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Fri, 18 Mar 2022 21:59:50 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/biden-lays-out-consequences-if-china-backs-russia/More than 9,000 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors, officials say More than 9,100 Ukrainians were evacuated through humanitarian corridors on Friday, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. Nine humanitarian corridors were agreed on Friday to evacuate civilians from bombed cities in Ukraine, Vereshchuk said. The Office of the President of Ukraine reported that […]]]>
More than 9,000 people evacuated through humanitarian corridors, officials say
More than 9,100 Ukrainians were evacuated through humanitarian corridors on Friday, according to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
Nine humanitarian corridors were agreed on Friday to evacuate civilians from bombed cities in Ukraine, Vereshchuk said.
The Office of the President of Ukraine reported that nearly 5,000 people had left Mariupol, including 1,124 children. Over 4,000 civilians were evacuated from Sumy Oblast.
However, officials say the corridor connecting the heavily shelled city of Mariupol to the city of Zaporizhzhia has been blocked.
In the Kyiv region there is a corridor from Borodyanka to Zhytomyr and from the village of Shevchenkove to the town of Brovary.
“We also plan to provide humanitarian aid in the form of food and medicine to the towns of Hostomel and Bucha, the villages of Semypolky, Markivka and Opanasiv,” Vereshchuk said.
In the Kharkiv region, the evacuation routes are from the city of Vovchansk to Kharkiv and humanitarian aid should be sent to the cities of Balakliya and Izyum.
In the Sumy region, humanitarian corridors were coordinated from the cities of Sumy, Trostyanets, Lebedyn and Konotop, as well as from the villages of Krasnopillya and Velyka Pysarivka to Poltava.
On Saturday, March 19, the routes of humanitarian aid will go to the cities of Kherson and Luhank regions.
The UN Refugee Council (UNHCR) has said the situation in towns like Sumy and Mariupol is “catastrophic” as residents face critical and life-threatening shortages of food, water and medicine.
“UNHCR is closely following negotiations for safe passage and has already pre-positioned humanitarian shipments,” spokesman Matthew Saltmarsh said in a statement. “We are ready to send essential supplies to Sumy as soon as conditions allow.”
]]>Latest news on the Russian-Ukrainian war: dozens dead after the attack on a military base; American journalist killed by Russian forces | world news
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Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:57:09 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/latest-news-on-the-russian-ukrainian-war-dozens-dead-after-the-attack-on-a-military-base-american-journalist-killed-by-russian-forces-world-news/9:57 p.m. GMT 21:57 Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, said he had traveled to Ukraine to visit Chechen troops attacking Kiev, according to Reuters. Reuters could not independently verify whether he had actually been to the area. Kadyrov is a close ally of Vladimir Poutine and has previously described himself as Putin’s […]]]>
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Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya region, said he had traveled to Ukraine to visit Chechen troops attacking Kiev, according to Reuters. Reuters could not independently verify whether he had actually been to the area.
Kadyrov is a close ally of Vladimir Poutine and has previously described himself as Putin’s “foot soldier”. He has been accused of human rights abuses by the United States and the European Union, which he denies.
“The Chechen TV channel Grozny posted a video on its social media channel Telegram earlier on Sunday that showed Kadyrov in a darkened room chatting with Chechen troops about a military operation they say took place 7 km away. (4.3 miles) from the Ukrainian capital,” Reuters reported. “The message did not specify where or when the meeting took place.”
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Access to Instagram in Russia seems to be limit across multiple vendors. The government notified earlier today that the service will cease to be available following the decision by Meta, the parent company of Instagram, to allow users in Ukraine to post anti-Russian messages such as “death to Russian invaders”.
“An email from the state’s communications regulator told users to move their photos and videos from Instagram before it was shut down, and encouraged them to switch to Instagram’s own ‘competitive internet platforms’. Russia, according to CNN.
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More than 5,550 people evacuated from frontline towns, says deputy PM Iryna Vereshchuk said in a video statement.
They were evacuated through nine humanitarian corridors and 3,950 were evacuated from towns and villages in the Kyiv region, according to Reuters.
21:06
software company Oracle says he was the first of those asked to halt all operations in Russia in response to a Tweeter from President Zelensky urging the company, along with Microsoft and SAP, to stop supporting all products in Russia.
