Politika u UK

[MancMellow]

Oh. Pa da ide čovek da drži govore, bitno je od čega se živi :D

[Budja]

First things first. 

 

 

Dobre joj tike.

[Dagmar]

Dobre joj tike.

 

Abitan detalj, ali mogla je uzeti nešto ravno i udobno od geoxa npr. Dobro nije i trenerku gore.

[adam]

The government has approved a third runway at Heathrow to expand UK airport capacity - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37760187

 

jos jedna mudra odluka vlasti. pa za koju godinicu kad im i to ne bude dovoljno gurace sve dublje u grad i tako dok nas sve ne izmeste. 

[jms_uk]

The government has approved a third runway at Heathrow to expand UK airport capacity - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37760187

 

jos jedna mudra odluka vlasti. pa za koju godinicu kad im i to ne bude dovoljno gurace sve dublje u grad i tako dok nas sve ne izmeste. 

 

Nece poceti da rade pre 2020/21 - do tada ce neko da dotera to do High Court-a i odlozi. A i danas planirani kapaciteti, tada verovatno nece biti dovoljni.

 

Plus, pogledaj gde ide - 3 mesta da presele stanovnistvo, deo M25 da oteraju pod zemlju itd...

[adam]

Nece poceti da rade pre 2020/21 - do tada ce neko da dotera to do High Court-a i odlozi. A i danas planirani kapaciteti, tada verovatno nece biti dovoljni.

 

Plus, pogledaj gde ide - 3 mesta da presele stanovnistvo, deo M25 da oteraju pod zemlju itd...

sto bi reko pokojni mika sa etf-a (moj najdrazi profesor iz bivseg zivota) - deco, u ovoj zemlji (on je govorio na ovom fakultetu) se desavaju pojave koje nisu svojstvene razumnim ljudima. 

 

i ja se negde nadam da ce sud da reaguje pa ce shvatiti da im treba aerodrom koji nece dogurati do vest enda do kraja sledece decenije. al kad vidim ko donosi odluke nisam optimista. 

[dragance]

Pored onolikog mesta na Gatwicku, ko li ih je samo podmazao toliko...

[borris_]

Zar nisu trebali da grade neki novi ultra giga aerodrom? Borisje tada bio gradonacelnik.

[jms_uk]

Zar nisu trebali da grade neki novi ultra giga aerodrom? Borisje tada bio gradonacelnik.

 

On je gurao Thames estuary, ali nema nista od toga.

[MancMellow]

Zanimljivo i za neke druge topike 

 

[Luther]

Zanimljivo i za neke druge topike 

 

 

Vrlo 

Nego mi je još zanimljiviji gospođin visoki intelektualni nivo nezamisliv za "naše" političare.

[MancMellow]

 

 

Uber loses right to classify UK drivers as self-employed

Landmark employment tribunal ruling states firm must also pay drivers national living wage and holiday pay with huge implications for gig economy

Drivers for Uber have won a landmark case after employment tribunal judges ruled that they were not self-employed and should be paid the “national living wage”.

The case, taken by two workers, could open up the tech firm to claims from all of its 40,000 drivers in the UK, and force other companies with tens of thousands of workers in the so-called gig economy to review the way they employ staff. Uber said it will appeal against the finding.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/28/uber-uk-tribunal-self-employed-status

[bigvlada]

Britain’s Mafia State

8th September 2015

Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?

 

By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 9th September 2015

Be reasonable in response to the unreasonable: this is what voters in the Labour election are told. Accommodate, moderate, triangulate, for the alternative is to isolate yourself from reality. You might be inclined to agree. If so, please take a look at the reality to which you must submit.

To an extent unknown since before the First World War, economic relations in this country are becoming set in stone. It’s not just that the very rich no longer fall while the very poor no longer rise. It’s that the system itself is protected from risk. Through bail-outs, quantitative easing and delays in interest rate rises, speculative investment has been so well cushioned that, as Larry Elliott puts it, financial markets are “one of the last bastions of socialism left on earth.”

Public services, infrastructure, the very fabric of the nation: these too are being converted into risk-free investments. Social cleansing is transforming inner London into an exclusive economic zone for property speculation. From a dozen directions, government policy converges on this objective. The benefits cap and the bedroom tax drive the poor out of their homes. The forced sale of high-value council houses creates a new asset pool. An uncapped and scarcely regulated private rental market turns these assets into gold. The freeze on council tax banding since 1991, the lifting of the inheritance tax threshold and £14 billion a year in breaks for private landlords all help to guarantee stupendous returns.

And for those who wish simply to sit on their assets, the government can help here too, by ensuring that there are no penalties for leaving buildings empty. As a result, great tracts of housing are removed from occupation. Agricultural land has proved an even better punt for City money: with the help of capital gains, inheritance and income tax exemptions, as well as farm subsidies, its price has quadrupled in 12 years.

