Labour isn't working - Thread 21

[TheNuthatch]

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government. 💙

We are bracing for the budget 😬

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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I submitted a flexing working request Monday to ask to reduce my contract to 0.6 after Christmas. I’m really tired of the stress of teaching. We’re better off financially with DS at high school but I’m having to sit with his at least 90 minutes each evening to help him with his homework - it isn’t sustainable with us teaching all day and then going back to planning/marking after helping him. A job at Tescos working around DS sounds heavenly!

Or my personal favourite, people telling op she could stay at home. How very progressive. I think we have reached a tipping point today.

That happened with the staff of our [insert national supermarket chain] . One of the full-timers I am quite chatty with said her hours had dropped to the tune of around £300 a month. They are worried too.

This is why, teaching a female dominated profession, is in the crisis it is. You can’t be a good teacher and parent. You have to choose. They are incompatible. It has not been addressed because it is a female dominated workforce which has an extraordinarily high male leadership ratio in comparison.

Teaching (in England) will continue to have the worst attrition in the western world because of all the reasons we know of.

How on earth will this government recruit the promised 6.5k new state school teachers?

Yes I think today is going to tip a lot of people over the edge. It really is worrying. Why do they keep banging on about helping working people when they are doing the exact opposite?

Oh and on the subject of stacking shelves and going to uni- on Radio 4 several weeks ago (and I simply cannot recall the name of the programme... it may have been More or Less, but not sure if it was that or money box ?) they talked about if going to university was 'worth it' ultimately. Apparently the rough numbers are that for a woman, going to university as opposed to starting work upon leaving school the uplift in earnings over the course of a working life was circa £100k. For men (who obviously are not usually as affected by career breaks for maternity leave etc) the uplift was not significantly higher.

They won’t. It was a lie.

Feature, not a bug.

I heard that @MantleStatue and the business case for university has worsened for many people - given that many RG graduates cannot even get shelf stacking jobs at the moment (massive you grad unemployment rise), there must be a lot of young people in despair this Christmas.

I'm working away today with limited access to anything so wont have much access today. Will only be reading this thread though to keep me sane

Darren Jones chief secretary to the PM is getting roasted on good morning itv.
Getting quotes from Rachel last year that freezing thresholds will hurt working people . Quotes from business leaders that the nmw wage rise will cause jobless issues for young people. ..stumbling fumbling .

I guess you can't defend the indefensible !!
What a pack of weasels.

@Klipspringer they will hold a party for teachers in downing Street and say that's investing in teachers.

Ha fucking good! They need holding to account and their flip flopping calling out

He said he was helping the cost of living crisis by freezing train fares which is a small drop in the ocean they are already wildly high

Because in reality they mean "not working" people, they just can't say it

If I’m still anything like our end of term Xmas and summer celebration, it’ll be bring a dish to eat in the school hall and no alcohol (as that’s banned in school premises)! Fun times!

True

What a disingenuous plonker.

Yes plonker weasel. They must all feel terribly embarrassed. We need a led by donkeys parading the weasel words everywhere and getting them out on a loud speaker outside Westminster today.

Ed balls really went for him !!

Good. I want them to stumble, they can’t defend it.

The Guardian have done a job on Reeves.

And to top it all off an ex general talked about the peacekeeping CoW nonsense saying you can’t send a few flag wavers over you have to be able to go to war with Russia should they strike at those troops.

Fucking Starmer and his craven posturing. Absolute danger and clown.

The Conservatives did a LbD-style projection onto the Houses of Parliament (I think) the other night calling out the lies.

The middle earners thread is interesting. Finally mn swinging away from pro Labour / Starmer. That’s the good news.

The bad is I’m worried Starmer will use the Ukraine / Russia situation. He’s that craven. The stress levels will go up. Am I mistaken?