It’s got more to do with the good standard of work life balance that Denmark is famous for and a functioning NHS. Their approach to immigration is no different to ours really, in fact they’ve just passed a new act in parliament to make it easier for immigrants to work by rescinding the need for a Danish bank account and simplifying the process for a work permit.Perhaps Denmarks approach to immigration has cheered the locals up
It’s got more to do with the good standard of work life balance that Denmark is famous for and a functioning NHS. Their approach to immigration is no different to ours really, in fact they’ve just passed a new act in parliament to make it easier for immigrants to work by rescinding the need for a Danish bank account and simplifying the process for a work permit.
It’s got more to do with the good standard of work life balance that Denmark is famous for and a functioning NHS. Their approach to immigration is no different to ours really, in fact they’ve just passed a new act in parliament to make it easier for immigrants to work by rescinding the need for a Danish bank account and simplifying the process for a work
Why the need to rescind the requirement for a bank account,is it a cash in hand free for all or something other?
So like I said, not that different to ours. Thanks for the link confirming that.Mmmmm
Denmark’s tough stance on migrants plays well at home. In Brussels, it could be a different story.
Mette Frederiksen must convince her European Social Democrats colleagues her domestic track record is a good fit for a top job in Brussels.www.politico.eu
So like I said, not that different to ours. Thanks for the link confirming that.
I guess we've got to process them first, what's the reason for theirs?Have we revoked Syrian refugee permits as an example?
Have we revoked Syrian refugee permits as an example?
The first thing is they haven’t rescinded every Syrian refugee status. I think it equates to about 100. The reason is because the part of Syria they’re from Denmark has deemed safe to return too. As we have in some cases.I guess we've got to process them first, what's the reason for theirs?
It’s the principle that millionaires children would qualify when they could, according to some on here, surely afford to pay for it themselves. And isn’t yet another state intervention abrogating parents of their responibility?
Who is trying to stop kids getting fed?you truly have no clue. Older generations create misery & hardship for those that follow, then try to stop kids getting fed.
What an utter twat.Starmers conferance keynote is going well, this definitely won't be the only part anyone shares and remembers
What’s the explanation for the shorter American kids?Getting shorter and going hungrier: how children in the UK live today
Children are becoming poorer in the UK – more so than in other countries.uk.news.yahoo.com
How?you truly have no clue. Older generations create misery & hardship for those that follow, then try to stop kids getting fed.
It’s £1bn per year for universality for primary school children only, the paper says £2.5bn per year for all pupils, trebling existing spending meaning universal wfp would be 60% of the cost.FSM - £1bn/year for universality
The policy menu for school lunches: options and trade-offs in expanding free school meals in England | Institute for Fiscal Studies
The expansion of free school meals has been frequently discussed. IFS researchers consider the costs and benefits of different options.ifs.org.uk
Apologies seems my initial source was out by 0.1bn its £1.5bn for universal WFP:
How?
I don't get it, I had a child, I go to work and get paid money to feed, clothe, bring her up. Id work cleaning bogs in McDonald's if I had to to be able to do this.
I couldn't afford 5 children for example.
I do like that the breakfast clubs mean that people who work can drop kids off so it takes away an excuse that people can't work because of the school run. It means people can start work at 9 still without the stress of getting the kids to school.
What benefits have I talked about enjoying? I have been made redundant three times and yet never claimed unemployment benefit. I was extemely rarely off sick despite working in a stressful job and have never claimed sickness benefits. I have hardly made use of the NHS. The only state benefit I receive is the state pension, having contributed to NI for 45 years and paid a fortune in income tax for 50 years and counting.The comments were directed at Malc, who likes to talk about the lovely benefits he enjoys, while pouring scorn on people who suffer with depression and anxiety, and questioning whether meals should be provided for children or whether parents should be asked to pay, then suggesting that it’s absolving people of parental responsibility. While at the same time knowing full well (but refusing to acknowledge) the hardship that has been created for parents, and the sheer lengths that some have to go to in order to make ends meet.
