dead_soft
Player Valuation: £35m
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neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
its fine as an aspiration, but regular people are going to think this is crackers
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Why?
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
sigh...go and talk to people!
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
Ok I actually do 'talk to people" as you put it, don't be so patronising, why do you think it's not achievable?
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
it is, but again its how its going to be perceived...its going to come across as unsustainable and radical, which will put off floating/centreist voters
what new voters is this goign to attract, that wouldnt normally vote labour?!!?
Having the weekend off was seen as radical and was fought for by unions, government, businesses and Labour parties
The 4 day week will be no different, will be hard fought for and people initially see it as crazy but its inevitable, automation will only accelerate it
The 4 day week will be no different, will be hard fought for and people initially see it as crazy but its inevitable, automation will only accelerate it
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
i agree, but dont have it as a policy at this time
absolutely zero political nous
Blues Harp
Player Valuation: £60m
If it is properly promoted and costed why wouldn't any person welcome a proposal which actively advocates a work/life balance? Or does the "floating/centrist voter" as you put it think we are not working enough hours? With respect, things like this are what we should be trying to achieve, rather than adhere to the work until you drop culture we still have in a lot of people.
Like when Corbyn mentioned having bank holidays for the Saints day and gammon commenting underneath ''lol nice try buying votes with free stuffs''
Mate.. literally trying to give you extra days off for more leisure time and to spend time with your family or hobby (and we currently have joint lowest amount of bank holidays in Europe, 6 less a year than Spain)
If you dont want the day off then dont, and if you're in retail and have to work it, other EU countries manage having double the number we have
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Freebies are only allowed if they come in the form of tax cuts to big businesses and high wealth individuals.
I'd love to work less and be paid more.
peteblue
Welcome back Wayne
If companies and the country can afford it why not. However the same people demanding this will be the same people who will resist the efficiencies required to pay for it. AI is coming, robotics will dominate and we have to start thinking about how the world will look in the near future. Trusting our politicians with this is another matter....
Black Belt Jones
Player Valuation: £25m
That number is true, but covers a lot of tiny religious schools - it's 75% of schools represented by the Independent Schools Council which is what we'd normally think of as a private school educating a body of pupils, where you'd have reasonable expectations of social responsibility in line with charitable status.
There is zero risk in removing this status, on the contrary it is votes in the bank. The private school sector has been on the take for years in this department (in aggregate, there are some impressive exceptions), trousering tax relief on new playing fields whilst failing to widen access to bright kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. UK voters of any stripe dislike this sort of brazen chiselling of the system, and you can times that by ten when it comes to kid's education so no idea why you'd see that as a high risk strategy. Just need to shine some sunlight onto it.
We're not talking about all the money in the world here, but it's a critical reality check and a step towards tackling inequality - hard to get progress on this fundamental issue when we've got all these private schools hanging off our teats.
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