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OFFCOM deemed Dacre not acceptable as chairman of OFFCOM but rather than appoint candidates whose neutrality had been accepted the government decided to reinterview all candidates. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chair, Julian Knight a Conservative MP]] said this was quite unreasonable and Dacre should be excluded from reapplying.

Following his party conference speech, Simon Wolfson, the chief executive of Next PLC, criticised him for being ‘economically illiterate’ and lacking a plan.

Nazi songs In 2019 the Independent reported that one of Farage's Dulwich college friend had become so alarmed at the divisions caused by Brexit, particularly "breaking point" poster which has been described as resembling Nazi propaganda that he thought the public should know more. The f

On 28th August, just ahead of the reopening of schools, New Scientist examined the three month history of Johnson's "World beating" track and trace scheme. The magazine noted that the scheme had never met its targets and deteriorated further following an internet outage in Southampton in the 2nd week of August affecting contacts for several thousand people. It criticised both the lack of a backup for such a vital system and the lack of transparency.

However, Mike Barton,the former Durham chief constable said his behaviour “damaged trust in the government and in the rules” and his excuse was worse than childish.

On 15 July 2020, Lewis was elected Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament by securing the support of opposition MPs. He defeated Chris Grayling, who had been the Government's preferred candidate.[1] Lewis had the Conservative Party whip removed later that day for what a government source described as "working with Labour and other opposition MPs for his own advantage" but Lewis says that he had never responded to government whips about who he would vote for as he considered it an "improper request" as the 2013 Justice and Security Act explicitly removed the Prime Minister's right to choose the committee chair:[2][3] "At no earlier stage did I give any undertaking to vote for any particular candidate".[3]

The next day the Leader of the House, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said he would not rule out a plot to oust Lewis, whose allies spoke of fears that the government would seek retribution.[4] According to the Guardian,Grayling's defeat makes publication of the report into alleged Russian meddling in 2016 more likely. The report written by the previous committee was available in early 2019 but Johnson withheld it ahead of the 2019 General election. The new committee also has the right to reject its predecessors findings. A cross party group of 30 MPs had also written to Johnson asking him to appoint the new committee quickly.[5]

On 3 June 2020, Nick Robinson interviewed Argar on the BBC Radio 4 flagship Today program and asked him to name one country in Europe where the current incidence of covid-19 was more prevalent than in the UK. Instead of responding, Argar explained the new quarantine regulations only for Robinson to repeat the question and Argar to repeat the regulations description. Robinson asked for a third time and Argar said said that the Home Secretary would go into details of Land bridges later in the day but this time Robinson interrupted him saying he either couldn't answer or had chosen not to do so. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/edward-argar-name-country-higher-rate-europe-a4458306.html BBC & Evening standard

https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/news/2020-05-04/our-comment-conclusion-charity-commissions-regulatory-case https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/04/anger-as-charity-watchdog-clears-alzheimers-society-of-wrongdoing

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Alzheimer%27s_Society&diff=prev&oldid=943887246

Alleged bullying of staff and non-disclosure agreements
Kate Lee’s appointment was brought forward by 6 weeks following allegations in The Guardian that the outgoing CEO had bullied staff. In May 2020, ThirdSector magazine reported that the regulator, the Charity commission found the society had “acted in line with their legal duties", inasmuch as allegations of £750k NDA payments were not substantiated and staff could report inappropriate behaviour. Commenting on the result, the Guardian pointed out that the commission had admitted failing to investigate the original case properly in 2018 or interview complainants whilst the chair of the Alzheimer's trustees, Stephen Hill, said the society wanted to ensure best practice and had reviewed its procedures

BBC 'Irish border technology' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47047993 In April 2019 Make UK -an lobby group representing 20,000 manufacturers wrote to May and Corbyn emphasising the damage that prolonged uncertainty over Brexit was doing to the UK and calling on May to revoke article 50 if there was no agreement by April 12.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/03/29/theresa-may-will-rightly-take-place-one-least-successful-prime/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/03/29/won-chance-change-things-brexiteers-incompetent-make/

In May 2017, during the 2017 United Kingdom general election he was berated by a woman for discussing alcohol in a Sikh temple in Bristol. Johnson had promised to end whisky tariffs and although married to a Sikh whose culture bans alcohol, he merely expressed regret that she opposed his views and didn't apologise to her.

