Obviously unnafordable because they already distributed those funds to pensioners. Buying votes the Tory way
A lie.
It is affordable. Always has been. This is just their usual “make the economy sound like a household budget” claptrap for austerity round 52.
How much have the government spent on test and trace out of interest? Or what about the amount spent on unusable PPE?
Maybe MPs should take a major pay deduction? Oh and the unelected peers 🙂
It is a certain percentage above the inflation rate so if you cannot afford 19%, you can simply bring down the inflation rate 😉
I’m waiting for April when they announce their own pay rise.
Seemed to be plenty to give too cronies and yourselves a nice rise
“Obviously unaffordable”.
Much like mortgage payments, rent, heating bills etc., etc., etc. for nurses across the UK.
He needs to start being honest about the fact that nurses have had real-terms pay cuts every year since the Tories came to power.
We’re not asking for anything unreasonable.
Just a fair wage for the work we do.
Without nurses, healthcare will collapse within hours.
I think raising pensions in line with inflation is unaffordable. Oh the things we do for Generation Scrounge, though.
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Corporate profits rising year on year should also be obviously unsustainable, but here we are
According to the Tories:
*Brexit was affordable
*Tax cuts for the rich in the Kami-Kwasi budget were affordable
*Tens of billions for apps that didn’t work, dodgy PPE and fraudulent Covid loans were affordable
*Public-private contracts to enrich their mates were and still are affordable
*Subsidising energy companies’ record profits is affordable
…but decent payrises for hardworking public sector employees who we all clapped for during the pandemic? Not affordable.
It’s a question of priorities, and the Tories’ priorities are fucked. The next general election can’t come soon enough.
Solidarity to the nurses and all strikers across the country. Working people deserve better than the Tories.
Are they not paying a fucking fortune for agency staff?
If they paid in house staff better maybe they’d have better recruitment and retention and have less reliance on agency staff, so existing funds could just be shuffled around
Right… Because health care workers and the NHS is something we should be scrimping on…I tell you who doesn’t need inflated wages, all those bankers you loosened bonus restrictions on and every single person you deem fit to earn the wage of PM…
£9-10 billion is “obviously unaffordable” says man who found over £100 billion as soon as soon as his corrupt buddies demanded it, like the good little bitch he is.
Insane wealth accumulation amongst the billionaire class is why everyone’s so poor now.
The economic model has failed. If you can call it a model, it’s more just a rigged economy. So much of our economy is built on rent and extraction, basically a massive wealth squeeze on middle and working class people.
Time to create a high wage / low inequality country, where every worker has the opportunity of a dignified life and decent affordable housing.
Weird.
Since the Tories have been in power MPs have seen their pay increase from £64K to £84K over 12 years. That’s a 31% pay rise.
That seems affordable.
Man’s a knob, got money to spunk on aid for china but not for the nurses.
Piss of Sunak
While NHS nurses’ pay has been squeezed by 8% on average, the Royal
College of Nursing (RCN) says some experienced nursing roles have had
real-terms wage cuts of as much as 20% since 2010.
and now we know how the rich remain rich, no Change to Non Dom schemes
Or you know, perhaps if you’d of paid them the 10% to match inflation over the last 10years when it *was* affordable we wouldn’t be in this position?
Tory government reaping what it sowed
I mean personally I would rather have well paid, motivated nurses than HS2 at this point.
Only unaffordable because they keep pissing away tax payers money for those who do not need it.
Why give Tesco £600m in coronavirus funding when they were an inelastic service anyway?
They ***doubled*** their profit coming into this year and gave most of that funding away in the form of dividend payments.
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe.
A 19% pay rise is extreme considering the dire finances of this country after Brexit and Covid.
Does anyone know how much is spent on agency nurses per year?
I’d be thinking of banning agency nurses outright and then using that money to give standard nurses a pay rise with ~75% of it, then using the other ~25% to pay for ex-agency nurses recruited back in.
Paying nurses at real terms rates equivalent to around what they were being paid in ~2010 is now apparently “unaffordable” after 12 years of masterful Tory management of the economy.
Oh okay, if we’re not doing things that are obviously unaffordable, then I won’t be paying for my energy bills, rent and grocery shopping.
If the government can feign responsibility like that, so can I 🙂
It would cost about 10bn a year for all NHS staff to get a 20% rise. The tories have chucked far more than that to their mates in the last couple of years.
Their pay was frozen for a decade. They do the utmost day in and out and deserve better pay conditions and an end to private entities snuffling up their resources. If there something we can’t afford it’s the Tory party and their consistent Neoliberal fuck ups.
