True. People struggle to pay their bills.
Well, my view is that opposing democratic votes by any means necessary is much more akin to what Nazis and the Radical Right do. British democracy is far from perfect but it's all we have -- and you chip away at it, destroy faith in the democratic process, by telling people their votes don't matter
Nit-picking.
The Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case at the moment, is Head of the Civil Service and a Government appointee so of course the ‘Head of the Civil Service’ says ‘hours can be cut with no loss of efficiency’ when his job is to drive forward Government policy. ’The cabinet secretary ensures that the civil service is acting to deliver key manifesto commitments and policies. They help broker decisions between cabinet ministers and departments, and then ensure that these decisions are followed through - to that end, Chancellor announced in October 2023, ‘an immediate cap on civil servant headcount across Whitehall to stop any further expansion, increase efficiencies and boost productivity’. Employment burnout, stress and poor wellbeing are endemic in the Civil Service - the only way existing staffing hours are cut in any business without losing efficiency is by making staff work harder either by increasing workload or decreasing downtime.
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trouble with all that is the civil service has grown ~20% in past 5 years. i wonder why services have gone down hill or how many more staff are needed to reverse that.Nit-picking.
Thus: ‘Over-worked’ doesn’t mean working longer contracted hours in the context of the stripping down of public service funding but nor does it mean the job you were contracted to do 10 years ago, has the same description as it does now - it means that real staff cuts results in staff having to now do the work of several people under job-restructuring (this happens all the time in the private sector too). As for the NHS, even temporarily covering for staff shortages due to staff absence for sickness is a major cause of overworked and stressed workers where the level of staffing is such, it has become a danger both to patient care and the mental well-being of staff due to the following;
- lack of long-term planning by the government, which means not enough staff being trained over the past decade or more;
- removal of the nursing and other bursaries (now partially reversed);
- low pay and for some staff a pay cut;
- brexit leading to a loss of staff from the EU and a reduction in staff coming from EU countries;
- job pressure and high workload made worse due to a lack of staff meaning working conditions for many are untenable and staff leave.
The sickness rate was exacerbated by the Pandemic, but not because of Covid itself, rather stress and mental health problems
Stress led to more NHS staff absences than Covid, new figures show
The scale of the mental health crisis is revealed as nurses and ambulance workers prepare to strike this weekStaff Shortages • FUND OUR NHS
Staff Shortages Shortages of staff are widespread within the NHS and exist across all disciplines. The NHS has too few ... Read more
It’s all very well and good arguing political ideology but if one’s understanding is divorced from the reality of how political policy decisions are made, the process of implementation and how they subsequently effect the public (and thus the electorate), then the usefulness of understanding political theory is negligible. That lack of awareness among the electorate of the reality of how different political ideology is expressed in policy decisions lays the groundwork for subtle machiavellian and/or extremist shifts on the spectrum of mainstream politics. People end up not understanding who or what they are voting for. When that becomes a widespread phenomenon (partly due to the main political parties often confusing the electorate deliberately by claiming each other’s platform as their own’ in order to curry votes) it risks opening the door to centralising groups/ideology that would traditionally be regarded as belonging at either end of the political spectrum.
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Keep going. It’s hilarious.
You're aware that every single poll had 'Corbyn' as the main reason people didn't vote Labour by an absolute mile. Just because you guys keep repeating that revisionist crap won't make it true
You are genuinely funny
...or ordinary folk, the majority, who just want to go about their lives .... science will continue working on the power challenges... nuclear will prevail in the end, Saudi will run out of viable oil and gas in 70 years
It’s fairly obvious it’s the latter.
Are you suggesting that Anderson has the same political views as a former Sussex resident who led the far right from the 1950’s to the early 2000’s.
As a (relatively) young person who didn't want to leave the EU, father to children who also didn't want us to leave the EU, I don't find it funny at all. Just very very sad. Yet another occasion of bigoted older people (from both ends of the political spectrum) restricting young people's opportunities.
Trouble is with your figures, it is a snapshot out of historical context, ignores the Covid pandemic (which resulting in an increase of public servants) and ignores Brexit, the single largest cause in the past 5 years for an increase in CS staff. Numbers are still lower than its most recent peak in 2005.trouble with all that is the civil service has grown ~20% in past 5 years. i wonder why services have gone down hill or how many more staff are needed to reverse that.
also notes total public sector workforce up 13%,Chart of the week: Civil service numbers
Our chart this week illustrates how the civil service has grown by 92,000 or 23% to 496,000 FTEs over the past five years.
From when and in what areas of the service?
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I think you’ll find Anderson’s attitude to people not working is worse than Tebbits. At least, he only told them to get on their bikes.
The reality was that a wildly popular Corbyn, at least among the young, failed miserably to win against the most dull and unpopular PM I can recall, even unpopular inside the Conservative party itself.
“ordinary folk” eat Turkey Twizzlers and voted for Brexit. They’re not to be trusted.
Unfortunately, I have seen this in my inlaws and a couple of other people, I would never have thought it. This is why the Tories are trying to get (Al)Boris (de Pfeffle) Johnson back. Mainly female, saying 'he's doing his best'.