The problem with Brexit is that there’s no obvious next step Henry Farrell - The Washington Post - 16 January 2019 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/20/brexit-not-going-to-plan-did-we-ever-have-a-plan Guardian article saying Irish border in unsolvable https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-46886858 May suffers historic defeat. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-46891769/david-cameron-i-don-t-regret-calling-referendum https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/14/boris-johnson-dismisses-brexit-claims-of-jaguar-land-rover-boss https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/17/garden-bridge-donors-sue-failed-london-scheme https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/11/boris-johnson-received-23000-from-lynton-crosby-strategy-firm

Firstly Martha Gill is quite a well known political journalist writing for the Telegraph andthe Guardian as well as the NYT. The reason for including an opinion piece is the convergence of views right at the end of 2018 that Brexit is not understood by ministers, HMG is unprepared and whilst a few hedge funds may benefit, the country is heading for a disaster. It may be the sentence needs to go elsewhere -possibly a new section such as "Position at the end of 2018" In December 2018, Martha Gill, writing in The New York Times described Brexit as a "cliffhanger" with a tone of "desperate urgency" and "mind numbing" details where "nothing ever changes." She said that Brexit had poisoned British politics leaving journalists to merely report the decline of the patient and noted that "they're all telling the same story".

Also
 * Political turmoil in Westminster tipped UK-exposed stocks into a bear market last week ...the Brexit stalemate has sent stocks generating the bulk of their earnings in the UK sliding further ..The Institute of Directors said businesses are “tearing their hair out” at the “constant can-kicking and internal domestic political strife”.
 * Brexit is paralysing the nation, say MPs
 * Netherlands PM uses Britain's Brexit 'chaos' as cautionary tale

Grenfell Tower fire response 'badly flawed' report says ..BBC https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/18/brexit-delusional-conmen-britain-never-never-land-eu https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says https://www.open.edu/openlearn/society-politics-law/politics/grenfell-site-contempt https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-netherlands/netherlands-prepares-to-be-eu-financial-trading-hub-after-brexit-idUSKCN1N31OC https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p066rd9t/episodes/player grenfel https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/enderby-based-next-reveals-biggest-2040360 Next Brexit fears https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-5626959/Next-chief-Lord-Simon-Wolfson-pay-cut-third.html

Conservative Party survey
In November, a branch of the Kensington Conservative Party caused anger by sending out a survey to local residents asking them to compare Grenfell with other issues such as parking and recycling. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/07/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world

A Guardian article on Christopher Charndler also cites the Legatum Institute as a 'thinktank' linked to Russian intelligence. The Times link describes Chandler's links as via the Legatum group -a Dubai based hedge fund he controls. The Times says it's "the first time such an explicit alleged link has been drawn in public between the Kremlin and Legatum."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44044937 Boris Johnson and the politics of Brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/19/ministers-braced-for-new-vote-on-customs-union-after-lords-defeat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43512375 Next business problem

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-42708265/anna-soubry-on-new-boris-johnson-brexit-bus-nhs-claims http://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/02/06/mi6-raises-concerns-energy-oligarch-linked-vladimir-putin-makes/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/03/real-reason-nhs-knees-has-little-do-ae/ https://news.sky.com/story/jeremy-hunt-apologises-for-cancelled-operations-as-theresa-may-denies-nhs-crisis-11194253 https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/sorry-we-re-full-thousands-of-patients-stuck-in-ambulances-outside-aes-a3731816.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/30/britain-risk-becoming-sick-man-europe/?WT.mc_id=e_DM620928&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FPM_New_AEM_Recipient&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_FPM_New_AEM_Recipient_2017_12_31&utm_campaign=DM620928

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/its-official-brexit-is-boring-dnj72x3ph

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/General_election http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/predictions/theresa-may-needs-wave-of-confidence-in-2018/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/24/pierre-moscovici-warns-uk-against-setting-itself-up-as-offshore-tax-haven https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/23/blue-passport-brexit-pr-stunt-says-former-thatcher-aide-charles-powell https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/24/brexit-campaign-tax-demands-boris-johnson-michael-gove Aaron Banks https://news.sky.com/story/maybot-or-terminator-pm-survives-brutal-year-11180516 ..disunity 18 months after brexit https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/its-still-devastating-britain-marks-6-months-since-deadly-grenfell-tower-fire/2017/12/14/81ee452d-cc61-4925-b9b8-99cfa9340830_story.html?utm_term=.d485b0b7af49

https://www.ft.com/content/e3b29230-db5f-11e7-a039-c64b1c09b482 The real price of Brexit begins to emerge

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-42155929 Liverpool prison healthcare

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42403771 May warned about Irish contradiction

