[Politics] The Labour Government

[Machiavelli]

You missed the point I was making.

Go on then, make your prediction. Will it be that there will be negligible growth, high inflation, rising interest rates, real-terms pay cuts, mounting levels of debt, increased poverty, multiplying food banks and rampant inequality?

 

[Professor Plum]

Go on then, make your prediction. Will it be that there will be negligible growth, high inflation, rising interest rates, real-terms pay cuts, mounting levels of debt, increased poverty, multiplying food banks and rampant inequality?

The obvious point I was making was that there will be major issues to come re industrial action, particularly in the public sector and with the traditionally militant unions- transport etc.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The obvious point I was making was that there will be major issues to come re industrial action, particularly in the public sector and with the traditionally militant unions- transport etc.

Peace breaks out on the railways as RMT members accept pay offer

RMT members back one-year rise of 4.5% at Network Rail and increases at train operators of 4.75% for the last year and 4.5% for 2024/25

www.standard.co.uk

 

[Professor Plum]

Peace breaks out on the railways as RMT members accept pay offer

RMT members back one-year rise of 4.5% at Network Rail and increases at train operators of 4.75% for the last year and 4.5% for 2024/25

www.standard.co.uk

Yes, that’s (partly) what started the line of discussion. Apparently nothing proposed or agreed re productivity, future efficiencies etc. Let’s see how this pans out.