did you reply to the wrong post? i didnt mention negotiations. i'm talking about how we fund a pay rise, using a windfull tax is the worst option as by definition its temporary. and its already spent elsewhere. we need tax rises to fund pay increases, and the last rise was roundly rejected by everyone.
Everyone complained? Arguably best thing Boris did. Labour front bench said they'd find other ways to pay for it, other than that the only people i saw complaining were Truss and Kwarteng.
it was one good policy, opposition complained about it for about a year, before it was introduced. they even tabled a vote against it. no alternative offered yet.
No, I didn't. You parroted the line from the Tories that the RCN have demanded 17% strongly implying that they won't manoeuvre from that position. In reality, this dispute will be resolved with a pay increase lower than that but higher than the initial offer made (and, probably, further conditions to repair the damage done to their working arrangements).
i see your point. though the RCN have previously stated they're asking for 5% above inflation, so a target number would seem to be around that.
Its never ending. If you took a random 350 members would you find so many dubious characters.
I hope they do. They have already expelled the 7 Labour MPs who received jail sentences during the 12 years of Tory rule, so that's 7 less rotten apples that won't be corrupting the party.
What’s the count for the other major parties? Just so we can be fair an equitable about this.
Excellent!
Yes they`ve been rubbish at maintaining and improving public services unsurprisingly as that conforms to their anti state neo liberism. However, in what way do you think the public finances are in "crisis"? Also I disagree about lockdown. Sweden`s limited covid preventative policies have proved far more successful and were in line with exisiting more rational evidence based international pandemic guidelines.
