Seems rather strange that Labour aren’t calling for by-elections and making more of the Tories electrol overspend case. Wonder if it’s because they’ve done the exact same thing in the past. What else explains it, perhaps they just don’t want by-elections as it’ll crush them.
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Just when you think the newspaper business can’t get any worse…
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This osbourne thing is bollocks. No way he should edit a media organisation and remain aMP.
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I reckon he should resign as an MP and rely on his charm and talent in the big wide world.
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I would not be surprised if that were the case, @lord-duckhunter , but it’s well worth remembering that the same people that would have been the ones trying to keep Corbyn off the ballot.
We’ve got two very different Labour parties going on at the minute. The left wing majority versus the right wing minority that lost votes for twenty years yet still think they’re in charge.
I’d wager even a dyed in the wool right winger like yourself would want a proper contest at the next election. It’s the people in both parties that could be in either preventing that from happening.
It can’t be tenable. He’s now working five days a week on private engagements. When will he canvass his constituents, do surgeries, organise or back up local campaigns.
I have criticised the likes of David Miliband and Louise Mensch for abandoning their constituents, and they deserve that shame. However, at least they had the grace to sling their hooks once they’d swung elsewhere.
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He’s going to do the voting in Parliament / constituency work in the afternoon after the paper has gone to print.
So obviously it’s going to be fine.
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Ah my world. Part of me goes. Yep that’s happening and wonder about the department of education comments re the input they are making. The other part of me thinks this will help privatise children’s social care. But that would mean it’s still a postcode lottery.
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Here you go. Cuts to council budgets mean the councillors need to make some tough decisions on their priorities. Here’s an example. Teacher, earning money and paying tax, has a severely disabled son who needs to go to school. Council cut his taxi fares to school and she can’t afford the £500/month costs so she has to hand in her notice. She is now unemployed and claiming benefits but that’s okay because it is a central government cost, not a local government cost.
Hooray for austerity!
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Hey, those Grammar school kids need their taxi’s to school. Who is going to pay for that, eh?
Shadow Education Secretary Angela Rayner has slammed ministers over plans to spend £20million on taxis to take children up to 15 miles to the nearest grammar schools .
The government had previously cut a larger amount from the school transport budget that had supported a far larger number of pupils to get to school by bus.
Chancellor Philip Hammond announced £5million per year – £20million over the Parliament – in the Budget to provide transport for pupils to the nearest grammar school, up to a limit of 15 miles from their home.
But the Government has now admitted that only around 1,000-1,500 pupils stand to benefit, meaning the cost per pupil will be £3,000 to £5,000 a year.
Meanwhile the grant supporting councils in providing school transport, usually buses, was cut by £6million a year from 2015-16.
Those cuts led to concerns that disabled teenagers no longer had a right to help getting to sixth form or college, pupils being forced to move school, and families being charged hundreds of pounds extra.
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I do not like the sound of this at all.
It is starting to smell a very funny colour as we used to say
The answer casts a depressing light on the relationship between business and politics in modern Britain — and on a prime minister who was too often in thrall to others in his social circle, or dazzled by the very rich and famous.
Given what we now know about how Cameron helped Uber, it seems unlikely to be a coincidence that the firm’s senior vice president of policy and communications is his friend and former colleague, Rachel Whetstone, godmother to his late son Ivan.
Ms Whetstone is married to Cameron’s former chief strategist at No. 10, Steve Hilton: she is one of the best-connected operators in Britain. Around the time of her appointment to the taxi firm, George Osborne met with Uber twice, and business minister Matthew Hancock once.
And how fascinating that BlackRock, the largest world’s largest asset management business, holds a £500 million stake in Uber.
BlackRock’s connections with the Cameron Tories are, of course, second to none. After the 2015 election, Rupert Harrison, George Osborne’s gifted special adviser in Downing Street, joined BlackRock as a senior adviser.
Notoriously, George Osborne has since joined, too — on an annual salary of £650,000 for working one day a week.
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The first rule of corruption is
get into bed with the media corporations before you get into bed with other corporations.
Job done.
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Thanks to the Tories, we’re now world leaders in the cost of tuition fees, even more expensive than the average cost of a US education.
It’s irritating to know that shits like this will be re-elevted come the next general election 
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