Wednesday 18 May 2016

My Analysis of The Queens Speech




New powers for prison governors, more independence for prisons and an overhaul of education, health and training to reduce reoffending (prison and courts reform bill)

Is more independence for prisons a good idea? Framework for further privatization?


Academies expanded in the poorest local areas and setting the foundations for a system in which all schools are academies (education for all bill)

I they U-turned on this? It's back?


New fair funding formula for schools to even out differences in urban and rural education (education for all bill)

A good thing?


Stronger powers to disrupt extremists and protect the public, including a civil order regime, Ofcom regulation for internet-streamed television and intervention in unregulated religious schools (counter-extremism and safeguarding bill) 

One year they take them away, the next they give them back. Unregulated schools? Why are there unregulated schools?!


Prioritising permanent adoption over short-term placements (children and social work bill) 

Good thing.


New care leavers’ covenant to make sure children leaving care have better support (children and social work bill) 

Good thing.


Making it easier for new universities to open and reforming funding to link it to the quality of teaching rather than student numbers (higher education and research bill) 

Privatizing education and giving more money to their mates.


Bill of rights to replace Human Rights Act (Consultation) 

Absolutely disgusting. There should be riots in the streets.


Surveillance powers for the spy agencies and other government bodies to monitor people’s online communications when investigating crime or terrorism (investigatory powers bill) 

Absolutely disgusting. There should be riots in the streets.


Duty on police, ambulance and fire services to collaborate to improve efficiency (policing and crime bill) 

STOP FUCKING CUTTING THEIR FUNDING THEN YOU MASSIVE DICKS!


Police chiefs allowed to give policing powers to volunteers and backroom staff so that they can make best use of the workforce (policing and crime bill) 

Unpaid, untrained, un-accountable police. Vigilantes? 


The right to a broadband connection for every household and automatic compensation if the connection goes wrong (digital economy bill) 

No one is going to get compensation.


Protection of children from online pornography by requiring age verification on the internet for adult material (digital economy bill) 

Unworkable.


Protection for consumers from spam email and nuisance calls by ensuring consent is obtained for direct marketing (digital economy bill) 

This already exists and they just get around it with clever wording.


Allowing driverless cars on to the roads and an operational spaceport (modern transport bill) 

Until someone dies.


Speeding up the planning process (neighbourhood planning and infrastructure bill) 

So they can build that 17th swimming pool they desperately need to keep Quentin and Tarquin quiet.


Allowing councils to keep up to 100% of the business rates they collect (local growth and jobs bill) 

Ok.


Laws enabling the new Help to Save scheme, which is designed to help those from low incomes to build up savings (lifetime savings bill) 

Unless the government are giving them money to save, this isn’t going to work.


Expanding the national citizen service and duty on schools to promote the scheme to all young people (national citizen service bill) 

The what? When was this introduced? What is it? It sounds terrible. My kids will not be allowed to join this.


New criminal offence for corporations that fail to stop staff facilitating tax evasion and measures to allow the government to recoup more illicit income (criminal finances bill) 

Corporations. Not individuals. So Dave and his mates can’t go to prison.


Local mayors to get power to improve bus services and London-style powers to franchise local services. Data on routes, fares and times to be made freely available (bus services bill) 

This is the councils job not one person. Unless they’re just changing the name of the mayors to Chief Executive In Charge of Local Buses.


Energy and utility companies to enable faster switching for consumers (better markets bill) 

They’ve been announcing this for years.


Measures to make sure the NHS recovers the cost of treating migrants more effectively (NHS overseas visitors charging bill) 

And I’m sure we pay every penny for all the Brits treated abroad yeah?


Clamping down on excess exit charges and providing protections for people whose pensions are invested in master trusts (pensions bill) 

I have no idea what this means. I don’t have a pension. I should probably get one. How do I do that?


Levy on the soft drinks industry starting in 2018 (finance bill 2017) 

Good. 


New offences to stop dealing in property looted from war zones (cultural property armed conflict bill) 

Good.


Clarifying division of responsibility between the Welsh assembly and Westminster, and devolution of energy, transport and electoral powers (Wales bill) 

This means that they are doing absolutely nothing. And talking a lot about it.


Descriptions and picture borrowed from The Guardian's Queen's speech 2016: the key points explained.

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