in British history without any parliamentary election.
I wrote most of that myself, and forgot about 2010! Must be brain-softening...
I heard that Baghdad has accepted Germany's kind offer of citizenship and the population are on their way. May be far fetched but what on earth has Merkel done and at what point will she be forced to retract and how can she retract.
Well, that depends how many have already upped sticks and are on their way.
1 million? 10 million?
'Ach, but you kant come here, I only zaid 800,000'
Merkel's probably made one of the worst decisions and announcements by a European politician, ever.
I think "Let's split Poland between us; nobody will do anything about it" is also a contender.
Also by a German as it happens. Arrogance is a feature, not a bug.
I thought that was a photo of a Danish motorway at first
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Wouldn't have thought so in the little by elections... No one bothers voting in them Except die hards do they? I'd have thought a Westminster by election would see them doing well though
Looks like 2015 will join 1992 and 1998 as the only years in history without a by-election...
Still over three months to go...
But realistically about a month for something to "happen" which results in a 2015 by-election...
According to Wiki:
Longest period without a by-election[edit]
All periods of over a year between by-elections are listed: 20 November 1997 - 10 June 1999: 567 days 7 November 1991 - 6 May 1993: 546 days 12 March 1987 - 14 July 1988: 489 days 14 February 2002 - 18 June 2003: 489 days 12 November 2009 - 13 January 2011: 427 days 23 May 1974 - 26 June 1975: 399 days 18 June 2003 - 15 July 2004: 393 days 29 June 2006 - 19 July 2007: 385 days
1992, 1998 and 2010 are the only calendar years in history without a single by-election. Since 1992 and 2010 were nonetheless general election years, 1998 stands as the only year in British history without any parliamentary election.
I wrote most of that myself, and forgot about 2010! Must be brain-softening...
Figures from the House of Commons Library show that between 1979 and [2011], the average time between an MP's death and the subsequent by-election - or general election in cases where there was no by-election - has been 73 days.
In Feltham and Heston it was 35 days, making it the third 'quickest' by election in 33 years
What's the betting on a Tory 50% poll in this parliament? One can dream.....
I have a feeling we'll all be disappointed at how relatively 'normal' polling is, with Tory leads for a bit, Labour then getting decent (but not necessarily high enough for an opposition) leads, which if are not decent enough will lead possibly to an ousting.
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They are asking me who I admire the most, Cameron or Thatcher.
Grrr.
Labour, Labour, Labour - what have you done?
Then they go in hard, very hard, with the full salvos over the last 6 months. As soon as the last Labour conference is out of the way.
https://twitter.com/martindaubney/status/641939017051803648
Probably the bigger risk for the Tories is becoming too fixated on Corbyn and his nutcase associates and failing to make the positive case for their own policies, only to find that Labour neutralise the attacks by dumping Corbyn, putting the Tories behind the game against a fresh new Labour leader (even allowing for there being a fresh new Tory leader too).
If Tom Watson is the answer, you're asking the wrong feckin' question.
1 Kendall
2 Cooper
3 Corbyn
4 Burnham
https://twitter.com/dailymailuk/status/641984240989675522
In Sweden, before the war, the educated elites though euthanasia was a jolly good thing.
Intelligent people tend to think they have no prejudices when, in fact, they do, it's just they are more sophisticated in their explanation of those so they end up both sounding like they are rationalised positions and, through that, convincing themselves that they are too.
He rates Burnham as highly as a I rate Mark Reckless.
The thread headers during the Burnham leadership would have been fun.
Sweden democrats now ahead in a second poll - hopefully now they'll stop criticising useless foreign polling companies. Roll on the eurosceptics...
The Tory PM that privatised so many industries and signed the Single European Act got my vote in the end.
Do you think the Syria/immigration crisis will perk up UKIP's electoral fortunes?
Their tactic should be to launch a flurry of criticism now, so that he is quickly defined in the UK public's mind but too soon to be replaced, let him recover a bit in the polls so that he stays, and then leave off until late 2018.
Especially when Corbs rolls out his immigration policy, I guess.
Mind Bleach!
That's going to stick with me for days now.
Sadly as I see it.
http://thebackbencher.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ed-balls.jpg
Perhaps its fate that day is the 12th of Septmber, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom, not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution - but from Austerity. We're fighting for our right to live, to exist.
And should we win the day, the 12th of September will no longer be known as a Labour Party holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice:
"We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive!"
The day, we celebrate our Independence Day!
The unwatchable exhibition games are finally over! I can't wait!
I still have not visited Jerry World, something I need to rectify soon.
Carrie Underwood is back with the theme song....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdS5vkADA0I
1 million? 10 million?
'Ach, but you kant come here, I only zaid 800,000'
Merkel's probably made one of the worst decisions and announcements by a European politician, ever.
Intelligence people tend to hang around with other intelligent people and will tend to socially prove themselves for social acceptance within their own peer group, with its attitudes and perspectives, and against others. It usually ends in brandishing 'ordinary' people as bigoted, or stupid.
It's human nature.
I wonder if it was as much as £10 that caused Abbott's odds to shorten. Sometimes people need to remember just how little money is bet on politics in this country compared to racing, football or even the forthcoming Rugby World Cup.
