The Starmer Years - Can The New Broom Sweep Clean?

[Baird of the land]

I’m very much a fan of hybrid working
However, There’s definitely pros to some days working in the office (from networking, cohesion, less than ideal home working environments, training/supporting more junior staff.

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, Baird of the land said:

From a party that's struggled to complete any sort of cut comes yet more spending it seems.

The Conservatives is that? Yeah, they spent tens of billions of our money on extra civil service posts to sort their shambles of a cliff edge hard Brexit https://ukandeu.ac.uk/videos/jill-rutter-and-james-obrien-civil-service-100k-bigger-since-brexit-but-no-clear-vision/

You’re right, they waste taxpayers money right left and centre. Reform wasting it all over the country in local government and DOGE having all the impact of a wet fart.

Didn’t vote for the current government but they’ve had to cut Boris’s huge civil service post increases and Streeting is laying off so many posts in the NHS undoing the barking mad Lansley system by merging NHS England and DHSC (Jeremy Hunt badly wanted to do the same as Health Secretary but politically couldn’t) that he’s clashing with Reeves about the sheer cost of redundancy payments, so much so that they’ll probably need to be staggered over three years https://www.healthcare-management.uk/streeting-reeves-reported-loggerheads-redundancy-payments

Plenty that I can criticise them for but this isn’t it. At least they are accelerating moving the roles around the UK to boost skilled jobs and prosperity across the UK, one Boris policy I did agree with https://www.gov.uk/government/news/thousands-of-civil-service-roles-moved-out-of-london-in-latest-reform-to-the-state

Edited 4 hours ago by Gloucester Saint

[Saint Fan CaM]

6 hours ago, whelk said:

You know employers pension are not uncommon. Would be very weird to have worked your whole life and only have a state pension 

You do know when employer pensions were made mandatory right? Phased in from October 2012 to 2018. So it is an unfortunate fact that there are people who only have a state pension (or have a private pension that is so small it’s not enough alone to live on). That’s not the point - the triple lock was designed to ensure the state pension kept up with the basic cost of living and there’s no good humane reason for removing it before first removing other waste from public spending.