Theresa "MAY" not build a better Britain.

[Scooby Dudek]

Toby Young has resigned from his new job.

 

It's all going swimmingly.

I found this particularly ironic coming from the cunt;

 

The caricature drawn of me in the last seven days, particularly on social media, has been unrecognisable to anyone who knows me.

 

 

 

No doubt all the work shy, lazy, left wing Marxist scroungers feel his pain 

[Priory Doctor]

Shows how shit Labour are when they can't muster up fuck all against these lot.

What can they do?

Just sit back and watch the Tories tear themselves to bits...that's ok by me

[cloggypop]

She's fucking shite

[Bjornebye]

The grim days of the 80's are returning. Its Thatcherism all over again. 

[magicrat]

The grim days of the 80's are returning. Its Thatcherism all over again. 

 

Don't think so. Thatcher shouted "shit" and there was a queue to get on the shovel. May tries to move any senior minister and they tell her to get fucked.

[Section_31]

The grim days of the 80's are returning. Its Thatcherism all over again. 

 

That would be a compliment to May. Thatcher had an ideology and a plan. She upped the wages of the police and military and infiltrated unions with MI5 before she put them all to the sword with what was effectively mounted cavalry. She waged war and she won, Tony Blair was her greatest achievement.

 

May doesn't know what day it is half the time, she's spineless and seems pretty dense in general. Thatcher was surrounded by intellectual heavyweights, May has Boris Johnson and Michael Gove. She's basically a cardboard cutout made up of parts you collect from the Daily Mail.

[Jenson]

Greg Clark point blank refused to be moved as Secretary for Business and May just caved right in. She's fucking useless and is only being kept in place to take the fall for Brexit.

[lifetime fan]

One of the lads we support has been on ESA for nearly 4 years, he had to go for an assessment before Christmas.

 

He got a phone call between Christmas and new year when home with his family to tell him his review deemed him fit to work, he had scored zero across all catagories (translated means he turned up) and would need to apply for JSA.

 

But even if successful they wouldn’t back date to the 22nd when they stopped his ESA.

 

We completed all the forms with him, supported him to his JSA appointment only for him to be told he’s not fit for work.

 

So he can’t claim ESA as they deem him fit to work and he can’t claim JSA as they deem him too unwell to work.

 

You couldn’t make this shit up!

[Chairman Meow]

One of the lads we support has been on ESA for nearly 4 years, he had to go for an assessment before Christmas.

 

He got a phone call between Christmas and new year when home with his family to tell him his review deemed him fit to work, he had scored zero across all catagories (translated means he turned up) and would need to apply for JSA.

 

But even if successful they wouldn’t back date to the 22nd when they stopped his ESA.

 

We completed all the forms with him, supported him to his JSA appointment only for him to be told he’s not fit for work.

 

So he can’t claim ESA as they deem him fit to work and he can’t claim JSA as they deem him too unwell to work.

 

You couldn’t make this shit up!

 

That's what they did to my dad when he got laid off.

 

He went to sign on and they said there was no way anyone would employ him as he is too ill (spine has been fused, arthritis, blind in one eye, asbestosis/COPD, dodgy heart and diabetes) so he couldn't claim JSA and would need ESA.

 

ESA said he was fit for work and would need to sign on, JSA said he wasn't fit for work, rinse and repeat. 

 

It wasn't until our local MP got involved after this went on for the best part of a year before anything got sorted out.

[lifetime fan]

That's what they did to my dad when he got laid off.

 

He went to sign on and they said there was no way anyone would employ him as he is too ill (spine has been fused, arthritis, blind in one eye, asbestosis/COPD, dodgy heart and diabetes) so he couldn't claim JSA and would need ESA.

 

ESA said he was fit for work and would need to sign on, JSA said he wasn't fit for work, rinse and repeat.

 

It wasn't until our local MP got involved after this went on for the best part of a year before anything got sorted out.

This guy is the first of 7 we support I expect to go through this with this year.

[Scooby Dudek]

Makes you proud.

[Scooby Dudek]

Sajid David 

 

Voted against a law to make rented housing fit for human habitation. 

Our new Minister for Housing.

