UK Politics Topic

[Zizouz]

there were disabled people dying as they waited months on end penniless to receive any kind of monetary assistance

 

bedroom taxing disabled people

 

the foodbanks being used by families all over

 

swear there's countless fuckry going on in this country, but she begins to cry now?

 

fuck her and her ilk that voted conservatives

 

£1300 a year less and no more free school meals, nah?

 

certain people who voted conservative are finally seeing the reality fuck em all anyway

[Gambino]

She's ended up a lose lose lol. Fuck her for not voting UKIP, Probably worried she would get called a Nazi though, and Labour isn't a realistic choice for anyone. Politics in the UK is fucked right now.

[dub]

[Zizouz]

people would be angrier if it was about that somalian family living in a 8 bedroom house or whatever

[Gambino]

Should be angry about both, but people will do nothing about neither.

[Da Luv Doc]

People won't complain about this c*nt and his family

[The Infamous]

Slo-mo BoJo

Johnson runs up the wing

He encounters 10-year-old Toki Sekiguchi who reaches out to make the touch

Johnson drops his shoulder

Sekiguchi starts to topple backwards as the London mayor ploughs forwards

Sekiguchi is left on the ground

guys a fucking idiot

yooooo

GABOS ,NO PICKS BORIS>>>>>

[Ulysses]

Labour MP Says British Ethnic Minorities Should Vote To Leave EU

Khalid Mahmood told BuzzFeed News that British immigrants are suffering as a result of European immigration and struggling to find jobs.

 

http://www.buzzfeed.com/sirajdatoo/labour-mp-born-abroad-says-british-ethnic-minorities-should#.tnVb7Pw0Z0

[Drift]

David Cameron hasn’t the faintest idea how deep his cuts go. This letter proves it

 

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/11/david-cameron-letter-cuts-oxfordshire

The letters were sent in September, but came to light only on Friday, when they were revealed by the Oxford Mail. The national media has been remarkably slow to pick the story up, given the insight it offers into the prime minister’s detachment from the consequences of his actions.

Cameron complains that he is “disappointed” by the council’s proposals “to make significant cuts to frontline services – from elderly day centres, to libraries, to museums. This is in addition to the unwelcome and counter-productive proposals to close children’s centres across the county.” Why, he asks, has Oxfordshire not focused instead on “making back-office savings”? Why hasn’t it sold off its surplus property? After all, there has been only “a slight fall in government grants in cash terms”. Couldn’t the county “generate savings in a more creative manner”?

 

Explaining the issue gently, as if to a slow learner, the council leader, Ian Hudspeth, points out that the council has already culled its back-office functions, slashing 40% of its most senior staff and 2,800 jobs in total, with the result that it now spends less on these roles than most other counties. He explains that he has already flogged all the property he can lay hands on, but would like to remind the prime minister that using the income from these sales to pay for the council’s running costs “is neither legal, nor sustainable in the long-term since they are one-off receipts”.

 

As for Cameron’s claim about government grants, Hudspeth comments: “I cannot accept your description of a drop in funding of £72m or 37% as a ‘slight fall’.”

Again and again, he exposes the figures the prime minister uses as wildly wrong. For example, Cameron claims that the cumulative cuts in the county since 2010 amount to £204m. But that is not the cumulative figure; it is the annual figure. Since 2010, the county has had to save £626m. It has done so while taking on new responsibilities, and while the population of elderly people and the numbers of children in the social care system have boomed. Now there is nothing left to cut except frontline services.

 

[SLEAZE BALL]

there were disabled people dying as they waited months on end penniless to receive any kind of monetary assistance

bedroom taxing disabled people

the foodbanks being used by families all over

swear there's countless f*ckry going on in this country, but she begins to cry now?

f*ck her and her ilk that voted conservatives

£1300 a year less and no more free school meals, nah?

certain people who voted conservative are finally seeing the reality f*ck em all anyway

amen

[The Infamous]

 

there were disabled people dying as they waited months on end penniless to receive any kind of monetary assistance

bedroom taxing disabled people

the foodbanks being used by families all over

swear there's countless f*ckry going on in this country, but she begins to cry now?

f*ck her and her ilk that voted conservatives

£1300 a year less and no more free school meals, nah?

certain people who voted conservative are finally seeing the reality f*ck em all anyway

amen

 

[anelka]

Winston McKenzie left ukip lol

 

 

 

One of the best things I've seen on TV in yonks

 

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I predict riots in London within the next 3 years, London is mad overcrowded and people are at boiling point

 

Teachers, Junior Doctors, Students, Black Cabbies, to name a few are fuming, it's quite tense for many people out there

[Gambino]

Not really British politics but it's looking a little more positive for some kinda peace agreement in Syria http://news.sky.com/story/1587897/syria-peace-plan-sees-elections-in-18-months

[Gambino]

David Cameron has been told EU leaders cannot agree on his demand to ban EU migrants from claiming benefits for four years.

[Heero Yuy]

 

 

 

David Cameron has been told EU leaders cannot agree on his demand to ban EU migrants from claiming benefits for four years.

 

 

Token gesture to satisfy the sun readers. 

 

George Osborne’s plan to reach a budget surplus by 2019-20 is based on rising immigration numbers. 

 

Trying to dissuade them from coming doesn’t benefit that aim. 

[Gambino]

It's hopefully another nail in the EU Coffin for us.

