It's ok Heed, the Tories are a kind and caring political party, and they've given NHS workers the pay rise they think they deserve for all of their selfless sacrificies and risks during this global pandemic.
Derisory.
All those rainbows and stuff for the NHS means naff all
Not sure any of us should be surprised - tories will be tories - they genuinely couldn’t give a feck about anyone - crazy how people up here vote for them.
Inflation is less than 1%. I think it is a reasonable proposal.
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
Aye it’s a great laugh duke
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 2 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
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Apparently they've received 12% over the last 3 years which seems generous given inflation has averaged about 2% in that time though I don't doubt that included some elements of catch up?
3% in 18
2.8 in 19
2,95 in 20
Top increases - those at higher rates of pay were given a lesser flat rate increase
It’s about right. Might sound callous but as has been pointed out it’s the rate of inflation.
Everything we can borrow and then some has been spent on protecting people and jobs. This is really all we can afford unless some still think there’s a magic money tree somewhere that never runs out or needs feeding.
I realise it’s a bit of a unique concept in paying our debts to many but without the jobs we’ve saved how on earth is all this paid for?
Yes yes £37bn etc etc.
What our future generations paying our waste and profligacy?
There’s a reason the Labour Party don’t get in and it’s mainly due to their maniacal financial policies or lack thereof.
Start taking some fwcking responsibility instead of holding the mitts out for more and more.
Everyone has to survive this. And millions have slipped through the gaps. Public sector workers are nowhere in that category. They will likely never be.
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 13 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
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Didn't the police force get a bigger pay rise last year?
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
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Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
comment by Foddy - make mine a quadruple treble (U8028)
posted 14 minutes ago
Aye it’s a great laugh duke
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The requested % is a fekn laugh
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
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Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
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Oh well
Westminster at fault
Just sell some more oil
Everything we can borrow and then some has been spent on protecting people and jobs. This is really all we can afford unless some still think there’s a magic money tree somewhere that never runs out or needs feeding.
You mean there isn't?
What our future generations paying our waste and profligacy?
Well said Ginger. These Tory kants are shameless.
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
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Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
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Raise taxes. You’re allowed to
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
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In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get more per capita than England who generate 90% of the wealth. Pipe down FFS you entitled waaaaanker.
Bojo and chums in the midst of the pandemic ‘Our NHS workers will be rewarded for the heroic work they do’
Bojo and chums, once the country is getting out of the crisis and spend on train sets etc ‘We only afford 1% ‘
You couldn’t hold a blow torch to their necks.
Strike awaits me thinks unless the Tories do the right thing and increase their offer.
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get more per capita than England who generate 90% of the wealth. Pipe down FFS you entitled waaaaanker.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep going prriick you just triggered a few more Indy vorptes.
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
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In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
True. So a 1% pay rise is pretty good, relatively speaking
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
True. So a 1% pay rise is pretty good, relatively speaking
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Relative to the 100’s of £ms spunked by this Tory government and relative to their promises to NHS workers, yes it’s relatively clear they are wasteful Tory cants 👍
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm a maized at how you spelt that.
To be honest I think this is a bit of a masterstroke from the Tories. By announcing a provocatively low pay rise they've pulled the unions and opposition politicians into making it a straight up matter of pay, and in the end they'll come out of this just looking like the stingey Tories they're caricatured as, and no one will give a fvck after a while. I'll bet most frontline workers weren't going home after a long shift over the last year and thinking to themselves "an extra couple of grand a year in my pay would have made this all ok", but rather wondering how long until they got the PPE, the covering staff, and the support they needed to do their job in traumatic circumstances. This budget should have been about committing finance to address the structural problems in the NHS - problems of the Tories' and New Labour's making - but instead they've put all the attention on pay, and everyone else has fallen right into the trap.
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posted on 5/3/21
It's ok Heed, the Tories are a kind and caring political party, and they've given NHS workers the pay rise they think they deserve for all of their selfless sacrificies and risks during this global pandemic.
posted on 5/3/21
Derisory.
