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Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: II feel that the right decision has been reached here, since her job is one that is needed at all times for the care of people who need care all the time.

However I find the logic a bit weird, to say that because some Christians work on Sundays it's not protected. Some members of all religions may do things that others think are wrong, and unless the religion has a centralised body that can excommunicate people, that logic could even mean that an enterprising employer could pretend to be an adherent of a religion, do the thing they wish to force their employees into, and then the law would protect them. I'd be interested to read the full judgement.


Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: IIt's very simple. If you don't want to do all of the parts of a job as stated in the contract, don't apply for the job.  Don't take the job and then bleat about your religion and expect special treatment as a result.



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Heart of Honours

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: The whole honours system is an outdated anachronism.

That those honours determined and awarded directly by the Queen are the cleanest is one of the best arguments for constitutional monarchy rather than a (potentially corrupt) republic.

   

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: I think the public are mostly aware of where the stenches are and who it is that smells. No amount of honouring the dishonourable can change them. The quickest fix would be for those honourable peers to publicly reject their honours because they do not wish to be associated with the malodorous ne'er-do-wells. Also our newspapers, especially DT should do more on the name and shame.



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Better Future With Dreams

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: We have kids who need help  in the UK too given that child poverty rose under Labour so maybe the funds should be used here.
On the other hand India has its space programme and said that it does not need British help.
Something does not seem right.


Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: The cultural traditions of India and other countries in the region are frightening and abhorrent.
That the British government has connived in bringing these practices into the local communities and telling us how wonderful multi-culturalism is, says a lot about the intellect or the deception of the socialist politicians.


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Taxing councils

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: They are getting rid of diversity managers, out reach advisers, equal opportunity managers, access managers, gender enablers     and a host of other highly paid and useless jobs which for the last 13 years have been recruited through the Guardian newspaper and encouraged by the lax financial control exercised by muddlethought, balls and mad broon as they strove to create their client state


Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: Effectively what they are saying is that where previously the money going to councils was raised through central taxation. that money will now be raised locally through increased parking charges, speed cameras, litter fines, parking fines using  car number plate recognition technology, and other such indirect taxation methods.
Meanwhile the government can redirect more of the money from central taxation to the banks and fat cats at the top. While independent companies running local tax revenue operations will be raking in the profits while paying minimum wages.
We are all being robbed...wake up!



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Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: The botom line on this is that tax is far too complicated. This in turn causes so many queries that the offices just cannot handle it.

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: This is yet another thing the government was going to do,make tax simple again,  but has done nothing about it.



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Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: I think what many of those of us who grew up in this country with inside toilets, a heat source, if not central heating, enough to eat, access to education and the NHS are perhaps not always able to appreciate the appalling conditions, with all those things absent, that many who arrive in Britain, legally and illegally as economic migrants have left behind.  They can and will latch on anywhere they can - for what we long ago left behind in terms of standards is to them a better life.

The problem with this is that we do not have the wealth, the resources, the space, the jobs, the accommodation for all these people and the effect of their arrival is to debase our average living standards in all of these areas.  This is going to get much worse.

The question needs to be asked as to why our borders have effectively been abandoned in a number of ways and what the agenda is in play to which we are not privy - European homogenisation or even this on a global level.  Have we signed up to this - or have our politicians been quietly suborned to a tacit programme.

The sewers are not the real issue, they are a symptom of the presence of sewer rats in the political system who are no longer telling us the truth about anything.

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: The reality is that in the Sixties, nearly three quarters of England was undisturbed by development. Today, urban sprawl and the roads it brings
intrudes across more than half of the country.

Do they? The Office of National Statistics appears to disagree:

"In England, "78.6% of urban areas is designated as natural rather
than built". Since urban only covers a tenth of the country, this means
that the proportion of England's landscape which is built on is…… 2.27%."

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New Pension Reforms System Review

Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: When you finally retire your income is likely to be made up from a number of sources.  Some, such as the basic state pension, are very difficult to defend against change; but a lot can be done to improve others such as your private pension.  In aggregate these pots should then lead to a decent retirement.
 The government and finance industry are on side for making changes to create fairer retirements, but will always deal with groups in proportion to the pressure they can apply.



Online Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: If S2P is merged as part of the single-tier state pension the option to opt out will have to be removed, otherwise you would have the highly unfair situation where some pensioners are paying more for their state pension than others.

 Wait till we hear the screams of protest from all the public servants who are automatially opted out at present and will cease to get the associated 1.4% reduction in contributions when they are automatically opted in under the new scheme.  That's £400-£500 additional NI contributions for an average earner.



