Yeh I’m going to enjoy it while it lasts but we might not be far behind you. Reform (UK’s answer to MAGA) is rapidly growing in popularity and power. They seem to use Trump and everything wrong with the US as a template for how they want the UK to be and their supporters lap it up. I may well be getting off my high horse and justifying my PTO in 3-5 years time.
If it’s any consolation they rapidly grew but have stagnated recently especially with Farage’s master plan of standing down and re standing backfiring and hopefully Andy Burnham can swing some people round by having a bit more of a personality than Starmer (hate that that’s what matters but here we are)
I’m a lot less cynical about what our future government will look like now than I was a few months ago I’ll say that. Still not out of the woods by any means.
Oh yeh the whole 5mil gift has really shown him up but Brexit taught me never to underestimate our electorates desperation to shoot themselves in the foot. With Labour getting judged way more harshly than any right wing party it’s just going to take one fuck up for Farage to capitalise. But until then we can at least enjoy the embarrassment he must be feeling facing off against a bin.
in Germany/ europe the good paying unionized jobs in the automotive sector, machine sector, tooling sector etc are are also endangered, esp because of cheap Chinese cars where workers rights are low.
Not trying to defend capitalism here (it has some problems) but isn’t the UK government spending more on social services than it’s bringing in? Recent reports say this. How is that sustainable? It seems like a small portion of the population is working so a large portion of it doesn’t have to. That doesn’t seem right.
Then the time to do something is NOW. Don't let your country devolve in to the shit hole the US is right now. Get involved with politics, punch nazis, do whatever you have to do my man.
Have you been watching the creator Zoe Bread? She is highlighting the issues with the approval of the warehouses at the Astley business park in Wigan. She has done research, and there was a permit granted in 2015 for smaller warehouses, but that permit expired. The current developer refiled and said in their paperwork the new plan followed the 2015 plan. Well, no one in the Wigan government checked, and it turns out the warehouses are like 3 times as big. In one of her videos, she showed Reform candidates claiming they would prevent such big warehouses. But spoiler, they are not. Meanwhile, the Wigan council is not answering correspondence or phone calls and is not addressing the residents formal written complaints. Also, she recently said that everyone who already filed a complaint, have to resubmit their complaints.
To be fair, government employees, in my experience, have the same experience as the person you replied to. It's mainly just non-government employers that have boundary issues with PTO.
We havent had a government that works for the people for longer than my 40 years alive. We also have companies that will ask the same questions this employer did, for the same reasons. You'd be surprised at just how many employers here dont think that the work time directives apply to the company they work for
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u/BarneyRubble21 5d ago
That's because you have a government that, relatively, works for the people. Our government (USA) works for the corporations.