CANNESED was genius, tracer
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, in a supposedly left-wing paper, sexist shit like that. ^^^^ "Grow some balls." I can't even...
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
she's standing on a stack of newspapers because women are short
― so brycey (history mayne), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
*curtseys*
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Gilmour kid reminds me of someone...
― there is no dave only cool (blueski), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
lolalso xp to a whole other thread but, y'huh, psyched for more caek scoops. i don't really understand journalistic practices on this kind of thing - isn't it the kind of thing that a la ryan giggs' marriage, should be being flagrantly discussed piecemeal on twitte?
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Who is that? Surely not the pol. editor of The Economist?
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
murdoch meeting the dowlers this a'noon...anonymous tipoff
― LocalGarda, Friday, 15 July 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
from me i mean
Dowlers, please surreptitiously tape the meeting.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sometimes I wonder how anyone over 25 takes Laurie Penny seriously.[NB: the cenotaph incident wasn't what he was jailed for]
True but...
Passing sentence, Judge Nicholas Price QC accepted that Gilmour's behaviour at the Cenotaph did not form part of the violent disorder, but accused him of disrespect to the war dead.
Seems v. harsh - does he have any previous?
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
friend of a friend who has a brother in the know just let me know that police have opened an investigation into r brooks' involvement in maddie abduction, also got me google plus invites
― who shivs a git (darraghmac), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
None. Dumbfuck judge, my taxpayer friends and I really don't want to hear your opinion on matters outside the actual charge. Hope they appeal. xp
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fair point. Judge had no cause to mention cenotaph at all.
― Strictly vote-splitting (DL), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
The judge gave another student 12 months last week for throwing a stick.
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/9128855.Talented_student_jailed_over_riot/
― that was the last arrow in my quiver of whimsy (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Judicial appointmentsSenior Circuit Judge Appointment - Price QC11 July 2011The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke QC MP has appointed His Honour Judge Nicholas Peter Lees Price QC to be a Senior Circuit Judge, Resident Judge based at Kingston Crown Court Centre effect from Monday 11 July 2011.
11 July 2011
The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke QC MP has appointed His Honour Judge Nicholas Peter Lees Price QC to be a Senior Circuit Judge, Resident Judge based at Kingston Crown Court Centre effect from Monday 11 July 2011.
hmmn
― nakhchivan, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
They're charged with 'violent disorder' rather than criminal damage, which means the penalties are much more severe. Being part of a large group and being in a public place are aggravating factors.
The whole area of the law is extremely controversial as you're not really being judged on the acts you carried out but the wider context of the event. Someone got five years, a while back, for throwing stones at police during a 'riot'.
― модный хипстер (ShariVari), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i see that martin rowson still hasn't mastered the felt tip
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 July 2011 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
3.47pm: Breaking: David Cameron hosted Andy Coulson at Chequers this spring after his resignation in January ... More details soon ...
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
He was calling him his friend a week ago
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2011 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't forget The Official Newscorp/UK end of season finale/Rebekah Brooks did 9/11 thread
probably not going to keep murdoch and uk politics completely separate (am i right?!?!), but started another thread because the newscorp stuff going international and it was drowning out good honest tory scum news.
― caek, Friday, 15 July 2011 15:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
OK, to repost (which is disappointing) I notice that this thread has managed to spend even less time on the defense review than the mainstream media. Do people really have nothing to say? (I spent my afternoon with journos and people waiting to lose their jobs) It's another tory attack on Scotland, but this time it leaves British armed forces in an impossible position.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
As a lily-livered pacifist type, I'm not entirely unhappy that cuts are being made in defence spending, but yes, this whole thing sounds like it has fucked an entire community over. DOn't seem to be any real plans for creating new jobs there.
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I come from an air force family btw and spent my childhood on various bases, so I appreciated what a huge thing this is for the people that live there.
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, me too - I've lived my whole life on or near RAF bases (and I'm a lily-livered pacifist too, though I've recently decided on certain revolutionary exceptions). But Fox even referred to the SNP's (very unlikely to succeed) threat of independence as a reason for the decision. He's punishing communities for how they vote.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hadn't caught that aspect of it, but Fox has always been a huge cock.
