tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54868762756528948392024-03-13T15:53:40.698+00:00election-richmond-parkA national social care budget, read-out in parliament like the NHS budget, ring-fenced, transparent. How to get one of the top two candidates to agree to this in an election? Stand and offer to stand-down if one agrees?Veganline.com for vegan shoes boots and beltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14691394716207902112noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5486876275652894839.post-58708448989925059922019-12-08T19:11:00.002+00:002019-12-20T11:13:10.697+00:00Manifesto links<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Taxpayers pay for a mail-out for candidates, I think.<br />
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They came a day or two ago, slightly different to the usual leaflets, and most were A5 gloss.<br />
The manifestos are about 100 sides of A4, 50 sheets, 25 sheets if reduced to 2-up on a printer, and are in chapters so it's possible do do a one or two sheets at a time. The liberals ought to be ahead on this because they are capable of using a printing press which is in a garage workshop near Mortlake station - sometimes you can see them doing it - and can print at least up to A3. A lot of the volunteer activists are able to afford Epson eco-tank printers and buy cheap ink by the litre to print on paper at around a penny a sheet in supermarkets or in ebay.<br />
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Unfortunately the party activists have delivered exactly zero pages or their manifesto, dispite a taxpayer payment for one mailout. It's possible to read online or print-out, but if not many of us do it, what's the point?<br />
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I printed out the liberal manifesto on 2-up double-sided and might have read it to the end.<br />
I googled the conservative manfesto and had a look.<br />
I tried to find the labour "gray book" online but didn't.<br />
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Anyway, anyone who votes in Richmond on Thames is going to vote Liberal or Conservative if they want to effect the result.<br />
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<a href="https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan">https://www.libdems.org.uk/plan</a> with costings, plain text version, audio version, quick read version<br />
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<a href="https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/libdems/pages/57307/attachments/original/1574876236/Stop_Brexit_and_Build_a_Brighter_Future.pdf?1574876236">https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/libdems/pages/57307/attachments/original/1574876236/Stop_Brexit_and_Build_a_Brighter_Future.pdf?1574876236</a><br />
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...liberal manifesto with all the graphics<br />
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-----------------------------------conservative says "trust is" in effect: it's a tabloid slogan page<br />
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https://vote.conservatives.com/our-plan slogans and photos with links at the bottom<br />
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https://assets-global.website-files.com/5da42e2cae7ebd3f8bde353c/5dda924905da587992a064ba_Conservative%202019%20Manifesto.pdf<br />
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...conservative manifesto with all the graphics.<br />
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<a href="https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/18073636.everything-need-know-richmond-park-hustings/">https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/18073636.everything-need-know-richmond-park-hustings/</a><br />
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If the people who find the conservative party insisted on getting a manifesto delivered for the money, they would be doing the electorate a favour and the liberals would have to follow.<br />
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Now the election is over, here are some others<br />
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20191121170649/https://www.birkenheadsocialjusticeparty.com/key-pledges">http://web.archive.org/web/20191121170649/https://www.birkenheadsocialjusticeparty.com/key-pledges</a> - Frank Field's site won him over 7,000 votes against 17,000 for the Labour and Momentum candidate. Like Frank Field, The Independent Group for Change had Lib Dem candidates standing against it which says something about how tribal the Lib Dem party is.<br />
<a href="https://voteforchange.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2020-Vision-The-Independent-for-Change.pdf">https://voteforchange.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2020-Vision-The-Independent-for-Change.pdf</a></div>
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<span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>Richmond.gov.uk/council/<br /> elections_voting_and_registration/<br /> east_sheen_ward_by_election</u></span><br />
W<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/local.richmond-upon-thames.2019-07-18/richmond-upon-thames-local-election/">hocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/local.richmond-upon-thames.2019-07-18/richmond-upon-thames-local-election/</a><br />
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Mainstream issues:</h3>
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Social care- </h3>
57% of the council budget does not seem to be enough - default care agencies do not have stars on their Care Quality Commission reports and work for half-hour split shifts. Under another party, the council chose a care agency classed as Dangerous by the Care Quality Commission and the issue wasn't just lack of money - the regime had money for a brass band and a grant to Friends of Barnes Common. Meanwhile, <b>Curacare</b> who have a star now have an office in East Sheen, and <b>Jardine Care</b> (who have the Home Instead franchise) have moved-in on the turf as well. <b>Helping Hands</b> of Richmond town centre have a higher rate of pay which is encouraging and maybe that should be a factor in choosing default homecare providers too.<br />
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Education near where children live -</h3>
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Lack of cash - </h3>
When there is no money, invest some. It would be good if the council found a way to borrow cheaply and lend at a higher rate. Meanwhile, some way of explaining council budgets more clearly on the Richmond.gov.uk website would be good for democracy. I'm happy go through details with anyone who is interested, although I don't have a good solution.<br />
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Barnes Common - </h3>
Friends of Barnes Common used public money to make the common less safe for people cruising, and increase the chances of mugging by cutting down trees and reducing shadow. If you walk from Rocks Lane car park past the sports ground into the common, you will see tree stumps feet wide with dozens or hundreds of summer rings; these won't grow back quickly. There are piles of wood chippings from cleared bushes, cut by a council contractor lent to the Friends who got a council grant to pay. Richmond LBGT forum were not aware of this at the time, but the Friends had just been on a visit to Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery who have a blog post about how to reduce cruising - "put up a sign saying that we know what's going on ... not welcome ... take litter home" was one quote along with the idea of cutting-down cover- "think about lines of sight", the Tower Hamlets web site said. "Most informative", said a blog post from Friends of Barnes Common.<br />
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Some method needs to be found to prevent these people getting public money again in their present form, and to counter the argument that a few local people or a bit of litter are more important than a rare cruising ground much used at night. I've put the Friends of Barnes Common's current position at the bottom of this blog post.<br />
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I'm happy to go through details with anyone who is interested.<br />
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Free parking is rarer by the year as yellow lines and CPZ zones encroach, driving free-parkers to ever fewer spaces that are left. Everything in London is becoming more crowded, and there are very few solutions. Car clubs and their promotion are about the only solution I can think of, for those of us who have trouble affording a car let-alone a car parking permit. </div>
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<a href="https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/7623/london_borough_of_richmond_upon_thames_cc_strategy.pdf"><b>Richmond on Thames Car Club Strategy</b></a> is a sixteen-page wad of notes from 2006, when there were more council staff to plan and consult and tender, and before P2P car clubs like Drivy Hiyacar and Turo allowed anyone to run a car club car more cheaply than the fleet-owners like Enterprise and Zipcar. At the time there were only two car club bays in the borough, but the number has gradually increased with a planning application and consultation for each one, and each one goes to the clubs that won a council tender - Enterprise and Zipcar. Enterprise charges a subscription even if you don't drive, while Zipcar charges a mileage fee and an hourly fee at the same time. Hiyacar Drivy and Turo hire rates are set by the car owners in competition with each other. There is no subscription, a fixed price per hour and a large amount of free mileage. The agencies themselves are low-budget and sometimes short-lived, with easycar the main agency for a short time until last year when they closed and other agencies like whipcar opening and closing quite quickly.<br />
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I suggest that anyone near a controlled parking zone is allowed a <b>discount on parking permits for P2P car club cars that they own</b>. I live in an area without controlled parking, yet, but I hope those inside the zone get dozens of new car club cars in their areas rather than parking just outside the zone until my own neighbours vote for parking permits.<br />
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Some cars are used privately and as hire cars. That's fine - it makes better use of parking space than a zone for each purpose. The discount could be paid one year late, based on evidence from the previous year to show how many times the car was hired-out to people not otherwise insured to drive it, or in practice how many agency trips the car took, and I am sure that the P2P car hire agencies could supply a spreadsheet by number-plate and numbers of hires or hours hired. If a car is hired-out 50 times a year, I suggest that it gets a 100% refund of last years' parking permit, but other people might have better ideas. It's common for hire cars to go-out most weekends in summer but maybe there is some subtlety about trying to clear car parking space on weekday mornings,<br />
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;">no list of locally active car clubs attached</span></b><b><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>such as P2P car hire like Hiyacar Drivy or Turo<br />or fleet-owned car clubs like Co-Wheels or Ubeeqo</b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #e06666;"><b>no list of <a href="https://www.richmond.gov.uk/council/news/press_office/older_news/may_2019/dockless_bikes_views_invited">local bike hire services attached</a><br />maybe a link to a council web page is the answer<br />if someone can update it with new P2P schemes which<br />change often - maybe a wiki page?</b></span></b></div>
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I suggest that the sign posts saying "car club permit holders only" on car club bays are changed to list all car clubs and cycle hire schemes known to operate nearby, starting with the one like Zipcar that's allocated the space. That could lead to greater use of car clubs and more parking space. In fact I have started doing that already, but I am a bit biased towards the car club that rents-out my own car, so a more neutral scheme would be better.</div>
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Hammersmith Bridge closed while waiting for TFL funding over £40m -</h3>
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There is a non-Richmond, cross-party issue and a part-Richmond cross-party issue. <br />
(1) why have assembly members if they don't have a veto over the mayor's grand plans?<br />
(2) why £40+ million?<br />
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<u>The non-Richmond issue is democracy at the Greater London Assembly</u>, which is a bit like democracy at the European Parliament: assembly members have no veto over the mayor's grand designs for millennium domes or demolishing factories for Olympic sports days or cycle superhighways or London Fashion Week which shows Chinese fashion or even the mayor's backing for a third runway at Heathrow.. I like cycle superhighways but the crunch comes when there is no money to mend a bridge but a similar budget can be spent on cycle lanes. We need assembly members who will protest or walk-out until the mayor allows them to veto budgets. Otherwise we will get another Millenium Dome or Olympics or London Fashion Week; we will get more plans to knock down factories to increase employment, all justified by careful reports from London Economics, and all of them unjustifiable but it won't matter because they'll go-through anyway.<br />
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<u>The part-Richmond issue is why cracks in the far left pillar happened and why they cost over £40m to fix</u>. A meeting was called for Richmond residents to talk to TFL face to face. It was so packed that a second meeting had to follow straight away. So face-to-face meetings aren't ideal. I suggest some kind of software that can assemble all questions on a similar theme like "can there be another bridge built next to the old one?" and the reply like "we can't find space on the river bank"; "can this bridge be stored in case someone wants it while a bigger one is built?" and a reply like "the chains go a long way under the banks so it's hard to re-create in another place".<br />
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My own question to TFL would be whether aluminium could be poured into the pillars to make them solid and fill any cracks, and whether shock absorbents could be put under the deck and on top of the pillars so that sharp jolts of stress are averaged-out before they crack more pillars. I think I saw some online consultation software that allows loads of people to put points of view, which could be better than a crowded face to face meeting.</div>
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The candidates on the link are<br />
<a href="https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/17749443.meet-east-sheen-by-election-hopefuls-want-represent-area/">https://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/17749443.meet-east-sheen-by-election-hopefuls-want-represent-area/</a><br />
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Julia Cambridge</h3>
CAMBRIDGE
Julia
53A Sheen Lane, East
Sheen, SW14 8AB
Liberal Democrats
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<a href="https://www.trlibdems.org.uk/east_sheen_ward">trlibdems.org.uk/east_sheen_ward</a><br />
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Margaret Edward</h3>
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EDWARD
Helen Margaret
17 Baronsmead Road,
London, SW13 9RR
The Conservative Party
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<a href="https://www.richmondboroughconservatives.org.uk/east-sheen-ward">richmondboroughconservatives.org.uk/east-sheen-ward</a><br />
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Giles Oakley</h3>
OAKLEY
Giles
22 Coval Road, London,
SW14 7RL
Labour Party
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<a href="https://www.richmondparklabour.org.uk/latest-news/2019/06/25/labour-selects-giles-oakley-to-contest-east-sheen-by-election/">https://www.richmondparklabour.org.uk/latest-news/2019/06/25/labour-selects-giles-oakley-to-contest-east-sheen-by-election/</a><br />
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Trixie Rawlinson</h3>
RAWLINSON
Trixie
(Address in Richmond upon
Thames)
Women`s Equality Party<br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WEPRichmond/">https://www.facebook.com/WEPRichmond/</a><br />
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I'll send a copy of this to each candidate although I can quite see why the runner-up candidates wouldn't want to do hours of work reading it and I don't expect them to reply. I don't know if the main candidate(s) give it a read and I hope to get a chance to meet one of them - maybe after the election.<br />
I'm happy to change the postal address for a web page or add one.<br />
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Friends of Barnes Common current position 26 May 2019<br />
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Dear Mr Robertson, </div>
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You are of course more than welcome to attend any public meetings and to ask whatever questions you wish.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FoBC works closely with Richmond Council, and has met with Council officers, the police and with the local LGBT group to ensure that there is no prejudice against any individuals or groups of visitors to Barnes Common, while seeking to discourage and hopefully ensure there is no offensive behaviour on the Common, for the benefit of all users of the common and as accepted by the LGBT group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">FoBC works in partnership with Richmond Council to deliver the agreed management plan for the Common, which is aimed primarily at conservation of this Local Nature Reserve but also at ensuring that the Common remains as clean and safe as is reasonably possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">The conservation work we do is consistent across all areas of the common: it includes thinning of the understorey and creation of glades in the woodland areas to provide more diverse ground-cover for the benefit of invertebrates, small mammals and birds; the creation of pathways to reduce footfall and eutrophication by dogs on sensitive and rare lowland acid grassland areas; control of scrub and bracken; removal of non-native and invasive plants; as well as the planting or transplanting of native species.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Changes to the Rocks Lane Car Park were in response to all day and long stay parking which prevented visitors to the Common being able to find any space for short stay visits, which we wish to encourage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With many thousand people living and working locally, as well as numerous visitors, and with public policies encouraging people to get outdoors and take exercise for their well-being, the pressure on open spaces within our urban environment is increasing dramatically, and a sad part of FoBC's responsibilities is that it is regrettably impossible to please everyone all of the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">With kind regards and best wishes</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.democraticaudit.com/2019/05/16/european-elections-2019-what-will-happen-in-london/">Democraticaudit.com/2019/05/16/european-elections-2019-what-will-happen-in-london/</a><br />
... gives a list of who has a chance, and the other links show also-rans who might be worth encouraging and to help them keep their deposits.<strike> I don't know how they fit-in with the party list system.</strike> They are not on the party list system and not allowed to use a party name.<br />
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<a href="http://democraticdashboard.com/location/postcode/SW148BP">Democraticdashboard.com/location/postcode/SW148BP</a> shows pictures of the candidates.<br />
<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/SW14%208BP/">Whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/SW14%208BP</a> shows them listed by party and links to the eu results page which cannot be bothered to name candidates - <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/crjeqkdevwvt/the-uks-european-elections-2019">the BBC had to unearth names</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/crjeqkdevwvt/the-uks-european-elections-2019">The BBC found election results the next day, <br />but no outcomes for the nearly-got-ins and also-rans</a></h4>
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<li class="nw-c-regional-result__item uk2019__party--ld" style="border-bottom-width: 16px; border-left: 16px solid rgb(234, 150, 92); border-right-width: 16px; border-top-width: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; break-inside: avoid-column; color: #222222; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px 8px; width: 263.266px;"><span class="nw-c-regional-result-partyName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #716c66; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;">LIBERAL DEMOCRAT</span><div class="gs-u-mt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px !important;">
<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Von_Wiese">Irina Von Wiese</a></span></div>
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<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinesh_Dhamija">Dinesh Dhamija</a></span></div>
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<li class="nw-c-regional-result__item uk2019__party--ld" style="border-bottom-width: 16px; border-left: 16px solid rgb(234, 150, 92); border-right-width: 16px; border-top-width: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; break-inside: avoid-column; color: #222222; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px 8px; width: 263.266px;"><span class="nw-c-regional-result-partyName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #716c66; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;">LIBERAL DEMOCRAT</span><div class="gs-u-mt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px !important;">
<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Porritt">Luisa Porritt</a></span></div>
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<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Moraes">Claude Moraes</a></span></div>
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<li class="nw-c-regional-result__item uk2019__party--lab" style="border-bottom-width: 16px; border-left: 16px solid rgb(233, 29, 14); border-right-width: 16px; border-top-width: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; break-inside: avoid-column; color: white; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px 8px; width: 263.266px;"><span class="nw-c-regional-result-partyName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #716c66; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;">LABOUR</span><div class="gs-u-mt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px !important;">
<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seb_Dance">Sebastian Dance</a></span></div>
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<li class="nw-c-regional-result__item uk2019__party--brx" style="border-bottom-width: 16px; border-left: 16px solid rgb(0, 159, 189); border-right-width: 16px; border-top-width: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; break-inside: avoid-column; color: #222222; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px 8px; width: 263.266px;"><span class="nw-c-regional-result-partyName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #716c66; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 1rem; text-transform: uppercase;">THE BREXIT PARTY</span><div class="gs-u-mt" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px !important;">
<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benyamin_Habib">Benyamin Habib</a></span></div>
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<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Forman">Lance Forman</a></span></div>
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<span class="nw-c-regional-result-candidateName" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #404040; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.25rem; text-transform: capitalize;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ainslie">Scott Ainslie</a></span></div>
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Loisa Porrit, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisa-porritt-29521525/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luisa-porritt-29521525/</a> got in unexpectedly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Porritt">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_Porritt</a><br />
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<strike><a href="https://www.gavinesler.com/"><b>Gavinesler</b>.com/</a> of Change UK, ex newsnight, author, is in with a very small chance</strike><br />
<u><strike>The EU web site says that no Change UK member was elected</strike></u><br />
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<strike><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-parker-3382655/"><b>Laura Parker</b> of Momentum and Labour</a> is in with a very small chance</strike><br />
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<b>Katy Clark</b> of Labour is in with a bigger chance and will probably get-in given recent news</strike><br />
<strike>I can't find a good link for her. There is a huffington post article saying the the selection process is wonky and that she is not too pro-europe. She has been an mp.</strike><br />
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<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/69529/dinesh-dhamija"><b>Dinesh Dhamija</b> of the Liberals, e-bookers, and a large donor charity</a> is in with a bigger chance<br />
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<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/70448/lance-philip-forman"><b>Lance Foreman</b> of an smoked salmon company and Brexit</a> is in with a bigger chance<br />
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<strike><a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/5453/gulnar-hasnain"><b>Gulnar Hussain</b> of the green party</a> and US economics courses is in with a bigger chance</strike><br />
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Linkedin says that she rents-out shared office space and has this idea<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(26 , 26 , 26 , 0.7); font-size: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Through the use of our 360° immersive films and Virtual Reality headsets, our training and recruitment model for adoption and fostering allows parents and carers to experience life from the perspective of the child. This unique approach to tackling issues around children’s social care is ground-breaking and offers a different way to understand the impact of attachment and trauma – through the eyes of the child.</span></blockquote>
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There are some also-ran candidates to vote for to show that they have support and maybe save their deposits, in alphabetical order<br />
<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48081347">bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48081347</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.animalwelfareparty.org/">Animal Welfare Party</a> - <span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;"><b>Vanessa Hudson</b> says that it is a party that keeps ideas going where other party's interest is much more patchy. If by fluke she did get in she could be a good influence in Europe<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpw0UQLO4g">youtube.com/watch?v=lCpw0UQLO4g</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "open sans"; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://theukeuparty.org/">Theukeuparty.org</a> - Remain, good description of the referendum, usual "heart of" phrases about full membership, not much about the cost of it of chance of reforming it. They don't believe the £350 million quote for costs nor give a link to say why they don't believe it.</span><br />
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Womens Equality - <b>Catherine Mayer</b> - <a href="https://www.womensequality.org.uk/cm4eu">womensequality.org.uk/cm4eu</a><br />
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I had a look at some independent names. Five of them share a Climate Emergency campaign.<br />
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<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/70441/claudia-mcdowell">Claudia McDowell</a>, <a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/70436/daze-aghaji">Daze Aghaji</a>, Henry Muss, Zoe Lafferty, Roger Hallam <a href="http://climateemergencyindependents.co.uk/">climateemergencyindependents.co.uk</a>. Some of them students.<br />
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<b>Ian Snowden</b> , <a href="https://iansowden.eu/after-we-win">iansowden.eu/after-we-win</a> - irritatingly sure what to do with my taxes, but it's nice that someone so ugly and irritating can have "friends all across europe". If he can do it, maybe even a blogger like me is in with a chance.<br />
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These candidates did not even provide irritating information to Who Can I Vote For.<br />
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<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/70439/kofi-mawuli-klu"><b>Kofi Klu</b></a> - word soup - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1jrS8FKV4c">youtube.com/watch?v=Q1jrS8FKV4c</a> - might possibly be a comedian doing this as a prank. youtube has the first 900 words of his interview as a transcript. There are no words like "national insurance", "national assistance", "unemployment pay", "school", "health", "tax", "law", "house", "bus", or anything like that.<br />
