Labourlist is of course grass roots labour, which makes me smile it's about as grass roots as the Tory sites, it's not to sure yet whether it's New labour Newer labour. banned again.
It has this problem the leader who is a rich bloke who does not like the disabled much, when he see any of us he uses his eyes to decide whether we can work, he's a weak leader, the weakest I've seen for a long time.
He's not to sure what the public want, so he waits to see a reaction, when the NHS reforms came out, he waited and waited and waited and the Tories got on with getting it through the Lords, then one day he woke up and said hello we need to fight for the NHS, to bloody late.
He's the type of bloke you would see on TV and ignore him because he's boring, and do not get me wrong his brother looks acts and sounds like his brother, how these people got into labour of course was through Dear old Tony effort to get people of his ilk to back him.
The Tories are open to attack but labour cannot do it in case the Tories mentions the deficit and the debt, but for god sake we need somebody to say look yes we are again in debt, but we can live within it.
At this time labours not got a single thing I would agree with, we are hearing Prescott saying more about private police, because Miliband is waiting to see what the public think, he cannot come out and say I me Ed Miliband do not like this, in case the public do.
he's a follower not a elader, it's as simple as that.
Thursday, 8 March 2012
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Labour party the coming of the ways
We are seeing the labour party fight to see who will run it, Ed Miliband is not the best leader I've seen or the worse for that, but my god he is not the leader to take the party into the next election. We are seeing New labour get annoyed at his weakness yet are not helping him but have decided to help him out by removing him.
We will see that great old fart Clark tell us all he would have won the last election if he was leader, bit difficult if your own people vote you out as an MP mind you.
We have seen David Miliband make his move now and he's waiting to see who will come with him. we are hearing that Blair has been in talks with the New batch of Labour MP's in secret of course about his third way and his place history.
But Labour has a problem it's not Labour, it's not New labour or so we are told so what the hell is it.
have to wait and see i suspect
We will see that great old fart Clark tell us all he would have won the last election if he was leader, bit difficult if your own people vote you out as an MP mind you.
We have seen David Miliband make his move now and he's waiting to see who will come with him. we are hearing that Blair has been in talks with the New batch of Labour MP's in secret of course about his third way and his place history.
But Labour has a problem it's not Labour, it's not New labour or so we are told so what the hell is it.
have to wait and see i suspect
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Time to get going again
Labour party.
“A new bargain for our country which reflects and rewards the values of Britain's hard working people”
So no good having a nice easy job you'd better look for something which is hard.
The squeezed middle has now been defined it's anyone earning the Min wage up to £32,000 this is labour catchment it's voting group.
So nobody getting any more because your not squeezed and your not struggling, also of course not people who are working part time, the sick the disabled and those who have lost a job, because your not the bottom feeders in labour new world.
How labour have lost the dam plot, it now as socialist as my dirty socks, it's still trying to define it self as new labour and able to take on the Tories as the Tories but without any real policies or any real idea's, it says it's middle of the road, look out mate a big lorry is coming and if your in the middle of the road you could end up in hospital
rant over.
“A new bargain for our country which reflects and rewards the values of Britain's hard working people”
So no good having a nice easy job you'd better look for something which is hard.
The squeezed middle has now been defined it's anyone earning the Min wage up to £32,000 this is labour catchment it's voting group.
So nobody getting any more because your not squeezed and your not struggling, also of course not people who are working part time, the sick the disabled and those who have lost a job, because your not the bottom feeders in labour new world.
How labour have lost the dam plot, it now as socialist as my dirty socks, it's still trying to define it self as new labour and able to take on the Tories as the Tories but without any real policies or any real idea's, it says it's middle of the road, look out mate a big lorry is coming and if your in the middle of the road you could end up in hospital
rant over.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
End of the welfare state.....
Thousands of seriously ill cancer patients will be forced to take medical tests and face "back to work" interviews, despite assurances from ministers that they would not make it harder for the sick to get welfare, charities have warned.
