In July 2001 the Labour regime announced that the Performance and Innovation Unit, now the Strategy Unit in the Cabinet Office, would undertake a review of the legal and regulatory framework governing charities and the voluntary sector.
They did not consult on specific proposals. Instead they published a number of discussion papers and a list of 71 questions on different aspects of law and regulation. Originally expected to report in February 2002, publication of the report was delayed, partly because of the obvious links with the Treasury [Brown meddles again] review of the role of the voluntary sector in public service delivery.
It is a delicious irony that the Labour Party institutional set up is precisely the kind of entity these reviews and proposals, intended to produce greater transparency and certainty, as well as regulation and oversight, are aimed at. As the Times notes, the Labour Party is like an unincorporated association, a set up more suited to the local cricket club. Here 'members . . . are subject to unlimited personal liability in the event of the association’s insolvency'.
Not the officers of the unincorporated association but, arguably, all the members of the association are liable. The 'list of 71 questions on different aspects of law and regulation.', gives an indication of the turmoil surrounding liability in such a fragile institutional structure as the Labour Party and its Rule Book, particularly when carrying debts and liabilities approaching quarter of a £billion.
Are you a member of the Labour Party? Should you be? You thought it safe to buy into the demutualisation of Northern Rock; being a member of the Labour Party could be even more financially worrying.
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HG, o/t, can I ask how you hack the html to make it say "answers on a postcard" rather than "comments"?
Also OT, but have been sniffing around on the power cuts - first findings here
Your instincts were spot-on
That is a disturbing exchange of comments between you and Blue Eyes, ND.
There has been always a back ground 'what I know about electricity' that France provides power in a surge of demand, and that there are UK stand-by availabilities for smaller unexpected requirements. You seem to be saying France was supplying flat out on Tuesday, presumably after UK stand by was exhausted, and still the power went down, bordering on a much larger collapse.
Back to updates and comments on capitalists@work.
MW, from dashboard:
- go to the layout tab
- under page elements where it says blog posts click edit
- in the 4th item down under Select Items, type in the label of the kind of contribution you would like to invite
the IT consultant
IT Consultant, :))
Postcards are so interesting, they concentrate the mind, entertain the eye, crack jokes, make you feel thought about, and don't feel faintly scary like unopened letters - even those in white envelopes with handwritten addresses.
Hats; a friend of mine won an architectural commission (big), when he was asked 'Oh just put a few bits on a post card'! He did, and showed five views of a proposed building and got the job!
(he still owes me for the intro though...)
Why not surcharge every government member for incompetence and fiddling expenses etc? You can do it I understand - especially in your Local authority...
Instead of taking photos of famous things and views I buy postcards - my photos are all of tiny details and bits of things - bolshie refusal to accept where to draw the line or recognise the edges of an object, or how something should be viewed.
Postcards are always better for the normal world, their photographers are often very grand and certainly have access I wouldn't enjoy. Then I get all upset finding they've had stamps and messages added and been put in boxes when I wasn't looking.
Surcharging must have a set process, you're right, but what is it? What do you have to do?
Im the same HG although I have started posting my collection myself :-)
If I sent you a postcard it would be of a Ferragamo shoe circa 1938 with a huge platform and a velvet upper.
...and mine would be of a big 4 litre gas guzzling bright green Bentley roadster, with straps to keep the bonnet closed, parked in front of Marie-Theresa's palace!!
(Waiting to transport you back down to your hotel)
I shall step into my Bentley in my red Ferragamos showing an appropriate stretch of leg.
My Labour Party may well need me but I have more urgent things to concentrate on - like some paint I need to watch drying.
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