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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
It's time to break up this country
Very diverse.
Is the Northern Powerhouse still a thing?
Surprise!
Government suggests planned national living wage increase could be shelved if economy falters
Government suggests planned national living wage increase could be shelved if economy falters
it makes sense. If wages stagnate, do not rise in line with inflation or even fall between now and then, the minimum wage would be (relatively) too high. I expect most legislative to have detail like this.
While true it's worth remembering that a)Tories promised rise in minimum wage b) stagnating wages are the consequences of successive tory governments c)inflation is a direct consequence of current tory policy.
So while it makes sense it also makes sense to blame those responsible for it. Especially when they promised something else less than a 10 days ago.
its just contingency though. If the economic conditions are met, they they deliver that wage rate, can’t see the problem. Nothing to concern ourselves with to be frank.
Are you under the impression that if they don't put that statement in they'll be forced to implement it? What exactly is the contingency? Why is said statement not applicable to the other policies in the document.
The bill is for a relative increase by the looks of it not a set amount so it's not a contingency incase inflation lags. If anything families need a catch up from sluggish growth anyway.
Besides, Brexit is done so the economy is going to thrive Boris was very clear on this.
Zac Goldsmith handed peerage to keep environment minister role
Zac Goldsmith, who lost his seat as MP for Richmond at the election, has been made a lord and will keep his environment minister job, Downing Street has just announced.
Zac Goldsmith, who lost his seat as MP for Richmond at the election, has been made a lord and will keep his environment minister job, Downing Street has just announced.
People may well have voted on that as the guaranteed minimum pay rise it was presented. Not even a week in and it's already exposed as a Tory lie or half-truth at best.
Nothing to concern ourselves with though and roll on those 40 new hospitals, the 50,000 nurses and 20,000 police, along with innumerable flying pigs across the land.
unless there is a big issue in the economy then there’s not an issue. There will be a recession, and if we had a crack like 2008, you would expect that to change the landscape, and affect such policies wouldn't you?
Tory voters.
Followed by this
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...speech-voter-id-polling-station-a9253386.html
So predictable and depressing.
Never mind Scotland and NI, at this rate I'd build a moat around London and declare independence.
One can argue it's pragmatic, much as the Tories may argue that not disclosing that caveat was pragmatic I guess. They provide zero detail on what conditions would preclude the wage rise not being implemented too.
The EU workers' rights protections being ditched is another one. It's depressing that our government constantly spouts blatant lies, but hardly anyone seems to give a shit.
What a waste of time that was then.
Boundary changes, voter id, new laws around union donations and a cut in short money were what Osborne planned to neuter Labour with, but for various reasons most never made it over the line. Wouldn’t surprise me to see all four happen now the Tories have a working (Lib Dem free) majority for the first time.
Probably be a new boundary review that's even worse before the next election.
I'm probably being massively naive here, but can't the Electoral Commission or anyone block a government shamelessly reconstituting the boundaries into its favour? What's to stop any government with a majority doing that, except not being a cnut?
The Boundary Changes are not done by the government, they’re done by a boundary commission which is independent of government.
https://boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/2018-review/
Cheers. Still ropey, given a government can presumably not implement them if they're helping the opposition.
The terms of the review are also set by the government, which is why Cameron mandated aspects (600 seats, equalused constituency sizes) that benefitted the Tory party.
Britain First leader officially joins Conservative Party: 'Boris Johnson is like us'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ohnson-muslim-women-letterboxes-a9254061.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ohnson-muslim-women-letterboxes-a9254061.html
I wonder if they're as independent as the BBC?
They need to be chucked straight back out on their ear.
Who monumentally botched the election and delivered those constituencies into Tory hands? What exactly do you thin will be Corbyn's legacy? One of the burdens of leadership is to accept responsibility for failure. It's a shame that Corbyn and his followers seem to be devoid of humility and honesty.
They're actually pretty good historically, the issue is that the two main parties can still influence the outcome by how they respond at the consultation stage. When the Boundary Commission goes out to consultation, every affected CLP responds. If each constituency ends up putting in competing responses with their Labour neighbours its counter productive. Quite simply if one CLP says the border should be there, but their CLP neighbours disagree, then as far as the consultation is concerned the submissions kind of cancel each other out.
A friend of mine led on Labour's Boundary Commission response back in the 1990s, when he managed to get most of the affected CLPs in the country to come up with an agreed response about where boundaries should be and what evidence was provided to the boundary commission in support of it. Not easy, bearing in mind that some CLPs were being put out of existence and therefore some people still didn't agree. But it was largely a unified response. Meanwhile the Tories were in meltdown and offered nothing, and the outcome was a set of boundary changes that significantly favoured Labour.
I have no idea about how the most recent consultation went, but given that the consultations happened in the aftermath of Brexit and the second leadership election, I wouldnt bet on it being well organised, so it may further damage Labour.
Election season is over, which means we can stop caring about racism.
Replies to this tweet and others like it, the chavy xenophobes think they've won and more worryingly that their opinions have won.
We have to respect their opinions though apparently.
Christ! Being a liberal is easy isn't it.
Firstly just to get it out of the way, Mcdonell literally apologised for the election result on the Marr show last week. So the idea that the left of the labour party is ''devoid of humility and honesty'' is just untrue
Anyway moving on from this bizarre moralism and onto something that looks like actual politics. You quoted a tweet I posted yesterday showing everyone over 65 hates not just Corbyn but the Labour Party as a whole. So simply getting in a new guy as leader isn't going to change this and neither will the current view the left has, which is going into these communities and do local organising(Putting on a bingo night in Bolsover isn't going to stop 70 year old Bill from thinking the labour leader is an ISIS loving communist who wants to crash the economy by giving away free stuff).
So whats your answer (The best I've come up with so far is to turn and expand Manchester into a giant blade runner city) ? Please don't just say, the new labour leader should be more
Corbyn legacy will of course be in part this election lost but it will also be turning the Labour into one of the biggest centre left parties in Europe and putting forward a manifesto that took seriously the dangers of climate change(And it possibly still didn't go far enough). I've yet to see any centrist/liberal politician put forward a plan to actual address the biggest issue of the 21st century. Not only does there seem to be no policy(Or at least policy that isn't constantly undermining the fight against climate change - the Canadian guy who loves doing black face and building pipelines, for example.)there seems to an active disregard for left policy, if liberals are laughing at the idea of planting 2 billion trees in 20 years, then they are no different to the american president who believes climate change is a hoax.
Its one thing to have a political platform that is hated by anyone over 65(Which is a massive problem), its another to have a platform that will utterly fail to meet even the very basic challenges of the modern world.
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Our new Prime Minister is a well documented anti-semite who has written an anti-semitic novel, repeatedly hired a self-confessed anti-semitic writer for the Spectator and has documented anti-semitic MPs sitting in parliament.
Why does no one care? It's a fecking joke.
Why does no one care? It's a fecking joke.