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Will Sunak be able to hold his line against the strikers? – politicalbetting.com
Will Sunak be able to hold his line against the strikers? – politicalbetting.com
This is by far the biggest day of industrial action that we have seen in the NHS since it’s foundation nearly 70 years ago.
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Or rather:
"The issue ... is the unions are not wanting to accept a pay increase that is less than half the rate of inflation."
So as well as keeping spending costs down and reducing borrowing Sunak and Hunt will see this as a way to shore up the Conservative core vote even if the average voter still backs most of the strikers
Horrendous. Difficult to think about anything else.
And yes, probably call it a second earthquake; 7.5 magnitude (as reported by USGS, though I think immediate figures are effectively estimates ?) isn't really an aftershock.
"There is demand for a million sqft of labs around cambridge. 10,000 is available."
https://twitter.com/whippletom/status/1622287053235916802
We've been very bad at facilitating growth industries. It requires thinking beyond a parliamentary term (or in Truss's case, a couple of weeks).
Thanks so much. Yes all good. Hope you are too?
I try to keep the red flag flying on here
@MikeSmithson that's really good to hear and I don't blame you for taking the private option if you are able to. I've done the same myself when needed. All best for your recovery.
...As we mentioned earlier, a second earthquake, which had a magnitude of 7.5, has struck in the Elbistan district of Turkey's Kahramanmaras province.
Elbistan lies around 80 miles directly north of Gaziantep, where the epicentre of this morning's quake was situated.
The second quake struck at 13:24 local time (10:24 GMT).
An official from Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority said it was "not an aftershock" and was "independent" from this morning's quake...
The SNP’s reputation for governing competence did not translate directly into support for independence but without that reputation, support for independence in 2014 would have been unlikely. As its record in government is increasingly questioned, its reputation for competence will decline. It may not immediately affect support for independence, but it will make it much harder to convince sceptical voters to support that goal.
https://www.holyrood.com/comment/view,nicola-sturgeons-snp-has-failed-to-deliver-much-of-what-it-promised
If you don’t mind telling us.
Inflation in December 2021 was just 4% ie average pay was rising above inflation, now after Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022 inflation is 10% ie well above average pay rises
The other curiosity is how slowly places like Northstowe are being built out- it was being talked about when I was living in the area, and that was getting on for 20 years ago.
Trouble is that the growing pains of that sort of thing are felt acutely and locally and the benefits are more dispersed, and our political system doesn't handle that very well. But the UK has to decide whether it wants to be rich in the future.
(Of the increasingly small membership of the PB Trussites).
The sort of statement that actual journalists and actual people who appear on actual telly are 100x as careful as the average, in being scrupulously correct about.
Let’s see if Sunak can up their game.
You’d have thought someone who “has been on national TV and written articles for national newspapers” would have a passing a acquaintance with the laws of libel and the consequences for breaching them.
https://nationalhighways.co.uk/our-roads/a428-black-cat-to-caxton-gibbet/latest-news/we-ve-heard-back-from-the-high-court/
Basically, there is a single-lane road from our village, past St Neots, to the A1. It is the only single-carriageway stretch of road between Cambridge and Milton Keynes. The road can be quite dangerous (e.g. trying to turn off the B1040 at Eltisley). And these 'green' numpties are trying to stop it.
Aside from blocking the Dyson expansion, there was a farmer trying to turn a large, quadrangle of buildings into a small business area. If he had proposed a concentration camp, it would have been more popular with the incomers…
Supposedly the whole area is up for redevelopment & is going through the planning process, but meanwhile this industrial land that has already been levelled & has power & utilities delivered just sits there, basically unused, for year after year after year. It’s criminal frankly.
More in today… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1622569702613479424
The art of a good system is to make people do good things without them having to be particularly virtuous themselves. Non-spivvy capitalism, for example. So what would that look like for planning?
manufacturing.
The filters for the smell will be substandard.
Edit: One thunderc**t actually said his objection was that development would raise local wages. So his gardener would charge more..
