• Cancer guarantee complete shambles

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Serious questions about independence of the Office of Budget Responsibility - Darling

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Coalition's U-turn on prison parties - Straw

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Cameron admits fewer criminals will be put in jail

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Results of Labour’s approach to supporting the recovery

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Huge risks the Government is running with the economy - McFadden

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
    Shadow Business Secretary, Pat McFadden MP, responding to the latest survey of business attitudes from the Federation of Small Businesses said: "This survey shows the huge risks the Government is running with the economy.  ldquo;By cutting back spending so fast and so deeply, this is not just having an effect on the public sector but the private sector too.  ldquo;Today's figures show a sense of foreboding among small businesses about their prospects for the future."

  • "Home Secretary demonstrates a lack of understanding" - Johnson

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Unemployment Figures

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • "David Cameron owes the public an apology today" - Khan

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • Unlikely civil society will become "bigger" with large public spending cuts - Jowell

    Updated: 2010-07-31 20:53:47
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  • "Welcome to the ConDemNation"

    Updated: 2010-07-31 19:33:00
    This video is well, well worth a view. An edited snap shot of the recent political history of this nightmare government and the hypocrisy of its leadership. Hat-tip to my new Facebook friend of 20 minutes Jase-deb Cridland – check out riginal on YouTube here. I love the song of course!

  • Amicus Fujitsu Manchester: Briefing on Fujitsu Voice

    Updated: 2010-07-31 17:25:00
    Nominations have opened for employee representatives on "Fujitsu Voice", the company's new body for informing and consulting its UK employees,...

  • ToUChstone blog: Damning local government to ineffectiveness

    Updated: 2010-07-31 09:03:13
    I was struck by two items in the news that happened to appear on the same day. In the UK, Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for local government, has announced plans to give the public the power to veto Council Tax increases. From 2012, MPs will decide each year on a maximum increase local [...]

  • Unison Active: CND's big idea for the Spending Challenge - stop wasting £100bn+ on Trident‏

    Updated: 2010-07-31 08:45:00
    As part of its campaign to scrap the wasteful Trident nuclear missiles replacement programme, CND has published a model response to the Con Dem Government’s Spending Challenge – click on the link to...

  • ToUChstone blog: Cuts Watch #164: More Cuts to Children’s Services

    Updated: 2010-07-31 08:37:15
    Major cuts in children’s services are planned in Hampshire and Norfolk. Hampshire County Council plans a £25 million cut, threatening 185 jobs in the music education service, careers information and counselling, social work posts in special educational needs and senior management; there will also...

  • Unison Active: Tobacco Worker by Nancy Morejón‏

    Updated: 2010-07-31 08:37:00
    A tobacco worker wrote a poem to death. Amid the smoke and the dry and twisted leaves of the plains she said she saw the world in Cuba. It was the year 1999...In her poem she said she touched...

  • John's Labour blog: TUC Member Trustee Network Conference: Stronger Stewardship: Trustee Responsibilities in a Changing Pensions Landscape

    Updated: 2010-07-30 23:14:00
    Hat tip TUC Pension Trustee Network: "Date Tue, 16 Nov 2010: Time to from 09:30 to 16:30 Location Congress House, Great Russell Street, London Cost: The cost for attending remains frozen at the level of earlier years and is £50 Unions, £75 Education, Public or Voluntary Sector; Commercial £250....

  • Summary of Nominations.

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:28:02
    The number of candidates contesting the House of Representatives has fallen from 1054 in 2007 to 849 in 2010. The number of Senate candidates is down from 367 to 349. The following tables summarize all the nominations by party, electorates...

  • The role of voluntary savings groups

    Updated: 2010-07-30 10:20:26
    Members of RESULTS attended an event hosted by the Microfinance Club and Barclays Bank focusing on Voluntary Savings Groups.

  • Federal Redistribution for Victoria

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:12:44
    Draft new Federal electoral boundaries have been published. I will not be doing any analysis of them apart from saying that Murray is abolished and McEwen becomes a solid Liberal seat. Today is close of nominations and I am going...

  • Nick Clegg's strangeness to the truth

    Updated: 2010-07-29 21:01:00
    More evidence (if really needed) of the shame faced hypocrisy of our new Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.  In this pre-election letter to electors in Kingston he claims that "Voting Labour will only help the Conservatives win".  I love the stuff about "most people remember the...

