Very much needed.
First happy thing to report.
Unison have won their case making it illegal to charge employees for employment litigation. Introduced by the Tories in 2013.
The judges quite rightly said it was wrong to make it difficult/impossible for anyone to resort to law.
Those who paid will be reimbursed.
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Real wages in UK compared to other G7 countries.
Research shows that one in ten own two homes, while four in ten own no property at all.
www.24housing.co.uk/news/one-in-10-own-a-second-home/
Who owns my other one?
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This is what's happening to one of the firestations Boris shut down.
London going to lose 4000 police because of government cuts.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/cuts-will-cost-london-4000-police-officers-at-time-of-unprecedented-treat-mayor-sadiq-khan-warns-a3615751.html
Hunt's promise to recruit 5,000 GPs lies in tatters
The government’s promise to recruit 5,000 more GPs by 2020 lies in tatters, with fewer GPs now than when this pledge was first made.
I know a couple of people working in the recruitment of doctors for permenant posts as well as locum in hospitals and also GP surgeries. This is far from being a new problem and has been going on for some years. It used to be possible to get foreign doctors to work a couple of shifts a week at extortionate rates but even that source is drying up.
For years the UK has not trained enough doctors or nurses and now the effects are really being felt with people retiring and others going home to EU countries etc and possible new immigrants deciding not to chance it incase they are deported or their family is not allowed to join them.
I wish MPs would stop suggesting they are the ones with a magic wand though Welshwife.
The fact that Hunt took to Twitter and tried to tell Stephan Hawkin that he didn't understand numbers and evidence has now put him in the gutter (if he wasn't already there) as far as I am concerned. Does he really think we are so stupid we couldn't see he was being selective with his choice of statistics. Stupid man.
This is brilliant. The Spectator asked why so few 18-24 year olds voted Tory - and now wishes it hadn't.
politicalscrapbook.net/2017/08/the-spectator-asks-why-tory-youth-vote-is-so-low-gets-honest-answer/
I love the suggestion that they could get it even lower if they really tried hard.
... and that the 18% should be named and shamed Jen (in jest, of course).
I have just found out that in our district you need 13.4 times an average salary to by an average (mean) priced house. We should all feel ashamed that this has gone so far.
All Jacob Rees-Mogg's kids!
Actually, they could buy houses up here quite easily, but I don't fancy the cost of the commute. Not many jobs in Consett.
buy not by - sorry.
Rudd has been censured by a high court judge for not releasing a torture victim from detention.
This is extremely unusual - the judge in her criticism said " the Home Office needsto realise that deprivation of liberty is a serious abuse of fundamental rights, even more so when it involves torture victims........the Home Office needs to show more competence and act expeditiously when it comes to complying with court orders"
It is highly unusual for a high court judge to use such strong condemnation in criticising a senior government minister.
Rudd has been ordered to pay costs and also received an indemnity order.
They want to get rid of the Human Rights Act.
Doesn't look as though they need to.
Does that mean she has to pay it herself? Or is it us?
Government immigration statistics completely wrong.
Interesting to see the gap in perception between brexiters and remainers.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/24/immigration-stats-blunder-far-perception-truth-media-warp-truth
durhamjen
You state that the government statistics are completely wrong on immigration.
Your link to the Guardian uses the maybe
There's a dilemma: either your completely wrong, or the Guardian is.
Re Amber Rudd, see this too re UN findings
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CBP-7367
Yes I saw that ygg not good is it?
www.politicshome.com/news/uk/home-affairs/immigration/news/88450/theresa-may-attacked-ons-finds-no-evidence-problem
Completely wrong, petra. Only 5000 overstay their visas.
Migrationwatch said it could be as high as 100,000.
May said too many stayed. It's only 2.6%, therefore completely wrong.
James McGrory, the executive director of pro-EU group Open Britain, said: “The Prime Minister has spent years, in Downing Street and in the Home Office, railing against foreign students overstaying their visas, which was used this to justify crackdowns on foreign students, despite their importance to our economy.
“But now it emerges that the number of over stayers is just a fraction of the numbers the Government previously thought. They have been using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
“The Government’s focus now should be to make Britain as welcoming as possible to foreign students. Ministers should start by taking them out of the immigration figures entirely.”
Adam Smith Institute thinks the Tories should cut airport tax so that the young will vote for the Tories again. How shallow do they think young people are?
www.politicshome.com/news/uk/economy/news/88441/tories-should-cut-price-flights-ibiza-win-back-young-voters-says
They don't actually suggest paying them a proper living wage, but never mind.
Stephen Hawking's reply to Hunt.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/25/jeremy-hunt-attack-nhs-stephen-hawking-crisis
" The HSJ has just revealed that the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire and Nottingham STP has recently contracted Capita to help with the setting up of its Accountable Care System. Remember 'accountable' means for the money, not people's treatment. Capita has in turn subcontracted part of the contract worth £2.7m to a company called Centene, which is part of a major insurance company Centene Corporation which sets up care plans for Medicare and Medicaid in the US. It has worked with the Spanish Healthcare provider Ribera Salud on its Alzirea ACS in Valencia, according to the HSJ.
Ribera Salud is also working with Northumberland Tyne and Weir STP although presumably without the middlemen Capita and Centene. What this means in the long term is that as a country, we'll be paying more for less, than when we had a National Health Service.
In the public spat between Jeremy Hunt and famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the intellectual rigour and the moral high ground is with Stephen Hawking. But it needs all of us to speak out. We need to stand together and stand up for those less fortunate than ourselves. Stephen Hawking said that on a trip to the US he heard someone say a disabled person's life has no value! This can not be true. He is part of the evidence. "
The Independent is reporting that the Tory Party is being significantly investigated by the police, for allegedly criminal activity.
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