20 Sep
Britishness Brown, the non-mandate British Prime Minister, was too busy to phone Steve McLaren to congratulate him on England’s 3-0 victory over Russia last week but managed to find the time to phone Alex McLeish, the Scottish manager, to congratulate him on their defeat of France on the same night. Even though No Mandate Brown professes to be [...]
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18 Sep
Lord Darzi, appointed by No Mandate Brown to “reform” the English NHS, is aiming to get GP’s to see their patients out of hours. GP’s used to run out-of-hours surgeries but the British government gave them new contracts that allowed them to pass their obligations on to NHS Direct with a hefty pay rise to keep [...]
Posted in Health, No Mandate by: wonkotsane
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05 Jul
The Tibetan government in exile is visiting England on an official fact-finding visit to the British Parliament. The Tibetan government in exile has its base in Dharamsala in India and are looking for tips on how to form policy and introduce laws but, says the BBC, “this is tricky when you are not actually in [...]
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04 Jul
No Mandate Brown has shown that he is hell-bent on the destruction of our country and the imposition of regional government whether we want it or not. Hot on the heels of his appointment of regional ministers to each of the euroregions in England (the West Midlands has been lumbered with Liam Byrne, MP for [...]
Posted in No Mandate, Regions by: wonkotsane
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01 Jul
The Financial Times reports that No Mandate Brown left a little present for the English before he left the Treasury – a £2bn cut in funding for the English NHS. It’s not the fact that he has no mandate on health with it being devolved in his own constituency, it’s not that he kept it [...]
Posted in Health, No Mandate by: wonkotsane
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23 May
Not much information in the Hansard on the Draft Local Transport Bill – no dissenters, no cries of “NO MANDATE” from the opposition benches. However, the Hansard for the bill does start thus: Draft Local Transport Bill The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Douglas Alexander): I am today publishing a draft Local Transport Bill, [...]
Posted in England, No Mandate by: wonkotsane
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