Jeremy Corbyn and his policies.

[Jack Knave]

Oh and he won't read this one either - it has JC's name in it:

One way that JC could get elected would be if the Tories only get enough seats for a minority forcing the others to form a coalition when the Tories confidence ends.

[jakswan]

I think you will find that JK was belittling my post with his well-informed opinion mate - I can't see JK actually reading any of the information given on the link let alone endorse it.

Credit due where credits due...

Wrong on both counts, most of those things I would agree with and I read the link.

How is it going to be paid for, Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet have failed to answer those questions every time I have watched them and I've watched them a lot.

This what makes Corbyn unelectable and that is without mentioning Livingston farce, that Labour is a divided party and the delusions that its all a conspiracy.

I read your second link its almost a moot point, are Labour planning to go after the rich and introduce 90% income tax bands, it doesn't work.

He is a nice man but a terrible potential prime minister.

[floo]

I see Corbyn has promised 4 more bank holidays if Labour gets in, one for each British saints day. They don't say how that will be paid for!

[Rhiannon]

The first three fall within weeks of both each other and the Easter and May Day Bank Holidays. I like the idea of extra bank holidays but having them spread out would be useful.

[ekim]

I see Corbyn has promised 4 more bank holidays if Labour gets in, one for each British saints day. They don't say how that will be paid for!

Well he won't get the Cornish vote unless he includes a St Piran's Day.

[Anchorman]

I see Corbyn has promised 4 more bank holidays if Labour gets in, one for each British saints day. They don't say how that will be paid for!

- 30 November is already a bank holiday in Scotland. I believe similarly that St Patrick'ds day is similarly treated in NI. These are devolved matters.

[floo]

Well he won't get the Cornish vote unless he includes a St Piran's Day.

St Piran?

[Nearly Sane]

St Piran?

A popular beat combo, m'lud


http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/uncovered/stories/st_piran_background.shtml

[floo]

A popular beat combo, m'lud


http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/uncovered/stories/st_piran_background.shtml

Thanks.

[Nearly Sane]

Just taking the first one, surely if we dislike tax havens so much we shouldn't be in linked to quite so many offshore tax havens?

[jeremyp]

Dear Prof,


Taken from the article this thread is linked to, but I see the Tories destroying the NHS first hand, in the past two months we have had four Senior Sisters retiring with no replacements, the other Sisters struggle to keep the unit running with less and less staff, it is becoming the norm in our unit for Nurses to leave or for them to go part time.

But it does my heart proud to see those retired Sisters covering for Nurses to keep numbers up, the NHS is in crisis, we either pay for it to continue or lose it.

Fact, keep the Tories and lose the NHS, get rid of them and reclaim something which makes this little island great.

Gonnagle.

Blame the SNP if you are talking about the NHS In Scotland.

[jeremyp]

I see Corbyn has promised 4 more bank holidays if Labour gets in, one for each British saints day. They don't say how that will be paid for!

It's easy. It will be paid for with slightly reduced productivity per person per year.

[Nearly Sane]

It's easy. It will be paid for with slightly reduced productivity per person per year.

I think we have to be careful about making a direct correlation here. Despite, or possibly because of, having fewer public holidays than most countries, and working longer hours we have an issue with low productivity. The policy itself is a ludicrous sop, particularly for the timing reasons already mentioned, nevermind its harking back to a time when Saints days meant anything. I would've more interested in them putting together a plan looking at increasing productivity through development of clear equitable workers rights treated as a whole rather than piecemeal.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I think we have to be careful about making a direct correlation here. Despite, or possibly because of, having fewer public holidays than most countries, and working longer hours we have an issue with low productivity. The policy itself is a ludicrous sop, particularly for the timing reasons already mentioned, nevermind its harking back to a time when Saints days meant anything. I would've more interested in them putting together a plan looking at increasing productivity through development of clear equitable workers rights treated as a whole rather than piecemeal.

Interesting view. Are you saying that taken as a whole they vote conservative and then demonstrate passive aggression in the workplace thus reducing productivity?

Or is it that aspect which is always neglected under Tory administrations.....Shite management.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

I think we have to be careful about making a direct correlation here. Despite, or possibly because of, having fewer public holidays than most countries, and working longer hours we have an issue with low productivity. The policy itself is a ludicrous sop, particularly for the timing reasons already mentioned, nevermind its harking back to a time when Saints days meant anything. I would've more interested in them putting together a plan looking at increasing productivity through development of clear equitable workers rights treated as a whole rather than piecemeal.

I dunno....If your erstwhile voters are going to take the piss out of you why not take the piss out of them.
You want a Landslide? Vote for more working hours.

Can I see that the whiff of Britain's Ecclesiastical past has turned yer average forum atheist into a Conservative here?

[floo]

Corbyn is undecided about Trident, but the Labour Party wishes to keep the deterrent.

[Nearly Sane]

I dunno....If your erstwhile voters are going to take the piss out of you why not take the piss out of them.
You want a Landslide? Vote for more working hours.

Can I see that the whiff of Britain's Ecclesiastical past has turned yer average forum atheist into a Conservative here?

No.

[jeremyp]

I think we have to be careful about making a direct correlation here. Despite, or possibly because of, having fewer public holidays than most countries, and working longer hours we have an issue with low productivity. The policy itself is a ludicrous sop, particularly for the timing reasons already mentioned, nevermind its harking back to a time when Saints days meant anything. I would've more interested in them putting together a plan looking at increasing productivity through development of clear equitable workers rights treated as a whole rather than piecemeal.

I was focusing on Floo's specific question about how to pay for the new bank holidays and pointing out that it is relatively easy.

The policy itself is an obvious bribe and it hasn't been thought out, not least because three of the four proposed new holidays fall in a period that is already well served by Easter and the May holidays.

As for increasing productivity through improving workers' rights, I find that an intriguing idea. The UK's per capita productivity is shockingly bad compared with other European countries that have better rights, but correlation is not necessarily causation.

[jeremyp]

Corbyn is undecided about Trident, but the Labour Party wishes to keep the deterrent.

Define "the Labour Party". Do you mean the PLP or the party as a whole including all its members?

[Anchorman]

Corbyn is undecided about Trident, but the Labour Party wishes to keep the deterrent.

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Which Labourparty?
'Cos even though their Scots leader supported weapons of mass destruction, the Scottis branch voted to get rid of them.

[floo]

Define "the Labour Party". Do you mean the PLP or the party as a whole including all its members?

I should have said the PLP.

[Gonnagle]

Dear Jeremyp,

Blame the SNP if you are talking about the NHS In Scotland.

Don't worry old son!! After young Sane informed me that that the NHS had been devolved, I have been having a little read about who and what, seems I have a little catching up on what the Tartan Tories are all about.

Gonnagle.

[Anchorman]

Dear Jeremyp,

Don't worry old son!! After young Sane informed me that that the NHS had been devolved, I have been having a little read about who and what, seems I have a little catching up on what the Tartan Tories are all about.

Gonnagle.

-
Actually, the NHS has been separate from that in England since its' creation, long before devolution. It used to be the province of the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Scottish Office.

[jakswan]

Which Labourparty?
'Cos even though their Scots leader supported weapons of mass destruction, the Scottis branch voted to get rid of them.

Hang don't the SNP want to remain in NATO which has nuclear weapons.

[Anchorman]

Hang don't the SNP want to remain in NATO which has nuclear weapons.

-
Yep
(I'm not a member of any party at the moment, btw)
So what?
Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway....need I go on?
None of them harbour weapons of mass destruction, yet are members of Nato.
Why should Scotland be any different?