Prof Catherine Rowett 💚 Ex-MEP @catherinerowett@respublicae.eu

So much for democracy.
RT @ucu: 36,000 members voted in e-ballot - two-thirds to have a say on proposals and pause action

Branch Delegates marginally voted to have a say on proposals but continue action

Higher Education Committee have voted to continue action and not put proposals out

#ucuRISING

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Inequality creates a dystopia in every possible respect.
And it's not the fault of the poor or the migrants.
Take a look at who exactly is running off with your money....
RT @IP2guy: Interesting article in the Economist.

In summary: something mysterious happened in the early 2010s and now people from poorer areas of the UK are dying early in their tens of thousands.

Any ideas?

#ToriesDestroyingOurCountry

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RT @IanPindar: @BritainElects @Omnisis Just out of interest, why don't you list it like this?
LAB: 46% (-4)
CON: 25% (-1)
REF: 9% (+3)
GRN: 7% (+2)
LDEM: 6% (-1)

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Pay rises for teachers & nurses need to
(a) not amount to a cut in pay relative to inflation
(b) be funded by the government not by squeezing other bits of the NHS Trust or school budget.

We need staff and beds. Nurses and operating theatres. Teachers and TAs. Staff and heating.

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RT @NHSMillion: 5% won’t improve retention

5% won’t increase recruitment

5% leaves most nurses (and many other staff) around £4,400 worse off in real terms than in 2008

The Government need to do so much better for an NHS in crisis

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RT @danielgoyal: Spot the difference:

> Nurses in England, after days of strikes, secure 7% “pay rise” over two years for a Band 5.

> Nurses in Scotland, with no strikes at all, secure 15% “pay rise” for a Band 5.

Guess it matters if the govt in power genuinely wants the NHS to succeed.

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@Budgiekiller @Tesco Actually it doesn't have that effect. People buy more stuff and need less help for rent and bills. The businesses that pay the workers benefit in their revenues and in lower taxation (because more transactions means more revenue from vat etc). They don't have to put prices up.

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@Budgiekiller That's not new in this budget. And that still leaves wages way below the actual cost of living. Barely pays for two bags of pasta.
Low pay is subsidised by in work benefits from the public purse. With a £15 minimum wage we'd have a lively economy and less stress. Make work pay.

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RT @mac_puck: And the BBC was the ace up the Brexit faction's sleeve; it prostituted its hundred year reputation to lend credibility to a carnival of clowns and cranks, treating them with solemn respect when they should have been laughed out of the studio - or never invited in.

4/

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@Jonathan_Elmer Meet, even 🙃

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@littlegreydog3 The best tech is actually age-old storage mechanisms that cost very little. The myth of peaks & troughs is completely solvable and would have been 30 years ago. Nuclear causes long lasting damage and a disastrous waste problem but is not itself long lived. Its also a war target.

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@GiuliaPiccolino Agree it is very badly worded, but it's a useful tool for the union to get the in-principle support of members and avoid a mismatch between what the negotiators say and what members are willing to do.

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RT @Peston: Scrapping the lifetime savings limit for pensions and increasing the contributions limit will cost £1bn a year but will get only 15,000 boomers and gen exers into work, says OBR. That's an annual cost to the taxpayer per high-earning boomer of £66,000. Bonkers? #Budget2023

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RT @ahddrv: Budget: UK on track for ‘disastrous decade’ of income stagnation https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/uk-investing-too-little-living-standards-stagnate-budget?CMP=share_btn_tw

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RT @BearyHappy04: @catherinerowett But there’s no money for public sector workers…oh wait 🤔 via @BladeoftheS

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RT @BylineTimes: 🔴 'It's Coming from the Top': Concerns Inside #BBC of Fear of Casting Boris Johnson in a Bad Light

@Baghdaddi speaks to those inside the corporation after Byline Times asked the BBC about its lack of coverage of Jennifer Arcuri's new revelations 🔽

https://t.co/DwN5r84HCr

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RT @MrBenakaCJ: @PaulbernalUK @aunty_shirley So Johnson publicly denied giving public money to and shagging Arcuri. Downing Street knew he actually had (later confirmed by Arcuri) so leant on the BBC to suppress the story. Keeping us all like mushrooms in the dark.

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RT @jdportes: On migration, good news! They thought the reduction in EU migration would only be partially offset by an increase in non-EU migration. Looks like it's the other way around..

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No. They want to make people work for low pay that isn't worth working for.
By forcing UC recipients to take jobs that someone else decides are ok.
By forcing parents and grandparents back to work by declaring that they'll have childcare vouchers (but nowhere to spend them 🙄).

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What's #Budget2023 all about? Exploiting the workforce to extract more profit from the people who can't afford to work. But not by paying them enough to make it possible and worthwhile. Oh no! Nothing like that.

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