I’m clueless about politics so have no idea who to ‘blame’, but my view is that the mammoth inequality & ‘service to self’ culture that’s been created over the last few decades is horrible.
Starmers conferance keynote is going well, this definitely won't be the only part anyone shares and remembers
Can’t trust Reeves. She can’t clap properly.It’s been a pretty shambolic start for the government to be honest. Even Rachel Reeves has had to dial down some of the rhetoric about the state of public finances because it’s almost talking the country into recession by decreasing confidence.
Sir John Curtice (an expert pollster) has already painted a pretty bleak picture for Labour’s future election chances.
The first mistake anyone can make is to put their trust or faith in any politician.Can’t trust Reeves. She can’t clap properly.
Starmer’s approval rating is currently lower than Sunak’s.It’s been a pretty shambolic start for the government to be honest. Even Rachel Reeves has had to dial down some of the rhetoric about the state of public finances because it’s almost talking the country into recession by decreasing confidence.
Sir John Curtice (an expert pollster) has already painted a pretty bleak picture for Labour’s future election chances.
Starmer’s approval rating is currently lower than Sunak’s.
What benefits have I talked about enjoying? I have been made redundant three times and yet never claimed unemployment benefit. I was extemely rarely off sick despite working in a stressful job and have never claimed sickness benefits. I have hardly made use of the NHS. The only state benefit I receive is the state pension, having contributed to NI for 45 years and paid a fortune in income tax for 60years and counting.
I do think that today’s woke culture and the need for trigger warnings before fictional programmes indicates a general lack of mental robustness and resilience. I do recognise that most people off sick for whatever reason are genuine, but I do think that the relatively small percentage I suggested might return to work ( and I suspect Starmer has similar thoughts) is not entirely unreasonable.
Have parents whose children turn up not potty trained or knowing how to clean their teeth fulfilled their responsibility? I would suggest not. Should children be fed, of course they should. Is it ultimately the states responsibility to do so, I think not.
Who has created the hardships you refer to? Not the boomers but successive governments both Labour and Tory.
Nobody has said the state should be feeding every meal for every child for every day of the year. There are so many benefits of a free school meal programme beyond just children not being hungry or reliant on crap for a small cost in the grand scheme of the budget.What benefits have I talked about enjoying? I have been made redundant three times and yet never claimed unemployment benefit. I was extemely rarely off sick despite working in a stressful job and have never claimed sickness benefits. I have hardly made use of the NHS. The only state benefit I receive is the state pension, having contributed to NI for 45 years and paid a fortune in income tax for 50 years and counting.
I do think that today’s woke culture and the need for trigger warnings before fictional programmes indicates a general lack of mental robustness and resilience. I do recognise that most people off sick for whatever reason are genuine, but I do think that the relatively small percentage I suggested might return to work ( and I suspect Starmer has similar thoughts) is not entirely unreasonable.
Have parents whose children turn up not potty trained or knowing how to clean their teeth fulfilled their responsibility? I would suggest not. Should children be fed, of course they should. Is it ultimately the states responsibility to do so, I think not.
Who has created the hardships you refer to? Not the boomers but successive governments both Labour and Tory.
I would humbly invite you to take responsibility for your own problems and don’t blame a previous generation.I would humbly invite you to not talk about things you clearly don’t understand. Linking ‘woke culture’ to depression and anxiety and a ‘lack of resilience’ is beyond insulting. But sadly quite typical of people of a certain vintage.
TBH it’s the way they went about the winter fuel allowance that has pissed me off. Frankly, I don’t need it although it was nice to have.Nobody has said the state should be feeding every meal for every child for every day of the year. There are so many benefits of a free school meal programme beyond just children not being hungry or reliant on crap for a small cost in the grand scheme of the budget.
We could be callous and say that the pensioners should have saved more money in their working lives to prepare for retirement. That would be a dick move, so is finding an excuse not to do something that we know helps with educational outcomes.
