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8 May

Labour Party may be charged with taking its traditional working class support for granted whilst pandering to urban youth, a minority of whom, admittedly, were at least born into the working class. Labour went into #GE2017 pledged to scrap universal university tuition fees ...

... on its first day in office and with a perceived intent to, at some point, write off outstanding student debt, incurred to pay for tuition fees. Only a minority of 18 to 21 year olds go to university, a disproportionate number of them are drawn from the middle and upper class.

In comparison, Labour had no hard edged pledges on education for the many whose offspring do not expect to go to university. In prioritising scrapping fees, Labour pandered not just to urban youth, but also their families etc. It also planned to leave in place £7bn out of £9bn ..

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18 Apr

When one joins the Civil Service, one enters the membership of a club.

A club with traditions, good and bad, going back centuries.

Its past members include Sir Geoffrey Chaucer, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell and Samuel Pepys.

Truly one stands on the shoulders of giants.

And it is a club one never leaves, even on exiting the employment of the Civil Service.

The code of omerta still very much applies, even in retirement.

GOD these days, in that other place, those Elysian Fields, sets us a good example.

Hodges, when you smear one of us, you insult all of us.

We are not journalists we are a family.

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16 Apr

Having read the Blueprint for Children’s Social Care John Seddon wrote the following letter to people listed as interviewees. Tis relevant to note that every reply John received stated clearly interviewee did not concur with the report’s recommendations.

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"I’m writing to you because you were listed as an interviewee in A Blueprint for Children’s Social Care: Unlocking the potential of social work. Your listing as interviewee suggests you might concur with the report’s recommendations, but I am aware some of the interviewees don't.

I read the Blueprint owing to reading about the controversy surrounding its authorship in Private Eye. My first concern was that the Blueprint portrayed the UK pilots of Buurtzorg as successful.

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