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Ikea shelves, books by politicians, even a whole celeriac: in defence of middle-class fly-tipping | Zoe Williams
One experiences politics through direct encounters with the state, and since the first wave of austerity that experience has diverged enormously across income brackets. Benefits claimants can expect constantly hostile interactions, their disabilities relentlessly interrogated, their work hours pored over, their child-rearing examined, their benefits rescinded on specious or cruel grounds – all on an act-first-ask-questions-later principle.
As incomes increase, there is a sweet spot, particularly for those who are in fine health and have no children in state education. This demographic occupies a world where nobody can touch you but a traffic warden, or a guy from the council who disapproves of your rubbish disposal. The issue of traffic itself has now also entered into that world – whether it is 20mph limits, London’s ultra-low emission zone or the policy of low-traffic neighbourhooods – and has become a massive site of political activism.
And then there’s fly-tipping – or, to give it its full name, middle-class fly-tipping. The local government ombudsman said last month that councils had become over-zealous in their fines, with two Bournemouth residents fined £500 each: one for leaving Ikea furniture on the street, free for anyone to take; another, a carpet-fitter, for leaving an off-cut that he thought, probably rightly, someone would find handy.
However much we may like the idea of our tatty old belongings finding a new home, this kind of street trash is undoubtedly an assertion of middle-class entitlement, which is hard to justify – even if you personally would be delighted by a free Ikea bookcase and a piece of carpet. The rule is if it’s middle class, it doesn’t count as rubbish – it’s more of an impromptu car boot sale. So any book, even a mad one – 1980s facial yoga, recipes from the Hay diet – is allowable.
Fair play, though, there’s an equal and opposite force, always ready to pounce: a middle-class person who will pick up literally any book. I tested this proposition to its very limits when (no offence, cabinet) I put out books by every single member of the government (I’d read them before the election). They were gone in an hour, even (no offence) Ian Murray’s history of the football club Hearts. Likewise, food cannot count as rubbish, so long as it’s “natural” – you couldn’t leave Pop-Tarts out, but you can leave as many maggot-pitted windfall apples as you like, or wild garlic. I’ve picked up a celeriac off a garden wall and eaten it, which I’m neither proud nor ashamed of.
In this milieu, anything you could plausibly claim was recycling (furniture, clothes, electronics) you can leave out on environmental grounds. There are plenty of thrills, too. The audacious act of sticking a printer on the street, with a sign saying “in good working order”, when that definitely was not true even before it started raining, is matched only by the patrician nod you’ll get while you’re picking up that incredibly old and manky fleece, for a reason you couldn’t name, from its original owner. “Be my guest, fellow climate-lover,” it says. “Wrap yourself in my M&S bounty.”
I can totally see why a small-beans utility corporation would want to fine us all within an inch of our lives, in other words. But I’m never going to stop doing it.
As well as being indicative of the way class works in Britain, it is also a story about the monetisation of the civic relationship. Extravagant fines for the simple act of placing your old wares on the front doorstep tend to be handed out by private contractors, engaged by the council and given a guide on maximum fines which they find it commercially beneficial to push to their very limits. Alongside the two unlucky sods in Bournemouth, it’s a pattern also visible in recent airport parking-fine “scandals” (the scare quotes indicate that the rage is utterly understandable yet completely disproportionate).
Not only do private contractors jack up fines to the max, but they give no quarter. There is, after all, no incentive for a company to see both sides or turn a blind eye, because their relationship is with the council or authority, not the individual. The council, which does, in fact, have a long-term relationship with its residents to protect, is not blameless in this. If there’s no sense of mutual sympathy and care between the finer and the fined, it’s because it wasn’t written into the contract. But how could it be?
What would a “we all have to live here, we’re going to have to get along” clause even look like? The drum beat of discontent that, for instance, united my mother’s entire street in umbrage when her neighbour’s daughter got a £100 fine for putting her rubbish out not in the wrong place, not on the wrong day, but one hour too early (Wandsworth council, I’m looking at you) is the assertion of a community’s interests against the market’s. The issue feels bigger than a bag of rubbish, bigger even than £100.
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Arlene Foster says conversion therapy vote triggered removal as DUP leader
The majority of the party had voted against the motion, arguing that any legislation to outlaw the practice needed to ensure safeguards for churches.
