Re: Friday 21st April 2017
Posted: Fri 21 Apr, 2017 7:06 pm
Where's tinyclanger2? There was a brief appearance, earlier today, in the cast list, but nothing more. Slacker.
He can be very good tbf. Something of a rarity - a former member of the SPADocracy who has interesting things to say.gilsey wrote:
Oh dear, that won't go down well in certain circles...Philip Hammond has criticised the Conservative’s 2015 election pledge not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT rates, in a sign that he wants to gain more leeway to reform the tax system and inject funds into Britain’s stretched public services.
I find there is no argument, no matter how straight forward that Giles Fraser can't pick the wrong side.NonOxCol wrote:Looks like he wouldn't even vote for Blair these days....AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well she claims to be a Christian and that is enough for the likes of Fraser (though didn't Mr Tony, who he so admires, do the same?)
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Nice to know what his deal-breakers actually are.
That rather made my head hurt. Is my reading that if you are paid as a carer and required to be at hand largely immediately equivalent to saying NMW applies, regardless as to whether you are awake or not?HindleA wrote:http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/20 ... _2104.html
SUMMARY
NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
The appeals consider the proper approach to the question whether employees who sleep-in in order to carry out duties if required engage in “time work” for the full duration of the night shift or whether they are only entitled to the national minimum wage when they are awake and carrying out relevant duties.
A multifactorial evaluation is required. No single factor is determinative and the relevance and weight of particular factors will vary with and depend on the context and circumstances of the particular case."
Massive in terms of social care implications.
I've looked at it briefly - it's a big changeHindleA wrote:https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ls#history
Guidance
Free movement rights: direct family members of EEA nationals
(Updated)
I thought this was just walking away from Cameron's rather dodgy let expats vote forever approach. At the time it was seen as a way of upping the Tory vote count.citizenJA wrote:Tory government snap election, not allowing some UK citizens abroad a vote on it, changes to EU nationals freedom of movement...this is bad news
If the work demands you've got to be there ready to work if/when you're woken up, people need to be paid for that time.HindleA wrote:http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/20 ... _2104.html
SUMMARY
NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
The appeals consider the proper approach to the question whether employees who sleep-in in order to carry out duties if required engage in “time work” for the full duration of the night shift or whether they are only entitled to the national minimum wage when they are awake and carrying out relevant duties.
A multifactorial evaluation is required. No single factor is determinative and the relevance and weight of particular factors will vary with and depend on the context and circumstances of the particular case."
What do you think of it at this time? How do you reckon UK people living abroad, within the EU, for example, are feeling towards Tory government right now? Didn't get to vote on the referendum and now shut out of the GE.TechnicalEphemera wrote:I thought this was just walking away from Cameron's rather dodgy let expats vote forever approach. At the time it was seen as a way of upping the Tory vote count.citizenJA wrote:Tory government snap election, not allowing some UK citizens abroad a vote on it, changes to EU nationals freedom of movement...this is bad news
Me too, TE, surely the criteria of the work itself is not whether you are awake or not, but that you are present and some system is in place to alert you to need. Not just careworkers in homes and communities but also in hospitals, not all care workers either, but doctors, long distance drivers and others whose presence needed, but sleep may be a neccessity due to sensible regulation of amount of hours already worked, sleeping on the job sometimes being the best, not worst thing to do.TechnicalEphemera wrote:That rather made my head hurt. Is my reading that if you are paid as a carer and required to be at hand largely immediately equivalent to saying NMW applies, regardless as to whether you are awake or not?HindleA wrote:http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/20 ... _2104.html
SUMMARY
NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE
The appeals consider the proper approach to the question whether employees who sleep-in in order to carry out duties if required engage in “time work” for the full duration of the night shift or whether they are only entitled to the national minimum wage when they are awake and carrying out relevant duties.
A multifactorial evaluation is required. No single factor is determinative and the relevance and weight of particular factors will vary with and depend on the context and circumstances of the particular case."
Massive in terms of social care implications.
Don't know what to make of that, the trot got loads of votes, Len scraped home despite a tiny turnout. Even Unite activists have had enough of him.SpinningHugo wrote:Ooooh. Len got lucky there.
Perhaps the wind has changed.
Oh I don't know, some of my most enjoyable experiences started that way.PorFavor wrote:Never end a sentence with a proposition. . .
Well the 15 year expats never had a vote, I think they by their nature are relatively unlikely to be a hot bed of socialism. That said, who knows, maybe they all moved to Cuba.citizenJA wrote:What do you think of it at this time? How do you reckon UK people living abroad, within the EU, for example, are feeling towards Tory government right now? Didn't get to vote on the referendum and now shut out of the GE.TechnicalEphemera wrote:I thought this was just walking away from Cameron's rather dodgy let expats vote forever approach. At the time it was seen as a way of upping the Tory vote count.citizenJA wrote:Tory government snap election, not allowing some UK citizens abroad a vote on it, changes to EU nationals freedom of movement...this is bad news
...the Tribunal observed that the fact that the Claimant may have had little or nothing to do during sleep-in shifts and that she was entitled to sleep did not detract from the fact that she was required to be there and to deal with such situations as might require her attention or intervention.
