Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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that's why they are indiependant.
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No huge demand for gay marriage, says Philip Hammond
Defence secretary wades into row over plans to legalise gay marriage, saying the issue is a waste
of parliamentary time
Philip Hammond said while civil partnerships had addressed the disadvantage faced by gay people,
No 10 should not focus its efforts on equal marriage.
Cabinet fury with David Cameron over gay marriage has been blown into the open after the defence
secretary, Philip Hammond, criticised Downing Street for wasting parliamentary time on the issue and
angering vast numbers of people.
As the government moved to smooth the passage of the bill by delaying attempts to extend civil
partnerships to heterosexual couples, Hammond said there was no huge demand for same-sex marriage.
Speaking on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday evening, he said: "This change does redefine marriage.
For millions and millions of people who are married, the meaning of marriage changes.
There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that any government thinks it has the
ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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This just shows another big big split in the conservative party,
these are opening up every day.
The mouse is unable to keep his troops quiet, which will in the end be the downfall of the mouse, and thasnkfully his cobbled together govt
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Is Gove treading water ?
Michael Gove like a fanatical personal trainer, union says
Michael Gove will attend a question and answer session at the conference
The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher
and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say.
Bernadette Hunter, president of the NAHT, will say Michael Gove pays no heed to "the damage
he is causing to the body or the system".
Heads are being bullied into turning schools into academies, she will tell the union's conference in Birmingham.
Mr Gove is expected to tell delegates his reforms are raising standards.
Ahead of the conference Ms Hunter said head teachers were also "particularly unhappy" about what she
called the "constant churn of educational change" and the "negative rhetoric" coming from the government.
"We know that UK schools are amongst the best in the world," she told the BBC's Breakfast programme.
"They are highly regarded by other countries, but to hear the Department for Education you would think
we have a failing system."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Mr Gove wont get a good reception at this conference.
The same conference is looking to vote of no confidence is this cobbled together lot
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Million 'at risk' from Care Bill
More than a million elderly and disabled people in need of care could be totally shut out of the
system because of the fine print of the Government's reforms, the leaders of Britain's biggest
caring charities warn today.
The new Bill, based on the recommendations of the Dilnot Commission, promises to cap the amount
that anyone pays for care in their lifetime at £72,000
A change in how needs are assessed could strip 135,000 frail and vulnerable people in England of
state-funded care on which they currently rely, signatories fear.
And almost 900,000, who already have to pay if they want help with basic tasks such as washing
and dressing, would not be able to benefit from a cap on the cost of care, the charities have warned
David Cameron.
The warning, from the heads of 38 leading charities including Age UK, the Alzheimer's Society
, Scope and the British Red Cross, comes in a letter to The Sunday Telegraph which has also been
sent to the Prime Minister.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Very worrying times for the most vunerable in our society
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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don't worry kieth,your mouse will sort it out.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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I didnt9wouldnt) vote for him
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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didn't say you did kieth.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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not MY mouse then
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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you the one keps on about him,you be his number 1 fan.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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number 1 wanting him out
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George Osborne warned by IMF that cuts 'pose headwinds' to growth
Washington lender advises chancellor to bring on infrastructure spending plans to avoid jeopardising
tepid recovery
George Osborne, right, following the IMF's annual health-check of the British economy, presented in London.
George Osborne was on Wednesday urged by the International Monetary Fund to rethink his plans for a
£10bn tax-and-spending squeeze this year, as part of a broad based attack on the coalition's economic policies.
After a fortnight's fact-finding mission in London, the Washington-based lender warned that the planned
package of spending cuts and tax rises would "pose headwinds" to growth, which could jeopardise the
"tepid" economic recovery.
Asked whether that meant the government should slow the pace of deficit-reduction, David Lipton,
the IMF's first deputy managing director, said it did.
He urged the government to bring forward spending plans: "Within the credible medium-term objectives
it's useful for the economy for some infrastructure and other measures to be brought towards the present.
That would reduce the drag in this year and in the coming years."
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i saw that article, not the first time george has come under fire from the imf.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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the trouble is the imf is not kicking him hard enough.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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lots of people would like to give him a good kicking
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Homeless in London? Here's a train ticket for Birmingham
The plight of a mother and daughter forced to live in a hotel room 127 miles from their former home in the capital
Aisha in the Birmingham hotel room she has shared with her daughter for the past month.
When Aisha was evicted from her flat in East Ham, east London, on 15 April, she packed her belongings in a
suitcase and went with her six-year-old daughter to the council's housing office in Stratford, hoping for help
to find somewhere else to stay in the area.
Instead she was given a train ticket to Birmingham, and details of how to take the bus from the station to
the Bailey hotel in Edgbaston, a hotel providing emergency accommodation 127 miles away.
For the past month, she has been sharing a double bed with her daughter in a room scarcely bigger than
the bed, living out of the suitcase, and surviving mainly on cold snack food from the corner shop because
it is hard to get access to the hotel's kitchen, which has just one stove - four hotplates - shared between
residents of the hotel's 25 rooms.
The Bailey hotel is currently home to six families from Newham, moved out of London by a council that is
in the grip of a severe housing crisis.
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Courtesy Independent...........
One-third of Britons are too poor to 'join in with society'
Many on lowest incomes cannot buy consumer goods, visit the cinema or go on holiday
Just under a third of people in Britain are excluded from mainstream society because they
cannot afford to join in cultural activities such as going to the cinema, taking a holiday or buying
consumer goods.
Research for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation shows that the poorest 30 per cent are also
prevented from "participating in society" because they have fewer social relationships and less
trust in other people.
"Participating is about belonging. Many of society's expectations require individuals and families
to spend money," the report, Poverty, Participation and Choice, says. "Like it or not, Britain is a
consumer society in which people are assessed according to the income that they have, how they
spend it and what they do with their time."
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Some interesting comments there by respected organisations
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