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Kudos to Bozo for suggesting that MPs shouldn’t receive a pay rise in light of proposed pay freezes for public sector workers.
Let’s see if that is what happens.
Let’s see if that is what happens.
Kudos to Bozo for suggesting that MPs shouldn’t receive a pay rise in light of proposed pay freezes for public sector workers.
Let’s see if that is what happens.
The BBC said:The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority - which sets their salaries - said in October that MPs could be entitled to a rise of more than £3,000.
Days after the body [IPSA] set out its plan, No 10 confirmed government ministers would have their additional salaries frozen for the year ahead - a decision Downing Street is responsible for.
Johnson doesn’t have a say in MP salary levels but it it will be interesting to see if his and SKS’s suggestion is given anything greater than passing thought.
It seems that he does have a say in the ministerial pay element though...
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Boris Johnson against MPs' pay rise, says No 10
The PM does not think the £3,300 boost, proposed by an independent body, should be awarded.www.bbc.co.uk
Past fortnight and the heavily trailed cuts in foreign aid (very conservative).
The result - eh, a cut from 0.7 GDP to 0.5% of GDP and thats only for a year, with a promise, from Rishi that it will be back to 0.7% the year after.
Its about as conservative, as Boris marital vows.
Ggggggrrrr!!!Bozo, treating Parliament with respect. Pleased to see The Speaker put him in his box again.
For one year only and a promise to bump it back up.... My view. however is aligned with yours, though I would maybe accept a compromise of something like 0.2% targeted at only those countries friendly to the UK.A good start to save some money, £4billion saved. I’d have cut it all together till our national debt was actually wiped out.
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Spending review: Backlash over Rishi Sunak's overseas aid cut
A junior minister resigns over the chancellor's decision to ditch the Tories' aid spending promise.www.bbc.co.uk
I also see in that link that some woman I’ve never heard of has resigned from the government.For one year only and a promise to bump it back up.... My view. however is aligned with yours, though I would maybe accept a compromise of something like 0.2% targeted at only those countries friendly to the UK.
I watched much of the debate yesterday and one particular tory MP whose name escaped me really irritated with his pride at the aid budget and it was clear to me, he at a personal level was happy to spend other peoples money to make himself feel personally happy (breathtaking stuff).
I never knew you considered yourself a Lert
When the BBC ratings for some principal programmes is less that a Million one does wonder who they are trying to convince.Aye; you can always gauge the levels of a government that is going native, by the friendliness, or hostility of the media.... I've spotted ian dale and Yasmin Alibhai Brown the other day having nice things to say about Boris in the past week or so and that should be a red flag to people.
I watch the media as background noise, whilst working from home and its been illuminating the level of utter cack it pumps out and demands for conformity (see: BBC on Covid). One imagines Germany has an even more stifling of debate, with one answer to every problem(more europe) and the emphasis/intensity of the answer, is the only acceptable debate.
I also see in that link that some woman I’ve never heard of has resigned from the government.
I suppose she got her five minute halfpenny worth of fame from such a selfless act.
SuggShe has the unfortunately name of Shug* – stop twittering there at the back.
I think David Cameron may have been shugging her, when she worked for him in Downing Street – because he put the delicate flower into the House of Lords when she wasn’t even 40 (so she’s good for another 40 years of happy shugging at our expense).
*It might be Shugg.
But really, I couldn’t give a shug.
Selfless ! she was a Cameron loyalist who has wormed her way up the establishment and her resignation will likely lead to plenty of glittering opportunities on the 'made persons' circuit of quangos/boards etc etcI also see in that link that some woman I’ve never heard of has resigned from the government.
I suppose she got her five minute halfpenny worth of fame from such a selfless act.
She has the unfortunately name of Shug* – stop twittering there at the back.
I think David Cameron may have been shugging her, when she worked for him in Downing Street – because he put the delicate flower into the House of Lords when she wasn’t even 40 (so she’s good for another 40 years of happy shugging at our expense).
*It might be Shugg.
But really, I couldn’t give a shug.
Absolute Madness!Sugg
What do you think?Does anyone think that we will see a windfall tax for those who have become exceptionally wealthy as a result of the pandemic and a tax on those companies, that return to healthy profits after being kept afloat by taxpayers money?
Or is that unlikely?
What do you think?