Phil Redmond

[WaltonRed]

Tory Twat...

[Section_31]

He used to be my aunty's drama teacher, he told them to 'pretend they were a bowl of cornflakes having milk poured on them', and she told him to fuck off and was suspended. Great stuff.

[Faustus]

 

"Big Society my arse."

[WaltonRed]

I'd love him to go to Norris Green and get the local youths to club in and run the postie!

[G Richards]

Can't get the Grange Hill theme tune out of my head now!

 

Na na na naaaa!

[JER]

Brookside was shite after the Patio storyline...

 

After working my arse off all week, and being woken up five times a night by my teething baby daughter, there is nothing that would give me a greater thrill than to give up my weekend running the local fire service.

 

Phil Redmond is one of those horrible 'professional' scousers that crop up from time to time - he should stick to having dinner parties with Rogan Taylor, Alexi Sayle and Carla Lane, and talk about the "Liverpool character" over raw fish and prossecco.

[WaltonRed]

'The Big Society'

 

The thing is there was a community spirit, a willingness to muck in and help, neighbours helped neighbours.

 

"There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate"

 

Ta maggie (you twat)

[JER]

Alaistair Campbell knows

 

Big Society looking thin after Cameron's Liverpool trip

2010-07-20 02:39:34

 

As David Cameron works away in the US - gee what a Big Society that is - let us consider what we learned from yesterday's (re)launch of his Big Society back home.

 

We learned that his favourite Grange Hill character was Gripper Stebson, a bully and a racist. Even for a member of the Bullingdon club like Cameron, I doubt that Gripper really is, as the PM said, 'one of my role models in life.'

 

If this was a joke, it wasn't a very good one. Far more likely is that as the Big Society Express sped (ish) towards Liverpool, and Dave saw on his itinerary that he was due to meet Grange Hill creator Phil Redmond, he thought he ought to have a fave GH character for small talk and man-of-people throwaway banter purposes. And so, courtesy of an aide with kids or more likely a laptop and internet access, Gripper entered the PM's life.

 

We also learned that Liverpool was not very prepared for the arrival of his Big Society Big Idea.

 

One of four areas designated as BS testbeds, a spokesman for the city's council said 'we don't know how it's going to work. We have been given no information about this. You might want to ask No 10 or Eric Pickles, the minister in charge.'

 

Mr Pickles' mantra was that the BS was about getting 'more for less', which sounded suspiciously like it was all somewhat wrapped up in the cuts agenda, something Dave denied vehemently.

 

But Liverpool was not alone in its ignorance about what it was meant to do as a 'vanguard community' and what if any funding would be available to help.

 

Ah, funding ... Did I mention funding? On this, we learned from one voluntary group after another that funding problems are growing not receding. We learned from Liverpool's council leader that he found it confusing to have a recent £10m cut preceding this 'invitation' to spearhead the BS Big IDea.

 

We learned too that Francis Maude, a member of the Cabinet, has been writing round colleagues warning of the potential clash between BS Big Idea and the government taking cash from wherever it can find it.

 

We also learned there will be some fancy new bank that will dole out cash to groups wanting to be part of the Big Society, and it will all come from dormant bank accounts. (Oh, I wish I had a grand for every time I heard ministers in the last government say why can't we use money from dormant bank accounts? .... I can't remember all of the answers the mandarins came up with, but memo to Dave, Eric and Francis -- don't bank your Big Society house on dormant bank accounts.

 

I know Barack Obama now takes precedence over Gripper Stebson, but I think a bit of flesh on the BS bones back home is called for. Otherwise Liverpool and the other vanguard communities are going to think they've just been used in a rather meaningless Cameroonian stunt, while George Osborne gets on with the task of cutting services provided by the State to the bone.

[Jennings]

Can't get the Grange Hill theme tune out of my head now!

 

Na na na naaaa!

 

You can't do the Grange Hill tune with 'Na's. You have to use 'De's. Like this

 

de de diddly, diddly de de, de de diddly, de de de.

[Flying Pig]

I always think of this when I think of GH.

 

[Section_31]

The whole Tory agenda has been delivered in amateur, half-arsed fashion, almost like they're making it up as they go along. They could do unfathomable damage.

[dennis tooth]

DIE DIE DIE!

[Strontium]

The whole Tory agenda has been delivered in amateur, half-arsed fashion, almost like they're making it up as they go along.

 

 

But in this case though, the "Big Society" idea is nothing new. Indeed, the early Labour movement originally had a strong emphasis on community-level assistance and volunteerism, long before we conceived of the bloated centralised bureaucracy that is the welfare state.

