Plaid to win Ceredigion in 2015?

Could the UK disband if Scotland secedes?

 

At present until the English Democrats declare their parliament on Saturday the UK has no English devolution just the Greater London Authority and County councils.

 

The territory of England has a general synod for its established church elected under PR for the laity.

 

The ideal policy of Plaid Cymru is a Welsh republic in the Commonwealth as laid out by Saunders Lewis their founding leader.

 

Northern Ireland is not a successor state to the irish kingdom as it was abolished by direct rule. The devolved settlement lays out that the line of succession passes according to sovereign states and has recently been amended to give gender equality.

 

Scotland has a majority in the Scottish Parliament in favour of secession within the Commonwealth with shared defence.

 

So to save the remaining UK or create a British – Irish republic their needs to be a referendum on the continuation of the monarchy with a review of prerogative powers. That would facilitate an elected senate for the common state. Another option might be to replace the House of Lords for England once Wales and Scotland secede.

 

There might need to be a Conservative MP for Ceredigion, unachieveable since 1885 when the franchise was extended to all men if you disagree with the above.

 

I disagree with the last option and look forward towards the first step towards English Devolution.

 

 

Why David Cameron is right about legislation being needed to regulate the internet.

1)      Since the 1970s there have been explicit cartoons coming out of East Asia, more recently they have spoofed many childrens cartoon series such as the Simpsons.

2)      More extreme varieties are on credit card websites with also posted videos

3)      The old ways in which cadets and charities funded themselves with calendars are now becoming perceived as sexist. Plus the purchase of magazines andtheir regulation are now out dated technologically. Put simply there isn’t the money in it or the business of Peter Stringfellow et. al.

4)      A Hillingdon council house or shared ownership could not be supported by modelling for these magazines and starring in the amateur pornos made at the same time, let alone starting a family. One series has more underage at times and the other has extreme content. Whether the models are really 18 is open to question. To paraphrase the NSPCC, these ‘publications’ breach the underwear rule.

5)      These products could put their models in danger in Muslim countries as a breach of Shariah Law.

6)      Some adult dating sites could contain the content and email it to people of older ages the ‘bit.ly’ server in particular.

7)      No classroom and internet can be 100% supervised and hacking the protocols to have a look is a technical challenge that many students, being more savvy in the updates in computer programming than their teachers, could theoretically achieve.

8)      Hence software licencing and support should be by borough  or district council so that there is ongoing technical update support for schools and liason with social services (provided that they do not produce such magazines).

Ways to  becoming James Bond

 

OK At 33 I’m probably too old if Daniel Craig does one or two more James Bond movies, let alone becomes another Sean Connery.

 

So If its not gonna be me, who and how?

 

One you need acting experience and some appreciation of military and high technology. A reader of Janes Defence weekly or Modern Railways perhaps.

 

Or Scotland might secede with Wales and Sean Connery becomes President of a Republican British Irish Council subject to a Labour victory and referendums on:

 

1)      A written constitution for the whole UK

2)      Membership of the European Union

3)      Whether there should be a President for a federal British Irish state instead of a president Eirnan and UK Monarch.

 

Answers

1)      Yes

2)      No

3)      Yes if any Labour Leader asked the question at Prime Minister Questions, without hindrance by any institution.

 

“Should the United Kingdom have a referendum to change to an elected Head of state as well as an Elected second chamber?”

And then stood on it as a manifesto commitment. There was one nation in 1801.

 

There is not an English Republican Army and I am not its head.

 

 

 

Continuing Centrepoint.

 

Last week I texted into LBC that to deal with asylum and economic migrants from Rumania there should be more centrepoint hostels over cross rail sites.

 

A potted history is that CEntrepoint was a hostel when in economic good times the property cartel of crown estates and westminster council  and the Duchies of the Royal Boroughs didn’t know what to do with the sleaze of sex shops, drug dens and few affordable properties pegged to a monopoly style property system in the UK since the second world war and recovering bomb sites.

 

This continued with the refusal of the Thatcher government to build properties with the sale of council house receipts and the growth of housing benefit top up by local authorities so that some families could live in their home areas where they had settled.

 

This created a cat and mouse game where accommodation addresses and how far up the Piccadilly line from heathrow you could get.

 

The charities that then stepped into the breach were the red cross and Princes Trust that sought to mentor the youth and those who had drug problems on how to settle in the United Kingdom elsewhere and set up businesses.

 

This generated investment capital for part rent part buy housing associations around the home counties for families to relocate, reducing ghettoisation or increasing it depending on the borough.

 

Now with benefit capping, a return to housing hostels for initial employment screening and hello if EU nationals is a good idea as they could come here legally anyway.

 

They can then use the profits from Oxford and Regent Street to build houses elsewhere in the country and where there has been investment in public transport such as trams and rail to take workers to work.

 

So theres no need to collapse the stock exchange in a tit for tat revenge as occurred in the 1970s and 1980s.