Both the government and the Unions need to move. If any of the public sector get an inflation matching rise they’ll all hold out for one. The government should follow the market - where retention is a problem (nurses, teachers) time to go digging down the back of the sofa. £60,000/year train drivers, not so much.
(Fun fact: the institution that became Girton College Cambridge started off in Hitchin, all the better to keep the young ladies safe. After a few years, the founders concluded that was taking things a bit too far.)
Mr. Max, the screeching has, so I've heard, been a huge asset for the game.
Have you ever run in the Grunty Fen half marathon?
SNP officials mistakenly published Nicola Sturgeon’s bank account number today as they revealed her tax returns.
The documents were put online by Nats HQ amid pressure for leading politicians to disclose their financial affairs.
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10178265/snp-nicola-sturgeon-bank-account-tax-returns/
But good long term planning ought to only mean pissing people off once, in the short
term.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/06/mps-staff-survey-finds-distress-at-levels-similar-to-frontline-nhs-workers
Interestingly, the source of stress is not, in the main, MPs themselves:
... levels of bullying in parliament were found to be lower than in the average workplace...
https://on.ft.com/3I0eNHf
Australian startup Recharge wins bid for collapsed UK battery company Britishvolt
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/06/australian-startup-recharge-wins-bid-for-collapsed-uk-battery-company-britishvolt
...Recharge’s pitch to administrators lent on strategic and diplomatic ties, and received support from the British government’s trade envoy for Australia, ex-English cricketer Ian Botham. ..
Note no existing major manufacturer seems to have been interested, despite this being a prime UK location. And what is meant exactly by 'dominant position' in this context ?
...Bidders were particularly interested in Britishvolt’s intellectual property, according to one person close to the administration process, which includes patents, designs, supply chain partners and territorial licences that give the holder a dominant position in the UK.
Administrators also received bids from existing Britishvolt investors, private equity firm Greybull Capital and HSBC-backed Saudi British Bank, the Financial Times reported...
The issue here is that Sunak seems to wish to allow process to occur and be followed.
So it comes down to what does Sunak do when the standard committee issues their report into Boris and he is suspended for a period of time.
The best approach for Sunak would be to throw him out of the party and Parliament but will he be in a position to do so.,
People are often confused about this. In fact, libel and slander are simply the two kinds of defamation. Libel is defamation in written form. So, defamatory comments on websites and in emails are examples of internet libel. Whereas slander is defamation in verbal form, e.g. as contained an audio recording.
https://www.adlexsolicitors.co.uk/what-we-do/content-removal/internet-defamation/
I love the Fens. There's a majesty about them that is much under-appreciated.
I would have thought they would have been all over anything risky. Like the comment you refer to.
These twats don’t realise, they’re just driving sales of the game, and adding to her fortune.
£#&@ knows how, though.
https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/JCO/Documents/Judgments/mcalpine-bercow-judgment-24052013.pdf
It would affect 1 in 4.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensions/article-11718135/Cap-25-pension-tax-free-lump-sum-100k-says-IFS.html
No you shouldn’t be able to buy a house across the road from the village cricket ground, and then complain about stray balls in your garden. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2023/01/09/colehill-cricket-club-banned-playing-neighbour-complains-flying/
The old joke about the American tourist at Windsor Castle - “It’s a lovely place, but why did they have to build it so damn close to the airport?”
Planning in general needs to be much more liberal.
The fear of being swallowed by the London blob is real, and our elected representatives play on it pretty shamelessly.
https://www.irwinmitchell.com/personal/protecting-your-rights/resolving-disputes/defamation-slander
1. Much of the Tory membership is at least halfway there already. These are people whose parents and grandparents brought them up to believe that worker militancy in Britain would hardly have existed without foreign funding, and that the BBC, trendy vicars, etc., are all in a big conspiracy against white supremacy the proper way of doing things, and against inherited wealth, and it all started when black people started to get jobs as newsreaders and who can forget the famous Coca-Cola advertisement "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", and Rishi Sunak, enough said. Brexit? Where's the raw meat you promised us?
2. Worry more about the British state propaganda units (GIC, CDU, 77th - and that's by no means a full list) getting orders to go full-on QAnon.
