Nothing as of yet, but to be honest, this is a 0.6% real terms pay rise, so I don’t think they’re missing out on much
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This corona virus thing...
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I saw that last night and today the Twitter account that started the story has been suspended - because the translation was incorrect and totally misleading.
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Most carers are on the minimum wage or close to it, I can't see this even keeping up with inflation.
Yep, and NI going up too
Just an attempt to deflect bad press that doesn’t really help anyone
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That's a shite pay offer, more disgrace from those in charge.
To be honest, it seemed genuine last night. Macron is being quite authoritarian with the vaccines and so on, so arguably the fake message might not have been necessary.
It's been confirmed that teachers will be subject to a pay freeze this year: theyre not exactly happy about that (understandably)
Pay freeze for England’s teachers a ‘slap in the face’, say unions
School leaders hit back saying once inflation was taken into account, the government’s freeze amounts to a pay cut
www.theguardian.com
The latest news coming out of Australia is that their government is telling people not to talk to each other for fear of spreading COVID-19.
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Have you got a link to that Kathryn?
No. It was mentioned on GB News.
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OK. I’ve never really watched it tbh. Did they say what the source was?
It sounds like the stuff of tabloids to me.
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btw, do you watch GB news much? If yes, I’d be interested what you think of it. I’ve watched 5 mins here and there, and from what I’ve seen it isn’t that different from Sky and BBC TV news, just a lot of people I’ve never heard of offering their opinions. GB News does seem to be aiming at a younger audience though.
I tend to watch Dan Wooton from 9pm onwards if there’s nothing else worth watching. It’s more of a debate programme. They seem to offer differing viewpoints from the mainstream news channels.
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OK, I’ll give it a go when I get the chance. Though, I don’t usually watch TV at that time of night unless there’s something specific on, usually sport. The T20 last night was a great match. 🙂
Well that's bollocks for a kick off.
Not surprising if you heard if from that shite.
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Thereby lies of a very good proportion of Britains problems.
Lies from our putrid media are the absolute norm.
GB News was set up to offer a right wing news channel to move us towards the polarisation of tv news media a la the USA, despite Andrew Neil's recent denials that it was trying to be the UK's version of Fox News.
Apart from Neil, the other leading light in setting up GB News was Robbie Gibb, another well-known Tory (he's been a political advisor and campaigns manager in the past even before becoming Teresa May's PR guy at 10 Downing Street).
Gibb is the brother of long-term Schools Minister Nick Gibb. When younger, both brothers joined and "received training" from a Russian anti-communist organisation now linked to many far right political groups in Russia. A key focus of this group is fighting the culture supported by regimes and organisations they oppose.
This is important when considering what both brothers have been doing in the last decade: Nick has been Minister for Schools for almost 10 out of the last 11 years); whilst Robbie worked in the media, and was in charge of the BBC's news agenda for key parts of that time, including election debates and wider coverage. Having seen Teresa May get elected he then went to openly work for her.
Robbie Gibb left GB News before it started broadcasting, but after it had received its licence to broadcast from Ofcom. He was recently appointed the the Board of the BBC as the supposedly independent representative for England. I believe that this was the reason that he left GB News. Under Boris, the neutral BBC now has a former Tory election candidate as Director General, a Tory donor as Chair of the Board, and now Gibb as a Board member.
I believe that GB News have offered a job to that well known impartial news journalist Nigel Farage. This isn't a "normal" British news channel that will try to be neutral; it is a right wing political project to close people's minds and to promote "culture wars".
Apart from Neil, the other leading light in setting up GB News was Robbie Gibb, another well-known Tory (he's been a political advisor and campaigns manager in the past even before becoming Teresa May's PR guy at 10 Downing Street).
Gibb is the brother of long-term Schools Minister Nick Gibb. When younger, both brothers joined and "received training" from a Russian anti-communist organisation now linked to many far right political groups in Russia. A key focus of this group is fighting the culture supported by regimes and organisations they oppose.
This is important when considering what both brothers have been doing in the last decade: Nick has been Minister for Schools for almost 10 out of the last 11 years); whilst Robbie worked in the media, and was in charge of the BBC's news agenda for key parts of that time, including election debates and wider coverage. Having seen Teresa May get elected he then went to openly work for her.
Robbie Gibb left GB News before it started broadcasting, but after it had received its licence to broadcast from Ofcom. He was recently appointed the the Board of the BBC as the supposedly independent representative for England. I believe that this was the reason that he left GB News. Under Boris, the neutral BBC now has a former Tory election candidate as Director General, a Tory donor as Chair of the Board, and now Gibb as a Board member.
I believe that GB News have offered a job to that well known impartial news journalist Nigel Farage. This isn't a "normal" British news channel that will try to be neutral; it is a right wing political project to close people's minds and to promote "culture wars".
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