Theresa May Mark 2

Could not agree more Yorkshire, All my DCs have accrued large debts completing their degrees as is the norm now,but middle DD was keen to study in Edinburgh -for a specific course only offered there -until reality about tuition fees hit home an she said at the time she felt it was discrimination against English students.Some United Kingdom.And I know lots of the discrepancies are to do with the Barnett formula etc, and the EU but it's time it was a level playing field for students in the whole of the UK.

Jeremy Corbyn as you've never seen him before:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Crabtree#/media/File:Shirley_%22Big_Daddy%22_Crabtree.jpg

I never knew that Jeremy's first name was 'Shirley'

Hope she repeals the poor laws that her government have put in place.
Have I missed something? I didn't think they had passed any laws yet since she has formed a government.
Perhaps I was busy elsewhere

oh, there is an investigatory powers bill, not gone through yet
Lots of plans but no new laws as yet

How do we know what the 28% who did not vote whatever the reason feel about it all?
We will probably never know, as they probably feel absolutely nothing at all, if they were so uninterested that they did not vote they will probably be uninterested in the results of the vote Welshwife.

It's £9,000 per year not per term, Yorkshiregel.

Rudd is putting back the Brown idea that regions impacted by immigration need extra cash.

I am sick of this catch phrase 'We want to make a country where everyone can reach their full potential'. What exactly does it mean? They are just words. Mrs May is telling the country what they want to hear. The truth is for all the energy and effort that goes in to teaching to the end of the secondary school year the English students come up against a BIG barrier. If they are not able to pay 9 thousand pounds per term, which is 27 thousand pounds per year, for 3 years, they will not be able to afford to go to University. So this government is DENYING them the chance to reach their full potential. I do not understand why the student unions are not fighting this. Scottish students get their education free; Welsh students have to pay about 3 and a half thousand pounds per term, but English students have to pay the full whack. Disgusting discrimination which by the way is also against the EU rules ie 'No member of the EU should be discriminated against'. Foreign students coming here to Oxford or Cambridge are educated free because their governments foot the bill. We are in fact educating every other student except our English students. NOT FAIR!

jd wasn't 'nooting' at all, she was 'noting'.

To revert to the 'Great' Repeal Act.

dj was happily nooting that at least MPs would have to do some work going through 40 years of EU related legislation. But it appears that that may not be the case. Apparently Theresa May is proposing that amending legislation will be done by statutory instrument; this will bypass Parliament. This is worrying many people. David Allen Green explains here: www.ft.com/content/2132989b-0c66-344f-84a8-b24d8d6636b6

But there is something to be concerned about in this announcement. The government is seeking to have what it calls “flexibility” in being able to amend or repeal primary legislation — Acts of Parliament — by statutory instruments. These are through the so-called “Henry VIII clauses” that enable the executive to make huge legal changes with little or no parliamentary scrutiny. Statutory instruments, a form of secondary legislation, are devices by which the government can legislate without troubling the legislature. Such legal means have been roundly criticised by judges such as Lord Judge, the former Lord Chief Justice.

Does this worry anyone here?

It worries me that 'taking back control' looks as though it means a loss of Parliamentary democracy (i.e 'control')in the Tories' hands.

I wish to heaven that there wasn't a great gaping hole where the Opposition used to be.

You needed to listen to the context nell

What a silly comment, people refer to Europe to Asia, the Middle East without necessarily being specific, why not Africa?!

Just as an aside, did anyone who had the stamina to listen, notice our foreign secretary refer to Africa as if it was one country???

Anyone wish to enlighten him?

Well I listened. With expectant interest at Hammonds speech in the hope that a strategy would begin to emerge.

Well he did say different times means different economic policies, but you would have looked in vain to work out what these are. Let's hope he has more idea come the Autumn statement.

No one can accuse this government of being quick off the starting block, I am not sure that the starting gun has been fired yet!

Parts have been privatised for years. They can't charge a fee, but some of the academy chains pay sister companies for 'consultancy' services and curriculum plans. One of them pays over £100,000 a year to an American company.

Not that secretly, with academy chains and free schools.

Perhaps they are secretly privatising education as well

Just read yesterday that Latymer Grammar School in Enfield is asking parents to make up the shortfall.

West Sussex school heads(all of them) have written to parents warning that they may have to cut school hours because of the cuts they've had to endure. West Sussex County Council is Tory.

They may have to go to day 4 day week. What will parents do!?

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/29/g4s-equality-helpline-contract-raises-serious-concern-high-court-told

This is how Theresa May helps the underdog, by handing the company the Equality and Advisory Support Service.
Any problems you have with G4S, ask G4S to sort it out for you.

www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/

"Power without responsibility, the prerogative of harlots through the centuries "

Stanley Baldwin on press barons. 1931

The most likely thinking of the 28% is that they wanted no change to the status quo. To say they do not matter is disregarding more than a quarter of the population. There may be very good reasons that many did not vote such as sudden illness giving no time to register a postal vote. Also there were a lot of 'lost/ destroyed' votes - this is being looked into I believe.

You think dj? They haven't any more idea than thee and me! No it will the lawyers rubbing their hands.
All parliament will get to do is to debate it - rather like on here

I was just thinking that those MPs are really going to have to earn their salaries from now on, going through 43 years of EU legislation.

The impression was given that all the work was going to be done elsewhere, but with the Great Repeal Act, it will be done in parliament. No shirking.

whitewave I agree with your comment re May's visit to Murdoch - how sickening it is that prime ministers (including Blair) have consulted with this horrible man in order to keep him and his vast media empire on side.

It makes you wonder whether there is any point voting at all when, ultimately, it is people like him that seem to determine the general direction in which a party should head if his media outlets are to support it.

What's the government majority now, anyway?
Two by elections on the way. Wouldn't it be funny if Cameron's seat was taken by a Libdem. Or even the Labour candidate, who came second last time.