Richard Branson’s company becomes one of the first of many vultures to start picking over the rich, tender flesh of the NHS now that it has been splayed open by the Bill. Telegraph.
Just think how many people will now be able to claim they have been fucked by Richard Branson. On the NHS.
“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: weaning society off fossil fuel.”
This weaning will require a large deployment of efficiency measures, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..
“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: controlling the fossil fuel.”
This weaning will require a large deployment of troops and other weapons of war. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..
FTFY.
I was as likely to be right wing as I was to be in love with Europe on any level at all.
How European are you?
So, why do I despise the EU? France. That’s a significant factor. Spineless government who can’t control their lorry drivers or fishermen or farmers and a spineless media who will not control their politicians. Is there an English person who does like the French? It’s the corrupt EU politicians who sit around creating their own gravy train while throwing subsidies to every farmer in France. It’s the other countries in the EU – like Germany – who say that Britain should follow all the EU rules about foreign competition while breaking those same laws to make sure their transport and infrastructure is built in Germany.
Back to that thing called France. The EU states that when a refugee lands in your country you have to take them in. But oh no, not the French. They must transport them in droves up to Calais and let them cross to the UK. France is a big place, Calais isn’t that close to any border yet where do France put all these people? they hate the English so they push these people toward the UK. They could do something, they choose not to. And even if Calais were close to a border the French would have to push them back to where they had come from. But no, some slack security will let them through.
If you thought the Euro was a good idea you need your head felt because to be honest you are stupid. It would never ever work.
Play videogames? Ubisoft use the most ridiculous DRM in their games. French company.
Mathew Fraser says the CSA’s decision may be linked to an anti-English language reflex. “Facebook and Twitter are, of course, American social networks. In France, they are regarded, at least implicitly, as symbols of Anglo-Saxon global dominance.” France24.com
I don’t think I have a problem with many others. Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy etc are all fine. So remove France and Germany from the EU and it might – just might – be tolerable. Until then I’m all in favour of leaving it and all it’s treaties behind and getting on without the bureaucratic corrupt nepotistic anti-UK brigade over the Channel.
The UK’s biggest trade unions have drawn up plans for a sustained campaign of industrial action involving several one-day national strikes
BBC News – Unions planning ‘series of national strikes’
Good. Unions are part of the solution right now, they are not any part of the problem. Those in power that say Unions are the problem are themselves part of the problem.
Ben Goldacre wrote me an email, “Apparently the govt have leaned on the bbc to use the word “savings†instead of “cutsâ€. be nice if someone made something that resubstituted “cuts†back in. “thehonestificatorâ€. whatever.â€
Want to see BBC News reported properly? Try this | Liberal Conspiracy.
BBC Mr Cameron referred to the situation in 1940 during an interview with Sky News in which he was asked about the changing nature of the “special relationship” with the US and his meeting with President Obama on Tuesday.
“I think it is important in life to speak as it is and the fact is that we are a very effective partner of the US but we are the junior partner,” he said.
“We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.”
David Cameron is in charge of the govt and he hasn’t the balls to stop sucking up to the US. Still, those that voted the Govt in must be proud of him. Someone has to be. But the rest of knew and now have the proof that he’s an idiot. A toffee-nosed, silver spoon in the mouth sycophant. I wonder when he’ll have the history books changed.
If you voted for the government you voted for this.
Inequality will now, without doubt, yawn yet wider again, as the distributional impact becomes depressingly clear. Many well-paid people, like myself, have now found they have been barely touched at all by the budget – not even my winter fuel allowance or Freedom Pass. But even the better-off will see local libraries, leisure centres and police stations closing, dirty streets and overgrown parks, fewer buses, the homeless back on the streets in 1980s numbers, rising crime and public squalor. The sense that the cuts were needlessly brutal will soon take hold.
Polly Toynbee – The Guardian
Journalists usually ask politicians questions in an election campaign to catch them out, trip them up and cause a gaffe. Not this time. I genuinely wanted there to be no story yesterday when I asked Michael Gove a question that matters more than most things. I asked if he could guarantee that nursery schools would not be allowed to charge top-up fees for the currently free places of every three- and four-year old. I asked it this way, that way and the other way. Other journalists joined in, too, but no. He would not, could not give that pledge. I sincerely hoped he would kill the story dead, but no.
Your heart might say Clegg. But vote with your head
“Until the electoral system is reformed, progressives are stuck. If you do not want a Tory government, it’s tactics, not romance Get real. Keep your head screwed on. What result do you want? I will assume, dear Guardian reader, that like me you have two prime purposes. One is to prevent Cameron walking into Downing Street on 7 May. Equal first is to secure electoral reform so that we are never again presented with such a disgraceful voting choice. If that’s not your view, you can save time, stop reading here and push off to some Murdoch organ that will amply satisfy your needs.”
Phone call earlier from someone representing the Labour Party. He told me that there was a meeting of Labour supporters tomorrow and would I be interested in going? I said ‘not really’. He then said that there would be someone from the Labour Party there (that’ll be everyone surely?) and went into conspiratorial mode, he said there would be a high ranking member of the Labour Party there, a minister, a senior minister. And did I want to go? I said ‘No, not really’. He said thanks, would be in touch (I hope not) and rang off.
I suppose they want turnout and that’s fair enough but I certainly don’t want to go simply because I’ll be within a few dozen yards (maybe) of someone in the government. Except they aren’t, they are all PPC’s, not ministers afaik. And it’s not like I need to go to convince myself that this person is real. TV and media has not yet got to the point where I believe everything is made up just for the proles.
And I’m sorting a proxy vote as I’ll be in the US/in the air on the 6th. Annoying that I will miss not just voting but the staying up all night watching the coverage. I’ve done that every year (remember Portillo losing to Twigg?) and I really will miss that. It will make the event less real. Unlike the elected.