The Photoshop Disasters blog is one of those sites that can be mediocre for a while, but then they post something so wonderful that you know you’ll keep following them forever. I don’t think I should really comment on this photo – there’s really nothing I can add. However, in general I must admit I [...]
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly...
London Underground plans to: get rid of around 800 station staff posts reduce ticket office opening times by around 7,500 hours carry out essential maintenance checks on trains every four weeks instead of every two weeks cut the number of train drivers’ posts Tube trade unions RMT and TSSA have...
A new report commissioned by the TUC on the current nature and future of community engagement by trades unions in the UK is released today. The report, written as a result of a collaborative...
In June, £49.9 million was cut from the Working Neighbourhoods Fund, an area based grant paid to local authorities by the Department for Communities (CLG). The funding is intended to support attempts to tackle concentrations of worklessness in deprived areas. The cut was accompanied by a removal...
All public services will be hit by the unnecessary ConDem cuts. The Police Service will be particularly badly hit.
There are 5 police forces in the East Midlands and all of them will be hit by cuts...."Walk the streets where strikers, suffragettes and rebel councillors made their stand for the rights and dignity of ordinary working women and men from the 1880s to the 1920s. Find out what they did, who led and supported them, and why they should be remembered and celebrated. Places on this walk...
thought I would cheer up every one's Bank holiday by posting his picture from the AGM of Newham Council.
The photo was taken in the historic Old Town Hall in Stratford.
I hope this isn't seen as political boasting but:-
In the London Borough of Newham 60 out of the... ou would think from recent announcements by Osborne (and whatever ibdem spokesperson) hat we are indeed about to go cap in hand to the IMF at any moment.
This BBC graph based on IMF figures reported upon yesterday on Labour list by Howard Dawber makes you think...
he Wednesday of "European Health and Safety week" (25-29 October 2010) is lso "National Health & Safety Inspection Day". All trade union safety reps are encouraged to carry out a safety inspection of their workplace with their local management on that day.
This year's theme...I have spent most of this Bank “holiday” weekend painting and decorating (Ugh)! Tomorrow I will try and finish off the living room. I now look up at the freshly painted ceiling and it still looks a bit of a mess. I freely admit to being really, really ubbish at DIY.
I had the simply awful...This BBC report confirms earlier rumours that the CONDEMS are planning to crap NHS Direct and replace it with a privately run call centre staffed by unqualified operatives.
So much for the Tory pledge to safeguard the NHS? NHS Direct is a success and actually saves money by..."Labour Link Enews - Aug '10
UNISON urges vote for Ed Miliband
Welcome to the 26th electronic newsletter from UNISON Labour Link. It is aimed at those both active in UNISON and those in the Labour party who are interested in our campaigns. UNISON is calling on its affiliated members to make Ed..."I was in fact having this debate with a 'commrade' from Lambeth last night (he happened to be there in the same pub as me) this lefty who is as good looking as Nora Batty and has the wit and charm of Robert Mugabe, was arguing that we (those of us in the Labour party) should regain the party...
Nothing much is supposed to happen in August but check out this week’s TUC weekly on-line bulletin “Risks”.
Pre-employment health checks are to become illegal under the Equality Act in October. Employers will not be able to ask ealth questions or make medical checks on job applicants...
Shame I cannot make this local history open day on Saturday. Mind you I still don't like the term "Social Housing" which was a term first used by one Michael Heseltine (I prefer "Public Housing").
Pope Benedict will be confronted by posters on London's famous red buses during his trip to the British capital next month which will call for the ordination of women priests."POLITICAL activists reacted with fury today when Sky News broadcast CCTV footage of an innocent political party being unceremoniously dumped in a wheelie bin.
“Well, no-one was looking and no-one seemed to care anyway,” said the unnamed brute (David Cameron, 44) who carried out the crime. He was...Check out this new "Ed Miliband for Labour Leader" campaign video featuring East Ham CLP comrades there are wo featured!)
