Cameron: "Cuts will change our way of life"

[VladimirIlyich]

I think Carlos has been on the Wacky Baccy.

Can see him in a padded cell before you can say iphone 7.

[Stu Monty]

Also, not that it's really that relevant but I'm not sure people working the same amount of hours, for the same pay presumably in his vision, but in 11 hour shifts is actually going to massively be better for them. 

 

And also, capital isn't actually giving away the benefits of modernisation there either, it's getting the same hours for its cash. The same money for less hours was actually the crux of labour reaping the benefits of technology.

[General Dryness]

Also, not that it's really that relevant but I'm not sure people working the same amount of hours, for the same pay presumably in his vision, but in 11 hour shifts is actually going to massively be better for them. 

 

And also, capital isn't actually giving away the benefits of modernisation there either, it's getting the same hours for its cash. The same money for less hours was actually the crux of labour reaping the benefits of technology.

 

Stop right there Stu. You were "owned". I might even go so far as to say "pwned". Another victory for Stronts. Chalk it up.

[Pureblood]

Will this help people pay off pretend debt quicker?  

[General Dryness]

Most likely Mr Slims idea, when it gets into the hands of the proper cunts, will end up something like "Hang on, so the peasants will work 11 hour days? Can we get them to do it six days a week? For less money? Ace."

[Jairzinho]

offset by longer hours and a later retirement

offset by longer hours and a later retirement

offset by longer hours and a later retirement

offset by longer hours and a later retirement

offset by longer hours and a later retirement

[General Dryness]

 

[stringvest]

This is the second richest man on the planet, maybe the most successful capitalist in history since he got there in a developing country, and he's advocating something I was ridiculed for a few months ago.

 

At least it proves this isn't the "Disney" fantasy you said it was.

You're so disingenuous, you're beyond parody.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Ha! What a div.

[KMD7]

 

 

Remember folks - you're either behind the times or you're ahead of the times:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jul/21/carlos-slim-calls-for-three-day-working-week-to-improve-quality-of-life

 

 

' offset by longer hours and a later retirement' 

[stringvest]

I think on reflection SD might have been taking the piss with yesterday's posts.  If he was, he has credit in the bank for winding most of us up.

[Jairzinho]

I think on reflection SD might have been taking the piss with yesterday's posts.  If he was, he has credit in the bank for winding most of us up.

 

He does have the distinct advantage of winding most of us up with all of his posts in this thread though.

[lifetime fan]

Liberal and localisation.

 

 

 

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Local politicians to lose nuclear waste site veto right

By Rob Broomby

British affairs correspondent, BBC World Service

 

A temporary storage site for high level waste at Sellafield in Cumbria

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The UK government wants to scrap the formal community veto which allows local politicians to block a future £12bn nuclear waste repository.

 

It follows the decision by Cumbria County Council to reject a Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) last year.

 

The facility would hold enough radioactive waste to fill six Albert Halls.

 

This would expand to more than seven in the event of a new generation of new nuclear power stations.

 

The GDF is to be constructed in rocks deep below ground and will keep the deadly material away from all living things for hundreds of thousands of years.

 

The old policy required a strategic authority such as a county council as well as the local council to approve a project.

 

The new policy simply requires what officials called a positive "test of community support" for the project to go ahead.

 

None of the changes apply to Scotland which has a separate nuclear waste policy and wants to store it at or near the surface.

 

Paid to engage

The government has refused the calls from some critics of the scheme for the right to withdraw to be written into legislation.

 

Instead communities will be paid to engage. Councils joining the site investigation process will receive £1m per year for up to five years in compensation to explore the idea further, rising to £2.5m per year as the design and planning phase begins, then rising substantially when building starts.

 

In a statement, timed to the publication of a government White Paper, Ed Davey, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary said: "Today we're setting out our plan to find a suitable site, based on a fundamental principle of listening to people.

 

"The local community which hosts a facility will benefit from jobs for hundreds of people over many decades," he said.

 

They would also receive "direct investment for the benefit of the community".

 

But unveiling the long awaited proposal, Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) officials confirmed that they were ending the right of politicians to veto a nuclear waste dump in their area.

 

"All levels of local government will have to have a voice but we are keen that no one individual level will have an absolute veto," a DECC spokesman said.

 

Officials stressed that the principle of "voluntarism" was still intact and there would have to be a "positive test of community support" before any repository could be built.

 

"We're only going to build a GDF if the community concerned is happy," she said.

 

The construction of the GDF would guarantee 500 jobs for decades to come and around 1,000 jobs during the construction phase but it may not be ready until 2050 at the earliest.

 

DECC have announced they are to begin "geological screening" of the country to find rocks that might hold nuclear waste safely for tens of thousands of years.

 

Bruce McKirdy MD of Radioactive Waste Management Ltd - the organisation tasked with delivering the repository - said it would be "decades" before the first waste was placed in the facility.

 

"There is no rush to get this facility, the waste that exists can be stored safely in surface stores," he said.

 

These stores, he said, had a design lifetime of 50-100 years.

 

"It's a long term project but one that we need to press on with because the problem won't go away, we need a permanent solution for hundreds of thousands of years and it will take decades to implement that solution."

