💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage

🇺🇦🔸💙#FBPE #FBPPR #FBPPA #AnnualMinimumWage Fiercely anti Brexit. Terminally sarcastic. Blue sky thinker. Profile pic @cazzlebrook

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

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[Dr. Ron Daniels BEM @SepsisUK]

I don’t normally like to aggrandise healthcare, though I love my colleagues and their dedication. However, this made me cry.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

@OperaSocialist @SafariSara I’ve argued this for a while. It means those that need to work to maintain professional qualifications/experience/networks can, but those who want a 2nd just to feather their nests will have an £85k obstacle to overcome first. I’d then be in favour of increasing MP salaries.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

“Free speech” in its absolute form is incompatible with the suppression of hate & anti racism in public spaces. It’s true, ask Elon.

People are also free to choose where they spend their money & they don’t need to justify not spending money with any individual business.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

60 years & still charging. Allegedly to pay for construction & maintenance? In terms of cost, this must be up there with HS2…

[National Highways: South-East @HighwaysSEAST]

Happy 60th birthday to the Dartford Crossing!

The Dartford Crossing is one of our most important roads. Since it opened in 1963, it has helped people make countless journeys across the Thames. Over the coming weeks, we'll be exploring the history of this vital river crossing.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

@Jeni84977722 There’s the truth, it’s all in, or all out, there’s no “changing” these agreements.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

Govt say they’ll change intl agreements if they need to.

Correct me if I’m being thick, but surely, being agreements, that requires the consent of those intl partners?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

As ever, the issue is so much more complex than a daily mail headline.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

News this morning of threats to remove benefits from anyone not seeking work.

So much to say, but let’s start here, why would anyone refuse a job?

Perhaps if it’s zero hours, being aware they’d be required to be on call 24/7 for a fluctuating income that will permanently put

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

them in a state of catch up with their benefits?

Perhaps we’d be better off with an #AnnualMinimumWage, with hours/pay annualised, giving the employer all the flexibility of a zero hours contract, while assuring the worker of a predictable wage above the tax threshold?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

@jonlincbrown To be fair to them, most are just getting used to joined up writing, we shouldn’t expect too much of them.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

Tories offering to prevent Rwanda deporting anyone they send there in their new treaty.

So what happens to individuals refused asylum for whatever reason…??

No thought has gone into any aspect of this fiasco.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

When govt talks of stopping the boats, you know they’re referring to shutting down the woke, leftie RNLI, right…?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

With concerns some carriers may not want to be involved in transferring individuals to Rwanda, govt have announced they’ll form their own dedicated airline for the purpose;

Conservative &
Unionist
National
Transfer
Service

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

Presumably the minister for common sense will precluded from all debate on the govt’s “stop the boats” policy…?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

Are they smoking something already outlawed in the Tory tea rooms?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

nice for them, but it changes nothing.

If they declare by statute Rwanda is safe, without defining extensively & precisely the parameters of such a declaration, it would surely preclude us from membership of any international treaty that also considers such an idea ridiculous?

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

then do whatever it likes, because UK law stipulates that it is “safe”? No need for foreign office advice on this country, because the law states it’s a safe country?

This idea strikes me, not only as unprecedented, but batshit crazy. If parliament offers an opinion, that’s

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

I don’t understand this idea of parliament voting that Rwanda is a safe country. Will parliament be offering an opinion? In what sense will they be declaring it safe? Or will this be an act of parliament, stating that legally, Rwanda is safe? In which case, surely, Rwanda can

[Torsten Bell @TorstenBell]

Hot take: inflation falls!
The human take: prices are up 16% over the past 2 years. Make that 49% for energy and 28% for food.

[💙Laurie Driver - #AnnualMinimumWage @justsnoozing]

@ollieD68 So now comes the question, if govt tries to disapply parts of ECHR & risks being ejected from treaty as its right to do so isn’t accepted, what then?

Don’t think it will get there myself, nothing meaningful will happen this side of a GE, is my guess.

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I’m told ECHR is fundamental to Good Friday Agreement in NI?

So how would disapplying it affect that?

Can we disapply for Rwanda, but not NI?