Rishi triumphs over the teaching unions!

[noblegiraffe]

He has managed to beat the teaching unions into submission and to call off strikes by:

Offering them a pay deal worth more than double the original government recommendation

Giving schools extra funding to pay for it.

Well done Rishi, you really showed them!

https://twitter.com/rishisunak/status/1679462222655881218?s=46&t=vKGM6xpoeW3wdlaVVVagQA

Michael Gove handed back £1.9 billion to the Treasury because he couldn’t find any housing projects to spend it on.

So there is spare money https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/michael-gove-housing-crisis-unspent-cash-b2373711.html

Ffs
What a wankmuffin

It's not resolved yet.

The letter sent to schools says it's "fully funded" can you direct me to where the 3% is stated?

@noblegiraffe - my mistake. Apologies

Sunak is a Tory snake, I don’t trust him. Let’s see the details.

Sources for the extra money: how about the £££ wasted on PPE and other contracts to their mates abc the £££ wasted in Covid fraud which the Tories have gallantly written off. What’s a few billion between friends.

Head of NAHT

But where is this money coming from. Everyone thinks there's a money tree. It will be taken from an area that needs that money. MPs will still keep getting their pay rises. Subsidised lunches at Parliament but nhs staff have to pay for parking and lunches.

Nevertheless, when the corrupt government wants to find money for their dodgy mates who get awarded contracts but they can't find the money to improve the NHS. Rishi wants private health care. It will happen in time and we will all be spending thousands for basic treatment and medication. We are heading towards a disaster under this government. I've never known it so bad.

@noblegiraffe do you work for the NEU? Just out of curiosity rather than being snide. Most posts I've seen elsewhere are not anywhere near as positive as your posts .

MPs will still keep getting their pay rises

I’d be absolutely astonished if they accepted another one in this parliamentry term.

Subsidised lunches at Parliament but nhs staff have to pay for parking and lunches.

Hopefully the next government will bin both parliamentary subsidies and NHS staff parking charges.

Will the DfE have a spare £900m a year or is it just the year of the election?

Try not to gloat too much in schools. Support staff are still waiting for their April rise and it won't be this much, despite the "public sector staff" headline.

Good question- Saving up problems for the next government.

It's likely to be the blanket £ 1,925 for everyone which is more than 6.5% rise for me personally.

Is Noble being sarcastic I can't quite work it out?

He could contribute a large chunk of the cost just by ensuring that very rich people (like Rees Mogg and, er, his wife) actually pay the same proportion of their earnings in tax as nurses and teachers do.

I agree about the raises being funded etc, but I don't agree that there aren't inefficiencies in school services.

I used to work in school technology, and we'd review school processes and systems as part of that. The sheer number of schools using (and paying for) a dozen pieces of technology when one or two would do was staggering - it was the norm, not the exception.

(I blame the technology suppliers and a whole range of local authorities for this, not the schools. But schools aren't experts in tech procurement - not their fault, lots of people are bad at it!)

That 'no money left' note is a tradition going back through many labour and tory governments. But sure, buy into the Daily Fail spin.

As an aside, a child in my class (Year 3) came bouncing into class yesterday morning saying ‘Mrs Time, my daddy met the new prime minister yesterday and he’s much nicer than that other one’.

Further prompting revealed that he meant Kier Starmer 😂

No, I don't work for the NEU.

Anyone who doesn't see a 6.5% pay rise for teachers on all points of the pay scale plus extra funding to schools to pay for it as a massive win from this government really hasn't been paying attention.

i thought you did.

Or another union?

I am so confused from this post.

Is this a good thing or not? And is it being funded?

It’s a good thing if you’re a teacher I think. Not sure if you’re a parent.

@noblegiraffe not for teachers teaching 6th form.

You thought I worked for the NEU?

No, I don't work for any union. I'm not a rep either.