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[tsubaki]

ffs

Commons defeat leaves flat owners facing huge bills to fix cladding

Amendment to fire safety bill could have spared leaseholders costs of up to £100,000 to make their homes safe

www.theguardian.com

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Had lots of time for kids company they did out of the box working with children who had gone through some horrendous experiences when working dawn sarf. Camilla Batmanghelidgh got proper shafted by Tory Government by in 2015. I suppose the danger was always on the wall when kids company started to take monies from state.

Kids Company founder calls for apology from Gove

The charity, which supported vulnerable young people in London and Bristol, closed its doors in 2015.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Yarrgh]

It's heartless to blame job losses on unemployed people – but it's how much of Britain thinks | Polly Toynbee

Only by engaging people with inequality on a local level can we turn around Britain’s blame culture and address social injustice, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

Unfortunately I am not surprised. And that's a big part of why they keep getting voted in.

 

[peteblue]

It's heartless to blame job losses on unemployed people – but it's how much of Britain thinks | Polly Toynbee

Only by engaging people with inequality on a local level can we turn around Britain’s blame culture and address social injustice, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

Unfortunately I am not surprised. And that's a big part of why they keep getting voted in.

Under Conservatives, unemployment is usually a failure of management; under Labour, unemployment is usually a failure of government. It is only in a very small percentage that it is the failure of the individual.......

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Let the sell off begin. Another step towards full privatisation. The next thing you hear from the Tories will be that "the NHS is an expensive monolith. It is not working well; we must sell of it bit by bit. We will all get used to it. We survived the war, after all."

US company in takeover of network of GP practices - The Lowdown

Operose Health Ltd, the UK arm of the large US healthcare insurance provider Centene Corporation, is to take over AT Medics, one of the leading providers of primary care services in London. The Lowdown understands that the details of the change of ownership will be presented to all PCCCs...

lowdownnhs.info

 

[dannyboy]

Seeing people post this a lot lately. Personally I pay £115 a month which barely makes a dent in what I owe, but does make a pretty big dent in what my take home pay is.

With the government expecting that 75% of students will never pay off these fees, is this going to have any implications in 20 odd years time?

 

[dannyboy]

Let the sell off begin. Another step towards full privatisation. The next thing you hear from the Tories will be that "the NHS is an expensive monolith. It is not working well; we must sell of it bit by bit. We will all get used to it. We survived the war, after all."

US company in takeover of network of GP practices - The Lowdown

Operose Health Ltd, the UK arm of the large US healthcare insurance provider Centene Corporation, is to take over AT Medics, one of the leading providers of primary care services in London. The Lowdown understands that the details of the change of ownership will be presented to all PCCCs...

lowdownnhs.info

I can see the likes of GB News playing in a key role in shaping the narrative if they were to push for this. The Tories also know that with a weak Labour Party right now they can lurch further to the right and Starmer's advisors will tell him to follow.

 

[davek]

Using photo ID in British elections will harm democracy, say US civil rights groups

Government warned that proposed ID laws disproportionately affect people from poorer communities

www.theguardian.com

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

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Seeing people post this a lot lately. Personally I pay £115 a month which barely makes a dent in what I owe, but does make a pretty big dent in what my take home pay is.

With the government expecting that 75% of students will never pay off these fees, is this going to have any implications in 20 odd years time?

Holy cow. That's insane. 20 years? I suspect we'll see implications in the next two. For universities as the funding model is not amazing for them either. Downsizing, less choice, possible institutional failures are happening / possible - pressure to recruit and reduce risk taking. Students are rightly hacked off by what has been served up and, in some cases, paying for accommodation they aren't using. Will be interesting to see if it leads to less uptake next year.


But yeah, 20 years down the line who'll be picking up the slack? Higher fees? Less funding for the sector? The taxpayer? If the latter you may as well just pay from taxes anyway.

 

[davek]

This is great: the utterly corrupt and shambolic track and trace system is having government cash thrown at it...not to make it more professional or less in the control of the murderously amateur private sector...but to hand to a PR company to manage reputational damage to companies with their snouts in the trough.

Tory-linked PR firm hired to provide test and trace 'reputation management'

Exclusive: firm owned by Matthew Freud won ‘strategic communications’ Covid contract without tender

www.theguardian.com

The contract with Freuds says: “A carefully curated group of senior reputation management specialists from across agency specialisms (eg corporate, crisis and issues) will be available to NHS test and trace to assist in reputational issues and provide counsel and assistance.”

The Freuds website says it can help “construct communications strategies that protect our clients at the time they need it most”.

 

[Blues Harp]

This is great: the utterly corrupt and shambolic track and trace system is having government cash thrown at it...not to make it more professional or less in the control of the murderously amateur private sector...but to hand to a PR company to manage reputational damage to companies with their snouts in the trough.

Tory-linked PR firm hired to provide test and trace 'reputation management'

Exclusive: firm owned by Matthew Freud won ‘strategic communications’ Covid contract without tender

www.theguardian.com

The contract with Freuds says: “A carefully curated group of senior reputation management specialists from across agency specialisms (eg corporate, crisis and issues) will be available to NHS test and trace to assist in reputational issues and provide counsel and assistance.”

The Freuds website says it can help “construct communications strategies that protect our clients at the time they need it most”.

"senior reputation management specialists????"
What the feck are they? More made up jobs that produce nothing using public money given an artificial title to sound like its actually important.
Pigs in crap.

 

[davek]

"senior reputation management specialists????"
What the feck are they? More made up jobs that produce nothing using public money given an artificial title to sound like its actually important.
Pigs in crap.

In plain English? They are liars - liars paid to cover up corruption and incompetence on an industrial scale.

It really does underline what filth the Tories are.

 

[tsubaki]

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Seeing people post this a lot lately. Personally I pay £115 a month which barely makes a dent in what I owe, but does make a pretty big dent in what my take home pay is.

With the government expecting that 75% of students will never pay off these fees, is this going to have any implications in 20 odd years time?

Yes - probably before then (as @Daveysgingerlovechild says). The level of debt built up on this is both frightening and completely needless; the system worked far better before the reforms began (under Major), then got worse (under Blair), and then finally reached what is hopefully the zenith of idiocy (under the Coalition):

Half a trillion pounds worth of debt by 2050, with very little to show for it and (by design) not much of a way to pay it back. It should be a scandal - the scandal, really (given how its been done solely on ideological grounds) - but it isn't.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

"senior reputation management specialists????"
What the feck are they? More made up jobs that produce nothing using public money given an artificial title to sound like its actually important.
Pigs in crap.

Professional turd polishers. "No it's not a turd, it's am essential piece of infrastructure. Lo, look at it glisten and shine!"

 

[DanEFC92]