First The Rail-Workers......

[Ken4155]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/barristers-next-to-strike-as-they-back-walking-out/ar-AAYENA7?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=bcd91676df6e4096b77d5aa9fecc2316

[Gromit]

A summer of discontent.

[Canary42]

Barrister toffs joining the Working Class plebs - things must be bad.

[gulliver1]

One could be forgiven if anyone thought these strikes are being designed to bring this crooked Government down. Sort of back to Thatcher and the miners days.

[FatticusInch]

Maybe taken umbrage with the lefty accusations last week from Tory MP’s?
Seems the government are doing everything in their power to alienate as much of the electorate as possible.

[Peter Pedant]

what at £200 / h ?
this must be legal aid

[Peter Pedant]

gully - strikes have been always political

Think of the 1905 strikes - - in imperial Russia silly!

[sandra4444]

I heard this morning that doctors may go on strike. Will someone tell the government they still are, and have been for near on 2 years.

If they ever get that flight off to Rwanda? may be they could fill it full of doctors for the return trip.

[naomi24]

Sandra, they're not talking about GPs.

[davebro]

There is no left & right anymore - only in power & out of power!

Some of these strikes/proposed strikes are by people on at least adequate or above average wages. They should be ashamed.

[webbo3]

Barristers, who's going to make my morning coffee.

[Atheist]

I heard on BB5C radio 4 that the alleged average wages for rail workers included the pay of drivers, who aren't in the strike. Don't forget cleaners and other poor souls who may be paid peanuts.

[FatticusInch]

davebro
//There is no left & right anymore - only in power & out of power!

Some of these strikes/proposed strikes are by people on at least adequate or above average wages. They should be ashamed.//

You get a sense of their position though I guess when the current PM when in his former role as London Mayor described the £250,000 for his second salary writing a newspaper column as ‘chickenfeed’.

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jul/13/boris-johnson-second-salary-chickenfeed

Poor lad must’ve been struggling to make ends meet having to take a second job?
But then I guess a fair proportion was being used on child maintenance.

[New Judge]

"Barrister toffs...."

And your evidence for that description is....?

[sandyRoe]

Were barristers once unpaid during their first year in chambers?
If you could afford to keep yourself in London, for example, for a year you may not have been a toff but you were hardly from a council estate either.

[New Judge]

//Were barristers once unpaid during their first year in chambers?//

Yes they were. Now they must be paid a minimum of £17.1k outside London and £19.1k in the Capital. Many commercial chambers pay far more than this.

The term "toff" used in this context is derogatory. Graduating with a good enough law degree to secure a pupillage requires considerable application and to be called to the Bar during that first year means hard work and further application. Most criminal and family barristers do not earn particularly high salaries (especially if they do Legal Aid work) To label people "toffs" because they have worked hard and used their talents to earn a good salary by doing a responsible job is completely uncalled for.

[gulliver1]

Where is Rumpole when you need him , he would sort these Barristers out.

[jobjockey]

And Paul Pogba says £ 300,000 a week is disultory.