According to the Times, Irish Foreign office officials say they received advanced warning ahead of their meeting with Johnson not to take offence at what he said and not to take him seriously. The paper also reported the views of Irish Independent journalist Nicola Anderson that officials on both sides considered Johnson a "gom" https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/ireland/dont-take-boris-seriously-but-did-the-briefing-really-happen-fkm7rnxxx

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/12/boris-johnson-michael-gove-wrote-secret-letter-prime-minister/ https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-under-renewed-fire-over-iran-comments-11122915 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2007/jun/10/privateequity.statepensions https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/opinion/paradise-papers-hacking-privacy.html Paradise papers NYT http://www.iufdocuments.org/buyoutwatch/broken%20pension%20promises%20private%20equity%20gmb%20congress%202007.pdf GMB private equity https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/sunday-review/britain-identity-crisis.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/world/europe/brexit-britain-patel-johnson.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=World&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/07/exclusive-poll-shows-public-have-lost-faith-theresa-mays-handling/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-interview-audio-queens-speech-car-crash-unable-answer-questions-bbc-a7801936.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-chiefs-call-on-philip-hammond-to-honour-boriss-350maweek-vow-a3685231.html https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/oct/24/mps-letter-urges-chancellor-honour-vote-leave-campaign-350m-pound-nhs-promise

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/01/russian-cyber-operatives-setting-shop-scotland-promote-independence/?WT.mc_id=e_DM580765&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FAM_New_AEM_Recipient&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_FAM_New_AEM_Recipient_2017_11_02&utm_campaign=DM580765 Scottish Conservative leader attacks ‘overoptimistic’ Brexiteers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41585428 ..For those of us watching on, it's another sign of how the Tories are consumed with fighting each other over Brexit, rather than the opposition.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/remain-voters-tory-majority-election-labour-hard-brexit-conservatives-leave-eu-talks-minority-jeremy-a7871541.html https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/aug/25/eton-teacher-leaves-school-after-breach-of-exam-security:::: First apologies for the slow response due to a gremlin hitting my watchlist. Second, more apologies that you can't read it. It is a simple downloadable podcast in the UK & I didn't need to register or sign in to IPlayer. It is also most unfortunate that the fire isn't covered at all in Wikipedia & this will need to be done but its way past my bedtime. The BBC and other Scottish sources link Grenfell and Watson street through similarities in the tenants social background, the ignored safety standards and propagation by external cladding.
 * A Google search shows Death in a Lodging House Remembering the Glasgow tragedy which killed 39 of the city's poorest workers ..The victims perished in a lodging house that had been lauded as a 'model', but proved to be a wooden-clad deathtrap. -an article which describes the fire as spread by the wooden cladding and Street Fire, Glasgow, 1905 ,,Like Glenfell Tower a social housing disaster

In August 2017, Rudd replied to an email hoaxer posing as the recently appointed Downing Street Director of Communications, Robbie Gibb, revealing that "positive announcements" were imminent. The hoaxer used Rudd's public domain parliamentary email address but she replied using her private email which is not secure. The Guardian, pointing out her responsibility for Government cyber-security said she would be probably be embarrassed.

Although Rudd's responsibilities include government cyber security she displayed her lack of understanding of the issues shortly after Robbie Gibb was appointed Downing Street Director of Communications. Having received an email from a insecure non-government source purporting to come from Gibb, she accepted it enthusiastically and at face value replying that there would be positive announcements in August. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/10/amber-rudd-targeted-email-prankster-posing-theresa-mays-new/

http://www.theweek.co.uk/63055/how-did-the-falklands-war-start Falklands War anniversary: How did the conflict start?

Writing in the same newspaper, its former political editor claimed most UK MPs knew Brexit was "ruinous" and would condemn people to "a declining standard of living for decades to come." They could learn from the Irish parliament which had previously shown the courage to reverse a bad referendum decision.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/06/07/dont-be-fooled-by-the-u-k-election-theres-nothing-democratic-about-brexit/?utm_term=.f17e1ae2f062 Writing just ahead of the election, Mai’a K. Davis Cross, professor of political science at Northeastern University, described Cameron's decision to call the Brexit referendum as a "desperate measure" to stay in power which was subsequently used to circumvent parliament. She described the simple majority threshold as "hard to imagine" in any other EU country and noted that Theresa May was willing to ignore Parliament's vote on the final terms. Harold Macmillan and the relatively unknown Sir Alec Douglas-Home -both Etonians were selected by a grandees who took individual soundings from each MP. -process of consultation known as the 'Magic Circle'. a formal election process was created and the first leadership election was held in 1965. Of the three candidates, Edward Heath won with 150 votes to Reggie Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

In January 1964, and in the absence of any other information, Macleod now editor of The Spectator, used the pretext of a review of a book by Randolph Churchill to publicise his own different and very detailed version of the leadership election. He described the "soundings" of five Tory grandees, four of whom, like Home and MacMillan were from Eton, as a stitch up by an Etonian 'magic circle.' The article received wide publicity convincing Anthony Howard, who later declared himself  "deeply affronted ...and never more affronted than when Alec Douglas-Home became leader of the Conservative Party."