Speaking to Michael Gove for a new Radio 4 podcast, Baroness Foster explained why she had chosen to abstain on the vote.
“I was aware that one of our members had a daughter who was gay – in an attempt to try and diffuse the situation, I said: ‘Well, we’ll just abstain.’
“It was a non-binding vote. But by saying just abstain, people got very angry about that and that was the trigger then for my removal, which came just a week later.”
Baroness Foster, who has since quit frontline politics altogether, said the party was also unhappy with how things had been handled with the Brexit negotiations while Boris Johnson was prime minister.
She also said some within the DUP were unhappy about Covid regulations, which Baroness Foster had been tasked with jointly leading the response to in the power-sharing executive, and that had “caused difficulties”.
“Because of Covid, a lot of things were happening remotely, I didn’t see a lot of it coming towards me,” the former first minister of Northern Ireland said.
“Certainly not of the magnitude that happened and the way in which it happened, because nobody had actually come to me and said: ‘Oh, by the way I think you should step down and it’s time for you to go’.
“Nobody came to me and said that, but the way they did it was that they obtained signatures on a letter of no confidence and that’s how it came about.”
She said that while some of those involved in the move later apologised, the “damage was done”, describing it as a part of her life which was not particularly pleasant.
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Single patient records at heart of NHS 10-year plan
Single patient records will be at the heart of the government’s new strategy for the NHS in England, ministers say.
Currently, records are held locally by a patient’s GP and any hospitals they visit.
Work is already under way to join up the records and ministers say they will form part of its drive to improve efficiency in the NHS under its 10-year plan.
Campaigners have raised concerns about data protection but ministers say they are “absolutely committed” to protecting confidential medical information.
It comes as the government launches a new “national conversation” to inform the 10-year plan, which is due to be published in the spring.
One of the key themes of the plan will be moving from “analogue to digital” – and the single patient records will be a core part of that.
The government said it would speed up patient care, reduce repeat tests and medical errors.
Last year, a contract was awarded to the firm Palantir to create a database joining up individual records kept by local services.
It will allow patients and those treating them to access the information about their health.
Campaign group MedConfidential has warned having a single record like this will be “open to abuse”.
But Stephen Kinnock defended the move, saying the government was “absolutely committed” to protecting patient data.
He said safeguards providing a “cast iron guarantee” on security would be set out in a new bill that will be put before Parliament to push ahead with the move.
Alongside this, the NHS App will be further developed to allow patients to routinely use it to book appointments and check test results.
The hope is patients will begin to use it in the same way banking apps have revolutionised the way people bank.
The 10-year plan will also focus on moving care out of hospitals and into the community.
The government said local neighbourhood health centres, where patients can access GP, district nursing, physios and testing all under one roof, will form part of this.
But it said it wanted to hear from the public about their own ideas for change as part of the national conversation.
The pubic engagement exercise begins on Monday, with the launch of website change.nhs.uk.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “The NHS is going through the worst crisis in its history but, while the NHS is broken, it’s not beaten. Together we can fix.
“Whether you use the NHS or work in it, you see first hand what’s great but also what isn’t working. We need your ideas to help turn the NHS around.”
Patients Association chief executive Rachel Power said she “warmly welcomes” the initiative.
She said: “For far too long, many patients have felt their voices weren’t fully heard in shaping the health service.
“This national conversation marks a significant step towards genuine patient partnership and puts patients at the heat of the NHS’s evolution.”
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Woman admits hurling McDonald’s milkshake over Nigel Farage
A woman who threw a McDonald’s milkshake over Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the general election campaign has pleaded guilty to assault by beating.
Farage was leaving a pub in Clacton-on-Sea on 4 June having launched his candidacy for the Essex constituency when a drink was hurled in his face.
Victoria Thomas Bowen, 25, of St Osyth Road in Clacton, had previously denied the charge, and will be sentenced at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in December.
Mr Farage, who won the seat in the 4 July vote, was campaigning at the Moon & Starfish pub on the seafront when the attack happened.
Thomas Bowen also admitted criminal damage after causing £17.50 worth of damage to a jacket belonging to Mr Farage’s security officer James Woolfenden.
She changed her pleas to both charges before the start of her scheduled trial.
Deputy senior district judge Tan Ikram adjourned sentencing until 16 December.
The judge said : “This was an unprovoked, targeted attack, now on an elected Member of Parliament.