Buried in a report to ministers by Prof Malcolm Harrington, the government adviser on testing welfare recipients, are proposals to force cancer patients who are undergoing intravenous chemotherapy to prove they are too ill to work.
At present, patients who are unable to work because of cancer and the side-effects of treatments are allowed to claim the highest rate of employment support allowance (ESA), worth up to £100 a week. More than 9,000 cancer patients were placed automatically on the welfare payment from October 2008 to June 2010. However, the expert report says this "automatic entitlement" has encouraged dependency on benefits, "encouraging wrong behaviours from employers and stigmatising cancer as something that can lead to unemployment or worklessness".
Instead, cancer patients on chemotherapy in hospitals will now have to prove that they are too sick to work, and take part in the controversial work capability assessment to determine whether someone is eligible for benefits. If cancer patients are found able to return to employment they may also be required to participate in work-related practice job interviews, as a condition of receiving their benefit.
Such assessments have been attacked by charities amid mounting evidence that people with serious illnesses are being judged fit for work when they are not.
Cancer experts and 30 cancer charities argue that patients undergoing "stressful" cancer treatment – and who have to leave work – should be automatically eligible for ESA. Ciarán Devane, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "Cancer patients in the middle of treatment are, in many cases, fighting for their lives.
"Yet the government is proposing to change the rules so all cancer patients will have to undergo a stressful assessment to prove they are unable to work.
"This shows a clear disregard and misunderstanding of what it's like to undergo punishing treatment. Patients who previously had peace of mind would face the stress and practical difficulties of getting assessed for work they are too poorly to do."
The new policy also reverses the government's own position on benefits that can be obtained by cancer patients. Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, earlier this year amended regulations concerning ESA so that even patients who were likely to receive chemotherapy within six months would be exempted from medical tests and face-to-face interviews and get benefits automatically.
This move allowed him to taunt Labour, claiming: "It was this government who exempted cancer patients on chemotherapy in hospitals; they were not exempted by the previous government. Our record on this is therefore quite good."
Labour called on the government to "listen very carefully" to its critics on the issue. The shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, said: "This government is simply not thinking hard enough about the special circumstances of cancer sufferers in this country. People with obviously serious conditions don't need to be tested and retested – they should be allowed to get on with their treatment."
The government has already been forced on to the back foot over its changes to ESA, designed to save more than £1.2bn. In the summer, David Cameron refused to back down over plans to cut up to £94 a week from ESA, a move that could affect as many as 7,000 cancer patients. Devane said: "To make matters worse, the government is pressing ahead with proposed changes in the welfare reform bill that will make 7,000 cancer patients lose ESA after 12 months simply because they have not recovered quickly enough. We hope ministers will rethink these proposals.
"Cancer is the toughest fight many people will have to face; the government should not be making it tougher for them."
The ESA replaces a range of incapacity benefits. All fresh claimants now undergo a work capability assessment, and 1.5 million existing recipients will be reassessed using the new system from this month. The welfare reform bill introduces a one-year time limit on those people claiming ESA in the "work-related activity group", who are expected to move into work.
In an email, Harrington said: "Macmillan provided me with compelling evidence that different cancer treatments can have an equally – and varied – debilitating effect on individuals. However, I agree with the government that forcing people to a life on benefits when they want to work is wrong." The government said that patients would be allowed to prove they were too ill to work with "documentation", and would not always be asked to undergo a complete assessment.
A DWP spokesman said: "This must be about an individual's needs. Our proposals would ensure a person would only be asked to attend a face-to-face assessment where absolutely necessary."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/06/cancer-patients-welfare-work-tests?CMP=NECNETTXT8187&google_editors_picks=true
Buried in a report to ministers by Prof Malcolm Harrington, the government adviser on testing welfare recipients, are proposals to force cancer patients who are undergoing intravenous chemotherapy to prove they are too ill to work.
At present, patients who are unable to work because of cancer and the side-effects of treatments are allowed to claim the highest rate of employment support allowance (ESA), worth up to £100 a week. More than 9,000 cancer patients were placed automatically on the welfare payment from October 2008 to June 2010. However, the expert report says this "automatic entitlement" has encouraged dependency on benefits, "encouraging wrong behaviours from employers and stigmatising cancer as something that can lead to unemployment or worklessness".
