bear in mind , like the lympics, any improvement in how MH is perceived will sadly also impact on benefit regimes, etc, eg, 'if they can do that' 'things have moved on', etc..
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bear in mind , like the lympics, any improvement in how MH is perceived will sadly also impact on benefit regimes, etc, eg, 'if they can do that' 'things have moved on', etc..
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
It's also about the fact that you are barred from being an MP as well as Jury Service. I'm not entirely sure, because like you, I wasn't paying full alert attention. I can't quite understand quite what the criteria would be, or how they'd even know. Barred if previously sectioned?
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, not because of this thread specifically but because of previous temp bans, re-registering and countless warnings.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
You can't be an MP if you have had MH problems? Seriously?
cesare
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I'm not sure about the criteria either, although iirc they quoted from a letter from a constituent who had raised it as an issue (jury service/civic duties rather than MPs though). There was also mention of "not being of sound mind" being a bar/grounds for removal from office to company directorships-which gets routinely gets written into every executive service agreement now I come to think of it.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
He seems to post mainly in politics or football
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I don't tend to look at the football threads much but yes, politics (where this thread is). I must admit I was surprised because his most recent politics postings have been comparatively quite detailed and sensible rather than scathing/miserablist.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yes, permanently.
ash
Inittogether
Yes-legally you cannot be a director of a company if you have mental health problems which must include small two person limited companies!
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
...found a news item on this. Yes, it did bar you from being an MP.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...serve-on-juries-and-be-company-directors.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...serve-on-juries-and-be-company-directors.html
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Thinking about this, I need to do some double checking with the Companies Act 2006 in case the position has been changed/clarified. It tends to be a clause that's always put in service agreements (I'm guilty of doing this without challenging it myself) and is definitely worth another look (for me) with a view to potentially redrafting accepted clauses.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
That's the one!
ash
Inittogether
Let me know I haven't read the Companies Act (sadly) but working in mental health services I have always understood this to be the case. I wonder if it's also in the Mental Health Act?
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
My god! That comment section. Telegraph readers are a bunch of ignorant fuckwits.
/faux surprise
_angel_
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Oh come on where would we be without his miserablistness.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
My god! That comment section. Telegraph readers are a bunch of ignorant fuckwits.
/faux surprise
Aye
it's the bloody Torygraph so a middle class version of what you get in the DM.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
First one I found...didn't get to the comment section.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Tis a useful reminder of how much further there is to go than just potential legislation, innit.
Aye
Lower-middle for the DM, middle-middle and upper-middle for the Torygraph. DM'ers are an aspirational bunch, so one day they may 'make it,' and so make their bigotry more 'refined.'
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
Aye
Very true. I take the piss out of my dad sometimes for buying it. I tell him that if there is one piece of evidence that proves social mobility was easier for his generation, it's that his dad used to buy the News of the World whilst he buys the Telegraph. Weirdly, neither of them are particularly right wing in day-to-day life. Go figure.
eta: I think he just started buying to impress my mum. What a loser.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Ah yes, you're right, I hadn't really analysed it to that extent
I kind of think of Longdog's posts = DM, with LLETSA and JHE doing Torygraph.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
Very true. I take the piss out of my dad sometimes for buying it. I tell him that if there is one piece of evidence that proves social mobility was easier for his generation, it's that his dad used to buy the News of the World whilst he buys the Telegraph. Weirdly, neither of them are particularly right wing in day-to-day life. Go figure.
eta: I think he just started buying to impress my mum. What a loser.
My dad's moved from Torygraph to Independent as he's grown less enamoured of the Tories over the years
He always bought the NOTW too, "for the sport lol" very tongue in cheek. Mind you, he's had Private Eye since I was a kid too
_angel_
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Same here. Just make it a temp one imo.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Sometimes my husband will put it reading German mode and set it to read English or vice versa...he finds it very amusing. He's easily amused....Ha.
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