Following controversy over the selections of Harold Macmillan and Sir Alec Douglas-Home via a process of consultation known as the 'Magic Circle', a formal election process was created and the first leadership election was held in 1965. Of the three candidates, Edward Heath won with 150 votes to Reggie Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

In January 1964, and in the absence of any other information, Macleod now editor of The Spectator, used the pretext of a review of a book by Randolph Churchill to publicise his own different and very detailed version of the leadership election. He described the "soundings" of five Tory grandees, four of whom, like Home and MacMillan were from Eton, as a stitch up by an Etonian 'magic circle.' The article received wide publicity convincing Anthony Howard, who later declared himself  "deeply affronted ...and never more affronted than when Alec Douglas-Home became leader of the Conservative Party."

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Hi DaltonCastle. I note you reverted several edits by new user EditsEditsEditsEdits and en-passant reverted my link fillings on grounds of wp:pov. The reference provided evidence that Farage sang songs associated with the National Front -something Farage didn't deny. His response was fully included and I'm at a complete loss as to why you reverted. If it was a mistake -no worries just change it back. The entire UK has their own opinion of Farage but my understanding is that a short factual summary from a WP:RS, properly attributed, should not be deleted unless its shown to be wrong. Perhaps

Firstly, noting the seasonal spirit of peace on earth I thank Jon C for a helpful edit reason. I'd appreciate other editor comments. Referring to the dictionary offensive means rude or insulting and there's no shortage of re Van Rumpoy

Relating to rude This Week and The Guardian Farage was appearing on the Andrew Marr Show where he was described by the host as a lifelong political "insurgent." Although he talked of a peaceful protest he warned of unprecedented political anger if Parliament blocked Brexit. Miller pointed out that parliamentary democracy required parliament to debate issues & that Farage had spent the whole Brexit campaign arguing for parliamentary sovereignty.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/19/cameron-aide-said-government-was-exposed-on-heathrow-over-air-quality http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37616161 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/08/cabinet-split-over-handling-of-brexit/ http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/devolution/2015/10/single-object-sums-boris-johnsons-disastrous-mayoralty https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/amber-rudd-monticello-ill-fated-step-complicated-career-bahamas-leaks http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/child-poverty-increases-low-income-families-tory-cuts-conservative-government-austerity-a7340466.html https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/hate-crime-horrible-spike-brexit-vote-metropolitan-police http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37467502 Brexit: Stop blaming Theresa May, says Iain Duncan Smith http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37465452 David Cameron 'let down' by Theresa May, says former PM aide http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37452356 UK 'did not vote for hard Brexit', George Osborne warns http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37356873 MPs attack Cameron over Libya 'collapse' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/24/brexit-warning-us-bank-bosses-from-goldman-sachs-morgan-stanley/ Brexit warning: US bank bosses from Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and BlackRock threaten Theresa May with relocation http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/25/david-cameron-and-michael-gove-have-not-spoken-since-brexit-refe/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/22/theresa-may-to-decide-over-brexit-talks-no-10-says-after-boris-b/

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/29/labour-accuses-tories-abusing-power-electoral-boundary-review jon http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/15/eu-officials-believe-britain-will-give-up-on-brexit-if-they-make/ ..inc davis reference to EU ministers as satan http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/12/brexit-talks-may-be-most-complicated-negotiation-ever-says-minister http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/09/16/nigel-farage-was-a-clown-but-he-was-also-the-most-important-poli/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-george-osborne-bbc-today-interview-i-did-not-get-it-right-eu-referendum-a7310836.html

Analysis of the effectiveness of the referendum as an instrument for democratic change
In August 2016 the Electoral Reform Society published a highly critical report on the referendum and called for a review of how future events are run. Contrasting it very unfavourably with the 'well-informed grassroots' campaign for Scottish independence, Katie Ghose described it as "dire" with “glaring democratic deficiencies” which left voters bewildered. Ghose noted a generally negative response to establishment figures with 29% of voters saying David Cameron made them more likely to vote leave whilst only 14% said he made them want to vote remain. Looking ahead, the society called for an official organisation to highlight misleading claims and for Ofcom to define the role of broadcasters are expected to play.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/16/theresa-mays-day-of-the-long-knives--two-minutesin-no-10and-mich/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/06/27/no-chancellor-we-are-not-in-the-least-bit-prepared-for-the-chall/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-recession-economy-what-happens-nigel-farage-speech-a7099301.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/26/labour-turmoil-and-plot-to-block-brexit-dominate-mondays-front-p/ http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/david-cameron-resigns-resignation-next-prime-minister-brexit-eu-referendum-result-a7100076.html

