Strikes
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A Boris promise? They're gonna get hungry I fear.
One bloke on BBC thinks pensioners will be ok. Inflation protected pensions so if 10% that is what they will get. Most private ones as far as I am aware have a limit set well below that.
There is mention of holding the triple lock on state pensions next year but I wonder what that works out at against inflation. It should match it.
There is mention of holding the triple lock on state pensions next year but I wonder what that works out at against inflation. It should match it.
The question is why does one group deserve a greater increase than another group? They claim wage stagnation but others can claim that also. Wages have grown slowly for 25 years but inflation in that time has generally been low as well. It's inflation that is killing us all now and tackling inflation is the priority. Giving a disproportionate increase to one group - because they have the power - is not fair and is not the answer. Individual workers - with no power - will be left behind in an even worse position. The negative effect will be highest on the lowest paid. It's taken years to bring up the minimum wage and that is where we should be paying more. Large wage increases to powerful groups will wipe all that out.
Maybe everybody should get a 20% wage rise. Would the RMT be happy with that?
Maybe everybody should get a 20% wage rise. Would the RMT be happy with that?
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As long a period as the tories want to keep going after 12 years?
They're still blaming labour for everything they've screwed up...
That 'famous' note regarding 'no money left' is but a mere fraction of the amount that the tories have spaffed up the wall on their rich mates!
Mick Lynch makes Jonathan Gullis (thick as mince 2019 intake) look a right tw@t
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Mick Lynch’s takedown of Tory MP Jonathan Gullis is a fabulously satisfying watch
We have to confess we weren’t overly aware of rail union chief Micky Lynch before this week but since the train strike kicked off he’s been busy owning all-comers on news outlets across the airwaves. And this exchange on the BBC’s Politics Live is a classic case in point, an encounter with...
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is it possible that people are thoroughly pizzed off with 12 years of Tory austerty.
stagnating wages for the poor while the richest have seen huge increases in income and wealth
Perhaps the British public are starting to realise they are being shafted
I just heard a brilliant description of Tory politics. They pick a series of fights like a drunk coming out of a pub shouting fight me fight me etc.
It fits. Disabled, refugees, court of human rights
the EU.......................................
Shafted - more like bummed. Has the correct connotations.
It fits. Disabled, refugees, court of human rights
the EU.......................................Shafted - more like bummed. Has the correct connotations.
Conservatives have no policies.I just heard a brilliant description of Tory politics. They pick a series of fights like a drunk coming out of a pub shouting fight me fight me etc.
It fits. Disabled, refugees, court of human rights
Shafted - more like bummed. Has the correct connotations.
12 years in power and they try and pin the rail strikes on Labour.
mucking fuppets
Inequality will never be solved and the rich/poor gap will always increase...
It's simple maths...
What's a 5% pay rise for a person earning £100k as opposed to 5% for someone earning £20k?
The poor will always go backwards, and now it's the middle classes in the firing line...
And now accelerating faster than ever as it's all part of the 'Great Reset'...
There is serious disorder on the horizon, and hopefully a revolution or two!
It's simple maths...
What's a 5% pay rise for a person earning £100k as opposed to 5% for someone earning £20k?
The poor will always go backwards, and now it's the middle classes in the firing line...
And now accelerating faster than ever as it's all part of the 'Great Reset'...
There is serious disorder on the horizon, and hopefully a revolution or two!
That is exactly right. The lowest paid, the worst off will be the ones who will already be suffering and struggling, likely the ones working hardest and least powerful.
I have no sympathy with the RMT, they are reported to be some of the highest paid in industry, yet they are claiming there members are having to have to go to food banks. I struggle to understand anyone on 60 to 80k would need to use food banks. My father worked on the railways when I was very young and when it was a really badly paid job. Things have certainly improved a lot since then, but now it has gone far to far - the railways are not run for those working on them, but for the travelling public's benefit, they seem to have lost sight of this.
Unfortunately the above inflation Increase in minimum wage has also driven above inflation wage increases for those above minimum wage.
However, the RMT strikes are all about politics and little to do with the welfare of the union members.
A winter of dis content on the way than ?
3 day week
Power cuts
Refuse workers in strike
Some hospital workers cooks ect
You had to take food into the
Hospitals if you had relatives in there
Under takers afai recall went on strike ??
Transport workers came out for a 30% pay rise
Blimey the good old days
Candles and a radio
3 day week
Power cuts
Refuse workers in strike
Some hospital workers cooks ect
You had to take food into the
Hospitals if you had relatives in there
Under takers afai recall went on strike ??
Transport workers came out for a 30% pay rise
Blimey the good old days
Candles and a radio
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Ah but that's ok, pensioners don't produce a product which they'd have to charge more for so it's not inflationary. (Shhh about teachers, NHS,...)
And they do have a habit of voting.
Every time I go somewhere there's technical stuff - studios, hospitals, airports, avionics I'm phissed off to hell and back to see all the equipment is foreign. We should be producing this stuff.
2018 was this:
and Brexit severely does not help.
If I was starting again I'd leave the UK. Where to go, though?
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Curious piece of news. One of the Tory advisors is ex Oz. While supporting the right when they were in power there his suggestion was to blame strikes on on the left. He was introduced here as a dirty politics specialist. Interestingly when their Tory were elected again observers were rather surprised as they thought they had messed up Oz's economy in their previous term. The people voted for more of the same.
The latest none policy is this business with the court of human rights. Another fight.
ECtHR rulings have erga omnes effects (that is, they are potentially binding on all member states), because the court "determines issues on public-policy grounds in the common interest, thereby extending human rights jurisprudence throughout the community of European Convention States", although erga omnes effect "is not regarded by all States Parties as a legal requirement"
States are bound by the decisions of the Court and must execute them accordingly. Often this means amending legislation to ensure that the violation does not continue to occur. However, the Court does not have the authority to overrule a national decision or annul national laws.
Maybe this is why Boris can say no legal court has ruled against the Rwanda idea. In a way it seems none have as only individuals have been concerned but brief news seemed to say the actual flight had been judged as being illegal when just a few passengers were left.
Who can believe what Boris says anyway. It's often misleading. I mentioned on here that Brexit was a deal to continue dealing and no one believed me.
Other fights - teachers some time ago now. Hospital doctors who threatened to strike at one point.
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