Should say best wishes to you and yours dowd, dunno what you do but I hope yr okay.
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's kinda up in the air at the mo, but cheers.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i had thought the scots wanted uk armed forces off their patch??
― so brycey (history mayne), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Doubtless some of them do - the minority who support independence. But no-one in communities around these bases wants them to go. We should have found another of Ewen MacGregor's siblings to protect Leuchars, as they (thankfully) did Lossiemouth.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Quite sad about this. I worked at Leuchars for 8 years and had a great time, still know a few people there and hope things will work out ok for them.
― The multi-talented F.R. David (Billy Dods), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Brooks's husband Charlie says bag belonged to him not Rebekah. Spokesman says: "A cleaner thought it was rubbish and put it in the bin.
What cleaner throws a computer in a bin? loool
― prolego, Monday, 18 July 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
scotland hates tories, tories hate us. this will never change.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
also the nats don't want rid of the brit armed forces, salmond campaigned against this iirc.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, he did - he gave a speech n the village hall across the road from my house. The SNP's position was that we've already lost a base, so expecting Scotland to bear 2 of it's 3 bases closed was ridiculous, so both Lossiemouth and Leuchars should stay open.
At least it will be quieter here - the Typhoons are noisy as hell. Now it'll just be rifle drills and the odd helicopter (assuming the vague ideas about an army barracks come to fruition, and even then it'll probably be about five years)
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
imo the defence review is classic osbornomics, ie unserious. it wasn't a real review: if they don't want the uk to be one of the big clubs, they should make that case, but doing it as part of a defence review *and then launching into a new war* was just derrrrrrrrrrrrp.
― so brycey (history mayne), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fox kept responding to questions by saying things like 'in order to achieve a regular/reservist proportion similar to the US we have to...' but he never explained why such a ratio was desirable. Of course, it's all about the £££'s, but he should have the guts to say so.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Monday, 18 July 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
November 2006:
Shadow Olympics minister Hugh Robertson said: "The secretary of state has admitted to a 40% increase. "She has failed to disclose the true cost of VAT, contingency, building cost inflation and security, much of which was entirely predictable at the time of the bid. "Today's increase is just a starting point. While the figures remain ambiguous, we can only expect further increases."
"She has failed to disclose the true cost of VAT, contingency, building cost inflation and security, much of which was entirely predictable at the time of the bid.
"Today's increase is just a starting point. While the figures remain ambiguous, we can only expect further increases."
July 2011:
The Olympic Delivery Authority has announced 88% of the building programme for London 2012 is now complete.It has also been announced the anticipated final cost of the project fell by £16m during the last quarter.This has prompted Sports Minister Hugh Robertson to say for the first time he is "confident" the project will come in under its £9.3bn budget.He said: "With one year to go construction is 88% complete, ahead of time and under budget."
It has also been announced the anticipated final cost of the project fell by £16m during the last quarter.
This has prompted Sports Minister Hugh Robertson to say for the first time he is "confident" the project will come in under its £9.3bn budget.
He said: "With one year to go construction is 88% complete, ahead of time and under budget."
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
NHS services opened to competition
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
FUCK THESE PEOPLE.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wheelchair services an interesting choice for the first round, given Cameron's been talking about his troubles with them.
― stet, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seriously, fuck these guys. They know it's completely buried.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hear Champneys in Tring treats people in wheelchairs well...
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Interesting choice of day to announce this eh?
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Guardian has the Lansley announcement story on page 15, the Independent on page 21, The Times on page 17 and the Daily Mail on page 31. And that's your lot.
― James Mitchell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 07:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc this was something that was going to happen. and now it has happened, kind of thing.
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100098140/george-osborne-wants-a-single-euro-state/
what does this all mean?
― only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Osborne's lost his (Jonny) marbles?
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dorset County Council is closing 9 of its 34 libraries, with 11 of those left to be run by unpaid volunteers and community groups.
Apparently it's OK because 75 per cent of Dorset residents never set foot inside a library.
Wonder what the percentage of primary school age children is. Oh.