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Women in football is a "campaigning organisation" which highlights sexism displayed against women professionals in football. In March 2016 it published a survey by Professor Sue Bridgewater of Liverpool University and concluded that the game had an “ingrained, systemic problem of sexist culture” which the football establishment were not dealing with. The survey showed a doubling of the percentage suffering sexual harassment incidents since the previous survey in 2014. A spokeperson for the organisation said there were few if any other industries where women experience such a high level of sexism without redress.

According to their website Women in football are "a network of professional women working in and around the football industry who support and champion their peers." It also has a section which records and reports sexist incidents it receives.

Criticism of increased use of statutory instruments to change the law without debate
In January 2016, The Independent highlighted an over 50% increase of the use of statutory instruments since 2010 to allow ministers to change the law without a debate in Parliament. In particular it mentioned electoral register changes believed likely to deny over a million people their rights and George Osborn's unsuccessful attempt to cut £4Billion from tax credits. Lord Jopling deplored the behaviour which he described as an abuse whilst Baroness Smith of Basildon queried whether it was the start of "constitutional gerrymandering."

In 2015, the company was investigated by the Serious Fraud Office and its offices were raided. A UN report had accused Soma of “appearing to fund systematic payoffs to senior ministerial officials” whilst the Somali government said the deal Soma proposed would leave the country with a fraction of the revenues that it could have expected. The company paid the fees of the Somali government lawyer leaving the government unclear whom he was representing.


 * As a political observer since the 1960's and a believer that democracy only works if and only if all parties believe in fair play, I am deeply suspicious of what is happening here. A cynic would say we have someone in a position to deny benefiting the supporters of one party by plausibly professing incompetence. She ignored what appears to be election fraud in Birmingham and failed to pursue those apparently evading tax.  Her achievements have been rewarded.  Whilst I'll keep my views to myself I intend to add to the criticisms.

According to the Guardian, Osborne was ‘the driving force behind the BBC” license fee agreement which saw the BBC responsible for funding the £700m welfare cost of free TV licenses for the over 75’s. The money represents a fifth of the BBC’s income and the agreement -reached without public or parliament discussion -was described by former director general John Birt as deeply shocking and a breach of the BBC's independence. The Guardian also noted Osborne's four meetings with News Corp representatives and two meetings with Rupert Murdoch before the deal was 'foisted' on the BBC.

As a response to this, Brent councillor Carol Shaw called Blackman an "absolute hypocrite" to "preach about the sanctity of marriage", alleging that she and the married Blackman had had an 11-year affair when both were local councillors in Brent.

Writing in the Tribune in October 2015, Argar put the annual cost of the disease which affects 850,000 people at £23 billion and argued for governments departments including hospitals to become dementia friendly places. He hoped Leicestershire County Council which had amongst the lowest Government funding would get better deal to help provide care support for rural areas. According to Argar dementia patients stay 20% longer than average in hospitals and he expressed concern that 41% of hospitals don’t include awareness training during staff induction.

Firstly thanks for giving a reason for removing the Times article which highlights what appears to be Facebook’s tax avoidance schemes. Whilst I’m sure you not seriously suggesting this was all set up by her successor, Shields was relatively low profile before her government appointment and isn’t mentioned much in newspapers when she was at Facebook The Independent has a report showing Facebook  didn’t pay tax on £223m in 2013 (i.e. on its 2012 earnings) though Shields isn't named. I’ll add the Telegraph item http://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/21/facebook-joanna-shields-silicon-roundabout

In June 2014 Elphicke was one of a number of Conservative MPs who criticised Oxfam’s twitter and poster campaign against the government’s austerity program. Oxfam had called for all parties to reduce food poverty in the UK and its posters highlighted a “perfect storm” which included references to zero-hour contract, unemployment and benefit cuts. Elphicke described the campaign as a shamefully political and an abuse of taxpayers’ money. He also criticised directors pay. Debating the issue in the Observer, Helen Lewis suggested the MPs’ objectives were to stop charities criticizing the government. The Charity Commission ruled that although Oxfam’s motives were not intentionally political, it could have done more to show its tweets related to its own report on food poverty.

