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The Good News thread, local jobs, economy etc

By davieG, in General Chat

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Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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The buildings around canary wharf that are proposed (some approved) will turn it into a mini manhattan, something london should have, unfortunately with the silly boris sightline laws london is limited to where these tall buildings can be built.

 

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Don't see what's wrong with protecting historic sightlines personally?

Jon the Hat

Jon the Hat

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The buildings around canary wharf that are proposed (some approved) will turn it into a mini manhattan, something london should have, unfortunately with the silly boris sightline laws london is limited to where these tall buildings can be built.

 

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Makes more sense to build this stuff in Docklands than elsewhere if you ask me.  Protecting sightlines is very very important.

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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Makes more sense to build this stuff in Docklands than elsewhere if you ask me.  Protecting sightlines is very very important.

I agree to a certain extent i was mainly refering to the restrictions the height and bulk of new buildings in the Elephant & Castle area, one of the mayor’s growth, housing and employment and opportunity areas. Plus its also inconsistent with decisions already taken for tall buildings in the Borough & Bankside area.

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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These tories ain't so bad.

 

 

Business minister Lord Popat yesterday suggested there were no circumstances in which Britain should leave the EU.
 
Speaking during a debate in the Lords, he said: ‘We need the European Union for trade and the European Union needs us so exit is not an option.
 
‘What is important is that we re-negotiate some of the reforms in the EU to make it more practical in terms of business and productivity.’

 

Sir Fynwy

Sir Fynwy

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Bankers bonuses under attack today

These tories looking after their mates

It's an exercise in trying to look like they are doing something whilst actually doing nothing, a bit like the major announcement of cutting jsa to immigrants yesterday that will achieve less than £500,000 savings over 5 years, just closing one tax loophole could save that amount in a week.
MooseBreath

MooseBreath

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It's an exercise in trying to look like they are doing something whilst actually doing nothing, a bit like the major announcement of cutting jsa to immigrants yesterday that will achieve less than £500,000 savings over 5 years, just closing one tax loophole could save that amount in a week.

Ed Balls supports it, he said so this morning on the today show, right before he had a go at the Conservatives for dropping the top tax rate to 45% and consequently got his pants absolutely pulled down by the presenter over the fact that labour had it at 40% for 11 years.

Webbo

Webbo

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Ed Balls supports it, he said so this morning on the today show, right before he had a go at the Conservatives for dropping the top tax rate to 45% and consequently got his pants absolutely pulled down by the presenter over the fact that labour had it at 40% for 11 years.

I think you'll find that Labour's shit doesn't stink.

MooseBreath

MooseBreath

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I think you'll find that Labour's shit doesn't stink.

It was laughable. Typically of labour Balls thought he could get away with a hypocritical little dig at the tories, listening to it you could feel his heart rate explode in panic at the prospect of being challenged. Obviously too used to only speaking to unions and at welfare gigs full of people whose support is already bought and paid for.

Interestingly he did mention that labour are going to set out their plans to build wage growth today. I fully expect it will be more hollow crap but will read with my best unbiased hat on.

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Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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More great news for genuine job seekers and those who want to work hard to get as much out of themselves as possible.

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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lol

No doubt he would if he had too, he's just happy doing part time and claiming top ups from the government.

MooseBreath

MooseBreath

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Had a quick scan through. Noticed he was still peddling the myth about help to buy influencing house prices, which I thought strange because that theory has been well and truly put to bed, then I realised the blog is months old, so it makes sense. Labour criticise something, get proved wrong, move onto something else. That's been stuck on repeat for years now. Still, keep throwing mud and eventually some will stick.

There is lots of other misinformation in there too, such as the thing about pensions losing value since 2010, and I had to laugh at the way he tried to discredit the tories by highlighting how their 2010 economic forecasts weren't 100% correct. I don't think many people do judge the success of a government based on the accuracy of their economic forecasts, but if they did, I think the tories predictions are likely to have been considerably more accurate than labour's were in say, 2005, when presumably they weren't forecasting that they were about to steer the economy head first into the biggest crash in modern history.

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purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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Carr Review Into Industrial Action Collapses
Posted on August 5, 2014 by admin
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Bruce Carr QC – Review Collapses

By Tony Burke, Chair, Campaign For Trade Union Freedom

The review of rules governing industrial disputes, lead by Bruce Carr Q.C. collapsed today when Carr pulled the plug on the review stating: “I am (also) concerned about the ability of the review to operate in a progressively politicised environment in the run-up to the general election and in circumstances in which the main parties will wish to legitimately set out their respective manifesto commitments and have already started to do so”.