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<a href="https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/70444/mike-shad"><b>Mike Shad</b></a> - no information but a twitter account. Remainer. After the election I found a youtube video of Mr Shad and his drawing room furniture and was intrigued to know where he got it. It was like an interview with the Shah of Iran or someone like that. He kept the message to one thing - remain - and to 152 viewers so I left a comment recommending democraticdashboard and whocanIvotefor. Now it turns-out that there are three videos, one in another language, and <a href="http://mikeshad.org/">Mikeshad.org</a> leading to a flyer and list of a dozen points here<br />
<a href="https://www.mikeshad.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A5-LS.pdf">https://www.mikeshad.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/A5-LS.pdf</a><br />
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After the election I saw that the flyer is backed by a persian-uk magazine:<br />
<a href="http://deevan.co.uk/component/flippingbook/book/136-may-2019/9-4in1-col-2?Itemid=1660">http://deevan.co.uk/component/flippingbook/book/136-may-2019/9-4in1-col-2?Itemid=1660</a><br />
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After watching those youtube videos, youtube directed me to someone arguing against candidates in elections because old-fashioned and sometimes against party policy or even independent of parties, and another video interviewing John Clees. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfqhCNHQPA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULfqhCNHQPA</a><br />
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<b>Alan Kirkby</b> no information but a yahoo email so he may unfortunately have been locked in a cupboard or eaten by one of the rival candidates. I emailed the account to ask if there is a web site, but <strike>no</strike> lost the reply, now shown below. There is an Alan Denis Kirkby. borne 1937 I think, who was a trustee or company director of a training scheme in Lewisham that no longer has a web site. WhocanIvotefor think he was a candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermondsey_and_Old_Southwark_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s">Southwark and Old Bermondsey MP in 2010</a> when he got 155 votes or 0.3%. Wikipedia think he was the UKIP candidate while another site has him down as an independent. Electionleaflets.org have his flyer which reads "<a href="https://electionleaflets.org/leaflets/2796/">vote vote vote vote vote Alan Kirkby, your independent option. Alan Kirkby, independent. General Election 2010. Tuesday 6th of May 2010. Bermondsey and Old Southwark. email alankirkbey2010@yahoo.co.uk</a>"<br />
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<b>'Art. 50' resolution to be sought via EU Institutions' internal processes as priority. No Ideology offered...</b></div>
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Dear<span style="color: #26282a;"> Veganline. com </span></div>
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The UK difficulties with EU stem from the 'Lisbon' consolidation treaty - that's where their resolution may be obtained from its amendments - not easy - but before Art.50 October deadline.</div>
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<b>To:</b> "<a href="mailto:alan.kirkby2010@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">alan.kirkby2010@yahoo.co.uk</a>" <<a href="mailto:alan.kirkby2010@yahoo.co.uk" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">alan.kirkby2010@yahoo.co.uk</a>></div>
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<b>Subject:</b> do you have a web link to say what you stand for?</div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">This update intends to keep Treaty change as the suggestion to by-pass<b> leave EU</b> at Oct. end.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">- Hence a plan to rewrite part(or all) of the EU's Lisbon Treaty... Not OK to UK at present.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Now the need for 'politics'. - and a draft update of EU constitution - plus a consensus of philosophers and (psephologists</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: Helmet, Freesans, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">) </span><a class="m_7798939936002400621ydpf079c7fcenhancr_card_0395261942" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psephology&source=gmail&ust=1564927427227000&usg=AFQjCNF9VIMDNJXD0XVr8aJaA4QNmMprJA" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psephology" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Psephology</a> </div>
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The party that can vet prospective MPs and ministers for talent ought to get more votes in elections.<br />
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I don't think any of the big political parties quite gets this point and I don't know how voters or even party members or donors can make it true or important to the selection process.<br />
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That's all this post says, with evidence below, so I will change the subject to something topical - some online voting systems that might suit committees and societies, searched-out a decade ago and maybe no longer working<br />
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Free online vote systems come-&-go over time. Some of the sites that come-up on a Google search are government funded papers that never get to the point and list dozens of dud links. There are also free commercial sites, sometimes ugly with adverts or short-lived. Sites that offer surveys with roughly one vote per computer tend to come-up on the same google searches as these rarer voting sites that offer roughly one vote per code from the vote-holder's list, such as a reference on the electoral roll, a membership number, or a code that has been posted or emailed.<br />
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<li>http://www1.sztaki.hu/servlets/voting : also via <span style="background-color: white; color: #006d21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">voting</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #006d21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #006d21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: 700;">sztaki</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #006d21; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">.hu </span> Both temporally offline since June 2018 although still mentioned on <a href="https://dsd.sztaki.hu/products/voting">https://dsd.sztaki.hu/products/voting</a> so maybe they can say where to download the somewhere and whether it works on something like Windows or needs a free webserver or similar stack of programs around it to run.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ballotbin.com/" style="color: black;">Ballotbin.com</a> was the next link found. Free so no excuse not to use.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.votefair.org/" style="color: black;">Votefair.org</a> third (fullranking.com for committee decision votes used to be attached). Free so no excuse not to use except looks. The site posts a link to the github site where you can download votefair ranking software free, and to <a href="http://www.negotiationtool.com/">http://www.negotiationtool.com/</a> with useful points about negotiation on the same site and claims that it can help with selection of ministers by MPs or with employment disputes. I have not tested either claim</li>
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A web link about socks is run by the same group of companies as<br />
Delib.co.uk/products_and_services/opinion-suite - an open source collection of deliberative software, whatever that is. There may be free versions but they must think that full time politicians have got more money than sense because one of the packaged products - My Election - has a price guide of £5,000.<br />
A web link about socks is run by the same group of companies as<br />
Delib.co.uk/products_and_services/opinion-suite - an open source collection of deliberative software, whatever that is. There may be free versions. Their ready set-up version - My Election - has a price guide of £5,000.</blockquote>
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I don't ask you to read the rest of this post unless you believe that ministers are competent. It is a story like something out of <i>That's Life with Estha Rantzen</i> but it's here as evidence of the state of UK ministries and ministers for anyone in doubt, who has missed recent TV documentaries and has not tried to do business with the worst tax-funded agencies.<br />
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<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/companies-house-fraud-whistleblower-prosecuting-kevin-brewer-vince-cable-a8307246.html">Independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/companies-house-fraud-whistleblower-prosecuting-kevin-brewer-vince-cable-a8307246.html</a> is a story of extraordinary nastyness and incompetence reported in an official statement by <a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24826/andrew_griffiths/burton">Andrew Griffeth</a>s. MP ("a strong voice for Burton and Uttoxeter"), sponsored by JCB Escavators and Business Fore. You can read how he votes for Burton Uttoxeter and JCB Escavators on <a href="http://theyworkforyou.com/">Theyworkforyou.com</a> .<br />
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Last year my bad memory - damaged by an NHS mistake - landed me in trouble when I tried to rely on Companies House reminders to file my zero-turnover accounts. The reminder email told me that if I had four days to file accounts with an authentication code, that would take at least five days to provide.<br />
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I emailed Zac Goldsmith MP to ask him if he could please ask the minister for Companies House to write a thoughtful reply - not just a brush-off by a civil servant - about whether the system could be changed. The request was certainly passed-on; Zac Goldsmith is a helpful and well organised MP., and he confirmed passing-on the request. No reply came from the ministry. Luckily my appeal against a fine was granted at some cost to me and the civil service in time and hassle. It was an odd system by which you lodge an appeal, hear nothing for ages, and then get a letter saying "OK".<br />
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Today I received the same email again, with the same 4 day deadline and 5 day response time for providing authentication codes. Last year I think it took nine days for the code to reach the registered office. There's no reason to think it will be quicker this time.<br /><br /><br />
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<br />After a morning's search, I have found the code, which is lucky. The email says that the fine will be double if I do not submit my accounts in time, because I was late last year.<br />
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I imagine that the civil servants responsible for the story in <i>The Independent</i> are still in the same jobs and on the same high pay scales. The ministers for Companies House now seem to be Kelly Tollhurst working for Greg Clark, and they don't seem better than the dozens who have gone before.<br />
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On the same subject of government breaking-down, last night's <i>Panorama</i> was about some schools where trusts simply take the money for senior staff and bills can't be paid. The minister responsible gave a brief interview with a prepared brush-off statement.<br />
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Your accounts are due</h1>
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NONLEATHER DISTRIBUTION LTD <span style="color: #6f777b;">|</span> 10285177</h2>
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Your accounts for <span style="font-weight: 700;">1 August 2017</span> to <span style="font-weight: 700;">31 July 2018</span> are due</div>
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To avoid a penalty, we must receive acceptable accounts by<br />
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Last year this company failed to deliver its accounts by the deadline.</div>
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If accounts are filed late this year, the late filing penalty will be doubled.</div>
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You must file accounts even if your company is dormant. You only need to send us one copy of your accounts.</div>
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Most companies save time and money by filing online</div>
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Choose an option that suits your business.</div>
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1. Directly on our website<br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/file-your-company-annual-accounts?utm_source=email-reminders&utm_medium=accounts-due-email" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #005ea5;" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/file-your-company-annual-accounts</a></span></div>
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You'll need your company number and authentication code:<br />
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2. If you use an agent or accountant to file your accounts<br />
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3. Use software filing<br />
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Choose a software provider that allows easy online filing:</span><br />
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8 out of 10 companies file online</div>
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How to file accounts and avoid a penalty:<br />
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Check your company details using the Companies House service:<br />
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If your company's not trading and you want to remove it from the register, close your company:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br /><i>"<span style="color: #1a4252; font-family: "proxima nova" , "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.39px;">I am on the record in saying that the PM’s deal is deeply flawed and I have not changed my mind. But – with a great deal of disappointment – I did vote for it last time because it is quite clear that under this Parliament and this Government the alternative to the PM’s deal will likely be far worse.</span><br style="color: #1a4252; font-family: "Proxima Nova", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.39px;" /><span style="color: #1a4252; font-family: "proxima nova" , "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.39px;">If I could identify an alternative – one that </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"><i><span style="color: #1a4252; font-family: "proxima nova" , "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.39px;">I will vote against this deal and embrace that alternative. But at this stage I cannot. I can only see months and probably years of wrangling, indecision, paralysis and delay. And I don’t believe our country can cope with that."</span></i><br />On twitter he writes about finding a majority in parliament for different types of leave like this:</span><br />
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<i>I don’t understand how these indicative votes can be regarded as meaningful, given that the Speaker has whittled them down to four versions of Remain. It’s like a Soviet “election” in which the only party on the ballot was the Communist Party.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;">One of the questions Zac lists is a request to "honour brexit", meaning to vote to leave anything the brexiteer objects to, because they define it as part of "European Union", or maybe because they say so tactically. That reflects how badly our journalists and government information machines have simplified the issue. Someone like Zak Goldsmith himself who believes there's no point being in the common market and saving billions of pounds on the un-reformable trade association called the EU still believes this is a position worth stating, without anticipating a reply or voting for a compromise or sitting in the commons chamber to hear the arguments. No wonder he gets emails from people who are even further to the right, using the same tactic.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #333333;">Business of the House (1 Apr 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-396-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-396-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b><span style="color: red;">(no)</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> against </span><span style="color: red;">holding indicative Brexit votes later that day</span><span style="color: #333333;">, and</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">proposing the same on Wednesday 3rd April (division #396; result was 322</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">aye, 277 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Eu: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) (1 Apr 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-397-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-397-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b><span style="color: red;">(no)</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> against </span><span style="color: red;">instructing the Government to (1) ensure that any<br />Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration negotiated with the EU<br />must include, as a minimum, a commitment to negotiate a permanent and<br />comprehensive UK-wide customs union with the EU; (2) enshrine this<br />objective in primary legislation.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (C, Customs Union) (division #397;</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">result was 273 aye, 276 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Eu: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) (1 Apr 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-398-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-398-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b><span style="color: red;">(no)</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> against </span><span style="color: red;">directing the government to renegotiate the Political<br />Declaration to say e.g. that the UK will accede to the EFTA, enter the<br />EFTA Pillar of the EEA, agree relevant protocols relating to<br />frictionless agri-food trade across the UK/EU border, and enter a<br />comprehensive customs arrangement</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (D, Common Market 2.0) (division #398;</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">result was 261 aye, 282 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Eu: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) (1 Apr 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-399-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-399-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><span style="color: red;">(no)</span><span style="color: #333333;"> against saying “</span><span style="color: red;">this House will not allow in this<br />Parliament the implementation and ratification of any withdrawal<br />agreement and any framework for the future relationship unless and until<br />they have been approved by the people of the United Kingdom in a<br />confirmatory public vote.</span><span style="color: #333333;">” (E, Confirmatory public vote) (division</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">#399; result was 280 aye, 292 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Eu: Withdrawal and Future Relationship (Votes) (1 Apr 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-400-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-04-01-400-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b><span style="color: red;">(no)</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> against saying that, </span><span style="color: red;">if time to exit day grows close, the<br />government must try to extend Article 50; if that fails, ask the House<br />to approve No Deal; if the House does not, revoke Article 50; if<br />revocation happens, hold an inquiry within three months; any referendum<br />question would be on whether to trigger Article 50 and renegotiate that<br />model</span><span style="color: #333333;"> (G, Parliamentary supremacy) (division #400; result was 191 aye,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333;">292 no)</span></span><br />
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result was 160 aye, 400 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (D) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">Common Market 2.0</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-387-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-387-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #387; result was 188 aye, 283 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (H) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">EFTA and EEA</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-388-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-388-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #388; result was 65 aye, 377 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (J) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">Customs Union</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-389-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-389-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #389; result was 264 aye, 272 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (K) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">Labour's alternative plan</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-390-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-390-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #390; result was 237 aye, 307 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (L) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">Revocation to avoid no deal</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-391-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-391-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #391; result was 184 aye, 293 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (M) - </span><b><span style="color: red;">Confirmatory public vote</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-392-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-392-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #392; result was 268 aye, 295 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU: Withdrawal and Future Relationship Votes - Motion (O) - </span><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Contingent preferential arrangements</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-393-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-393-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: #38761d;">aye</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #393; result was 139 aye, 422 no)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">EU </span><b><span style="color: red;">Exit Day Amendment</span></b><span style="color: #333333;"> (27 Mar 2019)</span><br /><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-394-commons" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #0186ba;" target="_blank">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2019-03-27-394-commons</a><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Voted </span><b style="color: red;">no</b><span style="color: #333333;"> (division #394; 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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;">result was <b>312 aye, 314 no</b>)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;">The amendment would have required a "series of indicative votes" to find-out what sorts of Brexit the majority of MPs will to vote for, and has been suggested for months by Kenneth Clark. It was proposed by Oliver Letwin and Hilary Benn. Michial Barnier, chief brexit negotiator for the European Commission, has also asked for a UK majority for one form of Brexit or another to be found before there is an extension.<br /><br />Theyworkforyou.com summery of Zac Goldmsith's voting record - which doesn't give him credit for a private members bill on female mutilation or for committee work is on the link below - links to sections are on the left</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/vote">Theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/vote</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;">It seems polite to mention that Zac Goldsmith helped me get evidence or informed opinions published by the environmental audit committee clerks, who ignored what I sent-in at first. They did publish it in wonky blue with a vital diagram missing and broken links, and they published all evidence in a way not to be indexed by search engines while asking those who had sent it in to promote it on social media, but at least the people published it one way or another.</span><br />
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There used to be a police station in Barnes just for police to escort diplomats, but, when the money ran-out it closed and that's surely a good thing. A few years ago there were riots in Clapham, partly because of lack of money spent on policing; word went around that shoplifters could get away with it if they all did it together under cover of riot.<br />
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Unfortunately there is still a lot of money spent on diplomatic protection police and an extra-huge amount spent today. Today the cabinet state that they will cancel police leave and ask volunteer speical constables help guard an un-necessary visit by a foreign dignitary. So they are spending other peoples' volunteer time and chances of leave as well as money, as well as holding up the traffic and preventing people from doing business and paying taxes, but mainly they are spending money.<br />
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I'm off the subject of elections in Richmond Park because most parties seem to to have the same fault, so maybe nobody will read this but I'm curious.<br />
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What part of "no money" does the cabinet not understand?</div>
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If you apply for a job, check for typos and include your phone number when using the contact email for information. That's what I didn't do.<br />
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Anyway I asked the contact about being an <b>"independent person"</b>, on condition I could do something about the lack of criteria for sacking council members, and have no response.<br />
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The job is almost a volunteer job but has up to a few hundred quid in expenses that might be more than I could earn in other ways in the time. A bit like being a school governor, paid not-a-lot to nod.<br />
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The job does not come with a forensic or detictive budget. There is no money for finding-out the contradictory stories behind what the <i>"independent person"</i> is told on a committee about a council member who is faced with this stuff. It looks as though the council member thing is just a lure go get someone to attend staff disciplinary meetings and be hoodwinked, if that is the right word. It looks as though the <i>"independent person"</i> will end-up on a lot of staff disciplinary committees, with the same lack of budget for forensic work.<br />
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About council members. There is nothing to say where the boundary lies.. So if a councilor says <b>"Councillor right"</b>, and I think <br />
<b>"Councillor wrong"</b>, thi<br />
there is no case law, no text, no links list, no nothing. Which is daft because there are loads of things anyone might think wrong that are perfectly legal, If a council member does something tabloid-ish and bizarre, I might approve and others might disapprove. If a council member - or several in committee - cut core services to fund street furniture that people notice more - is that wrong? I think so, but there is no point turning-up on a committee after the event to tell someone with the opposite opinion, and then maybe be over-ruled by a committee, all for expenses. I think that people like Latfur Rahman and Shirley Porter got caught-out eventually for this kind of stuff, but not by any independent person on comittees at Tower Hamlets or Westminster Councils.<br />
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The headline is about judging Councillors who have crossed the line into badness according to the Localism act 2011 and local detail as laid-out in the Richmond Constitution, which just repeats introductory words like "good" and no more. No links to detail. Nothing like "same as local government association", or "same as Birmingham" or "same as ministerial code". Nothing about the Councillor who does a number of bad things I could list. It's obvious. Pushing for contracts to be done by members of your family is the oldest one, I think. Pushing for members of groups who talk to each other and their associated organisations to get lots of grants and approvals is another. That's what Latfur Rahman did in Tower Hamlets before being found guilty of trying to use public spending in order to fix an election. He wasn't pushed out by the Independent Person in Tower Hamlets, whoever that was, who must have known what was happening. No such system existed in at Westminster City Council when Shirley Porter did things before emigrating and trying to avoid summonses. I forget what she did, bit minimizing the core insurance-like services that are trusted to local government and maximizing the obvious services like street furniture were part of the deal.<br />
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I wrote that I would apply if there is a chance to write the section of Richmond's constitution that covers conduct of Councillors. <br />
