The civil service’s biggest union is encouraging its members to make formal complaints to managers about the push for them to return to their offices. The Telegraph has more.
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has provided members with template grievance letters to submit to managers, voicing opposition to Government plans requiring increased workplace attendance.
The PCS said the letters were part of an action plan agreed by its national executive committee in response to calls for civil servants to work in the office at least 60% of the time.
As well as encouraging workers to lodge formal complaints, the PCS is asking branches and groups in the Civil Service to canvas support for industrial action.
Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg hit out at the union, saying: “Unions do not seek a fair day’s work for a fair day’s pay, but money for nothing. They are leeches on the taxpayer.”
It comes after the PCS called for staff to be given a four-day week for the same pay, and after workers at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) voted to strike in protest over going back to the workplace.
At the ONS, 73% of voting employees have backed strike action after being told to work in the office for at least two days a week.
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“Priti Patel: We must pause all Net Zero targets”
And in a nutshell theres the truth. This is no emergency, if we can afford to wait before we act further. We know it. They know it. They know that we know it, yet still they continue.
Mmmn.. it smells like politicking to me Neil.. Words are cheap, and I wouldn’t trust Patel as far as I could swing her.
She’s sounding rather like Macron in France, and when they all start to sing from the same hymn sheet you know there’s something in the wind.
All that governments have been pushing through has been planned well in advance, and any hitches wargamed. The agenda is set.. they’ll just pretend it isn’t, whilst coming in through a backdoor..
“I wouldn’t trust Patel as far as I could swing her.”
And you wouldn’t be swinging her far George. She’s a hefty lump.
I didn’t want to say that Hux.. but seeing as you have..
Where angels fear to tread…
The honest emergency in that context is that she is likely to lose her seat in the next GE. Her constituency is affected by ULEZ.
“Climate adviser says 2030 could be too soon for petrol vehicle ban”
And in another nutshell, thats why bureaucrats with narrow thinking and inexperience should not be trusted with anything that the market can do better. When the market produces electric vehicles that cost the same as a petrol car, last 15 years, don’t catch fire or use dangerous cocktails of rare minerals to work, AND can be recharge for half a tank of petrol, we will buy them Chris. We’ll buy them in their millions. That might be a hundred years from now though…
‘…we will buy them Chris. We’ll buy them in their millions.’
As long as they can fly through the atmosphere and you can hover 30 foot above the Serengeti…
A counter-offensive would be marching on Moscow, which could well justify tactical nukes. Expelling an invader is not a counter-offensive, though.
I think you’ve been misunderstood Brett,..
I get what your saying, if ukraine was to invade Russia north, towards Moscow then their political right to self defence would be enacted but, trying to retake disputed territories to the south should not be accepted as an Invasion of the homeland!
Medvedev has been sabre rattling for a year or more. Whether he is deranged or if he is doing his master’s bidding we cannot tell. The use of nukes in Ukraine would produce a western response against Russia which would materially degrade their forces and their infrastructure.
What counter-offensive? It’s just more Telegraph wishful thinking and some usual propaganda to keep people ‘on-side’, there’s also the fact that there is ‘conflict fatigue’ so they need to try anything to rouse people’s interest….there isn’t any evidence that I have read..including the American media, that shows that Ukraine has made any progress whatsoever. Most of the articles are saying the exact opposite.
So what else can they do?
The bigger story is the authorisation by Congress of a $350 million ‘security assistance’ to Taiwan…a couple of days ago…you know just in case America’s Russian venture doesn’t get the outcome they want….
Not sure I totally buy the “invader” narrative. Russia was massively provoked (NATO membership for Ukraine and massive persecution of Russian speakers in Donbass region) – the USA wanted Russia to invade.
..this is an interesting podcast from Patrick Bet-David in the US, they cover a lot of stuff.
It’s a long podcast but the end bit isn’t very long..and there’s a new ‘undercover’ video of former general Stanley McChrystal @2.17 regarding Nordstream…the excellent comedian Dave Smith makes better sense with his comments than the supposed ‘experts’…..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drDwGz6D9ic
Thanks for posting – that was absolutely brilliant. And Dave Smith was very insightful and articulate throughout…
Yes..it’s a bit of turvy-topsy when the comedians are more diplomatic and politically shrewd than the bloody politicians!!
The whole issue around de-banking is ridiculous. There should never, ever be a reason to be debanked unless you’re a mass murdering, would-be tinpot dictator billionaire planning the demise of the human race….oh..er..hang on….
