UK Politics: Mone, Mone, Mone. It's not funny. It's a rich toff's world.

[Zorral]

It rather seems the plan, doesn't it?  Only those who can pay privately for all these services can have them.  Terrific way to hold all power and wealth and never be challenged anywhere by anyone.  As in ye good old golden age days, laws -- and taxes!!!!!! -- applied only these inferiors but not us lords.

[The Anti-Targ]

We all know that happens, eventually, when govt becomes of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. It always ends up with revolution, the only question is the amount of violence.

[Varysblackfyre321]

13 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

I agree with the overall point you're making, but this specifically happens all the time. To this day I believe I coined the phrase "policy mandate inflation," intending it to sound as bad as I could. 

Clarify please.

[Varysblackfyre321]

Reminder on why Terfs are terrible.

It’s an abomination that the LGBA association whose primary goal is to fear monger about trans people is allowed to be a charity while charities that actually help people is under threat.

 

[Spockydog]

Does anything in Tory Britain actually work?

Despite all the official weather warnings, I have yet to see any evidence of gritters having been deployed on our roads. While there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. 

This is the busiest motorway in the country last night, after just a couple of hours worth of snow:

 

 

 

 

[Which Tyler]

8 hours ago, Spockydog said:

Does anything in Tory Britain actually work?

Despite all the official weather warnings, I have yet to see any evidence of gritters having been deployed on our roads. While there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. 

This is the busiest motorway in the country last night, after just a couple of hours worth of snow:

 

 

 

 

Our bypass had a visit from the gritter around 4.00 this afternoon.
Only 48 hours late then; but better that than never.

[HexMachina]

We've always been pretty good up here for gritting the roads. Where I live now hasn't had issues so far

County Durham on the other hand...it was almost comical when I lived with my parents, you could see where the border for County Durham started when it got snow-y or icy because they so rarely gritted the roads.

[Raja]

On 12/11/2022 at 5:26 PM, mormont said:

 It's part of a wider picture in public services over the last two decades

Yes.

Would really recommend people watching this video with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's vice president regarding the situation in emergency departments

 

[Raja]

The report ordered by the DHSC by the King's Fund states essentially what everyone in healthcare already knows

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“The sporadic injections of cash during the austerity years after 2010 were at best meant to cover [the service’s] day-to-day running costs. This dearth of long-term investment has led to a health and care system hamstrung by a lack of staff and equipment and crumbling buildings. These critical challenges have been obvious for years.

The report pinpoints Cameron’s decision to reduce the NHS’s annual budget increases from Labour’s 3.6% to an average of just 1.5% as the key reason for the service’s loss of capacity. The service’s performance against a number of waiting time targets that Labour introduced began spiralling downwards in 2015 and has worsened every year since.

 

[mormont]

Here's that well known left wing rag, the Financial Times, on the government's public sector pay policy:

https://www.ft.com/content/ca81509b-e929-487f-8975-49d75dc4f78d
 

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One might argue that control over public sector wages is an effective way to prevent a wage-price spiral, that government cannot afford to pay public sector workers any more, or that inflation is an opportunity to reduce excessive levels of public sector pay, especially when one takes perks, notably generous pensions, into account.

None of these arguments has merit.

 

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On the second, the decision by government not to raise pay in line with wages in the private sector is not because it cannot afford to do so. Taxes could be raised if the will were there. It is in effect a political decision to make public sector employees pay for the government’s unfunded promises.

 

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As Chris Cook argues, the government should ask whether public sector pay is at a level that will sustain delivery of needed services. The country’s social fabric is fraying. In particular, ill health is damaging labour supply. If the government is not prepared to raise the required taxes, it should be honest about that. Letting inflation reduce real pay, while expecting services to be maintained, let alone improve, is plainly dishonest.

[Derfel Cadarn]

Richard Madely ranting away rether than letting Mick Lynch answer the question.

 

[BigFatCoward]

38 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

Richard Madely ranting away rether than letting Mick Lynch answer the question.

 

Was there ever such a mismatch in ability? 

[Which Tyler]

1 hour ago, BigFatCoward said:

Was there ever such a mismatch in ability? 

Liz Truss and... any interviewer?

[BigFatCoward]

1 minute ago, Which Tyler said:

Liz Truss and... any interviewer?

She got beat by a lettuce, so there's that. 

[dog-days]

Think Richard M. should see a doctor about his anger problems. Mick Lynch looked like a mastiff being charged by a rabid Yorkshire terrier. The female presenter just looked excruciatingly embarrassed. 

[Derfel Cadarn]

25 minutes ago, dog-days said:

Think Richard M. should see a doctor about his anger problems. Mick Lynch looked like a mastiff being charged by a rabid Yorkshire terrier. The female presenter just looked excruciatingly embarrassed. 

Maybe the strike meant he had to get a bus to the studio ?

[Raja]

 

[The Anti-Targ]

Once a mighty empire, but still relied on keeping the vast majority poor and desperate to serve the interests of the wealthy few.

[Derfel Cadarn]

Another spoof broadcast by Jonathan Pie, about the strikes

 

[Spockydog]

She and her husband have to go to prison.