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There is an odd thing about the job that it starts by talking about Councillors, but it looks as though you'll be roped-in to staff disciplinary meetings instead if you apply.<br />
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I added something about the union recognition agreement, to make sure that union members (like people with legal insurance or anyone else - it's a long story) get the same kind of help as dismissing managers get from their human resources department. Things like help going to the government's Advisory Conciation and Arbitration Service would be good. The current system is that most unions and legal insurers want to get commission off a no-win no-fee tribunal lawyer, so there is no way for the parties to try and settle the real problems via ACAS.<br />
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Anyway, if anyone wants to apply for the volunteer job of independent person, as not-described, this is the link<br />
http://www.richmond.gov.uk/independent_person<br />
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<b>Vegetable Bridge</b> would be a good name, because it is in a vegetable patch. Commuters see the veg patch out of their train window. School pupils see it on the walk to school.</div>
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So many people meet each other at the White Hart Lane level crossing, that I feel I am interfering in what some lobbied-for, which is a no-left-turn with traffic cameras, but people from other postcodes use the roads too, and that's why the idea of consulting little groups of "local people" is not a good idea. People from other postcodes matter too.</blockquote>
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People should turn left over the white heart lane level crossing from Worple Way</span></h3>
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The other flawed idea is that cars should not turn left over the crossing. You do not have to visit to guess that railways have relatively few road crossings, and so a chance to use on it a useful thing. It's useful to the motorist and to people who use other crossings, otherwise more congested.<br />
If you do go to the area you will see some old NHS buildings, being re-built. It isn't obvious, but there is still an NHS clinic on the site with 700 outpatients, mainly older people with brain impairments and younger people with learning difficulties. There are only two out of the hoped-for three psychiatrists there at the moment, with none of the activities they would like to encourage on site, and I am not quite sure what the office staff there do, but the point is that a lot of people with bad concentration bob in and out of the place by car, some of them diagnosed with dementia, and the last thing they need is a traffic fine. My mum, in that position, got two.<br />
There are builders bobbing in and out nowadays as well, and the more they are chanelled onto one particular route, the more congestion they cause.</blockquote>
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What I understand of the other agument</span></h3>
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I understand that primary school children for the school over the tracks, prams, patients, mums, and anyone waiting for the crossing gates to open can in theory be squashed if a long vehicle turns left and cuts the corner where they are standing.<br />
I understand that a bollard or a post with some tyres round it would prevent the problem, as would a bigger cut out of Railtrack's land that I hope they would grant for the safety of people waiting. All it takes is the moving of a fence.<br />
I think that is the end of the other agument, but unfortunatly I can't meet the councillor consulting at 4.30 today - I am not in the area - so have posted this. I am happy to meet any of the people who lobby the other way so that the councillor can watch us disagree politely, rather than being caught in the middle. Or maybe there could be a boxing match to settle the issue.</blockquote>
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J Robertson<br />
2 Avenue Gds, London SW14 8BP - about 200 or 300 meters from the gates on foot and slightly further by car, son of a patient of the hospital 50 meters away from the gates.<br />
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How the survey was done<br />
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Why the bridge is thought too weak for traffic: "critical faults" is all it says. here<br />
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Someone has started some freedom of information requests on a site that shares replies<br />
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What the £40 million is for.<br />
I guess that the problem is council-speak. The right decision has probably been taken but councils can't explain why they need £40 milllion; they don't see the need to explain or guess what voters want to know. Richmond council changed a load of street lamps for probably very good reasons to do with cost, but couldn't explain why. The circular said the old ones had "reached the end of their working lives".<br />
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Hammersmith & Fulham Council will abolish home care charges for elderly and Disabled people, it was announced last night (3 December 2014).</div>
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Speaking at a packed public meeting organised to celebrate the United Nation’s International Day of Disabled People in Hammersmith Town Hall, H&F Council leader, Cllr Stephen Cowan, said: “I am pleased we have found the money from back office cuts, such as from the council’s PR and admin budgets, and today announce that this administration will abolish what has rightly become known as a tax on disability.”</div>
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The council says that abolishing care charges will cost £324,000 a year in lost income but that the scheme is being funded by £400,000 cuts in PR, council publications and lamp post banners.</div>
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There are 1,266 people in H&F who need help to carry out everyday tasks, such as having a bath, cleaning or doing the shopping. H&F’s home care charges are currently paid by 313 people in H&F. The current home care charge is £12 per hour and for some residents this vital service can be as much as £281 a week.<br />
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<i>I don't know much about this but it sounds good. There is a lot I don't know!<br /><br />I do know the Richmond council list of social care agencies, annotated with care quality commission reports and personal notes for one client here<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/homecarerichmond">http://bit.ly/homecarerichmond</a><br /><br />I imagine that Hammersmith, as an inner city area, has more budgets floating-about than Richmond - budgets that can be transferred to social care or PR, council publications and lamp post banners. On the other hand Richmond has money for Villiage Plans including cutting down trees, anti-cruising lights, anty-gypsy gates, a £5,000 grant to a brass band, and the things written on blue signs saying "I am voting .... for.... ". I'm told that 58% of Richmond spending is on social care, so it only takes a small change in social care spending to fund or cut a lot of the things that people notice more, like pot-hole mending or sixth forms in schools or weekly bin collection or a brass band. Which seems a terrible system.<br /><br />I don't know how many people fund their own care, un-known or barely-known to the council in Hammersmith - maybe there are community care plans for both boroughs somewhere online with estimates on them, although they could be among the back office costs and publications that are cut-back to fund more care.<br /><br />I don't know how much money Hammersmith saves when a client can postpone their move to residential care, with its expensive 3-shift costs, and so postpone the time that they run-out of money for fees and ask the council to pay. It could be that free home care (at the point of delivery) on presription or social worker referral saves money rather than costing money. I imagine that there are charitable trusts and central government organisations that would fund this kind of research if it hasn't already been done. At the time that Richmond Council ran-down its respite care daycentres, they admitted in a public meeting that the work hadn't been done; they had no idea how much money the spending saved them.<br /><br />Clearly the cost of means-testing is reduced if people qualify for care whatever their means. There's an implication, without detail, in the Hammersmmith system that the council manages the care. So maybe there is an opt-out or opt-in system. But if people can manage their own care on a subsidy, there's complexity again in the extreme case of someone who exploits an ill person or fakes illness in order to get money for another purpose. So, broadly, it saves a lot to have no means-testing but I don't know how the detail works.<br /><br />I don't know the party politics of Hammersmith Council.</i><br />
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<i><br /><br />Talking of Hammersmith, in case someone from there reads this, it would be good if they could get experts from Bucharest to look after Hammersmith Bridge. I understand that there is a bigger one to the same design in Bucharest so there might be someone who is good at maintaining the things.</i></div>
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UPDATE<br />
Councillor Brian Marcell from the majority party has just canvased me about voting on Thursday 3rd of May. He is on the social services committee of the council, which apparently spends 58% of the budget. "It should be more", I said, and mentioned Mears Care as well as spending on nasty anti-gay-cruising tactics on Barnes Common. And I promised to email him some alternatives to Mears Care, so this is the Writetothem.com email. I wish I'd written "spend more on the niceness budget and less on the nastyness budget", but I got close. You can see that the niceness budget is under-spent if you read the bit in red further down the page.<br />
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<u>MEARS CARE ALTERNATIVES</u></h3>
We met on the doorstep at 2 Avenue Gardens just now and I promised to email some alternatives to Mears care. </blockquote>
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My googled notes of care quality commission reports on agencies in the council booklet of local care agencies are on http://bit.ly/homecarerichmond </blockquote>
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They quote the care quality commission reports on any that did well or badly, and the ones contracted to the council do badly. </blockquote>
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Some newer agencies have spent money on public relations and got themselves quoted in newspapers, claiming that more automated management allows more money to go to the carer and provide a better service. The names I googled are </blockquote>
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<li>https://supercarers.com/ </li>
<li><strike>https://supercarers.com</strike>/ https://myhometouch.com </li>
<li>https://vida.co.uk/ </li>
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<u>BARNES COMMON NASTYNESS</u></div>
On another subject, the council had found tens of thousands of pounds for car park security off Rocks Lane, and work by Continental Landscapes for Friends of Barnes Common to cut down trees and clear undergrowth in the area. </blockquote>
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Looked-at closely, the work is a very expensive project to discourage gay cruisers on Barnes Common at night. Trees hundreds of years old have been felled to reduce shadow. Large areas have been cleared of smalller plants. Search lights are installed on the car park and the sports ground next door. There is also a hieight restriction on the car park to stop gypsies. And an account of Friends of Barnes Common visiting Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetry to compare notes, which are quite clear on the Tower Hamlets site: they want to discourage gay people from cruising. </blockquote>
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I really think the council should spend less on nastyness and more on social care. After all, the kinds of voters who ask for anti-gypsy gates and anty-gay search lights are probably not marginal voters anyway. </blockquote>
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I will try to take the subject up with Richmond and Hounslow parks department and find out if they can take gay peoples' opinions into account and save a bit of council spending at the same time.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
John Robertson, 2 Avenue Gardens, London SW14 8BP 0208 286 9947</blockquote>
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Someone has just knocked on my door to ask about "local issues", which always sounds like something out of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_League_of_Gentlemen">League of Gentleman</a></i>.<br />
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I came-up with one or two, starting with the idea that "local people" can vote on what council money is spent on, even if is is earmarked for an insurance-like service that people have paid-for over decades. Such as social care. I think this is a bad thing.<br />
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The candidate looked like someone forced to be patient, so I got specific to social care in Richmond.<br />
He wasn't a candidate for the party in power, so I don't think I bothered him too much. It would have been more embarrassing to say this to the face of someone from that party, so maybe, if you're mixed-up with that party, you don't hear about this....<br />
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Council social services offering a legal minimum minus what the council can get away with. <br />
Assessments don't always happen unless a high priority. The chance of an elderly person getting an assessment like this...<br />
<span id="docs-internal-guid-6a453101-2afe-3f88-b1dc-5a7854f8beaf"><a href="http://www.housingcare.org/information/detail-1621-housing-options-for-older-people-hoop-a-selfassessment-.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.housingcare.org/information/detail-1621-housing-options-for-older-people-hoop-a-selfassessment-.aspx</span></a></span><br />
... are low<br />
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For example if you don't have the money for social care, the council contractor gets this report from the care quality commission. Not many agencies get bad reports. One or two are "outstanding". So presumably the council has picked the worst ones because cheapest, although even that may not be true because worse home care will increase demand for residential care so it's a false economy financially.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Care Quality Commission report on Mears Care</span></h3>
<span style="color: red;"><br />Mears Care 114b Power Road, Chiswick W4 5PY<br />Tel: 020 8987 2350<br />Email: richmond.care@mearsgroup.co.uk<br />Web: <a href="http://www.mearsgroup.co.uk/">www.mearsgroup.co.uk</a>http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-138291078</span><span style="color: red;"><br /><br />Some aspects of the service were not safe.<br /><br />There had been improvements in the way in which the staff were deployed and care visits were scheduled. However, further improvements were needed to make sure people always received the right care at the time they needed this.<br /><br />Some aspects of the service were not responsive.<br /><br />Some people did not receive care visits at the right time to meet their needs and there was variations about the timings of calls each day. In addition the provider did not communicate when care workers were running late or when there were changes in care workers.<br /><br />Some aspects of the service were not well-led.<br /><br />There had been improvements at the service and these had made a difference to people's care. However, further improvements were still needed to make sure people received a consistent service which always met their needs.</span><br />
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<span color:="" red="" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most care quality commission reports on Medacs Healthcare offices are bad on more than one point</span>. The web site is mainly about recruiting staff. <br />
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My source for this is the care quality commission and the booklet listing care agencies. The booklet which is about all you get off the council if your savings are about £23,500. If you or someone you know are learning how the system works, there is a set of notes that I did for myself here which may be useful. It is basically the council list of home care agencies plus annotations from the care quality commission, and I think it might include a link to housingandcare.org list of residential care options<br />
http://bit.ly/homecarerichmond<br />
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Oh and I mentioned that gay cruisers on Barnes Common now face cut-down trees, cleared undergrowth and floodlights at council expense.<br />
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<b><u>Local people are against dogs: official.</u>
Kennel Club’s Worry Over Richmond’s Restrictions on Local Residents and Visitors
The Kennel Club is concerned that following its Public Spaces Protection Order consultation, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is still planning to introduce measures which will seriously restrict not only the freedom of dog walkers, but also of any other member of the public who chooses Richmond’s large open spaces for recreation.
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames has consulted with its residents on Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPO) to help the police and council tackle anti-social behaviour on public land. A PSPO is a new measure which replaces existing legislation and introduces wider discretionary powers to deal with any particular nuisance or problem that is detrimental to the local community’s quality of life. The orders can be enforced by fixed penalty notices or prosecution by police or council officers.
When Richmond opened up its consultation period earlier this year, it was met with great concern from many dog owners in the area especially in regards to restrictions on the number of dogs which may be walked at once. A large petition was carried out by residents of Richmond, which gained over 1,700 signatures, and 59% of respondents to the consultation also disagreed to the council limiting dogs being walked at any one time to four.
However, Richmond has still taken the decision to impose a four dog restriction on dog walkers. The council is proposing a 12 month pilot scheme to license up to 15 people to be exempted from this restriction; however, there appears to be no obvious reason why this number has been decided upon. This potentially leaves some dog owners having to take their dogs out on separate walks.
The Kennel Club is further concerned by some of the other byelaws that are being suggested. For example, a byelaw is being proposed that a person in charge of a dog on any of Richmond’s open spaces where dogs are permitted, must not cause or permit annoyance to any other person or animal, or cause damage to any council structure, equipment, tree, shrub, plant, turf or other such council property. The Kennel Club is in complete agreement that dogs should always be kept under suitable control, but is concerned that there is no clarification by the council to what constitutes an annoyance. Would the occasional bark be constituted as an annoyance, and how will annoyance to another animal be measured and assessed? There is concern that annoyance to people is a very low bar to pass.
The second clause about damaging turf and trees is also very ambiguous and worded so that any typical dog behaviour could fall under this. While the Kennel Club wouldn’t expect enforcement in this manner, it cannot be taken as a given and tough enforcement could take place under these new protection orders.
There are many other restrictions to be put in place, such as restrictions on anyone disturbing any animal, digging, damaging or disturbing the ground or removing or displacing any stone, soil or turf. Questions need to be asked to what these restrictions would include, for example, would swatting a mosquito, shooing away a pigeon, throwing a skimming stone, feeding the ducks fall under this? Would walking across a park disturb the ground, especially if wearing studs if playing sport?
Other clauses include not throwing or using any device to propel or discharge any object which is liable to cause nuisance, injury or damage to any other person, animal or structure. This would therefore include throwing a ball or frisbee around a park, which could lead to injury or nuisance.
Caroline Kisko, Kennel Club Secretary said: “While the Kennel Club can support reasonable PSPOs and is happy to help work with councils and advise on dog issues to try and ensure responsible dog ownership, we are very concerned to read Richmond’s proposals which seem not only extreme but very restrictive on its many residents. If enforced to the degree it implies, it will seriously limit any enjoyment that members of the public can enjoy in the London Borough of Richmond.”
A meeting by London Borough of Richmond upon Thames is being held on Tuesday 11th July to provide the opportunity for the councillors to review the proposals and consultation responses, and the Kennel Club will be present to voice its concerns. For further information on the results of the consultation and the proposed PSPOs, please go to https://consultation.richmond.gov.uk/environment/pspo/.
The Kennel Club runs KC Dog which is a dog owner campaign group, free to join, which keeps members updated on dog access issues, and other relevant Kennel Club campaigns, which may affect dog owners across the country. Visit www.kcdog.org.uk for more information or join us on twitter @KC_political.
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<span style="color: red;">(Update - Greater London Authority's contribution is dance)</span></h3>
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There is no money for social services, housing benefit or health but there is still a National Tennis Acadamy down the road and, I read £100 million for one of several unpopular higher education colleges to build a Cultural and Education District in Stratford. That's <a href="https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2018/01/international-student-course.html">University College London that is 79th most popular out of 83 colleges for teaching economics. University of the Arts is the least popular of any higher education institution on unistats</a>, using the Complete University Guide or Guardian University Guide to the figures. And Saddlers Wells, who dance apparently. Don't you want to string these people up from a lamp post? It's still illegal, but if you did it in artistic form to an orchestra you might get a grant for it.<br />
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You could <a href="https://www.writetothem.com/">write to them</a> - there is a web site to find your GLA member who is probably Tony Arbour and send an email, or it can find london-wide assembly members as a list that you can compare against the GLA budget committee membership. I found one with a long-term interest in the arts who is on the committee and wrote to her. No reply after a week.<br />
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I have <a href="https://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2018/02/budget.html">suggested to the GLA that they get their lobby briefs from these agencies checked and put them up for comment by the public before believing every word about public benefit </a>and repeating every world class cliche.</div>
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It turns out that neither <a href="https://richmondcareandsupport.org.uk/">Richmond council's social services</a> nor Richmond <a href="http://www.hrch.nhs.uk/our-services/services-directory/services-in-richmond/richmond-response-rehabilitation-team/">Rapid Response and Re-ablement Team</a> exist on a scale to match demand. Council social services can find private visiting help and send a list of details, or manage it for a £50 weekly admin fee. They might offer a free assessment, and they can post a list of agencies which provide home visiting staff, leaving a patient or carer to check them against care quality commission reviews and find out the price.</div>
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Richmond Rapid Response and Re-Ablement team, part of a new local NHS trust, was unable to make appointments or keep-up with requests for decisions from West Middlesex hospital for most of 22nd of December 2017.<br />
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There used to be some kind of home service run from Barnes Hospital, but this doesn't appear to exist either<br />
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In a country that can afford Trident, MI5, and the Commonwealth Games with a local council that can afford new street furniture as part of a local village plan.<br />
Can I have my tax back, please, if it is not going to be spent on sensible things?</blockquote>
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From someone who has to do a little bit of work as a carer, I understand this<br />
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There is a machine called a pivotelli that can open a pill box, ring a buzzer, and text a carer if the person who needs pills forgets to take them. <br />
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A simpler version from a couple of suppliers has no mobile texting system built-in<br />
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There is a flat-screen clock that displays day, date, and time in a simple way once set-up.<br />
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An offer of these, free at the point of delivery, to anyone suspected of bad memory problems by hospital staff or a GP, could automate some of the problem-solving that social services are asked to do. Patients differ, but if the things are doled-out to the wrong person, that's only about £100 cost and no great human stress, except maybe to the patient who has to turn the thing on and can't work-out how.<br />
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If anyone who works in social services could try to get together a list of tasks that need automating or simplifying by making free at the point of delivery, then I am sure a lot of the work could be reduced.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;">Lifts: I am no so sure about this idea but think there is something in it</span></h3>
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Another relatively cheap solution is the fitting of a straight-line stair lift. These things are not very good. They are slow. They are beige. Frail people can fall-off them, so in some situations a carer could be needed as well as a lift. Wheelchairs do not slot-on to the things as far as I can see. But they are often available second-hand for next to nothing, and the ones that go round corners are only a few hundred pounds more.<br />
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I suggest that everyone over the age of 70 or who is thought at risk of needing a stair lift should be offered one, with fitting, free. That way, when the time comes, they can come home from hospital with less work from social services (who don't exist) to get a lift fitted. <br />
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More practical is a through-floor lift, or one fitted out of doors. The price for a through-floor seems rather elastic. I heard of a quote of £11,000 for one delivered months after payment and after much pushing from an unstable company (British Homelifts), but the cutting of the hole in the floor and the assembly of large macano-like devices is contracted-out, and the lifts themselves from Pollock, Terry, Wessex, or ? Dolphin often come-round second-hand for free. About half the ads on ebay say in the small print that they are from contractors and that you can contact them for a quote to install.<br />
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<a href="http://www.for-sale.co.uk/through-floor-lift">http://www.for-sale.co.uk/through-floor-lift</a><br />
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There is a UK firm that makes in China called Stiltz as well. A lot of the skill seems to be assembling local contractors willing to cut a hole, install a lift, and check it works; the cost of the lift itself is not the problem.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/in-my-area/richmond-upon-thames">https://www.london.gov.uk/in-my-area/richmond-upon-thames</a><br />
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On another subject I should mention this in a future post some time. Greater London Authority's page for Richmond on Thames</blockquote>
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I started a post about voter power a year ago and though it wasn't worth pressing "publish", but my next post about absent services makes it important.<br />
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For my vote, I think we have this PR system now: <br />
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<li>Vote for one of the top two candidates in any marginal constituency</li>
<li>Vote for a favourite candidate in a non-marginal constituency, just to save their deposit and encourage.</li>
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The current system has no chance to say who I would like to be
the runner-up candidate in a marginal constituency; it is down to tradition. There is no chance
to encourage a new splinter party, or for a big old party to split in two.
