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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 11:12 15 Dec 2024
It's a similar number to previous years though. The biggest deterrent is that they'll end up being sent back to where they came from. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 09:26 15 Dec 2024
It's incredibly difficult for an awful lot of them.
I was speaking to a final year med student this week her debt is astonishing.
But people question why they strike and what they do to deserve their pay award. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 08:24 15 Dec 2024
I've read this morning that the government have broken more migrant deportation records, increased illegal working raids by 30% and are fast tracking processing and deportation for asylum seekers from safe countries
Maybe they'll win back a few reform voters, at least those plans will work. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 23:10 14 Dec 2024
I totally forgot about student debt. I didn't start paying that back for a few years and my debt was tiny compared to graduates nowadays.
It's crippling for some people. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:06 14 Dec 2024
I bought my first house on Llangyfelach Road for £34000 in 2001. I was earning about £14k a year relatively fresh out of university. It was a total doer upper.
That same house has just sold for £95000 after being trashed in the years since, by tennants I assume. It's a doer upper again.
Sorry. It's £110k and still for sale. I'm not surprised. https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/68594472/?search_identifier=70d961e1bb
The job I was in when I bought that house now pays £23k pa. I couldn't afford to buy that house now [Post edited 14 Dec 22:09]
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:54 14 Dec 2024
Nick Candy has deserted the Tories not Labour.
I'm not pretending Labours budget is anything other than difficult, I do think employer NI contributions is dodgy ground but it's far too early to say what the outcome will be.
Also don't forget that Reforms policies were and are unfunded nonsense. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:38 14 Dec 2024
I do.
I'd have voted for abolish if they weren't right wing lunatics.
Give me a new centrist abolishment party and they'd probably get my vote. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:36 14 Dec 2024
I can't disagree with much of that. We have too many politicians and the vast majority aren't up to the task. Unfortunately the higher up the political pole the less in touch they are with the public.
Drakeford was a prime example of this. Totally and utterly out of touch with the people who voted for him. But then look at the circus around electing his successor. It's taken a change in speed limit to engage most people, and that's probably the least of his mess ups. His Draconian COVID rules saw him increase his vote!
I've said before but unfortunately there are enough Labour activists and members in Wales to give them carte blanche to do what they want. The other, and more important, side of the coin is the 50+% of people who don't vote at all. Get them out to vote and things will change, but that's exactly why the politicians don't want them to. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:25 14 Dec 2024
No I don't.
And I think the rest of your post speaks volumes. Firstly they haven't trashed the economy, there's a chance we're heading in to a small recession but we'll have to wait and see. They have alienated a lot of the public but I don't think they had much choice, the country is knackered they had to make difficult decisions and the press mullered them for it.
They've only had 10% of the time they'll be in government so far, and nowhere near enough to make a difference to much at all. The mess we're in will take a minimum of 10 years to begin to be addressed. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 19:11 14 Dec 2024
Imagine Lee Anderson in the cabinet.
Farage would be totally lost, he'd quickly realise he couldn't deliver what he claimed he could. I honestly don't think he / reform would last six months. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 11:22 14 Dec 2024
I would too, but look at the state of France state finance. It's not affordable. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 11:12 14 Dec 2024
In an ideal world I completely agree, but how do we pay for it and everything else, what gives? |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 11:05 14 Dec 2024
But those increases are precisely the problem. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 11:02 14 Dec 2024
Countries with better pensions also don't have a comparable NHS. We can't have it all |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 10:03 14 Dec 2024
Only this year, it's still a smaller increase than the state pension last year. Of course that living wage isn't paid by the state in most cases.
And the triple lock being linked to salary will see an associated increase too. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 09:55 14 Dec 2024
They can afford to go without the WFA. Many can't and they should still get it but it shouldn't be universal.
They both have final salary pensions. They're a thing of the past. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 23:26 13 Dec 2024
I'd still like somebody to tell me what part of their "contract" isn't either massively detrimental or just nonsense. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 23:24 13 Dec 2024
Well they are because they come out of the same pot.
Apparently junior dr's and others aren't worthy of their pay increase for some reason but pensioners, who've had a cumulative 20% increase over recent years are? I don't follow the logic. Who's worked where and done what is immaterial.
Pensioners deserve an increase, the state pension is too low but so do public sector workers. But what gives? Public services are knackered. Somebody has to pay.
Not the farmers, not the wealthy pensioners, not the bankers. Who? |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 23:02 13 Dec 2024
Most people aren't interested and that's the problem.
I don't wish to offend but all I'm doing is pointing out the reality. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:42 13 Dec 2024
I don't want anyone who can't afford to pay for prescriptions to pay for them, but those who can should. No different to England.
No wonder this country is bankrupt. Everyone has to pay their own way in some form, there will be extremes at both ends but someone has to pay. The problem is we're massively in debt to public services but nobody wants to pay that debt.
Blame the immigrants I suppose. |
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