Progress annual conference 2008

The progressive challenge: where next for New Labour?

29 Nov 2008
10:00 to 17:45

TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS

Closest underground station: Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines)

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Posted by Owais Rajput on 29 November 2008, 11:40:12 AM

Black Asian Ethnic Minorities & Disadvantage groups Undergraduates & Postgraduates and Age 16-17 to age 18-24 our British Youths. UK higher educational institutes producing every year thousands of Britain’s Black Ethnic Minority & disadvantage group’s undergraduates and post-graduates. So far no such a plan seriously exists for jobs for BAME & disadvantage community in UK. Majority of BAME or disadvantage groups of UK end up after their graduation with Taxi driver or working in a restaurant or takeaway jobs. Government have no plan for jobs for those BAME & disadvantage groups undergraduates or post-graduates even no training or hands on experience according to their qualifications but organised criminals of UK do have recruiting plans for those BAME under-graduates and postgraduates and those organised criminals makes them futures gang leaders, suicide bombers and put them in much more criminal activities. UK Government have no serious plan for BAME under-graduates or post-graduates to provide them at least £: 25000.00 to £: 30000.00 per annum job, but organised criminals have plans of from £: 50000.00 to £: 150000.00 per annum work for those BAME graduates for first year of joining. Drugs, Teenage Sex, Identity Fraud, Money Laundering and other organised serious crimes and they all directly and indirectly affects our kids and families in UK as well as our country, our economy, health and our future growth prospects. Organised criminals targets our youths age 16-17 and then age 18 -24, which is also concern able issue and needs our attention on priority bases. Owais Rajput Progress University of Bradford Coordinator Partnership in Power Bradford West CLP MA International Politics & Security Studies (Special interests in National Security, International Terrorism & Global Security issues)

Posted by Roderick V. Louis on 29 November 2008, 11:18:51 PM

"UK PRE-BUDGET PLANS OUGHT TO HAVE CONSIDERED THE COUNTRY'S FUTURE POSITION & ROLE IN THE WORLD, AND HOW THE BBC CAN CONTRIBUTE!!" Whether budget & tax cuts or budget & tax increases- or a variation of these, the pre-budget spending report ought to have been oriented around explicitly understood objectives (& an articulated 'plan') for the United Kingdom's long term 'role in the world'. The invaluable BBC and its possible future purposes/levels & types of services fit into this formula... The UK govt buying UK domestic peace with drastic tax cuts & borrowed-money spending increases is a false equation: without an accompanying explicit national-economic-strategy- that deliniates tangible development objectives- it can only temporarily purchase time. The fundamentals of the UK's economy & industry need to be maintained & improved... Considering that London (& the City) is the defacto world capital of international finance & related industries, the UK govt & business leaders ought to be taking steps to ensure the country retains this position. One could be the establishment of a UK-based 24-hour business TV channel broadcasting from London & perhaps with satellite studios in other major world financial centre's such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, New York, Chicago, etc. What constructive sense is there in letting the USA continue to monopolize this important component of the world's economic system?? The BBC with its "BBC World News" 24-hour TV channel (available in most world regions) does do some very excellent business reporting- periodically- throughout the day. But this channel doesn't broadcast enough business-related news/programmes to compete with US-based companies' that offer 24-hour business-news/programmes channels. US-based companies like Bloomberg, CNBC, MSNBC (and others) with their 24-hour TV business channels ought to be challenged with a UK variant. In addition to (indirectly but) significantly advancing UK business interests, this could only benefit the world financial system generally. The effort and possible risks inherent in the creation of, say, a "'Financial Times' 24-hour business TV channel" would be substantially outweighed by the potential benefits accruing from the facilitation of such a project... Any public financing used to set up a UK-based 24-hour world business channel could be committed to be payed back after a set period of time. Stakes in a 24-hour UK-based world-business channel that the UK govt obtained on start-up could be relinquished after a few years once the channel was on its feet... The BBC with its demonstrated extensive business-issue reporting expertise & its first-rate production facilities could, perhaps, be brought in as a temporary partner with the Financial Times while a 24-hour Financial Times world-business TV channel was established & brought to profitability... The potential constructive uses and roles that the BBC can- albeit indirectly- carry out for the UK in its future roles in the world can not be overstated... The UK needs to continue 'looking outward' towards the world as it always has done throughout history... There is no denying that the BBC committing a major incursion into the UK's local-news media markets would have been folly and counterproductive from all perspectives... (as was recently proposed). The BBC- like the UK in business-issues & generally- can be most effective and successful if it continues to structure its objectives with the 'wider world & its issues' as a first priority... Without a pervasively avaialable-world-wide BBC- in TV, Radio, Internet & similar services- how can the United Kingdom retain its 'broad constructive visibility' on the world stage?? Roderick V. Louis, Vancouver, Canada, rlouis@patientempowermentsociety.com