There is no signal for a non-marginal constituency, where the two runners-up get more votes than the winner, to know that it should vote like a marginal constituency with nearly all votes cast for the top two.<br />
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Voters in Richmond Park are used to this and you see "Labour for Lib
Dem" posters or similar at elections. The Labour vote of 5773 was less than
the party membership in the constituency. <br />
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MPs are used to putting-up with large political parties that don't reflect their views. <br />
They simply remain silent about views that the party does not want known.<br />
Labour MPs have had to work with Blair and Corbyn; Conservative MPs have a Brexit split. One group can become the majority in a party, or another. The more right wing group in each political party, I think, are rather similar. They don't want the
state to run compulsory insurance-like services such as social care or
non-emergency health or unemployment pay or anything like that, but they keep quiet about it. Here's
the proof:<br />
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<a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#welfare">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#welfare</a><br />
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Anyway this post was saved and not posted a year or two ago, and it seems relevant to the next one<br />
<a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/social-services-and-new-richmond-rapid.html">http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/social-services-and-new-richmond-rapid.html</a><br />
I think it's a problem that<br />
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<li>council social services don't exist for most of us (nor pay a decent care home fee for those who run out of money)</li>
<li>NHS services for people with dementia or learning difficulties
barely exist, and the home support part of the service seems not to
exist. <a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/public-consultation-on-plans-for-barnes.html">That's the service based at Barnes Hospital which is being redeveloped for housing - the subject of the last post</a></li>
<li>The new Hounslow and Richmond health trust and it's Rapid Response
and re-ablement service for people leaving hospital in Richmond doesn't
seem to exist either, or at least not on a bank holiday when West
Middlesex hospital tried to use them</li>
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If any of the 5773 labour voters change their mind in
the next election, and want one less MP under the Conservative Party
whip, I hope they come out and vote.<br />
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Here is the stuff I wrote a year or two ago without pressing "publish"<br />
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MP Election results in Richmond Park</h3>
<a href="http://www.voterpower.org.uk/richmond-park" title="Voters in Richmond Park have 1.66 times more voting power than the UK average.">voterpower.org.uk/richmond-park</a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/cgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Richmond%20Park">electoralcalculus.co.uk/cgi-bin/seatdetails.py?seat=Richmond%20Park</a><br />
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<a href="http://cabnet.richmond.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=82&RPID=19098753">cabnet.richmond.gov.uk/mgElectionAreaResults.aspx?XXR=0&ID=82&RPID=19098753</a><br />
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The voter power people seem very keen on more proportional representation between parties over a large area like the UK . An aim which, at the Greater London Authority, has led to party list candidates who refuse to do any work for a voter unless "a constituent", as the green list member's secretary fed-back to me, so I'm not keen, because he did nothing. (All I needed was a way to meet British Fashion Council to suggest how to help UK manufacturers. He needed to come-along. The conservative directly elected member and the liberal party list member turned me down as well)<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum,_2011">The UK Alternative Vote referendum in 2011 </a>was about more proportional representation in each constituency, achieved by giving fringe party voters a chance to re-allocate their vote after voting Labour or Green or whatever candidate is a likely number three four or more in each constutuency. Sadly, an expensive party advertising campaign blasted voters with untrue facts, each made clear as nonsense in The Independent at the time, but blasted loudly enough to win them the vote. I think it would be great to get alternative votes at least in the areas that voted for them in the referendum. Southwark is the example I know. There are probably others. Meanwhile, all UK MPs are elected by one constituency with third and fourth candidate voters unable to say "I wanted number 1 or 2 but also wanted to help choose who comes second next time".<br />
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Some people think we don't have a constituency PR system, including some of the 5,773 labour voters last time. I don't understand their reasoning - is it to cheer up the Labour cause and save the candidate's deposit? Or do they see Liberal and Conservative as so similar that there is no point encouraging one over the other? Maybe they see the Swingometer on TV and want to show support for a party that doesn't get in in their constituency. All sensible reasons to vote, but I just don't understand why 5773 people voted that way when the Lib / Con margin is so narrow.<br />
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Public consultation on the plans for Barnes Hospital</span></h2>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Short response in black; full text of the presentation from <a href="http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/documents/related-documents/about-us/estate-modernisaton/513-barnes-hospital-consultation-newsletter-oct-2017/file">here</a> in green with red annotations below. An earlier draft of the short bit, and about the same version of the rest, has been dropped-off in the trust's consultation box at one of their meetings.<br />Try the "classic" link to read this without links down the side.<br />The only team that uses these buildings just now has about 700+ outpatients according to <br /><a href="http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/our-services/find-a-service/service/richmond-older-people-community-team">http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/our-services/find-a-service/service/richmond-older-people-community-team</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Short response</span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Don't waste the 2003 in-patient building if it's useful</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The
large 2003 building looks suitable to let as a private nursing home
with space for intense care. I think this is the most important point. <i>
[added 8/12/17]</i> The rooms are large, according to Friends of Barnes Hospital (<a href="http://fobh.org.uk/">fobh.org.uk</a>), built as 6-bed wards, but that could be a good
thing. It could allow space for a loo & shower in each room - something that care homes often lack.<br /><br /> People who aren't quite conscious and can't leave their beds might do better in shared rooms.<br /><br />I can't find the planning application for the building online under the postcode <a href="http://www2.richmond.gov.uk/PlanData2/Planning_Search.aspx" title="planning decision search by postcode just lists applications about trees and staff housing, with one reference a 4-bed ward in one of the old buildings">SW14 8SU</a>, so I don't have any plans except the outline further down the page</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Short-life housing is a way of securing the site</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://uk.cameloteurope.com/contact-us/uk-south-east-office">https://uk.cameloteurope.com/contact-us/uk-south-east-office</a>
can find short term tenants for any usable buildings, as can short-life
housing associations. <br /><a href="http://www.westminsterhousingcoop.org/">Westminster Housing Co-op is the nearest one</a> on search engines.<br />Either or both agents could handle the letting of hard-to-use property, if it
is possible at all, leaving the completely un-usable property easy to
identify and develop bit-by-bit, with less pressure to sign-up to large
contracts and possibly get them wrong. See "next consultation" "new name" and the next paragraph for why I think a large project will go wrong.<br /><br /><i>added after printing a copy for the health trust</i><br /><b>Workshop space, film sets, art studios, a laundry...</b><br />Camalot Europe have no success letting for work in the UK, according to their web site and impressions of Ruffells Garage next to Barnes Hospital, which they managed for a while. They might find someone willing to live in a workshop, but not to work in it.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Another quick search throws-up this link<br />http://self-help-housing.org/directory-existing-projects/#London<br />including <a href="https://www.meanwhilespace.com/landlords-partners">Meanwhile Space</a>, which promotes good jobs in a town that's very short of workshop space according to a glance at this...<br />https://www.london.gov.uk//about-us/london-assembly/london-assembly-publications/helping-small-businesses-thrive-london (formatted report:<br /><a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/helping_smes_to_thrivefinal.pdf">https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/helping_smes_to_thrivefinal.pdf</a> )</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> There are also agencies who let car-parking space in small units, which are easy to search for. I don't know how to search for agents who let large units.</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Short life <a href="https://www.nhs.uk/Service-Search/GP/LocationSearch/4">GP surgeries</a> possible </b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
hope there is a supply of GPs looking for surgery space and patients
who want to sign-up with them. I know from <a href="http://www.channel5.com/show/gps-behind-closed-doors/">Behind Closed Doors</a> that existing GP waiting lists are full, but I don't know if that's down to funding or job applicants or space or what. Anyway, I vaguely hope that the GPs can be offered
space in existing buildings if they want. It may not be necessary to
build a new building. Once they have moved-in, they could give an opinion<b> </b>about the cost and the benefit.<b> </b><br /><br />I rather like the idea of some local GP surgeries running from converted private houses and prefer it to more corporate buildings, but if there is a genuine reason to subsidise a GP landlord, like a demand for a GP and a psychiatrist working together, that's better still and I am sure that staff in hospital clinics who get one diagnosis over-and-over again would be interested in working with a GP surgery where there are loads of different problems. (I get this information from contacts at an HIV clinic which has just been separated from related sexual health services - anyone in a clinic that's like Ford of Dagenham would want their skills used a bit more).</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial_properties_of_copper"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Copper Door Handles</b></span></span></a></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">One
small suggestion. I read that copper door handles are anti-bacterial.
Either copper or coppery brass. So I suggest copper or coppery brass
door handles in any new buildings for sick people and a gradual change-over in others.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
saw this on a Dara O'Brian TV show, and dont more technical references
than a quick online search, but I expect that an NHS trust has plenty of
well qualified people who know almost off-hand whether it is true.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Access: left turns at the level crossing from South Worple Way</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
think the site suffers from a no-left-turn rule at the level crossing
to the north east. <br /><br />This has recently been imposed under pressure from
local residents, because of the risk of squashing people who wait at the level crossing in the path of any car that
needs to turn left. (A primary school is round the corner,)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
think that a bollard would do the same job as the no-left-turn law.<br /><br />Ideally with help from
Railtrack who might allow more land at the corner to be un-fenced to allow space for
pedestrians waiting. I think that a bollard with tyres round it would be
good to reduce damage for drivers negotiating a tight bend. I think
that the cameras and no-left-turn rules are a hazard for people leaving
the hospital, from experience: my mother is an outpatient and was caught
on camera trying to do a left turn with slightly bad memory and
concentration.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Access: need another gate into the site at the north </b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
think more access points are required, with one at the north, at least
for pedestrians and preferably for vehicles, because I don't see much
chance of getting a bus-stop to work in South Worple Way or White Hart
Lane. White Hart Lane is narrow; South Worple Way is single track.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
doubt it's possible to persuade Railtrack to narrow the strip of land
next to their railway track, in order to widen South Worple Way, but
maybe someone more expert knows for sure..</span></span></blockquote>
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Why I think a big development will go wrong and suggestions that follow</h3>
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Next consultation in a different style, please</span></span></b></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The
wall boards for consultation include attempts to mislead, paid-for by
taxpayers, who cannot claim the money back for working to un-pick the deceptions in order to reply. I
hope the next consultation is more straightforward. The boards also use
buzzwords like "modern" or "excellent" which make critical thought
harder. My buzzwords back: "red flag", "machiavellian". The last one sounds a bit harsh, but the team at Barnes have 1.5 psychiatrist posts of which the half is vacant, a home support team of un-known purpose, and none of the buzzwords like "memory clinic", or "recovery college", that are used on other sites. So it's worth asking whether services are deliberately managed badly on that site to encourage people to say they'll travel further just to escape.<br /><br />Everybody knows that there is not enough money for mental health
services.
(https://www.nhs.uk/Services/hospitals/Overview/defaultView.aspx?id=3042).
The next suggestion is similar - about the name of the team.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>New name "Improvement and re-use team" or "improvement and letting"</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">There
is a team at St Georges Trust called "Estate Modernisation", and I
think, after talkling to one of them, that the name reduces critical
thought by the team members. It was the sort of language used before bad housing developments in the 1960s. It reduces the need to question what is being done.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
think this only adds to the impression that health trusts can get
building plans wrong, as for example at Queen Mary's where clinics now
have to pay a high rent to Sodexo, or at St Georges Tooting where some
obsolete wards are left unused, rather than let as offices or converted
to flats.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Party Donors as public sector business partners</b></span></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I
suggest trying to be very open, transparent, and accountable if dealing with any
party donor as a business partner if it can't be avoided altogether. <br /><br />The current consultation isn't just a planning consultation; it is a consultation with NHS patients and taxpayers by a health trust, but it doesn't say anything about money. It is not transparent.<br /><br />I don't believe the view of
politicians, that parties need extra funding beyond the subsidy they
already get. I think that donations to central parties should be capped to a total, just like funding for local campaigns. I think that would make it easier for public contractors to stop making party donations and political parties accepting them.<br />Meanwhile, while it is still legal for an NHS trust sign a contract with a party donor, it think it's best avoided.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">Green text, below, is consultation quoted from <a href="http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/documents/related-documents/about-us/estate-modernisaton/513-barnes-hospital-consultation-newsletter-oct-2017/file">here</a>; red is point-by-point notes</span><br />Welcome</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (the Trust) welcomes you to our consultation event to showcase the initial plans for the Barnes Hospital site. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">In the last few years the Trust has been developing options for our Barnes Hospital site as part of our Estate Modernisation Programme (EMP). The EMP, which has been approved by our local authority partners, will modernise our built estate – replacing outdated buildings with state-of-the-art facilities – and will facilitate improved service delivery, particularly in terms of our community services.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;"><b>This is untrue. </b><br />The trust has a large building built in 2003 on the site, that takes a large proportion of the area. - the one with blue window frames you can see on the aerial photo.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">.<br /><b>This is worrying</b><br />Anyone who says "modernise" is ducking a chance to say something sensible, but the team is called "modernisation". A point about language, but also about the quality of decision-making at a time when it's known that these decisions are often taken badly. For example the old Queen Mary's Hospital site was replaced by a much smaller site and a Private Finance Initiative building owned by Sodexo, who charge a very high rent to each clinic. I know the Private Finance Initiative has ended, but worry about general money management. The remaining land at Queen Mary's has gone for very upmarket housing for people who like to live in old buildings - nothing too modern. I suppose they find old buildings relaxing to live in if the things are well insulated and easy to maintain.<br /><br />Meanwhile the St Georges site is ringed with empty wards, which I guess could be turned into flats or let as office space. The problem isn't that they are old, but that they look too cold without a lot of insulation and to isolated from other buildings.<br /><br /><b>I suggest that the department should be re-named "improvement and letting"</b>so that they ask themselves "how is this an improvement?" or "why is this space not let?". They do not talk like this at the moment. I spoke to one official who really seemed to believe that new bricks were better than old bricks, or that's the argument he used.<br /><br /><b>One small suggestion copper door handles</b><br />I read that copper door handles are anti-bacterial. Either copper or coppery </span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">brass. So I suggest copper or coppery brass door handles in any new buildings and a gradual change-over in the others.<br /><br /><b>Explanations about this blog </b><br />This blog page has got "election" in the title to attract politicians' attention, that's all.<br />And the blogging software doesn't seem to encourage printing, but control+P might do it from the "classic view" that doesn't have titles of other blog posts down the side. It fills about 10 or 11 pages on minimal margins<br /><br /><b>Short version </b><br />I picked out the red points and cut-out repatition to make a short summery at the end</span><br /><br />As the leading provider of mental health services across south west London, we are committed to delivering the highest standards for the 1.1 million people we serve in the boroughs of Richmond, Wandsworth, Kingston, Merton and Sutton.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We have representatives here today from across our organisation and the EMP team. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We hope we can answer your questions, whether it is about the future development of the Barnes Hospital site or the work we do across the five London boroughs we serve</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">What is an outline planning application? </span></i></h3>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">An outline planning application seeks to establish the principle of a proposed development. The detailed aspects of a scheme, specifically access, appearance, landscaping and layout in scale are called ‘Reserved Matters’. It is possible to seek outline permission with all or just some of those matters reserved.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">In
the last few years the Trust has been developing options for our Barnes
Hospital site as part of our Estate Modernisation Programme (EMP). The
EMP, which has been approved by our local authority partners, will
modernise our built estate – replacing outdated buildings with
state-of-the-art facilities – and will facilitate improved service
delivery, particularly in terms of our community services.</span></i></div>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i> for future consideration. <br /><span style="color: red;"><br />Further down the page it says that this will be a "new healthcare facility on the site of the Garden House", and, when asked, it turns out that this depends on getting a government grant to build the thing. There is nothing on the plan to say how this will be better.</span><br /><br />Subject to outline permission being granted, we intend that a further community consultation would be held before ‘Reserved Matters’ submissions are made to the local planning authority</i><br /><br /><i>We hope we can answer your questions, whether it is about the future development for the Barnes Hospital site or the work we do across the five London boroughs we serve</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Background</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">First opened as Barnes Isolation Hospital in 1889, Barnes Hospital joined the NHS in 1948 and is now being managed by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.<br /><br />Mental health inpatient services have not been provided at Barnes Hospital since 2013 and the site is significantly underused, with approximately 25% of the site currently in use to provide healthcare services. <br /><br />The remaining buildings are unsuitable for modern mental healthcare services. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">This is misleading</span> <span style="color: red;"><br /><br />The blue-window building covers a lot of the site. It was built in 2003. I guess that it is an inpatient building that could be converted for use as a private old peoples' home for people with advanced dementia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">After dropping-in to an exhibition and asking someone from Friends of Barnes Hospital, it turns out that the 2 stories are built with 6-bed wards, so there could be a cost in conversion to a care home, but care homes tend to have rooms that are too small, and room for walk-in shower in each one would be good, so maybe the six-bed rooms are the right size for one person, rather more conscious with lower care needs, now. Then there are people who aren't very conscious and can't leave a bed unaided. That's a group who might suit a shared ward.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I'm told that the building called Elizabeth Lodge - a wing of the 2003 building, was built as a tall hall or ward, but converted later into half a dozen bedsits. <br /><br />These are photos from "<a href="http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/barnes.html">lost hospitals of London</a>", before boarding-up, which says that the older barn-like buildings were built to keep fever patients in beds twelve feet apart with maximum ventilation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Also, just looking at the site, I saw that there are some two-story house-like buildings as well as the barn-like ones and the H-shaped building still in use.</span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">Some planning applications, later withdrawn, mention staff accommodation on the site.<br /><a href="https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/11630/barnes_site_forms_march_2014.pdf">https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/11630/barnes_site_forms_march_2014.pdf </a><br />[page 9 of 21, "planning application history"] but don't say how much is there and ready to let. I guess that the two story house-like buildings were once staff housing.</span><br /><br />Whilst the Trust has added security to the building, with the buildings being vacant, they unfortunately continue to be a target for vandalism and anti-social behaviour. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;">This is misleading.<br />There is very little evidence of vandalism so far.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The associated costs mean that we are having to spend money on floorspace that we don’t need – money that we would much prefer to spend on patient care.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">There is a simpler solution.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">https://uk.cameloteurope.com/contact-us/uk-south-east-office can find short term tenants, as can short-life housing associations. I think Westminster Housing Co-op is the nearest one. Someone at Richmond Housing Partnership might be able to suggest which ones are easy to deal with. <br /><br /><br />One of these agents could handle the letting of hard-to-use property, if it is possible at all, leaving the completely un-usable property easy to identify and develop bit-by-bit, with less pressure to sign-up to large contracts and possibly get them wrong.<br /><br />The gate house looks as
though it is built to house a caretaker and could be re-opened and let
just as it is. It has steel shutters on it at the moment, but there is a photo of it in use by the last occupier who were a psychotherapy organisation <a href="http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/barnes.html">here</a> .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://ezitis.myzen.co.uk/barnes7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><i>OS Map extract 1896 –appearance of hospital site<br />OS Map extract 1920 – expansion of hospital site<br />OS Map extract 1936 – expansion of hospital site<br />View of the existing site View of the existing site</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The views don't show the large 2003 building which is to be demolished</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">Did you know? <br />The Trust employs over 2,000 staff to provide care and treatment for approximately 20,000 people in South West London and beyond. </span></i></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What is the Estate Modernisation Programme?</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The EMP is an exciting programme which will revolutionise the way mental health services are delivered in south west London for generations to come and will also provide new facilities for our local communities.</span></h4>
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">?.</span><br /><br />We are working with local people and service users to transform mental health services in south west London through a multi-million pound investment in our services and facilities.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">Barnes Hospital patients have not been consulted directly.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">What does this mean for Barnes Hospital? </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Earlier this year the Trust carried out an initial stage of marketing to help us to understand the potential options for the Barnes Hospital site and to inform our next steps.<br /><br />We are now bringing forward outline plans for the site, which will maintain excellent mental healthcare services alongside new homes and community uses. We hope this will enable us to appoint a preferred bidder for the site, who will deliver excellent value for the NHS and allow us to reinvest all funds from the sale of the site into our services.<br /><span style="color: red;"><br />I think the trust needs to be very transparent about appointing party-donors as builders, whichever party they donate to. I don't see why a political party needs donations from anyone, and think the practice of large govenment contractors donating to parties should end; government should not do business them.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">An update about Springfield and Tolworth Hospitals</span></h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">In October we were delighted to announce the selection of Springfield and Tolworth Estate Partnership (STEP), a partnership between Kajima Partnerships and Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures Ltd, <br /><br /><span style="color: red;">McAlpine are party donors</span><br />as our preferred development partner to deliver the new hospitals at Springfield and Tolworth. STEP will work alongside the Trust to progress the EMP and transform the way we deliver mental health services for generations to come.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">?</span><br /><br />The announcement of the preferred development partner marks a significant milestone in the development of the EMP, and enables the proposals to be finalised for a full business case to be submitted to the Government for approval.<br /><br /><i>View of the new hospital at Tolworth<br />View of the new hospital at Springfield</i><br /><i>“ We are now bringing forward outline plans for the site, which will maintain excellent mental healthcare services alongside new homes and community uses.”</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Our commitment to delivering high quality care</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The Trust provides a wide range of inpatient and community services to over 20,000 people each year. These include local services for children/adolescents and working age and older adults, as well as a range of specialist mental health services on a regional and national basis. <br /><br />Our values are to be respectful, open, collaborative, compassionate and consistent. We work in partnership with those who use our services, their relatives, carers and friends, and other stakeholders to ensure that we uphold and promote these values. <br /><br />Crucially, we will be retaining a presence at the Barnes Hospital site. Staff and service levels will not be reduced in the borough as a result of the EMP and we are working closely with Richmond Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to develop the services we can deliver in Richmond.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Will my care be affected in any way? </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">While we transform our estate, care will continue to be provided throughout. Any <br />relocation will be agreed with the input of clinicians, to ensure new locations reach <br />the needs of our patients and carers. Minimising disruption to our patients is a key <br />objective of both the Trust and STEP.<br /><br />Some teams may be required to work from another location within the borough and <br />staff will work closely with patients and carers to ensure they are fully aware of any <br />changes to their services.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">The clinics at Queen Mary's Hospital have to pay a high rent to Sodexo. It could be that some of them would be cheaper to run at Barnes if patents are able to get to Barnes.<br /><br />Access would he hard without a northern gate to the site, so that people could walk from more bus stops; at the moment there is access for drivers and fit people but not for ill people.</span><br /><br />Once any relocations have been agreed the Trust will provide regular updates and <br />work with key external partners such as service user/carer groups, Healthwatch, local <br />GPs and the CCG to ensure that all the people we serve are aware of the changes.<br /><br /><i>Our values are to be respectful, open, collaborative, compassionate and consistent</i>.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Opportunities and constraints</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We have been considering options for the future of Barnes Hospital for a number of years. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The site offers an opportunity to deliver a mixed-use development that would positively contribute to the local area while retaining a valuable healthcare use.</span></blockquote>