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Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: Cuts are needed now! We must pay off the deficit. The
Treasury pays out some £7billion a year in higher rate tax relief. Cut the
higher rate tax relief and save £7 billion a year. Otherwise this is money down
the drain for the treasury.  You know it




Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: We've been warned enough times: Don't put a penny into a pension fund because it's likely it will be stolen to pay for the public sector's pensions, immigrants who've never paid into the fund and India's space program.



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Mortgage Deal Topic Discussed

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: I dont understand this world: Why would anyone take on 30 years of obligations (= mortgage) when he is given security ( = fixed interest rate)  for just 2 years?  Do they try to fool someone?

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: I remember paying 15% on my mortgage in the 1980's, it was a life changer!  These days happily I am paying 0.67% on a lifetime tracker deal.

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: A mortgage rate of 1.9%?.....Lucky sods....I started off in the 70's at 16%.....Mind you I saved, worked all the hours God sent and did without holidays etc to be able to pay it whilst also starting a business off.
Get the interest up to at least 8% so us savers can get a return on our hard earned wealth! 


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Parliamentary Yearbook 2012:  Surely the core problem is that we trust the government (in whatever incarnation)  about as much as pension providers.
Will the guaranteed income be inflation proofed? You can promise me a retirment income of, say, £20,000 a year but what if it only buys a loaf of bread by the time I come to retire?  I welcome the sentiment about burden sharing and more stability but can get past the trust issue myself.

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012:   The expression "Beware Governments bearing Gifts" comes to mind as NO government has ever guaranteed anything like this before and there's 100 ways they could give the illusion of honouring an agreement whilst taxing you in other areas.

Mr Webb, do you honestly think the electorate would trust you on this one after Gordon Brown raided our pensions. Governments implicitly can renege on a promise and there's nothing we can do about it other than kick them out at the following election.

As I've found out just this week, the UK government wont even accept a European Court of Justice ruling that its supposed to implement but instead, the DWP stated that they don't do retrospective rulings on a judgement even though ECJ rulings are retrospective by default.

Government are the law makers and there's nothing we can really do if they change the laws against earlier promises or even court judgements.

Here's a solution Mr. Webb,  hand out small gold bar for the extra levy, pass it to those who paid in and then they can hide it away from any future governments greedy mitts !

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Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: Why is it the UK only has this problem with young drivers looking up the driving age around the world below.
18 comes out on top but 16 Canada/America do they have the same problems.
The driving test should be made harder in my opinion  

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: Do driving tests still have quotas in that they have to pass or fail certain people depending on ther ethnic type irrespective of their driving abilities?

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012: "How new restrictions would be enforced remains unclear."

Rather stupid to raise it as policy then, don't you think ?
What if the driver has a girlfriend ? or a fiancee ?
Rather bizarre that a learner driver HAS to have a passenger to drive a car, but when he/she passes the test they aren't allowed one.

Parliamentary Yearbook 2012:  The insurance companies are in effect doing tmost of he job already with intergalactic premium for anything with any go.
Trouble is even basic cars are much too powerful and fast for those that want to show off or drink - 60bhp and 100mph top speed is the norm.  In the 1960s it was 35bhp and 70mph.

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parliamentary information office: I've lived in the UK for almost 20 years now, I still get a bit confused by some traditions, then there are things that aren't really tradition I don't think like boxing day, where I come from we don't have boxing day but when I ask people where it came from etc no one really seems to know.





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75% of the population are Christian, yet like the BBC we have an immigrant creed at the forefront of religion in our society?

Minister of faith and community, apparently the only community that counts now are the Muslims.

Let's all pander so they do not blow us up. Islam is a dangerous virulent political force that has no place in a western society.





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they love what Britain has to offer – and that’s not just jobs and more
freedoms...We know. It's the benefits, houses, free NHS, no judicial system, ECHR, etc. Need I say more?




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What is worrying is that there is a hard line atheist element is society that uses the "inclusion" argument to discourage traditional Christmas celebration.
They want to change Easter into "Spring Break" as well. Watch out for this because the tactic is to push for a fixed time for the Easter school holiday. Once it does not follow the date of Easter they can rename it.


