Finally ! Therese Coffey tells it like it is. If you need more money, work longer.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64745258

Hurrah for the voice of reason. Now this is the sort of person we need as Prime Minister.

Unless the government suddenly decides to govern at some point this might just happen anyway as nurseries can’t afford to pay what they already are without increasing costs to parent or refusing to accept funded children.

That will happen when the national minimum wage increases.

Plus I suppose grafting away on a diet of turnips will solve the obesity too.
It's all good 🙄

All that happens when NMW or in-work benefits increase is that bottom-level housing costs increase, which ripples through the economy, and landlords and property-speculators indirectly receive subsidies from taxpayers.

The acid test of key workers, ways of working, was Covid. And although it did a lot to improve efficiency via technology and working from home, and improved some women's rights due to making child care easier. Why not before?
I think it's relevant that transport workers and nurses in unions are protesting.
Many grafters during that time were zero hours. There is no real record of agency staff, also zero hours, dying of Covid. No union, often doing really important jobs.
So I think eg Unison should extend to zero hours etc

I was thinking more about overhead costs and the ridiculously low amount that nurseries are funded per hour for the 15 or 30 hours as well as pay. I’m going to guess that if the government have increased that it’s nowhere near the actual cost increases for energy etc that nurseries are facing.

Exactly this.
Pure performative BS.

We're seeing what impact the shortage of people available for these jobs - social care being a big one, but the whining about reduction in customer service in many areas is due to not enough staff - sure, let's go ahead and encourage more people out of these essential services and make them worse by telling them to upskill and get better jobs and resenting them instead of respecting them.

They don't want people to upskill and earn better money, they want the low income earners providing the services they and everyone else need and want to just shut up and know their place so they don't' need to answer uncomfortable questions.

Very believable Noble. Schools in charge of own budget, ditto, GPs. Both GPs and schools given incentives/bonuses based on Government or now academy targets.
No NHS dentists where I am. As can only take so many subsidised treatments and stay afloat based on govt funding. Again managing own budget.

Quitting Europe and a unshackled Conservative government is a big mistake. Just watch as they erode employment laws. These bastards only look after their own. No longer an mp old boy, come have a seat on the board of directors for all the favours you done whilst in Parliament. Corrupt as fuck.

Retired teacher but was offered hours during the pandemic in a school.
Sorry other teachers but no way that I would do face to face at that time. Most teachers wouldn't. The LSAs did, for key workers children, no union.
Vast majority of schools were staffed by learning support assistants ie minimum age. Untraceable if ill.

I think she might have been carved out of a turnip.

😂

Boris Johnson being the most obvious example of this, although I could name many other Tory MPs as well.

I genuinely didn’t see what was so wrong about her saying that. DH’s ex thinks he should pay more maintenance for the kids. Yet she chooses to work part time term time when the oldest is a working adult and the youngest is 13 so can easily be left alone after school and during school holidays. She needs to contribute more rather than expecting us to pick up the slack.

As for me and DH. We’ve realised we don’t have enough to live on so I’ve just applied for a job which pays £4k a year more and he’s in line for a promotion which will pay an extra £14k a year 🤷‍♀️ We’re doing what we need to do, not complaining that ‘they’ E.g the government, ergo taxpayers need to hand over more cash to people claiming benefits.

I don’t know, NHS Jobs/Civil Service website/Reed/Indeed. Take some responsibility and look for one, don’t moan there’s no jobs because there are millions of them 🙄

Bitter second wife is such a bad look. There is no “us” when it comes to child maintenance, you pay nothing @WorkingFromHomeRocks, why shouldn’t your bloke pay for his kids?

@HannibalHeyes

I know! Freedom from those EU turnip quotas has been life-changing.

You mean the NHS jobs that expect you to work overtime for no extra pay and don't actually pay enough to live on to the point half the workforce is striking - those jobs?

It's satire.

And you are right, everyone should be able to have a decent standard of living whatever job they do. By decent, I mean being able to afford rent/mortgage on a flat or house which isn't full of mould, being able to heat their home and being able to afford food and some treats. This is a G7 country, we should all have a good basic standard of living. And many minimum wage jobs are essential. Who will do them if everyone gets a promotion?

Yep, work 25 hours a day.

I do agree with her point about seasonal produce. But on environmental grounds. We should be trying to fly less produce over to the UK - eg strawberries in December.

Mission accomplished !!

My 54 year old mum is having to consider getting a weekend job because she is struggling to pay her mortgage and bills (she lives alone). She works full time for the NHS already.

She was managing ok but with the interest rate on her mortgage going up, the recent insane rise in energy bills plus food, council tax increase has pushed her to the limit.

What?

I thought it was sarcasm, too - you mean that there are people who actually think that Coffey and her ilk are actually the people we need in charge?

That is terrifying!

No second homes or subsidised meals etc either.

Get a block of flats (something Grenfell-y would be appropriate) and serving MPPs can be issued with one for the duration of their tenure in parliament. (Economic rent to be paid, obviously).