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Under the old rules bad employers would get rid of people 23 months in.
Which certain industries were notorious for. 2 years and then you can reapply after enough months to make it not appear a continuous contract.
Something which is overlooked by many eg "companies becoming more risk adverse and as a result creating overly restrictive and time consuming recruitment processes that make it harder for the job applicant." is what about employees being more risk adverse and deciding not to job hunt.
Why should I risk switching jobs when I dont have any protection against my new manager getting annoyed about a cyclist not diving under a bus to let their ****mobile through and so deciding to dislike me?
Plot twist
https://twitter.com/FindoutnowUK/status/1996572051478282392?t=RzSDkL86piKq_TF7GJiESQ&s=19
I can't stop laughing at this one. For all manner of reasons.
https://twitter.com/RealAlbanianPat/status/1996608340487549071?t=58SsPlME6vuX0TckYTAz_Q&s=19
I won’t be “laughing” when my friends and family are deported and the rich get their “hard earned” tax breaks, but hey.
Is it too late to make up the “save the NHS badges”, or have the Brexit people already neutered that message with their erroneous use of it?
I can't stop laughing at this one. For all manner of reasons.
Well the funniest thing about it is I guess that they calculated a seat projection by using the findings of that particular poll and applied it across the board. The idea that Labour would be down to just 3 MPs is so ridiculous that is neither worth suggesting nor funny.
There is obviously a reason why a great deal of time and money is spent on MRP polls, ie to come with realistic figures not daft ones.
I do think that the poll which was used in this ridiculous modelling exercise is worthwhile though. I suspect that it probably gives a very realistic insight into how Labour support has at least halved in the last 18 months.
It is certainly in line with all the other countless polls that have been released recently
Well humour is a personal thing and ridiculous is funny to me.
I did enjoy the idea of selecting the 3 Labour MPs that might survive.
I won’t be “laughing” when my friends and family are deported and the rich get their “hard earned” tax breaks, but hey.
If you want to take it to that particular level instead of just giggling about a silly poll - plenty of people in my life have already been ****ed over by Labour and that's reality.
I'm currently also not laughing at Wes Streeting do his level best to drag the BMA through the dirt and take apart the idea of what constitutes a mental illness. I'm not currently laughing at the way Reeves can't put together a progessive budget that makes real inroads into building a successful society. I'm not currently laughing at how there's been zero economic development in local areas. I'm not currently laughing (since day one) Starmer has done very little other than ape Reform's approach to cultural devision.
They were the party that were supposed to make it good for us. They have the power to not do all these shockingly bad things and had the power to destroy the likes of Reform either through fixing our lives or changing FPTP.
So if they look decimated in a stupid poll - good. It's on them. (But it's also absurd too.)
(Kelvin - the rich are, and have done very well under Labour when you look at interest rate income and asset performance. Mansion tax, vat on schools and farming land tax is all paltry.)
It is certainly in line with all the other countless polls that have been released recently
The actual poll was possibly interesting because is there move now for the Tories coming back in the frame?
Reform could have peaked, and Farage is looking pretty rough at the moment with his Nazi playbook. There are definitely some voters that won't like that.
The Reform curious will be put off by tales of his Nazi past but the 'real' Reform people will be happy with it as there are as racist as he is. I can see tory support going back up by next election as those Reform curious people will go back to safe tory vote along with some people who gave Labour a go and will have forgotten why in 3 years time.
The actual poll was possibly interesting because is there move now for the Tories coming back in the frame?
20% for the Tories is actually in line with what other opinion polls have been saying for a while and only 4% less than they got in last year's general election. Obviously it historically bad though.
Reform according to all the opinion polls appear to have doubled their support since the GE whilst Labour's support has halved, and that's from a very low starting point. Support for the LibDems has barely changed since the GE and is still about half of what it was 15 years ago.
What is generally understated is the huge growth in support for the Greens, alongside increased support for Reform. The Greens appear to have possibly trebled their support since the last GE, and in the last GE the Greens actually double their support compared to the previous one.
In a general election six years ago the Greens polled less than 3% today opinion polls are suggesting that their support has grown at least five times that amount.
It is clear that the three main establishment parties, the Tories, Labour, and the LibDems, are doing very badly whilst what were once considered fringe parties, Reform and the Greens, are doing very well.
