+ a bazillion. I’ll happily give mine up when I’m 60 if I can retire on a decent state pension.

So are we still sure Labour is a remain party?

With a Brexiteer like JC in charge they never have been..

That shouldn’t even be funny @Kelvin.

I didn’t mean to be funny kayla1… I was calling for people not to get angry at someone because they were upset due to the lies and twisted “facts” spread by Johnson, Gove, Cummings & Co… concentrate on stopping Johnson, or he’ll keep using the same tactics, and we’ll head into a hole of a very Orwellian nature that we might not climb back out of in our lifetimes.

I just google image searched them and I didn’t realise they were actual FB ads (they were, weren’t they?) I thought they were Daily Mash style piss takes of how brexiters think 😬

I thought they were Daily Mash style piss takes of how brexiters think

No. Real. Part of the targeted marketing that caused the uptick in support for Leave in the final weeks of the referendum campaign. That and polar bears and bullfighting. The same people are about to win a minimum of 5 years to embed themselves further into the seat of power in the UK. Do anything you can to prevent your seat returning a Johnson backing MP, please.

Can somone tell me the new minimum contract hours Labour will be enforcing? They say zero hours contracts will be banned, what they don’t say is what the new minimum contract hours will be? I assume they’re not banning part time work all together.

So what? 37 hours? 8 hours? 4 hours?

When I was a student I dropped my Supermarket job down to one evening shift of 3.25 hours at exam time, I assume that will definately be illegal under Labour?

https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Real-Change-Labour-Manifesto-2019.pdf

We will tackle insecurity by … Banning zero-hour contract

We will end insecurity and exploitation by ending zero-hours contracts

am I right in saying the constituency poll was likely to be based on phone calls and will therefore favour old voters?

Yougov have been trying to poll younger voters & weighting their study appropriately, so it should cover it

Any ideas how I can stop personally addressed election cr*p coming through my letterbox? Have just had a letter from a Lib Dems NHS Psychiatrist addressing me as “dear friend”. FFS please make it stop.

this would be too good

Rumour that Channel Four has commissioned an ice sculpture of Boris Johnson to melt during tonight's televised debate on climate change. And yet he still doesn't want to go on…

— Jason Groves (@JasonGroves1) November 28, 2019

So I’ve just come back from a meeting with a company in Peterborough, who at 24 hour notice was asked if they would host Pritty Patel’s electioneering speech. It’s a high-tech company involved in additive manufacture which no doubt the government are selling as our savour when we leave the EU. The irony is that many of the people working in the company are EU nationals, but I bet she won’t mention that in her speech!

In fact, thinking about it I could have prevented this whole Brexit mess when David Cameron was visiting a company I was working at during the 2010 election campaign. He even stopped to talk to my colleague at the next desk. I’d take one for the team if I could go back in time.
Sorry

How much do we need voting reform?!?

Well we tried and that referendum was a balls-up too.

Oh and I’m over 60. I’d happily give up my vote for a suitable annual pension and a holiday home somewhere sunny.

Sadly binners it would be a cock up.

You are either very dim or being deliberately obtuse to criticise Labour.

They aren’t stupid, even if you think they are.

What will the new minimum contract hours be?

What will the new minimum contract hours be?

Greater than zero I expect.

Everyone who’s paid attention and had a little think understands that the issue is not giving a fixed minimum to people who want it. So you apply for a job and they say ‘yeah it’ll be full time’ and the contract says that there is no minimum number of hours, that means you many not always get the money you might depend on.

If, however, you agree a contract for 1 hour a week with a company, and it’s in the contract, then no-one will have a problem with this, because you know up-front that it’s only one hour and you can plan around that. That won’t be banned, cos it would be stupid. Also one is not zero.

Any ideas how I can stop personally addressed election cr*p coming through my letterbox?

https://www.mpsonline.org.uk/

Takes a while for the post to stop though, so even if you sign up, you may still get some unwanted mail for a while afterwards

What will the new minimum contract hours be?

If, however, you agree a contract for 1 hour a week

LOL, you’ve certainly spotted the problem!

That’s one way out.

Another way out is if we leave the EU. The sole reason 0 hours contracts exist is because of the working time directive. That made contracts a legal requirement. Before that contracts were optional and casual workers didn’t need one. If Labour get us out of the EU, they can tweak our new version of the working hours directive so contracts aren’t allowed for *very* low contract hours. That way casual workers don’t lose their jobs but Labour can genuinely claim to have banned 0 hours contracts without putting anyone out.

Your idea is ok, but 4 hours PCM is embarrassingly low given the claim and at that there will *still* be people who like their arrangement getting their jobs banned who will be all over the news with sad faces. Banning some people’s jobs to move some other people ‘up’ to a mere four hour PCM commitment is a toxic news story.

I like the libdems idea – you don’t ban causal working but you say below a certain number of hours the salary goes up. Yes, that’s flawed, but it’s far more doable than an outright ban.

Before that contracts were optional and casual workers didn’t need one.

And you’ve spotted the opposite problem. A job with no contract has no requirement for hours. So a 0 hours non-contract. The problem for the person with a job that has no hours and therefore no money remains unsolved. Being in or out of the EU won’t change that.

you don’t ban causal working

**** sake you are incredible and infuriating.

No-one’s banning casual working. That would be utterly insane.

The ABUSE of zero hours contracts is the issue. This is what the Labour party wants to do. Not ban casual working. Why on earth would they want to do that?