 

The problem comes when illegal squats are tolerated as their desperate ways of funding themselves and relaying funds can cause problems.

 

 

James Ware

Student finance in England

After an application through UCAS or direct to some independent universities or external unis that offer taught programmes by residential fortnights (such as some  London Business Schools). You have to make a paper or online application for student finance if your parents can’t afford to support you or you are a mature or disabled student.

Student finance is administered by Student Finance England:

Student finance England,

PO Box 210,

Darlington,

DL1 9HJ

0845 607 7577 for students to seek advice and check applications.

There are two components to the loan, the fee loan (up to £9,000 2012/13) and the combined maintenance loan / grant (grant up to £3250, loan £8382 2012/13). Once registered on a course, the University gets the fee component and once attendance is verified, you get your loan and grant.

The loan and grant count as income under DWP benefit rules so that disabled people lose there income support (£100 a fortnight) but keep their incapacity benefit (£220 a fortnight) and housing and council tax benefits. In some local authorities this is assessed on a case by case basis. Hence the continuation of the grant component of the money paid to the student in part lieu of this income support.

For NHS prescription costs (the other £2000 of the approx £5200 annual income lost with the cancellation of income support), English students on sickness benefits (IB / DLA / ESA / Universal Credit) can use form HC1 from the NHS. There is also a prescription prepayment certificate if not on these benefits at a high enough qualifying rate.

Disability Living Allowance is paid for care support but there is also the disabled student’s allowance that includes both equipment and learning support components (note taking, though this is often taken to mean accessing lecture handouts on a student portal or blackboard software).

The loans are combined at the end of the course and repaid at a personal earning income variable rate. This repayment amount increases with the amount a person earns above £21,000 a year (the average wage of a station assistant on the London Underground). The amount paid back is approx 9% of total income according to UCL.

If a student is in the fortunate position to work part time and want to study part time, they can apply for course fee grants and loans. If the Open University and disabled, some fee support / waiver is allowed if on benefits and disabled students allowance, letting you keep your state benefits (though you have to declare this with the Department of Work and Pensions and the OU would like a letter from the DWP confirming your receipt of benefits, for Housing benefit, the local authority can help at their office and council tax benefit reception). If a Four year part time intensity BA / Bsc / LLB degree at 90 credits a year part time you only get from student finance England a fee loan so would have to save for textbooks and stationery prior to the course starting and look at the feasibility of working part time.

This is opposed to 120 credits a year full time over three years or the Edinburgh / Oxford / Cambridge Masters included MA / MSC / LLM degree over four years (or the Six year Medical degrees), the disabled student keeps their benefits intact on a case by case basis or on the income reduced rate if they are working part time (such as £21 a week indefinitely income for things such as paper rounds, and £80-90 a week for a year if on transition to full time employment with disabled tax credits for those working over 16 hours a week). They get the full time student loans and grant. IF at Oxbridge (Oxford / Cambridge) they may get top up bursaries and loans for the even higher tuition fees set by the elite ‘Russell Group’ Universities. You need to check how these are repaid.

For standard tuition fee and maintenance loans if you fail to earn over £21k (nurses or social workers or bar staff / waiters) or are unemployed, you don’t pay anything back during that period. After 30 years the debt is written off.

POSTGRAD STUDY

This is funded separately by either university scholarships for the fees or fee grants from bodies such as the British Council, the Arts and Humanities funding council, Royal Society (Sciences). You have to amass your own funding and may be offered assistance by the university you apply to. You could be a warden for undergraduate students to get free accommodation if you are not privately renting on housing benefit if on a low income. Part time work is allowed if you are a part time student such as at Birkbeck or the Open University and that for mature students has included company or charity directorships on a pro rata part time salary. With The Open University it also includes full time work and distance learning.

The ecclesiastical parliaments of England

1)      General Synod of the church of England

Meets every six months once in London (Church House in the precincts of Westminster Abbey and York Minster (University campus). Sets policies and ordination criteria for the Church of England.

2)  Diocesan Synods

Sets budgets for anglican churches

3)      Area Diocesan Synods (such the General Secretary of Willesdens / Wealdstone, Bishop Peter Broadbent)

To set the budgets and admission policies of schools and advise the ‘area sees’ in urban areas. Some are appointed and ex offcio and can be seen as cliques promoting one political party (EG Tories in St Pauls Cathedral, Labour in the parishes and as Anglican.org separate websites).

4)      Deanery Synods

Where Clergy and lay elected representatives debate the policy for the locality and the implementation (or lack thereof) of General and Diocesan Synods owing to Churches Together priorities leading to light touch on other churches.

5)      Parochial Church Councils

Set the direction and mission focus for each church or group of churches.

All (allegedly) according to the laws of the Westminster parliament as it is devolved from it since the 1920s.

to ban these magazines and the way that they're produced would set the international ideal

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