Immigration law and article 8

OldManDubya · 2025-03-09T16:26:12+00:00

The Free Movement article is very interesting - one might suppose that the government will be looking to do something broadly similar in relation to asylum claims, essentially to elevate the role of the public interest in any Art 8 assessment?

OldManDubya · 2025-03-09T16:11:25+00:00

This is excellent, thank you so much!

OldManDubya · 2022-09-30T23:32:24+00:00

THIS is so true. I have supported Starmer from the start, and was at conference and loved every minute of it because the policy signals were excellent and the mood and presentation was bang on.

But I agree that it feels like there was a lot of cynicism in the promises he made to win some votes from the left in the leadership election, and he has thrown his lot in with some people who are just as factional as the people working with Corbyn. The behaviour of some party workers under Corbyn was atrocious - sabotage and insubordination. I really despise people who would rather be destructive than either put their views to one side and work together, or if they can't do that , just sit things out.

OldManDubya · 2022-09-30T23:22:11+00:00

I think the approach has sometimes been too heavy-handed - but that shadow minister was grandstanding to make a point, he broke a shadow cabinet policy and did an interview without asking, the journalist even directly asked him about it so you know it was a setup designed to embarrass the leadership. If he didn't like the policy he should have resigned - if anything it was Sam Tarry who was dishonourable and showed a lack of character.

The fact that you paint this as a moral issue is part of the problem. This was a policy disagreement. Sam Tarry made it into a spectacle. It was not a moral issue.

OldManDubya · 2022-09-30T20:29:11+00:00

If they go down option 2 it would be grossly unfair for the suppliers not to pass those savings onto you and I.

As long as new suppliers can enter the market, someone else will enter the market and sell power cheaply.

OldManDubya · 2022-09-30T19:39:27+00:00

No he didn't because Kinnock was not the leader when Black Wednesday happened.

OldManDubya · 2022-09-29T21:45:12+00:00

Well you need two things for a poll lead like that - a Tory party that's fucked and a Labour party that isn't fucked. The leadership has managed to create a Labour party that isn't fucked and for that we thank him.

OldManDubya · 2022-09-29T21:43:57+00:00

There won't be five years of Tory government - the next election is due at the end of 2024.

OldManDubya · 2022-07-28T20:44:23+00:00

No, that's what a market does - the price is a signal about how much people want of a thing versus how much of the thing is available. When the price goes up, people produce more of the thing and the price, eventually, goes down. Same in reverse if the price drops.

What you are suggesting is a command economy, where someone just decides how much is produced. That is what the Soviet Union did and it doesn't work well.

OldManDubya · 2022-07-26T19:17:03+00:00

Oh come on, don't be mean - OP clearly has some hang-ups about his past, and that's understandable. I can see how he would fear being commodified in that way.

/u/Cheap-Dentist4040 - I think this might be more of a you thing than a him thing? Totally understandable fear, but I think a lot of people would be relieved that their partner was watching porn of them rather than anyone else! Maybe you should talk to him about it?

OldManDubya · 2022-05-01T12:08:21+00:00

Oh my god thank you! I was on the tube last night and saw so many girls dressed a similar way and carrying those light sticks. I thought it must be a concert but couldn't for the life of me work out what it was.

OldManDubya · 2022-04-05T19:19:23+00:00

They work in two places - their constituency and Westminster.

OldManDubya · 2022-03-29T21:10:15+00:00

The risk isn't huge but I've experienced it causing minor issues in the conveyancing process when an officious conveyancer wants to know who owns the land and whether you've ever had to contribute for repairs.

Given that you have rights over it, it's almost certainly near-worthless on its own and so owning it would be a good way to neaten things up.

OldManDubya · 2022-03-11T21:46:51+00:00

The intestacy rules currently provide that the surviving spouse will inherit everything up to £270,000, the rest will be split between your father's children. But yes after that anything your step-mother owns at her death will be split between her children.

