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New Labour government - legislative agenda
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GarveyLives
Well-Known Member
"There’s a budget coming in October.
and it’s going to be painful.
We have no other choice given the situation that we’re in.
So those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden.
and it’s going to be painful.
We have no other choice given the situation that we’re in.
So those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden.
(Source: Sir Keir Starmer's speech on fixing the foundations of our country: 27 August 2024)
Why Starmer chose to give rich lawyers a break in the Budget and punish everyone else
Well-paid partners in City firms escape paying national insurance rises
(Source: as stated in image)
"Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heavier burden"
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
But what do you think GarveyLives?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Anyone else watching the assisted dying bill debate?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Haha!
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Not so much legislation but about challenging court decisions.
Can't say I'm surprised.
Can't say I'm surprised.
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Can't say i'm surprised reallyNot so much legislative but a partnership between the government and a huge private finance corporation, Black Rock. I really don't like the sound of this at all:
Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor
Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristolwww.theguardian.com
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised
The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.
www.bbc.co.uk
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
FT reporting another factor that may well have been germane to Haigh's defenestration:South Western, C2C, and Greater Anglia to be renationalised
The rail operators will be renationalised in May, as part of the government's manifesto promise.www.bbc.co.uk
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Update on the impact of one of Labour’s tough decisions, ‘in the service of the people’:
www.theguardian.com
One million elderly people skipping meals amid winter fuel benefit crisis
The row over Labour’s cuts to pensioners’ energy payments is about to flare up again after damning new research
Well this sounds like a splendid idea! 
'Startups and tech workers will join government for six- to-12-month “tours of duty” and work on policy areas including criminal justice and healthcare. The secondments are part of the No 10 innovation fellowship, which is entering its third round.
Frontline public service workers, such as prison governors and heads of social services, will also be seconded to work in central government.
McFadden will say: “Test it. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Tweak it again. And so on, and so on, for as long as you provide the service. Suddenly, the most important question isn’t: ‘How do we get this right the first time?’ It’s: ‘How do we make this better by next Friday?'
www.theguardian.com
'Startups and tech workers will join government for six- to-12-month “tours of duty” and work on policy areas including criminal justice and healthcare. The secondments are part of the No 10 innovation fellowship, which is entering its third round.
Frontline public service workers, such as prison governors and heads of social services, will also be seconded to work in central government.
McFadden will say: “Test it. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Tweak it again. And so on, and so on, for as long as you provide the service. Suddenly, the most important question isn’t: ‘How do we get this right the first time?’ It’s: ‘How do we make this better by next Friday?'
Government seeks Whitehall ‘startup’ culture with tech worker secondments
Pat McFadden to urge departments to adopt ‘test-and-learn’ approach as part of £100m scheme for public sector reform
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Well this sounds like a splendid idea!
'Startups and tech workers will join government for six- to-12-month “tours of duty” and work on policy areas including criminal justice and healthcare. The secondments are part of the No 10 innovation fellowship, which is entering its third round.
Frontline public service workers, such as prison governors and heads of social services, will also be seconded to work in central government.
McFadden will say: “Test it. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Tweak it again. And so on, and so on, for as long as you provide the service. Suddenly, the most important question isn’t: ‘How do we get this right the first time?’ It’s: ‘How do we make this better by next Friday?'
Government seeks Whitehall ‘startup’ culture with tech worker secondments
Pat McFadden to urge departments to adopt ‘test-and-learn’ approach as part of £100m scheme for public sector reform
Surely can’t be long now before Labour bring in Dominic Cummings to ‘smash the blob bathing in the tepid bath of managed decline’…
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Did they SAY it would be positive growth?
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
Looks like huge changes to local government are planned with a new white paper. Some promising stuff about transport perhaps if it’s to be devolved to city mayors.
www.theguardian.com
Half wonder if this might need its own thread?
Can imagine this level of streamlining will mean a lot of positions go too.