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In response to reports that Russia seeks military equipment and other support from Chinathe Chinese embassy in the United States said the current priority was to ensure that the situation did not escalate or spiral out of control, according to Reuters.
“The current situation in Ukraine is indeed disconcerting,” spokesman Liu Pengyu said in a statement.
Reuters also reports that the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in the United States said “I’ve never heard of this”, when asked about Russia’s demand for military equipment.
the The Financial Times reported that US officials say Russia has requested military support from China since the start of the invasion and that the White House fears Beijing is undermining Western efforts to help Ukraine.
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Ukraine works with controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has obtained free access to Clearview AI, a controversial facial recognition software that scrapes images from social networks and other platforms, to be used during the war, Reuters reports. Clearview AI sent a letter to Ukraine offering its services to help “uncover Russian attackers, combat misinformation and identify the dead” once the invasion begins. It’s unclear why the Defense Ministry is using the software, but Clearview’s chief executive said he expects other Ukrainian agencies to start using the service in the coming days.
Clearview AI has been criticized for breaching data privacy around the world. Italy fined the company 20 million euros for violating EU consumer privacy laws and ordered the company to delete all of its data on Italian residents. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office also ordered the company to stop processing all user data in November and France issued a similar order in December.
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19:53
Russia has been asking China for military equipment since the start of the invasion
US officials say Russia requested military equipment from China since the beginning of the invasion, according to FinancialTimes. This raised fears in the White House that China might decide to help Russia and undermine Western efforts to help Ukraine.
Another person told the FT that the United States was “preparing to warn allies of the situation amid some indications that China may be preparing to help Russia.”
“Other U.S. officials also said there were signs that Russia was short of certain types of weapons as the war in Ukraine nears the start of its third week,” the FT report said.
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19:28
Boris Johnson noted by Vladimir Putin the ‘barbaric actions’ were a test for ‘all humanity’ and that the UK would continue to support Ukraine, when appealing with President Zelensky Sunday, according to PA.
“Leaders condemned the murders of Brent Renaud and countless innocent Ukrainians, and the kidnapping of the mayors of Dniprorudne and Melitopol,” a Downing Street spokesman said.
“The Prime Minister underlined the UK’s continued support for Ukraine. He said the UK would continue to seek more options to strengthen Ukraine’s self-defence, working with partners, including Tuesday’s meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force in London.
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19:08
Power was restored to Chernobyl nuclear power plantthe Ukrainian national energy company Ukrenergo announced on its Telegram channel, according to CNN.
The plant’s electrical system was damaged in a Russian attack on March 9.
“Ukrainian specialists … have completed repair work on the 330 kV line … and restored the power supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the city of Slavutych,” Ukrenergo said on his Telegram channel.
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6:50 p.m.
Zelenskiy calls on software companies to stop supporting its products in Russia
Volodymyr Zelensky urged Microsoft, Oracle and SAP to stop supporting their contracts and products in Russia on Sunday. Microsoft stopped accepting new customers in Russia, but Zelenskiy said moves like this were half measures and framed it as a black-and-white decision. Microsoft, SAP and Oracle did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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Zelenskiy says he spoke with Boris Johnson and the Czech Prime Minister
President Zelensky said he thanked Boris Johnson and the Czech Prime Minister, Petr Fiala, during a phone call Sunday morning.
Fiala said the situation in Ukraine is complicated but that support and deliveries of humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine will continue, according to a translation of his tweet.
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]]>Five dead after Russian missile hit Kiev TV tower near Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial
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Wed, 02 Mar 2022 05:45:15 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/five-dead-after-russian-missile-hit-kiev-tv-tower-near-babyn-yar-holocaust-memorial/PM: No NATO ally plans to impose no-fly zones over Ukraine Boris Johnson has insisted that no NATO ally is considering heeding Ukraine’s calls to impose a no-fly zone over the country to prevent bombings from Vladimir Putin’s planes. The Prime Minister again rejected Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky’s calls for British forces to actively join […]]]>
PM: No NATO ally plans to impose no-fly zones over Ukraine
Boris Johnson has insisted that no NATO ally is considering heeding Ukraine’s calls to impose a no-fly zone over the country to prevent bombings from Vladimir Putin’s planes.
The Prime Minister again rejected Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky’s calls for British forces to actively join the effort, warning it would trigger a wider war with Russia.
