On Jul 7, 9:55*pm, J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 13:03:30h -0700, Wright's Aerials declared:

it's full of wogs.

Like David Frost?

No, he's a Methodist.

Bill

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:05:23 +0100, Petert
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:01:17 +0100, Mark
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:25:32 +0100, Petert
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:58:41 -0500, Gareth Owen wrote:

The regime which took power in 1979 forced councils to give up
maintenance departments they all had and tender to private companies
instead. The one which took over in 1997 didn't change any of this.

Consequently cash-starved councils (3/4 of their money comes ,
grudgingly, from central government) can't send a few workmen round to
sort out small repairs as they would have done in the past.

But they appear to carry out NO repairs at all, either by their own
staff or by the use of contractors.

If we are talking about state schools then (for a Foundation School)
repairs have to come out of revenue. In most cases this is already
allocated for salaries etc so there is none left for maintenance.

I should have said "little" instead of "none" here. But the point is
still valid I think.

So what you are saying is that rather than carry out repairs to school
buildings, the policy is to let them deteriorate until funding can be
found to rebuild them.

This does happen. However a lot of schools can work within this
framework if they keep on top of the maintance, particularly if the
buildings are not old. Repairs can sometimes be taken out of a
different budget if they are needed for H&S reasons but this is also
limited. It looks like this budget will be further reduced next year,
but I don't yet know.

What a brilliant policy

It stinks. Particularly since the government is going to finance new
school builds without proving there is a need for them. Yet repairs
to existing schools will be neglected.
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On Jul 6, 5:46 pm, Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , J G Miller I'm
wondering where you are all buying copies. So far as I know, a
newspaper called the 'Daily Worker' vanished many years ago. Have you
not noticed, or am I imagining that it became 'Morning Star'?... :-)


Yes, I was being a bit retro for emphasis. Trying to raise Trotsky's
ghost.


If you dislike the BBC so much Bill,
I don't dislike the BBC, I love it, and that's why I'm concerned that it
has innate left wing liberal bias.

We seem to agree. I love it apart from its rampant right-wing status quo
bias, and numpty questioning on programmes like 'Today'. :-)



I suggest you watch Ajazeera instead.
Not bloody likely, it's full of wogs.

It's now on freeview.
Is it?

If not, someone is pulling off a neat impersonation. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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On 7 July, 10:51, Mark wrote:

And yet the government is ploughing ahead with Trident. *It is an
obscenely expensive white elephant. *An weapon that is out of date,
not controlled by us and that we can never use.

Surely they go ahead with it to make _them_ fractionally more
important? It buys political power for our politicians.

Not sure where the cuts should go, but it seems to me that we
shouldn't have any debt. Save during the good times, spend those
savings during the bad, and never pay a penny in interest.

Cheers,
David.

In article , Mark
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:05:23 +0100, Petert
wrote:


What a brilliant policy

It stinks. Particularly since the government is going to finance new
school builds without proving there is a need for them. Yet repairs to
existing schools will be neglected.

The point is to 'justify' the "we need new schools (run by private sector
companies)" because "the existing schools are poor". Thus their mates win
at our expense. Result!

Slainte,

Jim

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 04:05:43 -0700 (PDT),
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On 7 July, 10:51, Mark wrote:

And yet the government is ploughing ahead with Trident. *It is an
obscenely expensive white elephant. *An weapon that is out of date,
not controlled by us and that we can never use.

Surely they go ahead with it to make _them_ fractionally more
important? It buys political power for our politicians.

But not real power. It just buying them membership of an exclusive but
illusory "club". Trident has become increasing less important as the
actual cuts are announced. People are starting to realize that the
cuts will directly affect *them*, rather than just "other people".

Not sure where the cuts should go, but it seems to me that we
shouldn't have any debt. Save during the good times, spend those
savings during the bad, and never pay a penny in interest.

IMHO government borrowing should be kept down. I don't think it is
automatically bad though. If money is borrowed and invested which
results in growth above the cost of borrowing then, arguably, this
borrowing could be considered good. OTOH governments have a habit of
borrowing money and then wasting it.

