Government Watch

www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/17/osborne-hands-advisers-big-pay-rises-while-freezing-public-sector-wages

All right for some. Working for Osborne gives you a 42% pay rise. Working as a teaching assistant gets you a pay cut.

www.politicshome.com/party-politics/articles/story/tory-mps-dismiss-david-camerons-eu-reform-agenda

Tory MPs agreeing with the rest of us.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/14/conservative-power-grab-stay-in-power-permanent

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tories-quietly-scrapped-crackdown-fatcat-7009440

They've gone and done it again. Watered down the rules on banking law, to favour their rich friends.
Makes you sick.

www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2015/dec/11/cumbria-george-osborne-build-homes-floods

Hope nobody builds in them.

Listening to the news , seems a big cock up over monies allocated to police forces , sure to be more on this later this morning

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/polls-shows-massive-opposition-george-6990108

Even the Tories are against Osborne's plans to sell off public assets like the Land Registry.

On tv telling the country how he had to put the needs of the hard work man before all else? I did think the needs of the people of this country but that would be too blatant a lie

www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/10/all-eu-states-oppose-david-camerons-freeze-migrant-benefits

Not only the Polish PM. Every EU state has told him to get lost on this one.
I wonder how it will be spun.

Cameron on his talks with the Polish Prime Minister - excellent

The Polish PM on her talks with Cameron - we did not see eye to eye

northeastlabour.eu/confirmation-uk-government-could-have-saved-steelworks

This was not in the list. Unless it's covered by support for working families.

gx99g.wordpress.com/2015/07/06/the-conservative-party-manifesto-lies-2015/

Someone's been watching the government for us.

Yes, and vote blue, get green. Didn't he put a little wind-turbine on his roof?
I bet he's got rid of that now.

Anyone remember Cameron and his hug a husky photo shoot , he was out to save the enviroment that day

Corbyn wouldn't do it.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/12/09/it-looks-like-jeremy-corbyn-is-calling-for-a-green-new-deal/

He wants renewables. I wonder if he has solar panels?

Oh dear, I've just found out why.

www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/09/vat-hike-tax-renewable-energy-wind-power-solar-panels-hmrc

‘As countries are racing to secure the new global climate agreement, the UK has just proposed quadrupling VAT on solar installations for people’s homes to 20%, while oil heating, coal and gas remain on 5%. The International Energy Agency is in Paris right now calling for an end to fossil fuels subsidies just as the Treasury proposes tilting the playing field here away from clean power for British households,”

“This is clearly absurd. We will be strongly urging the Treasury to treat solar the same as they propose for oil, gas, heat pumps and biomass boilers. But it is incredible to have to argue for even level VAT treatment for solar VAT just as the Paris conference demands greatly accelerated action to avoid dangerous climate change.”

How ridiculous.

Love it Jen

Brilliant bit of government watching. Well done, Josie Long.

tompride.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/george-osborne-rejects-free-christmas-gift-of-solar-panels-calls-police/

I wonder what Boris will say.

Hello, Ana. No idea! Just thought, or maybe wondered.

Anyone interested in child poverty, there's a petition to ask the House of Lords to keep the government to its pledge about child poverty.

www.change.org/allkidscount

The petition is on change.orgt, but it is supported by the Child Poverty Action Group.

Really? Since when did GNHQ start censoring posts?

Same here, Annie.
I guessed that, MamaCaz, but I thought that HQ might have turned it back again.

I have no problem with being called a corbynite, it stands for respect of principles and honesty and care for the vulnerable

Ah, that will be it, Annie

Oops - what I tried to type in that last post was that autocorrect changed wellies into willies!

Something to cheer up the Corbynites.

think-left.org/2015/10/24/why-everything-is-now-different-the-sneerage-coefficient-is-off-the-scale/

Perhaps he wore the others out, tennis, horse riding, jogging ?

Loved your - splashed out