Nightmare, but I’m not sure how this policy helps you:

Would the employee as opposed to accepting the zero hours contract be able to agree a contract for x days or hours per week so this situation doesn’t occur? or have I misunderstood?

Johnson getting destroyed on Nick Ferrari phone in

No wonder he’s too terrified to face Andrew Neil!

I bet his handlers are desperate to keep him away from that one

I bet his handlers are desperate to keep him away from that one

I know.

Was there a time when the consensus was he was a great orator ? I’m sure there was.

I mean … bloody hell.

LBC (Let’s Blame Corbyn) is definitely right of centre.

Not so bad as Talk radio though.

I suspect a soft interview actually acheives a lot more than a hard interview.

There’s a massive difference between a soft interview and a sympathetic interview though. A right leaning interviewer has no motivation to dig.
(Edit; as evidenced above 🙄🙄🙄)

A right leaning interviewer has no motivation to dig

Well there are different levels are ‘right’ aren’t there?

LBC (Let’s Blame Corbyn) is definitely right of centre.

The only LBC output I listen to is Iain Dale’s podcasts and, in spite of the fact he’s a brexiteer and an ex-Tory candidate ,his interviews are straight down the middle and it’s very clear he takes pride in that. Even life long friends don’t get spared the tricky (but fair) questions.

I’m very suspicious of all claims of bias about interviewers [1]. If they’re biased they’re doing a bad job. How many of us would deliberately and openly do our job badly to further our political leanings? “Sorry, I put spelling errors in that document because I’m a green party supporter and I wanted to help them.” I just don’t buy it.

[1] Obvs I’m talking about interviewers who are supposed to be un-biased. Clearly if you’re interviewing for the Guardian/Mirror/Express/Mail you’re going to be openly biased the way your readers are paying you to be.

I’m very suspicious of all claims of bias about interviewers [1]. If they’re biased they’re doing a bad job. How many of us would deliberately and openly do our job badly to further our political leanings? “Sorry, I put spelling errors in that document because I’m a green party supporter and I wanted to help them.” I just don’t buy it.

Well if your boss were politically biased (like Sarah Sands on R4Today), it might seem like a smart move.

So why is Johnson avoiding the interview?

Neil absolutely is biased toward the Conservatives, and presumably Johnson as well, but he’d still carry out the interview in a stringent way, and pull Johnson apart.

Boris Johnson hoping to pick up a pair of balls in the Black Friday sales

You can put your house on Boris Johnson going nowhere near any studio that has Andrew Neil in it, on account of being a spineless shithouse who knows full-well he’d be exposed for the bumbling lying fool that he is

Sorry molgrips, without details from Labour it is not a policy, and at best we should just discount and ignore it (rather than attempt to scrutinise it).

So why is Johnson avoiding the interview?

Have a listen to Nick Ferrari’s interview this morning. Ferrari is a dyed in the wool Tory, and yet even under his interview tickling, Boris falls to bits like a Jenga Tower. To make it look anything like probing; Neill would have to ask questions that Boris simply won’t remember the right answer, make stuff up on the spot to get himself out of a squeeze, or just lie, and I reckon central office has decided that the fall out from not doing the interview is less trouble than going on before the postal votes have been cast.

Not a fan of msm or the guardian therefore hesitate to recommend a piece in todays independant but I will.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/general-election-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-labour-tories-poll-a9223126.html

No, the video clip tells you nothing. Johnson was told to wrap up his long rambling answer with a hand gesture, which he mimicked back with a smirk.

Social media is worse for misinformation than radio or TV.

So you agree the video clip tells you something? Looked likea grimace to me.

What has he got to hide? should be the attack line.

It COULD be a dog’s breakfast but just the same it COULD work out well – we just don’t know so it’s too early to condemn.

No, there is literally no way it can work out well. There is no legslative way to solve the problem that that “No-one’s banning casual working. That would be utterly insane.” and yet some people are only able to find casual work.

I gave you a suggestion as to how it could work but you seem not to have noticed.

I didn’t respond to spare your blushes but let’s go: A guy wanting a saturday worker has to advertize longer hours but the worker can work less hours if he wants? What if the worker wants the full advertized hours? Depending on how you frame the rules it’s either a ban on casual Labour or no meaningful change to the status quo.

Iain Dale

I listen to a lot of Iain Dale’s output, his interviews are not biased, it’s very clear he takes pride in being a good interviewer and that means unbiased. He interviewed Anne Widecombe the other week. They’re friends and fellow brexiteers. He asked her all the difficult questions an interviewer should. The guy is a pro.

Pro Musicians can play genres they don’t like. Lawyers can argue cases they don’t agree with and interviewers can ask difficult questions that are contrary to their personal views.

Boris used to be the editor of the Spectator, Andrew Neill used to/still does (can’t remember) sits on the board of the company that owns the Spectator, Dominic Cummings wife writes for the Spectator…I’m going to call bias.

Boris obvs doesn’t agree because he’s ducking the interview and I suspect he knows better than us.

Just in…

BBC sources say they have refused the Conservatives' offer to put the prime minister on Andrew Marr this Sunday until he agrees a date for the Andrew Neil interview.

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) November 29, 2019

Of course there are ways to sort zero hours contract injustices. You have to make it more worth while for emplyers to give people contracts. Carrot and stick.

We’re talking about the very specific “banning zero hours contracts” manifesto promise.

“sort zero hours contract injustices” is a far, far, broader topic.

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

Thanks @nickc but was rather hoping that there would be some written guidance on how many times a political party is allowed to write to members of the public.

And this morning I have yet another LibDems communication persnally addressed to me, am returning it with “not known at this address” scrawled across. Out of all the parties they send the most.

Also in today’s post is a personally addressed letter from a “Polling and Elections Expert” urging me to vote for the LibDems. I haven’t consented to my personal details being made available to all and sundry so where do I stand with GDPR? Anyone know?

The Leave team have completely screwed our political discourse for a generation. Not sure who learnt most from the other, them or Trump’s team(s)? Perhaps it’s a feedback loop. (Don’t mention that Putin has used these skills for far longer).

And this morning I have yet another LibDems communication persnally addressed to me, am returning it with “not known at this address” scrawled across. Out of all the parties they send the most.

Eventually found out how to opt out of communications from this forest destroying political party. They don’t make it easy.