DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived Cleggeron era

bouncing back - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12967521

The motion was supported and the council will now write to the Prime Minister indicating support for a Bill going through Parliament calling for the Government to research the possibility of switching our clocks.

However, some Cornwall councillors said it would have a negative impact on farmers.

Councillor Pat Lambshead, who seconded the motion, disputed the claims, saying animals did not "wear watches" so would not know what time it was and would not be affected by changes to clocks.

Mike Eddowes responded by saying: "There are farmers who will completely disagree with what Councillor Lambshead has said. The animals do know what time it is and this would disrupt them.

read "clocks" as "cocks" there for a minute

Yeah, but he's got a lambs head so.

Government minister Francis Maude has blamed his children for a rejected claim on the latest round of his parliamentary expenses.

The Conservative MP for Horsham released a statement ahead of publication of the next batch of allowances tomorrow that explains why a claim for £3.95 was turned down.

Mr Maude, a father of five, said it covered the cost of watching blockbuster film Sherlock Holmes, starring Jude Law, which his daughters had purchased without his knowledge.

The Cabinet Office minister added that his children had promised to let him know if they watched pay-per-view films again so he did not "unwittingly" put through claims for the cost.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) said only connection to basic free-toair television and broadband packages can be claimed for. Officials confirmed that when MPs submit expenses forms they are responsible for the claims made, which should only be for costs incurred as part of their job.

Mr Maude said: "On Thursday, Ipsa will be publishing the latest round of MPs' expense claims.

"The details will show that on 28 October 2010. I submitted a claim for the combined TV and internet package that is in place at my London home. This related to costs incurred during the month of September.

"A quick investigation showed that unbeknownst to me, my daughters had purchased an on-demand film - Sherlock Holmes. Ipsa was right to reject £3.95 for the film and I should have taken a closer look at the bill."

Mr Maude was criticised at the height of the expenses scandal for claiming for a London home he has a mortgage on while owning a family home elsewhere in the city. At the time he criticised "highly slanted personal attacks" on him in relation to the claims, insisting he had moved to the new flat for "family reasons" and that gain made on it during that period would eventually be returned to the taxpayer.

Clegg's made himself look a right tit over the last couple of days. More than usual, I mean.

FrancMaud is putting in some "lol" entries in his expenses claim, to see if they get picked up.

If this one hadn't, next month three films, and by the time christmas came around, he'd be claiming for buying Necker Island!

opening doors
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breaking barriers
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Smashing through the glass ceiling:

http://i.imgur.com/Yq9tB.jpg

He insisted that higher life expectancy meant people should – and usually want – to work for longer before taking their pension

There's a practical ceiling to this though - in most jobs you can't really go on working much past 65 even if you live for another 35 years. Getting up and working a full-time job when you're nearing your 70s can't really be conducive to increasing your life expectancy. And I can't think of many employers who'd employ someone in their late 60s.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 8:55 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Wouldn't it better if everyone worked less though? I don't mind working until I'm (a bit) older but I don't want to do 40 hours a week.

shorter working lives reduces unemployment i think yeah but still there's the whole "population of old gits to pay for" thing

Might have to see if I can claim for a duck house and moat cleaning under Shapps' new Tenant Cashback.

Jacob Rees-Mogg told the House of Commons yesterday that when he is back in his North East Somerset constituency he wants to know that his meat really is from "God's own county".

Food is often stamped "produced in Britain" but the meat contained in products such as pork pies or ready meals could be from overseas and simply assembled in this country, a practice Mr Rees-Mogg wants stopped.

His demands also extended to protecting Yorkshire puddings, which he said the "continentals" would have "no clue" how to make.

Mr Rees-Mogg told MPs he would "not like a German sausage at all – they are much too spicy and flavoured for my taste".

He said: "We want our right to eat our sausages stuffed full of bread and things like that, because when they are, they taste nice. We do not want all this garlic and stuff that we get in foreign sausages.

"We really need to know that information, so that we can get the food that we want, like and love – ideally the food from Somerset, where the grass is of particularly high quality.

"Those who understand the digestion of cattle will realise that if the grass has the right flavour, and the water that falls is the best-quality rain, only to be found in Somerset, the meat and its marbling develops in a particular way.

"When one looks at a piece of meat in a farm shop, like the farm shop that I used to live next door to, it has a quality that makes one look forward to one's Sunday lunch with some Yorkshire pudding – I know that is not meat, but it would be most upsetting to think that one's Yorkshire pudding came from the continentals.

"I am sure that they have no clue how to make it."

dread to think what the twat has to say about Black Pudding

Is that Jay Mogg, Nancy's brother?

