So How Many Will Die.........

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62134314
.....for the vanity of union leaders and general greed?

[Bobbisox1]

JD,where’s this money coming from to give these big pay rises please?

[Gromit]

How many will die…
For the ideology of Conservative Cabinet Ministers?

The last time the Government lost control of the economy, the workers would say, ‘we want 13%’, and the employers would offer 9%, and soon the strikes were over. Today Shapps et al reply, ‘you’ll get nothing and we will change the law to ban your Union’. It is as if they believe negotiating is a weakness and that they can ban Unions because Mrs Thatcher did (she didn’t). The Government are deliberately being intransigent, so so they can throw their weight around. It will all end in tears (and a few unnecessary deaths).
A good time to remember the 40,000 unnecessary deaths when Hancock sent covid infected patients back to care homes, and they were decimated.

[New Judge]

// I can only think of 2 on here that will have paid more in than they are receiving.//

Nobody knows how much they have paid in towards their State pension. Contributions to the scheme are not identified. Instead the benefits of the scheme are calculated by National Insurance contributions (and not even directly then - only in the form of "contributory years"). This does not get ringfenced solely for the State Pension scheme. More than that, the NI contributions any individual makes do not relate in any way to the benefits received. Somebody currently earning £20,000 pa will pay £984 pa National Insurance. Somebody earning £100,000 pa will pay £6,613 pa - almost seven times as much. But both will receive identical State pension payments.

[JDavis]

Bobbi,

According to Mick Lynch, management could easily fund it from the previous year's profit of 500 million pounds.

[Bobbisox1]

Arh right, thanks JD

[mushroom25]

// They will still attend life threatening calls //

what is "they's" definition of "life threatening", and who gets to play God when deciding whether someone's affliction meets that definition, or not?

[ToraToraTora]

Redhelen: "They will still attend life threatening calls " - well you've turned the silliness quotient up to 11 with that one! How will they know what is life threatening? It's often not clear until they get there.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit 11:08, this is about not caving in to perpetual blackmail. Give in now and more Danegeld will be needed.

[Gromit]

// you've turned the silliness quotient up to 11 //

The silliness quotient was set at 15 in the OP :-/

[perseverer]

It will be down to the call handlers to decide the priorities based on what they are being told, as it currently is. At the moment that is a struggle and will be even moreso with few ambulances available.

[Bobbisox1]

And call handlers are coming out too perseveres

[Gromit]

TTT,
Why will Shapps not let the train operators talk to their own employees ? How does he expect a solution to come about if they are forbidden to negotiate with each other?

[Snackrite]

Slow day on Twitter so thought I’d give this place a go. Is it as Tory on here as it seems?

[perseverer]

Mostly, yes.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit 11:30 "TTT,
Why will Shapps not let the train operators talk to their own employees ? How does he expect a solution to come about if they are forbidden to negotiate with each other? "
So they don't wimp out and give them what they want, precipitating a general free for all of inflation busting pay rises pushing inflation higher and making it even worse next time. Pretty obvious isn't it?

[goodgoalie]

//Slow day on Twitter so thought I’d give this place a go. Is it as Tory on here as it seems?//

Ask gulliver....

[ToraToraTora]

"//Slow day on Twitter so thought I’d give this place a go. Is it as Tory on here as it seems?// " - no it's mainly assorted lefties having a go at the government and a sprinkling of remoaners who are desperate to surrender to the EUSSR.

[Snackrite]

Oh right. I just wondered if Baroness Mone was part of the general greed? She certainly knows how to increase her income. Did she pass any profits on to her workforce at Medpro I’m wondering? What are the chances of a brand new company getting a 200 million pound contract just two weeks after forming?

[gulliver1]

"So how many will die" What a stupid Statement.
Should read... "So how many did die" from Covid because of poor equipment supplied By Boris and his Cronies who pocketed £millions of tax payers money on useless PPE equipment.

[goodgoalie]

See what I mean, Snackrite? :)