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Now a poll has the striking teachers getting public backing – politicalbetting.com
Now a poll has the striking teachers getting public backing – politicalbetting.com
One of the features of the current wave of strikes in the public sector is that the public when polled are generally in support of those taking action.
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I suspect the Labour leadership are deliberately trying to resist being painted as in the pockets of the Unions. Cynical, maybe, but 'nasty piece of work' seems a bit excessive.
No other Tory leadership alternative would be elected if they refused to stand up to the Unions either. If Labour want to appease the Unions if they win the next election that is their problem
We actually don’t get THAT many great writers. Maybe 100 alive at any one time? Raban was one. Looking forward to his memoir, due later this year.
Jeremy’s inflation thing was actually OK too.
Rishi is still hopeless.
Edit damn. The price you pay for not getting the second goal.
Opposing it either means you think they're wrong OR disagree with their methods (or both).
So within the 41% are quite a lot of people who think the Government are being arseholes BUT teachers shouldn't strike due to the effect on kid's education etc.
So 41% is a ceiling for the Tories on this, whereas 51% is a floor for progressives.
-On 26 January 2022 the EHRC wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Housing and Local Government, setting out our position on reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. As the bill was introduced we exchanged further correspondence with the Cabinet Secretary.
- The EHRC supported the Equality, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee’s scrutiny of the proposed bill. We appeared before the committee to give evidence and wrote to the Convener.
- On 20 September 2022 the EHRC wrote to the Scottish and UK governments to set out the implications of the proposed legislation for the operation of the Equality Act 2010. At this time we met with MSPs from various political parties, as well as the Cabinet Secretary, to brief them on our advice.
- On 14 November 2022 the EHRC shared a written briefing with all MSPs, to assist them as they considered the detail of the Bill and amendments at Stage 2. We shared this briefing with all MSPs again at Stage 3.
- On 22 December 2022 the EHRC wrote to the Minister for Women and Equalities to summarise the potential impact of the new legislation.
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/news/statement-gender-recognition-reform-scotland-bill
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/17/know-your-sht-review-a-cheery-odyssey-into-other-peoples-poo
Nicola gives Boris a run for his money, she surely does.
We see every day how sheer lack of funding is failing vulnerable kids.
There are worse fates, as Heliogabulus once pointed out
It is funding for all the supporting partner agencies, too.
She was also hinting that a flying start on next year's settlement was the way forward, looking forward rather than back as she put it.
I agree. But getting to the beach quickly is the single best thing about that city.
https://twitter.com/TmorrowsPapers/status/1615835035814305815?t=Y0ci3Yy-2T9PRhO76CLadA&s=19
You not them, I mean ... with the grapes.
Although that would be an even better spectacle, I suppose.
But we can't have it just dressed up as "protecting the frontline".
The inability to get medication reviews, nor Occupational Therapists' appointments, nor changes of placement, nor CYPS, nor CAHMS, nor Children's Services appointments, nor working IT, nor anyone on reception, not Internet down for 48 hours, printers down for months, etc., etc. are equally, if not more important.
Guess what average and low paid people spend much of their income on? Food and energy bills, and for many fuel. An average pay rise of 2.7% in the public sector just isn't enough, especially in the context of falling real incomes over the last 10 years for most public sector workers.
The UK is paying for its public services thanks to the kindness of strangers, and Truss showed us that that kindness is wearing thin.
Starmer isn't going to risk his chance of becoming PM by trying to speak this reality to the country, and Sunak's re-election relies on denying it.
It takes time to convince people of the need to put up taxes to pay for better public services/pay, or to convince them that the country has to endure some tough years until it can earn enough money to pay for better public services/pay, and no British politicians are making the attempt at that persuasion.
How does Hunt convince the bond market that Britain can afford to pay £bns extra every year for higher public sector pay?
I think the strikes are going to drag on for a long time, because there's no longer an obvious and easy way out. The government is caught between the bond markets, the strikers and tax-averse Tory backbenchers.
I don't know how that circle gets squared, but it's not going to be quickly.
1. We've learnt that the man who was PM this time last year had a curious financial arrangement with a man seeking positions in the public sector.
2. The Head of the Civil Service approved the arrangement and did not recognise a gigantic conflict of interest.
3. One of the many ex-Chancellors of the Exchequer of the last year has been in dispute with HMRC over his tax affairs and had to pay back ca. £3 million of unpaid tax.