With the invasion of Ukraine in its sixth day, Mr Johnson visited NATO members Poland and Estonia to build support for the defense alliance.
But he ruled out British forces fighting in Ukraine, as he faced impassioned calls for a no-fly zone to be imposed to protect civilians amid fears a major attack on Kiev could come. close.
Mr Johnson clarified that the UK does not actively support British nationals who volunteer to help defend Ukraine, contradicting an earlier remark by Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.
“I think for any member of NATO to become actively involved in a conflict with Russia is a huge step that is not contemplated by any member,” Johnson said at a press conference against the background. armored vehicles at the Tapa military base in Estonia. .
“This is a time when miscalculations and misunderstandings are all too possible and so it’s crucial that we get that message across.
“When it comes to a no-fly zone in the skies over Ukraine, we have to accept the reality that it involves shooting down Russian planes…it’s a very, very big stage, it is simply not on the agenda of any NATO country.
“We will not fight Russian forces in Ukraine,” he added. “Our reinforcements like these reinforcements here in Tapa are firmly within the borders of NATO members.”
]]>Johnson denies being warned that the No 10 event in May 2020 was against the rules and says he did not lie to Parliament – live | Politics
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Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:56:57 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/johnson-denies-being-warned-that-the-no-10-event-in-may-2020-was-against-the-rules-and-says-he-did-not-lie-to-parliament-%e2%80%8b%e2%80%8blive-politics/Boris Johnson has denied lying to Parliament about a gathering in the garden of No 10 during the first lockdown, although Dominic Cummings said he would swear under oath he warned the Prime Minister it would be a party breaking the rules. In a major interview, Johnson said he told the Whitehall Inquiry into the […]]]>
Boris Johnson has denied lying to Parliament about a gathering in the garden of No 10 during the first lockdown, although Dominic Cummings said he would swear under oath he warned the Prime Minister it would be a party breaking the rules.
In a major interview, Johnson said he told the Whitehall Inquiry into the allegations that “to the best of my recollection” prior to the May 20, 2020 event “nobody told me that what we were doing was against the rules.”
The prime minister said he ‘humbly apologizes to people for the errors of judgment that have been made’ after being called on to resign over the party affair, including from six Tory MPs.
He made his first public appearance after reducing his contacts since No 10 said a family member tested positive for Covid-19 last week as Chancellor Rishi Sunak refused to give the Prime Minister his unequivocal support. (See 12:53 p.m.)
Asked if he had lied to Parliament about parties during a visit to a north London hospital, Johnson said: ‘No. I want to start by repeating my apologies to everyone for the errors of judgment that I have made, that we may have made at No 10 and beyond, whether in Downing Street or throughout the pandemic.
“No one told me that what we were doing was against the rules, that the event in question was something that … was not a work event, and as I said in the House of Commons when I went out into this garden, I thought I was attending a business event.
Johnson said he “couldn’t imagine why the hell this would have happened, or why this would have been allowed” if he had been told it was not a “work event”.
“I humbly apologize to people for the errors in judgment that have been made, but this is the best I remember about this event is what I said at the inquest,” he said. he declared.
]]>GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – What do you know about politics if politics is all you know?
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Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:50:39 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/guest-blog-ian-powell-what-do-you-know-about-politics-if-politics-is-all-you-know/Last year I started publishing a new blog (in addition to Second opinion of Otaihangaon health systems and policies) called Policy bytes. The intention was to provide left-wing commentary on politics. To say the least, the post was very, very, very, very, very, very infrequent. My goal in 2022 is to reduce the number of […]]]>
Last year I started publishing a new blog (in addition to Second opinion of Otaihangaon health systems and policies) called Policy bytes. The intention was to provide left-wing commentary on politics. To say the least, the post was very, very, very, very, very, very infrequent. My goal in 2022 is to reduce the number of very.
Bomber Bradbury (publisher of The daily blog) has just published a short relevant article on the question of whether National and ACT could form a government after the 2023 general election in New Zealand. Despite some doubts, he expects a Labour-Green government to be the most likely; an opinion that successive polls reinforce. .
The wisdom of Cyril James
However, I have a different view which is aided by the wisdom of CLR (Cyril) James (1901-89), a Trinidadian socialist intellectual and highly regarded international cricket commentator. James has published extensively on politics and cricket, his most famous book being arguably the Black Jacobins (1938) on the Haitian revolution leading to the first abolition of slavery.
