The craziest thing about all this is May’s deal would have kept doors open … just saying!
Also at the time I was championing this deal, now I just laugh. Noway am I going to cry over a nation of fuckwits!
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Not the two tier system some were expecting under this government.
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I’d take any news story about Scotland from the BBC with a pinch of salt but what they don’t mention is how reliant NHS Scotland were on staff from the EU. We left because the UK government made it quite clear that we weren’t welcome and I know many others made the same decision. It’s remarkable how many former NHS staff I keep coming across in Germany. Obviously, some of these will have been transitory anyway as the contracts tended to be limited term but the direction of movement is now all one way.
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Can’t see this turning into an NHS+ fast track style system. No sirree. Not at all.
Fascinating article on the NHS in the Telegraph today. Usual half story spin on it. The comments section is both golden and frightening.
2 options here as I see them.
A) don’t get ill or break anything and vote for more of the same.
B) vote for change but still hope you don’t get ill or break anything for the next 20 years cause it’ll take that long to fix, even with the right level of focus on it.
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What else is new
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how is that the goverment’s fault, that she paid too much for her apartment?
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It won’t but don’t let that stop the left from claiming it will. As it has been doing for decades.
Starmer not even trying to hide his sucking up to the UK right. Same dog-whistling immigration comments that Farage and his ilk come out with
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Haven’t seen the full speech yet but I don’t think the UK right would be proposing the following would it?
https://twitter.com/bigtoekne/status/1595014691490828288?s=20&t=dLnI5W8yLYCNjM6EQedo0w
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Indeed. What is controversial about that?
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Grrrr!!
Exactly, seems entirely sensible to me.
It’s dressed up in nicer words, but it’s still the ‘migrants taking your jobs’ dog whistle.
Farage tweeting that Labour are now further right than Tories. I know that’s stupid…but it does show who Starmer’s words are appealing to
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No it isn’t.
It isn’t even a new position, Corbyn was saying the same thing several years ago as a positive from Brexit but without the detail.
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Corbyn consistently defended the value of migration to society. Anyway, that ship has sailed
So has Starmer, after all unlike Corbyn, Starmer was an advocate for Remain and free movement. Now as Labour leader he has had to move his position to the right to win back the half of the party who supported Brexit (often on the grounds of a percieved negative impact from immigration) and a significant chunk of people who voted conservative at the last election. That being said, I appreciate he could have worded some of this clearer.
The full bit from today’s speech on immigration.
" But we’ll also need to be pragmatic on the basic lack of people. We won’t ignore the need for workers to come to this country. We can’t have a situation, as we did with HGV drivers, where temporary shortages threaten to cripple entire sectors of our economy. That would be anti-growth and anti-business.
But I want to be clear here – with my Labour government, any movement in our points-based migration system – whether via the skilled worker route, or the shortage occupations list – will come alongside new conditions for business. We will expect you to bring forward a clear plan to boost skills and more training, for better pay and conditions, for investment in new technology. We can talk about how this is done – dialogue is at the heart of partnership but negotiation with trade unions will be part of it. I said at the TUC conference: my Labour Party is unashamedly pro-business and I say here today that trade unions must be a crucial part of our partnership.
But our common goal must be to help the British economy off its immigration dependency to start investing more in training workers who are already here. Migration is part of our national story – always has been, always will be, and the Labour Party will never diminish the contribution it makes to our economy, to public services, to your businesses and our communities.
But let me tell you – the days when low pay and cheap labour are part of the British way on growth must end. This isn’t about Brexit. All around the world, business is waking up to the fact we live in a new era for labour. And while they’re adapting, our low-wage model is holding us back. It’s why we’ve set out a new deal for working people that will deliver higher pay, stronger rights and better work – not just for social justice, but also for the new reality on growth.
Let me give you an example – technology. Britain has fewer industrial robots than almost every comparable [country]. We’re behind Germany, France, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Belgium – it’s a long list. And in terms of competition over the long run, one that borders on a disaster."
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