But politics is different,
as Labour needs to recognise
Just
as Labour needs Clegg to hold off Tories in their winnable seats, so the Lib Dems need the Labour vote to hold up and withstand a Tory assault.
Not exact matches
They were brought in by the federal and most provincial governments for
labour - backed VC funds in the 80s and early»90s,
as a way to stimulate badly
needed investment in technology.
The Conference Board report identifies a number of possible
labour market imperfections such
as workers lacking the information they
need to make informed decisions.
The first point is that even when employers choose to purchase machines instead of hiring employees, that needn't be a bad thing socially, nor bad for
labour as a group.
Tal believes that improving participation rates in high - demand fields will likely require finding a way to identify emerging trends in
labour market
needs,
as well
as improved quality and equity of learning opportunities and increased resources.
Just
as it was in the case of the cash cost of a residential property, this represents twice
as many weeks of
labour time
needed to finance a mortgage
as compared to the early 1970s.
We think so, but we
need convincing to believe that simply going to a
labour based approach
as proposed in the Jenkins report, along with decreasing the refundable portion of the credit over time are all that is
needed to free up the monies and make the SR&ED incentives a truly effective instrument.
Unfortunately for the Japanese
labour markets,
as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled
labour force the Japanese markets
need, into other areas of work such
as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.
It is crucial that you know that there is a high level of administrative work involved in the industry, such
as the processing of investment activities that
need more
labour input than capital input.
I want to be clear about what I mean by this, because many people believe this issue relates to current skilled
labour shortages; some think it applies to our
need to attract more professionals such
as doctors, engineers and scientists; while others focus on the glass ceiling that many existing immigrants and visible minorities experience.
Although Christ was filled with the form of God and rich in all good things, so that he
needed no work and suffering to make him righteous and saved (for he had all this eternally), yet he was not puffed up by them and did not exalt himself above us and assume power over us, although he could rightly have done so; but, on the contrary, he so lived,
laboured, worked, suffered, and died that he might be like other men and in fashion and in actions be nothing else than a man, just
as if he had
need of all these things and had nothing of the form of God.
Others have made a move to fewer packaging SKUs, using more one - size - fits - all materials (however much
as needed) so that packaging decisions can be made faster and easier by untrained
labour forces.
Many women who have home births get transferred to a hospital anyway, usually because the
labour is taking too long or because they
need pain medication such
as an epidural.
Women bring these books into hospital with them when they are in
labour, women turn to them after they have had little sleep, women listen to their friends
as they tell them, «you
NEED this book!
Your hospital bag
needs to contain all the things you will
need for the duration of your stay, so the items you might want in
labour, such
as lip balm, a comfy over sized t - shirt, your TENS machine and clothes and toiletries for after the birth.
When I qualified, a staff midwife started
as an E-grade; to be a community midwife, you
needed an F, which meant acquiring skills such
as suturing, cannulation, scrubbing in theatre, and being in charge of the
labour ward if no G - grade were available.
, have the best chance of avoiding an epidural and / or a c - section, and be given much more time to
labour - time,
as it turned out, that I didn't
need.
My OB saw me
as a private patient FOR FREE because he's a family friend, and if I had opted for a natural
labour which had gone swimmingly he wouldn't even have
needed to attend because the midwives would have looked after me.
Garrison (personal communication) reports that Narcan, which is sometimes
needed by the baby to counteract the sedating effect of pain - relieving drugs such
as pethidine (demorol), given to the mother in
labour, can be effectively administered via the mother's veins in third stage, waking up the newborn baby in a matter of seconds.
The delivery may
need to take place in a hospital that provides specialty services, where specialists will be on hand to monitor the
labour and delivery,
as well
as the baby after she is born.
My experience was so awful, I trained
as a doula to try to provide women and partners with the emotional support that I
needed and didn't get in
labour.
But it added: «Women
need to be counselled on the unexpected emergencies — such
as cord prolapse, fetal heart rate abnormalities, undiagnosed breech, prolonged
labour and postpartum haemorrhage — which can arise during
labour and can only be managed in a maternity hospital.
Maple Ridge Wellness Centre (offers Chiropractic care specific to pregnancy,
labour and newborn
needs,
as well
as massage therapy and nutrition consulting)
A midwife is with me during
labour and birth and the consultant present only if
needed such
as in an emergency
When choosing a hospital birth factors such
as travel to hospital, childcare for other children, infection, increased intervention — such
as constant observations leading to Drs saying the
labour isn't progressing
as fast
as wanted etc. when choosing a homebirth the women muct consider the possibility of emergency and
need of ambulance.
