"Money Has To Be Found From Somewhere" | Labour Set For £10bn Public Sector Pay Rise
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Published 2024-07-22
Reports which first appeared in The Times suggest independent pay review bodies have recommended the 5.5% rise for teachers and around 1.3 million NHS staff.
Political commentator Theo Usherwood tells Talk's Dr David Bull that if the whole of the public sector received the proposed pay rise intended for teachers and NHS staff, it could cost around £10 billion across the public sector, which led to comments that people could see tax rises in an autumn fiscal statement to pay for such a move.
With many of the unions involved with pay negotiations funding Labour, Theo questions whether a Labour government is more susceptible to their demands than the previous Conservative one would have been.
With the high likelihood of Keir Starmer's first King's speech facing amendments, this could be the Labour leader's first rebellion not even a month into office.
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All Comments (21)
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"money has to be found from somewhere"...how about the illegal immigration bill?
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Give them a 5% pay rise and then give everyone a 5% tax increase to cancel it out and make everyone poorer. Yay!!!
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Keep your thieving hands off our pensions & try having a pay packet & pay rise like most unprivileged employees.
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As Maggie Thatcher said, socialism is great until you run out of everyone else’s money
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So they will give Nurses a pay rise and then take it back in tax ... clever, very clever
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Yeah and we all know which demographic wants the two child cap lifted
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Prepare for green tax scam hikes.
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Well the lack of money has NEVER EVER detered GIVING MONEY AWAY, why not claim back from France,or Ukraine or the 84m to other countries and use that?? But OH NO it will be borrowed and added to the existing repayment most taxpayers will have to pay
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Makes me laugh they only pick the ones that like him and his party, go and ask the 75% that didn't vote for him and his party
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Plus the £3 Billion per year indefinitely Starmer has promised to Ukraine
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This was always going to happen when Liebour got into power.
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Billions of pounds staring everyone in the face. Benefits being paid to all the immigrants who have arrived (to save the UK!) over the past ten years. Housing, income supplements, child allowances (for both resident and overseas children, real and fictional) free medical and dental treatment, interpreters, legal advisers, mobile phones, education, prison places, court time, police time, welfare officer time, the importation of parents and grandparent (anyone else noted the proliferation of Eastern European, African and Muslim elderly getting social housing an blocking hospital waiting rooms?) And I am sure I have missed a good few items. But Labour want to make it even harder for hardworking parents to give their children a better education, because the state system is crap.
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And how many billions for their bs green dream 🙄
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I've sorted it here you go... In July 2023, the UK government estimated that its broken asylum system costs around £3 billion annually, plus about £6 million per day on hotel bills. In 2023, the UK spent £4.3 billion on asylum seeker costs, which is more than a quarter of the UK aid budget. The Home Office spent £2.955 million in 2023, which is 19.2% of the UK aid budget.
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Freedom of speech is not a crime
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State pensions is not a benefit it’s a right we have paid in for years
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start with parliament and its exorbitant costs for the useless medieval pomp and dressup. decrease there salaries or put MPs on performance related pay, stop subsidising food and drink let them bring their own lunch box like everyone else has to do, no more second homes allowances let them say in a government hostel in london when attending parliament.let them travel business class at best.
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It's coming from the labour magic money tree
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Well stop giving away the little bit that we have got don’t spend what we haven’t got.
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Rachel will raise taxes to get this money. The taxpayers still have some money left so go get it.