Further, it was not sufficient that the Claimant was on-call to attend if required, she had to be there both for the proper performance of her duties and to enable the Respondent to comply with the legal obligation placed upon it, to provide an appropriate level of care for the service users.
The Claimant had responsibilities to undertake even though the frequency of actual activity might have been low and even though she was entitled to sleep. This situation was far removed in the Tribunal's view from a situation of a person being on call where that individual could do whatever he or she wished provided that they remained capable of being contacted and capable of responding to contact. The Claimant was required to be present and would have been disciplined if she left the house, putting Mencap in breach of its legal obligations too.
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TechnicalEphemera wrote:Well the 15 year expats never had a vote, I think they by their nature are relatively unlikely to be a hot bed of socialism. That said, who knows, maybe they all moved to Cuba.
Apparently, Tory government didn't follow throughGovernment delivers on pledge to give back British expats the right to vote
The Minister for the Constitution, Chris Skidmore, announced the policy statement which
sets out how the government will remove the current 15-year time limit on British citizens
who live abroad registering as overseas electors.
7 October 2016
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Yes, mostly "NOTA" votes in effect. Though an AV voting system would still likely have given LM a fairly comfortable margin.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Don't know what to make of that, the trot got loads of votes, Len scraped home despite a tiny turnout. Even Unite activists have had enough of him.SpinningHugo wrote:Ooooh. Len got lucky there.
Perhaps the wind has changed.
I will be interested to see what he does next, I have some suspicions it will be not entirely as expected.
Weren't some people from Gibraltar entitled to vote? If so, some of them might be feeling pretty miffed. And those elsewhere whose only option is to repatriate here post Brexit, so they do have a vested interest in current politics here.citizenJA wrote:What do you think of it at this time? How do you reckon UK people living abroad, within the EU, for example, are feeling towards Tory government right now? Didn't get to vote on the referendum and now shut out of the GE.TechnicalEphemera wrote:I thought this was just walking away from Cameron's rather dodgy let expats vote forever approach. At the time it was seen as a way of upping the Tory vote count.citizenJA wrote:Tory government snap election, not allowing some UK citizens abroad a vote on it, changes to EU nationals freedom of movement...this is bad news
Part of me always wondered if Len was so angry about being challenged from the right because he hadn't factored it in. The plan being keep the left sweet, get elected and then see which way the wind was blowing.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yes, mostly "NOTA" votes in effect. Though an AV voting system would still likely have given LM a fairly comfortable margin.TechnicalEphemera wrote:Don't know what to make of that, the trot got loads of votes, Len scraped home despite a tiny turnout. Even Unite activists have had enough of him.SpinningHugo wrote:Ooooh. Len got lucky there.
Perhaps the wind has changed.
I will be interested to see what he does next, I have some suspicions it will be not entirely as expected.
Coyne was a bad candidate, and that he lost despite public backing (and article space) from the Sun and other papers is pretty damning.
I think, re your last comment, that McCluskey will be ready to tell Corbyn the game's up when the time is right (quite possibly days after June 8)
Though this depends on the right not trying to pull the sort of crude stitch-up that the likes of the Staggers are currently getting excited about.
Which likely means Watson going on the same day as Jez - no funny business.
The dread prospect of a MLP-Fillon run-off seems to be receding. But no complacency!HindleA wrote:France Elects: New Odoxa poll carried out today
Macron – 24.5%
Le Pen – 23%
Fillon - 19%
Melenchon – 19%
The trust ran two maternity and children's units across the two sites, one in Shrewsbury (bang in the middle of the catchment) and one in Telford (to the far west of the catchment). After one of those consultation things, during which a string of junior doctors spoke up saying 'if you do this children and babies will die', they moved them all to Telford, leaving just paediatric outpatients and a GP maternity unit at Shrewsbury. They now, about six years later, appear to be planning to move them all back as part of the snafu of probably closing one of the two A&E units.HindleA wrote:
'Hopeless': how senior doctor described NHS maternity unit's testing regime
Emails to GP reveal concerns about ‘fax and forget’ culture at Shrewsbury and Telford hospital NHS trust, where baby deaths are under investigation
MLP Melenchon would be worse. Dumb and Dumber (with a racism element to add spite). I don't rule it out though, I suspect French pollsters are as iffy as ours.AnatolyKasparov wrote:The dread prospect of a MLP-Fillon run-off seems to be receding. But no complacency!HindleA wrote:France Elects: New Odoxa poll carried out today
Macron – 24.5%
Le Pen – 23%
Fillon - 19%
Melenchon – 19%
But we now have a productive use for our hunter/killer subs. Maybe we could crowdfund a mission.HindleA wrote:April 1st is being rapidly made redundant.
I seem to recall that when Farage took to the air in 2010 it didn't end well...now what could possibly go wrong when they're at sea?TechnicalEphemera wrote:WTF.
You can't make this shit up (unless you are a Telegraph journalist possibly).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04 ... ler-essex/
Well there is a shock, 500 million or 50 million hmmmm, choices choices.RogerOThornhill wrote:From tomorrow's times.
Brexit is going so well pt XXXVIII