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No it isn’t, it’s 40. Mandated in Spanish law. The current government wants it reduced to 37.5 for a better work life balance and more inline with Scandinavian countries.

Again with the simple words and no context. Where is waste huge? Certainly not at the coal front. Which is where cuts always take place. Define waste past a headline in the daily mail too. You’re classed as a junior doctor for 5-10 years depending on your specialty. Plus I think you need to...

Tiny percentages again. Not enough to tar a whole demographic. But using words like spongers with zero context is not a constructive argument. Same with you and public sector workers rinsing sick pay. My wife is a public sector worker, she’s paid a pittance for her qualifications and could earn...

Again, how are you defining spongers? About 30% of claimants are in work. About 40% of claimants are on disabilities. About 10% of claimants are short term claimants ie less than 3 months. Sure we all have a personal anecdote about someone who’s never worked but they are in a minority of...

Aren’t immigrant spongers lower than the uk average for spongers? Surely it depends on how you define sponging also. Immigrants on minimum wages doing the jobs we don’t want to may be in receipt of benefits to assist their housing costs for example. Are they spongers? Or is it just the price to...

British doctors lost overseas every year is typically between 4-5k. Main reason for leaving is pay and conditions. Average intake of foreign doctors every year is typically around 6K a year. Maybe we should start paying them better and improve their conditions, that way we may lose less doctors...

The majority had non dom status and left because of the ending of our almost unique history of having non dom status. So the answer to your question is barely any were economically active, certainly not to the extent that there wealth would have you believe that they could be. There’s also the...

So what unfair advantage would the fire service receive from the connection of a senior FBU member’s relationship with an MP? What financial gain did the MP, family members or friends receive? You do understand that lobbying is not only legal in the UK it is also seen as healthy to our...

Breaking news. Labour has a relationship with the unions. She is not trying to enrich herself, family members or friends. She’s trying to achieve extra funding to the fire service, frankly a job all MP’s should be doing. Especially against the backdrop of austerity which cut funding to the fire...

Murky lobbying to increase spending on public services, what will those socialist be up to next? They should be lobbying to transfer public money to their mates private companies like real MP’s. Fuckinf murky lobbying my arse.

Are there various benefits anymore. Isn’t it just universal credit now? State pension aside?

Boris certainly pledged to plant more trees at the 2019 GE but largely because Corbyn had put it in his manifesto and it was proving to be a popular pledge especially amongst young voters. It was widely reported that they were failing early doors although to be fair we did have the pandemic...

How are the melts this morning? Still crying over free speech? I see Neil Young closed with 2 protest songs.

He’s on BBC2 from 10. The BBC managed to broker a last minute deal.

Oggy.

Waaaa! Waaaa! Glastonbury has got political. Go go ga ga, Knee Cap received government funding. Snowflakes. Turn your TV’s off. Neil Young is on a bit and the majority of his back catalogue is political talking about social injustice.

Can anyone explain why if as Trump said they’ve obliterated Irans nuclear weapon development sites why can’t the UN’s nuclear watchdog detect any increase in radiation at these locations? I don’t doubt that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons but I do doubt their ability to to develop...

Not in real terms. The NHS also had to take up the slack from other areas. The obvious one being mental health services pre austerity largely being supported by local authorities. The NHS, police and prison service all had to pick up the slack at a time when the police force lost 10,000...

There was a terrorist attack in Hartlepool that was motivated by the killing of Palestinian children. Fresh issues of threats to the UK Jewish community has been reported in just the last couple of days on top of the 140k+ of recorded hate crimes towards British Jews in 2024 with a trend that’s...

Finally. A Brexit benefit.