2 weeks tomorrow…2 weeks tomorrow…can’t fucking wait
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Can we not have a 3rd option which is one days inconvenience on more than 23% (preferably 50 or more) of the balloted members?
Does it not embarrass you Cherts, that this is the party you support and this is honestly the best they can muster, y’know, after they’ve finished knifing or ruining anyone electable?
Every member was balloted. Members could quite easily have returned the slip saying ‘no’. Of those that did reply 92% supported strike action. The 75% who didnt reply were tacitly supporting strike action. The majority of those not replying would have known that.
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The article says that all 3 parties come up with the same losses, so not sure the ex Labour party are offering a better alternative.
Stephen Crabb has withdrawin from the leadership contest
So were the 15 million who didn’t vote for or against Brexit tacitly supporting Brexit?
Clutching. At. Straws.
Originally posted by @TheCholulaKid
Clutching. At. Straws.
Not clutching at anything. To think that 23% can talk on behalf of 75 of the other 77% is fucking ridiculous, I guess why many, many teachers decided not to strike even though they voted for it, due to the tiny turnout.
When teachers qualify they have a choice of 3 unions. The NUT (who called today’s strike) are by far the most militant. When you sign up to a union the key factor in choosing which union to go with is how likely they are to support industrial action. The two other main teaching unions are not so militant and many teachers decide to join them because of this. However, many teachers join the NUT (which also happens to be the biggest) because it is very vocal and active in supporting educators.
Therefore, most people who join the NUT do so on the understanding they will be called out on strike. In my 10 years of experience as a teaching NUT member most members of the NUT that I know do not return the ballot paper because they know they will be called out on strike and they are happy for their union to go down that route. Anecdotal from today - we had 8 members on strike - 6 of those had not returned their ballot paper. We had 12 members who did not strike.
The bare statistics (as you suggest) clearly don’t tell this story - which is why it’s always worth digging a little deeper.
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Jeremy Hunt says he will impose a new contract on junior doctors.
The useless twat utilises the oldest trick in the political book, attempting to bury a fucking stupid idea on a big news day.
Originally posted by @Rallyboy
Jeremy Hunt says he will impose a new contract on junior doctors.
The useless twat utilises the oldest trick in the political book, attempting to bury a fucking stupid idea on a big news day.
Always going to happen after the BMA fucked up and doctors voted against their recommendations.
I’m a member of the ATL, we’ve never striked but it’s coming. If the ATL strike then they’ve gone from extreame tutting to all out militancy.
Mrs SFC has been having a countdown, big celebration when it got to 9.5 days yesterday (single figures was the shout). She hates her school, but loves teaching, but has a new school, much better one in September.
Biggest Tory donor raided for money laundering and fraud.
The Conservative party’s biggest donor, the telecoms giant Lycamobile, has been raided by French police on suspicion of money laundering and tax fraud.
The Conservatives accepted almost £900,000 in donations from the firm while it was being investigated for tax fraud and money laundering.
Nineteen people were arrested after Lycamobile was raided by French police on Friday of last week.
Nine were charged, including the general manager in France Alain Jochimek.
Police have been investigating the company since last December.
Cash collectors working for the company were caught on camera dropping rucksacks containing hundreds of thousands of pounds at post offices in London. French prosecutors said that nine people had been charged with money laundering of at least £13.4 million and VAT fraud.
Lycamobile has denied financial mispractice.
Lycamobile’s Sri Lankan-born owner, Subaskaran Allirajah, is a member of the exclusive Leader’s Group for top Tory donors.
He attened the Tories’ fundraising ball in February 2015 where he bought a statue of Margaret Thatcher for £210,000.
He has dined with David Cameron or members of his cabinet twice in the past six months, and is also close to Boris Johnson, after bankrolling his general election campaign.
The Conservatives have accepted £2.2 million from Lycamobile in total and £870,000 since December.
Fuck sake.
Stat buried on Friday - as it shows how *incompetent* & blinded by class hatred the Tories are. £83m spent subsidising the bedroom tax LY.
Meet the Tory Cabinet. All made up of bankers, bullies and crooks.
**Philip Hammond - Chancellor **
Hammond took up politics after feeling upset at Oxford university about strikes against the health Tory government that were ‘ruining the country’. He is good with money in the sense that he has lots of it - over £8.2 million. He achieved his worth from stakes in health care and nursing home development and “consultancy work”. He described the legalisation of same sex marriage as “damaging”.
**Amber Rudd - Home Secretary **
Rudd attended Cheltenham Ladies’ College. She was an investment banker at JP Morgan and then moved into venture capital. She was the “aristocracy co-ordinator” for the film 4 weddings and a funeral. She pushed fracking legislation through and reneged on pledges not to let the gas extraction process occur in national parks. Rudd once claimed 27p for a 0.6 mile car journey. (Well look after the pennies…).
Boris Johnson - Foreign Secretary
European Union ministers and diplomats branded the Eton educated Johnston a liar and a “borderline racist”. Which is unfair - he is a racist to his marrow. Johnston wrote, “It is said that the Queen has come to love the commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.”
He published an article that said “Orientals have larger brains and higher IQ scores. Blacks are at the other pole.”
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Thing is, they’ve only just started. We have no idea how competent they’ll end up being. Theresa May’s previous record, especially her overbearing attitude on surveillance, doesn’t augur well for long term popularity. I think the public are a bit too savvy and the media a little too easily circumvented for her to be able to play the “scare the shit out of everybody” card, and I also think we’re getting past the point where people are falling for the scrounger narrative.
If they can’t point fingers, what else do they got? Coherent policy? There’s little in the track record of these politicians to suggest that’d be the case. A compromise of May’s ascension was the collegiate nature of the cabinet, attempting to reconcile people from different sides of the Brexit debate, notably putting Eurosceptics (real or otherwise) into positions where they get to influence our foreign policy. It’s very early days in this government. They’re still Tories, and if May should start to badly falter, and she likely will, the knives could come out and the Tories could be on their third leader in one Parliament.
And let’s be honest, it could easily happen to any of the ministers she chose too. None of it will inspire confidence.
Do you really think the public are a bit too savvy?
I’ve not met many of that group.
Certainly compared with the 1980s, when people had only a few sources of news, yes.