Who Knows Posted July 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 15, 2014 14.6 million people in the UK, roughly 1 in 4 people, are currently living in poverty according to Institute Fiscal Studies (IFS) the Daily Record is reporting. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/one-four-britons-now-living-3861508 The report finds that young adults have been hit hardest due to either unemployment or low paid jobs whilst in the last year 300,000 more children have fallen within the poverty trap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelsup Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 is that correct? or is it something you read in the Daily Record? Acid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted July 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) The link above is to the Daily Record story analysing the report but the full IFS report is available on-line and link below takes you to the full report. http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/r96.pdf The press release from the IFS that accompanied the reports publication is in the following link http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/r96.pdf They were commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to produce the report. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation press release on the report is on the following link http://www.jrf.org.uk/media-centre/poorest-and-youngest-suffer-as-poverty-rises-and-living-standards-tumble-65735 The Daily Record report is based upon the research evidence. Edited July 16, 2014 by Who Knows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrobbie Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-online-polls-ways-british-spies-seek-control-internet/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted August 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 If it ain't broke do not fix it was Conservative MSP John Scott message built upon an old adage. Robin McAlpine, Director of the Jimmy Reid, gives a spirited rebuttal of why the UK is broke in this YouTube clip. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kktV6Hp7Pw8 The evidence of Westminister mismanagement of the UK is explored in the following Jimmy Reid Foundation Report. http://reidfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mismanagement.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted August 25, 2014 Report Share Posted August 25, 2014 Yet more honest justification for Scottish independence that cannot be denied. Britain rips us off, Britain steals from us, Britain makes paupers of us. We need out, and we need out fast. Scotland needs to be an independent country again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted September 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2014 £105.8 billion is how much the UK borrowed to bridge the gap between tax receipts and expenditure in 2013-14 according to official Westminster briefing paper. Taking total debt to £1,273.4 billion. http://www.parliament.uk/Templates/BriefingPapers/Pages/BPPdfDownload.aspx?bp-id=SN05745 The debt interest in 2013-14 was £47.4 billion but will rise this year to £1 billion a week as it tops £52 billion in 2014-15 forecasts. In 2016-17 which would be the first year of the new independent Scotland the UK debt interest payments at £65.1 billion will be higher than the total public sector expenditure in Scotland! http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/11/9348/18 Signs of the past stewardship of the UK finances being well managed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted September 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 May your choices be based upon hope rather than fear. May you aspire to live in a country that shares it's wealth rather than have it held in the hands of few. May you aim to end poverty and food banks in our country and aspire to have this achieved world wide thereafter. Whatever your reason to vote today until 10pm absolute sovereignty of our future lies in the hands of each one. One individual one vote. No matter your own personal preference please vote today so that a clear mesage is sent on our behalf. I obviously believe that change is required to solve the problems we face today so will be voting YES. However it's a democracy and such whatever the out-turn we should respect the right of those who may not hold the same conclusion that Scotland can be a prosperous, fair and equal society as a independent country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheelsup Posted September 18, 2014 Report Share Posted September 18, 2014 I have never doubted Scotland's ability to be a prosperous , fair and equal society, with time. I suspect most of the No voters, which probably make up close to half the population, simply have a strong affinity and feel personally close to the rest of the UK with an overwhelming sense of British-ness that goes way beyond nationalistic, economic and political lines.Unfortunately the arguments and the rhetoric may have done irreparable damage to the very stuff that also makes us Scottish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 In other news the staff in the NHS in England vote for industrial action by 2-1. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/18/nhs-workers-strike-pay-unison-england Unison may be the first to ballot the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Midwives are planning to follow suit on industrial action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George. Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 May your choices be based upon hope rather than fear. May you aspire to live in a country that shares it's wealth rather than have it held in the hands of few. May you aim to end poverty and food banks in our country and aspire to have this achieved world wide thereafter. Whatever your reason to vote today until 10pm absolute sovereignty of our future lies in the hands of each one. One individual one vote. No matter your own personal preference please vote today so that a clear mesage is sent on our behalf. I obviously believe that change is required to solve the problems we face today so will be voting YES. However it's a democracy and such whatever the out-turn we should respect the right of those who may not hold the same conclusion that Scotland can be a prosperous, fair and equal society as a independent country. Unfortunately, so many are afraid of change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Or sick of folk trying to make change, when that change is for change's sake and nothing more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scorrie Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 May your choices be based upon hope rather than fear. May you aspire to live in a country that shares it's wealth rather than have it held in the hands of few. May you aim to end poverty and food banks in our country and aspire to have this achieved world wide thereafter. Whatever your reason to vote today until 10pm absolute sovereignty of our future lies in the hands of each one. One individual one vote. No matter your own personal preference please vote today so that a clear mesage is sent on our behalf. I obviously believe that change is required to solve the problems we face today so will be voting YES. However it's a democracy and such whatever the out-turn we should respect the right of those who may not hold the same conclusion that Scotland can be a prosperous, fair and equal society as a independent country.Unfortunately, so many are afraid of change. Nope, 'so many' disagreed with the Indy notion of change. 'Afraid of change' is an insult to the majority of the electorate. Vox populi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted September 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 Further in other news NHS England running £500 million deficit in first 3 months revealed today. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-in-crisis-english-health-service-runs-500m-deficit-in-just-three-months-9744702.html NHS funding increasing in England and really safe after all? http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/reports---correspondence/correspondence/letter-from-andrew-dilnot-to-rt--hon--andy-burnham-mp-04122012.pdf Regards the change discussion management theory literature is full of books on how fear of change is the biggest obstacle in implementing changes in working practice or service redesign effectively and resolving this fear is the key to successful implementation of change. Uncertainty caused by poor or mixed messages in communicating the benefits or needs for change are amongst the primary causes of failure to delivery successful change. Hence the no campaign uncertainty message to breed fear of change and uncertainty. http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/09/implementing-change-programs.html Democratic vote has been counted and recorded in the history book. Delivery of promises, we can now only live in hope to see these tang able benefits that put all of us first. Scorrie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Knows Posted November 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2014 Austerity Britian still not appearing to go to plan as in the first 6 months of 2014-15 tax year the UK has borrowed £3.7 billion more than at the same point last year. http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news/2014/11/borrowing-up-37bn-in-the-six-months-to-october/ That may not seem bad, except in the original plan we were supposed to have cleared the in year budget deficits by now. However even against the current plan the UK is supposed to borrow £11 billion less this year than last year so struggling to even hit this target. Plan B yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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