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parliamentary information office: How long before the socialist agenda in Britain marks out homeowners as the eliteist few deserving of the odd brick though the window and key scratch along the side of the car. As Obama has proved the dead beats are in the ascendency and will drive their own envious agenda. Labour started the trend by placing social housing in the middle of hitherto desirable residential estates.
Better to not display your hard working credentials and rent something low key in a drab area to show solidarity.



parliamentary information office: Declining home ownership is the result of changing demographics.
Quite litterally, the British "Middle-classes" have been decimated.
Gone are the business owners and professional engineers, say Hello to the call-centre tele-marketeers and Hamburger flippers.

We are now in a country that has urgent need of swathes of new council houses, but we need to destroy swathes of owner-occupied suburbia to build them.
Demand for council houses (and for mansions for the super rich is at an all-time high ), but gone is the demand for middle class family homes. Sure, people do want to own them, but those that do cannot afford them.
Our public sector professionals can still afford them, but how much longer can we afford THEM ?

Home ownership will eventually die, as our nations skill-set gets lower and lower.

   




parliamentary information office: With the internet you can find out some interesting things but would need to be careful about what some websites publish as it can be misleading.
I have just checked out the annual incomes for the work we did when we started out decades ago. I then looked on the internet for the current price of our first home and for a mortgage calculator for the monthly cost over the same pay back period.
The result is, when we started out decades ago, the monthly cost of the mortgage was one month's full income after tax(mine). The cost now per the mortgage calculator would be half of one months income after tax(my old job at the current income today) with a very much lower interest rate. If you get five minutes try it and see if you get a similar result. Here is a link to the mortgage rates over the decades. When the interest was in double numbers, inflation was nearly 20% also.




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Oh where to start... home ownership provides stability, community and property. The state hates all of those.  Permanance is power, as Humph has said. If people live together they form a community. A community acts together for it's own good.

No, far better to have division within that community, split it up, shift people from 'outside' into it. Division causes conflict and strife. Difference allows room for someone else, someone stronger to step in.

At every level the family, the community is under constant barrage from government which is acting solely to it's own agenda of divide and conquer, but instead of guns, it uses legislation.



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Living Overseas

parliamentary information office: This is surely a moot point. It may be that, albeit at the present time,they cannot command and demand the money they were once used to. I hope it means that now there are places for graduates and people who are willing to work with what is required in current times.

parliamentary information office: This article and the report it was based on, are sheer political spin. They put a slant on the emigration figures that it is quite unjustified by the facts. No attempt was made to assess the reasons why the "scientists, academics and pharmacists" left the UK. Instead we are given run-of-the-mill right-wing arguments for cutting the tax take from high earners. But for anyone who knows about incomes of scientists and academics, it`s their low basic rate of pay that is the problem. The Office of National Statistics found that total reward for graduates was 6% lower in the public sector than the private sector. And George Osborne`s virtual freeze on public-sector pay since that assessment has meant the shortfall is now greater. I have long argued from experience in the North-east, that the professionals working for oil companies have total reward twice as great as their equivalents with similar degrees doing equally weighty jobs in the public sector. We now have some figures.

parliamentary information office: Good luck to those of you that want to better yourselves because their is not a lot on offer in The UK

parliamentary information office: Many people who emigrate do so because they do not want to bring their children up here as they have poorer chances of succeding as young adults. When I was in Canada recently, I met quite a few enterprising young Brits who had emigrated because they felt they had better chances than in the UK . The problem is that English being the universal language attracts educated and able youngsters from other European countries to come here to compete for university places and jobs. Our young people cannot emigrate to other European countries. How many speak Polish or Lithuanian? So its off to Canada and Oz . Its not so much a brain drain as being squeezed out. When can we leave the EU and call our country home again?


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parliamentary information office: The texts weren't very secret since we all  now know about them. And, given the content, it's right that we should know about them. She looks forward to working together? And professionally they're in it together?
That does not sound like a relationship a PM should be having with a newspaper executive - even if he did go to the same school as her husband, which has even less relevance unless they were actually in the same year.
Mr Cameron really does have boundary issues and a strange idea of what constitutes loyalty for a man in his position as PM. He has difficulty differentiating between loyalty to country and loyalty to mates. If he doesn't like being disliked he's in the wrong job.


parliamentary information office: Anyone who's met a hack ( or anyone with a keen sense of smell) realises that scummy tarts, or even bullshitting boys stand out from 100 metres away ( Vince Cable please note). Grown-ups show them the door ( in a polite way) because they have no qualms about crapping over most people for their own ends.

The naivete among the UK Establishment is shocking - and that's why they shouldn't have access to "levers" of power.