FSM is a hand up, not a hand out.
You won’t see me disagreeing with this. I’m just trying to get you to see the argument for universal FSM which is a high impact, low cost idea.TBH it’s the way they went about the winter fuel allowance that has pissed me off. Frankly, I don’t need it although it was nice to have.
Had they addressed it in the budget, with a proper impact assessment, made clear it was a choice acknowledging it flew in the face of what they were saying pre election, introduced the change next financial year allowing those pensioners who were never in a position to save more money for their retirement during their working lives time to adjust and/ or make the necessary applications for additional qualifying benefits, not tried to blame it on a mythical £22bn black hole and not suggested that keeping it would have crashed the economy - then I wouldn’t have been so angry. Told the truth and stood accountable in other words.
I just don’t see £2.5bn as low cost, and that’s excluding the breakfast clubs. I suppose we will see how it will be funded in the budget, but if the £22bn black hole is real (ha ha)and the wfp not affordable, how can the fsm be?You won’t see me disagreeing with this. I’m just trying to get you to see the argument for universal FSM which is a high impact, low cost idea.
TBH it’s the way they went about the winter fuel allowance that has pissed me off. Frankly, I don’t need it although it was nice to have.
Had they addressed it in the budget, with a proper impact assessment, made clear it was a choice acknowledging it flew in the face of what they were saying pre election, introduced the change next financial year allowing those pensioners who were never in a position to save more money for their retirement during their working lives time to adjust and/ or make the necessary applications for additional qualifying benefits, not tried to blame it on a mythical £22bn black hole and not suggested that keeping it would have crashed the economy - then I wouldn’t have been so angry. Told the truth and stood accountable in other words.
In my view they should stop the £10 Christmas payment and have a double lock for pensions - inflation or average.pay increase would be entirely reasonable (i.e, drop the minimum 2.5%).
Or an excuse for her/him for convenience?Additionally, the optics is terrible. They stated just how bad public finances were, chose a universal benefit that cost £1bn (or so) but in the same breath ‘pay off’ their trade union masters with inflation busting pay rises worth 4 or 5 times that. Then, targeting pensioners is the least popular group to go after because they’ve done the responsible thing to save over years and have earned their retirement.
There is a case for removing the winter fuel allowance but as you say, it was abrupt without an impact assessment. A better way would’ve been to combine the benefit with pension credit or something similar to soften the blow in the short term.
Apparently, briefings in the press suggest that it was a recommendation from the treasury that Reeves just went along with. Just how poor is that political judgement?!
An excuse for Rachel Reeves? Nah, it’s worse than that. In terms of the economy, she is about as establishment as you can get (literally an ex-banker) and won’t really challenge the orthodoxy at the treasury (I.e. higher public spending and increasingly higher or new taxes) or have any original ideas.Or an excuse for her/him for convenience?
You've done well mate I remember you retraining for that industry a while back?What I do like about Starmer , and as a Manager at National Grid, is his total commitment that to have energy security and cheaper electricity we need to upgrade our 60 year old 400/275 kV voltage transmission system, which will include new circuits/pylons, come what may
All the new offshore wind/solar and nuclear generation cant be transmitted on existing infrastructure so he knows only new circuits can do this , which will upset a lot of people but we can’t do it any other way. We will do a lot of new circuits offshore but some have to be done onshore and he knows that and he’s fully committed to it
I’m not a labour voter and really dislike this donor shite regarding clothes etc, but he’s doing OK in my book, so far
It would amount to under 0.25% of government spending.I just don’t see £2.5bn as low cost, and that’s excluding the breakfast clubs. I suppose we will see how it will be funded in the budget, but if the £22bn black hole is real (ha ha)and the wfp not affordable, how can the fsm be?
And the winter fuel payment was half that and yet keeping it would have crashed the economy.It would amount to under 0.25% of government spending.
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