What do they know about cricket if cricket is all they know.
CLR James
The two intellectuals James most admired were the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and the famous Barbados West Indian cricketer Clyde Walcott. Incidentally, Trotsky was highly critical of cricket despite James’s plea; an error of judgment by the former.
James was known for his skillful turn of phrase. One was what do you know about cricket if cricket is all you know. Few expressions have inscribed themselves more in my consciousness than this. It also helps me better understand the likely outcome of the 2023 election. It could come down to what you know about politics if politics is all you know.
Politics and pandemic
Labor beat National in the 2020 election and maintained that lead in the polls for some time, with the latter in a perpetual leadership crisis. But it must be remembered that from the time Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of a Labor-led government in October 2017 until the deadly attack on the Christchurch mosque in March 2019, National was leading the polls.
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That changed in response to Ardern’s impressive compassionate handling of the attack response. But, on the eve of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020, Simon Bridges-led National had regained the lead, albeit slightly.
But then came Covid-19. The government has been astute enough to follow the advice of experts, including those in epidemiology and infectious disease, and its political leadership has been top-notch. Meanwhile, while the premier excelled, National’s leadership imploded.
Excelled in pandemic leadership.
Jacinda Ardern
The work had intensified. Ardern referred to the October 2020 election as the “Covid election” and was rewarded with the first majority government since proportional representation began in 1996.
Labor maintained its strong lead in the polls for several months after the election while National’s position was dire. But, despite this, I felt it was enough for a competent national leader to emerge to be a potential gamebreaker.
Skilled enough to change the game?
New National Chief Christopher Luxon
Even before the election of Christopher Luxon as leader of the National, the gap between Labour-Greens and the National-ACT began to narrow slightly, even more so after November 30, when Luxon took office. Nonetheless, as Bradbury noted, Labor and the Greens could still comfortably form a coalition government.
Not good for implementation
Unfortunately, either because things were poorly thought out to begin with or because they were sloppy, Ardern’s government is no good at putting things into action. Even though he has several competent ministers, he is beginning to appear incompetent, the only one capable of doing well in a crisis.
His “Three Waters” public infrastructure program (drinking, rainwater and sewage) to centralize water supply and sanitation was an excellent aspiration. I have a lot of sympathy for that.
But implementation has been sloppy due to failure to engage effectively and meaningfully with local government primarily on the core issue of governance. His approach was too dogmatic and rigid to start by forcing the local government to distrust his motives.
In opposition, Labor had convinced many people that New Zealand had a housing crisis. It was just to do it. But we have not succeeded in making sufficient progress with the construction of social housing, the most effective way out of the crisis. Certainly Labor in government is doing better than when National was. But this is well below what is needed and everyone can see that the crisis is getting worse.
In July, the Labor Party abolished the District Health Boards (DHBs) it had created in 2001 to be responsible for providing community and hospital care to geographically defined populations with no idea what would replace them. It does so without any electoral mandate.
Moreover, demonstrating the height of incompetence, he does so in the midst of a pandemic. By international standards, New Zealand has successfully rolled out the Covid vaccine. DHBs have been essential to this success.
Even-Stevens?
So where does this leave us? A government that has done well in crises but not elsewhere. A government whose only knowledge of politics is politics to fit James. There is competence and achievements within this government.
Ayesha Verrall, as Associate Minister of Health, impressed as a high achiever with important decisions around smoking, in particular, but also fluoridation and folate levels in bread. But these take time to manifest as they become publicly noticeable.
But being a poor performer is a tough label to break once you have it. If the Labor Party lets Omicron get away before most children aged 5 to 11 are vaccinated and many more adults have their boosters, because it fails to extend the closed border and drastically reduce number of people seeking to enter the country, it will be in big trouble (just like New Zealanders).
There is no reason to believe that Luxon, even though he is politically inexperienced, will not be a competent leader of National. He doesn’t seem to have any luggage either (although his treatment of provincial New Zealand when heading to Air New Zealand might come back to haunt him a bit; I say that as a resident of Kapiti Coast).
My take is ‘even-Stevens’. This expression does not seem to be used as much as before. It may come from Jonathan Swift at least in part. Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and Anglican cleric in the late 17and and 18and centuries, but best known for his novel best known for Gulliver’s Travels.
