Chaminda Jayanetti

If you are redistributing money from less deprived parts of the country to more deprived parts of the country, then more deprived parts of the country should be getting more money, not less.

These London boroughs are more deprived parts of the country.

If you still can't work it out, I don't care.

I mean this is entirely pointless because you don't understand how local government funding works, you don't understand the IMD, you don't understand the maps you keep posting, you don't understand any of this but you keep pretending you do.

So, one last time, here goes:

and what, exactly, has convinced you that London boroughs are among the least deprived in country? You are talking about local authorities that were already heavily hit by spending cuts under the Tories, in areas of relatively *high* poverty

Your "key point" was that London had been getting more than its fair share of funding. You've brought no evidence of that because you've not even said what its previous share of funding was

"there are significant areas of deprivation outside London"

Sorry is that your big reveal? Literally everyone on this site knows that

I wrote a personal piece last week about anti-semitism in Britain in the last two years and how it felt to be Jewish. It was repromoted today, on the anniversary of October 7, five days after an attack on a British synagogue in which two Jews were killed.

This is the immediate reply.

a way to understand Bari Weiss’ ascendance is that capital absolutely does not want to “turn down the temperature” on culture war, au contraire they understand culture war to be their most successful media project and want more more more.

There'd be a transitional period

Sorry, what's the point you're trying to make now, and is it the same point you were trying to make four hours ago, whatever that was

Accident and inertia I think, rather than a conspiracy. They wanted to shift money towards poorer areas bur they've done stuff to the formula and ended up with weird shit coming out the other side. Inertia in the sense that they're going through the process of consultation

I think at this point that leaves them with Andrew Boff and Karren Brady, and Boff hates the Tories and East London hates Brady

yeah, this was the era of popstars being 17 and basically done by 25.

it prob also made a difference that Kylie's career had basically been in the commercial graveyard for five years (oh hai Nick Cave) at that point, which is an eternity in pop terms. she was finished but then suddenly came back

before that, an overwhelming public vote against!

you'd only notice gold hotpants if they were worn by a toy soldier

always massively overlooked that a lot of London Labour councils copped big funding cuts under the Tories!

This is one of the issues London Labour insiders raised with me in this piece on Labour & London – Labour is taking the votes of the capital for granted, and is about to impose major local government austerity on councils who were hard hit first time round.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-l...

"why doesn't Greater Manchester have a congestion charge?" goose.jpg

Kylie: The First Arse

there's a history waiting to be written

I think that was the first time I ever heard people going on about arses. Until then they all talked about tits and legs. Maybe she invented arses or something

Which is why Barking, Hackney and Newham appear much higher in columns D and F than in column H, which is the one you're effectively relying on

What you're doing is looking at a map that's based on localised pockets of intense poverty within local authorities. Because London's more cheek-by-jowl it doesn't have those small pockets of intense poverty - instead the poverty is spread more evenly across local authority areas.

anything else, at the very least you have to remove the council tax referendum cap (and devolve some flexibility) so e.g. Wokingham can make up the loss of money itself

yeah, you can basically take money from leafy *district* councils because those aren't major service providers - but there's not much you can actually take because there's not much they receive because... they aren't major service providers

Amazed this is still going ahead - basic and obvious problem is that essentially everything local government does now is for the poor. You can’t move it around without really hurting poor people somewhere!

and that we're somehow responsible for everything bad in the country because for 14 years a government we broadly didn't vote for chose to fuck everything up

The far-right is never conservative. It always attacks established social institutions, the ones important for democracy and social peace. Because it knows they will be a source of opposition.

Nick Cave doing his I'm Well Dark thing while Kylie sings backing vocals basically

I played Where the Wild Roses Grow the other day, first time I'd heard it in nearly 30 years. I mean... it's ok I guess

I think basically more Kylie but not the Nick Cave stuff

London's free school meals are funded by the London mayoralty, not councils