The Chancellor admitted on Thursday that private sector workers would be paid less as a result of her Budget tax raid to fund a massive expansion of the state.
She is handing out pay rises totalling £9.4bn for public sector workers – almost as much as the £10bn she is expected to raise from a raid on employers’ National Insurance that will be borne exclusively by private companies.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul….they’ve made it very easy to shout about that, haven’t they?
What is so hilarious is that a large section of the NHS is actually the private sector. GP practices, dentists, opticians, all having additional costs imposed to funnel money to favoured clients.
My local GP practice has 12 doctors, 5 nurses, 3 medical assistants, 3 admin staff. So that’s about a quarter million extra costs.
Labour is the party of the civil servant, academics, NGOs and politically well connected non-jobbers. I think they genuinely believe that the private sector is merely a nice to have rather than an essential part of a nations economy.
The government have still to decide whether the they will cover the increase in NI for GPs and social care
My guess, the GPs will get it (despite being private businesses) and social care won’t (because they don’t give a shit about old people).
TTK writ large – there are Private Sector people ( boo hiss!) and there are State Sector People ( hurrah!).
@ salamander: Labour is also the party of Africans and Asians; which is one of the reasons the left want more of them.
“My guess, the GPs will get it (despite being private businesses) and social care won’t”
Yep, I reckon you’re spot on, GPs are also part of the quasi-State and have a powerful union, care homes are just private sector chancers (as viewed by the likes of TTK).
If care homes have any sense, they’ll all collectively refuse to take any new clients direct from hospital. Bung the entire system up with old biddies who don’t need to be in hospital but can’t go home because they are too frail or nutty, and need a care home. It wouldn’t take long for a care home strike to paralyse the NHS.
Incidentally I’m hearing whispers on the grapevine that there may be farmer led protests over the IHT provisions in the Budget, possibly targeting the supermarket’s logistics chains, aimed at creating bare supermarket shelves. It might be sensible to have a well filled larder and freezer, and stock up on powdered milk……….
@Jonathan
Africans. I think Labour might be in a for a shock. A lot of the West Africans are socially conservative. They tend to be very christian, following the sort of christianity that thinks gay people are sinners destined for hell. They also tend to believe in traditional family values.
Jonathan
Next weeks US election will show whether sufficient blacks have finally had enough of uncontrolled immigration and whether relatively well-settled Hispanics are willing to vote for pulling the ladder up.
I don’t see much evidence that minorities in the UK are anywhere close to coming to their senses in this way.
Even if the US behaviour is largely a case of “GIBs for all these newcomers means less GIBs for me” it unquestionably makes them more economically literate than our politicians over the past 30 years.
I prefer JuliaM’s suggestion on another thread this morning of bringing livestock to Downing St. Make it Parliament Square, Whitehall and environs and farmers would be making a much more visible protest which would gain sympathy and give us all a good laugh. The arable boys could join in with prettily festooned JCBs and liberally bedunged landrovers.
The rozzers who are singularly inept at dealing with JSO, BLM and the rest would entertain us all by attempting to kettle flocks of sheep or round them up with drug sniffing labradors.
The supermarkets are too obvious a target for farmers because you already hate them but confronting the public with empty shelves will not win you wider support.
Jeremy Clarkson should be invited to lead and speak for the protestors.
PS This IHT measure will not survive beyond this government which in turn will not survive five years.
There are so many things this herd of simpletons are doing that they are testing the COVID theory to destruction. I think the combination of no food, so electricity and no travel will be the haystack that breaks the camel’s back…
@ salamander; the majority of Muslims are also socially conservative and yet they overwhelmingly vote Labour – largely because Labour pander to them. Same with Africans.
@ John; black Americans still vote Democrat and the idea that large numbers are going to vote for Trump is, mostly, fantasy. The GoP might get, if they’re lucky, 10% of the black vote instead of 3% but that’s about it. They know which side their bread is buttered.
Considering Reeves is a public sector employee herself, it’s more simply a case of “robbing you to pay me”.
Robbing Peter to pay Pindar.
“; black Americans still vote Democrat and the idea that large numbers are going to vote for Trump is, mostly, fantasy. The GoP might get, if they’re lucky, 10% of the black vote instead of 3% but that’s about it. ”
Um, Trump got 12% of the black vote in 2020.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2020
Which was up from 8% in 2016, so a 50% rise. I would expect him to at least get the 12% again, and very probably improve upon it. All his troubles with the law will (ironically enough) have given him a credibility with the black voter, especially men, that KH serially lacks.
Jim – famous discount rap star 50 Cent Photoshopped Donald Trump’s head onto Fiddy’s own body, and put it up on a 50 ft screen while he performed “Many Men”.
That’s like being made an honourary black man.
Many men, wish death upon me
Blood in my eye, dawg and I can’t see
I’m trying to be, what I’m destined to be
And niggaz trying to take my life away
I put a hole in niggaz for fucking with me
My back on the wall, now you gon’ see
Better watch how you talk, when you talk about me
‘Cause, I’ll come and take your life away
Many men many, many, many, many men
Wish death upon me, Lord I don’t cry no more
Don’t look to the sky no more
Have mercy on me
Btw I think Trump won big with black guys, Latino guys and white guys when he took a bullet and came up fighting. They should have cancelled the election there and then, Trump is immortal now.
Everybody loves a hero.
“It takes more than a bullet to bring down a bullmoose”
Steve said:
…”when he took a bullet and came up fighting. They should have cancelled the election there and then”
They probably have. Just not in the way you’re thinking of.
Bleat, bleat, bleat – when it suits, we are private businesses, but when it doesn’t we’re not.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79z87wzv2no
Robbing Peter to pay Pindar.
Is Pindar a hook-up network for Classics scholars? (Asking for a friend)
Chris,
Coincidentally (!), I assumed he means the chap that set up BOOK (Literacy)… And Steve making the comment because of the earlier better known gig..?
Jim, If care homes attempted to act collectively to secure for themselves a privilege of exemption from the NIC increase matching one hypothetically granted to GPs, then they would likely be found to be acting in violation of competition law and their principals would subject to criminal prosecution. Being “bosses”, they probably cannot even expect to enjoy the protections first granted to Trade Unions under the 1906 Trade Disputes Act.
“If care homes attempted to act collectively to secure for themselves a privilege of exemption from the NIC increase matching one hypothetically granted to GPs, then they would likely be found to be acting in violation of competition law and their principals would subject to criminal prosecution. ”
Yeah, good luck proving that one, in an era of universal instant communications. There doesn’t need even to be a conspiracy. One home does it and publicises the fact, it goes viral, all the others think ‘Oooh, thats a good idea, we’ll do the same’. If everyone acts in lockstep but there’s no collusion then there’s no breach of competition law. Otherwise all the supermarkets putting the price of bread up when the price of wheat rises would be in breach too.
Oh, and and where were the competition laws when GPs were ‘working to rule’ recently as a tactic to get more money out of the taxpayer?
@ Jim
Competition law doesn’t apply to trade unions