chuckbert
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As much as i like it, that quote has been debunked
The letter from his classics master was real though.
National News Boris Johnson - Ousted Former PM
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The letter from his classics master was real though.
RyanioBirdio
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Weird that this story has been removed from all digital arms of the media, despite being freely available in print.
Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claiming Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie Symonds a £100,000 role
Why did one of the scoops of the year suddenly disappear from newspapers friendly to the prime minister?
www.theneweuropean.co.uk
“The Daily Mail was offered it, but turned it down, with the tipster being told it didn’t accord with the newspaper’s “general point of view”. Rupert Murdoch’s Times was next on the tipster’s list. Their journalist, Simon Walters, was put on the story and he promptly identified four allies of Johnson who confirmed it to him.”
Bloody lefty media elites at the Daily Mail and the like, burying stories on Boris Johnson to take down the Tories. They make me so mad!
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Boris Johnson returns to No 10 after minor sinus operation
Downing Street says Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab would have made any urgent decisions in his place.
www.bbc.co.uk
Apparently an operation to stop his nose growing.
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Apparently pulled after contact from #10 - but BoJo apparently had no knowledge of the intervention....View attachment 9068
Weird that this story has been removed from all digital arms of the media, despite being freely available in print.
Mystery surrounds Times exclusive claiming Boris Johnson wanted to give Carrie Symonds a £100,000 role
Why did one of the scoops of the year suddenly disappear from newspapers friendly to the prime minister?
“The Daily Mail was offered it, but turned it down, with the tipster being told it didn’t accord with the newspaper’s “general point of view”. Rupert Murdoch’s Times was next on the tipster’s list. Their journalist, Simon Walters, was put on the story and he promptly identified four allies of Johnson who confirmed it to him.”
Bloody lefty media elites at the Daily Mail and the like, burying stories on Boris Johnson to take down the Tories. They make me so mad!
Train strike: How much are rail workers paid?
There have been different claims made about how much rail workers get paid.
www.bbc.co.uk
Not like this Govt to play with stats and include/remove parts that doesn't suit....
Also, make up rubbish as well with the guff about Starmer "was behind the scenes encouraging the unions to go on strike" from Shapps....
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How dare they strike trying to secure a 2% real terms pay cut!Train strike: How much are rail workers paid?
There have been different claims made about how much rail workers get paid.www.bbc.co.uk
Not like this Govt to play with stats and include/remove parts that doesn't suit....
Also, make up rubbish as well with the guff about Starmer "was behind the scenes encouraging the unions to go on strike" from Shapps....
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Essexyellows
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7% but it's more complex than that - it's also about modernising their contracts and some reductions in workforce.
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Ah! You must be swallowing Michael Green's lies. Don't worry, you're not alone.
Grant Shapps admits he had second job as 'millionaire web marketer' while MP
Tory party chairman had repeatedly denied using pseudonym of Michael Green or having a second job after becoming an MP in 2005
www.theguardian.com
Sheik djibouti
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Also this
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As do almost all public sector workers. Is there a point to that?
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The point is that over period of 2010-2020 MPs have had a 2% increase in salaries in real terms when inflation is factored in.
Over that same time period, Nurses had a 5% decrease, Teachers a 6% decrease and Police a whopping 14% decrease when inflation is factored in.
https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-salaries/
Also during that time, most parts of the public sector were subjected to a pay freeze (2011 - 2013) followed by a maximum of 1% increases or (for 2013-17)and now the impostion of a further pay freeze from 2021. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8037/CBP-8037.pdf
The only time that MP's salaries have not gone up by more than inflation in that period, was 2020-21 where they were frozen due to Covid. https://www.statista.com/statistics/388885/mp-salary-uk/
So the point, as you well know, is that MP's have had signficantly bigger pay rises during the same period that they have overseen a massive devaluing of the public sector pay settlement. And they hide behind the bunkum that it is an Independent Pay Review Body to justify taking it.
But we're all in it together, aren't we (if you're as gullible as you make out
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Great research there!The point is that over period of 2010-2020 MPs have had a 2% increase in salaries in real terms when inflation is factored in.
Over that same time period, Nurses had a 5% decrease, Teachers a 6% decrease and Police a whopping 14% decrease when inflation is factored in.
https://fullfact.org/online/public-sector-salaries/
Also during that time, most parts of the public sector were subjected to a pay freeze (2011 - 2013) followed by a maximum of 1% increases or (for 2013-17)and now the impostion of a further pay freeze from 2021. https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8037/CBP-8037.pdf
The only time that MP's salaries have not gone up by more than inflation in that period, was 2020-21 where they were frozen due to Covid. https://www.statista.com/statistics/388885/mp-salary-uk/
So the point, as you well know, is that MP's have had signficantly bigger pay rises during the same period that they have overseen a massive devaluing of the public sector pay settlement. And they hide behind the bunkum that it is an Independent Pay Review Body to justify taking it.
But we're all in it together, aren't we (if you're as gullible as you make out
(Highlighting @Essexyellows's bullshit is a full time job there's so much of it!)
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So, they want a high wage economy, as long as it doesn't involve most people getting a wage increase that would actually be a real-world wage increase. Only business leaders (whom they are loosening wage restrictions on) and MPs themselves are apparently exempt.
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l'll tell you who they are looking after for the "High Wage Economy"....Pensioners!
The bone idle fuckers will get a 10% pay rise next year, which the rest of us hard working tax payers are funding (along with hugely increased borrowing by the government): https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2022-06-15/18980
Shall we take a look at how the over 65's traditionally vote (using the 2019 election as a barometer?
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ge2019-how-did-demographics-affect-the-result/
I smell an election bribe.....
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Ah! You must be swallowing Michael Green's lies. Don't worry, you're not alone.
Grant Shapps admits he had second job as 'millionaire web marketer' while MP
Tory party chairman had repeatedly denied using pseudonym of Michael Green or having a second job after becoming an MP in 2005
I have no idea who Michael Green is, never heard of him .
I just asked a simple question, as I thought you might be able to answer same .
As an aside, Michael Green was an alias that Grant Shapps used for a business where he was alledged to have made some dubious claims (iirc and hence the link about online recommendations). Ended according to below just after he was an MP (again iirc) and he tried to deny it for quite a while:
Grant Shapps fake name: Who is Michael Green? Inside get-rich-quick scheme
GRANT SHAPPS, although known best for his current role as transport secretary under Boris Johnson, once admitted to working with a pen name. Express.co.uk has explored the curious, controversial life of his alias Michael Green.
www.express.co.uk
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CPI is at 9% (until tomorrow), 2% real terms paycut, pay award being asked for = 7%
And you do know who Michael Green is actually. He's a complete charlatan and carpet bagger. Like his boss he's told lies all his life. It's impossible to trust these slippery 'truth twisters'.
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I assume that your comments regarding pensioners being bone idle f-----s is a generalisation or attempted wit. I would point out that the State Pension in the UK is
somewhat lower than other major industrialised nations in the EU. I retired at 70, not because I needed to work but to keep active. At present I also carry out unpaid consultancy
work a few days a month. I know plenty of pensioners who also work (some through necessity but most for something to do). It is also worth noting that interest rates in
the 70/80s were a good deal higher for mortgages. For savers now it is an absolute joke as you know. Before you ask, yes I do vote Tory and yes a Brexiteer.