Property in this country is a haven for the proceeds of international crime. The head of the National Crime Agency, Donald Toon, notes that “the London property market has been skewed by laundered money. Prices are being artificially driven up by overseas criminals who want to sequester their assets here in the UK.”

It’s hardly surprising, given the degree of oversight. Private Eye has produced a map of British land owned by companies registered in offshore tax havens. The holdings amount to 1.2 million acres, including much of our prime real estate. Among those it names as beneficiaries are a cast of Russian oligarchs, oil sheikhs, British aristocrats and newspaper proprietors. These are the people for whom government policy works, and the less regulated the system that enriches them, the happier they are.

The speculative property market is just one current in the great flow of cash that sluices through Britain while scarcely touching the sides. The financial sector exploits an astonishing political privilege: the City of London is the only jurisdiction in the UK not fully subject to the authority of parliament. In fact, the relationship seems to work the other way. Behind the Speaker’s chair in the House of Commons sits the Remembrancer, whose job is to ensure that the interests of the City of London are recognised by the elected members. (A campaign to rescind this privilege – Don’t Forget the Remembrancer – will be launched very soon). The City has one foot in the water: it is a semi-offshore state, a bit like the UK’s Crown dependencies and overseas territories, tax havens legitimised by the Privy Council. Britain’s financial secrecy undermines the tax base while providing a conduit into the legal economy for gangsters, kleptocrats and drug barons.

Even the more orthodox financial institutions deploy a long succession of scandalous practices: pension mis-selling, endowment mortgage fraud, the payment protection insurance con, Libor rigging. A former minister in the last government, Lord Green, ran HSBC while it engaged in money laundering for drugs gangs, systematic tax evasion and the provision of services to Saudi and Bangladeshi banks linked to the financing of terrorists. Sometimes the UK looks to me like an ever-so-civilised mafia state.

At next month’s Conservative party conference, corporate executives will pay £2,500 to sit with a minister. Doubtless, because we are assured that there is no link between funding and policy, they will spend the day discussing the weather and the films they have seen. If we noticed such arrangements overseas, we might be inclined to regard them as corruption. But that can’t be the case here, not least because the invitation explains that “fees associated with business day & dinner are considered a commercial transaction and therefore do not constitute a political donation.”

The government also insists that there is no link between political donations and seats in the House of Lords. But a study by researchers at Oxford University found that the probability of so many major donors arriving there by chance is 1.36 x 10-38: roughly “equivalent to entering the National Lottery and winning the jackpot 5 times in a row”. Why does the Lords remain unreformed? Because it permits plutocratic power to override democracy. Both rich and poor are kept in their place.

Governed either by or on behalf of the people who fleece us, we cannot be surprised to discover that all public services are being re-engineered for the benefit of private capital. Nor should we be surprised when governments help to negotiate, without public consent, treaties such as TTIP and CETA (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement), which undermine the sovereignty of both parliament and the law. Aesop’s observation that “we hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office” remains true in spirit, though hanging has been replaced by community payback.

Wherever you sniff in British public life, something stinks: I could fill this newspaper with examples. But, while every pore oozes corruption, our task, we are told, is merely to trim the nails of the body politic.

To fail to confront this system is to collaborate with it. Who on the left would wish to stand on the sidelines as this carve-up continues? Who would vote for anything but sweeping change?

www.monbiot.com

http://www.monbiot.com/2015/09/08/britains-mafia-state/

 

[Marvin (Paranoid Android)]

Kad već svi pominjemo trendove zbog kojih UK politika podseća na domaću, ovde se trenutno opet zahuktava debata o popijima, tačni su kao sat kako se bliži 11-ti novembar. Ako me nisu dotukle vesti o Brexitu, Trampu, Hilari, Mejovoj, ozbiljno sada počinjem da razmatram bojkot svih medijskih sajtova do dvanaestog novembra. Eno je Tereza vrišti u parlamentu kako je zabrana FIFE da se popiji stavljaju na fudbalske dresove užasna. Živote bože.

[MancMellow]

Kad već svi pominjemo trendove zbog kojih UK politika podseća na domaću, ovde se trenutno opet zahuktava debata o popijima, tačni su kao sat kako se bliži 11-ti novembar. Ako me nisu dotukle vesti o Brexitu, Trampu, Hilari, Mejovoj, ozbiljno sada počinjem da razmatram bojkot svih medijskih sajtova do dvanaestog novembra. Eno je Tereza vrišti u parlamentu kako je zabrana FIFE da se popiji stavljaju na fudbalske dresove užasna. Živote bože.

 

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