bickerrecord.bsky.social
Past: Nurse, aid worker, social entrepreneur, councillor, governor, charity treasurer (NEON, Medact), famous blogger/essayist
Present: Community energy generation schemer, well being organizer, ignored Blueskyer
Future: Prophet of the New Enlightenment
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Agreed on both counts in subsantive terms, but political administrations are scared of EFS and, politically, a short term fix for transition could become a long term one with some useful forgetfulness.
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There is, I think, scope for a temporary relaxation of the s.114 rules on balanced budget, which could even be done by ministerial direction, but nobody's talking about that route to avoid lowest bid wins elections next year.
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For me the most poignant bit is the very short scene when the young resistance leader takes a quick trip to see his parents, and father and son send each other off to possible death under torture with a quick hug and shrug.
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Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The slide that goes with it includes a recommendation to recruit temporary transitional staff', which seems a bit fanciful.
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Perhaps, but there may be sense in keeping up the pretence for a while, at least for Russian eyes, that the US can be brought back to the correct side, while European countriies scramble on procurement and logistics.
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Good point. Well made. But I felt a need to display my rancour towards GT in particular.
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Thanks Laura. Should get this. Read 'Together' but not this yet.
Agree that RW regimes/movements go after women as key strategy, but my Q was whether women in Germany are reacting more quickly than in other places to what AfD would bring, because this would be 'second time around'.
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e..g Nazi newspaper Der Angriff (1933) quoted at Reich p.57
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I think it's worth checking if the same lettuce is still available, to avoid waste.
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I think I beat Kiel by a year! I have a memory of trying to interest the Guardian back then, but to no avail.
Good article, Jonathan. It's all coming round again, as you suggest.
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S'thing like that. The RW press fawning over his 'guarantee' have preferred not to notice the £1 maximum payout, or have no understanding of company law and administration, or both.
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Not sure a Co Ltd by Guarantee can issue B shares as there are no A Shares, but broadly yes, this is where the financial control will be of money provided by US far right, as per Wilders.
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It looks to be a model quite closely based on Geer Wilder's Freedom Party, the main 'association' of which he is the sole member.
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It's a model very similar to that adopted by Geert Wilder's Freedom Party, which has no members other than him.
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It's about going to Blackpool, which is sort of the same thing.
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In that respec, the Victorian model of charity lives on strong - indeed stronger than in charities.
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Yep, which is much the same as Co Ltd by Shares doing dividends. Yet there's a whole cottage industry out there telling us you have to have special abilities and virtues to do this, and a load of impositions on raising finance to protect our virtuous side from the devil that lurks within us.
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Yes, that why is core to my planned piece. Some of it is regulatory - why does it cost 10x as much to get a CBS through the FCA than to set up a Ltd Co etc etc, and related to that is the cultural notion, defended by thinktankery, that coop governance is hard/special
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And ch 4 of your Taking power Back.
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But builds on all the old Carers' Agency stuff around class and gender.
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I'll try to do it this weekend. Been doing not a lot of writing but a fair bit of thinking, in line with all the 'community energy' stuff. It's really about state policy that can take cooperative structures from niche country pub ownership to different economic ownership of 'norma' stuff at scale.
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And yes, I know I should write this up more fully. The notes are all there, but IRL efforts at developing non-transferable shares business activity in energy keep getting in the way.
And last post should have said transferable in line with current FCA wording, not transactional, tho
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Assembling a governing board after (re)incorporation is not a possible thing. The directors of a Co Ltd by Guarantee have the decision making power. Perhaps he means 'advisrory board', or perhaps it's a more direct lie.