Dear Ash,
You can be reputedly firm and resolute when it comes to the antics of
the BJP and their Guju boss MODI.
Only you, Ash, can discipline this Guju clown called Modi and get him
thrown him out of office.
India is tragically ruled by semi-literate & superstitious clowns like
Modi, Shah, Adiyanath and such.
India needs to be rid of this Hindu riff-raff and replaced by
intellectuals and scholars.
Only thoughtful people like you, Ash, can accomplish this
transformation.
Can you please seriously undertake this task and modernise India?
Eddie
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The Cortado | Analysis from Ash Sarkar, plus a round
up of the week’s content.
Morning all. Is that the faint sound of rejoicing I can hear in the air?
Yesterday, Rishi Sunak moved to bring an end to the waves of industrial
action paralysing the public sector, by offering workers pay rises of 5%
- 7%. While these figures do not come anywhere close to an
inflation-matching pay rise (which means, in real terms, people are
still finding their wages falling), they bring the public sector in line
with bumps in the private sector’s pay packets. It’s now up to the
unions to decide whether they’ll accept.
All good news, yes? Well, if you want to end on a high I advise you to
stop reading now.
YOU KNOW WHO WOULD LIKE A PAY RISE AS WELL 👉👈
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The Small Print
If you found yourself tickled by the urge to look a gift horse in the
mouth, you’d be right. Though the 6.5% pay rise for teachers isn’t
something to be sniffed at (and unions are recommending that their
memberships accept it) there is some significant small print. £1.4bn
will have to be found over two years from existing Department of
Education budgets.
So far, the government is keeping pim on what’s going to get cut in
order to pay for the proposed wage increase. For school staff who’ve
been fighting for classroom resources, this will come as something of a
kick in the teeth – and it’s a crafty bit of politicking from the
Tories, pitting the interests of pupils against the needs of those who
teach them.
There’s a few snags in the pay offer for doctors too. 6% (plus a
£1,200 sweetener for junior doctors) is nowhere near the junior docs’
demand for full pay restoration, who are on day two of a five-day
walkout. What’s more, the Royal College of Nursing had already accepted
a pay offer of 5% – which will no doubt stick in the craw of members who
wanted to hold out for something better.
And, once more, it looks like the Tories are robbing Peter to pay
Paul. The Department of Health and Social Care are being instructed
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to find £700m in savings to cover the cost of the floated pay rise,
which would probably spell cuts to investments in diagnostics and NHS
tech.
This flies in the face of what striking NHS staff have been arguing
for for months: that the health service needs both a pay increase for
staff, to improve retention, and more investment to tackle capacity.
It’s also been reported
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that the government want to pay for an NHS wage increase by sharply
hiking visa costs and the NHS surcharge for migrants coming to the UK.
Quick maths
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from Henry Anderson suggest that the NHS surcharge (currently £470 for
under-18s and £624 for adults annually) will now go up to £776 for
children and £1035 for adults – about a two-thirds increase.
There’s always been a stinking unfairness at the heart of the NHS
surcharge for migrants. Why should people coming to this country, who
already pay into the system in the form of tax and National Insurance
contributions, have to stump up money again when they’re unlikely to
heavily rely on the NHS?
This cash grab has traditionally been a function of the hostile
environment: a cluster of policies aimed at dissuading people from
immigrating to the UK and thus driving numbers down to appease the Daily
Mail. But with the UK perilously close to recession, and struggling with
the realities of an ageing population, pickpocketing would-be migrants
at the border might have the opposite economic effect than the one the
Treasury intends.
The Tories hope that their newest (and supposedly final) public sector
pay offer will either put strikes to bed for the foreseeable future, or
at least shift the blame onto unions if they decline to accept. But when
public services are crumbling all around us, there are few in this
country who think a pay offer at the expense of investment adds up to
smart finances. I doubt this will be the end of hot strike summer.
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