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
They all vote Tory down there anyway, so fuck 'em, they're getting what they voted for
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 14:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Would maybe say ignorance rather than stupidity, but that's a minor quibble
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 6 June 2013 18:46 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Basically imagine you're a 'hardworking' person with an income of £400 a week. Your outgoings are £300 a week, leaving £100 for groceries, petrol/transport, entertainment. You mistakenly think the person on £72/week benefits to cover EVERYTHING that isn't rent or council tax is somehow at level pegging to you, and they're even more outraged by their crazy neighbour getting £106/week for being ill. So, filled with the self-righteousness of someone who's never had to claim, they blame the poor doley/sick person rather than downward pressure on wages from rich people who whine they can't afford to give you a raise *and* pay the mortgage on their third home. It's an amazing shell game, isn't it?
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 6 June 2013 19:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
The benefit cap and the removal of universal child benefit etc are all part of a shitty recent phenomenon of opposition parties pledging to stick to the spending plans of the current government* for x years and refusing to see any policy or law as being reversible.
Parties? It's only Labour really, isn't it? I can't remember Osborne pledging to stick with the plans of the death throes of Brown's government.
― Hearing moyes confirmedare we hearing m (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I did read somewhere that Osborne also endorsed that idea, not sure where though.
― seanda.ly (seandalai), Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:25 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
They did it in previous elections they lost to Blair and in 2010 they pledged immediate cuts then backtracked a fair bit in the run-up to the election.
xp
― no man is an islam (onimo), Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:28 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
as is often the case, suzy : otm.
the problem aint benefits, its the the fucked up "pay" for those on the lower scales (i.e for example : my mum), who cant even pay for the basics after a weeks work.
the difference between working and claiming are so marginal that its easy to fall into the 'f*ck'em all' trap. as has my old ma ..
(and dont get me started on the whole apprenticeships piss take that is happening. companies are using apprens. for free labour for weekend/overtime as opposed to those on 'proper' contracts as apprens are basically free)
solution : the living wage as a min. for all irrespective of the status/hours.
the so called minimum wage is a fucking joke in 2013.
― mark e, Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:31 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Does the 72 cover housing etc
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 22:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
No, rent is paid via housing benefit. For the £72 (£312/month), you've got to pay all the household bills (newly including a fraction of council tax), feed yourself, replace toiletries and go to job interviews/your shitty Workfare placement. Ask yourself if on this basis you could make a grand last three months?
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh i know well its a bullshit amount, professional curiosity is all.
― posters who have figured how how to priv (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:14 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"(and dont get me started on the whole apprenticeships piss take that is happening. companies are using apprens. for free labour"
I have seen it at an electrical company I worked at. Kids getting paid £3ph and getting tasks like crawling through voids under buildings with asbestos risks. I used to tell them to get the fuck back into college.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 6 June 2013 23:47 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
bcz of the hours requirement for a level 2 gnvq the apprenticeship is becoming part of of the college course iirc
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:20 (1 week ago) Permalink
a lot of these are run in conjunction with colleges as far as i'm aware
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
When I said 'get back to college' I meant get out of this job, before it is too late.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
i know, college tragically is ceasing to be the answer
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 00:42 (1 week ago) Permalink
If it is a competition between being an unemployable qualified electrician vs an unemployable student. I wish I had gone for the latter really.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 7 June 2013 00:46 (1 week ago) Permalink
No, rent is paid via housing benefit.
Even this isn't guaranteed to cover all of your rent, and is only going to get worse with bedroom tax, caps etc. I had to pay £5 a week rent out of my £53 a week JSA.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 June 2013 06:01 (1 week ago) Permalink
People are having to pay a lot more than £5 a week now. Doesn't help that rents are insanely high but God forbid the Labour Party should (seriously) do anything to counter that.
