Oh well, watch them leave in droves now to work in the private sector. Good work, Jeremy "Cockney Rhyming Slang" Hunt.

I just don't understand why they would want that.

I honestly don't know if it's some Machiavellian plan or if he's just a total dickhead backed into a corner. I mean it's a given that he's a total dickhead but whether or not there's anything else to it, we'll see in time.

I honestly don't know if it's some Machiavellian plan or if he's just a total dickhead backed into a corner. I mean it's a given that he's a total dickhead but whether or not there's anything else to it, we'll see in time.

One word answer : Money

These disgusting little toads will be left for dead at the first sign of trouble, have they learnt nothing from Robocop?

On the plus side, that would reduce the number of older people making demands on the NHS that cannot be supported by future dependency ratios.

But even that doesn't make sense. They would make much more money by running a corrupt NHS than having to take back handers from corporate groups and they would be responsible for their own corruption rather than in a blackmailable position from a corporate sponsor.

It's because they are lobbied by their rich mates who happen to own these private healthcare companies. And in return they get to sit on the boards of these companies once they retire from politics.

These disgusting little toads will be left for dead at the first sign of trouble, have they learnt nothing from Robocop?

The Independent hasn't been a newspaper for years.

STAND BACK AND ADMIRE THE AWESOMENESS OF MY JOKE CITIZEN. "NEWSPAPER FOLDS". GENIUS, IS THAT. BE COWED AT THE LEVEL OF CLEVERNESS IN THE USE OF MY WORDS.

STAND BACK AND ADMIRE THE AWESOMENESS OF MY JOKE CITIZEN. "NEWSPAPER FOLDS". GENIUS, IS THAT. BE COWED AT THE LEVEL OF CLEVERNESS IN THE USE OF MY WORDS.

Witness the rare "self-five"

It's called a "my-5"

Are they youtubers?

No you're a potato

The Independent hasn't been a newspaper for years.

David Cameron has been accused of buying off Tory MPs threatening to block local government cuts, after it emerged that a new £300m relief fund will overwhelmingly help Conservative areas, including his own Oxfordshire council.

The extra cash was announced after up to 30 Conservative MPs were poised to revolt against the local government finance settlement, which is due to be put to a vote on Wednesday in the House of Commons. The funding was announced by Greg Clark, the communities and local government secretary, to the delight of Tory MPs.

A Labour analysis shows that 83% of the new £300m two-year fund will go to Tory-run councils, mostly in the southern shires. It found that the biggest beneficiary will be Surrey, which will get £24m, with £19m going to Hampshire, £16m to Hertfordshire, £14m to Essex, £12m to West Sussex, £11m to Kent and £9m to Buckinghamshire. Cameron’s county council in Oxfordshire will get an additional £9m to ease the cuts over the next two years.

Having already had its budget slashed by over £150 million since 2010, Wirral Council’s spending power per household is set to be cut further still by £106; from £1,759 this year to £1,653 in 2017-18. The average cut in spending power per dwelling across England is £67.

Meanwhile the Government is affording more generous protection to wealthier southern areas:

- West Berkshire households will have spending cut by £29, from £1,722 to £1,693 per dwelling
- Surrey will see a cut per household of £28, from £1,677 to £1,649
- Richmond upon Thames households will have spending cut by £63, from £1,896 to £1,836 per dwelling
- West Sussex will see a cut per household of £25, from £1,414 to £1,389

Used to buy the paper when I was at university. Y'know, subsidised copies for 20p. It was a broadsheet back then.

Even if I was reading it still, I'd have refused to buy it again after they told people to vote Tory last May.

Their website seems to have turned into a clickbait article farm over the last few years.

It was pretty obvious, but I suppose not bad given your usual fare.

http://gu.com/p/4gh6a

What a shitshow of cronyism and cynical bribery politics. You can't possibly tell me with a straight face that those are the councils worst affected by the welfare cuts.

It's pretty amazing he's still doing the "don't like the Tories? You must be an uncritical supporter of Blair/Brown/Corbyn/Owen Jones" schtick.

How long have you had that saved to your desktop waiting for the perfect moment to drop it in?

Saw it on Twitter this very morning and (obviously) immediately did a search for posts containing the word 'bad' written by LoneWolves. I'm only human.

I'm only human.

We prefer the term huperson, actually.

(My phone wanted to change that to hypersonic, and wanted to let it)

But they aren't anymore, those words were the defined by people who were oppressing thousands of people. To continue to use the words of a people such as that shows a complete disregard to the struggles the oppressed underwent at the time and still undergo in an attempt to free themselves from the bonds of items such as "gender pronouns"!

Except, of course, when it's not.

Which is somewhat arbitrary.

But I am talking dispassionately about words as they appear in the dictionary. This is fine.