 

Good to finally see a government that believes in genuine, grassroots socialism :thumbup:

[Franny DelMucho]

How many storylines has he created where the ultimate goal is to blow up entire families or several buildings in one epic blast?

 

"Ok phil, lets start with a blank canvas for this production. Where do you want to take this?"

 

Phil: "I want to blow up and mutilate a significant number of human beings"

 

"No Phil, blank canvas Phil. We need something different, you've already set fire to Brookside Close and Hollyoaks 17 times in the last 2 decades"

 

Phil: "Fire Engines"

 

The man is mentally retarded.

[G Richards]

You can't do the Grange Hill tune with 'Na's. You have to use 'De's. Like this

 

de de diddly, diddly de de, de de diddly, de de de.

 

Much better!

[JER]

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[Kevin D]

Got ran out of the city when he was in Edinburgh, which begs the question, where were the protests? Call yourselves anti-Tory, pfft.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

But in this case though, the "Big Society" idea is nothing new. Indeed, the early Labour movement originally had a strong emphasis on community-level assistance and volunteerism, long before we conceived of the bloated centralised bureaucracy that is the welfare state.

 

Good to finally see a government that believes in genuine, grassroots socialism :thumbup:

 

If only! What they're going to do, quite clearly it seems, is get volunteers do do some of the things they're cutting funding for in order to stop some of the decay we're going to see.

[OmarVizquel]

I don't get it. He creates a few soap operas (let's be honest, that's hardly splitting atoms) and suddenly becomes a city's cultural spokesman?

[torahboy]

Phil Redmond started his working life with the old Metropolitan County Council. Must have been thankful then for a properly funded local arm of government. Wonder how many days he worked for nothing during that period, foregoing reward to benefit the communities of Merseyside.

 

If you see Redmond in town, and you want to piss him off, hold out a couple of quid and ask him if he's got any Big Issues left.

 

The Big Society idea is just an attempt to convince people that doing something for nothing is a major part of the Conservative ethos. Once it catches on everybody will be doing it; barristers, stockbrokers, bankers, industrialists, media moguls and all manner of capitalist vampires will all be doing something for nothing - giving up their time, their labour and their product merely to help the country out of the financial fuck up that, er, they created. So, sorry, Dave - you'll just have to shove this one up your arse, if you can get Nick Clegg to shift his tongue for a minute.

[Strontium]

The Big Society idea is just an attempt to convince people that doing something for nothing is a major part of the Conservative ethos. Once it catches on everybody will be doing it; barristers, stockbrokers, bankers, industrialists, media moguls and all manner of capitalist vampires will all be doing something for nothing

 

 

Pro bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philanthropy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[torahboy]

Pro bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philanthropy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

 

Nothing like that applies to the types that I listed.

 

But there is something that you could do for nothing that might improve things.

[Strontium]

Nothing like that applies to the types that I listed.

 

 

What, "barristers, stockbrokers, bankers, industrialists, media moguls and all manner of capitalist vampires"?

 

I think you'll find lots of barristers do pro bono stuff, and that there are many, many philanthropists from the world of business.

 

But there is something that you could do for nothing that might improve things.

 

 

Yeah, I tried, but I can't neg you again just yet.

[Section_31]

But in this case though, the "Big Society" idea is nothing new. Indeed, the early Labour movement originally had a strong emphasis on community-level assistance and volunteerism, long before we conceived of the bloated centralised bureaucracy that is the welfare state.

 

Good to finally see a government that believes in genuine, grassroots socialism :thumbup:

 

 

I have no problem at all with the abstract concept of everyone chipping in to build a better country if I thought for one minute the sentiment was genuine , but coming from a cabinet of 29 which includes 23 millionaires who don't have to depend on anything or anyone when push comes to shove, and from a party which can't even be arsed spellchecking generation-defining policy documents and which idolises a former leader who once said 'there's no such thing as society', the words ring hollow.

 

The Tory regime reminds me of when I was a kid and my mum used to get me to make a cup of tea by saying to someone else within earshot 'he makes a lovely cup of tea our Mark.'

 

Cameron rolls up his sleeves, pats you on the head, tells you he ate black pudding last week with a 'man in Oldham', then he withdraws under SAS escort to a Bupa hospital run by his sister in law and leaves you to die.

[sh#t waffle]

 

Cameron rolls up his sleeves, pats you on the head, tells you he ate black pudding last week with a 'man in Oldham'

 

Even better, it was actually pudding with a black man in Oldham.