Saturday, October 26, 2013

249. PM Ingles generoso com os boys

cartesiano e o nepotismo de Cameron, mais ou menos.

PM ingles a cortar nas ajudas ao mais vulneraveis mas com grandes larguesas para os boy. Cada vez mais consultores privados e mais milhoes a sair do bolso do contribuinte  e  a divida publica a subir? Lindissimo!

Este governo altamente reacionario so esta a interessado em resolver os problemas dos milionarios. Puseram um milionario a fixar os problemas da plebe, quando ele nunca foi plebe e nunca quis saber da plebe para nada.

E, por cima de tudo, aparece agora o John Major a dizer que a inteligencia deste ministro da seguranca social deixa muito a desejar.

Nos no cartesiano discordamos de John Major, porque Ian Duncan Smith esta reformado de oficial do exercito e agora arranjou um lugar de ministro. Nao assim tao parvo como o outro mais ou menos sugere. Ou sera que tera comprado o lugar?  Lol !



26 October 2013 Last updated at 04:16

Special advisers to ministers: Salary bill up £1m

10 Downing St doorThe highest-paid special advisers work in Number 10

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The salary bill for ministers' special advisers has risen by £1m in the last year,according to official figures.
So-called "Spads" are appointed by ministers to provide political advice over and above the impartial work carried out by civil servants.
The Cabinet Office put the increase down to the "unusual" pressures caused by coalition government.
But Labour said David Cameron's pre-election promise to limit the number of special advisers was in "tatters".
A leap from 85 to 98 in the number of special advisers - who work directly to ministers and often speak for them - contributed to a 16% rise in the total wage bill in 2012-13.
'Out of touch'
According to the Cabinet Office, the total salary bill was £7.2m last year, up from £6.2m in 2011-12 and more than the £6.8m the previous government spent in its final year.

Highest-paid advisers

To David Cameron
  • Craig Oliver £140k
  • Ed Llewellyn £140k
  • Christopher Lockwood £134k
  • Oliver Dowden £125k
  • Graeme Wilson £110k
  • Kate Fall £100k
To Nick Clegg
  • Ryan Coetzee £110k
  • Jonny Oates - £98.5k
Source: Cabinet Office
Special advisers played "an important role... advising ministers and contributing to the smooth running of government", a spokesman said.
"This is particularly important in a coalition and the number of special advisers reflects the unusual circumstances of this government - the first coalition government for more than 60 years."
He added that special advisers represented 2.2% of the senior civil service.
Labour accused the government of double standards and said it came against cuts across the rest of the country.
And Labour MP Phil Wilson accused the prime minister of breaking his 2010 manifesto pledge to "put a limit on the number of special advisers".
"While he tells the rest of the country to accept cuts, he's happy to spend more and more on his own spin doctors. It's more evidence of how out of touch he is that he thinks the rules don't apply to him," he added.

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Friday, October 25, 2013

248. SLANG. I AIN'T DO A YOB IN, BUT i WILL CHUCK THE WRECK INTO THE NICK TO BE SCREWED UP BY THE SCREWS

BENFIQUISTA COCKNEY


Enjoy a little bit of slang now.



26 October 2013 Last updated at 01:19

The joy of slang

atm with cockney slang

In today's Magazine

Slang such as ain't, innit and coz has been banned from a school in south London. Author Charles Nevin celebrates modern slang and revisits phrases that have fallen out of fashion. Cor lummy!
Please do not misunderstand me. I love modern slang. It's as colourful, clever, and disguised from outsiders as slang ever was and is supposed to be. Take bare, for example, one of a number of slang terms recentlybanned by a London school. It means "a lot of", as in 

"there's bare people here", and is the classic concealing reversal of the accepted meaning that you also find in wicked, bad and cool. Victorian criminals did essentially the same with back slang, reversing words so that boybecame yob and so on.
The other banned words are equally interesting. Extra, for example, mischievously stresses the superfluous in its conventional definition, as in "reading the whole book is extra, innit?". And that much disapproved innit? is in fact the n'est-ce pas? English has needed since the Normans forgot to bring it with them.

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Cockney rhyming slang survives well beyond its original inspiration, as in the currently popular marvin for starving hungry”
And who would not admire rinsed for something worn out or overused -chirpsing for flirting, bennin for doubled-up with laughter, or wi-five for an electronically delivered high-five? My bad, being new, sounds more sincere than old, tired, I'm sorry (Sos never quite cut it).
Mouse potato for those who spend too much time on PCs is as striking as salmon and aisle salmon for people who will insist on going against the flow in crowds or supermarket aisles. Manstanding is what husbands and partners typically do while their wives or partners are actually getting on with the shopping. Excellent.
Nor is tradition ignored. Words that have fallen out of fashion are revived - vexed, for example, is angry.

 Cockney rhyming slang survives well beyond its original inspiration, as in the currently popular marvin for starving hungry, after Hank Marvin of The Shadows, who, without wishing to be unkind, hasn't been that well-known outside his household for a good 25 years. Which, even so, is not as long as it is for a ruby (curry), after Ruby Murray, 1950s pop star.
CurryRuby Murray
But (and it was always coming) I do have a sadness to report - the loss of much-loved old friends of phrases that have fallen victim to time, change, and two further factors - first, the current need for brevity in modern communications, and second, the much wider acceptance of words previously considered too uncouth for public exchange.
Being generally opposed to censorship, I've no quibble with the latter, except when it becomes monotonous and repetitious, or even more crucially, when it drives out charm and variety. Consider, for example, this expression of surprise from Jeremy Paxman recently on University Challenge:

 "Oh my godfathers!". It's a phrase which was clearly devised to disguise the then unacceptable "Oh my God!" and so is equally clearly now redundant.