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Rees-Mogg is rated as one of the Conservatives' most rebellious MPs.[9]

Look at his eyes! Has he double-dropped or something?

Quality debate on Hansard:

Jacob Rees-Mogg: We really need to know that information, so that we can get the food that we want, like and love-ideally the food from Somerset, where the grass is of particularly high quality. Those hon. Members who understand the digestion of cattle will realise that if the grass has the right flavour, and the water that falls is the best-quality rain, only to be found in Somerset, the meat and its marbling develops in a particular way.

Mr Nuttall: I must intervene on that point. The best quality rain, if that is what I heard my hon. Friend say, must surely fall in Manchester, in particular that part of Greater Manchester which comprises my constituency, Bury North.

Jacob Rees-Mogg: There are occasions during a test match at Old Trafford when the rain falling can be the best possible rain, when it saves England from a notable defeat, but the rain that falls on the edge of the Mendips is the finest rain. That, as it happens, is why Joseph of Arimathea visited. He just wanted to see quite what high quality the rain was.

exterminate the brutes imo

Guess the Century or what?

that is amazing

"I'll see thy 'praise my locality' and I'll raise yer a "our good lord jesus christ""

Will he fold, or will he raise a "MargThatch" reference?

When we see the Union flag, we want to think, "That's a best bit of British beef." We do not want to think that it has possibly come from Kobe, where the beef used to be very good and delicious, but which we might now worry was becoming radioactive. We need to know what it is, and what is in it. If it has come from Kobe via some European country and we are not being told, that must be to the disadvantage of the British consumer when they go out to do the weekly shopping.

mmmmm you can really taste the CJD num num num

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"That's a best bit of British beef."

sonned by a jap kid over a radioactive beef

feed me a gummer burger

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"Hi, just thought I'd give the Tory bloggers another chance to run out the 'Prime Mentalist' gags for old times' sake."

Interesting story: Clegg adviser threatens to quit over NHS shake-up

Think the Coalition might need some treatment for that Achilles Heel?

Suggest going private?

It's all very well saying "radical reorganisation of the NHS is needed" but no-one actually said that in the General Election campaign, did they?

Of course not - no-one would vote for them if they said that, silly.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13047890

Clegg collared by that "bigoted woman" - wonder who set that up.

"It's gone wrong," she said, "Let's face it, it's all gone wrong."

It's good but it's not "Where are they flocking from?"

"These Polish people, where do they all come from?"

Mummy, keep me away from the scary nurses. What a shitebag.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13063285

Aaaaaaaaaah gutted.

Some 96% of 497 delegates at the Royal College of Nursing conference backed a motion questioning Andrew Lansley's handling of NHS reforms in England.

LOL

Mr Clegg said his late grandfather Hugh Clegg, a GP who edited the British Medical Journal, would have approved of the NHS reforms.

He told the charities: "I reckon that he would have recognised a lot of what we're talking about.

"The NHS was always supposed to be a service which is quite diverse, which involves communities, which involves people like you, which draws on the community and volunteering spirit.

"And in many ways I think we're almost trying to return some of what to do with the NHS to some of its original aspirations.

"This is not a revolution we're introducing, it's an evolution of trends and principles that have been in the NHS from its very foundations.

Well most of the doctors had to be blackmailed and threatened into the NHS in the first place iirc

Isn't the basic plan "give all the budgets to the GPs" ?

No wonder Clegg GP would have approved...

people like you somehow doesn't quite have the right man-of-the-people ring to it

...and plenty of doctors left the UK after the war to do research in the US because the NHS was primarily about palliative care.

volunteering spirit

o_O

re that, this is from last year but it's still good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty3Tlf4Th8U

If you plan to reduce the number of migrants coming to the UK, maybe stop bombing places? Think we did this already with Blair iirc.

don't recall blair bombing poland tbh

would have needed the builders otherwise?

iirc the 'line' on libya was that it was done to stop migration...

The 'immigrants should learn English' stuff really grates - it's already a requirement for a visa for almost anyone coming from outside the EU. Even if you're married to a UK citizen, you need to be able to prove with a secure English language test, that you can speak / understand elementary English. The way the system was introduced was monumentally cack-handed, though. Immigrants wanting a Spouse visa need a test that meets certain minimum standards of reliability and security. All of the tests approved by the UKBA are either unsuitable, limited in their international availability or require an extremely lengthy wait for booking / results.

English-language learning programmes for immigrants already here have been cut to the bone at the same time.

Things are going wrong when the BNP can accuse you of breathtaking cynicism on immigration policy.