I don't have a dog in the Labour leadership race either - I've got better things to spend £3 on. I will be fascinated to see how Corbyn reacts to victory - if memory serves, Michael Foot had stood against Callaghan after Wilson's resignation so the expectation wasn't perhaps the same.
The process has been shambolic and the degree to which that weakens the legitimacy of any successful candidate will depend on the margin of victory. I've talked about Corbyn before - I believe his weakness will be the inability to adapt to the quickfire, media driven atmosphere of modern politics.
The direction of Labour between now and 2020 is harder to fathom - the evolution of more combative and distinctive policies seems likely and it may be that audacity and credibility will become strange bedfellows in Labour going forward. None of that is unreasonable - parties should think the unthinkable. After all, no one thought much of monetarism or privatisation in Conservative ranks for many years as the Party was wedded to Butskellism.
The Conservatives, as this week has shown, have problems of their own on a number of issues and the inevitable midterm dip (or slump) in popularity may give Labour a boost and as I opined this morning, given we are barely four months into a sixty month electoral cycle, attempting to define the look of the world in 2019-20 now is a thankless task indeed.
B8llocks. Corbyns beliefs and policies are his weakness.
If people voted on policy then Labour would have won in May (majorities agreed with most of their flagship policies). They didn't because they didn't seem fit to govern and Ed Miliband wasn't prime minister-like.
Every day, the BBC updates its
Papers Review blog – a page which
includes a picture of the front
page of each of the UK's major
national newspapers.
But someone ought to be a bit
more careful where they source
these pictures from. The images
are accurate, but the filenames
can sometimes be a little...
well, let's say injudicious.
This week saw these filenames
appear. See if you can guess
which is which:
...thescumfrontpage050915(1).jpg
...torygraf.jpg
...heil.jpg
...getsworse.jpg
...durt.jpg
...moron.jpg
...stahhhhh.jpg
"“On the record, I’ve questioned our rhetoric on immigration… I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for immigration and the fact that my dad came from the West Indies. Everything this country has done for me I am so grateful for and I’ve made the most of it. I don’t think that should be denied to others who want to come here and contribute to our economy and society”.
http://www.concrete-online.co.uk/interview-clive-lewis-labour-candidate-for-norwich-south/
1. Take no notice of the tw*ttersphere, especially with regard to "leftie" issues.
2. A friend who's a Labour activists says that, when he asks his mates how they're going to vote, JC is markedly less poplar that YC and AB.
Not very scientific approach, I know, - and almost certainly wrong, it would appear. Oh well, at least I haven't staked any money on the outcome...
But I have been wondering lately how people see the vote share for other parties being affected if JC is installed as leader? To me, it would look like the Conservatives, Ukip and the LibDems should benefit but maybe the Greens could lose a few votes?
"Why is he standing? Maybe it's on his bucket list."
The same will be true for the next Conservative Party leader - he or she will need to accommodate those who did not vote with David Cameron in the EU Referendum as an example.
Executive summary: Tessa or Sadiq will win, not at all clear which.
ROFL. Yeh right, if it wasn;t for those short attention span f8ckwit voters, labour would have won...
You were right all along...
2nd poll today showing Trump's going up even more and 3rd poll that shows him beating Hillary.
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/polls/emerson-college-polling-society-22699
Coupled with Hillary losing to Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire in the polls, keep an eye on November 27th, the filing deadline to participate in the N.H. primary, in fact 15 states have filing deadlines before the end of the year, so Biden will have to make a decision by then.
http://ballotpedia.org/Important_dates_in_the_2016_presidential_race
Longest period without a by-election[edit]
All periods of over a year between by-elections are listed:
20 November 1997 - 10 June 1999: 567 days
7 November 1991 - 6 May 1993: 546 days
12 March 1987 - 14 July 1988: 489 days
14 February 2002 - 18 June 2003: 489 days
12 November 2009 - 13 January 2011: 427 days
23 May 1974 - 26 June 1975: 399 days
18 June 2003 - 15 July 2004: 393 days
29 June 2006 - 19 July 2007: 385 days
1992, 1998 and 2010 are the only calendar years in history without a single by-election. Since 1992 and 2010 were nonetheless general election years, 1998 stands as the only year in British history without any parliamentary election.
I know care workers who provide support where they spend a large chunk of their time travelling to customers' (clients' ?) homes. And yet they're only on the system for the 30 mns they spend there.
It will also allow progress on employers who abuse the "place of work" provisions in different ways, such as rotating it, which was being obscured by this issue.
In the case of train drivers who can start or end a shift in a different town from their home, that can mean the railway company puts them up in hotels (or there used to be railway-run hostels, I've no idea if they've gone with privatisation).
Note IANAE, but I believe the above is about right.
Edit: or maybe not: see appendix B of http://orr.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/2867/managing_rail_fatigue.pdf
Must be brain-softening...
If you are correct then that will be a huge disappointment to those who are backing him. But as you say, we will see.
Also by a German as it happens. Arrogance is a feature, not a bug.
In Feltham and Heston it was 35 days, making it the third 'quickest' by election in 33 years
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16214243