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Dec 10 • 65 tweets • 149 min read

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lnkd.in/epdpte9n UK PUBLIC BACK STRIKERS RATHER THAN MINISTERS ...AFTER PARTYGATE AND THE DISASTROUS TRUSSONOMICS, MANY MORE UK VOTERS NOW SEE THE TORIES AS INCOMPETENT, SERVING THEIR OWN INTERESTS AND OUT OF TOUCH WITH ORDINARY PEOPLE

lnkd.in/epdpte9n EXTRACTS 'Opinion polls on industrial action show a mixed picture at best for the Government.

lnkd.in/epdpte9n One of the most comprehensive snapshots of public opinion was carried out at the end of October by Savanta ComRes, and found that 60 per cent general support workers going on strike, with a third opposed.

lnkd.in/epdpte9n Net support for different workers also varied wildly, with nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of voters supporting nurses, and more than half backing strikes by teachers, postal workers, bus drivers and refuse collectors.'

lnkd.in/epdpte9n 'Even if the Prime Minister has a point on the need to keep inflation down and avoiding a wage-price spiral, voters believe the Tories are at least partly to blame for the economic mess in which the country finds itself,

lnkd.in/epdpte9n and will wonder if the party could have done more to avert the strikes after months of tearing itself apart.'

Arj Singh MY INSERT 9 Dec 2022

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'WE'RE SO INEPT, PEOPLE MAY BLAME US FOR STRIKES TOO' 'Nothing in Britain is working': Inside a Tory party that knows Christmas can't be saved

lnkd.in/e66gvcav EXTRACTS ' a former Cabinet minister told i: “I’m worried that people ...will blame the Government for it ...Because we’re so inept at everything else they will think that this is our fault too.”

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'Ministers are also working on a longer-term solution to the industrial action ... fraught with difficulty ...extending minimum services levels to other industries, increasing the threshold unions need to hit for a strike to be legal,

lnkd.in/e66gvcav and a total ban on strikes by any emergency worker...' 'Sources close to Mr Hunt confirm that he will have to sign off on any deal to increase the pay of any part of the public sector,

lnkd.in/e66gvcav but insist that there is no immediate prospect of a financial settlement in any of the disputes.

lnkd.in/e66gvcav “They are deliberately doing this because they want the industrial action. They want this image going on over Christmas that somehow organised working people are the enemy of this country” said Mr Lynch

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lnkd.in/e66gvcav and will wonder if the party could have done more to avert the strikes after months of tearing itself apart.' Arj Singh MY INSERT 9 Dec 2022 #DemocratiseWorkEnterprises #EndColonialLaws #HumanRights #CostOfLivingClimateJusticeUSAUKCA #Legal #People

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'WE'RE SO INEPT, PEOPLE MAY BLAME US FOR STRIKES TOO' 'Nothing in Britain is working': Inside a Tory party that knows Christmas can't be saved

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'Ministers are also working on a longer-term solution to the industrial action ... fraught with difficulty ...extending minimum services levels to other industries,

lnkd.in/e66gvcav increasing the threshold unions need to hit for a strike to be legal, and a total ban on strikes by any emergency worker...'

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'Sources close to Mr Hunt confirm that he will have to sign off on any deal to increase the pay of any part of the public sector, but insist that there is no immediate prospect of a financial settlement in any of the disputes.

lnkd.in/e66gvcav #TaxTheRich #DemocratiseWorkEnterprises #EndColonialLawsUKCA #HumanRights #CostOfLivingClimateJusticeUSAUKCA #Legal #People

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'Even if the Prime Minister has a point on the need to keep inflation down and avoiding a wage-price spiral, voters believe the Tories are at least partly to blame for the economic mess in which the country finds itself,

lnkd.in/e66gvcav and will wonder if the party could have done more to avert the strikes after months of tearing itself apart.'
Arj Singh MY INSERT 9 Dec 2022

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'WE'RE SO INEPT, PEOPLE MAY BLAME US FOR STRIKES TOO' 'Nothing in Britain is working': Inside a Tory party that knows Christmas can't be saved

lnkd.in/e66gvcav 'Ministers are also working on a longer-term solution to the industrial action ... fraught with difficulty ...extending minimum services levels to other industries,