Which is very bad news for the centrists/moderates and suggests that the electorate are deeply unhappy with the status quo.
It is clear that the three main establishment parties, the Tories, Labour, and the LibDems, are doing very badly whilst what were once considered fringe parties, Reform and the Greens, are doing very well
For sure but I don't think the Tories are as finished as perhaps some think.
If you look at the poll of polls Reform (average of 31% back in sept to 27% now) average quite clearly plateaued and taking a small tick down. Whilst Tory polling has plateaued at the bottom this indicates to me they will take some Reform votes back shortly.
My feeling - although migration debates are not going anywhere - it's possible that the debate has exhausted mainstream arguments currently and perhaps people are feeling the pinch in real terms through the state of the economy.
General trends sure - Reform miles out.
What I'm more concerned about is how the green battle carries on. Based on ZP's performance on QT last night he can definitely get a difficult crowd on his side.
I'm going to a local green meeting about economics next week. See how that goes.
(Our Reform county council has just spent 75,000 on putting the union flags up. As much as I'm sick of seeing scruffy race baiting flags - I think the idea of putting a quality flag up with proper rigging looks infinitely better than all the scruffy home made cheap slave-labour flags that are ramshackle around the county. It also might calm the natives down. That said 75,000 would be better spent for sure.)
The Reform curious will be put off by tales of his Nazi past but the 'real' Reform people will be happy with it as there are as racist as he is
There's a definite line you don't cross as a silver-haired camper van owner...
The Reform curious will be put off by tales of his Nazi past
Are there many people who haven't already made their mind up abur Farage one way or t'other? Is anyone really going to be swayed by the reporting?
The Reform curious will be put off by tales of his Nazi past
So many people seem willing to overlook this as "he was just a kid". Frustrating. I knew as a a child that Nazis were A Bad Thing, and considering that Farage was at school when the Nazi war crimes should still have been fresh in people's memory it makes it worse.
Is anyone really going to be swayed by the reporting?
I don't think so and worse than that I reckon it is highly likely to counterproductive as voters will, quite rightly, see digging up what Nigel Farage said as a 13 year old kid rather than what he is saying right now as an act of desperation on the part of Labour.
What Nigel Farage was saying when he was a kid is even less relevant than what Sir Keir Starmer was saying 6 years ago when he was a Corbynite socialist making the "moral case for socialism" during the Labour leadership elections.
I don't think so and worse than that I reckon it is highly likely to counterproductive as voters will, quite rightly, see digging up what Nigel Farage said as a 13 year old kid rather than what he is saying right now as an act of desperation on the part of Labour
Yeah I've got the other eye on that too.
When someone is as popular as Farage - his supporters are probably going to double-down.
Nigel Farage the person has never been popular voters which is why it took him no less than 8 attempts before he finally managed to get himself a Westminster seat.
Even now, despite Reform doing extraordinarily well, Nigel Farage is only slightly more popular with voters than Sir Keir Starmer who himself is massively unpopular.
New data from Ipsos in the UK’s Political Pulse survey, taken October 10-13, reveals that for the first time in our Ipsos Political Pulse polling series, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has a slight lead over Keir Starmer when Britons are asked their preferred choice for Prime Minister.
Most voters seem perfectly aware that Nigel Farage is a ****, which is another reason why digging up what he is alleged to have said as a gobby 13 year old is pointless imo
Nazi war crimes should still have been fresh in people's memory it makes it worse.
He's not that old! Farage was born in 1964, left school in 1982ish, he's the same age as Keanu Reeves...
Even now, despite Reform doing extraordinarily well, Nigel Farage is only slightly more popular with voters than Sir Keir Starmer who himself is massively unpopular
And yet here he is causing massive discourse in British politics.
The difference with Starmer and Farage is Labour are doing extremely badly and Reform aren't at least in polling.
In my mind Reform is Nigel Farage. So I don't know, but that doesn't totally stack up.
Even now, despite Reform doing extraordinarily well, Nigel Farage is only slightly more popular with voters than Sir Keir Starmer who himself is massively unpopular
And yet here he is causing massive discourse in British politics.
The difference with Starmer and Farage is Labour are doing extremely badly and Reform aren't at least in polling.
In my mind Reform is Nigel Farage. So I don't know, but that doesn't totally stack up.
