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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
An ordinary NHS nurse, retiring at 60, now gets a pension worth just over £1m in the annuity market.
What could possibly go wrong?
Problem is public sector hasn’t adopted private remuneration rigour.
Annual remuneration ought to be measured as salary, benefits, present value of pension benefits during year AND change in present value of historic pension liability because of salary increase in year.
A £5k increase in the pay of a 59 year old nurse could increase their pension pot by £150k in that year alone.
Which is why very few listed companies have schemes open to future accrual.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
UK Police - desperately under funded etc etc
Also UK Police:
Solve crimes you fucking idiots. Not hurty fucking feeling on Twitter.
For me separate police by spinning off ideological watchdog element with 5% of funding and make it plain that the residual doesn’t police wokedom but just sticks to the basics of catching crooks and preventing violence.
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Two new things on the Post Office scandal came to light this week.
It now it turns out MPs investigating the Horizon system were deliberately misled (see below). Secondly, a report from a KC in 2015 told the Post Office their prosecutions were unsafe but the Business Secretary was told by Civil Servants the report said everything was OK.
The sheer rotten-ness and lies told by the Post Office and civil servants is staggering. Nadhim Zahawi is calling for a manslaughter investigation.
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ITV has just been tearing them apart with these leaked audio tapes. It's been fascinating to open YouTube everyday and see what new shit they've dragged up of these fucking crooks.
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Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
Well let's hope it's not a complete fucking sham like the Covid 'chat'
That certainly wasn't an inquiry.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
I imagine that Womble Bond Dickinson are feeling every bit as fucking ridiculous as their name suggests they are.
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@gt12 said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
Not just the Post Office and Fujitsu management. Many law firms, solicitors and barristers were in on the game as well.
Inquiry kicks off again next week or so with the key players like Vennells in the spotlight. Get the popcorn ready.
I imagine that Womble Bond Dickinson are feeling every bit as fucking ridiculous as their name suggests they are.
Not as fucking ridiculous as the same MP's who fought against and attacked BoJo for setting up the Inquiry now enthusiastically getting in on the Post Office bashing..
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@Victor-Meldrew He's the god-damned party whip! He's supposed to enforce party discipline. Tories could not be more of a joke now.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
Tories are toast. It will be a Labour landslide, followed swiftly by a hung parliament next election with Reform UK getting > 30% of the vote.
It won't be fun, but it has to happen 'm afraid.
I'm staggered that neither Labour nor the Conservatives can see the danger that Reform and Farage pose. The latter has always played the long game - sometimes superbly.
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@Tim said in British Politics:
@Victor-Meldrew He's the god-damned party whip! He's supposed to enforce party discipline. Tories could not be more of a joke now.
Oh, there's always Angela Rayner....
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Britain’s richest plumber Charlie Mullins said the country has become “too keen to write sick notes”, which has contributed to soaring levels of economic inactivity.
He has called for a government-funded apprenticeship service to solve the problem, as he said that “if more young people were able to access a trade then GPs would spend less time composing notes”.
Mr Mullins said: “I would go further and make [a state-funded apprenticeship scheme] available as a second chance to graduates who feel duped by the English Literature or Sociology degree they have gone into debt for.”
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The bloke is a first class c*nt
Pay no heed to one word which spills out of his mouth
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The man, who was convicted of "outraging public decency and exposure" in 2017, was placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register but was given permission to remain in the country.
The evidence of several doctors at his asylum appeal hearings stated that he "continues to act inappropriately towards females".
In June 2020, an immigration tribunal judge agreed with lawyers that his "risky behaviours" would expose him to "ill-treatment" in Afghanistan and awarded him refugee status.
Immigration tribunal courts, where judges can overturn the Home Office, have ruled in favour of asylum seekers 51% of the time since 2021.
And the majority of those who are unsuccessful do not return home, staying in Britain illegally.
On average, more than £34m of legal aid per year has been spent on asylum cases since 2017, according to figures from the Ministry of Justice.
The Sky News investigation comes on the same day a watchdog revealed aid spending on asylum seekers in the UK rose to £4.3bn in 2023.
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact said the figure was driven up by the Home Office paying out £2.5bn on hotel accommodation for the year, saying it had "continuing value for money concerns" over the department's spending.
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Caught a bit of the Post Office Horizon inquiry today. The inquiry was shown an email from Snr civil servants which discussed a cover-up and suggested they only verbally discuss the cover-up to hide the cover up. Yes, you read that correctly folks, they laid an audit trail of discussions about not creating an audit trail....
And these people run the country.
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah tend to agree they should all be up for manslaughter.
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