[the truth]

the real culprits are the people able to work who milked benefits thus reducing the funds available to the really sick and disabled and the nhs.....new labour under their invented insane pc doctrine refused to draw a line between who deserved disability and sickness and who didnt....they got lost in the words managing diversity , which meant almost everyone claimed to be disabled one way or another. shame on new labour for perverting our language and our country. i hope the tories are true to their word and protect the real sick and disabled and the nhs cover ups are exposed. and i hope they get medievil on the workless benefit scroungers who breed for benefits and give their kids an horrific example of how to live

[Kizzy]

George Osborne will reveal how the government plans to cut £12bn from Britain’s welfare bill when he announces a fresh wave of austerity measures in his second budget in less than four months on 8 July. The chancellor said he wanted to make a start delivering on the commitments made in the Conservative party manifesto and pledged that his package would be a budget for “working people”.

Announcing his decision in an article in the Sun, Osborne said he would provide details of how the government plans to eliminate the UK’s budget deficit – forecast to be £75bn this year – and run a surplus by the end of the parliament. “On the 8th of July I am going to take the unusual step of having a second budget of the year – because I don’t want to wait to turn the promises we made in the election into a reality … And I can tell you it will be a budget for working people.”

Brace yourself for the real budget.....
Where else would the announcement come from than the sun? :/

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...atives-deficit

[Kizzy]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...-for-christmas

[joeysteele]

I thought it totally ridiculous to present a budget in March with an election looming.
Now that budget is meaningless, so he should have waited until after the election anyway.

If he goes too far again, he could find problems,his welfare reform had no detail in the election, the plans to do it were there but no detail.

It may yet be that while some of the more decent Conservative MPs support more welfare reform, they can support the plan but not the detail.
I isn't impossible with his small majority not to hit some very difficult times getting legislation through.

I'm not holding my breath as to that but you never know in parliament.

[Kizzy]

It's not the MPs that are the issue it's the ministers, Gove and IDS, would MPs dare go against them?

[Kizzy]

Why hold this info untill now, if there was any concerns why not voice them before the election? :/

'Police will be forced to adopt a “paramilitary” style of enforcement if the government inflicts big budget cuts on them, the head of the police officers’ organisation has warned.

Steve White, chair of the Police Federation, said his 123,000 members, from police constables to inspectors, fear a move towards a more violent style of policing as they try to keep law and order with even fewer officers than now.'

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...military-force

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

It's not the MPs that are the issue it's the ministers, Gove and IDS, would MPs dare go against them?

I doubt it myself but will wait and see, there are already rumblings against the coming out of the human rights act.

I am not expecting anything to cheer at from this other budget now in July.

I agree, the police issue should have been made known very vocally before and during the election campaign.
It says a great deal about the campaign that none of it was.

Sadly for the Police, the have the same total waste of space that is Theresa May still as Home secretary,how this totally incompetent woman has survived there the last 5 years is beyond me, never mind be left there now.

[Kizzy]

'Tory deputy chairman says party should consider changing name to become Workers party

Labour is debating how to rebuild as a party but, if an interview with Robert Halfon in the Sun is anything to go by, the Conservatives are quite serious about repositioning themselves too. Halfon is a long-standing advocate of what he describes as “blue collar Conservatism” and, in last week’s reshuffle, he was made Conservative deputy chairman. The interview suggests he is determined to shake things up.'


'He says he wants the Tories to attract more low-income candidates.
I’d like to see us have a special emphasis on getting candidates from low-income backgrounds - on £25,000 or £26,000 a year - and single-parent candidates.'



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-politics-live

[Kizzy]

How strange is it that Americans are now asking for union rights for unskilled workers just as we're getting rid of them?...


http://www.theguardian.com/business/...-protest-video

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

'Tory deputy chairman says party should consider changing name to become Workers party

Labour is debating how to rebuild as a party but, if an interview with Robert Halfon in the Sun is anything to go by, the Conservatives are quite serious about repositioning themselves too. Halfon is a long-standing advocate of what he describes as “blue collar Conservatism” and, in last week’s reshuffle, he was made Conservative deputy chairman. The interview suggests he is determined to shake things up.'


