Pross
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That seems to reflect the numbers of unemployed dropping at the expense of more people claiming disability payments.
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That seems to reflect the numbers of unemployed dropping at the expense of more people claiming disability payments.
PurplePenguin
Active Member
I made my post without actually looking up what their pensions are. Proper glass house stuff. A 5 year term gets them €5k per month indexed linked and tax free.
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briantrumpet
Legendary Member
It's weird how politicians seem to escape the privations everyone else has to put up with (US, UK, EU, and probably everywhere else). In the US, all Congressmen/women are still getting paid despite the rest of government having been laid off, and whose healthcare comes free.... Truss still gets her lifetime PM's pension for having been PM for just a trusse, and Farage is still getting his EU pension.
Stevo 666
Veteran
Its an issue across a lot of the public sector that needs fixing. Which is a good way of making material future savings to state expenditure.
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briantrumpet
Legendary Member
Welcome news:
https://bsky.app/profile/lizziedearden.bsky.social/post/3m3f7as2bvc2s
Whatever one's sympathies, as it's been formulated and applied, the prohibition is making a mockery of the legal apparatus, and so undermines faith in it, when hundreds of people are being arrested peacefully protesting while holding up pieces of cardboard.
Judicial review ought to bring some sense to the question, rather that the police over-zealously enacting a poorly-considered prohibition.
https://bsky.app/profile/lizziedearden.bsky.social/post/3m3f7as2bvc2s
Whatever one's sympathies, as it's been formulated and applied, the prohibition is making a mockery of the legal apparatus, and so undermines faith in it, when hundreds of people are being arrested peacefully protesting while holding up pieces of cardboard.
Judicial review ought to bring some sense to the question, rather that the police over-zealously enacting a poorly-considered prohibition.
Psamathe
Veteran
I wonder how much of the hearings will be in open court and how much the Government will try and push into secret hearings with public and most others excluded.
matticus
Legendary Member
Careful now!
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briantrumpet
Legendary Member
I voiced no opinion about Palestine or Israel, just about the legal implications of having a dubious proscription poorly policed. It makes an ass of the law, and that's on no-one's interest.
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briantrumpet
Legendary Member
Given the context of the granting of judicial review, I'd be surprised if any Government requests for hiding stuff away from scrutiny by the public aren't treated very sceptically by the judiciary.
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PurplePenguin
Active Member
Most of the terrorism legislation is bad and needs reviewing. E.g. on entering the country terrorism officers can demand access to all online passwords and phones, it is a criminal offence to refuse and there is no right to a lawyer.
George Galloway and his wife were recently arrested and interrogated under this legislation after landing back in the UK. Refusing "suspects" the right to silence and other basic human rights that supposedly make us free is absolutely despicable and the sort of treatment you'd only expect in a despotic, third world slum. As far as I remember he refused to handover his passwords and it will be interesting to see what, if anything happens to him.
First Aspect
Über Member
That was basically down to untalented Tories using legislation as a campaigning tool.
Look how tough we are.
I think Blair introduced a lot of it. An 82 year old Jewish refugee was ejected from the Labour Party Conference under the Prevention of Terrorism Act in 2005. The useless Tories didn't repeal it so they're all as bad.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2005/sep/29/labourconference.labour