It basically means going one way or the other; or fifty-fifty. Since proportional representation generally leads to coalitions and produces election results that are closer than people often realize, even-Stevens is my choice for 2023
]]>City of Toronto could help fund legal battle against Quebec Bill 21
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Thu, 16 Dec 2021 17:14:35 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/city-of-toronto-could-help-fund-legal-battle-against-quebec-bill-21/In the latest turn of events in growing national opposition to Quebec’s controversial Bill 21, Toronto Mayor John Tory said Toronto City Council will vote on a motion to help fund legal battles against the law, which prohibits many public servants from wearing religious symbols while performing their duties. Tory also expressed his personal opposition […]]]>
In the latest turn of events in growing national opposition to Quebec’s controversial Bill 21, Toronto Mayor John Tory said Toronto City Council will vote on a motion to help fund legal battles against the law, which prohibits many public servants from wearing religious symbols while performing their duties.
Tory also expressed his personal opposition to Bill 21 in a statement posted on Twitter. “I continue to oppose Quebec’s Bill 21. Today, I will ask the city council to help finance the legal fight against Bill 21, ”wrote the mayor.
I continue to oppose Quebec’s Bill 21. Toronto City Council has also repeatedly expressed its opposition to this bill. Today I will be asking City Council to help fund the legal fight against Bill 21.pic.twitter.com/TyekKVJ2NX
This news follows a recent letter Posted by Brampton, Ont. Mayor Patrick Brown, in which he urges mayors across Canada to consider pooling their cities’ financial resources to help “fight Bill 21 in court” .
Mayor Tory said Thursday he stood with Brown and “[encourages] other cities across Canada to join in this fight to uphold the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ”
Over the past week, Quebec has come under fire for enforcing Bill 21 to remove hijab-wearing elementary school teacher Fatemeh Anvari from her post in the city of Chelsea. The incident prompted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to speak out against the law.
“I don’t find that in a free and open society, someone should lose their job because of their religion,” Trudeau said at a press conference Monday.
Quebec Premier François Legault applauded, insisting that the laws must be enforced. He said the local school board made a mistake in hiring Anvari.
What will Legault have to say about this latest decision from Tory?
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]]>MPs Back All ‘Plan B’ Measures Amid Big Tory Rebellion Over Covid Passes and Mandatory Vaccines – Live Updates | Politics
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Tue, 14 Dec 2021 21:15:50 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/mps-back-all-plan-b-measures-amid-big-tory-rebellion-over-covid-passes-and-mandatory-vaccines-live-updates-politics/[ad_1] 9:15 p.m. GMT 21:15 Here is the moment Keir Starmer said the prime minister “needs to look at himself long and hard” and “ask himself if he has the authority” to run the country. Sky News (@SkyNews) “This is a very important blow to the already damaged authority of the Prime Minister.” Labor leader […]]]>
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Here is the moment Keir Starmer said the prime minister “needs to look at himself long and hard” and “ask himself if he has the authority” to run the country.
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The Daily Mirror published a photo showing a ‘noisy’ Christmas party hosted by Tory advisers on December 14 last year, when London was at Level 2.
The image shows 24 people crammed into a medium-sized room at the party’s headquarters in Westminster, with guests including billionaire Tory donor Nick Candy and a senior campaign official for Boris Johnson’s leadership.
From Pippa Crerar from the mirror:
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Rowena mason
Just hours before the biggest rebellion in his post as prime minister, one of Boris Johnson’s main allies was asked about the possibility of a challenge for the post of prime minister. âIt’s a very difficult thing to do, as you might remember from the previous incumbent,â said Jacob Rees-Mogg, speaking on his Moggcast podcast on ConservativeHome.
It is indeed difficult to get more than 50 current Conservative MPs to submit letters of no confidence to their leader and Prime Minister. But as in the case of Theresa May, ousted by Rees-Mogg and her allies, it’s not insurmountable.
Anti-Johnson sentiment on the benches is high in part because of his botched handling of sordid scandals and the fury over the foreclosure parties in Downing Street. However, an equally important reason for discontent is the right-wing, libertarian MPs unhappy with the ideological basis of the Covid restrictions.
