Steve Jary

I’ve done it. Will still dip in here now and then, but I’ve moved on. Find me here @unionsteve.bsky.social . Photo © Jess Hurd

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

OK. I’ve done it. Will still dip in here now and then, but I’m moving on. Find me here @unionsteve.bsky.social

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

Hey! @HiveHomeUK - another 'tech' company with no search function on its website and impossible to contact: useuless FAQs, disabled enquiry forms and access only to a chat bot which can't help either. Fault with our receiver - not controlling the boiler.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@BBCNewsnight @nicholaswatt He was getting off on Fascism as a parlour game. Quite disturbing. No critical analysis at all.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

#THREAD

'Divide and Rule'.

What if the 1% are deliberately manufacturing deeply polarised societies?

What if the differences between, for example, the "woke and anti-woke", Leavers and Remainers, migrants and non-migrants are deliberately exaggerated, or entirely manufactured?

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

As the standfirst says: “Figures show ability to work from home differs across age, *job type* and education”. Which really means job type. Is this in any way a surprise? Some jobs require presence, some don’t. https://t.co/cXED8r9179

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

Media in a frenzied orgy of bashing the bishop today.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@hosang @carolecadwalla Example, please?

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@dannyboy7796 @Channel4News @heliaebrahimi He should avoid talking about trade barriers altogether, then. But, if he is allowed to talk about them, he should at least mention the most significant one!

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@dannyboy7796 @Channel4News @heliaebrahimi Why isn’t he saying we should join the single market, then?

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Kevin Maguire @Kevin_Maguire]

Lesson for Starmer and Reeves from Trump is if Britons feel worse off in 2029 then Labour is toast.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

Hey! #r4today - How about getting outraged about this budget u-turn? https://t.co/8ipnYyJgOq

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

Robinson’s sneering tone on #r4today is becoming unbearable.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@PJTheEconomist Maybe they should increase the wages they pay?

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@Peston Not sure it’s possible to forecast household income that far ahead with any accuracy. Other, non-fiscal, measures like encouraging collective bargaining will have an impact. As will the stealthy unwind of Brexit.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@nowak_paul Sorry, but corporate Britain DID: bumper pay rises for its Executive class.

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Weird narrative from some that a modest increase in employers NI will mean workers should expect lower headline pay rises.

Did corporate Britain ever hand out bumper pay rises when corporation tax was cut?

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@Peston But austerity would lead to reduced GDP. Realistically, all a budget can do is provide the conditions for economic growth to be sustained. It can't make it happen.

[Steve Jary @UnionSteve]

@cllranderson @DPJHodges The bus cap finishes at the end of the year. They’re not raising anything.