These include provision for private landowners, including farmers and commercial developers, to provide serviced sites in locations suitable for different categories of travellers, and extend provisions of the 1966 Act governing local government responsibilities.John Gummer's "let them eat cake" response of offering travellers the "right" to own their own site will be meaningless without a supportive response of planning authorities and without this material provision by local government.Yours etc,John PilgrimBath2 September. It was similar in importance in demonstrating that government at any level must not enforce unjust laws which create or oppress an underclass, and has wide implications for civil rights in the UK. This reassertion of the legal structure of a civil society and the periodic need for its adaptation to changing social conditions must, however, be paralleled by administrative support such as that seen in the actions of Somerset County and District Councils which have set out the financial and planning basis for temporary and permanent sites for travellers. In November 1990 she suffered unexpected inverse Brunoism when she greeted a leadership contest with the words: "I fight on I fight to win." She threw in the towel.. From Mr John Pilgrim Sir: Mr Justice Sedley's ruling ("Travellers' victory puts evictions in doubt", 2 September) that the Wealden travellers must be treated with common humanity and cannot be evicted by the fiat of local government under the Criminal Justice Act without respect for their family and social needs is on a par with the US school busing decisions in using law to define the legal basis of changing social justice. His celebrity grew out of all proportion, though he did suffer a name change to Arry.Inverted Brunoism is best demonstrated by Margaret Thatcher, the antithesis of Bruno-like charm, used only to winning. Thus Harry Carpenter was best known for his sports commentating until he became the foil for Frank Bruno's after-fight comedy acts. However, revisionist historians now insist Winnie had foresight of a heavyweight victory later in the century and may have meant "keep Brunoing on".The second definition of Brunoism is capable of being transmitted from person to person.
Having failed to win the WEC (Westminster Election Championship) title at four attempts since 1979, their contestants are hoping their devotion to Brunoism will deliver at the next contest.Their Brunoist creed includes the standard response to all questions of what they will do if they take the title. Thus Tony Blair (who varies between a lightweight and light-welterweight) can be heard to deliver variants of a Bruno favourite, namely: "We will be duckin' and divin' mate."In December 1941 the prime minister, Winston Churchill, is alleged to have said: "We must just KBO." This is usually taken to mean "keep buggering on". He eventually defeated the English at Bannockburn after, noting the Brunoist tendencies of a spider.Noteworthy closet Brunoists in the Nineties include the whole of the Labour Party. An unhappier example is Mike Tyson, more famous as a rapist than a boxer. Clive Anderson, lawyer; Prince Edward, television producer; and - reluctantly and with denials - various headmasters of our leading public schools are all examples of this form of Brunoism.King Robert I of Scotland exemplifies the first definition of Brunoism. Sportsmen are particularly prone to this, for example England's rugby union captain, Will Carling, (management consultant and friend to lonely royalty). n 2 Being famous for something other than your professed job or talent. The technique is named after the professional boxer and pantomime performer Franklin Roy Bruno MBE.
Similar to Gumpism, named after the award-winning film Forrest Gump. The difference being that Gump was a moron, while Bruno only pretends to be one. Brunoism n 1 The tendency for good guys, expected to come last, to suddenly come first. And fifth, tax policies that have eroded the position of families with children should be changed to restore some balance in their favour These are not a set of answers They would, however, all be steps in the right direction.. Third, more schemes to allow the unemployed to improve their skills in return for benefit are needed. Fourth, some further action on child-care costs should be contemplated.
Second, a halt must be called to the policy of driving remorselessly upward council and housing association rents. First, if the Government is serious about work incentives then whatever tax cuts there are should be in thresholds, not in headline rates of tax. But the time has surely come for another close examination of it.While that happens, however, some policy guidelines for the forthcoming Budget are clear. It is a revolutionary answer but one on which much quiet academic work has been done in recent years It may be too revolutionary To be implemented, it would require cross-party support. Hermione Parker's solution is another attempt at the basic income guarantee - an idea on which both Labour and the Conservatives worked long, hard and largely fruitlessly in the Sixties and Seventies. This is not a position in which a modern, competitive, society can afford to find itself.
And across the political divide there is a growing recognition that this is true.Answers, needless to say, are harder than the definition of the problem. Far from improving work incentives over the past 15 years, the Government - despite its high-blown rhetoric about ending the culture of dependency - has worsened them. It has achieved the remarkable feat of both making life tougher for those on out-of-work benefits and making it harder for them to get back into work. By trimming away at the benefits which provide platforms on which people can build earnings and savings, by increasing means-testing, by insisting on retaining a system that requires people not to work and, in large measure, not to train in order to receive benefit, social security expenditure is reaching a position that is simply unsustainable.From being a system aimed at preventing poverty by helping people to help themselves, social security is increasingly becoming a programme simply of poverty relief for millions below retirement age.Today's study comes on top of recent Government statistics which revealed the alarming fact that one in four families now receives at least one of the major means-tested benefits. They will find Hermione Parker's study of the combined effects of taxes and benefits on family life and work incentives - reported elsewhere in the Independent today - shaming reading. In several key areas the business of deciding what is acceptable will be given over to bodies such as the Carlisle committee, which may not share the same sense of concern or priorities as the rest of us.