Expansion under Coalition
In early 2014 Michael Gove appointed David Hoare as unpaid trouble shooter after criticism of “lavish expenses” and poor performance at the chain following its rapid expansion in 2011-2012. Hoare was subsequently appointed chair of OFSTED in July 2014 following objections to another candidate Tory donor David Ross

The chain was ‘censured’ after 5 of its schools required improvement and one was deemed inadequate. Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw called for powers to inspect academy chains & not just individual schools. In response AET said that Ofsted judgements were unfairly negative and that many schools had a history of poor performance and require time to turn round.

In his annual report in December 2014, Sir Michael Wilshaw the head of OFSTED warned that although primary school performances had continued to rise, almost two-thirds of the most able pupils in state comprehensives had fail to fulfil their potential. -secondary education standards at weaker schools had stalled. Concerns were also raised about four large academy chains. In response http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/not-good-enough-ofsted-attacks-academy-chain-9704784.html

A letter from Lord Nash showed that early access results were below the minimal standard with only 32% of pupils achieving 5 GCSEs –an 18% drop from 2012. An external education advisor criticised the quality of both teaching and pupil assessment.

United Kingdom general election, 2015
In December 2014, Tredinnick and his election opponents were interviewed along with Lord Winston on the Radio 4 Today program. Lord Winston described Tredinnick’s views on homeopathy as ‘lunatic’ and questioned why he sat on the select committees on science and technology and health. Homeopathy could delay proper treatment. Tredinnick said that it was cheaper -and necessary to deal with the health funding crisis. His Lib Dem opponent Michael Mullaney complained that Tredinnick -by defending his way out views wasted an opportunity to discuss real issues. Chris Kealy (Labour) said it was Tredinnick’s job to discussed employment, schools housing and transport –issues that matter to the consituency –but he had not done so.

Carswell has described the NHS as "the national sickness service" and supports Daniel Hannan's views that it should be scrapped and funded by a system of personal health accounts allowing purchase of treatment from public or private sources.

Hello, I'm JRPG. An edit that you recently made to Nelson's column seemed to be a test and has been removed. If you want more practice editing, please use the sandbox. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. additional text In 2007, a report by the GMB union highlighted the association between private equity companies and collapse of 96 workers pension funds, noting the close association of Apax's Sir Ronald Cohen, a Labour party donor and Gordon Brown and linking Apax to. The report asked Parliament to estimate the cost to the taxpayer of compensating workers which was known to be well over £2Billion. Apax owned British United Shoe Machinery, Dexion and USM Texon. GMB president Paul Kenny said private equity were asset strippers taking the taxpayer for a ride and destroying jobs. http://www.scotsman.com/business/finance/bank-s-warning-on-asset-stripping-1-1425118

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/jan/22/francis-maude-digital-transformation-government http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10185615/Francis-Maude-plan-Does-Whitehall-need-more-party-placemen.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10253377/Francis-Maude-Measures-to-cut-fraud-have-saved-6.5billion.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9805060/Francis-Maude-The-Civil-Service-must-reform.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10905847/How-The-Telegraph-identified-the-Hillsborough-Wikipedia-vandal.html

At a conference in January 2013, Maude highlighted potential savings of carrying out on line transactions by a case study. According to Maude, 2 container lorries of paperwork arrived at the DVLA every day -although "almost nothing" it does "..couldn't be done digitally." Overall the government provides about a billion transactions via over 650 transactional services but few people use the online options which are about a thirtieth of the cost of a postal transaction. 75% of car insurance renewals are done online and the Government needs to catch up with the private sector -using "simple, fast, cost-effective online services." The focus initially would be on seven departments including HMRC,Department for Transport and the DWP. Maude accepted that 18% of the population isn't online but said they would not be neglected.

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http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100256434/is-nigel-farage-losing-the-plot/

Gun ownership
In January 2014, Nigel Farage announced that UKIP policy was now that private handgun ownership with a licence ought to be made legal. Farage said that the ban introduced after the Dunblane school massacre was "ludicrous" and said that a "proper gun licensing system" was needed.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10586568/Tories-need-less-hate-to-win-election-says-minister.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10554660/Gove-blamed-for-entrenching-Cabinet-in-First-World-War-row.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10185615/Francis-Maude-plan-Does-Whitehall-need-more-party-placemen.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10253377/Francis-Maude-Measures-to-cut-fraud-have-saved-6.5billion.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9805060/Francis-Maude-The-Civil-Service-must-reform.html

In late 2012 Elphicke highlighted the problem of multinational companies avoiding UK tax, leading to senior executives of Amazon, Starbucks and Google appearing before the Public accounts committee accused of 'immoral behavior.'