3. Remember Alastair Campbell, 45 minutes, the Iraqi WMD lie, and all the propaganda on the home front that was used to support the criminal war against Iraq that caused at least 600000 deaths? A war between NATO and Russia would turn nuclear within a week or two. You have to multiply the propaganda up. Said units tend to have, shall we say, special flagger status at Faecesbook and Sh*tter, and the majority of the population have already been conditioned into thinking it's people who don't spout the government line on the war who are dangerous loonies or traitors. Imagine another Douma job and then some.
4. Consider the assertion that wicked Russians are kidnapping hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children. Let's skate over the strange use of the word "kidnapping". (Whether or not you send a ransom note, "kidnapping" usually means you may give the captives back if you get what you want, or at least that you may give that impression.) Is this assertion any saner than the ravings of Pizzagaters?
The population of the 4 territories that entered Russia in 2014 (9y ago) is about 9m; of those that entered in 2022 (1y ago), about 3m. The birth rate is about 9 per 1000 people. So we're talking (9*9*9 + 1*3*9)*1000 = 756000 births, say 750000. "Hundreds of thousands" means at least 200000. To spare WillG's blushes, let's say it means exactly 200000. After all, we already assumed Russia took the whole of the Zaporozhe region which it didn't. (It hasn't captured the regional capital which has a population of about 700000.) So we are trying to be kind here. If the assertion is correct, the evil Russians have "kidnapped" a number of children equal to at least 27% of all live births. They must really want those Ukrainian children in their clutches. Can't trust types like that. Can only bomb them. Cleanliness and morality require it. Truth is that Tories don't give a flying f*** about foreign babies, or about British chav babies for that matter. This is WAR LUST.
That enables by its nature the dodging of some tax.
That's not defamation, but fact.
The word "dodge" might indicate strong disapproval, but it falls way short if anything which might be termed defamation.
I suspect the same is true of the other "defamatory" comments you complain of - though that's just a guess.
https://elselaw.co.uk/why-gps-and-dentists-are-now-retiring-in-their-50s-for-just-24-hours/#:~:text=A quirk in a current NHS practitioners pension,continue to remain employed on their existing contract.
"Tax dodging" is easily capable of being defamatory.
The poster wrote “ And all made worse by having a stinking rich totally out of touch non-dom tax dodging PM.” clearly stating that the PM, Rishi Sunak, is (not even was) a non-dom and is tax dodging.
Now Heathener might have some knowledge that His Majesty’s Press have not discovered yet but if not it’s something that should not be claimed falsely in order to have a dig at the Tories surely.
I might dodge tax by taking out an ISA, just as a non dom dodges tax by virtue of that status.
Unless something actually libellous is attached, then it's not.
(In which context, I'm grateful for the correction about Sunak himself.)
I am.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wanted-off-skin-ukrainian-women-recount-rape-russian/story?id=86994779
As has been shown by Russia's repeated aggression, breaking of the 1994 Treaty on Ukrainian sovereignty and numerous ceasefire breaks, Russia can not be trusted. Peace and safety can only be guaranteed by Russian defeat and the elimination of Russian fighting capacity. The nuclear threats are a paper tiger - Putin is such a weak emasculated figure he can not even order a full mobilization.
So ignore the rantings of the drooling Russian shills. They are quivering in their knowledge they will become cucks to the Chinese.
Of course the poster could spend the next few hours criticising every politician who “tax dodges” in the way you put it but then it would be a very long post needed.
The Truss:
The Mother. The Queen. The Future.
Is "non dom" libellous, if untrue ? Interesting question, since it's a status legally recognised and defended by the government. In this case, possibly.
In the case of the adjacent site, it’s derelict & has been for more than a decade. Is there some way the landowner gets to avoid paying council tax / business rates on such a site? Because that’s the only way I can imagine a landowner simply letting a site like this go to rot.
"an illegal method used to reduce the amount of tax that a person or company has to pay"
Indicating disapproval of someone who did hold non dom status by calling it tax dodging isn't libellous.
For a non political foreigner living here possibly not.