We are being eaten alive by trained barracudas from around the World - and they need smart, tough handling.



parliamentary information office: Personally I don`t care if Brooks or Murdoch sucked Camerons dick of the other way round.

I DO care about the fact that they may have colluded in manipulating the media to hide the truth about illegal activities and government activities, if there is indeed a separation...


parliamentary information office: That horse text is such a obvious attempt at flirting with Mrs Brooks. Cringe.... One just knows there's so much worse to come.


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Views on Marriage

parliamentary information office: What we have now is a left leaning parliament and we have had a left leaning parliament for decades. One of their main aims was to destroy marriage and the family. Doing this makes society weaker and easier to manipulate, and they are nearly there, only now Cameron wants to revive it, but only for homosexuals and lesbians. Politicians are afraid of the strength and strong bonds of the family unit.
Though, this is all part of the plan, a plan to sap the strength of Britain, to make us a weak and malleable nation, so they can sell us out to their vile political ideologies.



parliamentary information office: Why would you want to promote marriage amongst poor people (which a state handout would do)? All that would happen is they would breed a load of poor children who would need housing, clothing and feeding at the state's (thats our) expense, etc.

OK, is that controversial enough?



parliamentary information office: The scars of divorce - very true. We could help marriage by reforming family law, bringing into line with the law in many other developed Western countries. What you owned before the marriage should remain yours alone, not be split: out with the concept of matrimonial property, only what you build together after the marriage should be split. You should also be able to make legally-binding pre-nup contracts. And custody should be shared by default.


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All very good, but the reality is the state hates marriage. It hates - actively - families to the point of doing everything to destroy them.

The family, the married couple do not need the state. This terrifies the  state engine: all those hundreds of thousands of well adjusted, intelligent, active children? What use would they have for endless social workers, police officers, intervention officers, bureaucrats, welfare people....

No, the state will never change it's views on the family. It would be easy for it to do so but it chooses not to for it's own benefit.

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parliamentary information office: Give us a referendum on leaving the hated EU then, then youll see what the average Briton wants.


parliamentary information office: Labour are the same as this shower of little rich boys we now have, the same as the FibDems, the same as the bankers and coroprate powers that are behind them, lurking in the darkness.


parliamentary information office: you are clearly a Labourite who has made her love for the EU clear, so surely you don't need the rest of your fellow Labourites to make a case for an institution that they sold out our country to during their 13 years in power????


parliamentary information office: The UK should be proud of its EU membership, the benefits being a part of it are vast. Its emphasis on corporation and peace are its most admired principles. The free movement of works, free movement of goods are both great ideas that a lot of places on Earth can only dream of.



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To suggest the battle against wind farms is won is pure hubris. Your rant has been heard before. Indeed, all the wrongs you level at wind power are, to some degree at least, true. However, the list of failings at the end could easily be matched by the failings of a fossil fuel power system. Worse, fossil fuels will run out, unlike wind power. And of course, the big elephant in the room is global warming. Have you 'conveniently' forgotten that? So while you witter on about property values and the Tories in the shires, you have forgotten that to mitigate AGW, sacrifices have to be made and some very inconvenient things need to be done. I do agree the pain should be shared and not fall on individuals. By the way, having even 100% backup for renewables is only the plant, not the fuel. For as long as the turbines are running, the coal does not need to burn, so who's being deceitful now?

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For all the puff about how dumb Dave is, the truth is he is a clever chap. He must know that wind farms are just supported by subsidy, so why did the threat of taking the industry out of Britain cause him to blink?

It's the same as trying to fill a swimming pool by taking a bucket, filling it at one end, running around, sloshing some over the side and pouring it in at the other.

That's how subisdy works. Surely Dave understands that? Even accounting for the peripheral benefits it is still taking tax from one part of the economy and giving it back to another.  


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There are several of the monsters being currently erected near where I live. We too have, over a period of years, been told of the massive numbers of jobs these things would create.

The turbines are being imported from Germany and are being unloaded at a local harbour. Today I spotted one of the lorries which were going to be used to transport them from the harbour to the place where they are to be erected.

Having previously seen another large Wind Collection Factory created in the area I am aware that it is only during the erection period that there were any local jobs, and they wre not created, they only involved work for a local transport firm delivering the various parts to the site.

What I saw today made it obvious that on this occasion not even that would happen. The first thing I noticed was that the driver was driving from the left hand side which made me take more notice. When I looked at the front of the lorry I saw that writing was in German, or something very similar as I only had a fleeting glimpse whilst driving past. One thing is certain, it definitely wasn't English or any of the other languages of these islands.

