Current Affairs The next Tory (strong and stable) leader is Boris Johnson

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Bruce Wayne said:
I'm heading out to meet the missus from work so apologies for only addressing one point, but lumping all of the various forms of 'gig' work into one homogeneous blob is hardly very helpful, as it really isn't. For instance, it's well researched that many Uber drivers find the work very enjoyable, despite Uber as a company being generally rubbish, and the flexible working style suits them. If people have families etc. then it's less so, but that's no different to being a bog standard cabbie, which has similarly uncertain income and a similar lack of welfare support. There's a reason why taxi drivers often take sickness insurance, because the government don't provide any more help to them (or other freelance workers) than they do to Uber drivers.

There is a lot (ok, a bit) of work being done by people like the RSA to guide policy that better reflects these ways of working as the social model as it stands was born in an industrial age that is not really relevant any more, but whilst the Tories have been preoccupied with Brexit and done very little, I'm not sure Labour would have done much more, as their main policy seems to be the wholly unrealistic one of 'banning' gig work. As me and many in my line of work are essentially gig workers, it's one for the headlines rather than implementation, which sadly is something that appears to fit a lot of Corbyn's policies.
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I'd have no problem whatsoever with gig work if it was done at the request of / with the genuine consent of the worker, but that isn't the case with millions of people in the UK for whom that is the only work they can get.

Also with regards to the emboldened bit, that is sort of what I was on about - we are told that these ways of working are new, that they are modern, that the old ways are not really relevant any more. They are not new - at the bottom of the labour market its largely the same type of day labour that was the lot of millions of people in the last century, with the same lack of workplace rights and protections, and like then there is no acknowledgement from the state that those who work like that will never be stable enough (whilst they are in that sort of work) do things that society expects them to do - buy a home, get a pension etc.
 
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She really does my head in sometimes. That was actually from 2013 (so four years before Grenfell, not "Grenfell wasn't long after"), and Grenfell didn't happen as a direct result of what happened in that exchange, which was to do with fire cover and the closure of fire stations. People will find that out and think, because the two points she makes are misleading, that she is talking rubbish.

Of course Boris is actually to blame because of the knock-on impact of the cuts (which made the LFB reduce its fire safety visits, so they didn't know about the changes to Grenfell which turned it into a giant candle), as well as the failure to do anything at all after the Lakanal disaster (which actually happened on his watch), and of course the fact so many stations (police and LFB) were sold off for peanuts - but there isn't a snappy 30 second clip she can post of any of that, so the point isn't made.
 
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Joey66 said:
There are many reasons why I will not vote in the next GE - For yn is the main reason or any Labour MP close to him......and his views ok so I am partyless.......atm
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Yet you won’t enlighten us as to what those reasons may be....you’re a very odd man indeed. For somebody who has such a hatred for Corbyn you’d think you’d know why.
 
Hahahahahahaha......Hammond suggesting he would resign as Chancellor if Boris became PM.......this shows just out of touch these guys are....you will be sacked Philip...you are toast and will not be missed....
 
peteblue said:
Hahahahahahaha......Hammond suggesting he would resign as Chancellor if Boris became PM.......this shows just out of touch these guys are....you will be sacked Philip...you are toast and will not be missed....
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He didn't even go to a private school, went to Oxford on a scholarship and made his own money in business rather than inheriting it! What an out of touch clown.
 
tsubaki said:
He didn't even go to a private school, went to Oxford on a scholarship and made his own money in business rather than inheriting it! What an out of touch clown.
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If May had sacked him, she would still be PM, and in her nightly thoughts she will know this.......
 
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