Showing posts with label UK government. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST ISSUE: Judges sanction Social Services snatching children with Superinjunctions
The Independent published The Untold Story of Gagging Orders on 25 May 2011: while 69 injunctions refer to celebrities, 264 concern children and young adults, generally to “protect” their interests. In reality, these ‘injunction orders’or ‘reporting restriction orders’ are used to protect the perpetrators who hand over children to their abusive parent or put them in foster care as a precursor for ‘forced adoptions’.
Friday, November 26, 2010
99% Of You Say: Get Us Out of Europe -- UK Poll
A MASSIVE wave of public support was last night surging behind the Daily Express’s crusade to liberate Britain from the stranglehold of Brussels.
An exclusive poll conducted on the first day of our crusade showed an astonishing 99 per cent of people agree we should quit the European Union.
In an indication of the strength of public feeling on the issue, the poll saw the biggest ever response to a Daily Express phone survey, with tens of thousands of people swamping our switchboards.
The newspaper’s phone lines and website were flooded with people backing our pioneering decision to become the first national newspaper in the country to call for British independence from the EU. And around the country, voters made clear their deep frustration with Brussels meddling and their anger that Britain has not been given a referendum on our EU membership for a generation, despite promises by several Governments.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy
Guardian Exclusive: Department of Health putting fast food companies at heart of policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease
Felicity Lawrence
Guardian
The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald'sand KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageoat the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.
In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five "responsibility deal" networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month.
The groups are dominated by food and alcohol industry members, who have been invited to suggest measures to tackle public health crises. Working alongside them are public interest health and consumer groups including Which?, Cancer Research UK and the Faculty of Public Health. The alcohol responsibility deal network is chaired by the head of the lobby group the Wine and Spirit Trade Association. The food network to tackle diet and health problems includes processed food manufacturers, fast food companies, and Compass, the catering company famously pilloried by Jamie Oliver for its school menus of turkey twizzlers. The food deal's sub-group on calories is chaired by PepsiCo, owner of Walkers crisps.
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The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald'sand KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg's, Unilever, Mars and Diageoat the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned.
In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign groups to be the equivalent of handing smoking policy over to the tobacco industry, health secretary Andrew Lansley has set up five "responsibility deal" networks with business, co-chaired by ministers, to come up with policies. Some of these are expected to be used in the public health white paper due in the next month.
The groups are dominated by food and alcohol industry members, who have been invited to suggest measures to tackle public health crises. Working alongside them are public interest health and consumer groups including Which?, Cancer Research UK and the Faculty of Public Health. The alcohol responsibility deal network is chaired by the head of the lobby group the Wine and Spirit Trade Association. The food network to tackle diet and health problems includes processed food manufacturers, fast food companies, and Compass, the catering company famously pilloried by Jamie Oliver for its school menus of turkey twizzlers. The food deal's sub-group on calories is chaired by PepsiCo, owner of Walkers crisps.
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
Doomsayers are selling Britain short, says top fund manager
Tom Dobell, manager of M&G Recovery, believes the UK has plenty to offer investors during the recovery.
Ian Cowie
Telegraph
Don’t get Tom Dobell started on bankers. The manager of M&G Recovery, a £6bn fund with 100,000 investors, tells me: “I am astounded at the way banks have abused their taxpayer guarantee. They have behaved atrociously and have done a huge amount of damage to our country.
“Some of these people have behaved disgracefully. It is amazing what you find out about in fund management. You get to see the best and worst of human nature; sometimes on the same day. HSBC is the only bank I would cross the road for. It is conservatively capitalised and its management has more integrity and corporate culture than the rest of them put together.”
Mr Dobell’s scorn is quite different from the populist claptrap produced by politicians almost every day (yes, Vincent, I mean you). During a lost decade in which the FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest shares fell by 15pc, M&G Recovery more than doubled investors’ money.
