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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

The real question is that given various ministers and the PM's spokesman have confirmed that they respect the court's decision and would arrest those in question if they set foot on UK territory (which includes, BTW, the British embassy in Israel itself and more awkwardly, British military airfields in Cyprus, which are frequently used by Israeli forces and diplomatic flights), but given said court's ruling along with the issuing of arrest warrants is that there are reasonable grounds to suspect war crimes have been committed deliberately by Israeli military forces, authorised by the Israeli government, whether the UK should cease all military aid and support to Israel.

I don't necessarily agree with the warrant myself, but as per the government, we've signed up by treaty to the ICC and given the government has stated they respect and will abide by the court's judgement, they must abide by that and given the US will no doubt continue to support Israeli military actions, the UK must also cease all military co-operation with the US as being a facilitator in criminal breaches of international law. The UK must also impose sanctions on both Israel and the US in line with the requirements of the UK's human rights international sanctions legislation.....

....unless the government wants to be selective with its adherence and respect of the ICC's decisions.
 
Kompakted said:
I have 3 kids in primary school. There's absolutely nothing wrong with our education. Just had a hernia operation also. Within 5 weeks of referral from my GP. Things are not as bad as people make out.
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I'm sure you are, but the people that live in less affluent area's, are not so lucky.

And just because you had a good experience, doesn't mean the rest is society does
 
Kompakted said:
The real question is that given various ministers and the PM's spokesman have confirmed that they respect the court's decision and would arrest those in question if they set foot on UK territory (which includes, BTW, the British embassy in Israel itself and more awkwardly, British military airfields in Cyprus, which are frequently used by Israeli forces and diplomatic flights), but given said court's ruling along with the issuing of arrest warrants is that there are reasonable grounds to suspect war crimes have been committed deliberately by Israeli military forces, authorised by the Israeli government, whether the UK should cease all military aid and support to Israel.

I don't necessarily agree with the warrant myself, but as per the government, we've signed up by treaty to the ICC and given the government has stated they respect and will abide by the court's judgement, they must abide by that and given the US will no doubt continue to support Israeli military actions, the UK must also cease all military co-operation with the US as being a facilitator in criminal breaches of international law. The UK must also impose sanctions on both Israel and the US in line with the requirements of the UK's human rights international sanctions legislation.....

....unless the government wants to be selective with its adherence and respect of the ICC's decisions.
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I guarantee he'll take the cowardly option for each and every one of those decisions.
 
scaramanga said:
You (and the author(s) of that article) are still missing the point. Look at the measure they use for calculating poverty - a proportion of the median income.

Let me explain with an example. If the median income became £100k tomorrow and nothing happened to inflation, a £60k salary would be considered to be in poverty. Now £60k isn't a lot in London with a family and a mortgage, but it's a million miles from what any sensible person would describe as being in poverty. Would you still insist that people earning £60k are in poverty? Or would you concede that a percentage of median income is an incredibly silly and politically loaded way to measure poverty?
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So around 3716 a month, for 850 a week.
Are there kids?
Are there commute costs?
Are there childcare costs?
As well as the expenses of just living (food, fuel).
Let's say rent/mortgage is 2k a month...you see where this all starts falling down?
So no, I won't concede anything. If you can take the figures here and disprove those, I'm all eyes. It still does not account for the vast amount of peoople who are on such tight lines they have to visit food banks, albeit I suppose you're someone who thinks that if you can drive a car to a food bank you have no business visiting one!




scaramanga said:
What about the right to release employees within 2 years? Many of the people that work for me now would never have started working for me without that option - we would never have taken a chance on them.

And zero hour contracts can be very useful. In the past, we've had customers ask for ancillary work on a fairly sporadic basis. It's impossible to have permanent employees for that work, they'd spend most of the year standing around with their thumbs up their arses. So we have two options - zero hour contracts for people that want sporadic work and don't want to be tied to 40 hours, or use an employment agency which has exactly the same result for the employee except they get paid a little less, we pay a little more and the agency sharks get some more money to buy coke with.

Which is the better option?
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The situation you are discussing with regards to zero hour contracts is a best-case use. I think you know all too well that it is an abused area of employment.

https://www.gqrr.com/news/tuc-abusive-use-of-zero-hours-contracts-is-increasing/
 
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