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Opportunities</span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #38761d;"> Bringing back into use an under-utilised site to provide much-needed housing for the borough as well as to support investment in new healthcare facilities <br /><span style="color: red;">This isn't what happened at Queen Mary's; the risk is that demolishing and building for its own sake will waste a lot of money. For example Queen Mary's moved to a building with very high rents to Sodexo who built it under the Private Finance Initiative.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">The site is well connected, conveniently located close to transport links, shops and local facilities </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Retention of a significant number of existing trees will contribute to high quality amenity space as well as acting as a green buffer </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">The northern part of the site is away from neighbouring properties and provides a good opportunity to deliver a new healthcare facility </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">It is an ideal location to deliver high quality new homes of varying size and tenure </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">There is a possibility that the site could accommodate other community uses, such as a new school </span></li>
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Principal Planning Considerations</span></h3>
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<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Relationship with neighbouring properties and the railway line </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Proximity of the nearby Queen’s Road Conservation Area </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Adjacent Old Mortlake Burial Ground </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Existing locally-listed buildings on the site </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Availability of funding for potential social and community uses on part of the site</span></li>
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Land for social and community uses </span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We are currently in dialogue with the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames for part of our site to be made available for an alternative community use, such as a new school.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">This area of land, to the south of the site, is not included in these plans and any proposals would be subject to a separate planning application.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">The total site is approximately 1.45 hectares and would be divided as follows:</span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>New homes</b> - 0.68 hectares </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Healthcare</b> - 0.23 hectares </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Land for alternative community use</b> - 0.54 hectares</span></li>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Proposed Site Layout</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>New homes</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">As part of this development, we aim to help meet a pressing need for new housing in the borough, and a mix of both private and affordable homes is proposed.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;">I don't see anything concrete about a number of affordable homes and suggest that initial planning permission state some kind of condition.<br /><br />A quick google found me a <a href="https://www.richmond.gov.uk/media/11630/barnes_site_forms_march_2014.pdf">planning report</a> (page 9 of 21) quoting "Barnes Working Group" with this suggestion:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: red;"><br />It suggested the site is best used for the provision of accommodation for working age adults as well as affordable accommodation for other groups. It reported Richmond Council's priorities for the site as affordable housing, extra care housing and adults' mental health housing. </span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">We are proposing a total of 76 homes, including:</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #38761d;">64 apartments, featuring a mix of one, two and three bed units</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">12 terraced four bedroom homes</span></li>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">All new homes will have outdoor space, either balconies or private gardens, and have been designed to meet the London Housing Design Guide standards for size and residential amenity.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>A modern healthcare facility</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The new healthcare facility will be delivered to the north of the site, in the location of Garden House <span style="color: red;">(the H-shaped building) </span>, which is currently being used to provide healthcare.</span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">The Trust is committed to provide out-patient services on the site and this facility will enable the Trust to continue providing excellent mental healthcare services </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #38761d;">...</span><br /><br /><i><b>"excellent"</b> is a PR word that just confuses; NHS Choices don't quote staff or patients as using that word.<br /><br />We
have all seen reports of acute mental health service wards where the psychiatrists share phone calls each week about the least unwell patient to discharge, and
we all know that there is more demand for acute mental health services,
as for dementia care, than there is money to pay for it. So to say that
the trust provides excellent mental healthcare services, or that any
trust can provide sufficient mental healthcare services, is untrue</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">...for generations to come. </span><br />
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<i><span style="color: red;"><b>This is an easy way to help people.</b><br /><br />Most of us live less than 100 years and value our property in proportion.<br />Health trusts live longer - the fever hospital was built in the 1880s - so health trusts are interested in returns more than 100 years away. So I propose 100 year leases rather than freehold sales.</span></i><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">The development of a new facility would improve patient experience, moving away from the current buildings which are outdated and unsuitable for modernisation.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br /><b>This is untrue and important</b>.<br />The 2003 building is the largest on the site. A large brick building with blue window frames that looks weatherproof and well insulated. The two-story part of it, to the South West, is in the area of the current planning application, and a "proposed vehicle and pedestrian access plan" shows it replaced with housing and a turning circle.<br /><br />Another plan shows four parts called <i>"lodge"</i> with different names, and a central <i>"esl unit"</i> as well as office space, reception and a large laundry.<br /><br />After a quick look at a couple of dementia care homes with high-care units, I guess that the 2003 building is the same kind of thing; it could be let as it is, maybe for conversion, rather than demolished to make way for something else.<br /><br />I read that the trust no longer funds many dementia beds, and so the ones at Barnes were abandoned to maintain a <i>"critical mass".</i> This is not the same as their being no demand for dementia care; there is obviously growing demand with new care homes being built all the time. I saw one called Atwood House being extended by Barchester Healthcare just recently.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;">Illustrative view of the proposals looking from the north east</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #38761d;">Proposed site layout</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #38761d;">Illustrative view of the proposals looking from the south west</span></i><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Key</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Shared Surface</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Street/Parking Zones</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Communal Gardens</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Private Gardens</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Defensible Space</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Existing Trees to be removed</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Existing Trees</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Proposed Trees</span></li>
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Design precedent</span></h3>
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<li><span style="color: #38761d;">South Kilburn Masterplan - Alison Brooks Architects</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Anne Mews - Allford Hall Monaghan Morris</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Newhall Be - Alison Brooks Architects</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Newhall Be - Alison Brooks Architects</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Elmwood Court - C.F. Møller</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Culverin Court - Hawkins Brown</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Ham Close - BPTW Architecture</span></li>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Highways and access</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;">I think the site suffers from a no-left-turn rule at the level crossing to the north east. This has recently been imposed under pressure from local residents, because of the risk of squashing people (including children) who wait at the level crossing in the path of any car that needs to turn left. <br /><br />I think that a bollard would do the same job, ideally with help from Railtrack who might allow more land at the corner to be left for pedestrians waiting. I think that a bollard with tyres round it would be good to reduce damage for drivers negotiating a tight bend. I think that the cameras and no-left-turn rules are a hazard for people leaving the hospital, from experience: my mother is an outpatient and was caught on camera trying to do a left turn with slightly bad memory and concentration.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">A specialist transport consultant, Motion, has been appointed to undertake assessments of the local highway network, alongside an assessment of the potential changes in the number and types of vehicle movements.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Access</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;">I think more access points are required, with one at the north, at least for pedestrians and preferably for cars, because I don't see much chance of getting a bus-stop to work in South Worple Way or White Hart Lane. So there is good transport nearby, but none very near.<br /><br />There
is a single-track road called South Worple Way on the south of the
site. Drawings show it as a wider road - maybe two track. This is a sign
of something wrong; the people who commissioned that picture should do
their jobs differently or not remain in post.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">The site currently has three access points from South Worple Way and a one-way vehicular system is operated within the site due to the width of the road.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">The proposals would retain two of the three existing access points and maintain a one-way circulation, with a dedicated entrance and an exit serving both the new homes and healthcare facility.</span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><br />There is no clarity about the healthcare facility yet. Central government may fund a building for a GP surgery, if a GP wants it, and existing outpatient clinics will probably continue in the same building or a new one. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Parking provision</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">All residential parking for the scheme will be accommodated within the site and will have no impact on local parking provision. A total of 86 car parking spaces are proposed,including eight disabled parking spaces, at a ratio of 1.17 spaces per home.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">30 of the parking spaces would be provided at street level and another 56 would be in basement parking below the apartment blocks. New residents will not be issued with parking permits and will not be allowed to park in existing local Controlled Parking Zones.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">To promote sustainable travel, the plans include 142 cycle spaces for the residential properties and a further 30 cycle spaces associated with the non-residential floorspace.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">Dedicated car parking spaces will be provided for the healthcare facility.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Local links</b></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="color: red;">South Warple Way is a single track road.<br /><br />I don't know if RailTrack would allow railway land to be used for road-widening; I haven't seen it done before, and they need space for signals, so I guess they wouldn't allow road widening onto the edge of railway land.<br /><br />I think they might allow one corner of land - the odd square meter - to be used to allow more pedestrians to stand on the corner by the level crossing, without risk from cars turning left on the sharp corner. <br /><br />I think the council could put-up a post or a removable bollard, maybe with tyres round it for padding, to separate pedestrians and cars.<br /><br />I think the current no-left-turn sign and camera could go, which would be a great benefit to people using the hospital site.</span><br /><br />The site benefits from excellent public transport links, being approximately half a mile </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">from Mortlake train station and 0.7 miles to Barnes train station. </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #38761d;">There are a number of bus stops a short walk from the site which are served by bus routes providing links to Richmond, Hammersmith and Wandsworth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;">Proposed vehicle and pedestrian access plan</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">To promote sustainable travel, the plans propose 142 cycle spaces for the residential properties and a further 30 cycle spaces for the commercial units.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Next steps</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Thank you for visiting today. This is an initial stage of consultation and we are committed to taking community feedback into consideration before the plans progress any further. </b><br /><br />If you would like to provide us with your comments on the hospital plans or the wider EMP, please take the time to complete a questionnaire before you leave so that the team can ensure that all feedback is properly recorded. All feedback will be reviewed to inform how the plans progress.<br />All the information on display, along with an online version of the feedback form, will be available at www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/about-us/estate-modernisation from Monday 13 November 2017.<br />Contact us If you would like to be kept up to date on the progress of the plans for Barnes Hospital, future community events or if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to get in contact with us.<br /><br />Thank you for visiting us today.<br />Telephone: 020 7871 3565<br />Email: regeneration@swlstg-tr.nhs.uk <br /><br />Freepost: <br />Freepost Public Consultation (<a href="http://cascadecommunications.co.uk/">Cascade Communications</a>) <br />RTUA-THGR-LUYK 26 Noel Street London W1F 8GY <br /><br /><i>Aerial view of the existing site</i></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Benefits </span></h3>
<h3>
<span style="color: #38761d;"></span></h3>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Delivering modern world class mental health services for Richmond residents <span style="color: red;"><br />PR-speak</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">A new integrated community healthcare facility to serve residents in Barnes and Mortlake <br /><span style="color: red;">This is an invite to any GPs who wish to rent working space near the outpatient clinics, as far as I can tell. So it doesn't require any money; the invites could be sent-out anyway.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">New homes, including a percentage of affordable housing </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Regeneration of disused land which currently attracts antisocial behaviour <br /><br /><span style="color: red;">There are easy ways to use existing buildings quickly, I guess, and use of the buildings would reduce risk of vandalism, which doesn't currently happen (the claim is PR)<br /><br />Easy simple solutions are<br />- Try to let the large modern building to a care home provider<br />- Find a shortlife housing association or "protected by occupation" landlord to fill any hard-to-let residential buildings<br />- approach GPs willing to use existing buildings<br />- then decide again what's really needed</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #38761d;">Provision of land for social and community uses – subject to discussion with the Council</span></li>
</ul>
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Oh this post started-off as a transcript of a speech from Zimbabwe seen on TV then googled via the Daily Express online, which I thought worth trying to format and blog. Please don't think I approve of Zanu-PF for that reason. Anyway only 4 people glanced at the blog post and I doubt any of them were really looking for the President of Zimbabwe's State of the Nation speech, so I have added another post above to save filling the internet with un-read pages. Going-off on a tangent I have a web site spawned by anger at how <a href="http://employees.org.uk/">Unite treats ordinary members with ordinary but important employment law disputes with ex-employers who are often rather like Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Mangement Organisation,</a> which is called <a href="http://employees.org.uk/">employees.org.uk</a>, but that's a digression on a digression. Back to digression number one.<br />
<i><br />Fellow Zimbabweans, </i><br />
<span style="color: red;"></span><br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">I address you tonight
on the back of a meeting I held today with the nation’s security forces
command element.</span> </span></h3>
<blockquote>
This meeting which was
facilitated by a mediating team… followed an operation mounted by the
Zimbabwean Defense Forces in the week that has gone by, and which was
triggered by concerns from their reading of the state of affairs </blockquote>
<blockquote>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>in our
country, and </li>
<li>in the ruling Zanu-PF party. </li>
</ul>
<br />
Whatever
the pros and cons of the way they went about registering those
concerns, I as the President of Zimbabwe and as their Commander in Chief
do acknowledge the issues they have drawn my attention to, and do
believe these were raised in the spirit of</blockquote>
</div>
<blockquote>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li> <span style="color: red;"><b>honesty</b></span> and out of deep and
patriotic concern for the </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>stability</b></span> of our nation and for the </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b>welfare</b></span> of
our people.</li>
</ul>
As I address you I am also
aware of a whole range of concerns which have come from you all, as
citizens of our great country and which deserve our <u>untrammeled</u>
attention.<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
</ul>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
Today’s meeting with the
command element has underscored the need for us to collectively start
processes that return our nation to normalcy so that all our people can
go about their business unhindered, in an environment of perfect peace
and security, assured that the law and order prevail as before, and endure
well into the future.</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><i>If there is any
one observation we have made and drawn from events of the last week it
is the unshakable pedestal upon which rests our state of peace and law
and order, amply indicating that as Zimbabweans we are generally a
peaceably disposed people and with a given-ness to express our
grievances and to resolve our differences ourselves and with a level of
dignity and restraint so rare to many other nations. This is to be
admired. Indeed such traits must form the path of our national character
and personality. </i></li>
</ul>
<br />
Yes, a veritable resource we summon and draw upon in
times of vicissitudes.</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><i>The operation I have alluded to did not amount to a threat to our well-cherished constitutional order, nor was it a challenge to my authority as head of state and government, not even as commander in chief of the Zimbabwean Defense Forces. To the man, the commend element remained respectful and comported themselves with diktats and mores of constitutionalism. </i></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
True, a
few incidents may have occurred here-and-there, but they are being
corrected. <br />
<br />
I am happy that throughout the short period the pillars of
state remained functional. <br />
<br />
Even happier for me and arising from today’s
meeting is a strong sense of collegiality and comradeship now binding
the various arms of our security establishment. This should redound to
greater peace and offer an abiding sense of security in communities and
in our entire nation.</div>
</blockquote>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Among the issues
discussed is that relating to ...<br />Our economy, which as we all know is going
through a difficult patch. </b></span></h3>
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Of greater concern to our commanders are the
well-founded fears that the lack of unity and commonness of purpose in
both party and government was translating into perceptions of
inattentiveness to the economy. <br />
<br />
Open public spats between officials in
the party and government exacerbated by multiple conflicting messages
from both the party and government made the criticisms leveled at us
inescapable. </blockquote>
</div>
<blockquote>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
Amidst all this, flagship
projects already adopted by government stood stalled or mired in
needless controversies. All this needs to stop as we inaugurate a new
work culture and pace which will show a strong sense of purpose and
commitment to turning around our economy in terms of our policies. The
government remains committed to improving the social and material
conditions of the people. <br />
<br />
Government will soon unveil an entrepreneurial
skills and business development program which will empower and unleash
gainful projects at our growth points and in rural areas. </div>
</blockquote>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fellow
Zimbabweans: <br />we are a nation born out of a protracted struggle for
national independence. Our roots lie in that epochal struggle whose
goals and ideals must guide our present, and structure our future.</span></b></h3>
</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The
tradition of resistance is our collective legacy, whose core tenets
must [be] subscribed [to] by all across generations and across times.
Indeed these too were a concern of our commanders who themselves were
makers of that revolution and often at very tender ages and at great
personal peril. <br />
<br />
We still have in our various communities veterans of
that founding struggle who might have found the prevailing management of
national and party issues quite alienating. <i>This must be corrected
without delay</i>, include ensuring that these veterans continue to play
central roles in the lives of our nation. We must all recognize that
their participation in the war of liberation exacted lifelong costs
that, while hardly repayable, <u>may still be assuaged and ameliorated</u>. [hint] </blockquote>
</div>
<blockquote>
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</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
In
respect of <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">the</span> party</b></span> &</li>
<li> <span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">the</span> party issues</b></span> raised both by </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">the</span> commanders</b></span> & by </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="color: black;">the</span> general membership</b></span> of Zanu-PF, </li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: left;">
- these too stand acknowledged. <br />
They have to be attended to with a great sense of urgency.<br />
<br />
However I am
aware that as a party of liberation, Zanu-PF has, over the years, written
<span style="color: red;"><i> elaborate rules and procedures that guide the operations of all its
organs and personnel</i></span>. <br />
<br />
Indeed the current criticisms raised against it by
the command element and some of its members have arisen from a
well-founded perception that the party was stretching, or even failing, in
its own rules and procedures. The way forward thus cannot be based on
swapping vying cliques that ride roughshod over party rules and
procedures. <br />
<br />
There has to be a </div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>net return to the guiding principles of
our party as enshrined in its constitution</i></span>, which must apply </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>fairly and
equitably in all situations and before all members</i></span>. The era of </li>
<li>
<span style="color: red;"><i>victimisation and arbitrary decisions must be put behind [us]</i></span>, so as we
all embrace a new ethos [sic] predicated on the </li>
<li><span style="color: red;"><i>supreme law of our party [sic]</i></span> and
nourished by an </li>
<li>abiding sense of camaraderie.</li>
</ul>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
To
all, there must be a general recognition that: <br />
<br />
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>Zanu-PF is a party of
traditions and has been served by successive generations who are bound
together by shared ideals and values, which must continue to reign
supreme [sic] in our nation. </b></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>Hints of
inter-generational conflict must be resolved through harmonized melding
of old established players as they embrace and welcome new rules through
a well-defined sense of hierarchy and succession. </li>
<li>Indeed
all these matters will be discussed and settled at the forthcoming
Congress within the framework of a clear road map that seeks to resolve
once and for all any omissions or contradictions that have affected our
party negatively. The Congress is due in a few weeks from now.</li>
<li> I will
preside over its processes, that must not be prepossessed by any acts
calculated to undermine it or compromise the outcomes in the eyes of the
public.</li>
</ul>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
As I conclude this address I
am aware that many developments have occurred in the party or have been
championed and done by individuals in the name of the party. Given the
failings of the past and the anger these might have triggered in some
quarters, such developments are quite understandable, however we cannot
be guided by bitterness or vengefulness, both of which would not make us
any better party members or any better Zimbabweans. Our hallowed policy
of reconciliation which we pronounced in 1980 and through which we
reached-out to those which occupied and oppressed us for nearly a
century and those we had traded-fire-with in a bitter war surely cannot
be unavailable to our own, both in the party and in our nation.</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
We
must learn to forgive and to resolve contradictions, real or perceived,
in a comradely Zimbabwean spirit. I am confident that from tonight our
whole nation at all levels gets refocused, as we put our shoulder to the
wheel amidst the promising agricultural season already upon us.</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
<br />
Let us all move forward reminding ourselves of our wartime mantra: <br />
<i>[You and I have work to do]</i>.</div>
<div class="mol-para-with-font">
I thank you and goodnight.</div>
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<i>Reason for boogling and transcribing: I am not sure. Nobody much glances at this blog so it is a public set of notes of things I am sometimes not sure about.<br /><br />This is a murderer of thousands with the opposite of skills to be a president, hanging on in hope of dying before sent to the same court as Slobovan Milosocic, but someone is still writing speeches for him, in the style of a Queens Speech of a US President speech.<br /><br />My hunch read from the hunches of much better-informed people is that he wants to avoid being lynched but avoid being sent to The Hague as a criminal, and that the army want to promote a sense of constitution and law not previously known in Zimbabwe, including a new freedom to protest now encouraged by Zanu.</i><br />
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Good Morning Sarah <br />
I am voting for you but if you don't get the job, here are some suggestions why.<br />
<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b>There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about NHS claims</b>.