According to Elphicke, 19 US firms paid an average of 3% on British profits compared with a standard rate of 26%. Transfer pricing rules allow a company to charge regions royalty fees minimizing profit in that country. Elphicke said that tax abuse of 'expenses' rules cost the UK £billions of tax revenue giving overseas companies an unfair advantage, Google paid 21% tax on global earnings of $12.3bn but just 0.4% on UK earnings of £2.5bn  He recommended refusing Government contracts to these organisations. However Mike Warburton of independent accountants Grant Thornton said that whilst taxes had to be applies on a fair basis, multinationals could simply move away from the UK. He called on George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer to force the companies which included Google, Coca-Cola and Apple Inc. to have to state the effective rate of tax they paid on their UK revenues.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/11/john-major-public-school-tory-elite http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10439303/Truly-shocking-that-the-private-school-educated-and-affluent-middle-class-still-run-Britain-says-Sir-John-Major.html http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/nov/13/eton-old-boys-network-flourishes

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/oct/14/pensions-system-not-fit-government-advisor-annuity http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-1608570/Does-the-pension-fix-add-up.html pensionstheft timeline

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24466928 unqualified head teacher. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/rowena-mason/9654502/Churches-not-necessarily-for-public-good-says-charity-watchdog.html http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2013/jan/03/christian-brethren-legal-appeal-charity-commission-status

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/10125164/I-will-never-be-a-phoney-man-of-the-people.html

The era of the steam warship powered exclusively by coal was relatively brief -lasting from 1871 until 1914. Although much faster than steam ships the lengthy refueling required bringing considerable additional risk to the ship and hardship to the crew leading to replacement of coal by oil. Although the French ironclad Gloire and the iron hulled HMS Warrior in 1860 both had funnels, the purpose was to provide additional speed in battle whilst sails provided the main propulsion the rest of the time. HMS Devastation (1871) was the first ship built without sails. Coal cannot be pumped and once loaded, it had to be continuously moved to ensure bunkers nearest the boilers were always full should full power be suddenly needed. These problems were sufficiently serious for the Royal Navy to build HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) as an oil only ship despite the abundance of coal and shortage of oil in the UK.

and http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Heritage/Warrior/engines.html lasted until

Mike O'Brien has held the following positions:
 * May 1997-July 1999 - Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Immigration
 * July 1999-May 2002 - Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs
 * May 2002-June 2003 - Parliamentary under Secretary of State at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
 * June 2003-September 2004 - Minister of State for Trade and Investment
 * September 2004-May 2005 - Minister of State for Energy
 * May 2005-June 2007 - Solicitor General
 * June 2007-October 2008 - Minister of State for Pensions
 * October 2008-June 2009 - Minister of State for Energy
 * June 2009-May 2010 - Minister of State for Health

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/onetoone Mick Flynn

Nobel Prize laureates by secondary school affiliation

Hi. Firstly, I have myself criticised the article as sounding to much like an advert and I fully accept that Neville’s comments were valid prior to the post 1944 expansion of secondary education. The point is that Eton does appear to create a feeling of self belief which combined with the old boy network puts weak people in positions of power. Whilst immensely valuable for army officers is inappropriate for less capable people. I don’t regard Jesse Norman as inspirational any more than my former MP David Tredinnick but both insist despite fierce criticism that they are right. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/local-elections/10037011/Local-elections-David-Camerons-Eton-mess.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10050502/Shaun-Bailey-the-Prime-Ministers-only-black-aide-was-frozen-out-by-David-Camerons-clique.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram

In 2013, Jesse Norman a newly appointed adviser to the Prime minister claimed that the reason for Eton's success was its ethos of commitment to public service which was lacking in other schools. I strongly believe it belong in the article. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10287483/Downing-Street-adviser-Jesse-Norman-sacked-over-Syria-vote.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/25/rupert-murdoch-sun-wot-won-it-tasteless

After being elected, Elphicke lobbyied the Transport minister to consider halting the sale of the Port of Dover.

In a local referendum in March 2011 Dover Town residents voted by an overwhelming majority in favour of a "people's port" rather than privatisation – 5,244 votes in favour compared to 113 against. The government

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-17217528 http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2012/11/blue-labour-maurice-glasman-and-fight-peoples-port

For the Conservatives, Elphicke’s proposal to is seen as a key test of the David Cameron’s Big Society policy. Other Conservatives see Elphicke's proposal as a method of populist Privatization.