, and her aura was not one which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in
labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance
as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously which was a concern, and that my partner
needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.
They
need to be administered in hospital (
as a tablet or a gel dispensed internally)
as most mums go into
labour pretty soon after having a dose.
But if not, your midwife may recommend that your
labour might
need to be induced so
as to reduce the risk of any infection.
The book concludes by introducing a new birth chair designed around women's
need for physical support in the hospital delivery room, during
labour as well
as for the birth, a design that will encourage women to adopt a more positive upright attitude to bringing their babies into the world.
I didn't really want one during my first
labour but
as it went on so long, my baby was back to back and a decent size for my small frame, I
needed something a bit stronger than gas and air!
This is stupid it's running over the same crap
as always the fact is
labour tried to destroy the Tories to become the Tories it's failed the Tories are back in fact and we have no
need for a mini Tory party.
«No doubt there is an intriguing tale
as to why this has been revealed publicly now» The smart money says
Labour have known about this for months and have been waiting for the right moment i.e. when they're in serious trouble and
need to put the heat on someone else.
But McDonnell is proving to be more multi-layered than his caricature, seeking late in his career to match expediency with belief, gripped by the
need to prove economic competence (he reads the findings of focus groups
as avidly
as New
Labour's leading figures used to do), knows the importance of narrative and how George Osborne impressively framed one about how
Labour crashed the car and should never be given the keys again.
I agree that the redistributive settlement
needs to be embedded within society's concept of how things work rather than seen
as after - the - fact «meddling» in outcomes, but I think this is incompatible with a government that very clearly is meddling in all kinds of things,
as New
Labour did.
If
Labour wants to convince people it is an agent of change, it
needs to show
as much.
My old friend Kenneth O. Morgan,
Labour peer
as well
as distinguished historian, thought we
needed «action
as well
as conversation», and chided me for failing to put forward a shopping list of concrete proposals akin to the shopping list of global reforms proposed by Thomas Piketty in his Capital in the Twenty - first Century.
He
needs to get the voters to trust
Labour with the economy again, just
as Brown did.
The right - wing media is constantly trying to depict the current system
as favouring
Labour because the electoral arithmetic implies that the Tories
need about 4 % more votes to gain a parliamentary majority than does
Labour.
I do think that
as Labour bloggers we
need to reflect on our priorities... and my post was really a way, perhaps too heavy - handed, of prompting some reflection on whether we have these right.
Taking that into consideration, rather than essentially being a populist shield for
Labour ministers, we
need a grassroots, ground - up effort that will function independently of our leadership until such times
as our leadership ceases to function independently of us».
Labour is struggling to claw back the perception of «economic competence» it
needs to persuade voters to give it another chance, even
as public opinion has turned against further government austerity.
The NHS made efficiencies of 1.7 % a year from 2009/10 to 2014/15 - which included making service cuts such
as restricting access to hip and knee replacements - but the Health Foundation warned that
Labour would
need to make bigger savings, of 2 - 3 % a year, to close the funding gap.
I'm glad that the institutional innovations of
Labour — Youth Offending Teams and the Youth Justice Board — both exist (for the time being anyway) and are able to do their valuable work in providing pre-sentencing support and advice, and where necessary, working to ensure young people in the secure estate are treated
as children and that the secure estate recognises their particular
needs and vulnerabilities
as far
as possible.
«What Nick will
need to do
as deputy prime minister is to show what a difference the Liberal Democrats have made and why a majority for either Conservatives or
Labour at the election would be a disaster,» blog Lib Dem Voice quoted him
as saying.
The environment is not natural
Labour territory, he went on, it could belong to any party, but
as everyone at the discussion agreed it
needs to be seized and made centre ground for everyone.
When Iain Duncan Smith warns unemployed youth they will be forced to pick up litter in exchange for their benefits, he stigmatises young people
as irresponsible, selfish and lazy citizens who
need to be forced into unwaged
labour to learn the right values.
Not only that, but this issue should be one of the major policy questions that
need to be put to all the candidates in the upcoming
Labour leadership debate (
as I have already pointed out on this site)
as requested by Sunder (see What are the difficult questions the leadership candidates
need to answer?).
... Those aside, I think you may have misrepresented Maeve McKeown's anti-
Labour comments a bit, in that (if I'm remembering correctly) she didn't mention Iraq (et al)
as an example of
Labour «selling out», she mentioned it
as an example of them not listening to their supporters - which puts the «they
need to come to us» in a slightly different context, I think?
It
needs a
Labour government that will not accept war
as the easiest option.