While the people of the UK point out that raw sewage is being pumped into our waterways, the UK has the poorest economy of all G7 countries, Brexit is a disaster, supermarket shelves are empty, people can’t pay their energy bills, the NHS is in crisis and everyone is on strike…
… all Rishi Sunak and his gang can say is, “Stop the boats.”
Pathetic. Miserable. Unacceptable.
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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.
Spread the word.
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Rishi Sunak delivered a speech on his plans for the future of the UK – and nobody cared.
He delivered five promises: one was to halve inflation (not hard as it is expected to drop, to improve the economy, to cut the national debt, to cut NHS waiting times, and to stop small boats bringing illegal migrants to the UK.
Journalists took him to task over the Tory government’s failure to do what it said, over whether he would implement any of his five promises this year, over his refusal to negotiate pay with nurses, over what the public could do if he fails to deliver on his promises, over the failure of previous government laws to do what’s needed to combat illegal immigration, and over his failure to resolve the strikes.
His comments about nurses and funding for the NHS are particularly hard to stomach:
If you can be bothered to sit through his speech (and it might be worth having around so we can see if he ever bothers to stick to it), here it is:
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Therese Coffey: is her latest attack on UC claimants an attempt to break forthcoming industrial disputes?
I spotted this on David Hencke’s Westminster Confidential site, which you really should be reading.
Let’s set the scene:
The Department of Work and Pensions is to tighten the rules significantly to force 114,000 existing Universal Credit claimants into work as job vacancies soar across Britain.
She is changing the rules so far more people will have to go on what is known as an intensive work search regime where they will be monitored continually by work coaches on how many jobs they have applied for and why they didn’t get them.
The [Social Security Advisory] committee approved the idea on February 4 but agreed to keep the decision secret until last week when it published the minutes of a meeting between DWP officials and the committee.
To make the change the government is using a regulation to uprate what is known as the Administrative Earnings Threshold – a device which sets the level of benefit and earnings dividing those who only receive ” a light touch” regime – ie occasional checks whether they are seeking work – from their local job centre and those put on intensive work search programmes. Those who refuse or don’t co-operate properly with face benefit cuts as a sanction.
It will move the level from £355 to £494 a month for a single claimant and from £567 to £782 a month for a couple. At present some 250,000 people covered by the intensive work search programme are in work – this will increase the number by 50 percent. The government justify it by saying the new level brings it into line with recent rises in the national minimum wage for those in work.
Some of us already knew the above. I’ve reported it already.
But here’s the really nasty part:
Questioned about the current job vacancies level encouraging this move officials said: “the vacancies position the labour market is considered by some to be hot which could be driving inflation.”
In other words by getting more of the unemployed into work, employers would have a bigger pool of labour and would not have to offer higher wages or even compensate people for the rising cost of living.
There may now be an even more compelling reason as Therese Coffey wants this to be law from September 26, since the government plans to use agency workers to break the coming strike wave. What would suit ministers would be if the unemployed could be drafted in as agency workers leading to confrontation with striking workers on trains, buses, schools, the NHS, and the post office with shouts of ” scab” and bringing the police in to make mass arrests of strikers.
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Theresa May has been accused of a grave abuse of her position, after it was claimed that her national security adviser gave Labour MPs intelligence and security briefings on Syria, on the basis of their support for air strikes.
If the allegation is true, it means that people who were not cleared to receive this information were provided with it – implying a possible breach of the UK’s national security.
The allegation has been made by Scottish Nationalist Party MP Stewart McDonald:
“Intelligence and security briefings on Syria have been used by the Government to manipulate Labour MPs, the Commons has heard.
“The SNP’s Stewart McDonald (Glasgow South) claimed he was informed by several sources that the Government has been “selectively offering” briefings by the Prime Minister’s national security adviser.
“He added they appear to have been offered to Labour MPs who are “sympathetic” to the Government’s position.