Rees-Mogg remains very loyal to the Prime Minister but at the same time made no attempt in his podcast to deny the existence of a mutinous mood in the Tory ranks in Parliament.
The Prime Minister personally pleaded with the 1922 Conservative MPs committee to back their Plan B measures ahead of Tuesday night’s vote. But nearly 100 Tory MPs directly challenged his authority, voting against Covid passports for entry into nightclubs and other large venues.
This means that nearly a third of all Tory MPs and most backbenchers have now warned the PM that they are extremely unhappy with the idea of ââfurther restrictions.
Since Brexit, the Conservative Party has rejected its more moderate and center-right voices. As a direct result, the main tension of opinion within the Tories is now inherently more lockdown skeptic, freedom-loving and anti-mask than David Cameron’s party might have been.
If Johnson is to go for tougher Plan C measures in the face of a rising Omicron tide, he will now find himself in the same position as May on Brexit – attempting to rely on Labor votes in the face of a revolt on the right.
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Keir Starmer stopped before explicitly calling on Boris Johnson to step down.
When asked if he thought Conservative MPs should write to the 1922 committee to call a leadership election, he told broadcasters:
He has a majority of 80 seats and he just got, you know, 90 or 100 of his own MPs voting against him on a three-line whip, that’s a big blow to the authority of the Prime Minister.
Just when we need decisive decisions in this pandemic, he is the worst possible leader at the worst possible time.
When asked again if the Tory rebels should try to get rid of the Prime Minister, the Labor leader replied:
Well, the Prime Minister must ask himself the question of whether he has the power to lead this country through this pandemic.
20:26
It looks like the number of Tory MPs who voted against Covid passes tonight may be higher than previously reported.
From the sky Sam coates:
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Several people have pointed out that the Covid pass vote marks one of the biggest rebellions a Tory leader has ever suffered.
From Times Radio Tom Newton Dunn:
And Prospect magazine Tom clark:
And as a political expert Sam freedman reminds us that the defeat of the Brexit deal was a blow to Theresa May and prompted Jeremy Corbyn to table a dramatic motion of no confidence in the House of Commons.
19:58
Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, responded to tonight’s vote, saying the Tory rebellion “makes all British nations less secure”.
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19:51
Among those who voted against compulsory vaccination for NHS workers and against Covid passes were independent Jeremy Corbyn. The former Labor leader previously tweeted:
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Here is the moment Swith Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, treasurer of the 1922 Conservative committee, said a leadership challenge is “on the cards” for Boris Johnson if he fails to “change his approach”.
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On this basis, experts pointed out that the two Tory MPs who won their by-election seats this year – Jill Mortimer in Hartlepool and Louie French (the party’s most recent MP) in Old Bexley and Sidcup – have rebelled against the government on Covid passes.
This analysis is from Sky’s Kate mccann
Update
19:38
From the BBC Nick Eardley on what tonight’s heavy rebellion means for Boris Johnson and his government
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An observation from the Times Patrick maguire on the vote on the Covid happening
Update
19:26
96 conservatives voted against PM on Covid passes, with two conservatives as scrutineers, list of divisions shows
Andrew Sparrow
In fact, 96 Tory MPs voted against the government on Covid passes, plus two Tory MPs acting as scrutineers, according to the split list on the Commons website. There were also 10 Liberal Democrats, eight Labor MPs, six DUP MPs, two independent MPs and one Green MP voting against. The list is here.
That’s all about me for tonight. My colleague Lucy Campbell is now taking over.
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]]>GUEST BLOG: Ian Powell – Ernst & Young ‘Health Reforms’ Income Stream
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Wed, 08 Dec 2021 04:51:11 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/guest-blog-ian-powell-ernst-young-health-reforms-income-stream/[ad_1] Andrew Little at 4:20 p.m. When the Labor Party came to power in 2017, leading a coalition government, it created an understandably strong distrust of the Ministry of Health or at least its leaders. At that time, Labor seemed supportive of District Health Boards (DHBs), especially in the context of their growing tension with […]]]>
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When the Labor Party came to power in 2017, leading a coalition government, it created an understandably strong distrust of the Ministry of Health or at least its leaders. At that time, Labor seemed supportive of District Health Boards (DHBs), especially in the context of their growing tension with the ministry’s top-down leadership culture.