  • Fixed State Retirement Age to Be Axed by Coalition Government

    Updated: 2010-07-29 16:27:03
    To Work or Not to Work – That is the Question The Coalition Government is planning on slashing fixed state retirement age from 65, this means no longer will employers be able to sack people just because they’re old. It will become law in october and will give OAP’s the choice to retire or continue working. This is [...]

  • Did Cameron and Clegg discuss a Lib/Con pact before the election?

    Updated: 2010-07-29 13:48:02
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Thursday 29th July 2010 Did Cameron and Clegg discuss a Lib Con pact before the election I'm greatly looking forward to Five Days That Changed Britain tonight's Nick Robinson documentary on the aftermath of the general election . It includes interviews with all the key players apart from Gordon . Brown Robinson has a fascinating piece in today's Telegraph in which he reveals some of the film's contents , including the revelation that Brown and his team were completely wrong-footted by Cameron's big , open and comprehensive offer to the Liberal Democrats on the morning of Friday , May 7. Brown was expecting Cameron to call for his resignation , clearing the way for a Conservative minority government , and thought the offer to the Lib

  • Invite your MP to a Screening of 1.4 Billion Reasons

    Updated: 2010-07-29 09:00:35
    Invite your MP along to a special screening of The Global Poverty Project's presentation of 1.4 Billion Reasons.

  • August action materials now available

    Updated: 2010-07-29 01:00:32
    Microfinance has been an effective tool in the fight against global poverty. Yet while there are many microfinance organisations in Africa, levels of access to financial services for poor people remain very low.

  • William Cuffay - "Britain's Black Revolutionary"

    Updated: 2010-07-28 23:59:00
    While driving to a meeting with HR today I listened on Radio 4 to former T&G General Secretary (now Lord) Bill Morris describe the extraordinary life of Chartist Movement leader William Cuffay. Bill explained that s the first GS of a major trade union he is often described as the “First...

  • Labour's shameless opportunism on AV

    Updated: 2010-07-28 18:26:47
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Wednesday 28th July 2010 Labour's shameless opportunism on AV It's shameless even by the standards of New Labour . Shadow Justice Secretary Jack Straw announced on the Today programme this morning that Labour would oppose the Coalition's bill paving the way for a referendum on PR . That's a bit rich , given that a commitment to AV was in the Labour Party's last manifesto and the Party's internal electoral system the one it's using to select a new leader is itself AV . As David Cameron says , this is a descent into complete and utter opportunism I know what it is like in opposition . I did almost five years as leader of the opposition . The temptation to jump on the bandwagon and be opportunistic is always there and it should always be

  • Home Secretary Theresa May Indicates ASBO’s to be Scrapped

    Updated: 2010-07-28 18:04:18
    Home Secretary Theresa May has indicated in a speech that the ASBO’s (Anti-Social Behavioural Order) might be scrapped. May said in a speech today it is “time to move beyond” ASBO’s, indicating the potential scrapping in England and Wales. Launching the new review system Theresa May said it was time to “stop tolerating” bad behaviour. I have to [...]

  • Parliamentary Group on Global TB summer round up

    Updated: 2010-07-28 09:00:44
    With the parliamentary summer recess upon us the time has come to reflect on a short, but jam-packed, couple of months for the UK All Party Group on Global Tuberculosis. From a post-election recruitment drive to meetings with government Ministers, the work of the Group to raise the profile of and campaign for the eradication of this deadly disease continued apace in the first term of the new parliament.

  • "Hope Not Hate" exposes the EDL as thugs

    Updated: 2010-07-27 22:14:00
    While driving to a meeting with HR today I listened on Radio 4 to former T&G General Secretary (now Lord) Bill Morris describe the extraordinary life of Chartist Movement leader William Cuffay. Bill explained that s the first GS of a major trade union he is often described as the “First...

  • Will Ed Balls be Labour's kingmaker?

    Updated: 2010-07-27 17:05:15
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Tuesday 27th July 2010 Will Ed Balls be Labour's kingmaker Rather surprisingly , Ed Balls finds himself in quite a good position following the decision of the Unite union to back Ed Miliband He has no hope of winning the leadership , obviously , but that was probably never a realistic expectation . Rather , his reason for throwing his hat into the ring was in the hope of strengthening his claim on the Shadow Chancellorship . In fact , he's proved surprisingly unpopular , not only with the trade unions the leaders of the GMB and Unison have also thrown their weight behind Miliband Jr . but with Labour Party members too . Just 14 local party branches have nominated him compared to 106 endorsing Ed Miliband and 130 brother David .