One thing has become very obvious, the Eco Warriors will lie, lie and lie again in their mania for forcing these horrors on us at whatever the cost to both the economy or the despoiling of the British countryside, especially those sought out by tourists who treasure it's beauty.


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when the specialist study on the
health effects of low frequency noise is produced by the Royal Institute
of Acoustics... are likely to strike a blow from which the wind industry can
never recover...'

All the scientific bodies with 'Royal' in the title that I know, have previous form in producing extremely dodgy non-science and very biased reports. I can't help feel that having Prince Charles 'the Letter Writer' as the Royal connection to those various Royal societies has something to do with their deeply eco-fascist bias.
Somehow I can't see the 'Royal' Institute of Acoustics producing any report that isn't Agenda 21 approved and full of glowing praise for the acoustic benefits that wind turbines produce.

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parliamentary information office: No matter how many remarks and gibes are continuously exchanged between the two contenders, it is the difference in ideology the crucial point that has never been explicitly and thoroughly presented to the public. The Reps sustain an uncontrolled Capitalism by deception and false promises, and the Dems are afraid to explain the humanistic socialism vs Communism.

parliamentary information office: xactlleyme But do we have a balanced report? No! A newspaper should not have any political leaning. But Star has, and it's blatantly so. How is that the rest of the Media are doing exactly of what you are accusing the Toronto sun of doing? It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out but it does take some common sense which you appear to have none.

parliamentary information office: You are right. But it is fools who sustain foolish politicians by electing them on and on... And both of them think they are doing the right thing

parliamentary information office: For each and every item attacking the Republicans in this partisan article, one can easily find equal and compatible Democrat item. But do we have a balanced report? No! A newspaper should not have any political leaning. But Star has, and it's blatantly so.

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Parliament backs €9 billion EU budget hike

BRUSSELS - MEPs defied calls by national governments to rein in EU budget spending on Thursday (4 October), instead restoring most of the €138 billion settlement proposed by the European Commission for the 2013 budget.

The European Commission’s budget proposal had called for a €9 billion increase on the 2012 budget, equivalent to an additional 6.8 percent.

Goran Farm, the Swedish deputy who leads for the Socialist group on the Budget committee, described the parliament’s position as “very modest, with a clear focus on jobs and growth.”

Member states had agreed to a 2.8 percent increase but the EU’s seven net-contributing countries, which include Germany, France and the UK, insist that they will not cede more ground at a time when governments are imposing national austerity plans. Critics of the council position say that governments are trying to block funding to pay for projects they have already agreed to.

Helga Truepel, the Green group’s spokesperson, said the commission’s increase was to cover payments already agreed by governments. “Council prefers to keep the level of payments under the EU budget artificially low while knowing very well that the commission is currently unable to honour its financial obligations,” she said. 

For his part, Richard Ashworth, spokesman for the British conservative dominated ECR group, accused the committee of adopting an “Oliver Twist mentality” and backing “an inflation-busting increase that those who pay the EU’s bills are unable and unwilling to pay.”

Under the Lisbon Treaty, parliament enjoys equal power with governments on the adoption of the EU budget which must be no higher than 1.23 percent of GDP.

The vote by the budget committee comes after the commission revealed that it would table a supplementary budget to plug an estimated €10 billion hole to ensure that payments under programmes such as the European Social Fund and Erasmus scheme could continue to be made. 

While negotiations on the next seven year budget framework starting in 2014 remains deadlocked, a number of EU funding programmes are on the brink of insolvency.

Socialist group leader Hannes Swoboda accused governments of “blackmailing successful programmes” with the immediate future of the EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme affected by the budget gridlock.

Although the Commission has sought to play down the prospect of students not receiving their grants, the European Students’ Union (ESU) said that failure to reach a budget settlement could leave students in the 2012-13 semester empty-handed. 

ESU chair Karina Ufert urged the EU executive to “solve the current financial shortcomings of the European Social Fund by using money from underspent EU funds.” Over 2 million students have used the Erasmus programme in its 25 year existence.

The Cypriot Presidency is hoping to cajole ministers into a compromise deal over the coming weeks. They will then attempt to bridge the gaps with the parliament and commission position.

Source: http://euobserver.com/news/117759

Parliament Protects Inducements

European lawmakers voted this week to protect the practice under which banks and other financial companies pay inducements to financial advisers for selling their products to retail investors.

