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Because, as Airfix maintains, you elected her.
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Wudang
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From James O'Brien on twitter
Vixen
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Unfortunately the UK now has a hard right government who sees Civil Servants and Judges as obstacles to their aims. It's no secret it wants to dismantle the power of the courts and the top civil servants. Whilst these are a stabilising force in British society insofar their official positions remain unchanged long after the incumbent government has gone. Johnson is hungry for centralised control in that he baulked at the Chancellor of the Exchequer traditionally having independent aides from the Prime Minister, notwithstanding their constant opposing aims actually help to provide for moderation and neutrality. As an example, today Johnson is saying, '**** the EU agreement on Northern Ireland we are going to breach it for the next six months'. There was a time when your word was you bond. Not with this government! The findings of Select Committees and independent panels investigating breaches of ministerial codes can be binned by Mr. Johnson as a darned inconvenience for what does he care about protocols, conventions, manners, ethics or even democracy. '**** You!' is Johnson's leit motif.
The legal costs and payout are likely to be funded by Indemnity insurance, not the tax-payers. The sum is only six-figures because it represents Rutnam's lost earnings up to retirement, and then a final salary pension for life, calculated by actuarials as his expected life span. Then interest is added on. So, a six-figure sum is not that eye-brow raising.
Carrot Flower King
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I'd say Coldstream; they're thoroughly taken with it, to the point of frothing at the mouth fervour, if they get as far as Rolfe's abode.
Carrot Flower King
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Did not!
******* Tory voters can cough up for her, especially those eejits in Witham.
And don't try pinning Anne-Marie Sodding Trevelyan on me.
Vixen
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Woo-hoo! They can now afford one of Matthew Hancock's 'Care' badges.
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As long as he can make cuts of about $17 billion from the spending plans he had prior to the first lockdown.
We are going to look back on austerity as a time when money fell from the heavens.
Higher than the current inflation, plus spinal pay rate increase of perhaps 2-3%.
And?
Carrot Flower King
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You will, of course, be aware of the numbers of NHS trusts which have completely manipultated the Agenda for Change agreement to make automatic progression up a scale pretty much a thing of the past? Annual increments in many places are no longer automatic, as per agreements, but have become dependent on things solely under the control of management.
Source of information: a payroll officer in one of the largest NHS payroll departments, paying numerous trusts across the country.
Almost all NHS staff will have a pay increase of 2-3% above inflation (and will do most years) and a final salary pension scheme.
Those in the private sector are much more likely to be furloughed or lose their jobs.
Carrot Flower King
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^ You clearly know how much the NHS pension scheme has been ****** over in the last decade? And that for all the years I could find figures for (published accounts are great) more money was contributed to the scheme than was drawn in pensions: what happened to that? Presumably it went off to the Treasury's coffers, making our superann contributions essentially a stealth tax.
And your 2-3% figure has to assume automatic progression up a scale (the so-called annual increment), which has not existed in practice for a whole heap of people (figures hard to come by as it is the sort of thing trusts are not required to collate and publish, nor even submit to the DoH).
And comparisons with the privates sector fall into false equivalence and the like, as there is not a private sector equivalent (thinks: why did Philly Windsor have to be shifted from that lovely private hospital to Bart's?).
And your 2-3% figure has to assume automatic progression up a scale (the so-called annual increment), which has not existed in practice for a whole heap of people (figures hard to come by as it is the sort of thing trusts are not required to collate and publish, nor even submit to the DoH).
And comparisons with the privates sector fall into false equivalence and the like, as there is not a private sector equivalent (thinks: why did Philly Windsor have to be shifted from that lovely private hospital to Bart's?).
Strange then that the Chancellor didn’t mention that…. Perhaps you should let him know he got his sums wrong?
That would make the pay increase 3-4% for a ~1% current rate of inflation, when the increase is clearly 1%. Please explain.
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Carrot Flower King
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That would make the pay increase 3-4% for a ~1% current rate of inflation, when the increase is clearly 1%. Please explain.
Aber is working on the old, long gone, idea that all NHS staff have an automatic move up their pay band, the old annual increment. This has not been a given for all staff some time and the systems in place around this are routinely manipulated by management or made the subject of "local deals", which were never intended to be part of national NHS pay arrangements, but have been allowed to sneak in by the DoH, especially since 2010, and frequently are put in place without full discussion with staff (this certainly happened in 2 major acute trusts round here - source: one of the peoole who paid the staff of those trusts while working for one of them, who just happens to be through in the next room).
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