They voted for a spot of nuclear-generated electricity for those thirsty halogen lights under which they all sat.All this heavy lifting was done before lunch on a day when delegates backed bikes and resisted controls on online porn, both on progressive grounds. Such gymnastics are not executed without effort. Liberal Democrats have traditionally been as hostile to nuclear power as they are towards "unfair" voting, badger culls and the use of state power to infringe personal liberty on porn or sexuality.Fracking? You won't believe what they voted to do on shale gas fracking, even if they did hedge it with restrictions on the frackers' liberty. But the gravitational pull of coalition office has dragged a party advance guard back to planet earth where they are exploring the flora and fauna of more complex choices associated with being ministers and wannabes.
There were nine more construction deaths compared to 2009/10, although the HSE said the average over the past five years was 61, while fatalities fell from 39 to 34 in the agriculture industry.Judith Hackitt, chairman of the HSE,
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Margaret Hodge is asking the first round of questions.Q: If different suppliers are providing public services, how can you follow how money is spent?Cameron says the government is increasing the amount of data published about government spending. Q: Academy schools publish their results. But how can you see if they are providing value for money?Cameron says people will be able to see the figures for funding per pupil. That is a better system of accountability than holding schools to account from Whitehall.Q: A whistleblower has told the public accounts committee that, in one academcy programme, money has been used to fund a property in France and governors travelling to that property.Cameron says there should be transparency at the school level.
That means households - all of us - paying off the credit card and store card bills.That was interpreted as Cameron telling people they should pay off their debtsThere are three reason why this was damaging.1. People don't like politicians lecturing them about their household finances. They don't mind politicians moralising on subjects like bankers, but telling ordinary people what to do with their money is almost always a mistake.2. It reminded voters that someone like Cameron - a well-paid professional with family wealth - finds it much easier to pay off his credit card debt than most ordinary people.3. It doesn't make economic sense. As Polly Curtis explains on her Reality Check blog, if want the economy to grow, you need people to spend money.
If there is further evidence that comes out of this inquiry that requires action to be taken, it should be taken. Britain does not cover these things up, we do not sweep them under the carpet. We deal with it. 2.41pm: Boris Johnson, who has a reputation for being quite competitive, has just beaten David Cameron in a game of tennis in Trafalgar Square to mark International Paralympic Day. The mayor of London has even posted a picture of the contest.2.49pm: Here's another story about the Baha Mousa inquiry. Chairman Sir William Gage issued 73 instructions for improving the handling of detainees after the damning report. The former court of appeal judge issued top-to-bottom instructions for the way handling detainees could be improved.
? A Telegraph article by Julie Henry explaining why Ebdon's appointment was so controversial.3.34pm: James Clappison, a Conservative, asks for a statement on the Les Ebdon appointment. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Wire/Press Association Images Vince Cable says he would like to tell MPs why Ebdon is the right candidate.David Willetts, the universities minister, would normally respond, but he is in Antarctica, Cable says.Much more needs to be done to ensure that people from poor backgrounds get into the best universities, he says. Of the 80,
www.ytcgzx.net,000 pupils on free school meals, only about 50 get into Oxbridge.Cable says the select committee raised questions about Ebdon's "presentational skills".
? Sir Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has said that the eurozone crisis will return "in an even more severe form" if European leaders do not address the underlying causes of the Greek debt crisis. In comments that suggest King is concerned that the response to the debt crisis has been too complacent, he told the Commons Treasury committee: "Buying time appears attractive very often, because the immediate crisis appears to go away .. But in fact if the underlying problems have not changed, the crisis comes back in an even more severe form. And that has been the case right through the past 18 months in trying to deal with Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and indeed in the problems for the euro area as a whole.
Another example of fruitful co-operation between the NoW and police? I simply don't know.So it's potentially tricky for Houdini,
marc jacobs wallets, one to watch. Murdoch's backing for the SNP via the Scottish Sun at the last election is what PhD students of Rupertery would expect: he's a dealmaker. SNP, Tories, Republican, Democrat, Chinese Communist party, he's loved them all in his day. Who's counting?Speaking personally, I think Alex Salmond should feel so grateful to Rupert Murdoch that he'd volunteer to polish his shoes every morning. Why? Because back in 1995, 20th Century Fox funded Braveheart, a fantasy movie about the Scots patriot William Wallace. It violates history almost as much as other movies starring that chippy anti-Brit Australian (remind you of anyone?) Mel Gibson.
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