4. The PM who signed the NI Protocol (see 1.) lied about its effects.
5. The railways don't work.
6. Strikes in the NHS are continuing and getting worse.
7. Teachers are also going on strike.
8. The government wants us to stop watching films about small boats in the Channel on YouTube.
9. Male Labour MPs decided to barrack and and intimidate women MPs making speeches about women facing intimidatory behaviour by men (presumably to show them how it should be done). The Labour leadership is silent.
10. The police are probably committing most of the crimes in the country.
11. The Met Commissioner wrings his hands and says that this is all very awful.
13. The rate of inflation is falling about as slowly as my weight.
14. The rate of inflation for food is about twice the official inflation rate.
And it's still only Wednesday evening.
The only good news is that Scottish constitutional and equality lawyers will be kept very busy over the next few months.
Every cloud etc.,.
I have no idea how this is resolved but Sunak and Hunt seem to have an accountants mentality of balancing the books and as they have come this far and taken the flak, I expect no change by them this side of the new tax year
However, the big problem comes in April when pensions, benefits and the living wage do rise by 10.1% which by the way is fully endorsed by Starmer and indeed the Lib Dems, when in truth it should be capped nearer to 5%
Via @LBC
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/stuart-rose-businessman-who-backed-immigration-for-cutting-wages-to-lead-campaign-to-keep-britain-in-the-eu-a6688561.html
Wise after the event.
We really don't want to strike.
Especially not about our pay.
My sister is a Tory in denial....in a similar way..... I have no sympathies.
The nature of the beast...go with your blue instincts. Stop trying to be liberal, and let your character shine through....
I have so little sympathy for any of you.....
Whatever happened to the high wage economy?
Not that there’s a quick fix.
Bloody woke lefties.
Though the Tories did blow that opportunity.
Inflation will fall over the next 6 months and as we cannot afford 10% public sector rises neither can the triple lock be justified
A fairer settlement would be nearer 5% maybe 6%
However, the big problem comes in April when pensions, benefits and the living wage do rise by 10.1% which by the way is fully endorsed by Starmer and indeed the Lib Dems, when in truth it should be capped nearer to 5%.
Brexit is a part of the problem maybem, but not anything like you try to imply
I'm not sure that will fly with a government that isn't, er, completely trusted.
Never mind two.
The Labour cupboard is completely bare of ideas, just the same crap delivered by Streeting instead of Barclay.
I shall hang on until the summer to see what the next pay round brings, but if it is another real terms pay cut, then I will be taking retirement and contract back in on agency terms.
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This government has run out of time and Starmer is more than likely to win in 24 but neither he or labour have any hope of changing much
Indeed I heard a Union representative when hearing Starmer's comments on self referral for internal bleeding and using the private sector say we may as well have the Tories !!!!
Wibbling that Leave would mean higher wages for the low paid, was pure Montgomery Burns.
And the conclusion is?
To protect the comfortably off we've gone for 15 years of the most vulnerable suffering.
That's my take.
Immediate events such as Covid, or the war in Ukraine, are hardly the cause of our problems, they merely serve to expose how weak Britain's economic position has become. Brexit is a sideshow, except insofar as it reveals a voting public willing to accept uncritically the wishful thinking and make believe of a political class who dare not face reality.
Believing that reversing Brexit would fix the country's woes is simply a different flavour of denial.
I'm not talking about pensioners.
I'm talking about the most vulnerable.
Which kinda proves my point.
Perhaps the settling consensus is that it’s a self-inflicted wound that can (perhaps) be undone, whereas the others issues are more chronic.
https://twitter.com/spignal/status/1615814661345054735
British productivity decline, failure to invest in capital infrastructure, and planning dysfunction are all statistically exceptional.
Rayner could wipe the floor with Sunak.
The problem with any scenario involving getting rid of Sunak is he's got a lot of money behind him. And although he was only a commoner at Winchester he is no fool. Using Truss as a stool to step on was masterful
The animals look from pig to man, but can no longer see the difference.
Indeed it’s essentially the reiteration of a Tory talking point.
I don't see this changing in the NHS any more than in the rest of society.
They have shamefully equivocated throughout
Your voting record means that you are complicit in that decline. Perhaps you should look yourself in the face and cut Wes Streeting some slack, given Labour's achievements last time. It's going to take a miracle worker to sort out the mess.
(Slightly tangential to your point here).
A genuine energy security bill with short, medium and long term instruments to ensure plentiful domestic energy supply would have been the number 1 priority of any responsible Government - frankly of any Government. This one is instead entirely in the grip of a frenzied ideological green agenda, that happens to be fine with fossil fuels as long as they're being imported from A N Other shitty regime.