Instead, cancer patients on chemotherapy in hospitals will now have to prove that they are too sick to work, and take part in the controversial work capability assessment to determine whether someone is eligible for benefits. If cancer patients are found able to return to employment they may also be required to participate in work-related practice job interviews, as a condition of receiving their benefit.
Such assessments have been attacked by charities amid mounting evidence that people with serious illnesses are being judged fit for work when they are not.
Cancer experts and 30 cancer charities argue that patients undergoing "stressful" cancer treatment – and who have to leave work – should be automatically eligible for ESA. Ciarán Devane, chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support, said: "Cancer patients in the middle of treatment are, in many cases, fighting for their lives.
"Yet the government is proposing to change the rules so all cancer patients will have to undergo a stressful assessment to prove they are unable to work.
"This shows a clear disregard and misunderstanding of what it's like to undergo punishing treatment. Patients who previously had peace of mind would face the stress and practical difficulties of getting assessed for work they are too poorly to do."
The new policy also reverses the government's own position on benefits that can be obtained by cancer patients. Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, earlier this year amended regulations concerning ESA so that even patients who were likely to receive chemotherapy within six months would be exempted from medical tests and face-to-face interviews and get benefits automatically.
This move allowed him to taunt Labour, claiming: "It was this government who exempted cancer patients on chemotherapy in hospitals; they were not exempted by the previous government. Our record on this is therefore quite good."
Labour called on the government to "listen very carefully" to its critics on the issue. The shadow work and pensions secretary, Liam Byrne, said: "This government is simply not thinking hard enough about the special circumstances of cancer sufferers in this country. People with obviously serious conditions don't need to be tested and retested – they should be allowed to get on with their treatment."
The government has already been forced on to the back foot over its changes to ESA, designed to save more than £1.2bn. In the summer, David Cameron refused to back down over plans to cut up to £94 a week from ESA, a move that could affect as many as 7,000 cancer patients. Devane said: "To make matters worse, the government is pressing ahead with proposed changes in the welfare reform bill that will make 7,000 cancer patients lose ESA after 12 months simply because they have not recovered quickly enough. We hope ministers will rethink these proposals.
"Cancer is the toughest fight many people will have to face; the government should not be making it tougher for them."
The ESA replaces a range of incapacity benefits. All fresh claimants now undergo a work capability assessment, and 1.5 million existing recipients will be reassessed using the new system from this month. The welfare reform bill introduces a one-year time limit on those people claiming ESA in the "work-related activity group", who are expected to move into work.
In an email, Harrington said: "Macmillan provided me with compelling evidence that different cancer treatments can have an equally – and varied – debilitating effect on individuals. However, I agree with the government that forcing people to a life on benefits when they want to work is wrong." The government said that patients would be allowed to prove they were too ill to work with "documentation", and would not always be asked to undergo a complete assessment.
A DWP spokesman said: "This must be about an individual's needs. Our proposals would ensure a person would only be asked to attend a face-to-face assessment where absolutely necessary."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/06/cancer-patients-welfare-work-tests?CMP=NECNETTXT8187&google_editors_picks=true
Sunday, 4 December 2011
New labours dead long live Newer Labour
a simple question: will a spending option directly boost short
and long-term growth and create jobs? This may mean very constrained funding for healthcare,
pensions and welfare for the foreseeable future. It’s tough, but the alternative is ducking the genuine
decisions nearly every government of an
advanced economy currently faces.
http://www.policy-network.net/publications/4101/-In-the-black-Labour
Dear god this is so New labour they even have the gaul to tell us it's from the centre left, hit those on the bottom while helping society.
We now have the the Rich, umnmper middle class, middle class, and those at the bottom who are basically not the same as us.
new labour is alive and it's doing pretty good
and long-term growth and create jobs? This may mean very constrained funding for healthcare,
pensions and welfare for the foreseeable future. It’s tough, but the alternative is ducking the genuine
decisions nearly every government of an
advanced economy currently faces.
http://www.policy-network.net/publications/4101/-In-the-black-Labour
Dear god this is so New labour they even have the gaul to tell us it's from the centre left, hit those on the bottom while helping society.