Liberal coalition ministers were keen to promote an income tax cut on
low earners. There is a vague suggestion in the leaflets that Liberals
are more in favour of NHS spending than conservatives. So there needs to
be an adult conversation with voters with links to the manifesto or
statements about what is a lower priority than the NHS.</li>
<li><b>There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about Heathrow</b> - the
alternatives, the detail, and what Vince Cable MP did specifically about
the issue when a cabinet minister.<br /><b><br /></b></li>
<li><b>There was no adult conversation in the leaflets about single markets and
tariffs</b>; the candidates' blog post was simplified, the differences
between herself and the other main candidate not spelt-out.</li>
<li><b>There was huge spending and effort put-in to a Dame Edna style of
politics</b> that lost the last Liberal MP her seat. She was caught
absolutely un-deniably pretending that there would be a hospital closure
in order to "campaign" against it, whatever that means. Her claim and
name are repeated in current Liberal literature and she has been
appointed to the House of Lords with a junior trade minister position in
the coalition dispite being thrown-out by voters. Just before being
thrown-out she held a series of seminars around the constituency, I
remember. I asked about national politics. She said <i>"most people are
interested in local issues - we may have another meeting about national
issues later-on"</i>. This was extraordinary. There were also individual
accounts of voters asking her to lobby about some issue or other -
fairness at work or social care spending - and finding that she lobbied
one way for individual constituents while voting the other way in the
house of commons. This sounds a bit vague, but I tried to find a contact
in the Lib Dems to raise a concern in clear detail and got no reply.</li>
</ul>
<br />
If anyone in the Lib Dems would like to speak in detail, I live a few
hundred yards from the party office and could drop-in any time.<br />
good luck<br />
<br />
John Robertson, 2 Avenue Gardens, London SW14 8BP 0000 286 9947<br />
(no reply recieved yet dispite email and paper copies sent)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs46cbtpWhrX8XzM2trPi6PM8JBk8wPx3sD1MG7Kn_x-bp6X9__fzALyBAD6dAU10Zis1UJrfuW4S6pkYInkf4LeX6mZJxtpkPoqYKK10Nh52juC_4JxSwkK_SDxJYjcKw3srCg4N89yA/s1600/temp.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Richmond Park by-election: Liberal Democreat leaflets" border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs46cbtpWhrX8XzM2trPi6PM8JBk8wPx3sD1MG7Kn_x-bp6X9__fzALyBAD6dAU10Zis1UJrfuW4S6pkYInkf4LeX6mZJxtpkPoqYKK10Nh52juC_4JxSwkK_SDxJYjcKw3srCg4N89yA/s320/temp.jpg" title="" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Good evening John,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I’m not a career politician. It was never in my plan to stand for
Parliament. <b>But after Brexit and after seeing the direction
the Conservatives were taking our country in, I couldn’t just sit idly
by.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By-elections can really change things and tomorrow, you can
use your vote to send the Government a powerful message about the
direction they are taking the country.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The choice you face is simple.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For many years Zac Goldsmith has been one of the strongest voices
calling for Britain to leave Europe. In this campaign he is backed by
UKIP and many of the most Eurosceptic Conservative MPs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>If he wins it is a green light for this Government to
continue its plan for a hard Brexit.</b> Britain out of the
single market – regardless of the damage that will do to our
economy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>If he loses, we will send a strong message to this
Conservative Brexit Government that will force them to change
course.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like so many people here, I voted Remain and I still believe that
being a member of the European Union is what is best for Britain.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you elect me on Thursday, I’ll take that as a personal mandate
to vote against article 50, oppose Brexit and protect our membership
of the single market.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>So, if you want an MP who will stand up for you on Brexit
and if you want to change the direction of our country, please, vote
for me tomorrow.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thank you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sarah Olney</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Liberal Democrat candidate</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Richmond Park and
North Kingston by-election</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PS: Some of the polling stations have changed since the last
election - make sure you know where you’re voting tomorrow and check
your polling station here: saraholney.org.uk/plan</span><br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">
</h2>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The man invited anyone on his email list to turn-up to the Bear Kick this morning, listen to an explanation of why he's resigned and re-stood (which everyone knows) and answer questions. <br />
What a lot of words all in a row! Issues and details have this effect on people.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
I won't vote for Goldsmith because if his line on <a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#welfare">welfare benefits</a> - on the state as a kind of national insurance company. He doesn't seem to vote for that, so I suppose he only suits voters who want to pay for services privately and some of them donate to charities for those who don't have medicare. Somewhere more like India or parts of the USA. </blockquote>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Face-to-face you get an impression of a highly rational man, rather than a slogan-driven one or a point-scoring one. For example he talked about work to reassure EU passport-holders working in the UK (I forget the exact point but it was a rational reasonable one). <br />
<br />
I got the same impression as a constituent: <a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.com/2016/11/zac-goldsmiths-pitch-to-be-experienced.html">he forwarded a few emails for me a year or two ago</a>, understood my unclear language, found exactly the right people to contact, and got a very clear reply.<br />
<br />
The same impression comes from the leaflets his supporters put through letter boxes (the other party's ones loose them votes I think, by assuming the voters are mentally deficient).</blockquote>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Speech and answers: Heathrow.</h4>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Any of the other options would be better than Heathrow; Gatwick is the main one at the moment. (I think the <a href="http://www.gatwickobviously.com/">Gatwick Obviously</a> ads in papers make the point)<br />
<br />
Well-informed, obviously. Willing to work cross-party which some colleagues don't do.<br />
<br />
Notices the blurred devision between Heathrow and HM Government in
peoples' career-paths, which would be illegal a lot of European countries. Hence the default position which has always been Government = Heathrow.<br />
<br />
A colleague noticed
20% Chinese ownership of Heathrow which is part of the strange George
Osborne pattern that's emerged these past few years; we have to wait another 20 years till papers are released to find out.<br />
<br />
Gatwick can build another runway but can't use it at the moment (someone asked about this). Heathrow might soon be allowed to build another runway but can't pay for it: loads of issues in recent estimates aren't costed and aren't going to be paid-for by Heathrow. The airport is already one of the most expensive in the world; if it wants free money it has to put-up prices even more or pay to borrow it. I didn't follow this closely because the argument seems to be won; it's just the habitual default position of government that has to change. <br />
<br />
"Open for business" as a slogan is now the deciding issue for the cabinet, one questioner said, but, if it's good for business for people to fly more openly, then Gatwick surely answers that need.</blockquote>
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
Speech and answers: Non-Heathrow. </h4>
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
Nothing to add to what he says in his leaflets. No great "difference between Hard Brexit and Soft Brexit" as he sees things. A couple of people asked what other issues the independent MP might persue. He referred them to his record. His opinions are conservative with a small c, he has a track record of working on environmental issues. "The whips will tell you that I regard every vote as a free vote", he said. <br />
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"Zac Goldsmith is a Conservative MP, and on the <b>vast majority</b> of issues votes the <b>same way</b> as other Conservative MPs" - The rest of this page is pinched from the url below where it might be easier to read than here. The red ones put me off. Skip the T-shirt point to see his voting record below.</blockquote>
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"I want a national social care budget" - T shirt statement</h4>
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I printed that on a sheet of A4 and paperclipped it to my T shirt at the meeting. It seemed efficient and polite. Nobody complained, but I wore draft 1 instead of draft 2 by mistake. Draft one has the words "national social" on one line, which looks a bit alarming</div>
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<a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park">https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park</a></blockquote>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="social" id="social" style="text-align: left;">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Social Issues <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#social">#</a></small>
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<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Consistently voted for equal <b>gay rights</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=826">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against <b>smoking bans</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=811">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted for allowing <b>marriage</b>
between two people of same sex
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6686">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against laws to promote <b>equality and human rights</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6703">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted for allowing <b>terminally ill people</b> to be given <b>assistance to end their life</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6732">Show votes</a>
</li>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="foreign" id="foreign">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Foreign Policy and Defence <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#foreign">#</a></small>
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<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Almost always voted for use of <b>UK military forces</b>
in combat operations overseas
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6688">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for replacing <b>Trident</b>
with a new nuclear weapons system
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=984">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against more <b>EU integration</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1065">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for a referendum on the UK's membership of the <b>EU</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1027">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted against strengthening the <b>Military Covenant</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6706">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted for a <b>right to remain for EU nationals</b>
already in living in the UK
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6764">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted against <b>UK membership of the EU</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6761">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted for <b>military action against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant">ISIL (Daesh)</a></b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6757">Show votes</a>
</li>
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<span style="color: red;">How Zac Goldsmith voted on Welfare and Benefits <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#welfare">#</a></small>
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<span style="color: red;">
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<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li><span style="color: red;">
Generally voted for reducing <b>housing benefit</b>
for social tenants deemed to have excess bedrooms (which Labour
describe as the "bedroom tax")
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6672">Show votes</a></span>
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<li><span style="color: red;">
Consistently voted against raising <b>welfare benefits</b>
at least in line with prices
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6674">Show votes</a></span>
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<li><span style="color: red;">
Consistently voted against paying higher benefits over longer periods
for those unable to work due to <b>illness or disability</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6673">Show votes</a></span>
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<li><span style="color: red;">
Almost always voted for making local councils responsible for helping
those in <b>financial need</b> afford their <b>council tax</b> and
reducing the amount spent on such support
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6684">Show votes</a></span>
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<li><span style="color: red;">
Almost always voted for a reduction in spending on <b>welfare benefits</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6670">Show votes</a></span>
</li>
<li><span style="color: red;">
Consistently voted against spending public money to create <b>guaranteed jobs for young people</b>
who have spent a long time unemployed
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6702">Show votes</a></span>
</li>
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This list ends "miscellanious"</h2>
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<div style="text-align: left;">
Goldsmith's work is great. I subscribe to something or other - probably theyworkforyou - and get the odd update when he is recorded in parliament which I usually delete without glancing. Even I noticed that antibiotic resistance is an important subject which I doubt other MPs are interested in, and that he asked what a waste Hinckley Point is in a rather informed kind of way. Anyway, the automated result for "misc." is at the bottom of the page.</div>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="taxation" id="taxation">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Taxation and Employment <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#taxation">#</a></small>
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<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Generally voted for raising the threshold at which people start to pay <b>income tax</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6680">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for increasing the <b>rate of VAT</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1110">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted for higher taxes on <b>alcoholic drinks</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6694">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for higher <b>taxes on plane tickets</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6699">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against lower taxes on <b>fuel for motor vehicles</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6693">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against increasing the tax rate applied to <b>income over £150,000</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6681">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted for encouraging <b>occupational pensions</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1109">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
We don’t have enough information to calculate Zac Goldsmith’s position
on automatic enrolment in <b>occupational pensions</b>.
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1124">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted against a <b>banker’s bonus tax</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6685">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against higher <b>taxes on banks</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6733">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted against an annual tax on the value of expensive homes
(popularly known as a <b>mansion tax</b>) <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6711">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for allowing employees to exchange some employment <b>rights for shares</b>
in the company they work for
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6716">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for more restrictive <b>regulation of trade union activity</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6731">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Has never voted on reducing <b>capital gains tax</b> </li>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="business" id="business">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Business and the Economy <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#business">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Generally voted for reducing the rate of <b>corporation tax</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6679">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted for measures to reduce <b>tax avoidance</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6690">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against stronger tax <b>incentives for companies to invest</b> in assets <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6691">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for new <b>high speed rail</b> infrastructure <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6753">Show votes</a>
</li>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="health" id="health">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Health <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#health">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Almost always voted against restricting the provision of services to <b>private patients</b> by the NHS <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6677">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted for reforming the <b>NHS</b>
so GPs buy services on behalf of their patients
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6676">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against <b>smoking bans</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=811">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted for allowing <b>terminally ill people</b> to be given <b>assistance to end their life</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6732">Show votes</a>
</li>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="education" id="education">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Education <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#education">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Consistently voted for greater <b>autonomy for schools</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1074">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted for raising England’s <b>undergraduate tuition fee</b>
cap to £9,000 per year
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1132">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_%28English_school%29">academy schools</a> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6687">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted for ending <b>financial support</b>
for some 16-19 year olds in training and further education
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6682">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted for university <b>tuition fees</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1052">Show votes</a>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="reform" id="reform">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Constitutional Reform <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#reform">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Generally voted for reducing central government <b>funding of local government</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6671">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Consistently voted for an <b>equal number of electors</b>
per parliamentary constituency
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1113">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted for <b>fewer MPs</b>
in the House of Commons
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1136">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted against a more <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation">proportional system</a> for electing MPs <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1084">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against a <b>wholly elected</b> House of Lords <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=837">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted for local councils keeping money raised from <b>taxes on business premises</b> in their areas <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6683">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted against greater restrictions on <b>campaigning by third parties</b>,
such as charities, during elections
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6678">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for <b>fixed periods between parliamentary elections</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6698">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted against removing <b>hereditary peers</b>
from the House of Lords
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1079">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against transferring <b>more powers to the Welsh Assembly</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6708">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Generally voted against transferring <b>more powers to the Scottish Parliament</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6709">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against more <b>powers for local councils</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6695">Show votes</a>
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Consistently voted for <b>a veto for MPs</b> from England, Wales and Northern Ireland <b>over laws specifically impacting their part of the UK</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6736">Show votes</a>
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Voted a mixture of for and against a lower <b>voting age</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=842">Show votes</a>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="home" id="home">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Home Affairs <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#home">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Generally voted for a <b>stricter asylum system</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1087">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for the introduction of elected <b>Police and Crime Commissioners</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6696">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted for requiring the mass <b>retention of information about communications</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6721">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for stronger <b>enforcement of immigration rules</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6734">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Generally voted for <b>mass surveillance</b>
of people’s communications and activities
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6751">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Has never voted on <b>merging police and fire services</b>
under Police and Crime Commissioners
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 data-magellan-destination="environment" id="environment">
How Zac Goldsmith voted on Environmental Issues <small><a class="nav-anchor" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/votes#environment">#</a></small>
</h2>
<ul class="vote-descriptions">
<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against measures to <b>prevent climate change</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1030">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against lower taxes on <b>fuel for motor vehicles</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6693">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Consistently voted against selling England’s state owned <b>forests</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6697">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Almost always voted for higher <b>taxes on plane tickets</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6699">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted for financial incentives for <b>low carbon</b> emission <b>electricity generation</b> methods <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6704">Show votes</a>
</li>
<li>
Almost always voted against <b>culling badgers</b>
to tackle bovine tuberculosis
<a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6710">Show votes</a>
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<li>
Voted a mixture of for and against greater regulation of <b>hydraulic fracturing (fracking)</b>
to extract shale gas
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Almost always voted for new <b>high speed rail</b> infrastructure <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6753">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted against greater public control of <b>bus services</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6747">Show votes</a>
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Consistently voted against slowing the rise in <b>rail fares</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6692">Show votes</a>
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Voted a mixture of for and against lower taxes on <b>fuel for motor vehicles</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6693">Show votes</a>
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Almost always voted for higher <b>taxes on plane tickets</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6699">Show votes</a>
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Voted a mixture of for and against a <b>publicly owned railway system</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6746">Show votes</a>
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Almost always voted for phasing out <b>secure tenancies for life</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6744">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted for charging a <b>market rent to high earners renting a council home</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6743">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted for greater <b>regulation of gambling</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=810">Show votes</a>
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Consistently voted for capping <b>civil service redundancy payments</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1120">Show votes</a>
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We don’t have enough information to calculate Zac Goldsmith’s position
on Labour's <b title="Including voting to maintain them">anti-terrorism laws</b>.
