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Post by sheepy on Sept 23, 2024 7:57:51 GMT
No rats to be smelt here of course....As soon as any MP or party accepts donations from wealthy individuals or organisations they are compromised.No one gives large amounts of money away without wanting something in return. Labour MP took £4,000 donation from Britain's biggest train drivers' union... months before his department offered workers a pay rise.... A Labour MP and ministerial aide accepted a £4,000 donation from Britain's biggest train drivers' union – just months before his department offered it an inflation-busting pay rise. Liam Conlon, who is the son of Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff Sue Gray, received the donation from Aslef. Last month he was appointed a parliamentary private secretary – or ministerial aide – to the Department for Transport. On Friday the Aslef union announced a wave of fresh strikes – less than 48 hours after it was offered a pay deal that would boost the average driver's salary by 14 per cent to £69,000. The newly elected MP for Beckenham and Penge declared the £4,000 donation in his MP register of interests, which was published last week. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13753867/Labour-MP-took-4-000-donation-Britains-biggest-train-drivers-union-months-department-offered-workers-pay-rise.htmlAs I said those feckers in the Westminster party make the mafia look good so much so people are even trying to escape to Russia, that sort of says it all. |
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Post by sandypine on Sept 23, 2024 8:05:11 GMT
Under the last incompetent government, doctors, nurses and most public sector workers firstly had a pay freeze imposed upon them - Then they were offered pay rises BELOW the rate of inflation. In other words they endured a period of a decline in living standards, hence the reason why we now have staff shortages in our NHS and recruitment problems.Our NHS is in a deplorable state thanks to the last government, our public finances are also in a terrible state, the remedy to fix these problems will ineverteby result in much moaning and complaint from those that caused the problems in the first place. In 1999, the population was 58m with 1m NHS staff. In 2023, the population is 68m with 1.8m NHS staff. The population has risen 15% but NHS staff numbers have risen 80%. What on earth are they all doing? Keeping DEI records. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 23, 2024 9:15:50 GMT
As far as I can see, the NHS seems to be ticking over easily enough, the economy is doing so well that tens of thousands of foreigners are desperate to risk life and limb to get here, the politicians are no more corrupt than usual and one way and another things seem pretty good. So what is your take on the matter ? On the face of it yes, the country appears to be ticking over, but we are yet to have the budget and Labour policies haven't kicked in yet. I cant help thinking it's a house of cards just waiting to fall. I have absolutely no confidence in this government, they seem out of their depth and already mired in controversy. Starmer after just two months in office is, by far, our most unpopular post war prime minister. Unless you're an illegal immigrant, this government do not instil any sense of optimism. |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 23, 2024 9:20:00 GMT
As far as I can see, the NHS seems to be ticking over easily enough, the economy is doing so well that tens of thousands of foreigners are desperate to risk life and limb to get here, the politicians are no more corrupt than usual and one way and another things seem pretty good. So what is your take on the matter ? On the face of it yes, the country appears to be ticking over, but we are yet to have the budget and Labour policies haven't kicked in yet. I cant help thinking it's a house of cards just waiting to fall. I have absolutely no confidence in this government, they seem out of their depth and already mired in controversy. Starmer after just two months in office is, by far, our most unpopular post war prime minister. Unless you're an illegal immigrant, this government do not instil any sense of optimism. Labour could well lose the next GE by not losing a single vote. They are in a precarious posistion. |
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Post by wassock on Sept 23, 2024 9:24:33 GMT
As far as I can see, the NHS seems to be ticking over easily enough, the economy is doing so well that tens of thousands of foreigners are desperate to risk life and limb to get here, the politicians are no more corrupt than usual and one way and another things seem pretty good. So what is your take on the matter ? One political side always belittles the NHS, they always beat it down, they always say it's on it's last legs and crap. I've always found it spot on and the staff do a sterling job, but I'm not a Labour supporter. |
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Post by wassock on Sept 23, 2024 9:26:16 GMT
Whoops, of course I meant the train drivers. You could have just corrected me. Well that wasn't the same either - the Tories were insisting that any wage rise was contingent on changes to working practices. Labour dropped all reforms to working practices and just agreed to pay more. Hence the £22 Billion 'Black hole' Did you believe in that black hole bullshit?  |
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Post by wassock on Sept 23, 2024 9:39:25 GMT
When my dad was ill back in 2015, he was in and out of hospital. It was a hospital built by Blair's PFI money. What does that mean? It means the NHS Trust now pays millions of it's budget in rent and it was lumbered with a 25 year food contract from a firm in Manchester that does airline food. So it's trollied up, driven across, and the gloup is heated up.