“Mr McDonald, raising a point of order in the House of Commons, said: “It’s been brought to my attention by several sources that the Government has been selectively offering intelligence and security briefings by the Prime Minister’s national security adviser on the current situation in Syria and the UK military response to it.
“”These briefings appear to have been offered to members of the Labour opposition not on the basis of privy counsellor status but on the basis of those Opposition members who are sympathetic to the Government’s position.
“”That leads to concerns that the Government is using intelligence briefings to manipulate Parliament and to bolster its own case for its behaviour on the Opposition benches – not on security terms, but on politics.””
Mr McDonald repeated his claim on Twitter:
Several sources have told me that the Prime Minister’s National Security Adviser has given Labour MPs intelligence & security briefings on Syria, not on the basis that they are Privy Councillors – and therefore security cleared – but instead to those who support air strikes. https://t.co/d51QBf9Wea
But Commons Speaker John Bercow merely told the MP that it was for the government to decide with whom it shares intelligence material.
The corruption implicit in the allegation cannot be overlooked, though – especially as it may be placed alongside other recent Tory tactics.
For example:
"If you don't support immediate military intervention you are responsible for any deaths that occur!"
Imagine if this argument applied to inaction on austerity, the refugee crisis, global inequality, lack of access to clean water etc etc.
— Disabled People's Lives Matter 🇵🇸 (@LamentablyAwake) April 17, 2018
Then there’s the response to people like Mr McDonald, who dare to question the narrative:
Hello children, you live in a country which is a world policeman. No one gave the UK this job. The UK took it and it means your country bombs places where it wants to have influence or wants to help the USA have power. If you ask why, some MPs will say you’re helping tyrants.
Such a response is no doubt on its way to former First Sea Lord, Lord West (if it hasn’t reached him already), after he told BBC News he does not believe the claim that Syrian President Bashar al Assad ordered the alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma that triggered Mrs May’s decision to take part in air strikes on alleged (again) chemical weapons installations.
We have already heard that these alleged installations were nothing of the sort, and that the evidence from Douma was of people being treated for dust inhalation rather than a chemical weapons attack. Now this:
⭕ Lord West tells @BBCNews: “It doesn’t ring true [that Assad carried out this chemical attack]. We know that in the past some of the Islamic groups have used chemicals and of course there would be huge benefit for them in labelling an attack as coming from Assad.” #SyriaDebatepic.twitter.com/T08gDkJVSw
He went on to say he would have advised Assad’s opponents to stage a chemical attack – which is very nearly what Russia warned was planned, days before the alleged attack in Douma (although the Russians said a fake attack was to take place):
⭕ Quite literally a bombshell from Lord West on @BBCNews as he admits that he would advise those fighting Assad to stage a chemical attack for strategical purposes: “I would say wait until there’s another attack by Assad’s forces and we must set off some chlorine.” #SyriaDebatepic.twitter.com/RSKkAEJCgE
And he downplayed the validity of the reports from Douma which were used to justify the air strikes:
⭕ Lord West: “The reports that have come from #Douma are from the White Helmets who are not neutral, and the World Health Organisation doctors who are embedded with the groups fighting Assad. They are not neutral.” #SyriaDebatepic.twitter.com/U8puKvRv6C
And there is one more inconsistency – raised via another current news story. That is Theresa May’s utter failure of compassion for human beings of foreign origin (or indeed, UK residents).
The Windrush scandal has shown that Mrs May does not care about the suffering of other human beings; in fact, she does everything she can to cause it.
So I tend to agree with Tom, below:
Given her disgusting track record at the Home Office the idea that Theresa May gives the faintest damn about the suffering of other human beings is ridiculous, which makes her stated justification of the Syria airstrikes (humanitarian concern) completely & utterly unbelievable.
If you agree as well, then it seems Mrs May has been trying to deceive the citizens of the United Kingdom with a fraud so huge that, if proved, she should be taken out of Parliament and thrown in the deepest, darkest prison cell we have – permanently.
So let’s get on with proving it.
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