(05 Sep 2015, 4:46 pm)R852 PRG I see a petition has been started to replace Katie Hopkins with 50,000 Syrian refugees. I've signed up.

(07 Sep 2015, 7:45 pm)Andreos1 Is anyone watching Panorama?
A Jeremy Corbyn special.

(07 Sep 2015, 7:47 pm)aureolin Of course.

(07 Sep 2015, 7:51 pm)Andreos1 It started off quite well, started to get a bit distorted now...

(07 Sep 2015, 8:16 pm)aureolin Aye, it became a dirt digging exercise. A last ditch effort by the Beeb to influence the result? Who knows.

Andy Harrison, CEO
 "The scale of the increase is bigger than we would have expected and clearly employment costs are our biggest single cost."

(08 Sep 2015, 1:19 pm)Andreos1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34177370

Living Wage to be used by Whitbread as a reason to increase prices.
An interesting one, which almost negates the point of having a living wage in the first place.


The article goes on to state that roughly 34,000 of Whitbread's 42,000 hourly-paid staff receive less than £7.20 an hour.
Granted it is a smaller proportion, but if the remaining 8,000 received a pay increase, would the price of our coffee go up? 

I will put my last £7.20 on at Fozzes bookies, that we will see redundancies and shorter working hours for those 34,000, negating the wage increase. 
Without knowing the proportion of hours worked (full/part time) and the split, it is difficult to see how much difference the 70p increase will make to overall profits.

I wonder if a brave retailer would dare to lower prices - on the off-chance the increased money in the back pockets of those affected, may actually tempt consumers to spend more?

(12 Sep 2015, 10:44 am)aureolin Corbyn has won the leadership by a landslide in the first round - almost 60% of the votes.

Labour are now a serious risk to our nation’s security, our economy’s security and your family’s security.

Whether it’s weakening our defences, raising taxes on jobs and earnings, racking up more debt and welfare or driving up the cost of living by printing money – Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party will hurt working people.

This is a very serious moment for our country – the Conservatives will continue to deliver stability, security and opportunity for working people.

(12 Sep 2015, 12:47 pm)MurdnunoC Official Tory response to Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party, delivered by Michael Fallon.

(12 Sep 2015, 12:47 pm)MurdnunoC Official Tory response to Corbyn being elected as leader of the Labour Party, delivered by Michael Fallon.

(12 Sep 2015, 8:39 pm)BusLoverMum He should take up comedy.

(12 Sep 2015, 9:53 pm)aureolin I actually thought their email stank of fear. It'll be interesting to see what their tactics are when it comes to trying to smear Corbyn, because he simply doesn't allow himself or his people to rise to it. The Tories came across as a one trick pony during the last 5 years. It seemed the more they tried to smear Ed and other senior figures, the more they'd bite back. 

Come 2020, I honestly think that people will have seen right through the "pro-worker" Tory party, and are hopefully voting in their masses against austerity. That just needs all these supporters to get properly involved and organise. 

(12 Sep 2015, 10:06 pm)MurdnunoC And most of those senior figures are now trudging off to the back benches while trying not trip over their lip on the way.

I like Corbyn's idea of allowing other MP's to take to the despatch box during PMQ's. At the very least, it keeps Cameron on his toes and serves to unsettle his flow.