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 08:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
I have a council flat and my service charges run to about £13 a week (this includes caretaking, central heating, Freeview reception and hot water). If I were signing on, I'd have to pay them out of benefits because HB has only ever covered the basic rent charge. A friend living in an HA flat (single parent, gets DLA, not working because child is too young) is having to find £33/week out of her benefits to pay her service charges, which I consider unreasonable, because she's being charged a few quid a week for things like 'lift depreciation' and a whole panoply of items that council tenants are never asked to cover. The difference between my charges and hers sucks up the £20/week she receives in child benefit. This year, she's also had to find about £20/month for council tax. Until her kid starts a full school day, she really can't try for a job and the anxiety of having to live on much less than last year and the endless letters saying 'Surprise! We're going to chisel you in this new way!' are affecting her mental and physical health.
The government really isn't considering that it would be cheaper in the long run to make sure she has a reasonable standard of living during her child's early years. The knock-on effect of the cuts mean huge costs elsewhere, eg needing more health care. I know she spends every spare penny she has on getting her kid to library groups, nursery, and the like, just to make sure she isn't at a loss compared to the posh kids, because she deliberately chose a flat in a good school catchment. She makes nothing but good choices with the funds she does have, and it pisses me off to see people like her used as whipping boys by people who will never want for anything and don't actually give a shit about anyone else's children.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
This might be a very thick sounding question so forgive me...but do governments have any sway over rent prices? Can they enforce a cap or anything?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
JSA doesn't cover rent because that's what HB covers but when I was last unemployed and moved back in with my parents they cut my JSA in half because I wasn't paying rent
(not complaining since I was doing a lot better than most of the stories itt, just shrugging at the logic)
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
No, and you can thank the rotting corpse of Thatcher for that.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:14 (1 week ago) Permalink
xpost
The Tories de-regulated in 1989. So says Wiki. Don't know how it worked before that.
it pisses me off to see people like her used as whipping boys by people who will never want for anything and don't actually give a shit about anyone else's children.
Well that's Ed Miliband's Labour Party for you.
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:18 (1 week ago) Permalink
I met the Director of Policy for the Labour Party at a wedding last year and greatly regret not taking the opportunity to shake him repeatedly by his lapels and maybe slap him a few times.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 June 2013 10:49 (1 week ago) Permalink
Got an idea for a pic to put here, but probably too soon with emotions still running high.
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:54 (1 week ago) Permalink
My parents have a private rental agreement dating back to the early eighties and are covered by Registered Fair Rent legislation. Their rent can only be increased "fairly" by agreement with a council board, i think. It doesn't go up in line with the insane market rates . They pay about half as much for a gorgeous two bed flat in Highbury as i would for a shoebox in Finsbury Park.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 7 June 2013 10:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/jun/01/fair-rent-tenants-sitting-comfortably
Abolishing that was almost as much of a social disaster as selling off the social housing stock.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 June 2013 11:03 (1 week ago) Permalink
Unfortunately the property market has over-inflated since then to such an extent that any attempt to bring in rent controls would be pretty nominal - even the amount required to cover a mortgage and nothing else would still be very high, especially in the SE.
― Matt DC, Friday, 7 June 2013 11:05 (1 week ago) Permalink
My friend's kid is actually at nursery with some mini Milibands - she's very old Labour and her parents were refugee Communists (oh, the irony). Like most of us, she has the feeling Ed isn't blind to poverty and access issues, but is choosing to fellate the Tories out of a misguided idea of electability. There's more voters who turned away from Labour because of Iraq and the Blairite tendency than will ever swing Labour's way from the middle ground, but I suppose they're not in the constituencies that need to swing. And all parties are in thrall to neoliberalism, where the market is free but individuals no longer are.
Renters used to have assured tenancies similar to the ones still given to council tenants, and there was no council tax, only rates for property owners. I still believe private renters should not pay council tax, because it's based on the value of your landlord's asset (and you'll already be paying a fuckton to live in a really nice flat that belongs to someone else). With social housing, the rents are smaller so I'm more receptive to paying CT because my rent plus that is still far cheaper than a rented room in most parts of London, and I'm living somewhere that belongs to everyone, including me.
Her HA loudly trumpets their current rent freeze, but they just raise the service charges to compensate.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Friday, 7 June 2013 11:16 (1 week ago) Permalink
"Normal citizens" have nothing to fear from UK intelligence gathering, says UK Foreign Sec @WilliamJHague after GCHQ spying claims #MarrShow
This fucking guy...