“I take a serious view of these offences.
“I am seeking a pre-sentence report which will consider all options for sentence.”
In a witness statement read out in court, Farage said “this incident caused me concern as I have only been going about my job” and that he tried to “have as much public engagement as possible”.
“I’m saddened that this has happened at a public campaign,” he added.
During a police interview Thomas Bowen said she saw a post online about Mr Farage’s attendance at the Wetherspoon outlet that day, the court heard.
She told officers she “does not agree with his political views” and decided to act because “she had the opportunity” when she saw him leaving the pub.
Giving details from her police interview, prosecutor Nishma Shah told the court: “She acknowledges that this was an assault and that the liquid would have gone over the jackets of him and others and caused them to get cleaning, but she states that Nigel would be able to afford this.
“She states she did not regret her actions.”
Thomas Bowen told police she did not intend the paper cup to hit Farage.
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Former Tory minister David Gauke to lead prison sentencing review
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will appoint the former Conservative Justice Secretary David Gauke to lead a review of prison sentencing, the BBC has confirmed.
The Labour Party said in its general election manifesto it would establish a review of sentencing “to ensure it is brought up to date”.
The BBC reported earlier this month that Gauke was the frontrunner to lead the review.
His appointment is expected to be announced on Tuesday by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
Gauke was justice secretary under Theresa May from January 2018 to July 2019.
He then broke with the Conservative Party over Brexit, and stood unsuccessfully as an independent candidate at the 2019 general election. In July he rejoined the Conservative Party.
Gauke has previously suggested that jail terms of less than six months should be scrapped.
The prisons minister, Lord Timpson, has also previously argued that the prison population is too large.
As well as scrapping short sentences, the review is expected to consider toughening up community orders as an alternative to jail.
Community orders can include compelling someone to take part in rehabilitation programmes or carry out unpaid work for the local area such as removing graffiti.
Someone given a community order may also face restrictions on where they live or where they can go.
Several government sources have pointed to advances in technology, such as sobriety tags monitoring alcohol use, that could be used more widely to detain criminals in their homes.
Ministers are also exploring international examples of reducing crime in Texas and Louisiana, where prisoners can reduce their sentences by earning credits for good behaviour.
The review is expected to make its recommendations in the spring.
Since coming to power in July the government has had to grapple with severe overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales.
One of Labour’s first acts after winning the election was to implement an early release scheme, drawn up by the previous government.
Under the scheme, prisoners can be let out if they have completed 40% of their sentence, rather than 50%, as was previously the case.
The government has said offenders jailed for violent offences with sentences of at least four years, sex offenders and domestic abusers were not eligible.
Last month 1,700 prisoners were freed under the scheme and a further 1,100 will be released on Tuesday.
The policy is due to be reviewed in 18 months.
The government has defended the scheme saying it had “inherited prisons in crisis and on the brink of collapse”.
“Had that happened, the courts would have been unable to hold trials and the police to make arrests,” a government spokesperson added.
The Conservatives have said the government “badly managed” the scheme creating “serious public concern” about the process.
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Starmer and Streeting invite ‘entire nation’ to contribute to consultation on reforming NHS – UK politics live | Politics
Starmer and Streeting invite ‘entire nation’ to contribute to consultation on reforming NHS
Good morning. When the Labour government came into power, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, declared on his first day in office “the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken”. The government is going to published a 10-year health plan to fix it, and it is due to be published next spring.
Streeting has said the plan will involve three main elements: moving from analogue to digital; more focus on primary care, not hospital care; and more focus on prevention. Keir Starmer explained them in a speech on the NHS in September.
But today the government asking people who work in the NHS and use it – the “entire nation”, as the Department of Health and Social Care puts it in its news release – to contribute to a consultation how health service should change. The DHSC explains:
Members of the public, as well as NHS staff and experts will be invited to share their experiences views and ideas for fixing the NHS via the online platform, change.nhs.uk, which will be live until the start of next year, and available via the NHS App.
The public engagement exercise will help shape the government’s 10 Year Health Plan which will be published in spring 2025 and will be underlined by three big shifts in healthcare – hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention …
Bold ambitions for the NHS can only be achieved by listening to the expertise and knowledge of its 1.54 million strong workforce. Their understanding of what’s holding them back from performing at their best will help us bring down waiting times and provide the world class care the public deserve.