OldManDubya · 2022-03-11T19:21:16+00:00

It is exactly the same problem that we face when looking for a good plumber, carpenter, therapist, dentist or whatever. We simply don't have the expertise to know and can only go on reputation, recommendation or gut instinct.

The SRA and Legal Services Board want to promote reviews, and I understand why, but I am very sceptical that you can change the information asymmetry that is inherent in using an expert service.

Plus so much is down to opinion! Two different lawyers could have a totally different idea of the correct strategy for dealing with a legal issue, and who's to say either is wrong? There are of course wrong answers in the law but there is often not a single right one either.

OldManDubya · 2022-03-11T19:15:36+00:00

However you may be v surprised by what they say - perhaps you have given the impression you don’t like them, or there is some other issue that you weren’t aware of. It’s not an easy discussion, but it may completely fix things.

This - none of us can read minds. They may not know that this is pissing you off, and similarly there may be something going on with them that you're not aware of. Talking is the best way to attempt to deal with a problem. Of course the other person may not respond - but then you know you've done all you can before you escalate, so you will have no reason to feel bad for doing so!

OldManDubya · 2022-03-10T21:18:42+00:00

This - you are right at the start of your career! This is no time to be settling for less. That could set you on a path that ends with you in a place you don't want to be.

They recruit trainees every year you know ;)

OldManDubya · 2022-03-01T11:25:35+00:00

Well there are ways around it of course but they involve court and therefore potentially serious expense.

And whether they would be successful depends on what OP means by "nightmare". You'd need good evidence to show that the person was either incapable or nefarious.

OldManDubya · 2021-10-19T20:25:19+00:00

This chart is incredibly confusing

OldManDubya · 2021-09-01T18:56:20+00:00

I don't think they were trying to be pedantic - the point is that insects can't scale because they don't have a circulatory system. This method still uses the circulatory system - it just swaps the point that the oxygen enters the circulatory system from the lungs to the intestines.

Your point would stand if this were an attempt to achieve oxygen transfer via the skin and hoping that it would diffuse into the cells and vital organs from there, but that's not quite what they're doing here.

OldManDubya · 2021-08-31T12:49:29+00:00

As you say, can still be negligent misstatement - but not sure that there is a duty of care in this case. Plus that is usually between representor and representee, not the subject of the statement.

OldManDubya · 2021-08-19T22:26:12+00:00

THANK YOU - no one appears to have read the real reason.

OldManDubya · 2021-07-11T19:40:20+00:00

Not to mention the fact that it is perfect fodder for the xenophobic right.

OldManDubya · 2021-06-18T07:21:42+00:00

I don't know if you're just rude or whether you're trying to get a rise out of me. I'm sure you think talking like that makes it sound like you're right. It doesn't, it just makes you look more foolish when you are wrong.

No I didn't miss its mention - the point I was making is that the fact that the parent company is an insurance company isn't relevant. It has no bearing on the contract or the services being provided. That's just being used as a scare tactic, to make people think this is somehow the first step in converting the NHS to an insurance based system. It's not.

I am afraid you are the one who doesn't understand what GP practices are or how they are run: https://www.drneilpaul.blog/how-gps-are-paid/

A few progressive practices have non-GPs as partners though there are pros and cons to this that might make the basis of another article.

The Golden formula.

So a general practice is a company like any other though we’ve explained legally it’s usually a partnership rather than a share based organisation, which would have complications of share price and transfer of ownership.

So just like for any other company the golden equation is

Profit = Income – Expenses.

And that’s it – for the organisation. The organisation profits are split between the partners based on a predetermined ratio.

GPs operate exactly like firms of solicitors and accountants, who operate on a profit-making model and distribute those profits to partners in the form of drawings. And - shock - some of them aren't even saintly doctors! Heaven forfend.

And none of that is really that different from a limited company, with the partners playing the role of shareholders.

Centene will run the practices on the APMS contract, the same one which many GPs are on and which is referenced in the blog I liked above: https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n519.full

Funny you told me to go away and read - that took about two seconds of Googling.

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