However, Labor confidence in the DHB has also waned; partly under the influence of the ministry, but still more under the external commercial influence. This despite the fact that in 2001 the incumbent Labor established the DHB as crown entities responsible for geographically defined local populations and that in December 2018 they appointed new presidents and vice-presidents of the councils of administration more diversified than they replaced them.
Labor was also oblivious to the quality of care and the fiscal management benefits of clinical leadership, particularly when it was distributed across the larger clinical workforce which had been supported to varying degrees by previous ministers of the clinic. Health of the two main political parties.
Labor’s Annette King and David Cunliffe stood out in this regard. This oversight has compounded Labor’s mistrust of leadership in the health care system, making it vulnerable to oversimplified external influence motivated more by talk than substance.
Call on sales advisers
So what did Labor do? She turned to external business consultants and, in particular, Ernst & Young (EY). DHBs that questioned the viability of central government ill-conceived positions and distributed clinical leadership were to be eliminated and ignored, respectively.
In the more than 30 years that I have been involved in the health care system, I have not seen a government more dependent and influenced by business consultants since the early 1990s, when the national government attempted to manage the system on competitive business principles.
Ironically, the growing use of business consultants by the government was a top concern of labor ministers when they took office in 2017. The following year, State Services Minister Chris Hipkins abolished the maximum number of civil servants. With justification, he argued that this had perversely fueled an increased reliance on expensive contractors and consultants.
EY Income Stream
Based on information obtained under the Official Information Act New Zealand HeraldJournalist Kate MacNamara posted a timely article (December 3) on the costs of business consultants in Labor’s massive healthcare restructuring: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/health- system-reform-transition-unit-to-spend-18 million-consultants-this-year / CE5E2VE5AUAKNUUNTGW7FUN46I /. This restructuring takes effect next July.
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MacNamara reports that the transitional unit set up within the Prime Minister’s Department and Cabinet to implement the health care restructuring will spend around $ 18 million (69%) of its $ 25.96 million budget. this financial year (2021-22) in subcontractors and consultants. The head of the Transition Unit is EY’s senior associate, Stephen McKernan.
But these massive and disproportionate expenses are not distributed evenly among these lucky contractors and consultants. The primary beneficiary of the contractor’s expenses to date is EY. Immediately, questions of ethics and probity arise. While this may not meet the legal threshold for conflict of interest, in my opinion it is ethically and morally. He certainly smells awkward about it.
Parliamentary questions from National Health Party spokesperson Dr Shane Reti, reported by MacNamara, revealed that EY had been paid or owed $ 5.7 million by the Transition Unit for work up to at the end of August 2021. It is not clear whether this included or excluded McKernan’s compensation. .
Compare that $ 5.7 million paid to EY to the nearly $ 1.2 million paid to the five major contractors and consultants combined over the same time period. These five companies in total received about 21% of what EY alone earned.
The second recipient of Transition Unit funding, although minor compared to EY, raises another potential conflict of interest issue. Finora Management Ltd has been paid or owed $ 323,700. It is owned by Chad Paraone, who was recently appointed interim CEO of the MÄori Health Authority ad interim.
The other contractors and consultants are Sapere Research Group, Senate Communications, Sue Suckling Holdings Ltd and Arkus Communications.
Experience of business health consultants
McKernan’s defense against the New Zealand Herald was that his unit was delivering an agenda that is “… large and ambitious and requires a significant transformation of the overall structures of the health system, macro-policy, [and] legislative and financial framework. It also requires new models of care, new commissioning approaches to be developed, and significant change management [and] transition and implementation planning.
My kindest description of this defense is empty rhetoric. The overwhelming experience of external business consultants in the public health system has been disappointing at best. At worst (but this is not uncommon) it has been distressing and destructive.
EY’s own experience in the New Zealand healthcare system is limited (largely McKernan himself) and without credible leads on the board. Its main “claim to fame” was a horrendous misuse of national nursing workforce data in 2020 to absurdly claim that Canterbury DHB was employing too many nurses and therefore mismanaging its finances.
It amounted to a hatchet job led by McKernan in his role of EY to help movements within central government to bring down the CDHB leadership team that was seen as too close to its workforce of medical professionals. It worked.
Now we have EY leading to the abolition of DHBs without any substantive understanding of what will replace their roles and functions in ensuring the provision of primary and community health care.