Apart from Trident I'm not sure where many cuts should be made.
However I am relieved that the government will scrap the NIR and
ContactPoint. I am more sure about where cuts should /not/ be made.
Not in education, not in support for the poor & vulnerable, not in
road safety, not in preventative healthcare, not in the Police. These
are all areas that will receive massive cuts.
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On Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 19:50:23h -0700, Wright's Aerials explained:

On Jul 7, 9:55Â*pm, J G Miller wrote:

Like David Frost?

No, he's a Methodist.

So Al Jazeera English cannot be full of "wogs" then, can it?

In fact non of the London News Presenters - Felicity Barr, Nick Clark,
Stephen Cole, Hamish MacDonald, or Barbara Serra could be put in that
category.

They are all caucasian, and for the most part, they all look
stereotypically Anglo-Saxon.

http://english.aljazeera.NET/aboutus/2006/11/2008525185234921586.html

On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:34:09 +0100, Mark
wrote:

So what you are saying is that rather than carry out repairs to school
buildings, the policy is to let them deteriorate until funding can be
found to rebuild them.

This does happen. However a lot of schools can work within this
framework if they keep on top of the maintance, particularly if the
buildings are not old. Repairs can sometimes be taken out of a
different budget if they are needed for H&S reasons but this is also
limited. It looks like this budget will be further reduced next year,
but I don't yet know.

What a brilliant policy

It stinks. Particularly since the government is going to finance new
school builds without proving there is a need for them. Yet repairs
to existing schools will be neglected.


OK, show me one photograph of a politician opening a
Re-roofing/Re-wiring/replacement window fitting project for the
council office/school/community centre etc

I suggest you will be hard pressed to find one - and this isn't a
political point - any flavour of politician will do.

On another non-political point - just how much did the last government
spend on the maintenance of schools? No more I would suggest than the
last Tory government did.

The politician gets his moment of glory at the opening ceremony of the
new school, and that's it. Nothiing more will be heard from him until
the roff leaks and the windows start to fall out
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Peter

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:29:41 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 at 19:50:23h -0700, Wright's Aerials explained:

On Jul 7, 9:55*pm, J G Miller wrote:

Like David Frost?

No, he's a Methodist.

So Al Jazeera English cannot be full of "wogs" then, can it?

In fact non of the London News Presenters - Felicity Barr, Nick Clark,
Stephen Cole, Hamish MacDonald, or Barbara Serra could be put in that
category.

They are all caucasian, and for the most part, they all look
stereotypically Anglo-Saxon.

http://english.aljazeera.NET/aboutus/2006/11/2008525185234921586.html

And the Doha News Presenters are not totally "woggish".
http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus...037838670.html

Nick Clark, Jane Dutton and David Foster are caucasian. Most of the
others had worked for British and American broadcasters before joining
Al Jazeera.

Even the Kuala Lumpur News Presenters are not totally alien:
http://english.aljazeera.net/aboutus...934483635.html

Divya Gopalan has over 10 years of experience in international
journalism, including roles with the UK's BBC News 24 and BBC World
and with US networks NBC and CNBC Europe.

Laura Kyle... came to Al Jazeera English from Beijing where she
worked with CCTV-9 and China Daily for three years. She was one of
the first foreign faces on CCTV-9 and presented their flagship
bulletin Newshour.

Teymoor Nabili ... Previous roles include news anchor for BBC
Television in London, and anchor for European Business News.
... Teymoor has also received awards from the British Royal
Television Society for his coverage of the Utah Olympics bribery
scandal,

Veronica Pedrosa brought 15 years of international news experience
to Al Jazeera English. She joined the channel from CNN International
based first in Atlanta US and since early 2000 in Asia. Prior to
that, she worked with BBC World Television and BBC World Service
Radio in London presenting news bulletins and feature programmes,
including The Week and Asia Today.

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Peter Duncanson
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On Jul 8, 9:49*am, Jim Lesurf wrote:
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It's now on freeview.
Is it?

If not, someone is pulling off a neat impersonation. *:-)

Oh, so it is! It's odd really because for the lst two days I've been
working in a place with a wide assortment of foreigners in it, and
they have Freeview there but no satellite (strangely). I noticed that
a lot were using the various foreign TV and radio stations, but I
didn't see Al Jazeera. About twenty of the tellys were new so they
must have it tuned in.

Bill