This Government has definitely lost the plot

I've sent them an email.

wot oh no! Don't tell me

I agree entirely. I saw a photo of a dog trusted up ready to be slaughtered for meat and its haunted me ever since. Of course ill sign it if there's no awful pictures.

I don't think I can find it without a picture. I'll remember that in future.

Oh no I can't! it stays with me for days and days [ shock]. I'll willingly sign a petition though but if I have to see a dead or dying elephant I can't do it.

secure.avaaz.org/en/yahoo_ivory_loc_/?slideshow

Not about the government but about elephants being killed. Half the elephants in Cameroon have been killed recently for the ivory trade. Yahoo is still allowing ivory to be traded on its site. There are over a million signatures already.
Click on the picture of the elephant on the slideshow to get to the petition.

32 u turns in the first 5 years - is that a record?

wot, many have fought so hard to get some protection for animals , the thought of all that campaigning for so long just being scrapped made me so angry

I agree with you, chelseababy. I can't say I'm thrilled about the raising of the female pension age to 65, but I did know about it 20 years ago. The second rise was announced with far too little notice - and this affects both men and women. I'm also pi$$ed off that the 'flat' rate is nothing of the sort. I'll lose my SERPs/SP2 and won't get the full rate because I was contracted out for a number of years. There's a huge gap between the 'headline' and the reality.

Ha ha! Durham, and Timothy Leary as well as Aldous Huxley.

Anniebach, I too can't abide cruelty or neglect to animals/birds.

32 in the first two years, whitewave.

Be interested to list how many u turns have been made since 2010 there seems to have been loads

Andy Murray to win Wimbledon and all this, what a happy little bunny am I. Who was it said on the budget thread it was a good budget , someone did , oh well , we all make mistakes

Stiĺl so pleased

U turn on second increase in state pension age would be welcome.

Just had an email from Viva! asking me to sign a petition to stop it.
That must be the first petition I haven't signed.

If it's really true that they're scrapping the whole crazy idea, that's great news - thank goodness. Animal welfare certainly isn't perfect but it would be a good deal worse if the industry were left to regulate itself. Aside from the inevitability of a higher incidence of cruel and negligent treatment of animals, it would have put consumers at far more risk than they are already.

We have seen in other areas - banks, police operations, food industry, etc., etc., that self-regulation or light touch regulation just doesn't work. I truly think this government is becoming more deranged by the minute.

weownit.org.uk/evidence/land-registry

They have been crowdfunding to get a report done on the selloff of the land registry. They have enough money now for a challenge, so hopefully it will be the next uturn.
They might even have done it by the time you read this!

Definitely academies, daphnedill.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/04/07/the-hollowing-out-of-democracy/

By Aldous Huxley.

Anything else? I am enjoying this

Has anyone mentioned that they have now decided to drop the tests for four year olds.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35989662

Actually bedroom tax should be on the way out soon.
The size of a bedroom has been ruled on in law, and many people have discovered that they have one bedroom less than their landlord says they have.
So many people are going to reclaim their money that the system may well break.

I feel so happy - pathetic really. I think we ought to push for even greater animal welfare.