Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

i'm afraid one of our excellent local schools recently sold off a slab of its playing fields to TW.
it's true they got some very nice all-weather pitches in the deal, but hardly the same thing

"The law passed by the Conservatives allowed unwanted playing fields to be sold off."


Unwanted by whom!

Tory myths and media manipulation.

Manuel, check your facts and then consider them.

go and fertilise elsewhere, spreading ascaris lumbricoides to the lucky recipients ..... not my quote or post you complete muppet

Unwanted by the school. A school/council triggers off the disposal.

From the government web site

"Schools and local authorities do not apply to sell playing fields, they seek consent from the Secretary of State to dispose. A disposal can include a lease of the playing fields to a third-party organisation with the fields, following investment and improvement, continuing to be used by the school."

The number of disposals is falling. The government sanctioned the disposal of 57 playing fields from May 2010 to the end of October 2013, an average of 16 annually. The previous administration sanctioned the disposal of 242 playing fields from November 2001 (8.5 years), an average of 28 annually.

The government has introduced new legislation to remove the freedom for schools to build classrooms on playing field land. From February 2012 schools and local authorities – including local authorities holding land for academies - have had to seek permission from the Secretary of State for Education if they want to change the use of public playing fields by putting school buildings on them. Prior to 2012, a school could change the use of land in connection with education or recreation purposes without consent. We now require consent even where the buildings are being used for education or recreational purposes.

38 of the disposals since May 2010 are due to the closure or merger of an entire school site due to the re-organisation of education facilities by the local authority or academy trust. Seven schools are leasing playing fields to sports clubs or others and will continue to use the playing fields. Twelve disposals are of small sections of playing field land that either isn’t used by the school for sport or is not needed due to other facilities in place. For instance; Great Marlowe School in Buckinghamshire is disposing of marginal sloping land that isn’t suitable as a playing field,

Is the government intervening in the management of the Insurance Companies?

I thought the torrid party believed in giving free rein to the Private Sector with the least interference and regulation as possible.

Oh, unless Cameron is trying to the underwater tory voters in the Thames Valley. Don't think it was in the Manifesto.

Mind the Private Sector does like to fall back on the incompetent and poorly managed State for it Benefits and show them how to prop up their failing businesses.

Better flog off more of the NHS, before they get kicked out.
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Does anybody know the cost of private ambulance service contracts to the NHS?

Or for that matter the "domestic" services or Privately organised Agency Nurses contracts?

This government's ill thought out ongoing privatisation policies are an ongoing nightmare which will come back to haunt it.

Unless of they do another U-turn.

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The gov is for sure fiddling around with the insurance co's.


Too many houses now effectively uninsurable, and so unsellable (no mortgage)

I flogged Aviva and RSA earlier to-day.

Not sure but fundamentals seem better than the flood warnings.

Unbelievable.........

David Cameron claims benefits are being slashed to give those who depended on them HOPE


If anything showed this PM is out of touch and living on a different planet its that quote above.

What an asshole he is.

The Bedroom Tax violates a parent and child’s right to a family life – what an appeal win!!!

February 18, 2014
What a win!

Any separated parent and often the father who has a ‘spare’ bedroom for his child or children who stay at weekends and holidays and is hit by the pernicious bedroom tax for wanting to still be a responsible parent and have a family life then read this and SMILE.

Then read it again. Then get someone you know to read it out to you just so you know your eyes havent deceived you as to what this SENSATIONAL judgment says.

It says you have a right to a bedroom for your children.

It says your children have a right to a bedroom in your home which is also their home

Mi casa su casa!

It says the back of a fag packet bedroom tax ‘rules’ deny you that right to family life and is a breach of your human rights. It also says the HB regulations that do NOT allow you a bedroom for your child are NOT compatible with the IMPERATIVES of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in these circumstances.

The coalition call this policy the spare room subsidy and have tried to sell it on morality grounds.

YET there is nothing more IMMORAL than the state interfering and denying a parent their absolute inviolable right to a family life AND THE BEDROOM TAX ALSO SEEKS TO DENY A CHILD THE RIGHT TO A FAMILY LIFE TOO

Next time you see IDS or Freud or McVey laying on the spare room subsidy argument as being moral and just and right and all the rest of that hypocritcal blather, then remember reader the DWP argument seeks to deny a parent his or her child and seeks to deny a child his or her parent….and the court here has said correctly that in these all too common circumstances that the bedroom tax policy is a fundamantal breach of the right all parents and all children have…that of what the Tories used to uphold as sacrosanct…a family life!

Yes, very nice gf.

Is the ECHR going to pay for this?

ECHR...?

Sorry got it Max.

No actually I think it should come out of Tory funds. They passed the stupid act.

Lets face it.......MONEY IS NO OBJECT.

It would seem to be the case gf.


so, a separated man would need a three bedroom house/flat to accommodate his TWO kids when they visit?

Not sure about that Max. If different sex you would logicaly think so.

Ive only got the original act.

Im sure egg head will be making an appeal but I dont give him any chance.

That's the problem with this human rights thingy, there seems to be no end to what people are entitled to, as long as somebody else is paying for it.

UNEMPLOYMENT GOES UP.

Recovery built on sand.

Max you must be factoring in some kind of compensation.

This is money taken away not given.!!!!!!!!!!!!

Andrew Neil ‏@afneil 1m
Average earnings increased by 1.1% in the year to December, 0.2% up on the previous month.
Cost of living squeeze continued through 2013.....................ends

and fiddled inflation figure is 2.8%........3% plus for most of last year.

Little wonder people are getting poorer and poorer.

Tory Sleaze.

No, they are trying to engineer a reduction in welfare payments.

In itself that's not a bad thing.

But now the human rights thingy is in operation, that's the end of that.

Welfare spending, for all the headline horror stories, is still rising.

We cant afford it.