Not really, but what Pap said was inaccurate regarding the marital status on the person concerned.
The skilled worker program is one that I would actively encourage more immigration for, but how do you define a skilled worker? - There are too many individual cases not to have a limit of some sort measure and salary is used as a convienient measure of ability and demand for the skill. How or why £35k a year was arrived at, I have no idea, and without the reasoning behind it I wouldn’t be able to determine if it were appropriate or not. A points based system would arguable be more beneficial that way you could weight certain skill sets more favourably above salary.
I’m not ok with sending anyone away if they want to stay tbh, with possible exception of Gillian Brown, 26, who was in one of pap’s link. She is from Australia doing Digital Online Marketing (which we could use less of) for £20,600 pa. I am less sympathy for her plight, for some reason.
Steel yourselves for some hard truths about the British Steel industry. No one in power gives a shit, apparently.
There’s a meme that keeps resurfacing in the genteel world of rightwing financial thought: that the term “neoliberalism” is in some way just a term of abuse, or a catch-all phrase invented by the left.
Well, as the UK steel industry faces instant closure — and let’s be clear that’s what Tata would do if it had to — we about to get a textbook lesson in what neoliberalism actually means. It means, when market logic clashes with human logic, the market must prevail and you must not give a shit about the social consequences.
And in other news, outgoing head of NUT talks possible sympathy strikes with junior doctors. Only took six years of mismanagement and cruelty to get us to the point where we could conceivably see a general strike.
I would like to see the steel plants nationalised. Yes, I know I shouldn’t, but here’s my reasoning.
Since the 70’s and the nationalisation of a number of poorly performing industries in the country, a lot has changed. I feel that now, we may just have the know how to make these industries more efficient and to actually work for us, rather than being a tax burden for the public. I think it should be used as an experiment, at least in the short term to protect the majority of jobs.
I listened to an interview with the head of the Head teachers union the other day, and they didn’t seem too bothered about it. Academy schools tend to perform marginally better, although not enough of a change that it’s probably not worth the hassle of doing it.
I’m just wondering what the issue is with this plan?
The issue is that it leaves people with very little oversight on what goes on with our schools. Academies won’t be beholden to local authorities. The Tories are also trying to remove parent governors.
They’re basically going to sell your kids school from under them to raise funds for their ruinous financial performance. Starting to feel very glad I had my kids when I was young.
It’s a national security concern as much as anything else. We need people that know how to make steel, and we’d be crazy to abandon that knowhow and capacity.
Whack a tariff on cheap steel imports and stick two fingers up at anyone who says we can’t - Fuck the EU, Fuck the WTO and fuck what ever court in the UK that says it is illegal - change the law to say that it is legal.
I dont blame Tata for wanted out - Port Talbot is losing £1m a day - you could pay each worker at that plant (4000) £150 / day to sit at homeand they would be £145m better off a year. Talk about crazy economics.
I’m happy to see failing businesses go under, we cannot shore up pointless trades that only survive to lose money and provide jobs, but surely our steel industry needs saving.
There must be a way to make it work and government needs to intervene to enable this.
We cannot write off whole communities without supporting them.
I know Port Talbot and surrounding area and it’s enough of a shithole without this blow.
There appears to be a bit of backbone coming up in this thread
But what you cannot allow is the sliding back to the union lead deficiencies of the nationalised industries of the 70’s that would be a killer for not only the industiries involved but also the semi nationalised industies as well.
Would it surprised anyone to know that the EU tried to stop the Chinese from dumping their steel on the market. The UK apparently led the opposition in blocking it.
The Parliamentary Conservative Party looks as threadbare on human beings as UKIP does sometimes. There were far right demonstrators in Dover causing a fuss, so who does their local Tory MP have a go at? The militant far left.
Since expanded his view to incorporate both groups, but a good indication of where priorities lie. Ideology beats decency, even if you have kicked someone’s fucking head in with a pair of DMs this morning.
Charities and politicians are demanding urgent changes to housing policy across Britain and warning that thousands of homeless children’s lives may be at risk because they are disappearing from support services after being rehoused.
The calls come after an investigation by _The Independent _uncovered cases of homeless children dying from neglect and abuse after families were moved out of their local authority boundaries. Other evidence in the report suggested that the transfer of homeless families to other parts of the country could have resulted in suicides and miscarriages.
Handling of Junior Doctor’s crisis
A Conservative MP has criticised Jeremy Hunt for “misquoting evidence” while arguing for the imposition of a new junior doctor’s contract.
Dr Sarah Wollaston, the chair of the Commons’ Health Select Committee, said the health secretary used an “entirely unreasonable” strategy to garner support for an “unachievable” seven-day NHS.
Writing in the_Guardian_, Ms Wollaston said, “Ministers are undermining their case and inflaming tensions by misquoting evidence”, adding Mr Hunt risks an “exodus” of young medics from the NHS.
Her claim follows repeated accusations that Mr Hunt misrepresented research into death rates among patients admitted over the weekend.