  • RESULTS UK meets with international Parliamentarians at the IAS

    Updated: 2010-07-27 10:42:23
    During this year’s IAS Conference in Vienna, RESULTS UK organised a round table discussion with Parliamentarians and NGOs from around the world to discuss their role in fighting HIV/AIDS and TB.

  • Unite nominates Ed Miliband as Labour Party Leader.

    Updated: 2010-07-27 08:39:00
    No surprise to anyone that I was very pleased to hear yesterday hat the Unite Executive confirmed that they had overwhelmingly agreed to support Ed Miliband as the new Labour Party leader. This followed a similar "overwhelming" vote by its national political committee.  What...

  • Remember the Tory Years

    Updated: 2010-07-26 22:26:00
    Yesterday I went to Wales for a quick visit and updated my Face Book profile so - and was then reminded by one FB friend about the former SoS for Wales - dear old John Redwood. I remembered this outube video  and yes, the Tories are still singing the old same tune.

  • Us Warns National Security Threat Over Leaked Afghan Details

    Updated: 2010-07-26 14:52:53
    On Wiki-Leak 90,000 Top Secret Afghan Details/Records were published, but The White House has condemned the Publication as “irresponsible” and a threat to “National Security”. This is a Delicate issue, the publication could either catch lies and fibs within the MoD and Army (if they are stretching and altering the truth). Or it could as [...]

  • Tory MP Philip Hollobone May Face Criminal Prosecution Over De-Veiling Request

    Updated: 2010-07-25 18:36:59
    Seems Like He Got What’s Coming to Him – Serves Him for Being Racist Tory MP Philip Hollobone May Face Criminal Prosecution for claiming he will not talk to constituents who wear the Burqa/Nijab. Philip Hollobone in one brief sentence not completed his duty to represent the people in his constituency… basically his job. I hope if he [...]

  • The Irascible Red Queen

    Updated: 2010-07-25 00:56:00
    Last night I watched the film " Alice in Wonderland" in glorious D. Which I njoyed and recommend to anyone who hasn't seen it. It is a eally good film and well worth watching. The "off with their heads" vil and wicked Red Queen id remind me very much of...

  • Can this Goat get more followers on Facebook than HM Treasury Spending Challenge?

    Updated: 2010-07-24 19:37:00
    Hat-tip to TUC new media guru Johninnit YouTube Channel "The UK government's Spending Challenge Facebook page was launched to huge fanfare. Despite a much hyped web chat between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Prime Minister David Cameron to launch the page, one week later it had just 70 fans....

  • Finally - A Victory - for Common Sense.

    Updated: 2010-07-23 23:59:00
    We won. It's struck out.  hat a complete and utter waste of ime, energy nd (public) money. Many thanks to Robert, David (and Matthew) nuf said

  • Should Australia’s Kangaroo Meat Trade Be Banned in the EU

    Updated: 2010-07-23 12:43:53
    Australia’s Meat Trade Fights EU Food Ban. In Australia they can legally kill and eat Kangaroo’s, something I didn’t really know about. But this has come under fierce debate, people are objecting to the killing of the animal in order to sell the meat to the open market because if a mother Roo is shot with [...]

  • Aaron Oxley speaks alongside Bill Gates at parliamentary event

    Updated: 2010-07-23 08:30:03
    RESULTS UK's Aaron Oxley speaks alongside Bill Gates and key UK Parliamentarians to encourage and challenge other UK MPs to lend their support to international development.

  • "Guess Who Batman"

    Updated: 2010-07-22 23:52:00
    I hope I'm not really a prude but I did think when I first heard his ong by Lily Allen that it is a just a little bit too much - but then I found it was also about BNP Nazi leader, Nick Griffin...:) No other reason!

  • No Charge over Ian Tomlinson G20 Death

    Updated: 2010-07-22 21:09:20
    Ian Tomlinson 47, an innocent newspaper seller was murdered last year after he got caught up in clashes with police and protesters in G20. Video was recorded that showed; Ian Tomlinson (who wasn’t protesting or causing any trouble; just walking across the pavement with his head down, hands in pockets and minding his own business) was [...]