In the wake of the Grangemouth/Falkirk row last year Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude and business secretary Vince Cable, asked Carr to examine union laws and come up with recommendations relating to union conduct during industrial disputes.

However, the review was described by the TUC and unions as headline grabbing union bashing and a “political stunt” and refused to give evidence.

The employers body the CBI also saw the review for what it was steered clear and Vince Cable himself appears to have given the review a wide berth.

It is rumoured that Carr received just six responses.

Carr had been “handpicked” last year by the Government to deliver a report which they hoped would be used to bash unions in the run up to the General Election.

Now their strategy is in tatters, but as Len McCluskey of Unite has warned: “The Tories remain intent on going into the general election in 2015 with a vicious anti-worker programme”.

Whitehall sources are saying that Maude’s union-bashing comments in recent week have “rendered Carr’s own review “meaningless”.

Carr has told ministers that he would not come up with any recommendations for legal changes.

Maude had publically insisted the review would be ‘neutral’ but Carr buried that idea in his full statement on the Review’s website.

“Any recommendations which might be put forward without the necessary factual underpinning would be capable of being construed as the review making a political rather than an evidence-based judgment, whichever direction such recommendations might take”.

Carr had raised his concerns that the review had been compromised after Maude (egged on by Boris Johnson and others) announced a package of new anti-union laws designed to make it harder for unions to win ballots for industrial action, by raising ballot thresholds.

Carr will produce a “scaled down report” which sets out the “limited evidence” he has gathered. Also a result of Carr dumping the review – the investigation into the events of the dispute at Grangemouth has been dropped.

The precise terms of reference involved examining “the alleged use of extreme tactics in industrial disputes, including so-called ‘leverage’ tactics; and the effectiveness of the existing legal framework to prevent inappropriate or intimidatory actions in trade disputes”.

In response to the collapse of the Carr review Len McCluskey Unite General Secretary said: “The Tories have spectacularly shot themselves in the foot on this. In their haste to attack trade unions, they have embarrassed their own appointee, Bruce Carr, into accepting this report for what it was all along – a desperate pre-election stunt to smear democratic trades unions and their members.

“This was always a purely political exercise with neither the CBI nor the TUC prepared to get involved. Now Bruce Carr has moved to distance himself from what was nothing more than a pre-meditated effort by the Tory party to get a QC to sanction laws further restricting the rights of unions.

“The UK’s trade unions are already the most highly regulated in the world, leaving the UK’s workers among the easiest and cheapest to sack. But while Bruce Carr may have thrown in the towel, the Tories remain intent on going into the general election in 2015 with a vicious anti-worker programme.

“Now at least voters can see their agenda for what it is – a determination to impede all protest against unethical behaviour by employers, and the removal of the last vestiges of protection against abuse that the working people of this country possess.”

The TUC’s Frances O’Grady called on the Tories to repay the cost of setting up the enquiry and said that: “Bruce Carr has been cynically used by the government in a party political stunt for the Conservative Party.

“He is right to recognise this “politicisation”, so I am not surprised at his decision not to make any recommendations and to simply review the few submissions sent to him.

“But the politicisation is not new, it was built in from the start. Contrary to Nick Clegg’s assurance, employer behaviour such as blacklisting was not even mentioned in the terms of reference for the review. And now Mr Carr has found his work entirely pre-empted by a Conservative Party press release.

“The Conservative Party should now repay to the taxpayer the costs of the enquiry.”

Meanwhile Mark Serwotka of the PCS union said:”The Tories handpicked Bruce Carr to do their bidding but even he couldn’t stomach their anti-union rhetoric, exposing the review as a facade for an attack not just on more than 6 million trade union members but on all working people and their communities.”

Construction union General Secretary Steve Murphy said: “The collapse of the Carr Review, demonstrates that the Conservatives’ own placeman, realises that their proposed attacks on worker’s rights, especially the right to strike, cannot be justified by anyone who believes in basic human rights.”

 

 

 

Guest MattP

Guest MattP

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Morning Ken. lol

That's months old and looks very dated now. The figures were very optimistic and I think even the Tories didn't realise at the time just how big and hard a job this recovery was going to be.

Done a great job mind when you look at the forecasts Ed Balls was making at the same time. He didn't believe any growth was possible with current fiscal policy. Obviously you expect any Labour chancellor to get most things wring regarding economics but Balls even looks ridiculous compared to Brown.

purpleronnie

purpleronnie

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It's just a bunch of quotes from union leaders giving anti tory rhetoric lol. You're surely not claiming that that's fair and impartial reporting?

I'm showing the collapse of a stupid inquiry, only good news.

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