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The Jenny McGee departure from the NHS is a tricky one for BoJo – the man she nursed – politicalbett
The Jenny McGee departure from the NHS is a tricky one for BoJo – the man she nursed – politicalbetting.com
The Jenny McGee story makes most of the front pages this morning and is likely to continue to get attention for a week or so until after the Channel 4 programe she features in goes out. This touches a few issues including BREXIT which has made the UK more difficult for trained foreign nurses and the need for the government to keep public sector pay under control.
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If people want to pay the NHS nurses more, they need to agree to how its funded, and vote for it at elections. Teresa May found out its not that easy when she tried it with social care.
No-one wants to go back to the 70s.
Trouble is that it's very easy for it to run away from you which creates a whole different set of issues.
Sunak Splurge, anyone?
Who could ever have guessed such a thing?
there is on here. I understand it someone on here is editing comments to misrepresentwhat a poster has been saying.
Caroline Ahern, comedy genius.
I still think in hindsight one of the greatest blunders made post-WW2 was the UK pulling out of the Persian Gulf in 1971. If we had been present in 1973, the Oil Embargo would have been far less effective - Qatar and UAE would have been under our control, and Kuwait would have been unlikely to go against us. It probably would have influenced the actions of Saudi and Kuwait as well.
I am happy with what I write. If you don't like it you can go somewhere else.
One interesting aspect of the 2010-15 period is that many people saw a decline in their living standards as a result of inflation, but either the Tories won a political argument for why it was necessary, Labour were not credible as an alternative party who might prevent it, or the Tories had insulated the bulk of their [retired] voters from the effects and so could win even as those of working age turned against them.
Of those three, the most likely route to damnation for the Tories would be to end the triple-lock. Instead we've seen that they've already decided to freeze tax thresholds, so those in work will pay instead.
I prefer substance over gestures. I dare say nurses do too.
It is a lovely day here. I have stuff to do - not least enjoying the sun - so I will leave you to your piercing political apercus and chat about UFOs.
People know he lies, betrays, cocks up and cocks about. They don't care. If he was ANY other politician they would care. But Brand Boris is the political sensation of this century so far - an entirely fictional concoction that seems to mesmerise by the million.
Some bloke who was on strictly and snogged somebody who wasn't his girlfriend claims it ruined his life is currently much more important for the Mirror.
That's trivially true for people like lawyers or analysts, who can easily take their skills into the private sector. But it even works for jobs where the public sector has a near-monopoly, like education or healthcare. People will just go and do other stuff instead.
I remember a slightly awkward exit interview when I left the (as it was then) Patent Office, with my line manager. Real reason for leaving was that I'd taken a good hard look at my life and decided I didn't want to waste it in a dull and, in many ways - it seemed - fairly pointless job. I didn't really feel I could say that to my line manager - "I don't want to end up like you". He asked whether it was the pay - "it's useful of we can show that people are leaving over pay" so I shrugged and kind of agreed, even though I was taking a pay cut - leaving to do a PhD - and the pay wasn't bad really, not in South Wales anyway. If she says it's nothing to do with pay then she's shafting all her friends and collegues left behind.
In the round, nurses should probably get a similar settlement to other public sector workers. I do see an argument for a one-off substantial bonus to all NHS staff, certainly "front-line" as they've had a hell of a year, collectively. But I don't see that should be a permanent pay rise, not unless they're really underpaid in general. Supermarket workers and other key workers deserve a one-off bonus too, but I doubt they'll get it.
This isn't a comment on the level nurses or anyone else deserves, just a comment on the slightly skewed view the public sector have of what people in the private sector get.
Her other criticisms seem to be they wanted her to big.a big photo op and she didn't want to, and that was that, and that COVID was really bad in part due to poor government messgaing...the first, its not exactly rare occurrence and she is entitled to say no and the second, well she isn't the first to point that out
If the government were smart i think some extra one off holiday would be a middle ground of rewarding NHS staff without the inflationary pay increase...but they will probably be spun as offensive slap in the face or something.
Whatever you do, don't read about Priti Patel trying to spike the Daniel Morgan murder review. That will ruin your day.
https://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/1394904543666884610?s=21
In competitive, professional private sector, there's often similar, although less define progression - my wife's annual pay increases in the same role often outstripped min. But in other roles, supermarkets etc, you're in hte role you're in and all you get is the national pay increase. If it's 1% pay rise it's really 1% pay rise.
Sometimes it might be better to do nothing, rather than a rise that’s considered derisory.
A lot of it is also perception though, there’s little sympathy for public sector workers around - even for nurses during a pandemic. We can all see the mess of the public finances, and the need to get things back to normal after the pandemic.
https://twitter.com/otto_english/status/1394932614541217800?s=21
Clearly the great big reveal is coming. Or not.
Boris name checking of the staff that help save his life wlat the time came across as decent and respectful.
The Unions though, what a bunch of tossers. Scotland offer 4% - in line with a good pay award in the private sector. England offers 1% - derisory. So what does UNISON ask for? 12%. Wankers.
On the first M3 is inflationary, but M3 does not automatically mean there must be inflation because we know much more now about deflationary pressures on the economy too than we did in the 70s and 80s. So the M3 inflationary impact can be cancelling out deflationary pressures.
The best case study of this is Japan, which has been combatting deflation now for decades. Have a look at the M3 data versus the inflation data for Japan - does this suit your theories from the 70s and 80s?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGJPN
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM3JPM189N
M3 has increased continuously for the past decade in Japan but there's been deflation to negligible inflation in the same decade. This has been an issue that Japan has been fighting since the 90s, which won't appear in your theories from the 70s and 80s.
As for me saing wage/price spirals are good for the economy, no I never said that. What I said is that moderate inflation is good, because it allows prices which are sticky downwards to adjust in real terms without eg negative equity etc or ending in a deflationary spiral which has wracked Japan more thirty years now.
"Question for the PB Brains Trusts this
late nightmorning.Every week I keep seeing the discussion drift off into aliens. By some reasonably respected posters too.
Why can I only find this stuff here? Is there any news items anywhere else? I haven't looked hard but I just can't obviously see what is going on."
https://twitter.com/F1/status/1394925887469113344
Genuine question.
Someone posted last night the reason Australian imports were banned by the EU is they don't meet animal welfare standards.
What happens ofter the inevitable short term inflation spike will be very interesting to watch.
Otherwise we just pull up the drawbridge, go full protectionist and slam higher tariffs on all imports but with higher tariffs imposed on our exports in return
Annoyingly, this will be the first race in about three years that I won’t be watching live. Damn work getting in the way, I’ll start watching around the time it finishes - with anything internet-connected firmly switched off!
The Cult of Boris remains strong.
(In a few years time, the trade deals with Aus will be an interesting test of the relative benefits of small'n'nimble against massive'n'slow. Will the UK or the EU end up with more advantageous terms? Could go either way.)