Westminster Politics

My thoughts exactly.

The cynic in me suspects the extra 2 years will be rooted in austerity economics equations and "free market" profit calculations.

If Rishi has £10 billion to spend, and he uses £15 billion to cut taxes for the wealthy, he misplaces £15 billion he meant to spend on healthcare, and he cuts £10 billion from the Education budget, by what percentage are nurses helping Putin by going on strike?
 
If Rishi has £10 billion to spend, and he uses £15 billion to cut taxes for the wealthy, he misplaces £15 billion he meant to spend on healthcare, and he cuts £10 billion from the Education budget, by what percentage are nurses helping Putin by going on strike?

A few more years of maths will solve this puzzle. Answer is layabouts and boat people.
 
Hunt confirms cut to ‘unsustainably expensive’ business energy support

Chancellor to announce plans to lower level of support for businesses, hospitals, schools and charities from March

Jeremy Hunt has confirmed that he will announce plans to reduce energy support for businesses in the Commons next week, telling industry leaders it was “unsustainably expensive”.

The chancellor has told business groups that a package providing support at a “lower level” than current measures would be available to them beyond March, promising to avoid a “cliff edge” in curtailing the subsidy.

https://www.theguardian.com/busines...-business-energy-help-to-reduce-hunt-confirms

Hospitals, schools and charities.

feck them and feck absolutely everyone who doesn’t vote for the candidate for MP most likely to boot out any Tory incumbents!

The fecking parasitic cnuts have to go, then we can maybe start looking at the rehabilitation of this country.
 
Maybe teach kids critical thinking, so that they can disseminate all of the Tory lies every campaign.
It isn't really kids who get Tories elected though is it?

I read somewhere that folks tend to get more conservative as they get older, no idea whether it's true but I suspect it is
 

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And Sunak clearly plants his mast with the FTSE 100 lot (raise your hand if, like me, you are shocked).
 


Been saying it for years, some unions like the RMT push it too far. Whether the legislation gets watered down or not, minimum service levels will eventually be brought in if the strikes keep up at this pace. I feel sorry for NHS workers as their support for strikes is waning in polls as a result of being lumped in with other less popular unions, makes it much easier for the government. Never mind the legal challenges either, other countries with the same basic laws had no problems implementing it.
 
Been saying it for years, some unions like the RMT push it too far. Whether the legislation gets watered down or not, minimum service levels will eventually be brought in if the strikes keep up at this pace. I feel sorry for NHS workers as their support for strikes is waning in polls as a result of being lumped in with other less popular unions, makes it much easier for the government. Never mind the legal challenges either, other countries with the same basic laws had no problems implementing it.
Yes the feckers, how dare they ask for a small piece of the very large pie.
 
Been saying it for years, some unions like the RMT push it too far. Whether the legislation gets watered down or not, minimum service levels will eventually be brought in if the strikes keep up at this pace. I feel sorry for NHS workers as their support for strikes is waning in polls as a result of being lumped in with other less popular unions, makes it much easier for the government. Never mind the legal challenges either, other countries with the same basic laws had no problems implementing it.
Wonder if these minimum service levels also apply to the franchise owners / investors and their executives? With the clawing back of bonuses, cancellations of dividends?
 
Wonder if these minimum service levels also apply to the franchise owners / investors and their executives? With the clawing back of bonuses, cancellations of dividends?

I think I know the answer to that question!
 
Wonder if these minimum service levels also apply to the franchise owners / investors and their executives? With the clawing back of bonuses, cancellations of dividends?

Yes, obviously. Or GNER would still be running the East Coast line.
 
Democracy, Tory style...

Rishi Sunak considered union ban for thousands of key staff – leaked emails

Internal messages reveal proposals described as potentially ‘the biggest attack on workers’ rights and freedoms’ for generations

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/07/rishi-sunak-union-ban-key-staff-leaked-emails
Yet so many right wingers wax lyrical about "freedom of speech" and rights etc. But reality is the government is so right wing its bordering on fascist.