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Re: Labour, generally.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 3:25 pm
by davidjay
The council can't afford the Unite proposals so it has to do something. Hiring agency staff isn't a good look but we're going along the lines of "A Labour council... A LABOUR council..." from the union here.
Re: Labour, generally.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:35 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Unite join the BMA and seemingly every other interest group in the old "Why don't the Government just pay what we want now?" group.
Somebody should put all these groups together and they can add it all up, and work out how much extra tax they want to pay.
Re: Labour, generally.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:58 pm
by davidjay
Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sun Jul 13, 2025 6:35 pm
Unite join the BMA and seemingly every other interest group in the old "Why don't the Government just pay what we want now?" group.
Somebody should put all these groups together and they can add it all up, and work out how much extra tax they want to pay.
Everyone wants more, whether it's wages or services. The only thing they don't want more of is taxation.
Re: Labour, generally.
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:13 pm
by Tubby Isaacs
Well, we'll get a test soon enough. I would think that petrol duty is going to rise, as one of the few things that's substantial and hasn't been ruled out by the Government. I'm expecting the same cross party outrage that we got when Employers' NI went up by 1.2 percentage points.