Cash ISA changes?

Cash ISA changes to be revealed by Rachel Reeves within weeks

Rachel Reeves is considering putting new curbs on Cash ISAs

Not sure this is very Labour. Why should poorer folk with a little bit of extra savings have to stick it in riskier investments to get tax relief? 

They won't have the means to invest the sort of amounts that make hiring an investment advisor worth while unlike the rich ... 

And surely that "riskier" investment is what the banks do with our money (whether in an ISA or not) it's just that they take the risk and take their cut!

LGBT Rights in 2002

In collecting together my thoughts for this blog, I came across this piece from 2002. On 12th October of that year my union held it's first "trial" conference. I took the following from a short piece I placed in the branch magazine about it....

"...

We debated issues ranging from partnership rights to pride and passed seven motions unanimously on the following:

full partnership right equality

repeal of section 28

LGBT human rights worldwide 

equality at work act providing equality reps akin to safety reps

single equality act with single equality commission until which we should have a LGBT commission"...

It's interesting to note how far we have come since then apart from LGBT human rights worldwide

EU Made Simple says "The EU-US Alliance Is OVER: What it Means for Europe?" What to Add?

Great video ...

But as yet no one seems to have asked...

In what world does Trump and his cronies think anyone could exploit Ukrainian mineral resources without a US (or EU or similar) security guarantee ...

What company in its right mind would seriously invest??