On topic: I suspect the consensus will swing wildly in the next 18 months or so - local elections will probably throw the cards up on the air again. (View Post)

Only having read your excerpt, he does rather sound like the PM we need. A bit of staid, stolid resilience and lack of emotion sounds really quite appealing after the nonsense of the past few years. … (View Post)

Yeah, anecdotally a lot of teachers I know voted to reject the pay offer not because it was paltry but because it was unfunded. That Keegan talked about reducing workload in the same breath was laugh… (View Post)

Exactly this. And even if inflation does drop quickly, the wage rises will still only make wages ‘catch up’ with price increases already baked in. The alternative (resisting below inflation pay settl… (View Post)

As a teacher I agree that the nurses settlement sets a reasonable compromise balancing wage demands with the need to control inflation. Not sure why Keegan didn’t offer it to teachers tbh. In fact I … (View Post)