cuts - Wednesday's Spending Review

[mrsbaldwin]

Brace yourself ladies - these cuts are big, there will be tens of thousands of public sector redundancies and it's said (by the Fawcett Society amongst others) that they will disproportionately affect women.

Some workers will get some sort of payoff, and some will be pleased to go. Some will find new jobs.

But I reckon the overall effect (licks finger and holds it in the wind) will be to drive down women's wages, meaning that once you are made redundant from your public sector post you may find more work but it will be at a lower rate and the extra competition for jobs across the board will drive wages down across the board. This may be true for men as well but I think it will affect women - mums - more.

If you are watching the press coverage on Weds, what do you think the effects of the cuts and the job losses for women (and mums) will be?

Is he rattling through it so no-one can get a grip on the detail?

About 490,000 public sector jobs likely to be lost

Ouch So that will be unemployment up again. Great time to cap benefits guys.

Sorry to jump in here with you but no one I knows intrested in the cuts

Heisdoingitquicksothatyoudonotnoticewhatisbeingsaid

Isn't 80% of market rate for rent in social housing MASSIVE?

it is ook our Madge is sharing the pain and there are funds for volunteer organisers for rites of passage for our young sounds noble and meaningful

They are nervous.

Look at all the fidgeting behind him. All that thumb twiddling actually The PM too.

Who decides Market Rate?

Olympics budget to getting people to VOLUNTEER with offenders in 2.4 seconds

I'd be really happy for international aid not to be cut -- it's only a small proportion of expenditure. But the bit about focusing it more on 'conflict resolution' might mean that they are meeting the UN 0.7% in spirit, but actually only by counting as aid money that is spent with a view to furthering some security objectives in pakistan, afghanistan, etc. Perhaps not, but who knows.

Why do they keep claiming that the private sector will step in and provide a range of excellent highly paid replacement jobs for everyone, with some to spare?

They have no evidence that will happen at all, do they. No reason for saying it, they're just hoping. Fact is that loads of private sector and third sector jobs will go as contracts will be pulled - god knows how many on top of the 500K in teh public sector.

I'm going to try and get a job in a bank, it's the only sane choice

I enjoyed that little remission with whatshername trying out the headlines to see if they work

I was hoping she would say something deeply renegade while she thought she was off mic.

This is like a live birth thread when the whole of MN can see a labour go badly wrong.

I can think of a job cut / waste saving in the public sector

Nick Clegg

What exactly is the point of him?

Pure duplication

The definition of waste

Internet keeling over in my house - whole of S Cambs trying to log onto the BBC at once, I think.

LadyblaBlah - yes!

Can't quite see how is that going to incentivise existing tenants on the cheaper rent to move to private sector or away for work

Oh, yeah Ozzie. The Tories would have regulated the banks much more harshly. {hmm}

what did he just say about disabled facilities grants? He is waffling on so much I have no idea whats going on lol.
Although I am doped up on pain killers so someone might have to 'dumb' it down for me!
xxx

Banks being "appallingly regulated"?

The Tories are AGAINST regulation? Twat

report next year? FFS I could do it in 5 minutes

Dry throat - somethings coming up.

Ah Bankers.

Ooooohh A commission.

Oh FFS the BBC is just flashing news about the queen all over the screen and not beothing with anything else

BBC:

"Those on a higher income will contribute more as a proportion of their income".

Oh REALLY???

Don't quite understand -

Council house rents for NEW tenants to be 80% of market rates.

Council houses were supposed to be for those in need, lower paid, etc, so if a poorer family is allocated a tenancy and can't afford rent and housing benefit is cut and they still can't, surely authority is duty bound to house said family somewhere even if they are evicted. So who is gaining anything here????

My sister has been on council list for 5 years near the top now . She will be devasted if she finally gets there and all they can is a short tenancy at 80 percent rate .

He's going so quickly am google eyed. Am having to listen to Special Agent Oso aswell, am distracted.

Good idea, bye Nick Clegg. His career is over anyway after the next election.

Is this it?