[Grafter]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/from-fracking-to-the-bedroom-tax-the-7-pieces-of-bad-news-the-government-tried-to-bury-today-a6777491.html

 

 

From fracking to the bedroom tax: The 7 pieces of bad news the Government tried to bury

Government departments released 36 statements on the last day of Parliament before Christmas

 

Ministers have been accused of burying bad news by publishing dozens of announcements on the final day of Parliament this year – when many MPs have already left Westminster and public attention focussed on David Cameron’s EU renegotiation. 

No fewer than 36 written statements were pushed out, with departments flooding the news wires with news on controversial issues such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the bedroom tax, cuts to green energy projects, fracking, police funding, expansion to the badger cull and a rise in the number of taxpayer-funded special advisers. 

Labour accused the Government of deliberately trying to avoid proper scrutiny and hiding his broken promise to cut the cost of politics by releasing the raft of announcements on the final day of Parliament. 

Here are just seven of the announcements that the Government tried to bury on Thursday: 

1. Badger cull

Environment Secretary Liz Truss announced that the badger cull will be extended again to more areas of the country despite the success of vaccine trials that could make further killing unnecessary.

She said the scheme to kill the animals had been successful in meeting its targets in Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Dorset. 

The expansion comes despite an independent analysis commissioned by the Government warned ministers last year that the policy was ineffective and inhumane.

2. Muslim Brotherhood

David Cameron finally published the long-awaited report into the Muslim Brotherhood organisation – a study that was completed in the summer but delayed after Saudi Arabia put pressure on the Government to ban the group. 

Ministers have been accused of sitting on the report to avoid upsetting key allies in the Middle East. 

The Prime Minister said in the report that members of the group should be considered as potential extremists but stopped short of banning the group as he set out the conclusions of the long-awaited government report on the organisation.

 

 

3. Fracking

Licenses to explore fracking at 159 blocks of land across the UK were granted on Thursday – a day after MPs approved fracking 1,200m underneath national parks. 

The decision was attacked by environmental campaigners, whowarned that it would give the green light for the controversial practice to take place under three national parks and five “areas of outstanding natural beauty” in the UK. 

The Campaign to Protect Rural England said Thursday’s decision to grant the new raft of licences undermined David Cameron’s election pledge to conserve Britain as the “most beautiful country in the world”.  

4. Solar panel subsidies 

The Government snuck out an announcement that subsidies for rooftop solar panels will be hit by heavy cuts, and taxpayer-funded support for large scale solar projects will also be scrapped - in a blow to the green energy sector just days after the historic Paris climate change accords.

Although reductions to support for household solar panels and small wind turbines are smaller than had been originally proposed, campaigners said the 65 per cent cut would be a “hammer blow for households, jobs and UK plans for tackling climate change”.

The Government estimates the cuts could cost between 9,700 and 18,700 jobs in the solar industry. Solar companies said that the decisions showed “Paris has changed nothing”.

5. Bedroom tax

A report ordered by the Government on the effects of the so-called bedroom tax was quietly released on Thursday. 

It found that the removal of the spare room subsidy - otherwise known as the bedroom tax - has increased hardship among those affected, with nearly half reporting that they had to cut back on food spending to cope, a Government-ordered study has revealed.

Three quarters of people affected by the changes regularly run out of money by the end of the week or the month, the study found. 

It also reveals that only a third of people affected who applied for emergency support to pay the rent received any help.

6. Rise in the number of Government spin doctors

A Government data release of all taxpayer-funded special advisers were also published and it showed that the bill for the Government’s team of 96 spin doctors had hit £8.4m. 

A third of those special advisers, known as spads, are employed by Mr Cameron, with his director of communications Craig Oliver earning £140,000 – just £2,500 less than the Prime Minister. 

This is an increase of six spads since May’s General Election. 

The statement also revealed that George Osborne employs 10 spads – five times more than usual for heads of departments. 

7. Police funding

A Home Office statement revealed that central Government funding for Britain’s 43 police forces is being cut by 2.3 per cent a year – around £41m. 

This flies in the face of George Osborne’s pledge at last month’s Spending Review, when he said: “The police protect us so we will protect the police,” announcing there would be no cuts to the policing budget. 

Any extra funds will have to come from local government – already one of the biggest areas hit by the Chancellor’s latest round of austerity. 

Responding to accusations it had dumped out a load of bad news in a bid to bury bad news, a Downing Street spokesman said: "This is a Government which has a very busy agenda and we're delivering on a large range of commitments."

 

 

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/115360signn

[Platinum50]

https://architectsforsocialhousing.wordpress.com/2015/12/17/the-end-of-social-housing/

 

[Gambino]

3 Resignations in the Labour Party this morning after Corbs reshuffle.

[dub]

Tories stay fucking over the average person

 

The primary assault on social housing has been much discussed in these pages. The bill’s flagship measure – promoted at ownyourhome.gov.uk – will replace genuinely affordable homes with public subsidies for property investors. Rather than building homes for affordable rent, the legislation will force local authorities to build “Starter Homes” for first-time buyers. Capped at £450,000 in London and £250,000 in the rest of England, these homes will be unaffordable for people on average incomes in over half of the country, as Shelter has pointed out. Buyers will be free to sell their assets after five years at full market value, thereby minting a new generation of property speculators and removing any long-term benefit for future first-time buyers.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2016/jan/05/housing-and-planning-bill-power-grab-developers

[Thizz]

[Grafter]

 

nah

 

IS THAT REAL?