The Tory way of governance

whitewave I suppose it depends on the area

3 bedroom Semi-detached house from £169,995
Stunning home with a spacious kitchen and living room with French doors to the rear garden. There is also a downstairs cloakroom and under stairs cupboard. Upstairs are 3 bedrooms, with master bedroom benefitting from its own en suite shower room. Allocated parking completes this home.

The NHS was certaintly important in the referendum campaign

Where's that house, Jalima? It sounds about right for where we are in the NE, but then, house prices may be lower here but well paid jobs aren't plentiful.

According to Cummings it was the NHS £350m that clinched it for Leave, Ab

It's in Newport and lots of Bristol people are moving over there because they can't afford Bristol prices which will probably send the Newport prices shooting up!

Not remotely surprised to read thst Dacre has been the only editor to be wined and dined by May. This was later recipri cated by Rothermere.

All chums together!

True Mauzie, it was even on the Brexit battle bus , so a very important part of the Brexit campaign

politicalscrapbook.net/2017/03/there-is-only-one-area-of-england-where-a-low-paid-worker-can-afford-a-home/

The first thing Chris Grayling did was hand over a British run railway to a Chinese company to celebrate taking back control.

"Even before today’s decision, research by the RMT union showed 70% of Britain’s rail network was owned by foreign states.

The union points out that, with Article 50 set to be triggered on Wednesday, this was the first rail franchise decision in which the Government cannot blame the EU for choosing privatisation over public ownership.

Even Tories opposed to publicly-run railways must be able to see that it’s not exactly ideologically coherent for a Brexiteer like Grayling to take a rail franchise from a UK company in Stagecoach and handed it to a Chinese firm.

And it’s not just the railways, the Chinese state is to set to own a third of the Hinkley Point C power station and a fifth of Manchester airport.

So, the Tories are swapping the EU, the world’s biggest free block, for China, the world’s biggest Communist country.

Carry on comrades… "

You couldn't make it up could you DJ? Sounds like an early April fool.

A fifth of Manchester airport is puzzling...

I think it is a very dangerous game relying so much on China and Chinese goods. All the people who are hoping that Britain will start to be a manufacturing country again are in for such a disappointment - how can any company compete with the low Chinese prices? The quality of goods is much poorer and the container loads of cheap goods filling UK ports shows the way things are going.

MAG, Manchester Airport's holding company, is still in public ownereship. Its biggest shareholder is Manchester City Council.

I think dj means Manchester Airport City, which is something different. A Chinese construction company has a large investment in the project.

DJ didn't mean anything. That was part of the quotation from the RMT.

I liked the fact that now trump has got rid of the US commitment to renewables, China is now the world's greatest power in renewables. I bet trump didn't mean that to happen in his return to coal.

Ah! OK! Haven't got time to look into it at the moment, but MAG owns Stansted Airport, so it's sometimes in my local news.

www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUMmyuYx0_fHRLMXVcK8YfHw&v=fQlRluPVodM

This is an interesting video to show why things cannot go on the way they are.

inews.co.uk/essentials/news/new-carriages-dumped/

By the Chinese company running Southwest trains.
The new carriages are being built by Siemens.

Nationalisation by a foreign nation. Good ain't it?

You couldn't make it up!!

I wish it had been made up, Welshwife.
Obviously the government can't see the irony at a time that we are taking back control.

Another sign of a sick government.

www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/02/cancer-patients-family-stands-to-lose-50k-under-benefit-cuts

What's a man's life worth?
£58,000 today; £6300 after Thursday.

Today the new benefit regulations come into force and I received this via facebook. Is there anyone on this forum prepared to justify this Tory Government decision?

^I cannot begin to tell you how angry this makes me. Women being asked to fill out a form and provide proof that they were raped in order to still get benefits for a third child. Having to sign to agree they are not in a relationship with the person who raped them. Having to get a professional person (who are in no way trained to make that assessment) to agree you were forced.
The mere idea of this is nauseating, the actual application of it will cause harm to people who have already been harmed enough.
It means letting your child know how they came about, it means defining what happened to you in strict legal terms, it means that many won't claim, it means people looking at you like you are making it up to get the money, it means that private hurt becomes public property, it means telling a faceless official you were raped and having to justify it, having to explain why it wasn't your fault, your wish, justify why it was their fault not yours. You have to tell the governments nominated person what he did to you, why you froze and didn't' fight back, why you didn't tell the police straight after, why it why it was your boyfriend, your husband, your Dad, and it's not that easy to say no, and how if the police were involved your whole family would break apart, how you are afraid your kids will go into care if there was violence in the house, so you said nothing....
... and you have to confirm all your shame, hurt and pain, on a form so it can get fed into a computer in the hopes you are believed....
.... so that you can be given a pittance of money to keep your children fed and clothed.
This is disgraceful. This was slipped into law without even a parliamentary vote, on the day of Donald Trump;s inauguration. While the man accused of assaulting more than 20 women was being given the most powerful job in the world, Westminster put in the most medieval law we have seen in modern times^.

^SNP MP Alison Thewliss has been working tirelessly to get this repealed and get some focus on this issue, but Westminster rode rough shod over all the pleas from charities and support groups to remove this law.... and all so that they can make sure 3rd children don't get any money to live on..... while the well heeled down south are getting a cut in their taxes...
I ask you, what kind of morally bankrupt society would do such a thing?^

Not My Country.

Granny23 oh yes some will soon be along to justify this. I'm also interested in their justifications for the swingeing changes to bereavement benefits ( see DJ's link above)

Yes, Granny23, it makes you feel physically sick at the thought of it. I don't know how many petitions I've signed to get that stopped, but it didn't make any difference.
It's not going to stop me signing petitions against unjust laws, though. Some we have won.

Does it apply to Scotland?
After Brexit, will you be in charge of all your benefits system?

DJ No, only some aspects of benefits have been devolved to the SG. I am no expert but it seems to me that the whole exercise is designed to give the impression of devolved control without the wherewithal and powers to make any meaningful changes.

Read this for an overview.