Controversies

 * 38 Degrees director David Babbs was the subject of a controversial interview by Sky News anchorwoman Kay Burley who was accused of aggressively interrupting Babbs and telling him to leave a protest about electoral reform and instead "go home and watch it on Sky News". The term "sack Kay Burley" subsequently trended on Twitter and hundreds of complaints were made to Ofcom.


 * 38 Degrees has been criticised by a Conservative MP, Dominic Raab, for allowing members to send "clone emails" to MPs via its website. Raab stated he would lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office about 38 Degrees using his parliamentary email address, but no complaint was ever upheld and it remains possible to email Raab via the 38 Degrees website. 38 Degrees has also been criticised by a Conservative MP, Eleanor Laing, for allowing members to send "clone emails".
 * A number of government politicians strongly criticised 38 Degrees members for their actions campaigning against changes to the NHS. A LibDem peer, Lord Tyler, described 38 Degrees members as "rent a mob". Conservative health Minister Simon Burns MP described 38 Degrees members as "almost zombie like".
 * Some Conservative sources have accused 38 Degrees of being left-wing and of having links to the Labour Party. The website 38 Degrees debunked, which is run by a Conservative councillor, states that "Although 38 Degrees professes to be "not connected with any political parties" it is intensely political as are its campaigns. On first sight its position seems to be a mixture of mainstream Social Democratic and Green". Conservative MP Robert Halfon described 38 Degrees as "a mass database of centrist/floating voters, albeit with a sizeable minority from the centre left", that is "controlled by leftists". 38 Degrees has strongly denied these claims.
 * Some disability rights campaigners have criticised 38 Degrees for failing to do more to campaign against changes to disability benefits. One disabled blogger, David Gillon, highlighted the fundamental tension between campaigns to protect minorities and the 38 Degrees method of choosing campaigns through member polls: "An organisation that builds its identity around its democratic mechanisms needs those mechanisms to be accessible to all, but the truth is that they aren’t. The near insurmountable difficulties disabled people have faced in getting support in the 38 Degrees votes on where to campaign next are just one aspect of that problem; any demonised minority, Travellers for instance, is going to face the same issues." A guest post from Gillon on the 38 Degrees website provoked a fierce discussion.

Glenis Wilmott

 * http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/28/conservative-meps-ecr-europe Glenis wilmott

Hillsborough disaster April 1989
Ashton and his sons were at the match on April 15, 1989 at the Leppings Lane End close to where the tragedy occurred and he gave an 8 page descripion of events to the enquiry. He felt fortunate to have 4 seats for the west stand as the terraces in the 1988 semi-final had been "terribly crowded and unpleasant." He walked 2 miles to the match and described Liverpool supporters as boisterous but well behaved. As he approached the turnstiles he noted minimal police presence and no stewards attempting to marshal the fans into lines. He temporarily separated from other members of his party as the crush became unpleasant only to find it had become much worse when he tried to rejoin them. A police landrover appeared at around 2:45 and he warned one of the officers of the risk of a tragedy. The crush subsided and he was able to walk in just after 3:00 with police checking tickets. He became aware of a man coming from the terraces crying and saying "kids are dying, you've got to do something" but the police ignored him. He was initially unable to reach his seat as the isles were full due to people being pulled up out of the terraces though he was able to check his sons were safe and eventually reach them.

The medical response lacked direction so he spent two hours organising the triage. Immediately after the tragedy he described the ambulance response as "ill-equipped and disorganised" with only one ambulance in the immediate vicinity of the casualties by 3:30. His version of events was rejected, he got a phone call on the Monday telling him people were saying he hadn't organised the triage, was lying about the emergency response and should stop criticising. On 19 April, he made a eyewitness statement to the disaster enquiry.

Ashton would like to see prosecutions of those responsible for doctoring the reports if the relatives wish.

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The Daily Mail gets sued quite regularly. It often ends up having to issue an apology or retraction and pay damages. That's not what one would hope for from a first-class encyclopedic source. Jayen466 17:49, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

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User_talk:JRPG Ilakatos on Engels' talk page linking me to user:Sam Blacketer and user:Hiding who blocked Lomcevak as a sockpuppet. Mocking style, refers to Politico-media_complex which Dsmith1usa edited extensively as occasionally has 94.72.252.103.
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Following Liam Fox's comments that 'No Deal' was increasingly likely, a number of crime commissioners expressed concern that police forces would be denied access to EU crime databases which underpin the use of the European arrest warrant " potentially putting operational efficiency and public safety at risk."