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Obviously unnafordable because they already distributed those funds to pensioners. Buying votes the Tory way
A lie.
It is affordable. Always has been. This is just their usual “make the economy sound like a household budget” claptrap for austerity round 52.
How much have the government spent on test and trace out of interest? Or what about the amount spent on unusable PPE?
Maybe MPs should take a major pay deduction? Oh and the unelected peers 🙂
It is a certain percentage above the inflation rate so if you cannot afford 19%, you can simply bring down the inflation rate 😉
I’m waiting for April when they announce their own pay rise.
Seemed to be plenty to give too cronies and yourselves a nice rise
“Obviously unaffordable”.
Much like mortgage payments, rent, heating bills etc., etc., etc. for nurses across the UK.
He needs to start being honest about the fact that nurses have had real-terms pay cuts every year since the Tories came to power.
We’re not asking for anything unreasonable.
Just a fair wage for the work we do.
Without nurses, healthcare will collapse within hours.
I think raising pensions in line with inflation is unaffordable. Oh the things we do for Generation Scrounge, though.
[deleted]
Corporate profits rising year on year should also be obviously unsustainable, but here we are
According to the Tories:
*Brexit was affordable
*Tax cuts for the rich in the Kami-Kwasi budget were affordable
*Tens of billions for apps that didn’t work, dodgy PPE and fraudulent Covid loans were affordable
*Public-private contracts to enrich their mates were and still are affordable
*Subsidising energy companies’ record profits is affordable
…but decent payrises for hardworking public sector employees who we all clapped for during the pandemic? Not affordable.
It’s a question of priorities, and the Tories’ priorities are fucked. The next general election can’t come soon enough.
Solidarity to the nurses and all strikers across the country. Working people deserve better than the Tories.
Are they not paying a fucking fortune for agency staff?
If they paid in house staff better maybe they’d have better recruitment and retention and have less reliance on agency staff, so existing funds could just be shuffled around
Right… Because health care workers and the NHS is something we should be scrimping on…I tell you who doesn’t need inflated wages, all those bankers you loosened bonus restrictions on and every single person you deem fit to earn the wage of PM…
£9-10 billion is “obviously unaffordable” says man who found over £100 billion as soon as soon as his corrupt buddies demanded it, like the good little bitch he is.
Insane wealth accumulation amongst the billionaire class is why everyone’s so poor now.
The economic model has failed. If you can call it a model, it’s more just a rigged economy. So much of our economy is built on rent and extraction, basically a massive wealth squeeze on middle and working class people.
Time to create a high wage / low inequality country, where every worker has the opportunity of a dignified life and decent affordable housing.
Weird.
Since the Tories have been in power MPs have seen their pay increase from £64K to £84K over 12 years. That’s a 31% pay rise.
That seems affordable.
Man’s a knob, got money to spunk on aid for china but not for the nurses.
Piss of Sunak
While NHS nurses’ pay has been squeezed by 8% on average, the Royal
College of Nursing (RCN) says some experienced nursing roles have had
real-terms wage cuts of as much as 20% since 2010.
and now we know how the rich remain rich, no Change to Non Dom schemes
Or you know, perhaps if you’d of paid them the 10% to match inflation over the last 10years when it *was* affordable we wouldn’t be in this position?
Tory government reaping what it sowed
I mean personally I would rather have well paid, motivated nurses than HS2 at this point.
Only unaffordable because they keep pissing away tax payers money for those who do not need it.
Why give Tesco £600m in coronavirus funding when they were an inelastic service anyway?
They ***doubled*** their profit coming into this year and gave most of that funding away in the form of dividend payments.
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe.
A 19% pay rise is extreme considering the dire finances of this country after Brexit and Covid.
Does anyone know how much is spent on agency nurses per year?
I’d be thinking of banning agency nurses outright and then using that money to give standard nurses a pay rise with ~75% of it, then using the other ~25% to pay for ex-agency nurses recruited back in.
Paying nurses at real terms rates equivalent to around what they were being paid in ~2010 is now apparently “unaffordable” after 12 years of masterful Tory management of the economy.
Oh okay, if we’re not doing things that are obviously unaffordable, then I won’t be paying for my energy bills, rent and grocery shopping.
If the government can feign responsibility like that, so can I 🙂
It would cost about 10bn a year for all NHS staff to get a 20% rise. The tories have chucked far more than that to their mates in the last couple of years.
Their pay was frozen for a decade. They do the utmost day in and out and deserve better pay conditions and an end to private entities snuffling up their resources. If there something we can’t afford it’s the Tory party and their consistent Neoliberal fuck ups.