Milburn proposes establishment of more Stasi snoopers:
Policy reports
Speakers at the conference urged the government to radically overhaul the benefits system - including making more single parents work, funding universal childcare and providing higher maternity leave payments.
Other plans include giving private firms and charities the right to bid to run more public services.
The organisation is launching policy reports in five different areas - public services, welfare, immigration, crime and justice and foreign policy.
Under the plans, which have been devised by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn, 10-year "franchises" for services such as GPs and colleges would be up for tender.
Others proposals include making grant-funded students who drop out of university pay back part or all the money.
Also, forcing local authorities to spend more money on youth services and the creation of civilian security force consisting of military trainers, civil servants, police officers, judges and other logistical staff.
EU puts pressure on UK government to join the Euro. According to Barroso (our boss):
"I know that the majority in Britain are still opposed, but there is a period of consideration under way and the people who matter in Britain are currently thinking about it", he said.
The 'people who matter', please note - that's not us. Get the bastard out - and get us out of the EU, for God's sake.
The Green Affair rumbles on: some bloggers don't reckon it's important. I do. Even though prime slugs like Denis McShane blather hypocritically on about democracy and parliament, etc. McShane's voting record is a fucking disgrace and he has no right to talk about democracy. If he believed in democracy and liberty he wouldn't have voted to destroy it.
ContactPoint - at last! I've been wondering when this was going to surface in the storm over Baby P. Caught Ed Stourton talking to some clone on Radio 4 this morning about ContactPoint.
Being a typical British media man (and a BBC one, to make it worse) he didn't ask her any really important questions, such as why are the contact details of children of celebrities and violent parents excluded from the database? Or about this:
Government guidelines reveal that other information recorded may include 'family routines', evidence of a 'disorganised/chaotic lifestyle', 'ways in which the family’s income is used', signs of mental illness or alcohol misuse by relatives, and 'any serious difficulties in the parents’ relationship'.It's a bit much when our highly-paid media folks can't even bother to check Wikipedia for information.
That's enough for one morning.
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