They thereby overturned  expectations that they would in effect ban the inducements, which it is argued created a conflict of interest between a financial adviser and his or her customer. The practice is said to give advisers the incentive to sell the products on which they earn the most commission rather than those that best suit investors’ needs.

The economics committee of the European Parliament agreed in a last-minute amendment to financial legislation Wednesday that it would not ban such inducements. Up until the night before the vote, it looked as if the committee would effectively ban the practice by forcing banks pay the commissions to clients, rather than to the advisers.

“This would have been an incentive for financial advisers to recommend products in their clients’ interest and not simply on the basis of securing the highest commission,” said Sven Giegold, a German parliamentarian from the Green Party.

The legislation, called the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, which was put forward by the European Commission last year, is expected to gain the support of the full parliament next week. Following the vote, the Parliament will then enter negotiations with the commission and the 27 member states before it becomes law.

The Commission, the EU’s executive, had proposed an outright ban against advisers receiving inducements from a financial product provider.

However, support in Parliament for barring the practice crumbled when the European Socialists and Democrats group backed away. The group put forward an amendment during the vote Wednesday that bankers would only be compelled to disclose the use of commissions. The extent of the expected disclosure is as yet unclear.

However, no politician from the group is willing to attach his name to the amendment, which is being presented as a party-wide initiative. Usually, legislators personally present such last-minute proposals.

Legislators and others familiar with events say the shift in support came because the group is led by politicians from Germany, Luxembourg and France, whose banks heavily rely on paying such inducements–which the the U.K. is already on track to ban.

“This is a dramatic setback for consumers,” said Monique Goyens, director general of The European Consumer Organisation. “Incomprehensibly, [members of the European Parliament] persist in supporting the inadequate system of disclosure of sales inducements which has done nothing to prevent intermediaries pushing their most self-serving products.”


Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2012/09/28/parliament-protects-inducements/

G4S must bear the cost of its Olympic failure, say MPs in new report

The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee is today publishing a Report on Olympics security.

• Report: Olympics security (HC 531-I) 
• Inquiry: Olympics security 

The Committee concludes that the blame for G4S's failure to come up with the required venue security staff rests firmly and solely with the company itself. A combination of flawed management information and poor communication with applicants and staff mean that G4S senior management had no idea how badly wrong their operation was going until it was too late to retrieve it. G4S continued to give false reassurances, based on poor-quality data, to LOCOG, the Home Office and other partners involved in the operation until a very late stage in the process.

The Committee recommends:

• That G4S should forego its £57 million management fee, to send a strong signal to the British taxpayer, its biggest client in the UK, that it is serious about making good for its mistakes.
• That the company should make ex gratia payments by way of apology to those applicants who successfully completed the training and accreditation process but were not scheduled for work because of G4S's management failings.
• That, for future major events, armed forces personnel should be considered as possible security providers from the outset, rather than just a backup, with appropriate recognition and reward for the personnel concerned.
• That the Government should maintain a central register of high-risk companies who have failed in the delivery of public services, to inform future procurement decisions.

Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP, Chair of the Committee, said:

"Far from being able to stage two games on two continents at the same time, as they recklessly boasted, G4S could not even stage one. The largest security company in the world, providing a contract to their biggest UK client, turned years of carefully laid preparations into an eleventh hour fiasco.

The data the company provided to the Olympic Security Board was at best unreliable, at worst downright misleading. 24 hours before they admitted their failure, Nick Buckles met with the Home Secretary and did not bother to inform her that they were unable to deliver on their contract, even though he knew about the shortfall a week before.

Because of the swift actions of the MOD, Home Office and LOCOG, London enjoyed a safe and secure games. The taxpayer must not pay for G4S’s mistakes. G4S should waive its £57million management fee and also compensate its staff and prospective staff who it treated in a cavalier fashion. Their decision not to bid for Rio 2016 is the right one.

The Government should learn lessons from this experience and establish a register of high-risk companies that have failed in the delivery of public services."

Source: http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news/120921-olympics-rpt-published/

UK: Syria intervention would need full US backing

LONDON — British Foreign Secretary William Hague says any intervention in Syria would only be possible with the full backing of the United States.

Hague told Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday that he wasn't advocating a military intervention, but that the option could not be ruled out amid an escalating crisis.

"It would require intervention on a vastly greater scale than was the case in Libya, with no prospect at the moment of agreement at the U.N. Security Council, and would require the full involvement of the United States," Hague told the committee.

Hague acknowledged he saw "major disadvantages" to an intervention.

He said he plans talks on Syria next week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York.


Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120918/eu-britain-syria/