The more it becomes something that is discussed as if there are reasonable grounds for debanking, it’s begins to gain some faint level of acceptance. It becomes a thing.
Equally worrying is the fact that banks are making it harder for businesses and people to deal in cash. Thank goodness Farage is on to it because no one else with such a high profile is. People are either being complacent in paying with phones and cards or complicit. In the case of the banks, they have some sort of agenda going on that needs to be revealed. Three banks have closed ion my local town in the last two years. There are now only two. Quite often the cash machines are out of order. In my local supermarket – which I try to avoid by shopping locally and at farm shops – two out of their three self-service machines that also take cash seem to be out of order on a very regular basis. Is this also the sign of an agenda? I imagine you all have similar stories to tell. If we could somehow get these stories ‘out there’ and join with Nigel Farage and make it a strong people movement, we might have some success. What do you think?
All the banks seem to have gone in our local towns as well. They have generally retained one branch in the county town, but that’s it. I tend to use our local post office now as a bank, for paying in, withdrawing etc.
Some months ago I needed to withdraw a larger than normal amount of cash. You would think the money wasn’t mine. I had to phone in advance to say I would be attending, then had to fill out various forms. This is done under the excuse that I might be being pressured to pay some dodgy tarmacker or similar, and if they asked me once, they asked me ten times what the money was for, to which they were unhappy that they kept getting the answer ‘that’s my personal business, and nothing to do with you’. It took about twenty minutes for them to actually, reluctantly, produce the cash. If there is ever a run on a bank – well, it won’t be happening, will it? Theyv’e made it administratively very difficult to access more cash than the £250 your debit card will get you out of a machine.
Yes, OB, this is very worrying. I would say that you can start your own debanking by withdrawing cash slowly over time. Then again, where would you put it? And more alarmingly, if you wanted to open another bank account and turned up with a suitcase of cash, they’d be accusing you of being a money launderer or drug trafficker. They, the banks, are making it very hard to conduct our own business by suspecting all of us as being either dupes or criminals when it comes to large sums of cash.
When the banking crisis looked imminent I gradually withdrew a few grand from the local ATM to keep under the mattress. Then I had to buy a new car and paid my cash that I’d withdrawn from my account back in – it caused almost as many questions as to the source you had taking the stuff out.
It does look as though the real reason for money-laundering regulations is much the same as the real reason for “the war on terror,” “the human right to a digital identity,” “centralised NHS records,” and so on. Which is not to stop international money-lauderers, who get to run countries.
I am awaiting a response from the Treasury on how many cases for money laundering there have been since the legislation came in, and how many have been successful.
No response as yet.
In similar vein, I keep wondering whether any work has been done to see if all the DBS checks have actually prevented the abuse of any vulnerable people (by comparing cases before and after the legislation, for example).
They have certainly created a lucrative industry, but the headlines of abuse within institutions continues, and drawing attention to safeguarding concerns regarding gender indoctrination of children will lose you your job.
All true but they are making it difficult for new businesses to get a bank account and keep it, they make it didfficult for mbusinesses and individuals to make payments (they often ask what is the payment for!).
Some of this results from their past connivance in momney laundering (HSBC) and the requirements of EU regulations which the current government refuses to amend. By maintaining regulatory equivalence nd most EU regulations one supposes they will find it easier to re-enter the EU Customs Union when nthey think they can get away with it.
On the grounds that they will carry on de-banking people regardless, what I want to know is:
-has anyone yet worked out the general criteria the banks are using to target individuals for de-banking (aside from PEPs, SMEs and cash businesses – and vicars who complain about multicoloured flags)?
-what options are available for anyone who has been de-banked?
-is there any way one can protect oneself from being de-banked?
-how long before the ‘free cash withdrawals’ at ATMs start being charged for (always been suspicious about that one), probably on a sliding scale?
-how is one expected to participate in CBCDs if you don’t have a bank account or smartphone?
Farage’s new organisation might eventually be able to address some of these issues but it’s the meantime I’m concerned about.
On your last two points:
-https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/access-to-cash The FCA has new powers to make provisions about ensuring access to cash for those who still rely on it. They haven’t set out their proposals yet as the powers are new this month.
-I believe TPTB envisage physical ID cards for those few without a smart phone. Either way, the ID will be linked to your very own digital wallet which they want everyone to have. Digital wallets directly linked to the central bank may replace bank accounts as we know them, though it’s a bit unclear what will happen to the big banks.
