Making the news today....

[difflock]

Jacob Rees Mogg's is my kinda Politican, fiercely intelligent, well educated and informed, a good communicator, funny bytimes and reasonably self-depreceating.

He is also proudly British/English, with no time for petulent scheming Eurocrat wannabe overlords.

Unlike many feminist and labour upstart brainless nobodies, or indeed that wee git Bercow.

mth

Edited July 16, 2017 by difflock

[eggsarascal]

Rees-mogg is one of 'the people', his first tweet on twitter was in Latin.

 

Proper down with the working class.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I certainly did. What's been reported is what he said in a cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Not what he wants the likes of me and you believe.

 

And there's me bumbling along still wondering why the Tories are allowing Labour to continue to capitalise upon the wide open goal of the supposed 1% Public sector pay rise cap without debunking it as an agenda championed, complete and utter FAKE NEWS item.

 

Here's the thing.... Back in 2010, when the heinous Tories rolled out the "austerity" program, I was still in the Public sector and took, obviously, a keen interest in the 'so called' 1% PA pay cap implementation.

 

Whilst widely reported, and generally accepted (apart from the more radical Public sector unions) as a perhaps harsh, but understandably necessary 'tightening of the belt', and notwithstanding our more recent reflection upon the success or otherwise of the 'austerity concept,' the truth of a 1% pay rise cap for the past 7 years is actually entirely inaccurate because it fails to recognise annual incremental increases which actually, on the whole, make the actual % rise PA significantly higher - certainly higher than most in the private sector. It baffles me why this has not been adequately explained.

 

Juxtapose this with, the non contributory pensions, the absence of any realistic prospect of losing ones job and of course, the particularly generous terms and conditions of service - such that second jobs may be undertaken in mandatory 'rest' periods - I'm thinking particularly of Fire service personal, and still wonder how many of the medical staff trained and employed by the NHS are doubling up as agency staff.....

 

And there we start to expose the true, broader, actual situation....

 

Apol's if a bit disjointed / rambling, watching Poldark!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Jacob Rees Mogg's is my kinda Politican, fiercely intelligent, well educated and informed, a good communicator, funny bytimes and reasonably self-depreceating.

He is also proudly British/English, with no time for petulent scheming Eurocrat wannabe overlords.

Unlike many feminist and labour upstart brainless nobodies, or indeed that wee git Bercow.

mth

 

Without a doubt...

 

+1

[Mull]

And there's me bumbling along still wondering why the Tories are allowing Labour to continue to capitalise upon the wide open goal of the supposed 1% Public sector pay rise cap without debunking it as an agenda championed, complete and utter FAKE NEWS item.

 

 

 

Here's the thing.... Back in 2010, when the heinous Tories rolled out the "austerity" program, I was still in the Public sector and took, obviously, a keen interest in the 'so called' 1% PA pay cap implementation.

 

 

 

Whilst widely reported, and generally accepted (apart from the more radical Public sector unions) as a perhaps harsh, but understandably necessary 'tightening of the belt', and notwithstanding our more recent reflection upon the success or otherwise of the 'austerity concept,' the truth of a 1% pay rise cap for the past 7 years is actually entirely inaccurate because it fails to recognise annual incremental increases which actually, on the whole, make the actual % rise PA significantly higher - certainly higher than most in the private sector. It baffles me why this has not been adequately explained.

 

 

 

Juxtapose this with, the non contributory pensions, the absence of any realistic prospect of losing ones job and of course, the particularly generous terms and conditions of service - such that second jobs may be undertaken in mandatory 'rest' periods - I'm thinking particularly of Fire service personal, and still wonder how many of the medical staff trained and employed by the NHS are doubling up as agency staff.....

 

 

 

And there we start to expose the true, broader, actual situation....

 

 

 

Apol's if a bit disjointed / rambling, watching Poldark!

 

 

Quite so Kevin, I too, find Poldark a bit rambling and disjointed.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Quite so Kevin, I too, find Poldark a bit rambling and disjointed.

 

 

Regional TV, bit of a lottery!!

 

 

 

[Mull]

 

 

 

Regional TV, bit of a lottery!!

 

 

Don't venture up that end of the island much, don't like city life!

[difflock]

As an ex lifetime local Government supervisor=lower middle management.

Kevin is absolutly correct in his statement, except for the limited annual increments within the fixed pay scales, unless more "caring" employers finagled a bonus scheme.

The unfortunate crux is the virtual unsackability of poor or untrainable employees, who taint all those around them.

And the box ticking culture that promotes the *wrong types to senior levels.

So, classically we end up with the proven Soviet model;

 

"You pretend to work, and we will pretend to pay you"

 

*wrong meaning those who "fit in" ,keep their paperwork trails correct, always spend all their budget, and never admit to getting it wrong, however dysfunctional & unproductive their organisation clearly is.

proper "Battleship Ptomkin" stuff.

mth

[TIMON]

Jacob Rees Mogg's is my kinda Politican, fiercely intelligent, well educated and informed, a good communicator, funny bytimes and reasonably self-depreceating.

He is also proudly British/English, with no time for petulent scheming Eurocrat wannabe overlords.

Unlike many feminist and labour upstart brainless nobodies, or indeed that wee git Bercow.

mth

 

 

Yep.,,, [emoji106][emoji106]

 

 

Timon.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

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