Personally likability and electoral support do not always tally. Margaret Thatcher is an example of that.
Yes many people see Reform as Nigel Farage, and to be fair that is exactly what it is, it is a one-man show. But that doesn't necessarily mean the sudden surge in support for Reform is because voters have suddenly and inexplicably decided that now they like Nigel Farage.
It is because voters have suddenly, and for very good reasons, decided that they don't like the Tories and Labour.
Nigel Farage is only popular with voters when he is compared to Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch, and then by only a very small amount.
If you use Sir Keir Starmer as a gauge of popularity with voters then even Jeremy Corbyn doesn't do too badly !
It is because voters have suddenly, and for very good reasons, decided that they don't like the Tories and Labour.
Which is very true. It's how we got here. People rejecting things.
You think Labour might spot this somewhere.
AN influential Labour think tank which ran Keir Starmer's leadership campaign is reportedly canvassing party members on candidates to replace him.
Another day another betrayal from Sir Keir Starmer. Or is it just a case of Starmer living rent free inside the Guardian's editorial writers heads?
In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer called the unelected House of Lords “indefensible”. This week, barely 18 months into his prime ministership, Sir Keir took the total of unelected peers he has appointed since July
At the last election, Labour presented itself to the voters as a party of Lords reform.
The House of Lords, the manifesto flatly declared, was “too big”.
The result is that the upper house, which Labour once deemed too big, is getting even bigger.
After the Blair-era reforms, Lords membership stood at 666. Today, the figure is 850, with this week’s new appointees waiting in the wings
Nigel Farage will be pleased that despite his 172 seat majority Sir Keir Starmer leaves the House of Lords intact for him to stuff with his unelected goons. Well done Starmer 👏
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyp7v7r28yo
Not unexpected if you understand how they're trying to operate the economy. That is back to front.
Taxation removes money from the economy and isn't given to anyone.
Ther will always be an excuse/reason but it's not accurate which is why it keeps going in the wrong direction.
(Not against taxation just get the sequence right and have a big plan to invest if you want growth.)
Such a predictable mess. Neoliberal to the core.
Also I'm really pleased Tories like Wes Streeting have used what has been learnt from the pandemic about flu - preparedness, and running the NHS by making sure the flu jab is available to all for free.
Well done.
But alternatively you could blame the BMA (Juvenile delinquents apparently) and Doctors of bringing the NHS to the knees.
Wes Streeting (a bit of a charlaton with his figures) fully in synch with the Daily Express. He's claiming that's all the country can afford.
Liar.
At least it gives Reeves a break.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1999024803169161343
https://twitter.com/i/status/1995860844215992687
Asking for the strike to be delayed ‘till after the flu spike seems sound to me, however you look at it.
As for whether they should be striking at all this winter: another round of pay restoration pay rises is needed; expecting them to happen to soon after the last round of large pay rises is a big ask. As for increasing positions and recruitment, the union is right to push hard for this. The threat of strikes could well be needed to try and win concessions. On the other hand a background of yearly strikes might not be the best way to ensure the NHS continues long term though. The public need to be kept on side when the near future could include some genuine crisis/inflection events for the NHS politically.
Taxation isn't removed from the economy, rone. It's recycled. Part of it goes to pay interest on the gilts which are held by your pension fund, the BOE and foreign investors. Part of it goes to provide services, then there's the army. Tax won't slow the economy if spent wisely. Tax can be used to reduce withdrawals if the money would otherwise go to withdrawals - for example taxing the richest who withdraw the most..
Asking for the strike to be delayed ‘till after the flu spike seems sound to me, however you look at it.
Maybe Streeting and labour could have actually got off their arses and resolved the situation before the flu spike hit, but it is easier for right wing politicians to blame the workforce than actually fix problems, and it is a "media technique" that right wing voters buy every time.
resolved the situation
The union has taken too hard a line this year, in my opinion. Their requests reasonable, the timing not (ie straight after a big step towards restoring pay levels with a big pay rise). The attempts to find a compromise have failed a few times. Yet again today. The vote is for the strike to go ahead. By all means consider this all the fault of the current government if you want to. I don't think it's that simple.
Asking for the strike to be delayed ‘till after the flu spike seems sound to me, however you look at it.