Great investment? My dad vowed to get a court order not to go back there because the food is utter utter shite. I contacted my local MP who arranged a meeting between me and the hospital chief. I saw him and he said, "Labour mortgaged our children's healthcare and we cannot get out of the food contract". My dad died a few weeks after.
Now, folk can bleat on how Tory shit this, Tory shit that, but from my experience and from the horses mouth at the hospital, blame Labour. Millions that should be used for patients is now wasted on rent, and this is the case for all the new hospitals and schools built under Labour.
So spare me your uneducated opinions on how fantastic Labour are with the NHS, and my local hospital is still paying millions in rent and it still under a shit food service.
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 23, 2024 9:45:00 GMT
Labour could well lose the next GE by not losing a single vote. They are in a precarious position. Indeed, this shower weren't popular before the election, and just two months after the election Starmer is proving to be our most unpopular post war prime minister leading a very unpopular government. I know I keep saying this, but how long has he got? Maybe he will be forced to resign when the number of old age pensioner cold weather deaths are published in the spring. |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 23, 2024 9:47:31 GMT
Labour could well lose the next GE by not losing a single vote. They are in a precarious position. Indeed, this shower weren't popular before the election, and just two months after the election Starmer is proving to be our most unpopular post war prime minister leading a very unpopular government. I know I keep saying this, but how long has he got? Maybe he will be forced to resign when the number of old age pensioner cold weather deaths are published in the spring. I wonder how much his personal wealth will expand before he gets the push? |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 23, 2024 9:53:47 GMT
Indeed, this shower weren't popular before the election, and just two months after the election Starmer is proving to be our most unpopular post war prime minister leading a very unpopular government. I know I keep saying this, but how long has he got? Maybe he will be forced to resign when the number of old age pensioner cold weather deaths are published in the spring. I wonder how much his personal wealth will expand before he gets the push? I see it's now been revealed that Reeves has also received thousands of pounds worth of free designer clothing. Talk about snouts in the trough. |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 23, 2024 10:10:23 GMT
I wonder how much his personal wealth will expand before he gets the push? I see it's now been revealed that Reeves has also received thousands of pounds worth of free designer clothing. Talk about snouts in the trough. One can only imagine the outrage from the usual lefties if these were Tory MP's... |
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Post by jonksy on Sept 23, 2024 10:33:35 GMT
I wonder how much his personal wealth will expand before he gets the push? I see it's now been revealed that Reeves has also received thousands of pounds worth of free designer clothing. Talk about snouts in the trough. And again red......Early every morning, the top Labour brass must attend a Zoom call setting out how they can totally discredit themselves that day. Prizes are then awarded (by Sue Gray) for those who really go beyond the call of duty. I don't think they could try any harder.
The glossy shots of Angela Rayner hard at work (and drinking whisky through a straw) taken by her taxpayer-funded 'vanity photographer' - after she slammed Tories for doing the same......
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner beams as she drinks whisky through a straw while posing for pictures taken by her 'vanity photographer'.
The lighthearted image captured on a visit to Scotland sits alongside more serious shots of her hard at work in the short weeks since Labour won the election taken by Simon Walker.
She is shown variously meeting her Pakistani counterpart, hosting a Make Work Pay breakfast meeting and visiting a John Lewis department store with London mayor Sadiq Khan in other glossy PR photos.
The Mail today revealed Ms Rayner, who has been mired in controversy over freebies from Labour donors and could face a sleaze inquiry, has risked a fresh storm over Mr Walker's appointment on a salary of £68,000.
He has been given the title of Chief Photographer to the Deputy PM and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. He previously worked as Rishi Sunak's chief photographer.
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Post by Fairsociety on Sept 23, 2024 11:42:16 GMT
Everything happening right now is still under Tory rules, the NHS and the economy, once dickhead has his first Budget then Labour will kick in, so ask the same question this time next year, when the impact of a Labour government will be in full swing. I agree but I couldn't see the Tories giving Junior doctors or train drivers such lavish pay rises.. That was one reason Labour got in, he told the Unions he'd bow down to them ... and he kept his word ...he did. |
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Post by wassock on Sept 23, 2024 12:58:26 GMT
I agree but I couldn't see the Tories giving Junior doctors or train drivers such lavish pay rises.. That was one reason Labour got in, he told the Unions he'd bow down to them ... and he kept his word ...he did. It was handled in a yo-yo fashion - Starmer's head went down, his arse went up, his trousers went down, and the Union's **** went up. |
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Post by Fairsociety on Sept 23, 2024 13:02:04 GMT
That was one reason Labour got in, he told the Unions he'd bow down to them ... and he kept his word ...he did. It was handled in a yo-yo fashion - Starmer's head went down, his arse went up, his trousers went down, and the Union's **** went up. LOL..... what a sight. |
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