― 77 Admin - Here to help! (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 9 June 2013 12:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
Abnormal citizens will have to buck their ideas up, though..
― Mark G, Monday, 10 June 2013 16:48 (1 week ago) Permalink
If that's his thesis, Hague must be shitting himself, really.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Monday, 10 June 2013 17:11 (1 week ago) Permalink
The document, prepared by Rothschild investment bank, was submitted to the business department in November 2011, but is understood to still be under active review. It has never been made public, or been seen by higher education professionals.
Any move to increase the interest rates on loans already taken out could add extra years of repayments even for those who left university long ago.
In the report, dubbed Project Hero, the authors suggest a script for ministers to persuade graduates to accept the worsening of their conditions. "We all live in difficult times," they suggest ministers argue. "You have a deal which is so much better than your younger siblings (they will incur up to £9,000 tuition fees and up to RPI+3% interest rates)".
A statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills confirmed that ministers were still looking at how to privatise the pre-2012 student loan book. It noted: "The government has not made any changes to the pre-2012 loans interest rate terms … Work on the feasibility of selling the pre-2012 student loan book is ongoing."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jun/13/raise-interest-rate-student-loans-secret-report
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:35 (1 week ago) Permalink
These fuckin guys
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:39 (1 week ago) Permalink
These fucking guys mostly went to university for FREE.
― on the sidelines dishing out sass (suzy), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
Project Hero
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:56 (1 week ago) Permalink
^
― I turned away to leave these few in thought and contemplation (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 13 June 2013 22:57 (1 week ago) Permalink
Probably stands for something daft like Higher Education Refinancing Order. There is actually an education service provider called Project Hero. Imagine they are thrilled rn.
― О боже, какой мужчина (ShariVari), Thursday, 13 June 2013 23:12 (1 week ago) Permalink
I won't pretend to really know how student finance (or mathematics, for that matter, works) but my back-of-a-napkin calculations suggest that if you borrowed £9,000 a year to cover fees and £2,000 per term to cover your overpriced UNITE housing, books, etc, at 3% you'd have to be earning something like £32,000 a year before you started meeting your interest payments. Might not be correct, though.
― О боже, какой мужчина (ShariVari), Friday, 14 June 2013 07:36 (6 days ago) Permalink
But the debt gets written off, anyway, after, um, how many years is it?
― Mark G, Friday, 14 June 2013 08:41 (6 days ago) Permalink
current situation: http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/student-loans-repay
― caek, Friday, 14 June 2013 08:44 (6 days ago) Permalink
see the table "When are outstanding loans wiped?"
― caek, Friday, 14 June 2013 08:45 (6 days ago) Permalink
― go cray cray on my lobster soufflé (snoball), Friday, 14 June 2013 10:14 (6 days ago) Permalink
George Osborne was the victim of an unlikely case of mistaken identity at this week’s G8 summit, after US President Barack Obama confused the chancellor with a black soul singer.The chancellor’s attempts to explain the complexities of tax avoidance to G8 leaders were thrown off course when Mr Obama interjected on three occasions to indicate that he agreed fully with “Jeffrey”....Mr Obama explained that he knew who Mr Osborne was, adding: “I’m sorry, man. I must have confused you with my favourite R&B singer.”It is unlikely the chancellor has previously been confused with Jeffrey Osborne, a well-known R&B and soul singer from Rhode Island who has had countless hit singles and albums in his illustrious career.
The chancellor’s attempts to explain the complexities of tax avoidance to G8 leaders were thrown off course when Mr Obama interjected on three occasions to indicate that he agreed fully with “Jeffrey”.
...
Mr Obama explained that he knew who Mr Osborne was, adding: “I’m sorry, man. I must have confused you with my favourite R&B singer.”It is unlikely the chancellor has previously been confused with Jeffrey Osborne, a well-known R&B and soul singer from Rhode Island who has had countless hit singles and albums in his illustrious career.
100% real. Article is gold. http://t.co/HPo4TB6Usc
― gyac, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 22:55 (Yesterday) Permalink