There is also no awareness of the risk of impact on improving the integration between the integration of the continuum of care between the community and the hospital. This is an effective way to control the growth of acute hospital admissions, which is a major cost driver in the healthcare system.
The EY-dominated Transition Unit developed new health system indicators. They replace the old national government’s health goals that were deficient because they only applied to things that could be counted (a small part of what the health system does).
Replacing a misleading measure of accountability with falsifying and omitting indicators is not progress. But it does indicate the level and type of thinking behind the restructuring.
Intersections or highways
To make matters worse, this is all happening in the midst of a pandemic. Health sector experience and expertise would say: cultural leadership change trumps structural change for sustainable system improvement; do not dismantle a structure until there is a clear and sane conception of what will replace it; and not restructure the agencies responsible for providing community and hospital health care during a crisis such as a pandemic. It’s ABC stuff.
But that’s not what EY advises the government. In fact, even a mild measure (ineffective on its own) that sparked the interest of Health Minister Andrew Little in extending the contracts of DHB CEOs for a few months after June 30 would meet opposition from McKernan. .
Unfortunately, DHBs are unable to articulate their inability to understand the ABCs of health reform due to the strong government control they are under. Sadly, in a heavily unionized workforce, health unions have generally been complicit in this failure to the detriment of their own members. High unionism benefits health systems, but not when their leaders are largely silent on issues like this.
It’s tempting to say that hiring business consultants to take the lead in implementing healthcare restructuring is like hiring panelists to design hubs. I’m sure Transport Minister Michael Woods would never consider the latter, so why is Andrew Little doing the former?
However, given the enormous reach of Aotearoa’s healthcare system, I suggest that a more appropriate analogy is akin to hiring panelists to design a highway (a joke for contentious minds)?
Ian Powell was Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, the trade union representing senior physicians and dentists in New Zealand, for over 30 years, until December 2019. He is now a healthcare systems specialist, labor market scholar and political commentator living in the small river estuary community of Otaihanga (the place by the tide). First published at Otaihanga Second Opinion
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]]>UK Covid live: NHS faces ‘critical winter’, health minister says as colleague tells people to continue Christmas plans | World news
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Fri, 03 Dec 2021 11:38:09 +0000https://golfclashgemmes.com/uk-covid-live-nhs-faces-critical-winter-health-minister-says-as-colleague-tells-people-to-continue-christmas-plans-world-news/[ad_1] Britons were urged today to “stay calm and continue with their Christmas plans” – despite the UK having its highest cases since July. Oliver Dowden, the chairman of the Conservative Party, said people should continue to go to pubs and restaurants because he claimed the government had so far taken “sufficient” action against the […]]]>
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Britons were urged today to “stay calm and continue with their Christmas plans” – despite the UK having its highest cases since July.
Oliver Dowden, the chairman of the Conservative Party, said people should continue to go to pubs and restaurants because he claimed the government had so far taken “sufficient” action against the new Omicron variant.
âThe message to people is quite simple, and that’s to stay calm, to carry on with your Christmas plans,â he told Sky News this morning. “We have the necessary restrictions in place, but beyond that, stay calm and carry on.”
The UK has recorded 42 cases of Omicron so far and yesterday reported its highest daily cases since July with 53,945 cases and 141 more deaths.
Dowden’s comments echo those of the Prime Minister yesterday, who said in an interview that people should not cancel the Christmas holidays. âThe most important thing is that people follow the advice we have given,â he said in a joint interview. âPeople shouldn’t cancel things. There is no need for that at all. This is not what we are saying.
So far, the government has responded to the new variant by reintroducing face mask requirements and tightening self-isolation rules and travel restrictions.
Responding to criticism from the hospitality industry of the government’s mixed messages, Dowden insisted the government was not discouraging people from going out.
âWe haven’t changed the advice about who is involved in hospitality – so going to the pub, going to a restaurant, etc.,â he said.
“And in fact, I think most pubs and restaurants until recently have done really well during this season and we’re not discouraging people from doing that.”
While he said he was “confident” that this Christmas would be better than the last, he urged people to get a Covid booster when they are eligible.
He said:
All of our advice is based on scientific evidence and indeed the Chief Medical Officer [Professor Chris Whitty] and senior scientific advisor [Sir Patrick Vallance] attending Cabinet and were in Cabinet when we discussed this earlier this week.
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