Conservative party/opposition watch

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 22 Jul 2015, 10:48

3rdRock wrote:Osborne & Co are currently running on ideological overdrive and with no real opposition to speak of

Yes. Very well put. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 22 Jul 2015, 10:55

Slow day in the workshop, Biff?

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 22 Jul 2015, 11:55

Workshop? What's that? Oh, I remember. I'm a retired gentleman of leisure these days.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 22 Jul 2015, 12:25

biffvernon wrote:Workshop? What's that? Oh, I remember. I'm a retired gentleman of leisure these days.

Plenty of time for head bashing then (see the last page).

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 23 Jul 2015, 11:48

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/cr ... 08985.html

MI5 covered up claims MP had 'a penchant for small boys' to avoid embarrassing the Thatcher government

No wonder they're so keen to 'water down' the FoI act.

See: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho ... 97935.html

PS_RalphW · Post by **PS_RalphW** » 23 Jul 2015, 12:18

It's amazing how many abusers in high places are exposed in the year or two after their natural deaths.

johnhemming2 · Post by **johnhemming2** » 23 Jul 2015, 12:45

If you are intrerested in further on this the source documents are here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... entary.pdf

This arose in part from work one of my team was doing at the National Archives looking for things that were "missing". We will probably have another look at this now.

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 23 Jul 2015, 13:05

johnhemming2 wrote:If you are interested in further on this the source documents are here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/s ... entary.pdf

This arose in part from work one of my team was doing at the National Archives looking for things that were "missing". We will probably have another look at this now.

Thanks for the information John and for taking the time to unearth further facts about this case during your time in office.

The public have a right to know about these heinous crimes, preferably before the perpetrators leave office or die.

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 23 Jul 2015, 19:12

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... hile-fears

May dodges questions about MI5 failure to act on MP paedophile fears

Home secretary refuses to say whether she asked security service about why it did not follow up suspicions that MP had ‘penchant for small boys’.

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 24 Jul 2015, 11:32

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ ... y-minister

Climate action isn't preserve of the leftwing, says energy minister

Amber Rudd cites Margaret Thatcher’s action on global warming as she says tackling climate change cannot be left to just left wing politicians.

Leftwing advocates of climate action such as the author Naomi Klein have argued that capitalism is one of the main obstacles to serious carbon emission cuts and widespread deployment of renewable energy.

Rudd’s speech comes at the end of a week when her department cut solar power subsidies and killed off the UK’s flagship scheme for making homes more energy efficient. Friends of the Earth said the speech amounted to “window dressing” for Treasury attacks on environmental policies and accused her of “grotesque hypocrisy”.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 24 Jul 2015, 11:33

This Amber Rudd has a great name.

But that's it.

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 24 Jul 2015, 11:47

Amber Rudd - smells fishy to me!

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 24 Jul 2015, 20:40

Green Party wrote:Today, Molly Scott Cato MEP, is asking the European Commission whether recent proposed changes to wind and solar subsidies and planning laws that will affect renewable energy generators breach EU competition law. Dr Scott Cato believes that the decision to impose the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on renewable generators is ‘illogical and punitive’ and that enhanced powers to challenge planning for windfarms is not matched by similar powers to challenge fracking. She also questions why subsidies for wind turbines are being removed and subsidies for solar power being reviewed while huge subsidies for nuclear power continue.
Molly said: “The government’s misinformed and ideological opposition to renewable technologies is destroying thousands of potential jobs. Member states have the right to choose their energy mix, but Treaty law suggests this must be done within a framework of fair competition. I believe that a desire to pander to the fossil fuel and nuclear dinosaur industries is distorting the market and undermining the renewables industry.”
In a written question to the Competition Commissioner, which is also signed by her colleagues Keith Taylor, Green MEP for the South East and Jill Evans MEP of Plaid Cymru, Molly challenges whether the Commission was consulted by the UK government over proposed changes to the CCL and whether the freedom for the government to choose its energy mix is in conflict with its obligations to meet mandatory carbon reduction targets.
“I am hoping that the Commission fully acknowledge the terrible negative impacts these policy changes will have on renewable generators and that these changes can be challenged and reversed through unfair competition rules.”

and Chris Lo wrote:The UK's Conservative government has angered environmentalists and green energy companies by removing the exemption to the Climate Change Levy for renewable producers at less than a month's notice. What could explain this decision, and is this tax still worthy of its name when it penalises clean and dirty power plants alike?

Read on at http://www.power-technology.com/feature ... g-4626884/

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 27 Jul 2015, 07:38

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015 ... nefit-cuts

Black and minority ethnic Britons ‘worse off’ after budget

Thinktank says minorities twice as likely as white people to lose out from George Osborne’s benefit cuts.

UE was right when he recently stated in another post ...

The people are not as stupid as their political masters take them to be.

What we are heading for is going to make the unrest of the early 1980s look like a tea party.

After their election success, this government is carrying out an ideological war, with the young, poor, sick and disadvantaged firmly in their gun sights.

They need to walk a mile in the shoes of the poor in an attempt to understand the effects of their draconian welfare cuts.

If they don't, they'd better start saving up for some more water cannons.

3rdRock · Post by **3rdRock** » 06 Aug 2015, 08:47

http://www.theguardian.com/business/201 ... ks-pockets

Osborne faces wrath of challengers after placing himself in big banks' pockets