So the opinions of its manager about who is to blame for the mess we are in and the prospects for Britain’s economic recovery – or the risks of a double-dip recession - are better informed than most. He recently celebrated his tenth anniversary at the helm of the flagship fund of M&G - the company that introduced unit trusts to Britain - and emphasises that he buys or shuns individual shares rather than backing an economy.
But this usually quietly-spoken farming man from Somerset is emphatic that the pessimists are wrong and that those who believe them are not only selling Britain short but missing major opportunities to make money.
Speaking before this week’s better-than-expected gross domestic product (GDP) figures eased fears of economic stagnation, he said: “Detractors are ten a penny and, unfortunately, a lot of people see the glass as half empty but I am pretty optimistic and believe there are great opportunities for some British companies.
“We look to identify unloved businesses with honest hard-working managers, good strategies and the cashflow that comes from that. The aim is to buy low, when they are being bashed from pillar to post, and then sell high when they have bounced back.”
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Don’t get Tom Dobell started on bankers. The manager of M&G Recovery, a £6bn fund with 100,000 investors, tells me: “I am astounded at the way banks have abused their taxpayer guarantee. They have behaved atrociously and have done a huge amount of damage to our country.
“Some of these people have behaved disgracefully. It is amazing what you find out about in fund management. You get to see the best and worst of human nature; sometimes on the same day. HSBC is the only bank I would cross the road for. It is conservatively capitalised and its management has more integrity and corporate culture than the rest of them put together.”
Mr Dobell’s scorn is quite different from the populist claptrap produced by politicians almost every day (yes, Vincent, I mean you). During a lost decade in which the FTSE 100 index of Britain’s biggest shares fell by 15pc, M&G Recovery more than doubled investors’ money.
So the opinions of its manager about who is to blame for the mess we are in and the prospects for Britain’s economic recovery – or the risks of a double-dip recession - are better informed than most. He recently celebrated his tenth anniversary at the helm of the flagship fund of M&G - the company that introduced unit trusts to Britain - and emphasises that he buys or shuns individual shares rather than backing an economy.
But this usually quietly-spoken farming man from Somerset is emphatic that the pessimists are wrong and that those who believe them are not only selling Britain short but missing major opportunities to make money.
Speaking before this week’s better-than-expected gross domestic product (GDP) figures eased fears of economic stagnation, he said: “Detractors are ten a penny and, unfortunately, a lot of people see the glass as half empty but I am pretty optimistic and believe there are great opportunities for some British companies.
“We look to identify unloved businesses with honest hard-working managers, good strategies and the cashflow that comes from that. The aim is to buy low, when they are being bashed from pillar to post, and then sell high when they have bounced back.”
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Boy hides from social workers in the jungle
Britain's zealous social workers have rarely gone to such lengths to seize a child from loving parents
Christopher Booker
Telegraph
Of all the stories I have covered about zealous social workers seizing children from loving parents without cause, none is more bizarre than the one that looked as though it would be concluded in the High Court last Friday.
After London social workers had spent thousands of pounds vainly trying to track down, in the Ugandan jungle, a four-year-old boy who had evaded their clutches, the council indicated that it wished to close the case. But in a last minute twist, the judge gave the social workers three more months to find the child – so the story hasn’t yet got a happy ending.
The boy’s mother is a Ugandan Catholic who has lived in Britain for more than 20 years, has degrees in IT and finance from two London universities, and has held down good jobs. Six years ago, however, she was temporarily homeless with a young daughter. She appealed for help to the social workers of the borough where she then lived. She was told she could put her little girl in foster care, but could be given no help herself. When she refused to hand over her child, a care order was made on the grounds of the mother’s “neglect”.
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Of all the stories I have covered about zealous social workers seizing children from loving parents without cause, none is more bizarre than the one that looked as though it would be concluded in the High Court last Friday.
After London social workers had spent thousands of pounds vainly trying to track down, in the Ugandan jungle, a four-year-old boy who had evaded their clutches, the council indicated that it wished to close the case. But in a last minute twist, the judge gave the social workers three more months to find the child – so the story hasn’t yet got a happy ending.
