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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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LibDems prop up the Coalition; they don’t protect us from it
It takes a special sort of bare-faced nerve to be a LibDem politician right now. Extraordinarily, they ask us to agree that the Coalition is being molded by them in positive ways and would, by inference, be ‘worse’ without them. … Continue reading
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
Eton and equality don’t mix. Please note, Blue Labour.
So here’s today’s Guardian, in a piece with the depressingly predictable news that some 31 of the 1,008 new entrants to this year’s Who’s Who attended Eton: The coalition government is dominated by former public school pupils. Within days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Robathan, beware, Blue Labour, change, Chris Huhne, David Cameron, Dominic Lawson, equality, Eton, George Osborne, health, Ken Clarke, misogyny, rape
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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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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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Shifting state debt onto the most vulnerable is the ConDem way
What will it take for the LibDems to say enough? We learnt yesterday that the Coalition Government has decided it will no longer support the Financial Inclusion Fund and other services offering debt advice and help, all at a time when … Continue reading
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Tagged debt, economy, George Osborne, housing, loan sharks, Stella Creasy
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Rough sleeping? It’s all the Councils’ faults.
Today (25 January 2011) sees a Response column in The Guardian by Grant Shapps, Minister for Housing, in which he dismisses Patrick Butler’s prediction that ‘savage cuts will leave people sleeping rough on the streets‘. Shapps proclaims that the Tory-led … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, councils, economy, George Osborne, Grant Shapps, housing, silo-thinking
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Tory ‘dictatorship of the moment’ … LibDems, where are you?
There is clear and fundamental purpose behind the apparent chaos of the current Conservative-led ‘reforms’. The chaos is a cover, whether intentional or not, to distract us whilst a root-and-branch revision of the rules of engagement is being embedded into UK politics. There’s little doubt now … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, George Osborne, Liberal Democrat, Nick Clegg, Robert Tressell, Victorian
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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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