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M23 Citizen said:
They should represent the views of everyone. What P&O and DP World did should be a crime.

Who the fuck’s coming out to go against the rightful comments made by the Transport Secretary? There should be pats on the back for what she said.
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Keir Starmer disagrees with the Transport Secretary’s comments on… transport!
You really do have to chuckle. :-)
 
M23 Citizen said:
They should represent the views of everyone. What P&O and DP World did should be a crime.

Who the fuck’s coming out to go against the rightful comments made by the Transport Secretary? There should be pats on the back for what she said.
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Starmer doesn’t agree

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Keir Starmer rebukes Louise Haigh over P&O Ferries ‘boycott’ call

The prime minister says transport secretary Louise Haigh's criticism of a ferry company is "not the view of government".
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PPT said:
Another fuck up. It’s just one after another. A dangerous political cocktail of inexperience, arrogance and naivety.
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Yep, the world is a vastly different proposition when you have charge of making the decisions in a volatile political landscape. What was said a year or two back from the comfort of the green benches is quickly forgotten as 'realpolitik' kicks in!
 
inbetween said:
Only just read about this but that's me back on petrol once my lease ends.

My EV has been the best car I've ever driven but £410 extra per year removes a key benefit of getting one.

And somebody with a 10 year old diesel chugger will pay less, utterly bonkers.

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Another great tory mess the government inherited.
Be interesting to see if it is ammended in the budget.
www.theguardian.com

Electric car owners to pay road tax from 2025, Jeremy Hunt announces

Motoring experts say chancellor’s decision to apply the tax could slow transition to EVs
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Dereck Jeffries 3 wd said:
How long will they blame to Tory’s. Five years? Could not run I piss up in a brewery!
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Look at it this way: If your partner has been overspending and put you and your family in serious debt to the tune of a few £000, and you were still struggling to pay it off 3 months later, would you suddenly say the position you are in had nothing to do with said partner? I doubt it.

If it had been one term, then it is highly likely the descent into the mire would have been partially the fault of successive governments. But it was 3 successive Tory governments over 14 years, their 5 PMs, 7 Chancellors, 8 Home Secretaries etc etc. that has led us into where we are now. It's going to take time, but as we all know, society today expects instant results.
 
mosssideblue said:
And why is that naive considering the way they treat emplopees?
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The way they treated employees was disgraceful. Labour are bringing in legislation to outlaw it. Well done Labour, it’s good legislation. It’s done, the battle is won.

It is politically naive to then call them a rogue company (apparently a different word to describe them had been signed off by No 10) and encourage people to boycott them. A better statement would have been “we’ve brought through legislation to bring an end to some of the less acceptable practices we’ve seen in recent years and I look forward to working with P&O in the future” (assuming she was asked a direct question about P&O).

Starmer isn’t backing her. So if Starmer sacks her (aka she resigns) who are you going to back/ criticise? Will Starmer be wrong? Or will Haigh be in the wrong for saying it?
 
dickie davies said:
Is this the right place to post this?

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Tory policy inherited by our new government
Churchlawtonblue said:
The dodgy ones will believe it or not continue to be dodgy after these rules are brought in.
Good employers are doing everything they can for their employees already. However these rules will hit some small good employers very hard. As it will cost them money and time to implement. It's not all good news. Costs increase so prices will have to go up or margins will just get smaller and smaller in many small businesses especially hospitality.

Let's not forget the Government has to grow the economy to improve everyone's lot and to do that it's has to enable small and medium businesses to grow. Time will tell.
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Thankfully our public service workers will have a little more money to spend in small and medium size businesses after 14 years of wages cuts
metalblue said:
Absolutely right. Interestingly 12% of private sector workers feel the need to be in a union versus nearly 50% of public sector workers

You might be forgiven for thinking that the biggest **** of an employer is the government.
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It certainly was the case for the last 14+ year's.
I'm over £8,500 a year worse off than in 2009 based on the Bank of England inflation calculator which uses the lower CPI rather than the more accurate RPI (& that's just based on wage, not including having to pay more to work longer and get less of my pension which was always referred to as deferred pay during recruitment and retention negotiations).
 
metalblue said:
The way they treated employees was disgraceful. Labour are bringing in legislation to outlaw it. Well done Labour, it’s good legislation. It’s done, the battle is won.

It is politically naive to then call them a rogue company (apparently a different word to describe them had been signed off by No 10) and encourage people to boycott them. A better statement would have been “we’ve brought through legislation to bring an end to some of the less acceptable practices we’ve seen in recent years and I look forward to working with P&O in the future” (assuming she was asked a direct question about P&O).

Starmer isn’t backing her. So if Starmer sacks her (aka she resigns) who are you going to back/ criticise? Will Starmer be wrong? Or will Haigh be in the wrong for saying it?
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Let's see if your "if" materialises
 
metalblue said:
The way they treated employees was disgraceful. Labour are bringing in legislation to outlaw it. Well done Labour, it’s good legislation. It’s done, the battle is won.

It is politically naive to then call them a rogue company (apparently a different word to describe them had been signed off by No 10) and encourage people to boycott them. A better statement would have been “we’ve brought through legislation to bring an end to some of the less acceptable practices we’ve seen in recent years and I look forward to working with P&O in the future” (assuming she was asked a direct question about P&O).

Starmer isn’t backing her. So if Starmer sacks her (aka she resigns) who are you going to back/ criticise? Will Starmer be wrong? Or will Haigh be in the wrong for saying it?
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Starmer, who is alrady being called a stooge of lobbyists and the rwp are pushing the he hates the common person angle on him.

The 1billion figure is a lie and again was pushed by a rw gobshite to show labour up as anti-business, the majority of the public agree P&O are cunts the investment angle wouldn't damage labour in the public eye, backing a bad employer over your ministers though does
 
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