  • More Balls on Free Schools

    Updated: 2010-07-22 01:43:31
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Thursday 22nd July 2010 More Balls on Free Schools Oh dear . Has it really come to this Following the news that Unison , England's biggest public sector union , has thrown its weight behind Ed Miliband Ed Balls has launched yet another attack on Free Schools in a desperate attempt to shore up his Labour leadership . campaign He has given an interview in today's Guardian in which he claims Free Schools will lead to social segregation . I fear there will be a new form of social apartheid educational apartheid , he says . Apparently , it has escaped him that Britain is already riven by educational apartheid , namely , the division between state schools and private schools . Odd that , considering Balls himself is the product of a

  • UNISON Labour Link nominates Ed Miliband for Party Leader

    Updated: 2010-07-21 23:59:00
    I heard some great news this afternoon that the National UNISON Labour Link committee had voted decisively to recommend to members that they should vote for Ed Miliband to be the next leader of the Labour Party. This was a decision taken by the elected lay leadership of the voluntary UNISON...

  • Labour Housing Group AGM

    Updated: 2010-07-21 08:35:00
    On Saturday I went to the Labour Housing Group AGM at Camden Town Hall. I have only recently joined the LHG but I have been to their well attended fringe events at Labour Party conferences in the past. The group is about “developing and promoting effective housing policy" and was formed in 1981....

  • The honeymoon is over for the Coalition

    Updated: 2010-07-21 01:25:43
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Wednesday 21st July 2010 The honeymoon is over for the Coalition According to a piece by Peter Kellner on YouGov's website the honeymoon is over for the Coalition . He deduces this by contrasting the vertiginous decline in the Coalition's approval ratings since it was elected with the much more modest dip in New Labour's approval ratings at a comparable point in 1997. Shortly after Blair was swept to victory , 76 approved of his Government while 13 disapproved . That's a net rating of plus 63. Four months later , the net rating was still plus 54 and after a year it stood at 32. Apart from a blip in March 1998, the net rating did not fall into single figures until September 1999, more than two years into Blair’s first term , he writes

  • US Visit: UK Troops Could Leave Afghanistan As Soon as 2011

    Updated: 2010-07-21 01:01:44
    Forget 2014 – We want it all… We Want it NOW! Prime Minister David Cameron says UK troops could leave Afghanistan as soon as next year. This was announced at the US visit by PM David Cameron. David Cameron Told the BBC the same could be expected of UK forces “based on conditions on the ground”. This is [...]

  • Deputy Nick Clegg to Take over PMQ’s From Nanny David Cameron

    Updated: 2010-07-21 01:01:07
    When David’s Away – The Clegginator Will Play. At 12:00pm Nick Clegg is taking over PMQ’s (Prime Minister Questions) on his own. Nick Clegg slips on his big-boy shoes and takes over PMQ’s for Prime Minister David Cameron who’s currently is on his US Visit. Good Luck PM-Free Clegg. Author: Caleb Law age: 13

  • The A.C.T. Senate Contest

    Updated: 2010-07-20 08:41:18
    As well as the 72 Senators representing the States, the Australian Senate includes four Senators representing the Territories, two each from the ACT and the Northern Territory. The terms of the State Senators are defined by the Constitution. Each of...

  • West Ham Labour Party National Leadership Hustings

    Updated: 2010-07-20 02:14:00
    Many thanks to our MP Lyn Brown and her staff for helping to organise Sunday’s Hustings at the East London University lecture theatre in Stratford, Newham London. There was about 170 Labour Party members and trade union affiliates here - not only from West Ham but also from all over East...

  • The Mayor’s Newham Show 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-19 21:50:00
    Busy but on several levels a “good day” yesterday. I helped with the preparation of the West Ham Labour Party Leadership Hustings in the morning (see next post) then attended a local community “Big Lunch” event at the Rokeby Children's Centre in my ward. I had to try all the different foods on...

  • Teachers Protest Outside Westminster Over Axed School Buildings

    Updated: 2010-07-19 16:15:05
    Schools Secretary Michael Gove can’t catch a break, teachers and pupils are now protesting outside Westminster over the axed school buildings. Schools Secretary Michael Gove has caused problems previously after making 25 errors on a list of axed BSF (Building Schools For the Future). He had to release 5 more lists till he got the schools being [...]