Metro mayors to control rail services under unprecedented England devolution plans
White paper paves way for London-style contactless-payment travel networks and unitary authorities to replace two-tier county and district councils
Half wonder if this might need its own thread?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yes, I think the proposed complete restructuring of English local government probably does deserve a dedicated thread as there may be many consequences for public service provision.Looks like huge changes to local government are planned with a new white paper. Some promising stuff about transport perhaps if it’s to be devolved to city mayors.
Can imagine this level of streamlining will mean a lot of positions go too.
Metro mayors to control rail services under unprecedented England devolution plans
White paper paves way for London-style contactless-payment travel networks and unitary authorities to replace two-tier county and district councils
Half wonder if this might need its own thread?
It sounds as though New New Labour is interested in reanimating the proposals contained within the 1968 Redcliffe-Maud Royal Commission report produced in advance of the 1972 Local Government act that ducked the major reforms suggested. What's the betting that the 'newly' proposed boundaries look very much like the divisions of England shown on the 1968 map below?
LakieLady
Well-Known Member
I worked in local government for years, initially in London boroughs and then at a county council.
The 2-tier system blew my mind when I first moved. It involves a massive amount of waste and duplication imo, and some of the district councils are tiny (mine serves a population of around 100k). On top of that, we also have the joy of town/parish councils, who do next to nothing but seem to spend a ridiculous doing it. The town council element of my (band C) council tax was £400 pa last time I looked, which seems like an awful lot of money for looking after two buildings that can be hired for events and a cemetery.
When the Banham commission reviewed it all in the early 90s, I really hoped it would change, but it just made things more complicated with a weird mixture of unitary authorities and district/borough + county sitting side by side. Since then, some of the borough/district councils have sort of merged: they are still distinct entities officially, but share a lot of central services. This leads to a lot of confusion: you ring "the council" for (eg) a form, and the form that arrives is for council A despite your address being clearly served by council B.
It's been pissing me off for over 30 years, I wish they'd just sort out the bloody mess.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yes, and if the weird 'bolt-on' Banham unitary authorities survive any major re-organisation that would be one major factor that would mean deviation from the 1968 Redcliffe-Maud proposals. For instance, in my old patch, the Medway UA would mean that a huge chunk (population-wise) of the 1968 West Kent UA would be missing, so any delineation of West & East Kent would presumably be further East that Redcliffe-Maud suggested.
Easy to see why New New Labour might be attracted to the idea of economies of scale and reducing 'wasteful' duplication, but the obvious downsides of ever more remote decision making has to be a real risk?
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
In my part of the public sector economies of scale by doing some stuff on a national level was very explicitly part of labours manifesto and I would think they’d seek to reduce the number of organisations too or at least create regional back office functions
teqniq
DisMembered
Best to put this here I think, please sign and share:
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PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
I've been a local government nerd for as long as I can remember. This country has long needed a big fat red reset switch so there's much more effective, relevant local government, and to echo what's said above, it needs to be consistent. Very few countries outside England have such a patchwork model with all the weaknesses and ineffective actions as a result.
Interestingly it looks as though the body representing County Councils is in favour while the equivalent representing district councils is not.
Interestingly it looks as though the body representing County Councils is in favour while the equivalent representing district councils is not.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Does the pope shit in the woods!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
i'm sure i am not the only person who'd object to any part of lincolnshire being included in the three ridings of yorkshire
LakieLady
Well-Known Member
Absolutely, especially in sparsely populated rural areas. They would have such little representation that the risk of people in those areas losing services, or having services so remote that they may as well be lost, would surely be greater.
There are plenty of places in my county, in the densely populated SE, where people have a round trip of 20 miles to get to a library, register office or even take stuff to the tip. I dread to think how far people in somewhere like North Yorkshire have to travel.
LakieLady
Well-Known Member
I hear tell that there are residents of East Grinstead who remain adamant that the town is in East Sussex, despite it having been in West Sussex for 50 years, and hate the fact that they can no longer get a train to their (former) county town (line closed in the late 1950s).
They're the local government equivalent of those soldiers still hiding in the jungle decades after the war ended.
Elpenor
a clown’s heart and a mandolin
They should move West Grinstead to East Sussex to really fuck with their heads
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