[magicrat]

People now having Chemotherapy appointments and treatment cut short or delayed,  The NHS is down about half on the number of trained staff in this field,  Hope Johnson and Gove are proud of their big fuck off bus, Premature death toll to follow shortly, 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sack-esther-mcvey

[Denny Crane]

Robert Peston

@Peston

Carillion’s collapse is the definitive end of Tory and New Labour governments 25-year love affair with private provision of public services (link: https://www.facebook.com/pestonitv/posts/1981262582198477) facebook.com/pestonitv/post…

 

 

Robert Peston

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If I am reeling from the collapse of Carillion it is because the company, the banks, its advisers and the government apparently thought it was worth having a conversation about a possible bailout of the outsourcing and construction company.

 

Because what we learned this morning is that the gap between Carillion’s debts and the value of its assets is big, and that a significant number of its contracts are toxic.

 

If that were not the case, if many of its businesses were fundamentally viable and valuable, Carillion would have been put into administration, a form of life support, under insolvency rules.

 

And instead it is being liquidated, under the auspices of the Official Receiver - who is an official at the Business Department, or BEIS.

 

Given that Carillion is obviously neither too big or important to the British economy to fail - unlike the banks in 2007 and 2008 - any provision of public funds to prop it up as a going concern would have seen taxpayers’ precious money protecting commercial creditors and shareholders from the painful consequences of their cupidity and negligence.

 

Which would have been a cripplingly expensive precedent - because if it were proper for we the taxpayers to rescue Carillion, by implication all businesses providing services to or on behalf of government would have been seen as underwritten by government.

 

And that in turn would have blown up the entire point for government of outsourcing services, which is to make providers of those services incentivised to succeed and disincentivised from failing.

 

The other important point about liquidating Carillion is that it should minimise the costs of its collapse for the government, and by implication probably increase them for banks and commercial creditors: it turns the government or taxpayer into the senior creditor, ranking ahead of banks for repayment, for any new funds its provides.

 

This matters, as the government is starting to lend additional money to the Receiver, so that the Receiver can pay the wages of Carillion’s thousands of employees, who are providing public services and building public infrastructure.

 

This public money is buying a bit of time, during which an assessment can be made of which businesses and contracts are salvageable and sellable, and which are so intrinsically loss-making that they have to be torn up and nationalised (as a start, a couple of Ministry of Justice contracts are, I am told, in the hopeless category).

 

What i am already hearing from the outsourcing and so-called public-service industry is that the basic problem is that the government pays too little for intrinsically risky and complicated work.

 

Which is a bad joke.

 

No one forced Carillion - or any of the other members of a bruised and battered industry - to bid for the contracts.

 

When George Osborne and Francis Maude put the screws on them in 2010 as part of their austerity drive, the outsourcing companies could have just walked away.

 

That they didn’t is another triumph of short-term thinking, the endemic disease of British industry.

 

Carillion’s collapse marks the end of a 25-year love affair between Tory and New Labour governments on the one hand and private-sector service providers on the other.

 

To use a Star Wars analogy, the public sector strikes back

[Section_31]

People like Peston are such bellends, they spout shit like this when it suits but their industry is what holds up the status quo and helps shift this so called 'Overton window'. Just watch if Corbyn ever gets into power and starts clamping down on the likes of these companies just how quickly Peston and his ilk start spouting out the same old shite about trostkyists. 

[Denny Crane]

The chairman of Carillion Philip Green not that one was adviser to both David Cameron and Theresa May on corporate responsibility. Not that I'm absolving blame at New Labours door they were knee-deep in this shit.

 

George Osbourne knows nearly everything about Carillion but is able to walk from government to a company that shorts the fuck out of Carillion.

 

Another institution that took out big bets on Carillion’s downfall is BlackRock, the US-based investment institution that hired former chancellor George Osborne as an adviser last year, on a £650,000 salary

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/14/carillion-crisis-hedge-funds-rake-in-tens-of-millions?__twitter_impression=true

[Section_31]

The chairman of Carillion Philip Green not that one was adviser to both David Cameron and Theresa May on corporate responsibility. Not that I'm absolving blame at New Labours door they were knee-deep in this shit.

 

George Osbourne knows nearly everything about Carillion but is able to walk from government to a company that shorts the fuck out of Carillion.

