(20 Feb 2016, 12:35 pm)Michael wrote EU migrants should have access to in work benefits why shouldn't they?, they work for them, then they can have in work benefits, but like you said no one should have them because companies should be paying them decent wages but that doesn't happen.
(20 Feb 2016, 12:53 pm)Adrian wrote That's what he has been pushing for Michael.
The 'emergency brake' is a key part of the deal, and is for when it's deemed that there are *exceptional* levels of migration. Add that to the rhetoric we've had over the years about excessive migration, and I'm sure you can guess the direction he's heading with this one...
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35616768 (but you can read the full statement on the EU parliament website too)
(20 Feb 2016, 1:04 pm)Adrian wrote I'd been trying to dig this out... found it at last!
"Campaign materials have been ordered for the EU Campaign, and a street stall has been organised for the Market Place on 27 February 2016. A reminder will be sent about this in due course.
It is important to get behind this campaign, as recent polls have shown a movement towards a vote for leaving the EU."
So Labour will be holding campaign stalls next weekend, for a pro-EU vote. It's worth people heading along if they've an interest in the referendum.
(20 Feb 2016, 1:04 pm)Adrian wrote I'd been trying to dig this out... found it at last!
"Campaign materials have been ordered for the EU Campaign, and a street stall has been organised for the Market Place on 27 February 2016. A reminder will be sent about this in due course.
It is important to get behind this campaign, as recent polls have shown a movement towards a vote for leaving the EU."
So Labour will be holding campaign stalls next weekend, for a pro-EU vote. It's worth people heading along if they've an interest in the referendum.
Jeremy Corbyn was elected as Leader of the Labour Party on an enormous wave of optimism and support. Winning on the first round, his policies appealed to an overwhelming majority of our Party members. We will all be campaigning for a Labour government in 2020. But many of those policies Jeremy has spoken of- the nationalization of the railways and energy companies, ending the privatization of the NHS and restoring Trade Union rights cannot be achieved under existing EU legislation. The only way to achieve those bold and popular policies is to leave the EU.
(20 Feb 2016, 1:28 pm)MrFozz wrote Is that Durham Market Place???
I am in Durham next Saturday will have a ganders if thats where it is to be
https://play.google.com/store/apps/detai...ber.yes2eu
Just a Yes2EU app by a Scottish MEP
(24 Feb 2016, 11:52 am)Adrian wrote DCC are discussing devolution as part of the council meeting today: http://democracy.durham.gov.uk/ieListDoc...px?CId=153&MId=8205
Item 12 is the devolution update and poll results.
(18 Mar 2016, 9:03 pm)citaro5284 wrote Iain Duncan Smith has said he is resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary, complaining of Treasury pressure to make cuts to benefits.
Did not see that coming mind.
(18 Mar 2016, 9:03 pm)citaro5284 wrote Iain Duncan Smith has said he is resigning as Work and Pensions Secretary, complaining of Treasury pressure to make cuts to benefits.
Did not see that coming mind.
(18 Mar 2016, 9:44 pm)Adrian wrote Me neither, but can't say I'm disappointed. I think it's more to do with his position in the EU exit campaign, rather than the benefit cuts though.
(19 Mar 2016, 10:35 am)Adrian wrote Stephen Crabb announced as IDS replacement... they didn't hang around on that one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35850932
(19 Mar 2016, 10:35 am)Adrian wrote Stephen Crabb announced as IDS replacement... they didn't hang around on that one.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-35850932
(22 Mar 2016, 6:22 pm)Michael wrote Trump....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States should use waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques when questioning terror suspects, and renewed his call for tougher U.S. border security after the attacks in Brussels.
Trump is a complete bell scrot!
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-looks-ex...03800.html