Will the FCA ensure that such people can be paid in cash by employers, pension funds and the state? Not much use having access to cash if you have no access to money.
Good point. No, I expect they are only interested in ensuring just about enough cash machines across the country whilst we transition to a wholly digital system.
Thanks for those – the last one is scary, to say the least.
Vote for one of Farage´s UKIP parties: Reclaim, Reform, etc. (why can´t they unite?).
“Dame Alison Rose should not have resigned”
True, she should have been sacked and arrested and de-damed (if thats a word)for breaking customer confidentiality laws, and, the bank fined £20 million for allowing it to happen!
Yes, as well as the entire NatWest Group board including the chairman (yes I spelt that correctlyj whose full confidence she had apparently.
And the BBC bod, who MUST have known he was being passed confidential information.
No wonder they want Muslims to keep on coming. It’s to boost the falling population numbers. It’s just when you see them en masse like this, and the contrast to the beautiful English houses in the background. They both look totally at odds with each other. Yes I’m aware that sounds really bad but if I can’t say my true feelings here where can I say them?
P.S We never seem to see the break down of stats anywhere but just for the record, I have no problems with people seeking asylum if their lives are in peril from where they are fleeing, but just how many immigrants are of the economic type, whereby they’re travelling over here for the welfare benefits? Because all of these videos I see with working-age men on boats ( sans belongings or passports ) travelling to Europe, they don’t look like they’re suffering PTSD because they’re fleeing for their lives. They always look like they’re going on their jollies! We need to know the honest breakdown of just what % of which category are coming into the country, otherwise we cannot be blamed for being cynical and suspicious.
I think it’s fairly obvious that most are of the ‘economic’ type and they later get their wives/kids brought over once they’re set up, hence videos like below. Muslims rarely marry and have kids with non-Muslims. London will be like Amsterdam, if it isn’t already, with kids that have both parents as indigenous British being a minority, total replacement being inevitable and only a matter of time.
https://twitter.com/BFirstParty/status/1685712084359696386
I don’t think it sounds bad at all, and I agree we should all feel able to speak openly on this forum.
I agree with you that Europeans should be open to genuine cases of asylum; but that we should be much more “selfish” in choosing which economic migrants we want in our countries.
In my view, a country should feel a sense of togetherness based on shared history, shared values, shared language and shared culture. I am just not convinced that Islam and European culture are compatible – Muslims have fundamentally different views about the role of women in society (including how to dress in public), homosexuality and religious tolerance, amongst other things. Many of them despise western culture. Assimilation and integration with the indigenous people is not IMO likely, given these fundamental differences.
Cheers Michael and I totally agree. Fair enough if there’s a skills shortage in some area, such as medicine or the tech industry, but I very much doubt these immigrants are the ones making up the majority. Too many videos of them chucking their I.Ds and passports overboard too, when I’ve seen footage of them on their way to Europe on the boats. I mean, in what realm would anyone ever have a kosher reason for doing that? And I agree with their religion being totally at odds with not just Christianity, but literally Jews, Hindus, non-religious people, you name it they don’t tolerate it. That’s why I think diversity up to a point is a positive thing and can enrich a community but there has to be a threshold and I don’t think it’s racist or xenophobic to not want to live as a minority in your own country. I’m also interested to see how the UK compares with Germany here regarding welfare payments to immigrants vs natives. As I say, when does the cut-off point come?
”The number of German recipients of welfare benefits has halved since 2010, while the number of foreign nationals receiving social assistance payments has doubled, government data has revealed.
The data emerged from a response by Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Anette Kramme to a request made by the Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP René Springer.
It revealed that the number of German recipients of the citizens’ allowance had almost halved from 5.2 million in 2020 to 2.9 million as of February 2023. In contrast, foreign recipients of social benefits had doubled from 1.3 million people in 2010 to 2.6 million currently.
With spikes in the number of recipients experienced during the 2015 migrant crisis and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, it means the German taxpayer is paying around €15.4 billion each year in social benefits for foreign recipients, a 122 percent increase over the €6.9 billion reported in 2010.”
https://rmx.news/germany/germany-cost-of-foreign-welfare-payments-soars-to-e15-4-billion-a-year-as-foreign-recipients-double-since-2010/
100%with you Michael.
