It's not very surprising that if the government tells the pay review board "produce recommendations that fulfill our aims and requirements" then the board is going to come up with something… (View Post)

The pay review body members and its terms of reference are both set by the government, and their purpose is to provide advice to the government on what a pay settlement should be, given the governmen… (View Post)

In particular, I look at Scotland and see the much more effective progress of negotiations with nursing unions there, and it seems to me a fair conclusion that the problems here south of the border a… (View Post)

Our FPTP voting system doesn't really encourage that, unfortunately... (View Post)

...or misinformed. I suspect many people don't have a very clear idea of the costs of the various things they use electricity for. (Not helped by the media, who sometimes focus on small things like a… (View Post)