  • Prime Minister David Cameron Launches the Tories Big Society Plan

    Updated: 2010-07-19 14:43:43
    Remember during the General Election 2010 that big society that the Tories were ‘waffling’ about?… well David Cameron has launched that plan, and he’s serious. It gives more power to the people lets them have more control over their community and control the funding for projects and it sounds great… on paper. When I look deeper and [...]

  • Reminder: Labour Party Leadership Hustings tonight at Stratford. E15

    Updated: 2010-07-18 11:09:00
    Lyn Brown MP sends out an audio reminder to Labour Party members and affiliates to attend tonight's Leadership Hustings. I've thrown together some pics to make a quick video. All the Leadership candidates will be there. It is being held at Duncan's House, UEL, High Street, Stratford, E15. Only 5...

  • Tower Hamlets Elected Mayor: New Labour Shortlist

    Updated: 2010-07-18 10:16:00
     at-tip to Dave Hill who is the first person I think to report on he new shortlist to be the Labour candidate for Elected Mayor.  "The original had contained three: the borough's former leader and current London assembly member John Biggs, and two councillors: Shiria Khatun and...

  • Ban the burka

    Updated: 2010-07-18 01:05:24
    : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Sunday 18th July 2010 Ban the burka Most liberal minded people will welcome Damian Green's declaration that the coalition has no plans to follow France's lead and ban the burka . I stand personally on the feeling that telling people what they can and can’t wear , if they’re just walking down the street , is a rather un-British thing to do , he says in today's Telegraph We’re a tolerant and mutually respectful society . However , there's a very good reason why liberals should favour a ban , namely , that the burka is both a symbol and a source of the oppression of Muslim women . To read more , click here COMMENT COMMENTS SO FAR : 2 FIXED LINK EMAIL TO A FRIEND The burka ban : Damian Green is wrong : Most liberal minded people will

  • Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment Awards 2010

    Updated: 2010-07-17 21:11:00
    On Thursday evening I went to this inaugural event at the Globe theatre sponsored by PIRC and US “class action” lawyers Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd. Pictured is one of the judges – the bearded blogging governance guru, Tom P, of Labour and Capital and the winner of the Corporate Governance...

  • London UNISON supports Ken for London Mayor

    Updated: 2010-07-16 22:28:00
     ondon UNISON "Labour Link" (APF) today decided to support Ken Livingston to be the Labour Party candidate for ayor of London in the 2012 elections. I chaired this part f the meeting and the decision y the elected Committee lay members was pretty one sided nd there...

  • GMB Nominate Ed Miliband for Labour Leader

    Updated: 2010-07-15 15:59:00
    Excellent news - The 3rd biggest trade union affiliate to the Labour Party the GMB nominates Ed Miliband. hat-tip Left Foot Forward

  • Kaschke Appeal in Osler case denied!

    Updated: 2010-07-15 10:13:00
    Just heard that the Court of Appeal has refused Kaschke's written request for permission to appeal about her case against Dave Olser being struck out as an abuse of process.  I've just had this comment on Facebook from someone following this mess "Yippee! I await another interminable...

  • La Liberté guidant le peuple

    Updated: 2010-07-14 22:10:00
    Today is Bastille Day which is a National holiday in France which celebrates the storming of the Royalist Prison in 1789 and is seen as the start of the French Revolution. This famous picture of revolution by Eugène Delacroix "Liberty Leading the People" actually refers to  later...

  • Southwark TUC: Communities Unite Against the CONDEM Budget

    Updated: 2010-07-13 23:48:00
    Hat-tip SERTUC

  • East End German PoW Camp at Olympic Village

    Updated: 2010-07-13 22:37:00
     ast End journalist and blogger (and fellow North Walian Gog) Ted Jeory has posted here on some fascinating new historical research on German Prison of War camps in Stratford and Victoria Park. There were 400,000 German PoWs in Britain in 1946. 1500 were held "just a few hundred...

  • "Why we need rent controls" by Boris sibling and "The Firm"

    Updated: 2010-07-12 23:11:00
    Inside Housing magazine is running a great campaign against the proposed CONDEM class cleansing of poor people in prosperous nd middle class Councils (my interpretation not theirs) by limiting housing benefit for tenants. This will result in mass evictions. 170,000 households in London...

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