It's just open to abuse - it's amazing how big firms e.g. Tesco can get land reclassified so they can stick a frickin car park and megastore on it.
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Originally posted by ZorbaIt's just open to abuse - it's amazing how big firms e.g. Tesco can get land reclassified so they can stick a frickin car park and megastore on it.
Currently, John Longworth, group trading, law and technical director of Tesco PLC, sits on the Government Advisory Committee on Packaging Waste and Recycling, and is also one of nine commissioners of the Health and Safety Commission. Lucy Neville Rolfe, Tesco's Director of Group Corporate Affairs, also sits on Government committees (see below).
Tesco gave the Labour Party more than £5,000 in sponsorship in 1997 and 1998. It is the biggest backer of the New Deal scheme119 and has offered 1500 'opportunities' for New Deal applicants.Tesco's former Chief Executive Ian McLaurin sits in the House of Lords, and in 1999 Tony Blair's government launched its first annual report in Kensington Tesco.
Tesco was also a £12m sponsor of the Millennium Dome. It was reported in The Observer at the time that lobbying firm, LLM - involved in a campaign on behalf of Tesco to block plans for a tax on shopping centre car parks - had 'suggested that a £12 million Tesco donation to the Millennium Dome was part of a 'quid pro quo deal'—giving its support to a government project in order to endear itself to New Labour. The paper went on to say that there is no suggestion that Tesco made the Dome donation to help it get its way over the car park tax issue. But the plan to impose the tax was dropped from the White Paper on transport—and the terms of the exemption were exactly as LLM's Ben Lucas had suggested. The Sunday Times said that the estimated cost to Tesco of the car park tax would have been £40 million.
Tesco has had a prominent presence at Labour Party conferences. In 2002, it sponsored the National Reception at the Party conference. In 2003, it sponsored the Constituency Delegates' Welcome reception, and co-ran a fringe debate 'Promising the Earth? Food, Farming and Rural Communities': presumably a fascinating 'greenwash' occasion considering the reality of Tesco's total contempt for UK farmers and rural communities. See section on 'Tesco's dealing with suppliers and farmers'.
It is quite clear that Tony Blair has a fascination for successful corporate bosses, including Terry Leahy who was knighted in 2002. Rumours in Management Today (January 2004) suggest that the government wants Terry Leahy to sort out the National Health Service.
Many campaigners believe that supermarkets bring undue influence on local government, especially when seeking planning permission for stores. Transforming local government is certainly on Tesco's agenda. Tesco is a corporate partner of the New Local Government Network (NLGN) which is 'an independent think tank seeking to transform public services, revitalise local political leadership and empower local communities'. NLGN has been favourably endorsed by Tony Blair, 'Modernising local government is vital to the future of our communities. NLGN contributes innovative and thought-provoking ideas to the debate on how we achieve that'.
Sucking up to New Labour, every little helps.
Now if the PCG had taken this view early on we would all probably have received knighthoods by now.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawnAccording to Red Star research, in the late 1990s Tesco executives featured on six government task forces, more than for any single company and far more than the other supermarket chains.
It won't be long before they rename the United Kingdom 'Tescoland'.
I hear that Tesco is already the capital of the Scilly Isles.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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Originally posted by King CnvtAnd it is the proposals for a massive house building programme, with a total of 3 million new homes built by 2020, that will draw the immediate attention.
Mr Brown promised the targets would be met through changes in the planning system, new private-public partnerships and the release of surplus public land.
I read that as:
Let the big co house builder Labour donors built more tiny dog kennels on green belt land
Let the public sector sell of all the publicly owned spaces to big co house builder Labour donors for a large sum of cash.
Win-win all round then?
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Only 3 million eh? Who are these houses for, I am conservatively estimating that’s about 10 million people? Where are these people just now, I checked under my bed and at the bottom of the garden and under my fave bridge but no signs? I can only conclude they are not here yet and this measure appears to be in anticipation of quite a few more million new fiends. Imagine the pop of the UK being 65+ million by 2020 and as history has shown half the increase being in London.
The population of the world is out of control, perhaps we should leave them to their over breeding and not burden ourselves further. The world will have an extra billion people by 2020, I would suggest that the government acknowledge this and take appropriate action (as can be found in many of my writings herein).Comment
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The effects on GW
Let’s look at an extreme situation that may amuse our slightly slow man-made GW friends. Let’s say the UK becomes the first country not to produce any carbon at all by 2020, a sort of ‘glasshopper’ carbon footprint. Unfortunately 1 billion more people will be on the earth by this time and as they are likely to be from developing countries, some a little bit nippy, they are not going to be as clever as we grasshoppers have been. It does not take a mathematician of my standing to show that if they each churn out CO2 at 6% of our previous thankfully lost rate we’ll be no better off in terms of overall world CO2. I would humbly suggest that 6% is ludicrous as is 0 emissions from the UK Of course if we are not producing any CO2 at all then we will have a shortage for our coniferous and deciduous friends, and , and…...
See how ludicrous the whole situation is. We are negligible in the whole massive expansion scheme of things.Comment
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Look it's official
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/green...123539,00.html
Makes no sense to limit kids and keep up this insane open-door policy. We are already limiting kids, 1.7 or someink to the indigenous population last I saw. Stop anymore coming and kick out those who should not be here. Simple, any takers?Comment
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Ya gotta laugh!
Originally posted by FinancialTimesThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said on Friday that the prime minister’s plans to increase housebuilding from 200,000 to 240,000 new homes a year by 2016 represented a drop in rate of growth of recent housebuilding.
It said that the policy implied a growth rate of 3.7 per cent in the number of new homes built until 2016, down from the average of 5.2 per cent achieved over the past five years.Drivel is my specialityComment
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