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Consistently voted for the privatisation of <b>Royal Mail</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=1105">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted against requiring pub companies to offer <b>pub landlords rent-only leases</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6705">Show votes</a>
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<span style="color: red;">Almost always voted for restricting the scope of <b>legal aid</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6707">Show votes</a></span>
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Generally voted for allowing national security sensitive evidence to be
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Generally voted against a statutory <b>register of lobbyists</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6720">Show votes</a>
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Almost always voted for limits on success <b>fees</b> paid to lawyers in <b>no-win no fee cases</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6719">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted against restrictions on <b>fees</b> charged to tenants by <b>letting agents</b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6718">Show votes</a>
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Generally voted for the policies included in the 2010 <b><a href="http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100527091800/http://programmeforgovernment.hmg.gov.uk/">Conservative - Liberal Democrat Coalition Agreement</a></b> <a class="vote-description__source" href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/24911/zac_goldsmith/richmond_park/divisions?policy=6667">Show votes</a>
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Dear Diary: notes to self about Turkey<br />
Dear two or three passers-by who read this by accident.<br />
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Sad news came this morning from Turkey.<br />
I'm not clear whether the failed coup in the name of human rights and democracy really was for human rights and democracy, or whether it was just a way of doing business, but the failure of the coup will be bad for human rights and democracy.<br />
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[18.07.16] I wondered whether Faschist Erdoğan had organised the coup himself, which seems rational. Just recently I saw that someone who inspires democracy and human rights in Turkey - I forget his name - said the same thing. More recently still I see that the fascist who closed newspapers has now closed TV stations and suspended thousands of teachers, as well as rounding up thousands of judges and military. Don't ask me how I know, but I guess it's hard to round-up thousands of judges and suspend thousands of school teachers without a great deal of advance planning, so it looks more and more as though President Faschist Erdoğan really did plot a coup against himself in order to run a counter-coup. I also wonder: when he ordered troops to take a kurdish village and shoot all the people hiding in a couple of basements while some of them were on the phone to their MP, did he do that to help provoke a revolt in the military?</blockquote>
This is relevant to every back bench MP in the UK, if they can lobby their colleagues who will set tariffs; a tariff system to promote human rights and democracy will exert a gentle pressure on each country to get better, rather than worse as a lot of the Turkish electorate want to do. <br />
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A tariff that is simply about trade will benefit neither side, even to those who only think about one country. The waves of diseise and hatred and ignorance and refugees will wash-up on the UK just as surely as the sweatshop T-shirts will under-cut UK-made T-shirts; the cost of military intervention and peace keeping and charitaable help will build-up just as bargain-hunters will sometimes save a few pounds in buying a new Primark T shirt when otherwise the bargains would only be second-hand. <br />
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The new Foreign Secretary started his career with a metaphor about stages, which is the sort of thing I hoped we would get-away from when leaving the EU; I wish he'd said something about tariffs for human rights. I don't know which of the new ministers will begin to set the pattern for tariff negotiations and whether the Foreign Office will have an influence, or whether the Department For Business will have its own foreign policy when it comes to trade talks, but I hope some system comes-up that prevents the likes of Turkey getting worse.<br />
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Nobody else reads this, but I will, when I come back just as undecided in future. <br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">The sticking points for me are </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">subsidy,</span></h4>
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<li><h4>
<span style="color: red;">good tariffs & bad tariffs.</span></h4>
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<li><b>immigration is too difficult so I don't like to think about it</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><i>[Added July 2016] I have just realised that a low pound partly answers this. If money from the New Zealand is worth less in the UK, I am less likely to go sheep-shearing there for a few months. On the other hand, less people will come to the UK to do leek-picking for a few months and I might have more chance of a job near home for that reason. <br /><br />Add to that the chance that that UK products and services will be more in demand, so perhaps employing steel workers and call centre workers and everything else.<br /><br />On the telly "pound falls" is bad; I think "pound falls" is good news.<br />[Added 17 July 2016] I have just realised that a politician would need to sell the idea of a low pound to the electorate. <br /><br />Petrol prices are a problem; some kind of fix on fuel duty would be good. So that the basic rate of fuel duty is on the dollar price, and there is some extra compensation if the pound falls against the dollar, if I'm right that oil suppliers price in dollars.<br /><br />Pensions for ex-pats are a problem if the ex-pat has a state or a private pension in pounds and has discovered that it goes further in another country like Spain. These ex-pats could be compensated by some scheme by which the UK government has investments that pay in euro (and maybe other currencies) and can offer a currency swap for your pension. This would be a state-run service to do something that the private sector can do in theory, but would do much more expensively I think and reach far fewer punters. The service could be run so that it is only available to people on fixed incomes in pounds who wish to spend most of their money in other currencies.</i></span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: normal;">Shared trading standards are another headache but I can live with them, as exporters will do anyway when exporting to EU countries. Oven glove insulating standards. Bananas. That stuff.<br /><b><br /></b></span></li>
<li><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">What next after the referendum </span></span></b>
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<span style="color: red;">Subsidy</span>.</h3>
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Most people now know that the figures are about £10bn lost forever and more that comes-back for farming or folk-dancing or regional development. I don't see any continued deceit by Brexiters - just a patronising use of headline figures that the electorate have now worked-out. Presumably the UK could opt-in to schemes for EU-wide funding of something, like science research, if there is a good reason to do it collectively, so complaints by nobel-prize-winning scientists are just stupid. Odd, isn't it?<br />
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Fullfact.org refers to <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483344/EU_finances_2015_final_web_09122015.pdf#page=44">this government web page</a> with the figures <br />
€10,879 (£8473) million and €16,586 (£12,918) million if you include vouchers claimed-back. I assume the figures describe grants claimed from the UK. (Not money spent by an EU employee on blue flags, that happen to be made in the UK, which is a distraction.)<br />
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£64.1m was the population of the UK in 2013, and rising.<br />
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€10879million / 64.1million = <br />
€170 (£132) a year per head. <br />
(Therefore more during the parts of our lives when we pay income tax but a big chunk for all of us because we all use goods that have VAT in the cost, even when we are babies, and when retired we still pay for the goods and so pay VAT).<br />
€259 (£201) before claiming vouchers for various special offers that reduce the total price.<br />
The cost in 2013, the year of the population census, was slightly higher; costs have fallen.<br />
The cost in a few years might be much higher as the rebate deal ends and the EU's commitments increase. A system in which 28 countries can vote but only a few are net contributors is going to spend more, most likely.<br />
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€170 (£132) a year is the bill in a country that can't afford social care.<br />
It's the kind of money per head spent on pensions. Or health. <br />
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If you don't mind about the lack of social care, or benefits sanctions, or low rates of housing benefit, or under-funded ministries, then it's no problem, you can enjoy grand designs as grandees do. They don't mind where the money for the flags comes from. They're on BUPA.</blockquote>
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Immigration</h3>
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I don't like to think about this, because my preferred option would be to insist that countries like Romania have a welfare state before they are allowed free movement of people, and the Eurozone devalues its currency before being allowed free movement of people.<br />
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I also hope that the Eurozone gets itself sorted-out with a devaluation. There are also Eurozone countries with far less of a welfare state than the UK - Romania is just the extreme example - and I'd like that problem sorted out.<br />
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And I want tariffs used to keep countries like Turkey or Egypt on course to getting a decent democracy, human rights and welfare state too. Neither is in the EU. Niether has free movement of people. Both have trade deals which allow them free trade without decent levels of human rights. As a result, there are asylum-seekers refugees, students, and well-qualified legal migrants all coming-into Europe from the south just as europeans move north to the UK looking for jobs. A different trade deal would sort this out.<br />
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No political group offers me this option.<br />
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Meanwhile I see on telly that 30% of new jobs and 10% of current jobs are held by people born outside the UK and realise that, as a rather past-it kind of employee, I would have little chance competing with them for ordinary accessable jobs which are apparently paid 10% less nowadays as a result of immigration. These people may be fit, honest, nice, hard-working, taxpaying, and willing to live in shared bedsits sometimes, but that's the problem if you have to compete with them for work. Those who claim that bad employers wouldn't survive without desparate staff seem to miss the point as well: there is always a cartoon character who says you can't get the staff without immigration. I think of these characters as like Fanny Cradock and her assistant Sally.<br />
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There follows a debate about public services. With or without cheap, willing, intelligent staff, public services need to expand very quickly the moment demand increases, and they don't. When I look at a row of politicians and think "could that lot organise a way of funding schools in proportion to pupils?", I think they couldn't. They're too thick. There are also technical problems getting english-speaking trained consultants and GPs, but those arguments are above my head, so I'm a bit think about this as well.<br />
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Then there is the problem of housing on a crowded island with a green belt and not much industry. Is the UK really going to give-up a green belt and build one or two new towns? Or relocate clusters of work and traders to run-down parts of the UK to take jobs there? If not, what other way exists of bringing affordable housing anywhere near accessable jobs in the UK?</blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;">Good Tariffs & Bad Tariffs</span></h3>
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Remain campaigners on TV last night simply muddle; I dislike them so much that they put me off remaining. They muddle the idea of a single tariff zone like the <a href="http://www.efta.int/">EFTA</a> with a single shared set of trade standards like the EU. The free trade zone already exists; it does not need to be negotiated-into.<br />
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What's possible is that EU governments would be so piqued by lack of subsidy, if the UK left, that they would find some way around EFTA deals and impose some kind of spite tax like 5% on financial services or such like. Or exclude from any shared discussion of standards on financial services and find ways of making the market difficult for UK companies, just as Swiss companies have tariffs and such imposed from the EU.<br />
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If that's possible, it makes me all the more anxious to leave before the EU people get any worse. Now I have to remember immegration. That's such a fundemental point to EU members that they would be piqued; I need a better account of what each EFTA member state gets as a tariff deal before I have enough facts.<br />
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Lastly, I want good tariffs. I want tariffs against goods from India or Bangladesh or China because those countries have lower costs for lack of a welare state. They also have lower costs because of cheaper housing, but I think that's a UK issue; the lack of a welfare state is something the UK government can't control except by tariff. So their goods are cheap. Attempting free trade gives them all the money and us a large pile of plastic appliances for landfill, by which time the rich in those countries will have bought a lot of assets in the UK and the poor will be just as poor as before. Mr Johnson of the Brexit campaign suggested a trade deal with China and an Asean of East Asia. Once in place, market forces would force parliament to decide that the UK had to be more competative and could no longer afford a welfare state. These politicians would negoatiate tariffs without experience; they are over-confident. They're already tried to negotiate a dodgy <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/what-is-ttip-and-six-reasons-why-the-answer-should-scare-you-9779688.html">TTIP trade deal with the USA</a> and got rescued from it by (I think) an EU backlash at the last minute.</blockquote>
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
Shared trading standards</h3>
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Shared trading standards on oven-glove insulation properties are over-done, I guess, but would exist anyway if the EU left and UK oven glove manufacturers had to sell into the EU. The ideal would be to re-join a slimmer version of the organisation set-up with sympathetic and similar countries. The trouble is that the UK doesn't seek them out.</div>
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
So</h3>
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At the moment I want to vote Brexit because the remain side are so very, very annoying, but I'll probably change my mind at the last minute and vote remain. In fact I did, but am happy that Brexit won.<br />
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Oh, this came-up in the news:<br />
<b><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/15/eu-referendum-live-osborne-punishment-budget-farage-flotilla-thames?">http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/15/eu-referendum-live-osborne-punishment-budget-farage-flotilla-thames?</a></b>Micheal Gove had a story that his father's choice to sell-up a firm in the fishing industry, some time in the early 80s. The Guardian link shows a transcipt of their phone call to Earnest Gove, former fish firm owner and worker, word for word. I can't find Earnest Gove as a former limited company director, so I don't know how to check the dates exactly.<br />
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I studied economics in the early 80s, about the same time that my own father had to wind-down a business and just about everybody else's father who had a business to wind-down. The problem was a newly over-valued pound allowing cheap imports via the new container ports. The choice to over-value the pound was quite deliberate. It was sold to the public as a way of reducing inflation, and it was done by raising the interest rate enough to tempt-in overseas investers for things like government stock. That sloshing-in of money made the pound rise, import prices fall, and export prices rise. Anyone competing against goods from other currency zones was in trouble, whether it's fish or anything else.<br />
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;">What next after the referendum</span></h3>
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The good bit is now: lower pound, hopes of £10bn+ to save in future, and the EU likely to transform as other donor countries rebel too.<br />
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The bad bit is if the likes of Johnson and Gove try to negotiate trade deals. The only recent one negotiated, that I know of, is one for Bangladesh sponsored by the UK, which got them 0% tariff and did neither side any good.<br />
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I hope we join EFTA, and MPs will ask for this in the next EU debate. I hope they win. I hope we can somehow get around the need for an "australian style points system" as a lot of voters hoped they were promised by voting "leave" in the referendum, because I guess, without really knowing, that things like tariffs both ways on european trade or EFTA membership are not possible without free movement of job-seekers. This leads to some other bad bits for voters who hoped for the points system.<br />
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A bad bit. <br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>The problem with a lot of job prospects in the UK is that they are available but pay less than the cost of housing</b>. </span>The problem with a lot of commentry and political debate is that it is not related, doesn't know, isn't interested. In summery: <i>"Ordinary people aren't educated enough to know that low wages make all of us richer"</i>, and <i>"housing - what's that?".</i><br />
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So I hope that whatever comes of this there will be a lot more housing or a lot of better-paying jobs or both. (oh - here's a <a href="http://www.zoopla.co.uk/heatmaps/">map of one of them</a>) Preferably <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>more jobs in places where housing is cheaper, and </li>
<li>more housing in places where jobs pay better. </li>
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And better training in self-employment, better workshop availability for the self-employed, better availability of information to say who makes what in the UK, better use of that information to send-out government tenders... it is possible to write a list of things that could be done, like this linked post</div>
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<li><a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/barriers-to-startup-businesses-in-areas.html">Things to be done to promote better self-employed jobs - including jobs in high unemployment areas</a></li>
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A bad bit. <br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>The reason that loads of europeans seek jobs is that there aren't enough jobs in other parts of europe</b>.</span> It would be good to sort that out by lowering the price of the euro, but now Lord Hill has resigned his job at the EU commission, I don't know how anyone in the UK - voter or politician - has anything to do with this. Stating a case is about all that anyone can do. So even if the UK had a lower exchange rate, good ideas for helping job creation, and massive housing developments where there used to be green belt or offices, then there would still be a lot of people coming-in from Europe to fill-up the housing and do the jobs.<br />
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A neglected bit.<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Government ought to charge enough tax for the public services that people want and provide them where wanted.</b></span> The cabinet finds niether task possible. <br />
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A school pupil system by which a school got a few thousand a year from the day an extra pupil registered would be good. I think something like that is planned. A system by which schools could get the grant for the first pupil without proving demand would be good. <br />
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A GP patient system by which GPs get paid by the patient exists, so I don't know where that system fails. <br />
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I do know that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_formula">Barnett formula</a> is a deliberate attempt to provide services in the wrong places, and should end.<br />
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<a href="http://veganline.com/">Oh, did you know that there is a vegan shoe shop that sells mainly UK-made vegan shoes? It ought to do a bit better on a lower pound. </a>I just need to get the web site working in a 21st century way. <br />
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A report on Department for International Development corruption does not find that it is corrupt - it is much more transparent than most departments with an "aid tracker" web site and a link to report corruption in any specific program you see tracked. <br />
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The same report says that its efforts to reduce corruption in countries where it works are muffled towards zero by political sensitivities. In other words, British taxpayers have to subsidise the people of whatever country that has poor people in it, but British politicians will not offend the rich people who live in that same country and extort money or run it badly or do bad things.<br />
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<a href="http://icai.independent.gov.uk/report/dfids-approach-anti-corruption-impact-poor/">http://icai.independent.gov.uk/report/dfids-approach-anti-corruption-impact-poor/</a><br />
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People look at this blog by accident because of the London election. Here are notes to self & others: <a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/who-you-can-vote">https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/who-you-can-vote</a><br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-sian-berry">BERRY, Sian Rebecca - Green Party</a><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/0101.GLA_Mayoral_Booklet_2016-WEB.final_.pdf"><img alt="" height="336" src="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/Booklet%20cover%20300x426.jpg" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; float: right; margin: 10px;" width="237" /></a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-david-furness">FURNESS, David - British National Party</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-george-galloway">GALLOWAY, George - Respect (George Galloway)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-paul-golding">GOLDING, Paul - Britain First - Putting British people first</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-zac-goldsmith">GOLDSMITH, Zac - The Conservative Party Candidate</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-lee-harris">HARRIS, Lee Eli - Cannabis is Safer Than Alcohol</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-sadiq-khan">KHAN, Sadiq Aman - Labour Party</a></li>
<li>LOVE, Ankit - One Love Party*</li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-caroline-pidgeon">PIDGEON, Caroline Valerie - London Liberal Democrats</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-sophie-walker">WALKER, Sophie - Women's Equality Party</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.londonelects.org.uk/mayoral-candidate-peter-whittle">WHITTLE, Peter Robin - UK Independence Party (UKIP)</a></li>
<li>ZYLINSKI, Prince - Independent*</li>
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*Did not submit a mini-manifesto.<br />
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It says you can make a 1st & 2nd choice for mayor, even if you live in a marginal constituency. You can also look-through manifestos for good ideas or the usual, which is to say <b>"more housing"</b> and <b>"be nasty to people who aren't in the room or voting"</b>, so it would be good to see the small print. The two likely candidates in reverse order are..<br />
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<a href="https://backzac2016.com/">https://backzac2016.com/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.sadiq.london/a_manifesto_for_all_londoners">http://www.sadiq.london/a_manifesto_for_all_londoners</a><br />
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I have not done my homework about how each candidate hopes to get more homes. </h4>
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<li>They all tend to spout the stuff about needing more external investment and visitors in order to raise the value of the pound, make manufacturing jobs harder to get and housing more expensive. To me, that is an opposite thing to the commitment to make more housing available. </li>
<li>The usual idea about "brown field" housing is good, but doesn't mention the fact that landlords don't let it to willing employers who want to make things, which is another very high priority, nor mention office space that could be re-zoned as office/residential if the mayor has legal power to do that.</li>
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I have not done my homework about how each candidtae hopes tobe nasty to people who aren't listening. </h4>
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I hope they don't and that I am being rude un-necessarilly.</div>
The Livingstone regime was nasty to clothes manufacturers and under-employed people by diverting money for job training towards a thing called Ethical Fashion Forum that promoted goods at zero tariff from a badly-run countries - Bangladesh in particular - that have no welfare state but plenty of money to set-up special trading zones with even less employee rights than existed at Rana Plaza, or export subsidy out of taxes on Bangladeshis. Their goods are already cheap and their countries already over-populated because of bad government. A few paragraphs of tariff law could change Bangladeshi's life massively by insisting that their government builds-up a national insurance system in order to get access to european markets, rather than the current 0% tariff and subsidy from Dfid. Similar to the recent Daily Express story about Dfid giving subsidies to Chinese steel works - which I have asked Channel 4's fact checking service to check.<br />
<a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/httpsfullfactorg-full-fact-is-uks.html">http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/httpsfullfactorg-full-fact-is-uks.html</a> <br />
lists three fact checking organisations <br />
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
I hope they don't and that I am being rude un-necessarilly.</h4>
The Lingstone regime was also nasty to people who used its many services delivered through organisations that claimed grants. The organisations were not required to publish their bid, nor request that users of the service sign to say that they have seen the detail and know how the organisation is funded. Those who ask a disaibility and job training service, or a youth employment service, to talk in an adult way are brushed-off; those who need a service delivered in a more competant way are also brushed-off.<br />
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The Livingstone and Johnson regimes were nasty in falling for PR projects like the Olympics or London Fashion Week with their implausible claims to help londoners - hower carefully dressed up by long reports commissioned from Oxford Economics.<br />
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The Goldsmith manifesto headlines suggest more parks but also more parks police. In Richmond, a group called Friends of Barnes Common and an associated company have been given £48,000 of taxpayers' money in a single year to do the kind of thing that cartoon characters do: be nasty to people who are not listening. They have built steel arches to prevent travellors parking their caravans in secluded car parks, and cut-down undergrowth nearby to maintain lines of site to make life harder for cruisers who want a bit of privacy. They have sent reps to police liaison comittees to badger them to send police around each night with search lights, just in case someone should want to go and cruise in the park. They say they have visited a similar scheme in Tower Hamlets where special laminated signs are left when alcoholics, cruisers, or rough-sleepers use the park telling them to clear-up after themselves and not come back. In summery, these are bad people doing bad things with money that should be spend on social care.<br />
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The Social Care problem.<br />
I guess both candidates see it as health or social care, rather than olympics or social care or parks or social care or streetlights or social care.<br />
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Anyway, I have not done my homework but people search for things things so I have posted the links<br />
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<td id="Welfare">Welfare
<span class="gray">(25.3%)</span>
</td>
<td>£165.62
</td>
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<td id="Health">Health
<span class="gray">(19.9%)</span>
</td>
<td>£130.27
</td>
</tr>
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<td id="StatePensions">State Pensions
<span class="gray">(12.8%)</span>
</td>
<td>£83.79
</td>
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<td id="Education">Education
<span class="gray">(12.5%)</span>
</td>
<td>£81.83
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<td id="Defence">Defence
<span class="gray">(5.4%)</span>
</td>
<td>£35.35
</td>
</tr>
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<td id="NationalDebtInterest">National Debt Interest
<span class="gray">(5.0%)</span>
</td>
<td>£32.73
</td>
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<td id="PublicOrderAndSafety">Public Order and Safety
<span class="gray">(4.4%)</span>
</td>
<td>£28.80
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<td id="Transport">Transport
<span class="gray">(3.0%)</span>
</td>
<td>£19.64
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<td id="BusinessAndIndustry">Business And Industry
<span class="gray">(2.7%)</span>
</td>
<td>£17.68
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<td id="GovernmentAdministration">Government Administration
<span class="gray">(2.0%)</span>
</td>
<td>£13.09
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<td id="Culture">Culture eg sports, libraries, museums
<span class="gray">(1.8%)</span>
</td>
<td>£11.78
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<td id="Environment">Environment
<span class="gray">(1.7%)</span>
</td>
<td>£11.13
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<td id="HousingAndUtilities">Housing and Utilities eg street lighting
<span class="gray">(1.6%)</span>
</td>
<td>£10.47
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<td id="OverseasAid">Overseas Aid
<span class="gray">(1.3%)</span>
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<td>£8.51
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<td id="UkContributionToEuBudget">UK Contribution to the EU Budget
<span class="gray">(0.6%)</span>
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<td>£3.93
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<th id="gov-spend-total" scope="row">Total</th>
<td class="no-bold">£654.63 </td>
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<b>Oddities.</b><br />
The biggest items are not accounted as an insurance-like service, paid-for at one point in life and claimed at another; there is no fund that pays for pensions for example.<br />
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The smaller item of transport is the same - a problem with a lot of national statistics - in presenting a neat aggregate figure but leaving-out the nitty-gritty. Isn't there a road fund? Maybe there is another page on Gov.uk that I haven't stumbled-on yet to explain these things.<br />
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The smallest items are a puzzle. How come money is being spent at overseas aid to the country where Rana Plaza is based, when tariffs aren't used to make that country better governed?<br />
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Lastly, the figures seem to continue year-on year, even when there is a crisis in the higher priority areas. If street lamps are turned off, your granny might get mugged. If social care is turned-off, as it has been, she will definately get mugged or similar, and then become a bed blocker in a hospital. That doesn't stop government from having a budget called "sport", which is obscene.<br />
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<i>I think there should be a ring-fenced fund for health and social services, and a ring fenced fund for welfare benefits. National funds, debated in parliament, and sub-divided by region according to need. I think these notional funds should become more actual and clear over time, and be linked to something like all of VAT revenue plus more. I think that embassies, circuses, submarines and the like should not have a ring-fenced budged. I think that insurance-like services are what people pay tax for, and should be accounted-for in an insurance-like way.</i></div>
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This is a post about getting people to be more healthy - live fast die young as Blondie put it - rather than being depressed or demented or diabetic or dotty or desparados in some way that's less fun.<b><br /></b></h2>
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One part of this has already been done. It is to label parts of NHS budgets as "health promotion" and re-allocate them to councils, who at best use them for adult social care and at worst use them for a new Town Hall. I doubt any council is skilled in promoting health - councils have trouble being good at any one thing because they do so many different things with so many people involved. Their accounts don't track the effects of more or less spending either - they don't link spending in one area with saving in another.<br />
But there are instances of <b>better cycle lanes</b> of maybe <b>free swimming passes</b> or <b>more hedges in the centres of dual carriageways</b> that might make a difference.<br />
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I think that central government, with laws and ministries, and perhaps the EU, can make a big difference.</blockquote>
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Label the health data of mass-produced food in as large a typeface as fits. </h3>
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This would inform people about the food they're eating, and the advice they get on telly or from GPs. At the moment there is a system where smokers face rather disgusting images on their fag packets, which I think is over-kill, while eaters of saturated fats can be blithely unaware because the food labelling is too small to read. I don't think this is too paternal; I think it's just giving information in more readable way. I don't think this is impossible. If it can't be done by regulation, it could be done by charging higher VAT on badly labelled mass-produced food. As for food made in smaller batches, the same principal applies but the job that grocers have to do is different. They may not have a packet for a particular type of food. Obtaining the information to print might be a more significant part of the price of the food. I think the GLA has plans for nutrition labelling on restaurant signs, and nobody has said it's impossible.</blockquote>
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Tax fags & booze by unit of tar or alcohol, rather than by litre or pack. </h3>
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I don't know if this is possible but there have been efforts with alcohol to enforce minimum prices or such like; this is a similar idea. The current tax system has led to a progressive strengthening of beer strength over the centuries. People who don't like fags argue that the cancerous compounds are too complicated to measure and tax, I expect, but a BBC book from years ago called "Can you avoid cancer?" suggested that tar was a major indicator of how dangerous a fag is. Since then, a generation has talked about secondary effects, and "sending out messages" and generally acted like school prefects, but I still believe what I read in a BBC book decades ago.</blockquote>
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Print nutritional data on till receipts </h3>
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Here's an idea for a pilot scheme that one of the supermarkets might try if given a subsidy to try it. Build nutritional data into the same stock database that tracks price and availability for the till receipt. The big supermarkets have already tried adding special offers and nectar points; I don't think this is much more complicated. As a result, there could be<b> more shops printing out nutritional data at the bottom of the till receipt as well as the total price and the special offer on petrol</b>. There could also be a <b>tax or regulation to discourage advertising of fatty foods that are often eaten as part of an unbalanced diet</b>. And a tax on meat - one of those categories of food - to justify high spending that exists at the food standards standards agency to regulate meat sales. I should have slipped that one in un-noticed in the middle of a paragraph, because some of the few people who read this will think <i>"extra tax for meat: never!"</i>, but I hope those people read the other paragraphs as well, in case they agree with the rest.</blockquote>
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<span style="color: red;">Barriers to startup businesses in areas of high unemployment: The Mone Review</span></h2>
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A more up-to-date version of this is on <a href="http://pantstopoverty.org.uk/jobs.html" title="Pants 2 Poverty on jobs">http://pantstopoverty.org.uk/jobs.html</a><br />
A London report on startup businesses in areas of higher employment and so higher housing costs:<br />
<a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/helping_smes_to_thrivefinal.pdf">https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/helping_smes_to_thrivefinal.pdf</a><br />
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Dear Michelle Mone<br />
I have some ideas to reduce barriers to self-employment and startups for
people in areas of high unemployment, maybe on low incomes.
