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Dilnot says this figure should be raised to ￡100,000.? The total cost of the package would be ￡1.7bn a year. Dilnot insisted that as affordable. It was one four-hundredth of total public spending, he said.? Dilnot insisted that the government was not going to ditch his plans. On his Telegraph blog this morning, Benedict Brogan said the idea was "DOA" [dead on arrival] because it was going to cost too much. But Dilnot rejected this. "I have spoken with all the main players in this area," he said. "I do not think that's the position we are in." He said he thought there would be a white paper on this subject next spring and that, although the government was unlikely to start funding the scheme before 2014, "by then we are almost certain to be seeing some shift".
Somewhere in his vast output (Heartbreak House?) that old rascal George Bernard Shaw wrote: "Do you believe the laws of God will be suspended for England because you were born in it?" Writing almost a century ago after two decades of social turbulence and war, I think he meant: "Don't think it might not happen here too."Oh really, where? Well, the Guardian carries warm tributes to the six young Englishmen, soldiers serving in Afghanistan, who were killed by a roadside bomb this week. It is a dreadful loss for which grieving friends and family struggle, often not very successfully, to create meaning about events in a distant country where reform usually seems negligible – or worse.It's not all gloom.
But Ukip, like many insurgent parties, is about grievances. The politicians don't listen to ordinary people, he said, when actually they listen all the time but struggle to reconcile what people "want" with the reality of hard choices in public policy. Immigration is a classic example,marc by marc jacobs bag (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), as you may notice next time you visit a hospital.Apart from Cameron and Peter Kellner,marc jacobs wallets (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), president of the YouGov polling organisation, whom Farage accuses of deliberately marginalising Ukip's impact in polling questions – Kellner is also married to the EU foreign minister, Cathy Ashton, which doesn't help – Farage's most conspicuous target yesterday seemed to be the SNP leader.This struck me as interesting because both men strike me as similar kinds of operators: fast-talking populists cheerfully exploiting grievances in order to assert an "ourselves alone" message: break Scotland/Britain off from England/Europe and things will be much better.
The spokesman refused to say explicitly that the ECHR told the Home Office that the deadline was Monday night. Instead he said that there were "a number of reasons why we took the view that the court deadline was Monday"". One was the treaty itself, another was precedent, and the third was information gleaned from "contact with officials at the European court".Maybe the spokesman was just sticking to a particularly narrow brief. But the exchanges gave the impression that there may have been some kind of misunderstanding, and that the Home Office did not obtain a categoricial ruling from a senior offcial at the ECHR that the deadline was Monday night. ? The spokesman sidestepped questions about Cameron's reaction to the report saying the ECHR encouraged Qatada's lawyers to submit an appeal before the Tuesday deadline.
During the debate – you can find it here on the Lords website – it emerged that the government's own figures suggest that 94% of those on ESA have conditions that require them to be off work for more than a year. Moreover, it's a contributory benefit on which they have paid additional national insurance contributions, so taking it away seems unfair.Chris Grayling, the minister doing the bill with Lord Freud (not very persuasive on his feet in the Lords), was on Radio 4 this morning, explaining that he'd listen and think about the criticisms and the three Lords defeats. But was it right that households with other sources of income – family, savings, even inheritance – should get the same payments as the otherwise destitute?Everyone knows that welfare payments are being trimmed across the western world as the recession in advanced economies makes all sorts of things less affordable.
? Steve Richards in the Independent says lobbyists are not as influential as they seem.The lack of ministerial staying power is one of the reasons why lobbyists are not as influential as they seem. Think of all those lobbyists who had cultivated the former Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, in the hope of gaining access and information in relation to everything from high speed rail to bus services. Hammond's attentions are now focused on military matters and will no longer relate to how people stagger around on Britain's fractured transport network.On the basis of the previous pattern, his successor,www.ytcgzx.net (http://www.ytcgzx.net/), Justine Greening, will not be there long either and yet lobbyists will seek near meaningless access and insight as she acquires a fleeting interest in transport before moving on.
Given that the economy has usually been growing at 2% to 2.5% for decades – it isn't doing that now – this underlying trend points to a doubling of national wealth ever generation or so. If voters fear that won't happen in the future, that's a scary disconnect for any political leader – here or elsewhere – a headwind that may lead to another hung parliament and some sort of coalition after 2015.But even in uncertainty optimism is the best note to adopt. Cameron shows he knows that. Does Ed?UK austerity in a world awash with moneyDavid Cameron has been rightly hammered for last week's big speech on the economy, by his own Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for misrepresenting its position on cuts and growth and by assorted economic grown-ups for a wider misunderstanding of the damage his government's strategy is doing to Britain's fragile-to-negative recovery.