 But that's the charm of it, as with lawks a mercy (Lord have mercy), cor lummy (Lord, love me) and other such "minced oaths". 

I'm fond, too, of Lord luv a duck, whose delightful obscurity has defeated even Michael Quinion's excellent World Wide Words blog but is a splendidly satisfying thing to say. Try it.

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Why do teenagers use slang?
"Slang is about people creating an identity, and that's what teenagers have done," says says Tony Thorne, editor of the Dictionary of Contemporary Slang.
"They have created their own language and are proud to use it."
Your family must have some similar sayings handed down. My aunt was particularly fond of this, in response to some piece of bad behaviour: "Aren't people the giddy limit?" 

My grandmother, wishing to discourage the nagging questioning of grandchildren anxious to know what they'd overheard and weren't supposed to, used to say, "Raros to meddlers!".
I'm now lost to know where they came from, although I glean through the magic of the internet that another exasperation-venter, Strewth Meredith can be traced precisely to a music hall sketch, The Bailiffs, first performed by Fred Kitchen in 1907.
Blimey O'Reilly is even earlier, from a song performed by Pat Rooney in the 1880s. My mother's frequent request to slow down, gently Bentley, is much later, from the perhaps equally forgotten Australian comedian, Dick Bentley, in the 1950s. 

Most marvellously, my grandmother's solicitous greeting, "How's your poor feet?" turns out to be a song written in 1851 in response to the miles people were walking round Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition.
I don't want us all to start sounding like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins, or indeed, Boris Johnson. Nor do I say all past imprecations were that good. By the cringe, a schoolboy favourite of mine, should be left where also lie swinging and dodgy, 1960s catchphrases of Norman Vaughan, another performer to whom time has been unkind.
But I do think we would be much more interesting to listen to if we put some effort into achieving what Reader's Digest used to call "more picturesque speech".
Complete works of ShakespeareBrush up your Shakespeare?
Modern insult, for example, is terribly thin stuff compared with the master, William Shakespeare. Whole websites are devoted to the staggering range and force of Bardic bad-mouthing. My current favourite is: "You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!"
And if you're concerned to be brief, just initialise, as with OMG. BO'R, for instance, or RTM.
I'm not entirely convinced, though, that we're quite ready for the return of Jimmy Young's TTFN.
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247 Can Ian Duncan Smith run a school sweet shop?

Cartesian mediator

It looks like John Major is not convinced.

John Major questions the ability of Ian Duncan Smith to run the DWP, unless he is a genius, and  JM hasn't seen it yet. 

 They say he isn't that clever, so why haven't they allocate him the ministry of sound in Elephant & Castle? Lol !

It looks like John Major is laughing his head off at the Welfare Benefits Reform attempted by IDS. He might screw up and I wish him luck. So do we at the Cartesian.

25 October 2013 Last updated at 16:10

Duncan Smith hits back in spat with Sir John Major

Sir John The two former Tory leaders have never been natural political allies

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A spat between two former Conservative leaders continues after Iain Duncan Smith mocked Sir John Major's support for a "cones hotline" in the 1990s.
Relations between the two men have been cool ever since Mr Duncan Smith led opposition to Sir John over the Maastricht Treaty on EU integration.
On Tuesday, Sir John took a swipe at Mr Duncan Smith's welfare reforms, saying his "genius was unproven".
Now Mr Duncan Smith has hit back in an interview in the Evening Standard.
Asked about Sir John's comments, Mr Duncan Smith told the newspaper. "Well, as I say, I never really get too fussed about what people think about their own intellects.
"I'm always happy to be in awe of someone whose own intellect delivered us the cones hotline, I must say."
Past battles
The cones hotline - a telephone number for motorists to ring if they were irritated by unattended road works - was one of the most mocked policies of the Major government.

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I never make any claims for myself, I just say I think we should all look at each other and be a little more pleasant”
Iain Duncan SmithWork and Pensions Secretary
A source close to Mr Duncan Smith insisted to the BBC it was a throw away line and meant as a joke.
There has been little love lost between the two men since, as a backbencher in the early 1990s, Mr Duncan Smith was one of a group of rebels who fought a long parliamentary campaign against the Major government's decision to sign up to the Maastricht Treaty - regarded as a landmark moment in European integration.
The battles, which resulted in the Major government facing a confidence vote in the House of Commons, undermined Sir John's authority and led to the prime minister calling his opponents "bastards".
He repeated the phrase in a speech to an audience of political journalists on Tuesday, saying his use of the word was "unacceptable" but "his only excuse was that it was true".
'Pleasant'
In the speech, Sir John also questioned the likely outcome of Mr Duncan Smith's sweeping programme of welfare changes.
"Iain Duncan Smith is trying to reform benefits," he said.
"I truly wish him well. But it is enormously complicated and unless he is very lucky, which he may not be, or a genius, which the last time I looked was unproven, he may get some of it wrong."
Mr Duncan Smith's Universal Credit is seen as one of the most ambitious, and potentially risky, policies the coalition has embarked upon.
Chancellor George Osborne has denied reports in a recent book by the journalist Matthew D'Ancona that he had questioned whether Mr Duncan Smith had the intelligence to run a major department like work and pensions.
Referring to the matter recently at the Tory conference, Mr Duncan Smith pointed out that both Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher had had their intellect questioned but had proved their doubters wrong.
And Mr Duncan Smith told the Evening Standard on Friday: "I never make any claims for myself, I just say I think we should all look at each other and be a little more pleasant."

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