'He says he wants the Tories to attract more low-income candidates.
I’d like to see us have a special emphasis on getting candidates from low-income backgrounds - on £25,000 or £26,000 a year - and single-parent candidates.'



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-politics-live

Actually if he holds on a bit longer, rather than workers party,'workhouse party' could be probably more appropriate.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

'Tory deputy chairman says party should consider changing name to become Workers party

Labour is debating how to rebuild as a party but, if an interview with Robert Halfon in the Sun is anything to go by, the Conservatives are quite serious about repositioning themselves too. Halfon is a long-standing advocate of what he describes as “blue collar Conservatism” and, in last week’s reshuffle, he was made Conservative deputy chairman. The interview suggests he is determined to shake things up.'


'He says he wants the Tories to attract more low-income candidates.
I’d like to see us have a special emphasis on getting candidates from low-income backgrounds - on £25,000 or £26,000 a year - and single-parent candidates.'



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-politics-live

Does it not say it all that they consider £26k to be "low income"? So would they consider a family with two earning that - so £52k a year - to be a 'low income household"? They really have no idea, do they...

[Kizzy]

'Bank of England officials are secretly researching the financial shocks that could hit Britain if there is a vote to leave the European Union in the forthcoming referendum.

The Bank blew its cover on Friday when it accidentally emailed details of the project – including how the bank intended to fend off any inquiries about its work – direct to the Guardian.

According to the confidential email, the press and most staff in Threadneedle Street must be kept in the dark about the work underway, which has been dubbed Project Bookend.'

http://www.theguardian.com/business/...fallout-brexit

[empire]

both labour and the tories are greedy, a ukip councillor boycott a meal that costs the taxpayer each 2,700. and a labour councillor said that he is nothing but sour grapes, both parties are out of touch, with the people, and are there to line their pockets with your money, they are no differnet than the bankers.

[Kizzy]

Well that's a good point it's about who is slightly less corrupt it seems.

[Kizzy]

Can anyone decipher this?...

“One in three young people in Britain today are from working-class backgrounds. So too are 23% of undergraduates from the top third of universities and 11% from Oxbridge. But only 7% of applicants to the civil service fast stream are from working-class backgrounds, falling to just 3.5% of those who are given offers.”

Hancock said the civil service’s diversity record was “not good enough” and stressed that “the ladder to the top can be climbed by all”.

The new cabinet office minister said he wanted to see a civil service where there was a “freedom to fail”, where promotion and pay were tied to performance, and where there were “more porous borders” between it and the private sector.'

What exactly is meant by 'freedom to fail'? does in mean no accountability?
If you toe the party line we'll promote you (performance related pay) and tory donor shareholders in charge of any private investment....

[Kizzy]

Rupert Murdoch’s business empire is due to design, build and run the software for digital voting at the next election.
Rupert Murdoch’s British telecommunications company Sky UK Limited is apparently holding secret talks with the newly elected Conservative Party about plans to fully digitise the UK voting process in time for the 2020 General Election.Our source describes the discussions as “well advanced”.

Twelve million current SKY customers – around a fifth of the population – would automatically receive the “already finished” skyVOTE app downloaded to their phones, TVs, and other devices. Non-Sky customers would be encouraged to download the free app to allow them to vote – in what is described as “a cutting edge, state of the art voting system for a modern democracy”.

http://news.bfnn.co.uk/murdoch-to-be...ing-from-2020/

[the truth]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Rupert Murdoch’s business empire is due to design, build and run the software for digital voting at the next election.
Rupert Murdoch’s British telecommunications company Sky UK Limited is apparently holding secret talks with the newly elected Conservative Party about plans to fully digitise the UK voting process in time for the 2020 General Election.Our source describes the discussions as “well advanced”.

Twelve million current SKY customers – around a fifth of the population – would automatically receive the “already finished” skyVOTE app downloaded to their phones, TVs, and other devices. Non-Sky customers would be encouraged to download the free app to allow them to vote – in what is described as “a cutting edge, state of the art voting system for a modern democracy”.

http://news.bfnn.co.uk/murdoch-to-be...ing-from-2020/

at least sky are a legitimate free market company unlike the disgusting monopoly that is BT