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[Aberblue]

If only.
Labour to get its act together? Too much in fighting.
what is needed is a broad anti tory group to organise tactical voting.
when cons are removed it's time to
Change the FPTP voting system to something more representative.

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[summerisle]

scumbag move regardless of how effective it would be

If you were ever in doubt how duplicitous the Con party is, here's the answer.

 

[Tin-Tin]

There is a reason it was a criminal offence, incompetent fcuktards!!

 

[peteblue]

If people do not want to work, or strike, then fair enough replace them.. Replacing people who want to work with someone cheaper is not on.…..

 

[mahermi1]

If people do not want to work, or strike, then fair enough replace them.. Replacing people who want to work with someone cheaper is not on.…..

Everyone has a right to strike, when all negotiations have failed, especially with the cost of living crisis, energy and petrol bills soaring, food bills rising seemingly each week. As you know full well, it's not that people don't want to work, it's because people want to live. A scab is a scab, we now have a scab government.

 

[peteblue]

Everyone has a right to strike, when all negotiations have failed, especially with the cost of living crisis, energy and petrol bills soaring, food bills rising seemingly each week. As you know full well, it's not that people don't want to work, it's because people want to live. A scab is a scab, we now have a scab government.

Indeed, everyone has the right to look for a different well paid job. If they believe they will be paid better then go for it. No one has the right to demand a certain pay check because they can control the operational aspects of a company. If you are worth it, go and get it. However, if you are not, then get on with the job ……

 

[mahermi1]

Indeed, everyone has the right to look for a different well paid job. If they believe they will be paid better then go for it. No one has the right to demand a certain pay check because they can control the operational aspects of a company. If you are worth it, go and get it. However, if you are not, then get on with the job ……

I happen to think everyone is worth it, unlike you it seems, never mind we can both enjoy Boris's demise and the demise of an out of touch government with outdated ideas above their station....Like you..
Oh and Hasta is vista...baby..

 

[Armchair Blue]

Mate I 100% agree with you, but do you think Labour will reverse this law, I for one don’t think there’s a chance in hell they will, loved to be proven wrong.

I doubt they will,wouldn't put it past Starmer to come out in support of it.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Some nice pieces on this this week. It's illustrative how while the Tories, and Johnson in particular, have been happy to ride the coat tails of the life sciences brilliance in the UK during the pandemic, they've been abject in actually supporting a sector that we do actually lead the world in (you could make similar claims for finance and higher education, both of which have also been popular targets for Tory culture warring). It's utterly abject.

The Tory leadership race and Britain’s growth challenge

The life-sciences industry shows what embracing growth requires

www.economist.com

 

[Jebus_lives]

scumbag move regardless of how effective it would be

Wonder where they're finding 'highly skilled people' to do the jobs of those striking because their skills is not fully appreciated.

 

[grandjoeblue]

Wonder where they're finding 'highly skilled people' to do the jobs of those striking because their skills is not fully appreciated.

They simply won't.

More bluster and nonsense trying to appeal to the gammon brexiteer voting base.

I seen a poll yesterday that had small boat channel crossings as their voters second highest priority. The tories are now a UKIP clone.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Wonder where they're finding 'highly skilled people' to do the jobs of those striking because their skills is not fully appreciated.

This is the thing isn't it? They regularly tout the low unemployment rate, and it is very low, but it's very low in many countries. For instance, Germany and the Netherlands have practically identical unemployment rates to here, and places like Poland, CZ, and Japan are even lower.

The problem is one of an enormous skills shortage. Now we're also in a demographic crunch at the moment with large numbers of boomers going into retirement and fewer numbers of millennials replacing them, so unless that picture changes significantly, either by raising the retirement age/encouraging older people to work for longer or increasing the birth rate (which obviously won't have an impact for some time), the only option is increasing immigration, which is something the government has backed itself into a corner about.

So we're likely to scrabble along in low productivity mode for a generation unless something noticeably changes. As a point of reference, there are currently around 1.3 million unfilled vacancies in the UK.

 

[Jebus_lives]

This is the thing isn't it? They regularly tout the low unemployment rate, and it is very low, but it's very low in many countries. For instance, Germany and the Netherlands have practically identical unemployment rates to here, and places like Poland, CZ, and Japan are even lower.

The problem is one of an enormous skills shortage. Now we're also in a demographic crunch at the moment with large numbers of boomers going into retirement and fewer numbers of millennials replacing them, so unless that picture changes significantly, either by raising the retirement age/encouraging older people to work for longer or increasing the birth rate (which obviously won't have an impact for some time), the only option is increasing immigration, which is something the government has backed itself into a corner about.

So we're likely to scrabble along in low productivity mode for a generation unless something noticeably changes. As a point of reference, there are currently around 1.3 million unfilled vacancies in the UK.

Plenty of vacancies in "hero" jobs...nursing, social care, fire fighters, police etc

NHS had around 95000 vacancies last year.

 

[Haydn]

Now we're also in a demographic crunch at the moment with large numbers of boomers going into retirement and fewer numbers of millennials replacing them, so unless that picture changes significantly, either by raising the retirement age/encouraging older people to work for longer or increasing the birth rate (which obviously won't have an impact for some time), the only option is increasing immigration, which is something the government has backed itself into a corner about.

To compound the demographic impact, with fewer millennials available to replace retirees, there is a shortfall in funding for their pensions.

Conclusion
If the next generation is smaller in number than the current generation, the current generation has to:
accept a cut in its real pensions or
contribute more whilst in work or
increase productivity,
work longer and retire later, or
accept more immigration

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www.actuaries.org.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

To compound the demographic impact, with fewer millennials available to replace retirees, there is a shortfall in funding for their pensions.

Conclusion
If the next generation is smaller in number than the current generation, the current generation has to:
accept a cut in its real pensions or
contribute more whilst in work or
increase productivity,
work longer and retire later, or
accept more immigration

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www.actuaries.org.uk

Indeed. I was reading a book (like an entire book) on the subject before I got Covid and while it was solely looking at the US, they have built up a bit of a reserve to help them when income from taxes doesn't cover pension payments, but unless things change (ie higher taxes, later retirement, lower pension payments etc.) then that fund will be gone in around 10-15 years. As is common I suspect everywhere, politicians much prefer to kick this can down the road to the next lot until the wolf is at the door and then scrabble together a last minute fix.

I'm not sure what the situation is like here, but that deck you shared doesn't make it sound like we even have a fund built up and are relying solely on taxpayers, which perhaps explains why the share of government expenditure taken up by pensions has been rising steadily over the past few decades.