 

He said they were not "kicking it down the road", they were taking it "very seriously".

[Skidfingers McGonical]

"It's ok none of us will have mutated children. They can deal with that problem in 100,000 years time"

 

"Here's a shit amount of compo to help you deal with it."

 

Fuck off!

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I see Stronts is being silly again.

 

Claiming that Carlos Slim agrees with his 3 day week lunacy.

 

Stronts was clearly beating the drum on the leisure/spare time angle on this one. His hypothesis was clearly one of working 3 typical, current working days and then having a mega 4 days off. So, working 3 usual 7 (or thereabouts) hour days.

 

Stronts never once mentioned practically working the same weekly hours, give or take an hour or two, but over a 3 day period instead of 5 days.

 

His hypothesis is miles away from that out forward by Slim but he, disingenuously, claims to have been vindicated in his argument by pretending that Slim is beating the same drum.

 

He's hilarious, our Stronts!

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

And, nice to see that prostitution and smack dealing has boosted the GDP figures.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

Fucking hell patting themselves on the back for the economy 0.2% bigger than in 2008. All thanks to hard working British tax payer.

 

Fuck off Gideon you cunt.

[Red Phoenix]

I thought "Why don't we try firing our nuclear waste at the Sun?" Then read this and changed my mind quickly : Why Not Just Dispose Of Nuclear Waste In The Sun?

 

*goes to the dunce corner*

 

edit - if we built something like one of these though it could be an option for the future : Space elevator

[Lee909]

I wouldn't mind firing our nuclear waste at the s*n offices

[stringvest]

I see Stronts is being silly again.

 

Claiming that Carlos Slim agrees with his 3 day week lunacy.

 

Stronts was clearly beating the drum on the leisure/spare time angle on this one. His hypothesis was clearly one of working 3 typical, current working days and then having a mega 4 days off. So, working 3 usual 7 (or thereabouts) hour days.

 

Stronts never once mentioned practically working the same weekly hours, give or take an hour or two, but over a 3 day period instead of 5 days.

 

His hypothesis is miles away from that out forward by Slim but he, disingenuously, claims to have been vindicated in his argument by pretending that Slim is beating the same drum.

 

He's hilarious, our Stronts!

 

his modus operandi

[lifetime fan]

The fuck?

 

 

 

Astrology-loving MP seeks health answers in the stars

 

A Conservative MP has spoken of his belief in astrology and his desire to incorporate it into medicine.

 

David Tredinnick said he had spent 20 years studying astrology and healthcare and was convinced it could work.

 

The MP for Bosworth, a member of the health committee and the science and technology committee, said he was not afraid of ridicule or abuse.

"There is no logic in attacking something that has a proven track record," he told BBC News.

 

He said he had studied the Indian astrological system Iahiri and the way it was used by that country's government and recalled how Chris Patten, Britain's last governor of Hong Kong, had an official astrologer, whom Mr Tredinnick had consulted while on a parliamentary delegation there.

The MP recently spoke about his beliefs at the Glastonbury Festival, sharing a platform with Daily Mail astrologer Jonathan Cainer.

 

Recalling the experience in the House of Commons, he said he had been invited to take part because of his "radical agenda" on complementary medicine - he is vice-chairman of the government's herbals working group.

 

He said he had been the subject of much ridicule for his beliefs over the years, including a fake Twitter account entitled "Inside the head of David Tredinnick", but many of the sceptics who had attacked him were "bullies" who had "never studied the subjects".

 

"I am absolutely convinced that those who look at the map of the sky for the day that they were born and receive some professional guidance will find out a lot about themselves and it will make their lives easier," he told MPs.

 

Explaining his beliefs to BBC News, Mr Tredinnick said he had been right about herbal remedies and healing, which he said were now becoming accepted in parts of the NHS, and he now wanted to promote astrology, which was not just predicting the future but gaining an insight into personal problems.

 

He stopped short of suggesting astrological readings on the NHS, but said he wanted to raise awareness of it as an alternative among patients and clinicians.

 

"I think it's something that people should be aware of as an option they have if they are confused about themselves."

 

He said he had compiled astrological charts for his fellow MPs - he declined to reveal names - adding: "If you look at the charts I have done for people I have certainly made their lives easier."

[lifetime fan]

This comment on the beeb made me laugh;

 

How can this man serve on either the science or health committees when he believes in such superstitious mumbo-jumbo?!

Astrology is, as Stephen Fry so eruditely put it, 'arse-gravy of the highest order'!!

[Strontium]

At least he's elected. More than you can say for the 26 professional mumbo jumbo spreaders in the Lords.

[lifetime fan]

At least he's elected. More than you can say for the 26 professional mumbo jumbo spreaders in the Lords.

 

You know full well I'd have a fully elected second chamber.

 

Seriously, how the fucking fuck can this arsewipe sit on health and science committees? 

[Bobby Hundreds]

I thought "Why don't we try firing our nuclear waste at the Sun?" Then read this and changed my mind quickly : Why Not Just Dispose Of Nuclear Waste In The Sun?

 

*goes to the dunce corner*

 

edit - if we built something like one of these though it could be an option for the future : Space elevator

Just put it in one of those vacuum packs that Xbox pack their controllers and hardware in.