How the feck can you 'disapply' sections of an international treaty you no longer like without violating the agreement?
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Yes exactly.
And of course, they/it is interwoven into the agreements the UK has with other countries.
Patrick Vallance evidence in he Covid Enquiry pretty damning.
A few highlights so far...
A few highlights so far...
- Boris couldn't understand any of the scientific advise he was given.
- No10 wanted the scientific advised changed to suit policy.
- Sunak said he wanted to "manage the scientists, not the virus".
Now that's wild.
Sunak conveniently promising tax cuts today to try to take the headlines away from the Covid enquiry. Will probably work.
The same way you break the law in a very specific and limited way
Would usually be very easy for Sunak to just pass the blame to Boris, but the evidence is coming out that he's just as complicit. Hence his drastic attempts to get this out of the headlines.
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There's something weird with the image, whatever it is. Malwarebytes calls it riskware.
Typical nimic trying to bring into disrepute anything that damages his Tory pals. yup
Seems like a dodgy image hosting site! My bad. Uploaded a snip to imgur and edited the link.
From Guardian's live blog if anyone is interested...
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...r-michael-gove-david-lammy-uk-politics-latest
https://news.sky.com/story/david-ca...ds-and-officially-takes-up-new-title-13012302
Lord Cameron..... who said crime doesn't pay.
Lord Cameron..... who said crime doesn't pay.
I was going to post this in the stupid questions thread but thought you guys might know.
Did the green party arise out of neo fascism?
Did the green party arise out of neo fascism?
Here's a piece on it from a less than partial magazine: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2022/blood-and-soil-the-greens-fascist-roots/
But there is a conflation being made here between 'origins' and 'current policies'.
Thanks for this.
I don't think I can properly express my hatred for these cnuts.
Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister
People with mobility and mental health problems should work from home or lose benefits under new policy
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/21/disabled-people-work-from-home-laura-trott-benefits
Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister
People with mobility and mental health problems should work from home or lose benefits under new policy
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/21/disabled-people-work-from-home-laura-trott-benefits
I thought we couldn't work from home?
It’s class war all the way down
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We live in such a stupid world.
JRM will be along soon to tell those workshy disabled people to get themselves back into the office pronto
The effect of the minimum wage increase in April will be interesting. From the point of view of our company, it's the first ever minimum wage increase that will mean the salary of some staff will be greater than their productive value.
Previously minimum wage levels were irrelevant as they were lower than what would be offered in a free market.
Previously minimum wage levels were irrelevant as they were lower than what would be offered in a free market.
Doesn’t sound like a particularly well run company. I’d be looking for a new job.
Wonder how they’ll magic up those completely flexible jobs with understanding employers (who have to pay sick when their employee is temporarily ill) for people with little employment history or skills.
They want to depress uk productivity even more.
Yep, it will be interesting. The business I'm at (retail) will have some significant impact, so it'll be interesting to see what the government ease in the background. Tomorrow's budget will still need some reversal on corporation tax back to 19% otherwise I can see a lot of small businesses struggling and I'd be surprised if we don't see an increase in job losses over the coming period. Certainly cost bases aren't reducing, and demand in the market is flat to declining.
Unemployment is below 5% anyway; Tory rhetoric aside, increasing productivity/health has to be the aim, as the economy is pretty full. Employment inflation is natural in this inelastic state anyway, and isn’t the biggest inflationary input.
Firstly demand for staff has already reduced considerably with vacancies down a third from around 1.3m to 950k.
Secondly the amount of people deemed economically inactive has increased by around half a million people over the last four years. Bearing in mind the definition for this is simply someone who hasn't looked for a job in the last 4 weeks or can't start employment within the next 2 weeks. Literally someone out of work who is going on holiday for a fortnight isn't counted within the official figures. There are also 5m more people on disability benefits than 20 years ago (rising from 18 to 24%).
It's of course in the government's interests to make out unemployment figures are very low, but a quick look under the bonnet and you find the true picture to be less rosy.
My view is this aggressive minimum wage increase, if not mitigated with cuts in corporate taxes, is going to throw petrol on that trend, particularly at the younger and more inexperienced level. Why employ a junior member of staff when you can employ someone with 10 years experience for the same salary? Why build a balanced team with junior, mid-level and senior staff when you can simply increase the hours of the more senior people by 10% and cut the jobs of the least experienced. That young person then quickly ends up part of those increasing disability statistics.
I wonder if the thresholds for benefits like nhs charges exemptions etc will rise, otherwise lots and lots of people will be taken out of nhs support with dentistry etc. Its one way of reducing nhs dentistry crisis..
Are you saying 24% of the UK population is on disability benefits?
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract
Awarding of contract to create new data platform prompts immediate concerns about security of medical records
The NHS has sparked controversy by handing the US spy tech company Palantir a £330m contract to create a huge new data platform, leading to privacy concerns around patients’ medical details.
The move immediately prompted concerns about the security and privacy of patient medical records and the suitability of Palantir to be given access to and oversight of such sensitive material.
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | NHS | The Guardian
Awarding of contract to create new data platform prompts immediate concerns about security of medical records
The NHS has sparked controversy by handing the US spy tech company Palantir a £330m contract to create a huge new data platform, leading to privacy concerns around patients’ medical details.
The move immediately prompted concerns about the security and privacy of patient medical records and the suitability of Palantir to be given access to and oversight of such sensitive material.
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | NHS | The Guardian
There's only 2.4m on disability benefits now, whereas the number entitled to it has gone up to 6.3m.
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Heh
What is often overlooked with 'minimum this and maximum that' is the basics.
Unless they are a co-operative, most businesses are not run for the benefit of the workers, but the owners and investors. Once the investment/successful running of a business disappears, through poor management or government regulation, price or wage fixing, or a market place collapse (e.g horse drawn taxis) then the business disappears and so do the jobs.
Most of the time the situation is stacked against the workers, the best they can hope for is a 0-0 draw, occasionally if the workers have specialist skills that are in short supply etc. then for a short period they might take a 1-0 lead, but in the second half the owners and managers pull it back to 1-1 then overtime, to survive, they have to get to a 1-2 winning position.
Conflict, e.g. strikes/ go slows/overtime bans etc. may gain a slight advantage for the workers, but it wont last, if it does, they eventually lose their jobs.
Government intervention e.g. with minimum wage etc. can improve things for certain groups of workers, for a short time, but for the vast majority of workers above this figure it doesn't work, and can under certain circumstances become detrimental, pricing out of markets
We need a complete overhaul of the economy, including employment opportunities and developments as well as new areas of business that cover our strengths, and also give opportunities to workers to participate in shaping their employment situations. There will be, as in business matters already; high risk jobs, medium risk jobs and low risks jobs, pay and conditions will follow. Jobs provided in essential services will have their own risk levels, but there must be safeguards for the individuals.
Everyone leaving formal education should have job identified (not an offer) for them before they leave, the trick will be to identify the range of jobs required and assess the needs including pay required. Many of these employment opportunities will need to be identified especially where individuals have problems of a personal nature, but they cannot be left out, everyone gets a job of some kind, this is not a job offer, but a legal requirement to be employed...a bit like national service use to be!
Sir Keir Starmer this is your big chance to make Labour, in the future seen as 'the natural party of government' by changing the lives of millions of your people, to give everybody a chance... and by the way housing, (and other basic needs want seeing too as well) when the massive Labour majority is returned at the next GE.
James Cleverly called Stockton North a shithole.
This Labour lass is ripping the Tories apart
Hanging, drawing and quartering them
Hanging, drawing and quartering them