We now have the the Rich, umnmper middle class, middle class, and those at the bottom who are basically not the same as us.
new labour is alive and it's doing pretty good
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Labour new idealism for the Red book
http://eoin-clarke.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-september-25-labour-left-formerly.html
Labours dead.
Labours dead.
Friday, 25 November 2011
Labour five point plan
1.A £2bn tax on bank bonuses to fund 100,000 jobs for young people.
2. Bringing forward long term investment projects such as schools, roads and transport to get people back to work and strengthen the economy for the future.
3. Reversing the VAT rise giving a couple with children a £450 boost - immediate help for our high streets and for struggling families and pensioners.
4. A one year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements -Repairs and maintenance to help homeowners and small businesses.
5. A one year National insurance tax break for every small firm which takes on extra workers - helping small businesses to grow and create jobs.
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That's it, this is what labour intends to get the UK working again, Labour will bring ahead long term rebuilding on hospitals and schools using of course PFI, which will add to the massive debt labour hid for so long.
Yes but VAT cuts will help, no it will not every large scale company which sells to the public like building supplies have taken the VAT cut and cut that much again to get people through the doors, B&Q has cut and cut again, but people know this country is in a mess and they have decided to pay off credit cards and bills, and of course in a Labour and Tory world that's bad it's people not spending or borrowing from the banks.
I went down to my bank last week to take out a short term loan, I have had five loans in my life time each £1000 has been repaid on time no problems, they told me my rating had been dropped from an A to a D, I asked why? what's gone wrong, well your on benefits and you might lose them, might lose them, I asked what about if I was working he said well your income would be low we only lend now to people within an income of £30,000 and he said we use a firm now to check out your rating( experian), I said OK no problem I'll take my business to the COOP, after an hour I got the loan, only if I put my home on the line, god Almighty little wonder people are not spending.
But to be honest in the end we are hearing that the lowest workers will now be removed from paying tax those who earn £9000 oh big bloody deal.
I do not know, and then that idiot Jamie Oliver comes on TV to tell us kids are fat, he's been on a diet for a year because he became a fat slob.
2. Bringing forward long term investment projects such as schools, roads and transport to get people back to work and strengthen the economy for the future.
3. Reversing the VAT rise giving a couple with children a £450 boost - immediate help for our high streets and for struggling families and pensioners.
4. A one year cut in VAT to 5% on home improvements -Repairs and maintenance to help homeowners and small businesses.
5. A one year National insurance tax break for every small firm which takes on extra workers - helping small businesses to grow and create jobs.
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That's it, this is what labour intends to get the UK working again, Labour will bring ahead long term rebuilding on hospitals and schools using of course PFI, which will add to the massive debt labour hid for so long.
Yes but VAT cuts will help, no it will not every large scale company which sells to the public like building supplies have taken the VAT cut and cut that much again to get people through the doors, B&Q has cut and cut again, but people know this country is in a mess and they have decided to pay off credit cards and bills, and of course in a Labour and Tory world that's bad it's people not spending or borrowing from the banks.
I went down to my bank last week to take out a short term loan, I have had five loans in my life time each £1000 has been repaid on time no problems, they told me my rating had been dropped from an A to a D, I asked why? what's gone wrong, well your on benefits and you might lose them, might lose them, I asked what about if I was working he said well your income would be low we only lend now to people within an income of £30,000 and he said we use a firm now to check out your rating( experian), I said OK no problem I'll take my business to the COOP, after an hour I got the loan, only if I put my home on the line, god Almighty little wonder people are not spending.
But to be honest in the end we are hearing that the lowest workers will now be removed from paying tax those who earn £9000 oh big bloody deal.
I do not know, and then that idiot Jamie Oliver comes on TV to tell us kids are fat, he's been on a diet for a year because he became a fat slob.
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