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Life after Starmer – politicalbetting.com
Life after Starmer – politicalbetting.com
Ordinarily when a Labour leader polls circa 33% at a general election it triggers a leadership election however in one of those statistical quirks like Sir Donald Bradman’s test average, no matter how many times you look at it thinking it must be a mistake it turns out be right, Starmer won 411 seats and a 174 seat majority with a 33.7% share of the vote.
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Interesting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0817jd9dqo
Isn't the Birmingham council fiasco caused by a similar equal pay claim?
Equal pay for the same job is fair. Equal pay for different work is nuts.
They are flexing their muscle again.
I need to slow down. But as much as I feel like I am drowning in a bucket sometimes, there is a buzz to spinning this many plates and trying to build stuff of my own rather than work to make a dollah for someone else.
The Brum fiasco was caused by two issues. A massive overspend of 400% on an IT contract and the equal pay claim. The equal pay claim could have been solved for far less but the council didn't do it and continued with some of the practises. For example allowing bin men to go home when they finish their work but paid for the whole shift. Something not extended to other functions. Bin men are predominantly male.
As someone who spent summers as a youth doing retail and warehouse work, give me the retail work any day of the week. Warehouse work is backbreaking and relentless, constantly being monitored by supervisors while dodging forklift trucks.
The next best average for a batsman is 66.78 from 86 tests.
But there is a reason why that quirk isn't counted.
Can anyone guess who it is and why the lower figure of 57.40 is usually cited instead?
Incidentally, cricket is a very unfair sport to bowlers. Chris Martin is remembered for taking more wickets than he scored runs. He was actually applauded when he scored his hundredth run in tests - in about his 60th match.
Nobody ever remembers that Bradman is the only bowler in Test history to trip over his own feet in his delivery stride and break an ankle.
There was nothing quirky about Bradman’s test average. He was the greatest batter in the history of the game. A Titan who scored runs at leisure. He averaged his c.100 by scoring at nearly a run a ball, long before Bazball.
Keir Starmer, by contrast, won a landslide because the main Opposition party became unelectable and detestable. He is mediocre. More of a Graham Onions.
Have a nice day
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They should (if legally permitted) combine the warehouse and retail roles. Give the warehouse chaps a bit of time in retail as it's effectively deemed the same job, and let the ladies of retail whose work is equally valuable discover if the warehouse work is easily comfortable.
and consolidation of previous legislation despite innumerable protestations to the contrary on here) passed under Brown, but the commencement order was given under Cameron, who chose not to leave it dormant like the Easter Act.
But doubtless the right wing poltroons on here will be blaming Starmer and “woke” for a more half century old piece of legislation.
Still, I can write an article on this and get a few clicks.
and consolidation of previous legislation despite innumerable protestations to the contrary on here) passed under Brown, but the commencement order was given under Cameron, who chose not to leave it dormant like the Easter Act.
But doubtless the right wing poltroons on here will be blaming Starmer and “woke” for a more half century old piece of legislation.
Still, I can write an article on this and get a few clicks.
If Starmer is forced out early, surely the value is Cooper? She's the most experienced member of the Cabinet and she's the highest profile role after the Treasury. Given her age I would have thought if Starmer stays for five years or more she probably won't be a candidate.
Whereas my reaction is more: "Oh, God. FFS. Make it stop!"
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My small business employs entirely blokes - not from policy, but because I've never had a woman even apply. It's physically demanding work in heavy engineering so I'm not entirely surprised.
Equally, the local sandwich shop seems to employ entirely women - they've had one bloke work there a couple of months in the 10 years or so I've been going in there. Based on this logic, if both enterprises were in joint ownership there's a discrimination claim waiting (I suspect I pay my lads more than the girls get at the sandwich shop), but because they are in separate ownership it's not an issue. Think about that for 30 seconds, and you realise the whole thing is ridiculous.
That's Kumar Sangakkara's batting average when he played solely as a batsman.
The massive problem is that he, personally, is utterly uninspiring. He simply cannot effectively deliver any positive vision or cases for his policies, and his team are also fairly uninspiring. Rayner seems to hate everyone who is not Labour, and Reeves is relentlessly negative. Labour desperately need a little sprinkling of Blair's hope and sunniness.
The massive advantage is that his opponents are in disarray. The Conservatives have to reorganise after a historic trouncing, and the SNP have their own issues. I see this state as continuing for some years.
Having a parties membership propel a nutter into number 10 is to be avoided in the future.
Much better to avoid the likes of Corbyn, Duncan Smith and probably Jenrick altogether by squeezing the members (or affiliated organisations) out entirely.
They're hardly representative of the country and they usually show the sense and judgment of a drunk badger.
If we wanted to really democratise choosing Prime Minsters, primaries would be the way to go. But I would not expect them to have high turnout and they would be expensive and complicated to organise.
Edit - admittedly, on the two occasions when the membership of a party chose a PM they did make a very wrong choice with very much more immediately disastrous consequences. But that's not an excuse for saying leaders of the opposition are not important too.
You may have seen the film "Made in Dagenham" that dramatised this.
Not everyone reads everything on this board you know.
It is so frustrating. Tories would have done better to appoint someone quickly....
But there is no doubt that in general warehouse work is tougher and more dangerous, and if you're using forklifts you should be paid a massive premium given the skill and risk involved. Warehouse management is much more demanding too.
Odd decision. Very weird the idea that Next had the cash to pay workers more - any firm without cash flow issues does. Businesses exist to make a profit and to benefit their shareholders, not to transfer wealth to their employees. If that is no longer the view of the courts...
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I hope to see them at Murrayfield if they haven't fallen out again by them.
(Also, technically, those two were unopposed so neither chose them.)
More importantly: how did the judge measure the equal value of these roles? How do you measure it?
(Labour's union arrangements should be dropped)
Shamelessly hoping I can play the wheelchair card and get priority*.
(*Though shockingly just 310 of Wembley's 90,000 seats are wheelchair spaces so I can probably dream on.)
That may be slightly skewed by the fact he tended to keep wicket later in his career when those eye shots weren't quite so easy and his arms were stiffer (in 2001 he was playing while suffering from tennis elbow).
But, weirdly, England would have had more runs if they had kept Russell as keeper and had Stewart opening than by giving Stewart the gloves and trying a succession of other players at the top of the order.
One of many stupid decisions by the England management of the 1990s.
Not so sure.
Oasis have become a bit more niche than this board might think. But then just check out the demographic of this board...
Russell was a tidy batsman. I guess with the Stewart average the memory cheats.
What flavour is the Oasis soup Waiter ?
I don't know sir, but you get a roll with it.
But left to play his own game at 7 he was perfectly capable of scoring runs. The problem really was that the middle order was so inconsistent, which was largely due to muddled selection policies.
(I've never done either job, though I have been in working warehouses in the distant past.)
And I'm sure your children will be interested in the Oasis concert but it's not Glasto or Taylor Swift territory.
Edit: UK Subs are playing Luton on Friday ffs.
This is our BBC, unfortunately.
Whether there is the national interest in either/any of those things is however less clear.