All those rainbows and stuff for the NHS means naff all
posted on 5/3/21
Not sure any of us should be surprised - tories will be tories - they genuinely couldn’t give a feck about anyone - crazy how people up here vote for them.
posted on 5/3/21
Inflation is less than 1%. I think it is a reasonable proposal.
posted on 5/3/21
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
posted on 5/3/21
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
posted on 5/3/21
Aye it’s a great laugh duke
posted on 5/3/21
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 2 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Apparently they've received 12% over the last 3 years which seems generous given inflation has averaged about 2% in that time though I don't doubt that included some elements of catch up?
posted on 5/3/21
3% in 18
2.8 in 19
2,95 in 20
Top increases - those at higher rates of pay were given a lesser flat rate increase
posted on 5/3/21
It’s about right. Might sound callous but as has been pointed out it’s the rate of inflation.
Everything we can borrow and then some has been spent on protecting people and jobs. This is really all we can afford unless some still think there’s a magic money tree somewhere that never runs out or needs feeding.
I realise it’s a bit of a unique concept in paying our debts to many but without the jobs we’ve saved how on earth is all this paid for?
Yes yes £37bn etc etc.
What our future generations paying our waste and profligacy?
There’s a reason the Labour Party don’t get in and it’s mainly due to their maniacal financial policies or lack thereof.
Start taking some fwcking responsibility instead of holding the mitts out for more and more.
Everyone has to survive this. And millions have slipped through the gaps. Public sector workers are nowhere in that category. They will likely never be.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 13 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Didn't the police force get a bigger pay rise last year?
posted on 5/3/21
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Foddy - make mine a quadruple treble (U8028)
posted 14 minutes ago
Aye it’s a great laugh duke
----------------------------------------------------------------------
The requested % is a fekn laugh
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh well
Westminster at fault
Just sell some more oil
posted on 5/3/21
Everything we can borrow and then some has been spent on protecting people and jobs. This is really all we can afford unless some still think there’s a magic money tree somewhere that never runs out or needs feeding.
You mean there isn't?
posted on 5/3/21
What our future generations paying our waste and profligacy?
Well said Ginger. These Tory kants are shameless.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Raise taxes. You’re allowed to
posted on 5/3/21
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get more per capita than England who generate 90% of the wealth. Pipe down FFS you entitled waaaaanker.
posted on 5/3/21
Bojo and chums in the midst of the pandemic ‘Our NHS workers will be rewarded for the heroic work they do’
Bojo and chums, once the country is getting out of the crisis and spend on train sets etc ‘We only afford 1% ‘
You couldn’t hold a blow torch to their necks.
Strike awaits me thinks unless the Tories do the right thing and increase their offer.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Zico - Sharkhead Home of the Champions (U21900)
posted 23 minutes ago
comment by The Duke (U10059)
posted 11 minutes ago
Good news will be when nhs Scotland do something more
12.5% is being requested
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Difficult to do when the pay rises come out of the pash poor pot we're 'given' by Westminster to pay for everything.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Get more per capita than England who generate 90% of the wealth. Pipe down FFS you entitled waaaaanker.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep going prriick you just triggered a few more Indy vorptes.
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
True. So a 1% pay rise is pretty good, relatively speaking
posted on 5/3/21
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 14 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
And redundancies are happening all over the place.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
True. So a 1% pay rise is pretty good, relatively speaking
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Relative to the 100’s of £ms spunked by this Tory government and relative to their promises to NHS workers, yes it’s relatively clear they are wasteful Tory cants 👍
posted on 5/3/21
comment by Fred Klopp (U3979)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by merrysupersteve (monitoring the situation) (U1132)
posted 38 minutes ago
Kind of torn on this. On the one hand, 1% seems small. But it's all relative. Most public sector workers (myself included) aren't getting any pay rise for the next 4 years, full stop and a huge number of people are furloughed and are only receiving 80% pay. Relatively speaking, it isn't so bad
----------------------------------------------------------------------
In fairness, barley any of the private sector will see a pay increase either.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I'm a maized at how you spelt that.
posted on 5/3/21
To be honest I think this is a bit of a masterstroke from the Tories. By announcing a provocatively low pay rise they've pulled the unions and opposition politicians into making it a straight up matter of pay, and in the end they'll come out of this just looking like the stingey Tories they're caricatured as, and no one will give a fvck after a while. I'll bet most frontline workers weren't going home after a long shift over the last year and thinking to themselves "an extra couple of grand a year in my pay would have made this all ok", but rather wondering how long until they got the PPE, the covering staff, and the support they needed to do their job in traumatic circumstances. This budget should have been about committing finance to address the structural problems in the NHS - problems of the Tories' and New Labour's making - but instead they've put all the attention on pay, and everyone else has fallen right into the trap.
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