Weakness: Eczema
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Letās hope so - she is the female Fabricant.
Big up Post Office guy for taking no shit.
Letās hope the independent advisor sacked by Cleverley (lol) does the same and we can wave goodbye to that prick too
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Just got home. What the absolute fuck is going on in British politics now???
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Everything is performative toilet
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Think itās at the point where they shout āice berg dead aheadā
And will be fully sinking when the GE is called .
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So from what I understand the SNP tried playing a bit of politics, Labour played politics back and then the Tories tried joining in as well.
ā¦over the destruction of lives in Gaza.
Well done everyone.
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How did this happen? I know councils have been getting squeezed by the government but what else caused this mess?
Yeah Māboro council are on the verge of bankruptcy too, I think weāll be seeing this more and moreā¦
Woking was the first one I heard of.
Not squeezed, strangled. 50% cuts. The sums just donāt add up
I think a contributing factor, (aside from the obvious sustained underfunding), was the precedent set by the result of an equal pay dispute which started a good few years ago.
I believe what started that was some supermarket checkout workers who were predominantly female noticed that they were paid less than their warehouse worker colleagues who were predominantly male. The claim was the discrepancy in pay rates was down to women being paid less than men rather than the difference in pay actually being due to the jobs being fundamentally different.
Someone then came up with a way of comparing apples with oranges by scoring different aspects of the roles which āprovedā that the two different positions required the same level of skills etc. and the difference in levels of pay was wholly due to the sex/gender of the workers involved and therefore was discriminatory as defined by the equal pay act.
Common sense may have suggested that theyāre different jobs and thereās legally nothing stopping anyone from choosing to do either one of them and sex/gender shouldnāt have been an issue in that respect. You want a higher hourly rate then take a warehouse job. You want a little more flexibility in the hours you do then take a checkout/ shop floor based job. But thatās another kettle of fish.
Anyway, I think that supermarket thing inspired a group of council employed lunchtime assistants, (ādinner ladiesā), which is a role predominantly held by women to note that refuse workers, (ābin menā), were paid significantly more than they were. It was again suggested that this was a male / female pay inequality issue rather than the jobs being different. Again the apples and oranges form was rolled out and, lo and behold, it turns out that the jobs were in fact āthe sameā and the, in this case, perceived gender pay gap needed to be rectified. This went to court and the lunchtime assistants won their case. This opened the doors for every other council around the country to have to do the same. Not only for the roles involved in the original case but across the board in local authority roles. The result was backpay and wage increases were going to cost the local authorities huge sums of money that they simply didnāt have.
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I donāt know why they keep saying this. Itās not like there arenāt tons of Tory councils in a massive black hole as well.
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Pointing to the council being Labour run muddies the waters just enough for the pitchforks to remain in the sheds, for now. This should be yet another scandal which is picked apart publicly.
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It pisses me off that the word austerity is repeated by the media as it sounds like something noble or stoic when itās just a Tory catchphrase for massive spending cuts
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Can someone ELI5 what the fuck happened in the Gaza ceasefire vote yesterday please? Iām confused!
Sums it up pretty good tbf
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Sheās gone cuckoo big time , Q-anon lite and her being in America is like a pig in shit being surrounded by the delusional.
The thatcher comparison, FFS .
She would be that crazy cat lady on your street if she didnāt find politics .
Hope she stays over there
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Nottingham is an extreme example, but itās essential down to mismanagement on the councilās part. They put in a lot of money to Robin Hood Energy which went bankrupt, leaving them pretty vulnerable for a few years before they eventually had to declare bankruptcy.
The council have had to ask residents some pretty brutal questions about what they want depleted funds to cover as they need to make huge cuts. proposals include:
Proposal to introduce a charge for use of public toilets
Restructure and reduce Adult Social Care Assessment function
Close Jackdawe in-house homecare and source from external market
Reduce Youth Service
Reduce public transport infrastructure
Review Concessionary Fares
Review of Museums Service to identify alternative delivery model reducing reliance on council funding
Review of Library Service
Introduce baseline service level for mechanical road sweeping
Reduction in Not in Employment, Education or Training Prevention Budget
Cease all grant funding of Lunch Clubs
Close The Oaks and Cherry Trees Residential Care Homes for Adults
Close Colwick Park Activity Centre
Cease Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Telephone Service
Permanent closure of City Centre water features
Cease contributions to the Cultural Sector
Pretty dystopian stuff. The council executive have refused to back the cuts so government commissioners have been brought in to oversee them, meaning the city no longer effectively has an elected council.
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