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Regional pay: how to increase the North-South divide and weaken the ConDem coalition?
As anticipated following Chancellor George Osborne’s budget, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has now declared that ‘regional’ pay for health workers is on the agenda. Needless to say, those in the South-East will earn more under this arrangement than colleagues further North. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, ConDems, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, economy, George Osborne, health, housing, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, pay, regional, strategy
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Government ‘incompetent’? Not when it comes to DE-governance…
Increasingly, we read that the present UK government is ‘incompetent’. But I’d suggest the Government is ‘only’ incompetent in things it reckons are fundamentally unimportant for the longer-term. David Cameron may make the occasional attempt to appear cuddly but George … Continue reading
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Tagged ConDems, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, incompetence, monetarist, welfare state
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Personal politics; when moralising replaces civic responsibility
The big issues in UK politics are how the Government is destroying public services, in favour of provision for which it is absolutely not responsible. De-governance as quickly as possible is the route our Conservative-dominated political leadership has chosen. The increasing interference … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, Andrew Lansley, BPAS, Conservative, DE-governance, feminist, morals, right to choose, welfare state
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Disabling the already disabled: the sham(e) that is the ConDems (& a Petition)
If you haven’t experienced serious illness or longer-term disability you really do need to make the effort, right now, to imagine what that might feel like close up. That’s what I hope to help you do, in this post. Having such … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Burnham, ConDems, David Cameron, DE-governance, dependency, disability, Ed Miliband, health, Nick Clegg, Pat Onions, Spartacus Report, Sue Marsh, Welfare Reform Act
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The Murdock miasma driving Clegg via Cable from Cameron – what next?
The extraordinary revelations of the past week, as grim fact upon grim fact is revealed in the News of the World phone-hacking horror story, are we all agree only the beginning. What comes next, we are also all agreed, is … Continue reading
No time to lose, if ConDems are to be stopped
Why am I not surprised that Labour now has no lead over the Conservatives? In ordinary times the left might expect considerable advantage at a point where the ConDem coalition is patently under strain, ill-considered changes to the NHS are headlines on a daily basis, and joblessness … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, DE-governance, Ed Miliband, leadership, opinion polls
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Why Andrew Rawnsley may have missed the point
The word on the political street is increasingly that Labour must step up both pace and impact, to stand any chance of winning the next election – whenever that might be. The task, it is agreed, is both big and urgent. So how … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Rawnsley, Conservative, David Miliband, DE-governance, Ed Miliband, Labour, leadership, scorched earth
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LibDem MPs must cross the floor to Labour, now
Ed Miliband finally concurs with me, that LibDem MPs of integrity must cross the floor to Labour. In today’s Observer he says it is “late, but not too late” for any LibDems of good faith to join him on the … Continue reading
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Tagged DE-governance, Ed Miliband, Labour, Liberal Democrat, political defections, public services
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Zeroing the deficit zoom, zoom: essentially a grim vanity project?
Is the frenetic rush to reduce the deficit in reality more about the Chancellor’s ego, than about the UK economy? It doesn’t take a great economist to see that when people don’t have a job, other working people are also vulnerable to unemployment. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, DE-governance, deficit, economy, George Osborne, poverty
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Going for broke(n society)
Others have already proffered more complex analysis of the Osborne Budget that I can. Few however can be more angry than I about what it will mean for large numbers of our fellow citizens. You may be equally as appalled as … Continue reading
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Tagged austerity, DE-governance, George Osborne, Labour, localism, political defections, poverty, public services
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What part of ‘ConDemistas: incompetent’ don’t we understand?
If there was ever any sheen to the Coalition’s domestic ‘policy’, that is now well and truly gone. Whether health, educational or even generic issues such as their self-styled Big Society, it’s pretty clear that ConDem ministers have made little effort … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil Service, Coalition, competence, ConDems, DE-governance, education, Labour, public services
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Whoever heard of double devolution? ‘Big Society’ sounds better (but isn’t)
You may remember ‘double devolution’; but if you do it’s probably because you are a politically progressive activist. Double devolution was the name given when Labour was in power by then Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, and her ministerial colleague Andrew … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Adonis, Big Society, David Cameron, DE-governance, Hazel Blears, Labour, localism, poverty
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Inside Job – the film we (and George Osborne) really, really need to study
We went to see the film Inside Job this evening. A hit at the Cannes Film Festival last year, it was also an Academy nominee for the Best Documentary in 2010. Written and produced by Charles Ferguson, this film demonstrates beyond doubt that the 2008 meltdown … Continue reading
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Tagged academics, DE-governance, economy, George Osborne, global, Inside Job (film), poverty, small state
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LibDems must cross the floor – before it’s all too late
It’s said we in the UK are stuck with the nightmare of Conservative slash-and-burn for a full five years. The Conservatives’ oh-so-junior partners, the Liberal Democrats, are in this view unwilling and afraid to say Stop. I don’t agree. It doesn’t have to be … Continue reading
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Tagged DE-governance, Labour, Liberal Democrat, manifesto, Nick Clegg, political defections
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Incompetent Conservative Government… or de-governance?
Michael Tomasky of The Guardian, in a recent article entitled ‘Good at theatre, dreadful at governing’, quoted the American scholar Alan Wolfe’s view of conservative (e.g. Republican) politicians: Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Society, communities, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, government, incompetence, Labour, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, philosophy, small state, social class
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