Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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That was before the lib dems sold out
now UKIP doing the same
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Tories tried to cover up failings of self-build revolution
Senior ministers ordered to release figures that show key housing policy isn't working
Senior Conservative ministers have been rebuked for attempting to cover up Government
statistics showing one of their key housing policies is not working.
While serving in opposition, the shadow Housing minister, Grant Shapps, promised Tory
backing for people who built their own homes to kick-start a house building "revolution" in the UK.
Two years later in Government, he launched an action plan to double the number of self-build
homes within a decade.
But when Labour attempted to find out how the Government was getting on with its pledge
, senior officials in the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) attempted
to prevent the release of statistics showing how many self-build homes had been started.
Bizarrely, they tried to claim that they could not provide the information because to do so would
"prejudice the effective conduct of public affairs"
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
and this is supposed to be an OPEN govt
pull the other one
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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'Ten years from now we will be in the EU and thinking again about joining the euro'
Gove is misguided and Britons will vote to stay in Europe in any future referendum, says
the former Tory foreign secretary Douglas Hurd
Lord Hurd, the former foreign secretary, has become the latest Tory grandee to warn against
his party's growing Eurosceptic tendencies. In a wide-ranging interview with the Observer, the
peer attacked the views of Michael Gove, a Eurosceptic cabinet minister, as "backward-looking",
predicted that Britain will consider joining the euro within the decade, and said he was
opposed in principle to holding a referendum on the UK's relationship with the European
Union while "reluctantly" accepting it was now inevitable.
Hurd also called on ministers to start making the case for continued membership of the EU,
describing the recent public announcement by Gove, the education secretary, that he would
vote to leave if there were an in-out referendum today as unhelpful.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
All party discipline with the tories gone out of the window
they are happy now to just tear themselves apart
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy I ndependent.....................
Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski comes out as bisexual
41-year-old says local party have been 'very supportive and kind'
A Tory cabinet aide has become the first MP to come out as bisexual.
Daniel Kawczynski, MP for Shrewsbury and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Welsh Secretary
David Jones, revealed his sexuality to his local Conservative association.
When he did so, the 41-year-old divorcee got a standing ovation from members, according to
The Mail on Sunday.
Robert Osborne, the local party chairman, who was at the meeting, told the newspaper: "It was a
very brave thing for Daniel to do and he did it with great aplomb.
"He received huge support from members of the association and there was never a shadow of
doubt that he would.
"He made the announcement at the end of the meeting and we moved on straight away."
Mr Kawczynski told the Daily Telegraph he is delighted with the reaction and support from his
local party, members of which had argued vehemently against same-sex marriage
- which he himself voted for.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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They are all it together..............................
Courtesy Independent............
New trade minister Ian Livingston's £20m of BT shares 'a conflict of interest'
David Cameron criticised over handling of telecom boss's appointment
The outgoing boss of BT who will become a government trade minister later this year is
facing questions about "unprecedented" conflicts of interest over his multimillion-pound
stake in the British telecoms giant.
Despite David Cameron's own promises on transparency and accountability, Downing Street
has failed to offer "robust" safeguards to deal with issues caused by bringing Ian Livingston
directly into the government from BT, according to a former trade minister.
Mr Livingston is expected to hold close to £20m worth of shares in BT when he becomes a
minister in the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) which oversees the
industry where the telecommunications giant competes.
The government's rules stipulate ministers must "scrupulously avoid any danger of an actual or
perceived conflict of interest between the ministerial position and their private financial
interests". However BIS has issued no specific orders to the new minister, and said, in line
with "normal practice", he will be placing his massive BT share holding in a blind trust.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
Well will the mouse learn
sometimes you wonder if he the mouse is trying to lose the next election
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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This is not the way to run a dance hall............
Cash for classrooms: Michael Gove plans to let firms run schools for profit
Exclusive: Details leaked by Department for Education insiders concerned that he is going
too fast and too far
Academies and free schools should become profit-making businesses using hedge funds
and venture capitalists to raise money, according to private plans being drawn up by the
Education Secretary, Michael Gove.
Details of discussions on the proposed redesign of academy regulations were leaked to
he Independent by Department for Education insiders who are concerned that Mr Gove is going
too fast and too far in his ambition to convert all 30,000 schools in England to academies.
They are worried that the new setup will divert cash from classrooms, limit the availability of
"expensive" subjects such
as music and science and end the public service vocation of teachers. They want to see an end
to the secrecy over the proposed reforms, which have not been publicly announced.
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Nick Clegg vows to veto Michael Gove's secret plans to let hedge funds and venture capitalists
cash in on schools
Lib Dems will claim during election campaign that they acted inside the Coalition as brake on Tories
Nick Clegg vowed today to veto any move by the Conservatives to allow academies and free
schools to become profit-making businesses.