 

Another institution that took out big bets on Carillion’s downfall is BlackRock, the US-based investment institution that hired former chancellor George Osborne as an adviser last year, on a £650,000 salary

 

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/14/carillion-crisis-hedge-funds-rake-in-tens-of-millions?__twitter_impression=true

 

it's just grand theft, this is the end game for neo liberalism both here and in the States and they're trying to loot what they can before it all goes to shit, that's exactly what Trump's 'tax reforms' are all about, none of them care what happens five or ten years from now, they're not conditioned to think like that. 

[Pureblood]

I've outrun Imperial starships.  Not the local bulk cruisers mind you, I'm talking about the big Carillion ships. 

[Neil G]

People like Peston are such bellends, they spout shit like this when it suits but their industry is what holds up the status quo and helps shift this so called 'Overton window'. Just watch if Corbyn ever gets into power and starts clamping down on the likes of these companies just how quickly Peston and his ilk start spouting out the same old shite about trostkyists.

 

Harsh on Peston that. Since he moved to ITV he’s given Corbyn a much fairer hearing than most TV commentators, and has been a lot less charitable to the Tories.

[Anubis]

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/croydon-takes-libraries-back-carillion-collapses-710041

 

Croydon Council is to terminate its relationship with troubled contractor Carillion and bring the running of its libraries back in-house.

 

Government services provider Carillion has gone into liquidation after losing money on big contracts and running up huge debts of around £1.5bn, according to the BBC. The collapse of the company has put thousands of jobs across multiple sectors at risk.

 

In 2013, the company took over the running of Croydon’s 13 libraries.

 

Now, Croydon Council has stepped in to "secure the long-term future" of all its libraries and "guarantee the jobs of library staff". Council officers will be working with libraries today (16th January) to ensure they remain open.

 

Councillor Timothy Godfrey, cabinet member for culture, leisure and sport, said: “The council has been considering its options over the past few months after it became clear that Carillion was running into difficulties. We are determined to protect and boost our libraries for residents now and for generations to come.”

 

Councillor Tony Newman, leader of the council, added: “The libraries were outsourced by the previous administration, which was something that we didn’t support. I am pleased that we’ve been able to take prompt action to secure the library service and the jobs of library staff. In the year we bid to become London Borough of Culture it is important to ensure libraries are at the heart of all our communities.”

 

From October 2013, Carillion ran several public library services including Hounslow, Ealing, Croydon and Harrow. Hounslow terminated its contract with Carillion last August.

 

Shadow libraries minister Kevin Brennan, meanwhile, has called on the libraries minister to offer "urgent support" to the councils whose library services will be impacted by Carillion's collapse. He has also called for an investigation into the outsourcing of library services to other private companies.

 

"The collapse of Carillion has put countless jobs at risk across the country, including in the libraries sector", Brennan said. "Library services are crucial to our communities and hard-working staff deserve better."

 

He said that in 2016, over 400 libraries in England were commissioned libraries, meaning that they had been transferred to a separate trust or organisation, either a commercial or social enterprise. A number had been transferred to Carillion.

 

"I am calling on the Libraries Minister to work with ministerial colleagues across government to offer urgent support to local authorities whose library services are impacted by Carillion’s collapse," Brennan said. "He should also review how many commissioned library services have been outsourced to private commercial enterprises like Carillion and whether any are at risk.”

 

Former libraries minister John Glen was moved to the Treasury in Prime Minister Theresa May's reshuffle last week. It has still not been confirmed who will replace him.

[Jairzinho]

Harsh on Peston that. Since he moved to ITV he’s given Corbyn a much fairer hearing than most TV commentators, and has been a lot less charitable to the Tories.

 

Almost as if the problem is the BBC.

 

Oh.

[Denny Crane]

They seem to be injecting new blood into the ranks. This Ben Bradley they appointed as the Tory young person tsar seems to be making headlines. If he keeps this up he will go far in the Tory party. A production line of cunts.

 

 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I agree with the appointment of a Minister For Loneliness though.

 

If only somebody hadn't been the catalyst for the closure of loads of places were people go for company like libraries, sure start centres, community centres etc, eh?

[Anubis]

Only a matter of time before one of them is flicking idly through late-night TV and comes across a channel showing Soylent Green, and decides it's a way of solving the problem of paupers' funerals and foodbanks in one fell swoop.