General Election 2024

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David Lammy
It's going to be a clown show, Angela Rayner deputy PM

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If you think the starting 11 is bad wait till you see the subs bench!
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A little talked about condemnation of the incoming Labour government's mandate: Bootle (Merseyside)

Best win by Labour with >20,000 vote margin, crikey! But this conceals a drop in voters by 10%. And where did these voters go? Reform, Greens and Workers Party of Britain.

Rejection of the Uniparty is rising.
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[Nobby the Bastard]

Yet they still got well over half the votes (70%), which is astounding bearing in mind that loss of 10%. I Can't see them crying about it.

To be honest I don''t really understand why anybody else even bothers to stand there.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhyU6Gv9XU&t=974s
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Judging from the mutterings on X/Twitter the purge of the Right from the Conservative Party membership has begun. Note that paid up members get to vote in leadership elections.

The muppets are still in charge. Nothing was learned.
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[Polarbear]

So, a few months into Starmers Labour government they have agreed a pay deal with doctors, nurses, teachers and now train strikers.

Train strikes near end as union and government agree deal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9rxdrj713o

I'll leave you all to read what Labour have coughed up to end the strikes but a few questions about it.

Is it that Labour have just gone in to end the strikes whatever the cost? Basically given what the unions wanted. Doctors a really big pay rise, public sector workers what that commission reccommended. Train drivers big back pay rises.

Is it that unions will deal with Labour more easily than the tories for whatever reason?

Have they done ok, the right thing or are the floodgates going to open for more stupidly high pay deals? I mean, they say the tories left a big hole but they have nade it a damn sight bigger with these pay deals, albeit partially filled by taking the winter heating allowance from pensioners .

I think they made it too easy for the unions and that will come back to bite them when other public sector workers demand comparable pay rises.

There is also this stupid assumption that public and private sector workers wages should be comparable. If the private sector can afford big pay rises and give them to their workers it means those workers have earned the company that money so fine. But that doesn't mean the public sector has spare money to throw around and if, like as at the present time, money is tight, tough, you dont get a payrise. There are of course other perks being a public sector worker, your company (HMGB) is unlikely to go bust. Your pensions are pretty safe ect. so it's never all bad.

Anyway. I wonder where the next, 'blame the tories, but your ***tax is going to have to go up' will hit, cause I can't see it not happening and if they are going to do it, they'll want to do it early on in thier term of office.
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great, now doctors will work even less hours!
i think mines been on a 2 day week since covid.
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Labour’s owners are coming to collect. The party will spin it as ‘ending the strikes’ but the great big giveaway has just begun.

Brace yourself for Reeves’ October budget as she raises tax and breaks promises. It’s her last chance to claim that the state of the Tory-led economy came as a surprise which forces her hand.

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