[Politics] Labour Party meltdown incoming.......

[timbha]

He told us he'd be dealing with that on "Day One".

It's one broken promise after another...

Labour’s Streeting Seeks to End Junior Doctor Strikes in England on ‘Day One’

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, urged England’s junior doctors to cancel a round of strikes planned before the UK’s general election next month, and pledged to seek a compromise to end more than a year of industrial action from “day one” if his party wins the July 4 vote.

www.bloomberg.com

I suppose there’s a difference between “seeking to deal with” and “resolving”

 

[pb21]

He told us he'd be dealing with that on "Day One".

It's one broken promise after another...

Labour’s Streeting Seeks to End Junior Doctor Strikes in England on ‘Day One’

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, urged England’s junior doctors to cancel a round of strikes planned before the UK’s general election next month, and pledged to seek a compromise to end more than a year of industrial action from “day one” if his party wins the July 4 vote.

www.bloomberg.com

He has been dealing with it on day one

From the article you linked to, he said:

“If there’s a Labour government on the fifth of July, one of my first calls will be to the junior doctors’ representatives,” Streeting told BBC TV in an interview. “I’ll be asking the department straight away to initiate the urgent resumption of talks so we can negotiate an end to the strikes once and for all.”

And according to his tweet he spoke yesterday he spoke to the BMA.

Sounds to me like he has done what he said he would do?

 

[Fungus]

An interesting appointment.

Yeah, there was a good interview with him in the Big Issue recently, he comes across very well.

 

[Baldseagull]

It's also a way of packing the House of Lords with Labour appointees so serves two purposes.

They need to, its Tory heavy at the moment.

UK House of Lords composition 2024 | Statista

As of 2024, there are 785 members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, with 270 Lords belonging to the Conservative Party, 184 Crossbench Lords, and 175 that are members of the Labour Party.

www.statista.com

 

[A mex eyecan]

Yeah, there was a good interview with him in the Big Issue recently, he comes across very well.

Also heard him on a radio programme some while ago, he spoke for around 20 minutes or so explaining Timsons philosophy on working with ex prisoners. Some really quite amazing stories.

A great appointment, who would ever imagine putting people into positions where their life experiences matched with their job requirements.

 

[Baldseagull]

410 odd MPs and Starmer is appointing Lords for ministers? is this lack of faith in the intake, or novel approach of using experienced people?

If it is using the right people, and not a favour to a donor, its a good idea.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

 

[CheeseRolls]

I don't like this whole "lets appoint people with experience in the specific field to the head of govt".

It's much more fun when it's as before
"Good evening Janet"
"Hello Prime minister"
"Janet, you know what a huge fan I am of your work in the banking sector and your extensive work as a lecturer on economic analysis before becoming an MP. And it is that expertise that I want to use in my cabinet"
"Oh. This is such an honour, never did I dream of being The Chancell"
"Congratulations Janet. You are the new foreign secretary"

Yes, but what is the tune please?

 

[Giraffe]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

So the housebuilding needed shouldn't happen near where you are, but should definitely happen somewhere else?

 

[ozzygull]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

I have to say that this my only worry about this Government I hope that houses that get built are social housing that stay in the council portfolio rather then more poorly overpriced privet estates.

 

[Chicken Run]

I have to say that this my only worry about this Government I hope that houses that get built are social housing that stay in the council portfolio rather then more poorly overpriced privet estates.

Totally agree, we can build plenty of homes but none of them are affordable, the new homes all need to be social housing

 

[pocketseagull]

I have to say that this my only worry about this Government I hope that houses that get built are social housing that stay in the council portfolio rather then more poorly overpriced privet estates.

Doesn't appear that hopeful according to this:

Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor

Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristol

www.theguardian.com

 

[BLOCK F]

Doesn't appear that hopeful according to this:

Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor

Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristol

www.theguardian.com

When is the Guardian ever happy?

 

[drew]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

Do you actually know what the levelling up programme actually was?

Levelling up: what has the government spent – and where?

Much of the money allocated to ‘unite and level up’ the UK is unspent while some funding decisions have been criticised for impartiality

www.theguardian.com

 

[Bold Seagull]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

Not announced the specifics have they? When you say "'interesting reading their housing plans" do you mean "interesting reading someone else's assumptions on what their housing plans could be?"

 

[Guinness Boy]

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

Levelling up was nonsense.

They've spunked huge amounts on a bowls club, skate park and park on wealthy West Hove seafront, a place so undeserving of levelling up that many of its residents tutted into their hummus at the plans. And where there was already a park, skate park and bowls club.

Meanwhile, actual shitholes were ignored to the point where their residents voted for those mad Nazis, Reform.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Levelling up was nonsense.

They've spunked huge amounts on a bowls club, skate park and park on wealthy West Hove seafront, a place so undeserving of levelling up that many of its residents tutted into their hummus at the plans. And where there was already a park, skate park and bowls club.

Meanwhile, actual shitholes were ignored to the point where their residents voted for those mad Nazis, Reform.

Rishi Sunak was recorded as promising that down at heel area, Tunbridge Wells, some funding from the levelling 'up' fund.
It was well documented that money would go to constituents with Tory MPs, rather than areas that needed it.

 

[Mellotron]

I thought it would be better than the Tories.

I'm surprised at how much better so far, but also I think that reflects on just how utterly dreadful those final few years under the Tories were.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Levelling up was nonsense.

They've spunked huge amounts on a bowls club, skate park and park on wealthy West Hove seafront, a place so undeserving of levelling up that many of its residents tutted into their hummus at the plans. And where there was already a park, skate park and bowls club.

Meanwhile, actual shitholes were ignored to the point where their residents voted for those mad Nazis, Reform.

I'm glad someone else has echoed my thoughts on this - I got a bit shot down for being a kill joy a few months ago for saying it seemed a complete disregard for areas that really needed it.

The Padel courts will likely be £50 per hour, so really accessible for the average income family.