The Deputy Prime Minister intervened after The Independent revealed that Michael Gove
, the Education Secretary, is considering plans to redraw the rules to allow the schools to use
hedge funds and venture capitalists to raise money.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
will cleggy keep to his stand???
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Cameron distances himself from Lord Freud's comments over food banks
Former Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett condemned Lord Freud's words as inaccurate
and insensitive
David Cameron distanced himself today from comments by a minister questioning whether
there was a link between the soaring use of food banks and cuts to benefit payments.
As reported by The Independent, Lord Freud suggested more people were using the banks
because more of them existed - and denied they were even part of the welfare system.
Mr Cameron was challenged over the remarks by Stephen Timms, the shadow Employment
Minister, during Prime Minister's Question Time.
Mr Timms asked him: "There was demand for food banks from 30,000 households in the year
before the general election, but the figure was 350,000 households last year.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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That's a big increase
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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And now Dover churches are looking to have a food bank in Dover
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Courtesy Independent..................
We're not posh: Tories rebrand party to win friends in the North
Conservatives aim to shed 'rich' image in bid to win over crucial voters outside the South East
A drive to shed the Conservatives' image as the "party of the rich" will be launched by Tory MPs
next week as they try to reposition the party as a champion of the low paid.
The campaign will target working class and ethnic minority voters outside the Tories' South East
heartlands as part of the party's effort to win crucial marginal seats in the North and Midlands
. It will need to do so to win an overall majority at the 2015 election.
The Tory MPs have linked up with think-tank experts to draw up ideas for the party's manifesto
designed to show it is on the side of ordinary people by putting the cost of living and jobs at the
top of its agenda.
Proposals include softening the Tories' "harsh" and "uncaring" image in the north, by giving
local authorities the power to reduce the benefit sanctions faced by the unemployed, so
councils could take account of local job losses. Benefit rates would still be set nationally.
Some Tory MPs are privately worried about David Cameron and George Osborne's label as
"two posh boys" and rhetoric from ministers dividing people into "scroungers and strivers".
However, organisers of the campaign believe the party's "branding problem" in the North is
mainly a legacy from the huge job losses during the Thatcher Government.
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Courtesy Guardian.................
Vince Cable to accuse Tories of blocking plan to build more council homes
Lib Dem business secretary will say 'Tory dogma' is obstructing proposal to let councils borrow
more to spend on new houses
Vince Cable, the business secretary, will accuse his Tory coalition partners of blocking a
Liberal Democrat plan to allow more council homes to be built through a relaxation of local
authority borrowing rules.
The Lib Dems believe that councils could build up to 25,000 homes if they were allowed
to pool their borrowing limits, releasing up to £2.8bn.
In a speech to the Social Liberal Forum in Manchester on Saturday, Cable will say this plan
"opens up the possibility of sensible public borrowing to revive the depressed construction
industry and to meet desperate housing need".
But the Lib Dems are being blocked by "Tory dogma", he will say.
"The Tories are hiding behind Treasury methodology, saying that more borrowing by councils
beyond permitted limits will break the fixed rules.
"So even though freeing up this borrowing space would result in tens of thousands more homes
being built, and many times more jobs, they would rather start talking about the cuts they want
to make, rather than the houses that we should build."
In his speech, Cable will also appear to express doubts about George Osborne's Help to Buy
scheme, which involves the government using loans and guarantees to help people buy houses.
He will say that easier credit is in danger of pushing up house prices, "making them still less
affordable to the ordinary first-time buyer"
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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will be interesting to see how dave and co will go about changing their image to people to those "oop norf".
the first thing would be to reduce the v.a.t on flat caps, then there would be free whippet food followed by free pairs of trousers to send ferrets down - larger baths to keep the coal in.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,942
This will be an uphill battle for the mouse
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Counsel housing building should happen on a massifs scale
The big building companies should play no part in it
The wages for professionals and trades men employed should be, privet sector commonsense rates ,no parasite agencies , or utopian public sector fantasy rates and contracts
A professional building team, free from politicians should be employed by the government to manage and execute the projects.
You can build good cheap housing on mass, ones your remove the greed of shareholders and the Housing pricing con that's been created by the big privet building companies
When counsels have built the housing, at true market pries, you start to control the big housing benefits con.
You start to recoup your investment from rents. And force down prices in the Private sector.
Back up the rental contracts with big antisocial contracts with teeth; make the Tenants responsible for small maintenance and cleaning Of communal arias.
By setting affordable rents your start to release earnings into the bigger economy, instead of it all being stolen by greedy landlords
Affordable rents for the poor will help families to stop the things that destroy family life ,poverty
PS
Just a little bit for, reg and Keith s
All council housing only for British citizens
