Labour’s plan to boost care workers’ pay ‘could cost taxpayers billions’
Another day, another Article in The Times promoting the Tufton Street cabal who re unwilling to contribute to society but very eager to leech from the public purse. Intriguingly, they are called out on it (‘fink tank’ and paper) by all of the comments as of Sunday morning.
Don't worry, she's going to be drawing on "new economic thinking" when she gets in. I guess fundamentalist free market capitalism is new.
If you compare it to Adam fucking Smith.
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Hospitals are being forced to cut medical staff, threatening their ability to care for patients.
NHS leaders had been recruiting medical staff as part of their efforts to tackle the waiting list backlog, one of Rishi Sunak’s five pledges, but say they are now being told their priority must be to balance the books.
Unless govt funds the recent nurses and doctors pay rises in full, NHS Trusts are bound to be in deficit. The war on the NHS continues.
If anything is an indicator of what to expect in the general election, it's how my constituency, Rushcliffe, voted in the East Midlands Mayor & PCC elections.
Rushcliffe is Kenneth Clark's old constituency & has voted conservative since 1918 with only 2 blips to Labour in 1945 and 1966. It voted Labour for both elections on Thursday (full results in link).
Heartening to see the Green candidate came third in the mayoral election.
If anyone has ever taken the trouble to read the comments (when allowed) below any article on Scotland will have realised, many, if not all, readers (they definitely seem to have done so) take a rather different view.
One more for their collection of ‘balanced articles' I suppose, along with Crace, Rowson and many more.
This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
Bravo Hannah 👏 🤣
The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.
Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.
"The immigration debate has become so warped, though, that opening safe, legal routes is seen by many as the equivalent of an “open border”, while mass deportation is viewed, in Sunak’s words, as “compassionate”. There is nothing compassionate or constructive about the performative cruelty that now stands for immigration policy"
Kenan Malik on how govt policy, far from being a deterrent, promotes the small boats in the Channel.
Yesterday Humza Yusaf was reported to be "furious" that the WM Gov would not extend the rules governing compensation to wrongly accused Postmasters to Scotland.
But an FOI by Sam Taylor reveals that Mr Yusaf knew in 2020 that the cases in Scotland were prosecuted under Scottish law and legal redress in Scotland would have be conducted separately from the rest of the UK.
Was Yusaf really furious or was he lying to stir up grievance?
The Rwanda Bill (UK) "is a shameful and performatively cruel law that will risk people's lives and betray who we are as a society."
We've signed an open letter alongside 250 other civil society organisations to oppose this attack on human rights and the rule of law by an increasingly dangerous, authoritarian government in the UK.
Falter claims was discriminated against because he was a Jewish man in the vicinity of a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
But a longer version of the same exchange has since emerged on Sky News, showing the officer explaining that his concern was that he had seen Falter acting in a way that led him to believe he was trying to provoke a confrontation with marchers.