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.

By Ben Riley-Smith, Political Correspondent

12:00PM BST 27 May 2015

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/queens-speech/11632628/Queens-Speech-2015-All-the-new-bills-proposed-by-David-Camerons-government-a-glance.html


David Cameron promised a Queen's Speech to 'bring Britain back together'. Here is a list of the key laws outlined in Parliament today.



1 Enterprise Bill: Cut red tape to help save businesses £10 billion, improve business rates system and create new body to help resolve company-to-company disputes.

2 Full Employment and Welfare Bill: Benefit cap to be lowered to £23,000 while there will be a “freeze” on most working-age benefits, tax credits and child benefit for two years.

3 Personal Tax Allowance: Allowance to increase to £12,500. Will continue to rise to ensure minimum wage earners working 30 hours a week will be taken out of income tax.

4 Tax lock commitment: No income tax, VAT or National Insurance contributions rises before 2020.

5 Childcare Bill: Double the amount of free childcare to 30 hours for three- and four-year-olds.

6 Housing Bill: Build more “starter homes” to be sold at a 20 per cent discount for young first-time buyers.

7 Energy Bill: Create the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) and give local communities will have the “final say” on wind farms.

8 Immigration Bill: Make ”illegal working” a criminal offence and extend the principle of “deport first, appeal later” to all immigration cases.

9 Trade Unions Bill: Block strikes unless 40 per cent of all eligible union members vote for industrial action.

10 Education and Adoption Bill: Create new powers that will allow “coasting” and failing schools to be converted into academies.

11 EU Referendum Bill: Holding an In/Out vote on Britain’s membership of the European Union by the end of 2017.

12 Health and Social Care: Increase funding to £8bn extra a year by 2020 and create a seven-day NHS.

13 Cities and Local Government: Deliver growth deal for Greater Manchester and "Northern Powerhouse" plans.

14 State Pension: The state pension will be protected by a "triple lock", rising in line with the highest of growth in earnings, inflation or 2.5 per cent.

15 Scotland Bill: Implement the Smith Commission, which gives the Scottish Parliament controls to set income tax bands and change welfare policy.

16 The High Speed Rail Bill: Paves the way for the first stage of the railway from London to the West Midlands.

17 English votes for English laws: Create “fairer procedures” to ensure decisions affecting England can only be taken with consent of most English MPs.

18 Extremism Bill: Create powers to ban extremist groups, close radical mosques and allow Ofcom to better control extremist broadcasts.

19 Police and Criminal Justice Bill: Limit initial pre-charge bail to 28 days as normal, with any extensions beyond three months needing judicial approval.

20 Psychoactive Substances Bill: Dealing legal highs to become a criminal offence with up to seven years in prison.

21 Proposals for a British Bill of Rights: Proposals for new legislation to replace the Human Rights Act.

JB,

Not your girl friend again?

Get her to clean her teeth.

i am getting very tempted to put fred in a padded cell, for which the squelch button will have to suffice here ...... he really is being even more tiresome and prattish than usual

21 wishy washy proposals with no meat.

I wonder how many will come to fruition?

Another u-turn, u-bend government.

I wonder if they will be voted out by its own party before the end of the 5 year term?

The changes to the Human Rights Act are nothing to do with the EU treaty. It was a decision by Blair to pass the legislation to give away our supremacy. With a Bill of Rights we would revert to the situation before 1998. It would not stop people appealing to the European Court of Human Rights ECtHR. We could then choose to ignore any rulings.

Manuel,

If you not careful I will get somebody to eat your own cooking!

sorry fred, but with considerable reluctance i'm going to sinbin you for a day or two until your medication starts to work properly

The abuse of the Human Rights Act

It has allowed judges to downplay parliamentary legislation.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9076344/The-abuse-of-the-Human-Rights-Act.html

At last I getting to the underbelly of Manuel.

He hasn't got the strength to try to defend his own icons of impending failure.

He is going back to the kitchen sink!

LOL.


We need GF back.

PS.

I wonder if Manuel is going to try and hide on ADVF.

Fred where would you be without cynic , you love it . I go away to feed me ferrets and there's an explosion of passion while I'm gone , jeepers .

not really, but the poor old chap clearly needs some p+q in a darkened room
as i wrote, i have only sent him to the sinbin for a day or two and purely for his own good :-)

Blair quits Middle East envoy role . Maybe going to join FIFA .

especially now it has been renamed THIFA

That's funny cynic ... Fred's medication .

About time I posted this again

Victim.

I just like to point out the waiter that he is neither omniscient, or omnipotent.

Sometimes the symptoms of various psychotic disorder.

I sometimes wonder where he spent his youth, but there is no point in asking him as one can see the poor chap is often more than a little befuddled.

Maybe a few injections might help him.

I often feel sorry for him.
========

Blair.

Good riddance.

Can he take the hazy one with him.

Imagine arriving at a ward with the three of them dribbling in them.

What a nightmare.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/queens-speech/11634415/Queens-Speech-David-Cameron-announces-law-to-slash-Labours-union-funding.html

Queen's Speech: David Cameron announces law to slash Labour's union funding

After leading the Tory Party to its first majority for 23 years, the Prime Minister unveils legislation that could see donations to Labour fall by tens of millions of pounds every year.

David Cameron has launched an assault on Labour's reliance on the unions as he used his Queen’s Speech to unveil new laws which could see the party's funding slashed.

After leading the Tory Party to its first majority for 23 years, Mr Cameron unveiled legislation that could see donations to Labour fall by tens of millions of pounds every year.

In a surprise move the Conservatives introduced a new law to reform the way union activists pay a “political levy” to Labour.

Under the Conservative plans, union members will have to opt-in to paying an annual amount to Labour, rather than opting out as at present.

It will dramatically reduce Labour’s funding from the unions and would significantly hamper the party’s ability to fight general elections.

In Northern Ireland, which has an opt-in system, fewer than 40 per cent of union members chose to pay into political fund. Under the current system in the rest of the UK just 8.8 per cent of union members opt out.

The Unite union, run by Len McCluskey, gave Labour £19 million in the last Parliament.

The unions reacted with fury to the measures, accusing Mr Cameron of a “shamelessly partisan attack” that would “take Britain back to the 1920s”. Labour sources described the pledge as a “stitch-up”.