Green energy mogul Dale Vince, who donated £5 million to Labour in the run-up to the General Election, is urging the Government to tax the rich to fund trade union demands for public sector “pay restoration” deals. The Telegraph has more.
He said: “If you look at other parts of our economy, bonuses are off the hook. Banking bonuses are back with no limit. It can’t be right that we have no limits on one part of our economy and yet we force real-terms pay cuts [on others].”
Mr. Vince argued that there needed to be a “rebalancing on how we do things”, adding that a “change to the tax system would help”.
Mr. Vince suggested footing that bill by taxing the rich, pointing out that the U.K. currently has “tax breaks for people who make the most money”.
Union members are preparing to back a demand at the annual meeting of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) next month to make “pay restoration in the public sector a key feature of our campaigning with the new Government”.
Restoring public sector pay to the same levels as 2011 in real terms is forecast to cost the economy more than £50 billion. …
Labour is under mounting pressure over its relationship with unions after critics warned that public sector strikes could spiral out of control.
There are now almost six million people employed by the state, the highest number since 2012 …
Labour has been accused of caving in to its paymasters after handing out above-inflation pay rises to junior doctors and train drivers, the latter of which led to fears it was being “played” after the Aslef union unveiled more strikes barely 48 hours later. …
Ruth Gregory at Capital Economics said the Chancellor will likely announce £10 billion of tax rises.
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You can scroll through the Our World in Data page below but this tiny country with 2.64 million people, 372 dead *from* Covid ( so that’ll be an over-estimation no doubt ) and only approx 25% have had at least 1 death jab, therefore if the intention in locking down was to get injections into as many arms as possible, TPTB failed miserably in their agenda here didn’t they? WTF were they thinking locking down and predictably decimating a country such as this, or any African nation come to that?? Absolutely crazy and demonstrably no benefits have been shown as a result, only devastation for these poor people who were barely scraping by as it is.
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/gambia
I am sure you will understand my response Mogs.
Then there is Burundi – current death toll from the ‘rona at 38. This hasn’t changed since August 2021.
All going nicely to plan.
The ‘theft of the commons’ (see Iain Davies) starts by enforcing indebtedness on countries. Once the debts prove to be unserviceable the country effectively belongs to the lenders and the real looting can begin.
Exactly the same process is occurring in Ukraine and many other countries will go the same way. The ridiculous spending during lockdowns such as Track and Trace, Nightingales, Eat out to Help Out, Furlough etc were simply ways of ensuring we ratcheted our debt levels. Now this unserviceable spending is being replaced by the blatant importation of economically useless migrants which are costing £6-7 million per day and fighting a war which has nothing to do with us and clearly with money the country cannot afford. At some point Fishy and Chunt will “sadly” have to declare the country bankrupt and then we will no longer be sovereign and that’s it. The pretence of democracy will be removed and everyone will do as they are told.
There will be no recovery from this scenario short of revolution and bloodshed.
If you are correct, remember that crossbows do not require a licence
Great post.. I agree with every word..
Thanks George.
Isn’t it great how souvereign all these pseudonations became after decolonization had happened? One could almost believe this was an early outburst of neoliberalism — Shrink the state! Privatize Africa!
Whilst we make aid reliant on Net Zero, China will offer aid them regardless of that – it’s obvious which way they will jump.
Sky News segment on bombing in Odessa & the clearing up of bomb damage in the aftermath. Sure wish that I had the super strength powers of the women clearing away the huge blocks of damaged building….
https://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-what-do-we-know-about-the-latest-attack-on-odesa-12926106
Lockdowns lovers and Net Zero maniacs don’t care about Africans.
They’ll let them die on the altar of Net Zero
These posters should be proof read at least three times. There is no excuse for errors of grammar or syntax.
Just as well the WHO and our Governments acted so swiftly to “save” the lives of very elderly people, some of whom got an extra few months of life …. but with no quality of life whatsoever.
Tragedy! This is obviously set to get worse if the new WHO proposals and International Health Regulations are implemented.
And you have not yet discussed the toll on education- without laptops….
Collateral Global has highlighted these issues for a few years now.
Unfortunately when I mentioned any of this to people in the U.K. their eyes glazed over.