I've been delivering leaflets this week on behalf of Ed's campaign and have a list of members to call. Don't forget East London fund raiser this Saturday.Some sort of "good news" on the safety front for a change. IOSH report here that a new scheme to accredit "Health and Safety" consultants will be announced in the "next few weeks". This scheme will be chaired at first by the HSE.
Currently anyone can call themselves a "safety...
nuf said? Hat tip Harry's Place
"In February 1894 a group of young men met to discuss how they might 'combine the pleasures of cycling with the propaganda of Socialism'. They formed the Socialists' Cycling Club, a name which at their second meeting was changed to the Clarion Cycling Club, after their favourite newspaper - a...
Redbridge Councillor, Barbara White and UNISON Labour Link national committee vice-chair, Rachel Voller are organising this fund raising Quiz for Ed on Saturday.
"Dear Comrades,
As some of you may know I am supporting Ed Miliband for the leadership election.
I am trying to help the campaign and...
The British government and the Roman Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, an official report said on Tuesday.
I came home tonight to find that the latest publication of Labour Research Department “Health and Safety Law 2010” had been delivered.
Every active trade union safety rep needs to have this guide to hand.
I note that it describes (p3) the appointment of Chris Grayling as Health & Safety...
This quotation by feminist and suffragette, Millicent Fawcett, was in the latest issue of “the Newham mag” (a free fortnightly Newham Council magazine). There was a great article (page 16) about “World War 1 comes to East and West Ham”.
Two other things I learnt from this article was that the...
Volunteers from the London Group help out at the Global Poverty Project's 1.4 Billion Reasons in Shoreditch. Continue reading →Remember the BBC comedy sketch when Basil Fawlty uggested ybil that she should enter “Mastermind” and her specialist subject should be “the bleeding obvious”?
This recent back to basis" guidance on what Managers should o with long term sick workers is from the CIPD...
“Quite Right Mr Trotsky: Some Trotsky myths debunked; and how Trotskyists today hamper the fight for peace and socialism” (1985). nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp; nbsp;...A good introduction to he ONDEM White paper on the NHS."Many Conservatives are disappointed and frustrated that after 13 years in opposition, up against a dreadfully unpopular Labour leader, in the middle of the biggest economic slump for 70 years, Dave still couldn’t win an overall majority.
Yep
Hat-tip Tom Harris
The 70th "anniversary" of the Battle of Britain was marked today by a reading of the famous Churchill "few" speech by actor Robert Hardy in Whitehall.
Hearing his stirring words were actual veterans of the conflict and Newham born) Dame Vera Lynn.
This was followed by a lypast...
I'm pretty sure that (nearly) all of us ill orgive trade union leader, Jimmy Reid, who died this week aged 78, or the implicit sexism of he above wonderful comment.
I was hobbling along (dodgy Achilles heal) anstead flats n Thursday morning listening via...
, . : SEARCH Blog Journalism Books Film Radio Toby's School Wednesday 18th August 2010 Sorry , Nick Clegg . Governments can't do anything about social mobility Nick Clegg made a keynote speech today in which he said he wants the coalition to be judged not only on deficit reduction , but on how much impact it makes on social mobility . In five years time we also want to be able to look back and say that the children born in 2015 are less constrained by the circumstances of their birth , he . said Good luck with that , Deputy Prime Minister . Increasing equality of opportunity has been a common aim of the last three Prime Ministers and , to a greater or lesser degree , they've all failed . Measuring social mobility is a notoriously tricky subject about which no two sociologists agree David
RESULTS has joined with 17 other organisations to call upon the Coalition Government to scale up efforts to address the critical shortage of health workers in many parts of the world. Continue reading →
David Cameron visited Rome to meet Silvio Berlusconi recently and I was just wondering what they discussed, or what was said?…. If your wondering what this political cartoon is it’s Silvio Berlusconi. Silvio, the Romanian Premier has been caught in scandal over his private life (just thought I’d point that out). Author/Artist: Caleb Law age: [...]