#Sunak says he can’t afford #PublicSectorPay rises – but look at the #WhiteElephants he’s happy to fund

Spending priorities sum up all that is rotten in government. Where is the money for #education and the #NHS?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-public-sector-pay-rises-education-nhs #ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryChoices

Here we had one of the Sunaks announcing the very opposite on pay of what had been said previously - John Crace

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/13/its-dr-sunak-and-mr-hyde-the-existence-of-two-rishs-would-explain-a-lot

#Sunak #PublicSectorPay #13YearsToryMisrule

Sunak could have made peace with public servants a year ago – he just didn’t want to
Polly Toynbee. "around £4bn is all it will cost to settle the pay demands of hard-pressed public sector staff at the rates set by the pay review bodies, the head of the IFS, Paul Johnson, tells me. That’s “money down the back of the sofa”, he says. Out of total UK public spending of around £1tn, it’s trivial – equivalent to an accounting or forecasting error." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/rishi-sunak-public-servants-tories-britain-politics #politics #publicsectorpay

Sunak could have made peace with public servants a year ago – he just didn’t want to

“A piffling sum of around £4bn is all it will cost to settle the pay demands of hard-pressed public sector staff at the rates set by the pay review bodies, the head of the IFS, Paul Johnson, tells me. That’s “money down the back of the sofa”, he says. “

#Sunak #ukpolitics #austerity #PublicSectorPay #GTTO #CostOfLivingCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/rishi-sunak-public-servants-tories-britain-politics?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#BMA rejects #PublicSectorPay rise and says gov is making choices that leave people ‘sicker and poorer’– https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2023/jul/13/doctors-strike-nhs-rishi-sunak-pay-uk-politics-live
also worth noting: the offer is a real-terms pay cuts for millions of workers, coming on top of ... many years of the same.
...also nowhere near, ... the 12.4% nominal increases junior doctors have been offered in Scotland. ...not to mention the 26% the BMA said would be needed to return the realterms pay of junior doctors’ in England to pre-Tory gov levels.

Love to be lectured on ‘responsible’ (upper limits on) public sector pay by a prime minister who’s testing it (at the lower limits) to utter fucking ruin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66020261

#UKPolitics #vandalGovernment #PublicSectorPay

Demonising Inflation and the True Cost of Living – Byline Times
#Inflation
#Tories
#PublicSector
#PublicSectorPay
#PublicService
#PublicServiceProvision
#Pay
#Recruitment
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#CostOfLiving
#EnergyCosts
#Brexit
#UKFoodPrices
#SupplyChains
#Covid
#PolicyFailure
#Policy
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/26/demonising-inflation-and-the-true-cost-of-living/

Escalating strikes everywhere are surely a wake-up call; obstinate government orthodoxy and intransigence keep the UK economy in stagnation | Dr John Carlisle

#NHSStrikes #PublicSectorPay #Strikes #Bylines
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/dont-believe-the-spin-the-government-can-afford-a-public-sector-pay-rise/

How much would it cost the #UK government to maintain the value of #publicSectorPay? £23.5 billion.

Shame about the £9 billion overspend on overpriced and/or unusable #PPE.

And the £13.5 billion on year 1 of Test and Trace.

And the £3.2 billion/year tax giveaway for #NonDom status

And that £30 billion hole #LizTruss blew in the economy

And an estimated £40 billion loss in tax revenues thanks to #Brexit

But it’s only right that public sector #workers pay the price.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/11/how-much-would-a-public-sector-pay-rise-really-cost-the-uk-government

UK wages jump but fail to keep pace with inflation - https://on.ft.com/3w79G10 via @FT #publicsectorpay report shows it lags behind private so all those numpties in private sector moaning should go do one. #strikes are justified

#PublicSectorPay

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/21/teachers-and-social-workers-suffer-most-from-lost-decade-for-pay-growth-in-uk

"With regard to public sector pay, the government has chosen to pursue what is, in effect, an aggressive and unpopular incomes policy. But it lacks the courage to be upfront about it."

#UKPolitics
#Strikes
#PublicSectorPay

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/19/the-guardian-view-on-the-nhs-strikes-time-to-talk-about-pay-mr-barclay?CMP=twt_gu#Echobox=1671477728

I realise this may come as a shock to you all but the government has been telling lies about public sector pay

#nursestrike #publicsectorpay #torylies

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFGx1oyJ/

Insurance of national debt error £11b
Failed Test + Trace £37b
Defective PPE £9b
Truss/Kwarteng minibudget cost £30b
Cost of Brexit £31b so far
Total: £118b
But no money for public sector pay? 🐂💩
#PublicSectorPay #NHS #NHSWorkersNeedAPayrise
#RMTSolidarity #JoinAUnion

Can the UK afford to increase public sector pay? https://ftedit.onelink.me/Ju3k/hbi2vyw5 Good article that clearly shows it’s a political decision rather than economic one #FT #PublicSectorPay

ONS calculates#privateSectorPay has risen 6.6% in July to September 2022 whilst #publicSectorPay has increased by 2.2%

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/averageweeklyearningsingreatbritain/latest

quite why #nurses and others are expected to accept lower than average pay rises when there are so many unfilled posts is a bit of a mystery to me.......

Today has been A DAY. Like I'm already done with this week.

In unrelated news, a reminder to my #unisontheunion pals in the #NHS to send your #VoteYesForTheNHS ballot paper back ASAP.

To be fair I have an entirely cushy job compared to colleagues on the frontline but I stand with you regardless!

#mondayvibe #EnoughAlready #workingfromhome #joinaunion #publicsectorpay #enoughisenough #supportthestrikes