I don’t know if you work in the public sector, but I do and I can assure you it’s rife and nothing happens.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) was joined by comedian Ali Woods to look back at the best and worst moments of a rollercoaster season with the annual United Hour Awards.
Has Ten Hag been sacked yet? We're not sure and we hope not, but it's looking more likely as the days pass.
Who should replace him and why is it taking so long to make a decision?
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Her uncle is Owen Owen, not her brother. The wiki page is that of Allegra, Boris’s ex wife
Yeah fair.
I do and whilst recruitment isn't perfectly free of opportunities for bias, it's a damn sight better than most workplaces. No-one in the Civil Service, no matter how senior, could just unilaterally decide to hire their spouse or child to work as their assistant like MPs routinely do.
Boris is a low life.
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Wow that's still going? Not seen it in c20 years.
Yeah, fair point
Popbitch is a national treasure.
He’s undoubtedly a scumbag but isn’t what he’s saying here possibly true?
Sunak is saying the committee got rid of Dorries and co. because of an unspecified reason, he just accept that decision. But it’s been suggested they didn’t qualify because they didn’t follow a procedure, and that’s because Sunak didn’t advise them they needed them to follow that procedure…making it a mere formality for the committee to reject them. I mean, they obviously don’t deserve to be nominated, but it sounds like Sunak dealt with it sneakily, and doesn’t even want to take ownership of that decision. Which if true, it makes him seem a bit weak.
Why not just tell them that being a Boris Johnson sycophant doesn’t qualify you for the House Of Lords? Other than drawing attention to the blatant hypocrisy around the ther nominees…
It's good fun, take it with a pinch of salt, although it gave the most amazing gossip regarding Liz Truss
Dry brown eye action?
That's ridiculous. It really is a racket.
Absolutely
I've wanted to create some form of net wealth tracker for MPs, ideally if their net wealth increases by a few percentage points above inflation per year then it triggers a by-election.
Shes broken hearted.
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What an egotistical bollock.
Wow. That’s powerful & heart breaking
Heartbreaking
The gutteral crying of that poor woman. It should be pumped out on loud speaker outside the commons every day, until those amoral, narcissistic, careerists leave.
Absolutely soul destroying we have a government full of people like Dorries and Johnson
She's fuming...
NADINE DORRIES: The sinister forces that stopped me, a girl, born into poverty in Liverpool, from reaching the House of Lords
Delighted, Sunak did at least one good thing.
On the day when we’re getting combined temps of over 30’C combined with thunderstorms and flash flooding, Suella Braverman decides to have a go at Caroline Lucas for ‘doom mongering’ as a Green MP.
…oh and she yet again refused to correct the record about the asylum backlog and the deputy Speaker had no issue with it.
fecking pathetic!
…oh and she yet again refused to correct the record about the asylum backlog and the deputy Speaker had no issue with it.
fecking pathetic!
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Last part of that is most relevant. All you and your party's doing!
Can anyone explain to me why inflation increases because people are paid more?
Is it businesses increasing their prices to increase their margins?
Is it businesses increasing their prices to increase their margins?
It's infuriating, bunch of selfish self-serving clowns.
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Well there's 2 sides to it I suppose. 1. Business' labour costs go up so to maintain their margins their prices will go up. 2. People have more disposable income so there is more demand and if the supply doesn't increase accordingly then prices go up.
The theory is fine but in reality this inflation isn't caused by people's income leading to excessive business costs or excessive demand, it's caused by Brexit costs to business, the effect of the pandemic on the supply of goods, wasteful government spending and fiscal policy as well as some misguided central bank policy during the pandemic, profiteering by oil and energy companies, and political disputes between the West, Russia and China.
So effectively they're saying "well we're not letting the mega rich suck up the cost of all this poor policy and unfortunate global circumstances, you're going to have to suck it up normies and to hell with whether the economy ever grows again, real terms pay cuts and tax rises all round".
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People forget she actually changed her occupation on Companies House and employed a talent agency when she went on I'm a Celeb to "broadcaster/entertainer" while still taking an MP's salary. She's a scumbag and a huckster, who sold her self-respect and dignity lying and protecting the wrongdoings of this Gov, which she thought she would get a gong for.
I like this.
Unfortunately those narcissists will feel no real human emotion, only mimick.
Increased corporate profits drive up inflation and have done for this latest spike.
Some corporate profits yes but not others. Obviously oil companies are creaming it in, some supermarkets too, but the likes of John Lewis and Waitrose seem to be struggling for example, and it seems to be a bit of a mixed picture with the badly regulated domestic energy suppliers. I do agree it's a bullshit line of argument though, they basically don't mention anything they could have much control over other than wages and domestic disposable income which is clearly nonsense when the oil companies are still getting spectacular profits. Energy is clearly one of the biggest drivers of inflation, as is red tape from Brexit.