The government has already taken immediate action to address challenges in the health service and deliver an NHS fit for the future. Whether that’s agreeing a deal with resident doctors within weeks, securing a funding increase for GP practices to manage rising pressures or hiring an extra 1,000 GPs into the NHS by the end of this year, there are both short- and long-term reforms working hand in hand.
Streeting has posted a link to the online consultation page on social media.
Governments launch consultations for various reasons. Clearly, when ministers are making big changes to large, important institutions, it makes sense to find out first what the public think, and occasionally these exercise throw up ideas overlooked by the thinktank, policy-making world. But that is not the only, or even the main, function of these initiatives like this. Ensuring people feel consulted can be just as important as finding out what they think.
More importantly, this is also about pitch-rolling – persuading people that an issue matters, and that change is needed. The public don’t need to be told that the NHS needs rescuing; it is regularly at or near the top of problems that people say matter to them most, according to polling. But we are less than two weeks away from a budget that is set to raise the tax burden by a record amount in cash terms (not necessarily as a proportion of GDP) and it is very, very important for the government to convince people that this is happening for reason (like fixing the broken NHS) and not just out of profligacy. Gordon Brown was the master of this; when he put up national insurance to raise money for the NHS, it turned out to be one of the most popular tax rises ever. Today’s NHS consultation is probably more about budget framing than about a scramble for ideas to pad out next year’s 10-year plan.
Here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, are visiting a health centre in London to launch their public consultation on the NHS’s future.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.
2.20pm: Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, takes questions in the Commons.
After 3.30pm: Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister and housing secretary, opens the Commons debate on the second reading of the employment rights bill.
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Here are social media posts from two journalists about the plan for digital “patient passports” in the NHS.
From John Burn-Murdoch, the Financial Times’ chief data reporter
Everyone saying “no we can’t let the NHS use a proper joined up digital patient database, it’s all part of a plot to privatise British healthcare and sell your data” should be forced to read the dozens (hundreds?) of case studies like these
From Jim Waterson, the former Guardian journalist who now writes the London Centric newsletter on Substack
I hate doing personal posts but: When my mum was dying last year, NHS data sharing failures and prioritising GDPR over pain relief repeatedly left her in agony. In desperation I began to build a Google Doc of her records linked to a QR code for doctors to scan. System’s broken.
Acting Alba party leader says no decision yet taken over whether Sturgeon will be invited to Salmond’s memorial service
Severin Carrell
Claims that Nicola Sturgeon has been banned from attending Alex Salmond’s memorial service have been rejected as “premature” by Kenny MacAskill, the acting leader of Alba, the former first minister’s nationalist party.
The Sunday Mail reported at the weekend an Alba source saying there was “not a chance in hell” that Sturgeon would be invited, given the pair’s incendiary split over the allegations of sexual misconduct against Salmond.
Sturgeon and Salmond have not spoken since the allegations emerged following a Scottish government inquiry in 2018. Salmond had repeatedly accused her aides of orchestrating a smear campaign against him – claims Sturgeon has consistently dismissed.
In a statement rejecting the Sunday Mail’s claims, MacAskill said:
Now is the time for Alex’s family to be given the privacy and time to grieve the loss of a beloved husband, brother and uncle.
An announcement will be made in the coming days about arrangements for a private funeral to be attended by his family and close friends.
There will be time in the coming weeks to celebrate his life and commemorate his achievements in a memorial service, the family have yet to make any arrangements for that. All other speculation is premature.
Salmond’s family are expecting to hold a private funeral for the former first minister in his home village of Strichen, Aberdeenshire, next week, where he will also be buried. No date has yet been fixed for a memorial service, though some allies have suggested St Andrew’s Day on 30 November.
It remains unclear whether Sturgeon would expect to be invited. Salmond told a BBC Scotland documentary which aired last month: “It’s a big regret that Nicola and I are no longer on speaking terms and I seriously doubt if it’s going to improve.”
Health minister plays down privacy fears about digital ‘patient passports’, saying it’ll be like ‘online banking’
Stephen Kinnock, the care minister, was giving interviews this morning on behalf of the government. He was promoting the consultation on the future of the NHS, but many of the questions he took were about the government’s plans for a digital “patient passport”, ensuring people’s medical records are all available in one place, through the NHS app. Pippa Crerar and Denis Campbell explain that here.
