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Strikes: Thornberry misses Independent Pay Review Body open goal

Shadow Attorney-General Emily Thornberry missed a perfect opportunity to embarrass the Tory government over strikes when she was interviewed by Sky‘s Kay Burley.

Asked to comment on the government’s claim to have adhered to recommendations by the so-called Independent Pay Review Body, she agreed that it was an independent organisation.

It isn’t.

Here’s Maximilien Robespierre:

Only six days ago, This Site published an article highlighting that Health Secretary Steve Barclay has instructed the so-called Independent Pay Review Body to recommend a below-inflation pay rise of only two per cent for nurses in the next financial year.

He said the NHS budget has already been set until 2024/25.

The Pay Review Body is not independent. Its members are all government-appointed and the terms under which it operates were all set by the government. That’s the Conservative government.

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IEA think tank representative humiliated on live television

The far-right Institute of Economic Affairs think tank has been accused of influencing successive Conservative governments – most particularly the disastrous short-lived administration of Liz Truss.

It is therefore welcome that IEA representative Emily Carver was absolutely destroyed by Labour’s Angela Eagle on the BBC’s Politics Live on Wednesday, November 2.

I actually saw this when it was broadcast and made a mental note to write something about it – but Maximilien Robespierre has beaten me to it and said what I would have, if I’d had the chance.

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Shrewsbury Tory Kawczynski is like the tell-tale at school – flings accusations around then runs like fun

Daniel Kawczynski: apparently he’s scared of being bullied by anyone. How did he get to be an MP?

What a strange creature Daniel Kawczynski is.

It seems he has refused a chance to appear on the BBC’s Newsnight because he is afraid that presenter Emily Maitlis will bully him.

Notice that Liam (above) points out that Kawczynski can’t recognise a bully when he’s working with one; Priti Patel was found to be a bully by a Cabinet Office inquiry but this is what he had to say about her when the allegations were made, in March:

It gets worse. After running away from Maitlis, cowardly Kawczynsi ran away from his own public – first by switching off replies to his tweet, so he wouldn’t have to field criticism, and then by deleting the tweet altogether:

Fat lot of good it did him. Look how many times it has been reproduced in this article alone!

Finally, it seems Kawczynski is an old hand when it comes to accusations against Newsnight:

It seems he only considered taking action, mind.

Kawczynski’s grudge against Newsnight and Maitlis goes back a long way – look it up with your favourite search engine.

He really does seem to have an axe to grind…

And absolutely no sense of judgement about where to swing it.

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Coronavirus: Maitlis praised for pointing out nobody is saved by fortitude and character

Speech: Emily Maitlis laid out some facts about the coronavirus that made laid bare the falseness of Tory rhetoric.

This is an extraordinary speech:

It’s a spot-on speech; the coronavirus doesn’t affect us all equally.

She accurately states that: “Bus drivers and shelf-stackers, nurses, care home workers, hospital staff and shopkeepers are disproportionately the lower-paid members of our workforce.

“They are more likely to catch the disease because they are more exposed.”

When was the last time you heard of a member of the so-called “one per cent” – society’s highest earners – falling victim to coronavirus? If they did, it was probably due to Boris Johnson-style stupidity.

The speech flags up a new attitude in the BBC.

Maitlis, and her editors, are showing more criticism of the Tory government than they have in the last, what, 10 years?

Those of us who bother to watch the daily briefings have even seen it in Laura Kuennsberg’s questions to whichever Tory minister is standing in for Johnson at the time.

The decision to highlight the fact that poor people are disproportionately likely to suffer, because of the way our society is currently ordered, is extremely important – if media organisations like the BBC follow through on it.

Public opinion is hugely influenced by the media – and public opinion is what shapes our society.

Source: Emily Maitlis praised as she slams ‘misleading’ language used amid coronavirus crisis | London Evening Standard

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