So….The Tories solution to the cost of living crisis is…..?

You just know that they'll get rid of loads of people at job centres at the same time.

Like the Union guy said this morning, it's just a number picked from thin air.
 
WoodallServices said:
To put 91,000 people on the dole!!😳 If these nutters aren’t stopped there will be nothing left of the UK to govern. If all these opposition MP’s care enough about the country then Proportional Representation has to be top of their list when they next get a chance to be in power.
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Be careful, it was due to a version of PR we ended up with the wrong Milliband leading the Labour Party.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Be careful, it was due to a version of PR we ended up with the wrong Milliband leading the Labour Party.
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Although to be fair Ed Milliband’s recent performance’s in the House of Commons and tv interviews have been spot on, the fact that he was the wrong Milliband for the “Current Bun“ and “Daily Mein Kampf” and their readers who slavishly follow them is probably to the detriment of the country.
 
Just red meat thrown to the daily mail reader types.

Unless you go down the route of redundancies (expensive, so doesn't really meet the aim of "saving the taxpayer money") it'll take years to get anywhere near these reductions. So not sure how this is going to help with the CURRENT cost of living crisis.

Also telling that's it's numbers they're focusing on rather than reductions in costs/budgets. Surely the number of civil servants doesn't matter that much as long as government spending on the civil service comes down? If that is their primary goal as they claim.

As a current civil servant I can tell you morale is through the F***ing floor. You know you're going to get a bit of a bumpy ride under a Tory government, you accept that. But this lot seem hell bent on kicking us at every opportunity.

I suspect for a lot of them it's the equivalent of kicking the cat. They know they're under pressure and generally doing a **** job, so they're punching down. For others they'll be doing it out of a misplaced sense of revenge for civil servants providing factual, evidence based advice that they don't want to hear. Such as pointing out that leaving the single market will hurt the economy.

They're a bunch of bullies and cowards.
 
It's all absolute nonsense even if you can sort of see what they're wanting to do.

They are saying that they want to save money on government spending so that they can spend that money.
 
Currently 300,000 people in the queue for new passports.
Which dept has Mogg been banging on about in his media appearances as being ripe for for staff cuts, the passport office.
Word on the street in Durham is it is being prepared for privatisation.
 
Ingleby_Flash said:
Be careful, it was due to a version of PR we ended up with the wrong Milliband leading the Labour Party.
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Regardless of whether he was the right or wrong Milliband, by definition you can’t have a proportional system to elect a single position. They’re all just different versions of a first past the post system (and I don’t think anyone would ever hold up an electoral college as a shining example of PR anyway).

PR only applies when you are using a method to allocate multiple seats in some form of proportion to the overall votes cast.
 
ThePrisoner said:
If these 90000 posts were recruited for Brexit and Covid then they were going to end anyway, so there is no link with the cost of living crisis. They are gaslighting again to deflect from taking real action such as dropping VAT on energy and windfall tax on the O&G vampires or closing tax dodging loopholes (as if!).

Tory scum.
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I agree with the general sentiment, though the additional administrative need to deal with Brexit won't end, as we need to replace functions previously carried out by the EU plus the extra burden of not being in the single market.
 
It seems to me like the tories solution to the cost of living crisis is quite simple, just deny and/or ignore it. That approach worked for partygate and for Covid, neither of those seem to exist any more.
If they keep ignoring the cost of living crisis it will be all over by July.
 
Looks like its done to get some positive PR - could it be that most of these 'redundancies' are short term contracts, temporary contracts and existing vacancies, so wont have much impact anyway.
What we need is 'real' long term jobs for all those who want them.
 
Those who bankroll the Tories and those who represent them in Parliament and those who have benefitted from their fast track Covid scheme and those who follow their diktat in the national press and the tiny percentage of people they truly represent, don't have a cost of living crisis. Therefore to their minds nobody else does, they are just bad at managing their finances. Their answer to the cost of living crisis is to make the rich richer and the rest of us poorer. It is their philosophy and their reason to be. The Bolsheviks had it right.
 
WoodallServices said:
To put 91,000 people on the dole!!😳 If these nutters aren’t stopped there will be nothing left of the UK to govern. If all these opposition MP’s care enough about the country then Proportional Representation has to be top of their list when they next get a chance to be in power.
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saving 3.75 billion a year. a large part of this was for brexit extra staff since 2016. Lets say 1/2 of this cost was down to brexit extra staff to 'get brexit done' then 1.8 billion till 2022 is over 10 billion. Would people of voted to get their country back knowing this is one small cost of doing this ???
Absolute evil bar stewards ; every fcuking one of them ; cummings, boris, rees mogg raab patel ; patriots ? I'll tell you what ; this lot are the absolute opposite of patriots to the UK. Lying sealing bar stewards. Where was it in their Leave 'notes' to the UK public that it would cost this much in our taxes ?????

UTTER TRAITORS ; That's what they are.....traitors.
 
homesickblues said:
Looks like its done to get some positive PR - could it be that most of these 'redundancies' are short term contracts, temporary contracts and existing vacancies, so wont have much impact anyway.
What we need is 'real' long term jobs for all those who want them.
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They don't even have a plan to do this. It's suggested that some of it will just by not replacing people who leave.

Imagine thinking that's a good idea.
 
You can see clearly that this wasn't part of any particular plan by Johnson or his d*ck head minions.

The management of possibly affected departments are having to message staff to basically tell them nothing as there isn't an actual plan but understand that some staff might be worried.
 
Unravel_Morrison said:
You can see clearly that this wasn't part of any particular plan by Johnson or his d*ck head minions.

The management of possibly affected departments are having to message staff to basically tell them nothing as there isn't an actual plan but understand that some staff might be worried.
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As usual it was announced in the right wing rags before staff or even the top civil servants were told about it.

Classy as ever.

Of course there's no plan. They have absolutely no idea of the implications or even how to achieve it. They'll leave that complexity up to (checks notes) erm civil servants.
 
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