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<h3>
<span style="color: red;">(1) Open air markets attract new recruits to trading.
</span></h3>
Anyone walking past wonders <i>"could I do that?"</i>.
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So a duty on councils to provide for markets would be good. They could
add a rule that X% of stallholders will be recently unemployed if they
want. They or some government body can research locally-produced goods
that might be available; adult education classes or mentorship schemes
might help potential stallholders find stock in other ways.
<br />
<br />
There's a long footnote about this below because it's a <a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/one-richmond-mp-began-leaflet-bit-like.html">slightly awkward point</a>.*
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Stallholders need cover, tables, and storage. [added - some people think third party insurance as well. I don't know why]. Things that a central
government grant with strings attached could provide. They also have
rivals running supermarkets that have so much buying power that they can
promise to pay for goods after selling them, if they sell, and at a
reduce price if they choose to do a discount. I don't know what to do
about that problem so I will pretend that it does not exist; there is
still room for more stallholders.
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<br />
One final point about councils. They have a care crisis. They do not
have money. They may want to spend money on flashy things that people
notice like markets and wifi in libraries, but devolved budgets cannot
handle it; the budgets need to be from specific central grants out of
Edinburgh or London.
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<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;">(2) Internet and access.
</span></h3>
Essential for business research, web sales, and finding-out the next
thing to do in life.
<br />
The requirements for unemployed people include free wifi, hardware, and
software which can each be a barrier to access for someone on a low
income who is just experimenting and not yet convinced of benefits.
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<br />
<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;">(a) Free Wifi and Voip.
</span></h4>
A book on Drupal web sites** states <i>"I’d like to also thank the good
people of Oberlin, Ohio ... this book ... was written almost entirely at
the facilities of Oberlin College and the Oberlin Public Library, with
occasional stints in several of the town’s restaurants, bars, cafes, and
lobbies, and in the Wi-Fi–enabled town square. I couldn’t have chosen a
better place."</i>. If every public library and council estate had free
wifi, there would be a great benefit with next to no admin costs.
Taxpayers would only pay for the signal. Perhaps, over time, some method
like BT shared internet could be developed for people to share internet
connections without sharing card data and bank details and things of
that kind; a router that allows free access to your signal to neighbours
and passers-by without security risks would be a good thing to develop. I don't know how to do it nor, to be honest, know how to use Voip either but other people might.<br />
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<h4 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;">(b) Free hardware.
</span></h4>
It is already cheap on <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Desktops-AllinOnes-/171957/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=computers" title="desktop computers as an example. Distance | nearest first would have different results in different areas">ebay</a>. Large organisations sometimes have piles of
it to give away and individuals use <a href="https://trashnothing.com/" title="Trashnothing akai Freecycle or Freegle in different areas">Trashnothing</a> or <a href="http://www.streetbank.com/splash?locale=en-GB" title="Streetbank is more geared to lending for free, but includes gifts as well">Streetbank</a> to give
it away. What's needed is a way that jobcentres and schools could
publicise existing ways for people on low incomes to get hold of this
hardware, ideally alongside everyone else but if necessary with some
kind of rationing. Would there be enough hardware? Is there a way to get
more available? My next points cover this.
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<h4>
<span style="color: red;">(c) Free software.
</span></h4>
Government is terrible at using open source or free software. The
Cabinet Office could take a lead; any department could take a lead,
starting with Libre Office instead of Word. It's hard to prove the
obvious: that zero licence fees would save money. It's easier to prove
that software with free licences would make used hardware more
accessible to people on low incomes, and increase participation in the
economy. If more organisations used free-to-download software, then
there would be a demand for more adult education classes using that
particular type of software, and people on those classes, such as an
office skills class for unemployed people, would have more chance of
picking-up software to use at home. Lastly, people who want to give away
a pile of old computers would have more chance of wiping data off the
disks and still providing a computer that people want as a gift. They
could give away computers with a free non-microsoft operating system and
standard open source software to run on it.
<br />
<br />
For that reason, I think the Cabinet Office or the Department for Work
and Pensions should start using Libre Office and move-on to some of the
other open source alternatives on <a href="http://osalt.com/">Osalt.com</a>. I think that government
grants to councils and third sector organisations should be sent with a
clause that says <i>"if you use proprietary software we deduct £100"</i>, just
as there are clauses that say things like <i>"you must use an accountant"</i>
and <i>"you must have an equal opportunities policy"</i>.
<br />
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<span style="color: red;">(d) Cheap phones and phone calls </span></h4>
The cost of phones is obviously a barrier to entry into parts of life,
including business, for people on low incomes.
<br />
<br />
My phone cost a few pounds second-hand. It runs on one of the pay as you
go services you can see on <strike>http://petef.22web.org/payg.html</strike> <a href="https://payg-petef.rhcloud.com/">https://payg-petef.rhcloud.com</a>. So why do
other people pay £30 a month in rental and insurance and
confusion-marketing of free minutes mixed-in as well? I think that this
is a market failure, and that government can reduce confusion by taxing
the sale of locked mobile phones, and of monthly mobile subscriptions.
As a result, confusion-marketing of mobile phone services will reduce,
users of phones will get a clearer deal, and there will be less waste of
old phones left unused because locked to one of the networks.<br />
<br />
A side effect of this is to reduce waste of minerals used in making phones. Not much, but a little. I heard somewhere that the political system of Congo can't cope with demand for the minerals; demand leads to protection rackets and gangs and wars, so there's no great loss to Congo from having slightly fewer mineral sales and possibly a benefit.<br />
<br />
(Getting back to the UK - This is a
similar idea to the idea that fuel companies have fewer tariffs and
always quote the cheapest - something that government is doing already).
<br />
<br />
<h3 style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: red;">(3) Workshop space****.
</span></h3>
When I saw a lot of padlocked and abandoned factories on a tour of the
olympics site, the tour guide suggested that they were un-lettable. I
rang some of the numbers on the landlords' signs. They could barely
bring themselves to answer the phone, let-alone pay-in a cheque, for
under £1,000 a month. When you hear that businesses have trouble
starting because of lack of money, that £1,000 a month could be one of
the reasons they need it, and if the market in workshop space worked
better then the space would be let and the rent would be cheap. I'd like
to invent a scheme - not very clear in my mind at the moment - by which
landlords of empty workshops were forced to let them at the market rate,
even if that rate is zero, or allow a public body to take the space over
and do it for them.
<br />
<br />
<h3>
<span style="color: red;">(4) Capital goods.
</span></h3>
One of the reasons that middle-class Londoners like myself work in
services rather than manufacturing is the cost of capital goods, or at
least of transporting them, fixing them and finding somewhere to store
them even if they're for sale in an auction. It puts me off buying the <a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/one-richmond-mp-began-leaflet-bit-like.html">Tullis Russell paper mill</a> or a shipyard or a washing machine factory. [added 15 August after emailing: I subscribe to posts about industrial auctions. A washing machine production-line came-up for sale in Wales a year or two ago.] Deprived areas are often areas where businesses like this have thrived
in the past but barriers to entry are thought too high to re-start any
part of them. [Places like Richmond on Thames where I live also have bits of manufacturing - there are two shipyards in this area, surviving amongst trades which need less machines.] Meanwhile, I notice a lack of access to machine time by
the hour or by the day and hope somehow that this market can grow.
Makerspaces crop-up now and then; you can google them. I'd like a scheme
by which existing companies that have specialised machines can make them
available to colleges at the weekend. I don't know how practical this
is, or what industries it helps, but I hope someone has an idea to help
people get into business as Fife papermakers or Northampton shoemakers
or Birmingham motorcycle-makers more than before.***<br />
<br />
<h3>
<span style="color: red;">(5) Accountancy and book-keeping skills.
</span></h3>
After watching the news about Kids Company I notice two things.
<br />
Not enough trustees willing to keep three months' reserve and make money
out of it by investing in P2P lending at 12%
<br />
Too many applicants said to want the services of Kids Company by its
director.
<br />
What to do?
<br />
I suggest that public services reveal more lines of their bank
statements to the internet, using the <a href="https://www.waveapps.com/">waveapps</a> service and some sofware
work-arounds, so that they become transparent financially. This benefits
well-run organisations. It reveals faults with firms like Kids Company.
It attracts more people who think they could do better as trustees or
book keepers or accountants.
<br />
<br />
I hope some of these ideas can help start-ups get established in areas
where unemployment is high.
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<span style="color: red;">Free business bank accounts</span></h3>
Afterthought 16.07.2016 not sent<br />
<a href="http://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/07/setting-up-shop-with-uk-business-bank.html">http://veg-buildlog.blogspot.com/2015/07/setting-up-shop-with-uk-business-bank.html</a> has more about choosing UK business bank accounts<br />
There is only one free business bank account available - an ICCI account with a long application form and online notes of people being turned-down. <br />
<br />
Most personal accounts make enough money from sales and use of the customers' money to pay for the basic account service without fees. So why not the same for business? Typical standing charges are £3-£5 a month with Allied Irish cheapest at £8.50 a quarter, or £2.83 a month. The banks also charge for services that are probably nearly free to provide, like standing orders or bank tranfers in or out. <br />
<br />
There isn't anything offered in return like a free two hour's accountancy and telephone advice, which would be easy for a bank to arrange because they've got the lines of data on their computer already.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Ideas.</span><br />
(1) If anyone reading this knows how to set-up a basic bank account for business, please do it. For the rest of us, we have to hope that the market works well enough and that somebody will do it eventually.<br />
(2) If anyone reading this wants to spend time writing screen-scraping software and updating online tables of bank accounts, please do it. Money Advice Service could help British Bankers' Association do a better account comparison service than they currently do with Moneyfacts, so that the rare free business bank accounts are easier to find. It would be more upt-to-date, include new banks that aren't in the association, and be searchable by price. The deal could be that Money Advice Service offers a link in return for British Bankers Association including non-members in their list, allowing it to be sorted by price, and keeping it up to date.<br />
(3) Monopoly laws to prevent a bank from discriminating against business customers by preventing them from opening "trading as" accounts or changing the name of an account to the name of a company. At the moment, people like me have private accounts used for business, but there is always a risk of the thing being closed-down and a request for a business name would trigger closure.<br />
(4) Government or someone to sponsor a basic business bank account and provide the software that other people could bolt other services on to. Given governments' record on IT, I guess this would best not be done by a ministry. Maybe if major banks were reguired to make their IT available to challenger banks at cost, or something like that, there could be a chance for free business bank accounts to become normal.</blockquote>
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*Long footnote about selling UK-made goods to the UK market.
<br />
In the long term, I hope that the Department for Business releases more
information about UK producers of goods in the hope that people in the
UK discover how to buy them. This could make the market work more
smoothly than at the moment - recently the Tullis Russell paper mill was
closed for lack of interest by UK consumers. Surely, if people knew that
a paper mill was paying UK taxes and sustaining a democratic welfare
state like the UK, they would be attracted to its products just as they
are attracted by good distribution and low price? The government
produces no such list of UK manufacturers and information held at UK tax
offices is not available to freedom of information requests under some
special law or other. Government does produce guidance on buying paper,
published by Wrap for Defra, but it is to promote recycled office paper
and there is no mill in the UK producing recycled A4 copier paper so the
scheme puts its own taxpayers out of work.
<br />
** Drupal 7 Visual Quickstart Guide by Tom Geller<br />
***added 15.8.15 and not sent by email:<br />
If you look for adult education courses near the closed Tullis Russell paper mill in Fife - postcode KY7 6PB - not much comes up on Hotcourses.com. People on low incomes might look for council-run classes in case there are discounts, and there is a list of 60 on fifedirect.org.uk . The list has a lot of leasure and community-building courses. The list has few job-creation and access to business startup courses, which is fine but there is no long to show where to find them if they ecist. The few work-related ones on fifedirect avoid use of expensive capital goods. There's nothing about paper-making. There's one about making pots, presumably by hand. There are one or two about photography and software with a sting in them: they want you to use Photoshop which is however-many pounds to buy, while most of the same skills could be tought in Gimp and Paint.net which are free and which employers like Fife Council could use if they wanted to. There are probably other courses known to job centres and schools which are more geared to work and startups but I don't know where to find them and doubt that the people of Fife know much better.<br />
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****<br />
Since writing this I saw that there is a scheme for empty workshop space, but for doing it up and making it more expensive and suitable for those tax-dodging international companies that politicans like to court. Not a scheme to rent it out for next to nothing. This is the quote<b><i> </i></b>found in Businesszone.co.uk:<br />
<i><br /></i>
<a href="http://www.businesszone.co.uk/decide/finance/7-most-overlooked-tax-breaks-for-small-businesses"><i><b>4. Property and Machinery Perks</b></i></a><br />
<i>
</i><i>If your business goal is to transform a derelict building that’s been
vacant for at least a year into a new project, then you’re sure to be
entitled to financial help at this stage.</i><br />
<i>
</i><i>The business premises renovation allowance offers SMEs a full 100%
allowance on buildings that require work and renovation, in order to be
fit for business purposes. Please note that qualifying properties must
be in a disadvantaged area and that this break is only open until 2017.</i><br />
<i>
</i><i>Capital allowances are also available for SMEs that frequently use
machinery on a daily basis. You can check for a list of eligible items
directly on the HMRC website. There’s also the Enhanced Capital
Allowance (ECA) scheme which provides SMEs with enhanced tax relief when
choosing to invest in energy saving equipment. You can find further
details on this topic here.</i><br />
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One Richmond MP began a leaflet a bit like this a few years ago: <br />
<br />
<i>"Assuming the Stag Brewery has to close, what are your views?"</i><br />
<br />
This is pretty typical of MPs who don't like industry and don't want to think about it, even if<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li>there is a "don't buy british" policy at some public sector organistaions</li>
<li>the bank of england sets interest rates to effect exchange rates, or </li>
<li>their parliament passes contract laws, employment laws and trades union laws</li>
<li>the department for business is meant to do something about market failures </li>
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By fluke, the brewery remained open although the owners <a href="http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/comment/article-2922156/RUTH-SUNDERLAND-supply-chain-bullies-Big-firms-increase-payment-terms-small-suppliers.html" target="_blank">Inbev</a> have been known to pay their suppliers after rediculously long delays, using unfair market power to insist on contract terms. This threatens suppliers, but at least the brewery remains open. Looking at it, it's hard to imagine another one springing-up any time soon if this one is bulldozed.<br />
<br />
Last month <a href="http://www.scotsman.com/business/transport-industry/tullis-russell-collapsed-with-over-50m-debts-1-3828287" target="_blank">Tullis Russell paper mill went bust</a> after late payment by <a href="http://www.printweek.com/print-week/briefing/1151212/employee-owners-count-the-cost-as-papermaker-goes-under" target="_blank">a major wholesaler that had also gone bust</a>, and an exchange rate rise in a period when the Monetary Policy Committee states that interest rates might rise some time and hike it up even more. You would think that a big worker co-operative near the former prime minister's constituency would be consulted by government about how government buys paper, but no. There is no list of UK paper producers available from government, and a specific law prevents freedom of information requests to HMRC to find-out if it knows any taxpayers who write "paper maker" on their tax return. There is no attempt by UK government to put UK taxpayers in touch with one another for buyer and selling, such as public sector procurement rules that make sure UK firms are given a fair deal, or free data for writing trade directories of UK producers.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thenews.coop/wp-content/uploads/blob-600x400.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://www.thenews.coop/wp-content/uploads/blob-600x400.jpg" height="266" width="400"></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tullis Russell photo from <a href="http://www.thenews.coop/95439/news/general/employee-owned-paper-mill-closes-almost-475-jobs-lost/" target="_blank">co-operative news</a></td></tr>
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<a href="http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/Office%20paper%20and%20publications.pdf" target="_blank">Procuring Office Paper and Publications: Guidance</a><br />
<br />
...is a 52 page document from WRAP, which is funded by DEFRA, the department for the environment farming and rural affairs. It quotes examples of organisations like Croyden Council that have recycled preferences in their paper-buying policies, and Wrap urges public organisations to do the same.<br />
<br />
Unfortunately <a href="http://www.batesoffice.co.uk/about/harvest-office-products.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">there is no recycled office paper producer in the UK</a>. The nearest is Austra. So all this paper has to be moved from there to here at environmental cost. <br />
<br />
Meanwhile the remaining UK paper mill is barred from supplying whichever public sector organisations unless it invests in a new recycled product, which is expensive in a country with rigged exchange rates and high labour costs, and not massively useful when so much paper is recycled to carboard and loo roll anyway. I say "Is barred", but production has quite likely stopped, and I don't see how anyone would want to run the mill until this bar is removed. Are any MPs making a fuss? No. They think it's perfectly all-right to have a <i>"don't buy british"</i> policy in large numbers of government departments. As a final insult, MPs (including Susan Kramer when an MP) have not voted to make trades unions as accountable as other financial mutuals. Redundant employees are meeting their union for advice, which will probably be about whether assets can be bought back, what happens to the pension, and whether any job training is available. Unions' track records with other redundant work forces like Richards of Aberdeen has been abysmal, which is in a small and indirect way the fault of MPs.<br />
<br />
Anyway, this is a picture of Tullis Russell paper mill. If you think it's not important what happens to private sector companies, it follows that you think something can grow-up to replace it. If you think it is important what happens to the mill, then somebody should make a fuss about that stupid campaign by Wrap and all the organisations like Croyden Council that it has influenced. Given a fuss, the thing might be workable and ex-employees' groups might even be among the bidders to buy it. Assets for sale include customer lits, goodwill in more than 70 corporate and product
brands, 200 registered trademarks, customer information and 80 domain
names as well as a frighteningly large collection of machines and ex-employee names. Anyone who could make UK production an eye-catcher for shortlisting and a cheap deal when selling to UK public sector organisations could do well. <br />
<br />
I've just added another post with suggestions for the new <a href="http://election-richmond-park.blogspot.com/2015/08/barriers-to-startup-businesses-in-areas.html" target="_blank" title="Mone Review into startups in areas of high unemployment; how to encourage startups or find barriers to startups seting-up in high unemployment areas">Mone Review into how startup businesses do or don't startup in areas like Fife</a>.<br />
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