Kinnock sought to play down concerns that people’s data would be at risk. But, in an interview with Mishal Husain on the Today programme, he was could not give her firm assurances on this point.
When Husain asked if people’s patient records would be available to all 1.5 million NHS employees under the government’s plans, Kinnock said the protocols would be set out in the forthcoming data bill. He went on:
We’re absolutely committed to protecting data, and we need the cyber security in place. Of course, one of the problems is the NHS uses Excel XP which is not conducive to the most modern cyber security techniques. We’ve got to modernize the tech.
Husain said protecting data from cyber attacks was a diferent matter, and she again asked if all NHS employees would be able to access someone’s medical records. Kinnock replied:
What we’re proposing is no different to online banking apps. So this is definitely more NatWest than it is Star Trek. This is a system that is going to be based on common sense, on enabling a single patient record.
In the end, if we don’t modernise the NHS, make it more efficient and productive, you can have the best data protection rules in the world, but you not going to have a health and care system that actually works.
Husain tried twice more to get a clear answer about the restrictions on NHS staff accessing individuals’ records. Kinnock did not say in detail how the system would work, but he said ultimately it was a matter of balance.
You’ve got to have a system that works and that enables the hugely important interface between GPS, hospitals and patients, and to create that single patient record.
That has to be balanced against water tight data protection, and that is the balance that we’re going to strike.
But if you constantly just say, we can’t do this because of data protection concerns, you’re just going to have the status quo going on and on and on, and you’re going to have a system that doesn’t work.
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Starmer and Streeting invite ‘entire nation’ to contribute to consultation on reforming NHS
Good morning. When the Labour government came into power, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, declared on his first day in office “the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken”. The government is going to published a 10-year health plan to fix it, and it is due to be published next spring.
Streeting has said the plan will involve three main elements: moving from analogue to digital; more focus on primary care, not hospital care; and more focus on prevention. Keir Starmer explained them in a speech on the NHS in September.
But today the government asking people who work in the NHS and use it – the “entire nation”, as the Department of Health and Social Care puts it in its news release – to contribute to a consultation how health service should change. The DHSC explains:
Members of the public, as well as NHS staff and experts will be invited to share their experiences views and ideas for fixing the NHS via the online platform, change.nhs.uk, which will be live until the start of next year, and available via the NHS App.
The public engagement exercise will help shape the government’s 10 Year Health Plan which will be published in spring 2025 and will be underlined by three big shifts in healthcare – hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention …
Bold ambitions for the NHS can only be achieved by listening to the expertise and knowledge of its 1.54 million strong workforce. Their understanding of what’s holding them back from performing at their best will help us bring down waiting times and provide the world class care the public deserve.
The government has already taken immediate action to address challenges in the health service and deliver an NHS fit for the future. Whether that’s agreeing a deal with resident doctors within weeks, securing a funding increase for GP practices to manage rising pressures or hiring an extra 1,000 GPs into the NHS by the end of this year, there are both short- and long-term reforms working hand in hand.
Streeting has posted a link to the online consultation page on social media.
Governments launch consultations for various reasons. Clearly, when ministers are making big changes to large, important institutions, it makes sense to find out first what the public think, and occasionally these exercise throw up ideas overlooked by the thinktank, policy-making world. But that is not the only, or even the main, function of these initiatives like this. Ensuring people feel consulted can be just as important as finding out what they think.
More importantly, this is also about pitch-rolling – persuading people that an issue matters, and that change is needed. The public don’t need to be told that the NHS needs rescuing; it is regularly at or near the top of problems that people say matter to them most, according to polling. But we are less than two weeks away from a budget that is set to raise the tax burden by a record amount in cash terms (not necessarily as a proportion of GDP) and it is very, very important for the government to convince people that this is happening for reason (like fixing the broken NHS) and not just out of profligacy. Gordon Brown was the master of this; when he put up national insurance to raise money for the NHS, it turned out to be one of the most popular tax rises ever. Today’s NHS consultation is probably more about budget framing than about a scramble for ideas to pad out next year’s 10-year plan.
Here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting, the health secretary, are visiting a health centre in London to launch their public consultation on the NHS’s future.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.
2.20pm: Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, takes questions in the Commons.
After 3.30pm: Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister and housing secretary, opens the Commons debate on the second reading of the employment rights bill.
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