The boy’s mother is a Ugandan Catholic who has lived in Britain for more than 20 years, has degrees in IT and finance from two London universities, and has held down good jobs. Six years ago, however, she was temporarily homeless with a young daughter. She appealed for help to the social workers of the borough where she then lived. She was told she could put her little girl in foster care, but could be given no help herself. When she refused to hand over her child, a care order was made on the grounds of the mother’s “neglect”.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
In UK, every email and website to be stored by government
Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans.
Tom Whitehead
Telegraph
It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.
Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.
The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.
It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".
Any suggestion of a central "super database" has been ruled out but the plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time.
That will allow the security and police authorities to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public if they argue it is needed to tackle crime or terrorism.
The information will include who is contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not the content of the conversations or messages.
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It will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.
Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.
The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.
It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".
Any suggestion of a central "super database" has been ruled out but the plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time.
That will allow the security and police authorities to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public if they argue it is needed to tackle crime or terrorism.
The information will include who is contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not the content of the conversations or messages.
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
UK fuel poverty doubles in five years
The number of households who are in "fuel poverty" has more than doubled in the last five years because of surging energy bills, according to official statistics.
Harry Wallop
Telegraph
With the average British fuel bill climbing to well over £1,000 a year – for many pensioners the largest bill they have to pay all year – a worryingly large number of people are struggling to keep their homes warm.
A household is defined as being fuel poor if it has to spend 10 per cent or more of its income on paying to keep the home adequately warm.
In 2003 the number of households hit a low of two million, but it climbed to four million in 2007 and then 4.5 million in 2008, the figures for which were published today by the Department of Energy & Climate Change.
This figure suggests that one in six households were fuel poor during 2008, a year which saw energy bills shoot up by 45 per cent.
DECC pointed out that since then the figure was likely to have fallen to 4.1 million, thanks to energy companies trimming their bills. However, this is still twice the level it was in 2003.
The figures were released just a day after the Treasury laid out plans to cut the emergency cold weather payments from £25 to £8.50. Senior Whitehall sources said that it was not “affordable” to keep the £25 level of payment that was introduced last year by Gordon Brown.
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With the average British fuel bill climbing to well over £1,000 a year – for many pensioners the largest bill they have to pay all year – a worryingly large number of people are struggling to keep their homes warm.
A household is defined as being fuel poor if it has to spend 10 per cent or more of its income on paying to keep the home adequately warm.
In 2003 the number of households hit a low of two million, but it climbed to four million in 2007 and then 4.5 million in 2008, the figures for which were published today by the Department of Energy & Climate Change.
This figure suggests that one in six households were fuel poor during 2008, a year which saw energy bills shoot up by 45 per cent.
DECC pointed out that since then the figure was likely to have fallen to 4.1 million, thanks to energy companies trimming their bills. However, this is still twice the level it was in 2003.
The figures were released just a day after the Treasury laid out plans to cut the emergency cold weather payments from £25 to £8.50. Senior Whitehall sources said that it was not “affordable” to keep the £25 level of payment that was introduced last year by Gordon Brown.
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Big Ag lobbyist wrote UK government's report on GM foods
Natural News
Agribusiness lobbyists took an active role in writing a U.K. government report on genetically modified (GM) foods, two former members of the Food Standards Agency's (FSA's) steering group have revealed.
Dr. Helen Wallace of Genewatch U.K. and Professor Brian Wynne both resigned recently in protest of what Wynne calls a "dogmatically entrenched" pro-GM attitude at the FSA, whose head recently accused GM critics of being "anti-science."
Leaked emails between the Agricultural Biotechnology Council (ABC) and then-FSA head of novelfoods Clair Baynton "expose how the Food Standards Agency is acting as a puppet of the GM industry, by colluding with foreign GM companies to undermine people's access to GM-free foodsupplies in Britain," Wallace said.
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