I wonder how many migrants claim asylum in other closer, peaceful ,easier to reach African countries? Not many I’ll wager…but why not? If my life was in danger any safe country would do!
How many African countries take in their brothers?
They seem to have no problem slagging us off for not taking enough!
Strange how mainly white European countries seem to take the lions share and yet we are supposed to be the colonialist racist bas”@#ds !
Kemi Badenoch: “It is critical that Government appointees are protected and not punished for speaking their minds” Really Kemi? Why not everyone?
For all their protestations against current policies a stranger might assume the Conservative Party was in opposition or that it had been through all the years when its disastrous policies were developed and implimented.
Instead, as we know, they were fully engaged and enthusiastic for destruction of reliable energy, wokery and the rest. Ministers were proud to be photographed watching as power stations were demolished (NB the Germand mothballed theirs). They supported excessive government spending and borrowing, rapid expansion of the money supply and a failure to seriously try to protect us from EU domination and illegal immigration.
This is the usual election strategy of the Tories. When they realise their members and supporters do not want the policies the leadership wants, they make vague statements to pretend they are the people to protect us. It happened for decades over the EU and it applies equally to immigration (legal and illegal), loss of energy security and price instability.
When will Tory party members wake up and leave. When will the electorate wake up and realise it is the biggest priblem because our electoral system prevents new parties while the old, tired ones continue their oligopoly of politics. The political class needs to be taken down but I fear it will take more than one election, more than one crisis and perhaps non-democratic means to achieve it. If bad things happen it will be because the political class became so disconnected with the people.
You read all the entries above, and think
How the **** did we get SO stupid?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dame-alison-rose-portrait-of-a-climate-and-diversity-fanatic/
Some interesting new information on the Alison Rose charlatan. She is a member of Common Purpose, a deeply insidious organisation with evil intent. Sir Nigel has indeed taken a big scalp. No wonder the WEFfers reacted by de-banking Dr Mercola.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/beware-the-tyranny-of-the-who-my-plea-to-every-mp/
Somebody at least is having a go – the seriously evil International Health Regulations.
A disturbing article on the reality of transgender surgery. Why is this abuse being sanctioned?
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/18-year-old-boy-died-doctors-create-vagina-part-colon
Might sound harsh, but tough s#!t! Any surgery carries risk including totally unnecessary ones!
I hear you & for the much older adults agree with you, but for an 18 year old who’d been placed on puberty blockers as a young teen, it’s nothing less than child abuse.
That’s not very kind Dinger.
This ‘meeting’ happened in June ….. don’t know how I missed it? Did you know there even was a Global Methane Hub…?
https://www.eutimes.net/2023/06/13-nations-agree-to-abolish-farming-in-order-to-save-the-planet/
“The global climate cult is getting ready to kick its war on food into overdrive with 13 nations – many of them major cattle and food-producing states led by the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Spain – signing onto a commitment to place farmers under new restrictions intended to reduce emissions of methane gas.
The Global Methane Hub announced in a May 17 press release that agriculture and environmental ministers and ambassadors from 13 countries, including the United States, have signed a commitment that pledges to reduce methane emissions in agriculture. The U.S. was represented by Biden’s climate czar, John Kerry.
Last month (in April 2023), the Global Methane Hub collaborated with the Ministries of Agriculture of Chile and Spain to convene the first-ever global ministerial on agricultural practices to reduce methane emissions. The ministerial brought together high-ranking government members to share global perspectives on methane reduction and low-emission food systems.”
As the author points out ..they don’t actually tell you what the ‘low-emission food systems’ are..or how they work? Is it just stopping farmers from growing food and keeping farm animals?….and if it’s not, why don’t they say what it is?
The article also lists the other participants involved…which come as no surprise…
”Conference participants included the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Climate & Clean Air Coalition, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
The World Bank, another creation of the post-World War II, U.S.-led liberal rules-based order, has been talking a lot lately, along with the U.N., about a coming famine. The World Bank issued a white paper just last week, on May 22, titled Food Security Update: World Bank Response to Rising Food Insecurity.
The director of the United Nations World Food Program has also been putting out, starting in September of last year, dire warnings about a coming global famine.”
Worth a read..it’s fairly short..
(It also doesn’t mention that the lead country, the USA, was more than likely responsible for the greatest ever release of methane into the atmosphere, ..with the destruction of the Nordstream pipeline…(LOL!))
Thanks Mrs Gums and the linked article is worth a read.