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They don't mean anything anyway, almost always protest votes to try and give the goverment a kick up the arse, Labour should win them both easiliy, although their is the boring Stalmer factor so you never know, but it would be a much big shock seeing a tory winner than Bale and Ramsey in City shirts.
Check out the wage growth levels since leaving (and since the referendum) generally and consistently higher.
The issue is inflation at the moment.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-kingdom/wage-growth
Still no one is saying why they would vote for this Government I see.
If Labour think that having a rail strike now is so bad, why did 25 of its MP’s join in on the front row of the march supporting it ? I think that you are the naive one if you think Labour is doing anything but wringing their hands in glee at the prospect. They would actually have to talk about their own non existent policies otherwise.
I suggest you look up the meaning of “wringing their hands”, you don’t do it in glee. You really don’t get it do you, why do you think Starmer is, first, telling the shadow cabinet not to join picket lines and, second, so reluctant to back the strike? It’s because the strikes are a subject that puts his party on the defensive, just like Partygate, the cost of living crisis and stacks of other things I could mention puts the Tories on the back foot.
We are told to not ask for more pay, while Boris is going to remove caps on the banker's bonuses.
We all need to "suck it up", while MPs pay has increased by 20% in the last 10 years. Network Rail and rail executives take home millions. Most of the train companies make millions, and they are all privately owned.
Re wealth inequality: https://www.ft.com/content/d52743ca-...f-8281230a21b5
That's the FT, not some left wing rag.
UK inflation rates have been 2.5%, 2.3%, 1.74%, 0.99% and now 10% plus. The train staff have had a 0% increase in this time. They're also threatened with fire and rehire. If NR are publicly owned, and make 500m profit, surely they can pay their staff a decent wage?
The Tories are happy to give 11bn and plus to their mates. They've wasted billions more on mismanagement. Rishi Sunak is absolute as useful as a chocolate fire guard when it comes to the finances of this country. They have done nothing to help the economy, only feed off it like vultures. Which is Sunak's MO. That's how he made his money in the first place.
if anyone votes Tory in 2024, they need their heads checking or they're filthy rich. And by the way, DML is on your side.
It comes as no surprise that you have a slavish and sycophantic adherence to this Tory government as much as you do to the management of Cardiff City!
You are the perfect drone that the likes of Johnson, Rees Mogg, Patel, et al rely on. Lynton Crosby would love you, as I'm sure would Vincent Tan.
You seem incapable of any independent thought, a cap doffing worker bee obedient to your master.
Here's a tip. You can occasionally be critical of your political party, football team, boss, etc. In fact it's healthy to do so.
I think the strikes are organised you easily see and hear that from the various Union Leaders who are not dismissing the chance of joined up strike tactics this summer .
Feeding of the world's issue and pandemic is a clever but thoughtless tactic , some folk are just about adjusting post lockdown Covid they now face more restrictions from the working forces that were paid 100% in pay during Covid many working from home ..
The Tories are attempting to link it Starmer is a tactic to expose the uneasy alliance within the Labour Party..
Labour MP's on picket lines won't help the current leadership, it will though benefit the more left leaning members waiting to ditch Sir Kier and instal a watered down Corbyn candidate..
Teachers now balloting for inflation plus rises .. one union leader mentioned 21% ??
Fill yer boots time, guess who will pay for all these rises ??
Public sector inflation plus rises will cost 20 to 25 billion pa
He's between a rock and a hard place a lot of hardline lefties are reminding him of the name of the party and how it was founded, the problem is he is trying to move away from Corbyn type politics and become more electable, which will continue to split the labour supporters.
Mick Lynch has I think.
https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1...223Kqh35g&s=19
Yet for around a decade, most low paid workers have never had a rise in line with inflation. Very few who work in the public sector have had rises in line with inflation. They were victims of Osborne and Cameron trying to save the public purse. Millions of people have seen costs rise while their wages haven't matched that for a decade or so. Now inflation is going through the roof while wages don't catch up. FFS, how much longer to working people have to "ride this out"?
How much longer are so many of those directly affected by the Tories prepared to not vote against them or not even vote at all ?
The electorate are stupid
If they shaped up the 35 percent who vote tory and let them run the country would be leathered
It's not helped by starmer and whoever leads the liberals being a waste of time mind but still .....
Well, sorry to bring some facts to the table, but the minimum wage was £6.19 in 2012. It's £9.50 now. Thats an increase of 53%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation..._Wage_Act_1998
We can add a little from the last few months, but Inflation from 2012 to 2021 was 25%.
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/mone...ion-calculator
No one disputes the global financial crisis, then a pandemic then a war in Europe don't impact on things. They do. It's been fkn tough, but the solution isn't to give everyone 10% more money. You may want to support the union on ideological ground but you know that in your heart it isn't the answer for the country as a whole.
The thing is with the Tories is that they still blame Labour for what was a worldwide financial crisis 14 years ago?
But when they are told what about these utter feck ups on your watch .......they blame it on covid or Ukraine
They are a bunch of oily chancers
If murder was legal I would take them all out
Sludge, inflation in Belgium is currently 9%. In Greece it's 11%, in Holland 8.8%. In Spain 8.7%. Germany 8%. In Poland it's 14%. Czech Republic, 16%! Nearly all of these are 40,50 year highs.
https://tradingeconomics.com/country...ntinent=europe
Is it the Tories causing this as well? Quite obviously anyone with half a brain can see it isn't. So if you genuinely care about the issue, it's worth working out whats causing it. If it's just a left-wing circle jerk people are after, then crack on, but you won't solve the problem you profess to care about whilst doing it.
Just blaming the government for inflation rising is like just thanking them when it falls again. It's not like nothing can be done about it, but it's limited what can be achieved, and what has been done (£150 payments, forthcoming £350 payments, increases in personal allowance etc) put money in peoples pockets without changing the headline inflation figure anyway - could be argued it has helped fuel it I guess, but you can't win if thats the case.
For a start, let's not start putting words in my mouth. Not at any stage did I say to give everyone 10%, neither did I offer support for the union. What I did ask was how much longer have working people got to "ride it out". You were rather reluctant to offer an opinion on this.
As for your stats on the minimum wage, good that there has been such an increase, but given that the minimum wage was so low to begin with, it needed to grow quickly. It also brings people into paying income tax, even with the rise in the personal allowance, so give with one hand, take away with the other.
I notice you had no response to public sector workers, nurses, teachers etc who have had their wages virtually frozen for a decade. Do you support them in their struggles against inflation or not?
The crisis the Tories blamed Labour for was a worldwide crisis in the same way this current euro wide inflation hike is a country wide crisis
The Tories are in charge and if and political gain can be made by poking a stick in them , give me a stick
They don't like the boot being on the other foot