While You Were Sleeping
Thursday sing-along
- The Government plan to claw-back funds from state schools has been shelved after
bad publicityconsultation with key stakeholders. Remember folks, even if 100 schools had said they thought the policy was a good one, the Gord would still not have gone ahead with it. - Lorely Burt is the Liberal Democrats' new chairperson of the Parliamentary party. Uh, it's been a long week and we're feeling pretty groggy but, like, who?
- Peter Riddell on the internal machinations regarding party funding reform going on within the comrades and in Lord Ashcroft's party. Er, Conservative Party, we meant the Conservative Party.
- Pay-as-you throw scheme has been shelved after Downing Street became concerned about the impact on families who produce a lot of refuse. The Gord: "even if one hundred councils had said they thought the policy was a good one...." come on, you know the words to this one - sing along!
- Rumours afoot that Comrade Digby may be departing the big tent over his unhappiness with the capital gains tax proposals.
- SDP-er Bill Rodgers warns the LibDems not to turn into a pressure group.
- Steve Richards on Brown's vision: he does have one!
- The Times on the unseemly bout of kilt-and-haggis induced bitchslapping in the Chamber yesterday.
- "Give middle class berks with entitlement complexes more of a say," demands the Independent, "for they are no longer funded wholesale by their less-fortunate counterparts through taxation, and are now required to put something back into society after graduation, which is an outrage."
- Chuffing hell, who'd be a kid today? First you're not allowed to play outside because paedos are lurking behind every bush, so you're kept in to play on your computer - shoving burgers down your throat and contributing to the nation's obesity timebomb - and then the police realise that paedos are lurking behind the virtual bushes as well. How we all survived in the past is anyone's guess.