Maybe Streeting and labour could have actually got off their arses and resolved the situation before the flu spike hit, but it is easier for right wing politicians to blame the workforce than actually fix problems, and it is a "media technique" that right wing voters buy every time.
Exactly this. It's been totally within the government's powers to resolve it.
Test: if this had been a Tory government then people would have had no problem with push back against Thatcherite nonsense.
Don't give Labour an excuse to ruin absolutely everything.
Wes Streeting is a disgraceful scam artist that swallowed a Thatcherite narrative.
Jesus TF Christ, I am so tired of this government already.
The problem of young kids receiving, sending, and being pictured in indecent images is going to be reduced... how? Why shouldn't the tech giants have a responsibility there?
What a surprising and nuanced response.
We don't have a nuanced government making nuanced decisions. We have a government fixated on wrecking the country in exactly the same way that has gone before. Maybe you could aim your comments at the Labour party instead of us that want things to be so much better.
To many times Centrists have tried to pretend there's a 'reasonable' position on everything whilst Labour literally just keep the Tory line going. It doesn't know how to push back against the right - because it is the right.
You know it's quite possible there's no fence walking to be had and we just have a continual decay of progressive values.
Because that's what your beloved Centrism is doing. As I've pointed out time after time - Centrism delivers for the right not good public outcomes.
Kelvin - I can also remember all your early cheerleading for this government - where you kept saying the good stuff will come etc.
It never did. It got way worse.
That's why there's no nuance to be had.
Wes Streeting, the UK Health Secretary, recently accused the British Medical Association (BMA) of an "outbreak of juvenile delinquency"
"nuance..."
The problem of young kids receiving, sending, and being pictured in indecent images is going to be reduced... how? Why shouldn't the tech giants have a responsibility there?
I'm not even going to go into the area of state overreach into parental responsibilities.
This is far more intrusive than the monitoring that even China and Russia have.
Major issues off the top of my head:
1. scope creep. Once it's on there it can/will be used to monitor/automatically report other things, e.g. read books the state finds problematic, etc
2. false positives. Blocking access to legit non porn content. Reporting people for crimes they have not committed, given the subject matter this would cause massive reputational damage.
3. forcing people to submit id or biometric data to unknown people with unknown security policies, if this leaks it leaves people wide open to identity theft.
4. drive real criminals to use non-law-compliant devices/software (which already exist, are readily available and are essentially uncrackable - e.g. Graphene- this makes the polices job harder)
5. it provides a new attack vector for malware with extremely high value. Blackmail risk.
6. checksumming and verifying content will waste battery and bandwidth. What happens if the device is offline? Block everything just in case? Allow everything just in case?
You’re ignoring the “can be turned off by adults” part of the request.
Teachers again to be tasked with fixing broken society....but don't worry a whopping £20 million is going to be used to train all 600 000 of us to stop mysogny. ...first lesson, spelling it ... misogyny misogyny misogyny...good saved .gov some cash already
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9qednjzwv1o
Again… perhaps the Australians have it right with their social media ban for kids? What’s the point of teachers paying whack-a-mole with an increasing number of wannabe Andrew Tates if society isn’t prepared to cut them off from the source? Not a silver bullet though when they still get to see “piggy” grab ‘em by the pussy Trump acting out the dream on the TV news.
I definitely think the Australians have it right although it is going to take 10 years to see the evidence I suppose as children never exposed to it can be compared to those that have recently been living with it. Hope they have collected a lot of data on current population to compare over the years...
Last minute confused adjustment spineroo on the farm inheritance tax threshold?
Really? Why now?
Look, it's not as of these stupid tax ideas really touch the sides (300million of potential re-distribution over several years) - they're doing nothing in terms of revenue - random acts of taxation that make little sense in the grand scheme of things.
But.
A last minute out of nowhere watering down of a threshold on a flagship tax reform?
What the hell signal does this send out - sure it appeases some farmers/land owners but then why do it in the first place? Why make such a stink and cause a rod for your own back?
It proves yet again that having no economic plan and no understanding of what tax is for - can cause chaos if you build your taxation system from a broken model, tip-toeing along the wonky arc of black-holes v phoney cash grab.
Reeves sure is not going to hit any of her targets. There will be hard choices again and virtually zero growth.
The economic planning is awful here. You can't build as system reacting to angry farmers.