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Tories introduce yellow cards to keep leadership race 'clean'
The six leadership candidates will get a warning and public dressing down if they personally attack rivals.
Hope they've bought a couple of hundred.
Knowing certain Tory candidates and the membership, I can see them seeing the cards as a badge of honour in some weird sadist way so deliberately goes out of their way to get more cards and rally their support.Tories introduce yellow cards to keep leadership race 'clean'
The six leadership candidates will get a warning and public dressing down if they personally attack rivals.
Hope they've bought a couple of hundred.
No my gal Suella is just waiting. She knows who ever wins will be the new William Hauge, Suella will replace them in a few years and be the new IDS.
My money's on Farage standing up in Parliament and announcing that Ms Braverman is now the Reform MP for wherever, sitting cosily together and both beaming. 'Suella Braverman defection' is right at the top on Google.
He was there yesterday, I spotted him whilst watching proceedings.
Every country is having the same demographic transition, eventually you'll run out of other countries people to import. Not to mention it's a very selfish attitude that we can just rely on cheap labour from elsewhere forever and imply they aren't need in their home countries
Yes, for instance, every Filipino nurse that we import to the UK to backfill for the UK born nurse that either left for Australia having gotten fed up with pay and conditions in the UK (or never existed in the first place considering the lack of training places) is a nurse which isn't available to the Philippine health system and I suspect they have just as much need for them as we do but just can't afford to keep them.
Maybe though the Filipino economy and families depend a lot on remittences sent back by overseas workers. Overseas workers have a high status there due to the vital part they play in the economy.
Very true! It's a complex picture to be sure. The economy does well on the basis of remittances back from overseas workers but does that benefit the health care system more or less from having nurses working in overseas healthcare systems?
When it suits him!
I think that's also because the government of the last five years self-evidently didn't want them here. True, they didn't legally have to leave the UK as long as they did the right paperwork, but with all the hostile messaging of the last few years it's little wonder many probably felt unwelcome and some of those returned to their own countries.
Obviously freedom of movement ending is a big reason but the same happened in Germany, which is why they created a guest worker program for people from the Balkans. If they catch up a new reserve army of labour gets called up. I think getting rid of the child cap is easier and more moral than ensuring the global south stays poor forever.
A pool of people willing to work for the minimum wage or less drags down the average wage in an industry towards that minimum.
Whoever wins will need to last 5 years 3 months to equal Churchill’s continuous stint as a Tory leader of the opposition. Only Heath got anywhere near it.
Correct. Sooner or later all economies will have to realise this fact.
That's capitalism!
Yes usually only seen as a "problem" when its the workers getting more money not the business, strange.That's capitalism!
Businesses took advantage of the fact that there was a supply of cheap labour that was willing to work for lower wages than the local population was willing to put up with. Now that the supply of cheaper labour is drying up, those businesses are suddenly having to react to "market forces" and pay more in order to retain people.
"Market forces" isn't a one-way thing!
Of course the market could have been managed if the Blair government had stemmed the flow of Eastern European workers, as other countries in the EU did, but he chose to fling the doors open and flood the country. To this day the left generally deny that this influx depressed wages for working class people despite the obvious truth.That's capitalism!
Businesses took advantage of the fact that there was a supply of cheap labour that was willing to work for lower wages than the local population was willing to put up with. Now that the supply of cheaper labour is drying up, those businesses are suddenly having to react to "market forces" and pay more in order to retain people.
"Market forces" isn't a one-way thing!
Or just put up the minimum wage.
"Flood the country"? Would prefer more neutral language to be honest!
That would only have partially worked. A fair portion of the Eastern European cohort were recruited abusively in the early years in particular, and they often worked with the employer illegally paying them below minimum wage, especially in agriculture.
Of course, by far the cheapest way to respond is to pour money into lobbying politicians into creating visa systems to allow the flow of cheap labour continue.Now that the supply of cheaper labour is drying up, those businesses are suddenly having to react to "market forces" and pay more in order to retain people.
"Market forces" isn't a one-way thing!
So raise the minimum wage and crack down on enforcement.
Easier said than done, for the second part at least!
