magnumpi

Theresa May has responded to a nurse's concerns over pay in the NHS by saying there is no "magic money tree" to provide "everything that people want".

https://www.google.ca/amp/www.indepe...371.html%3Famp

It's the only thing I would of considered going back for

BristolUK

You mean she spent £990 of real money on her trousers?

Strewth.

DandNHill

Wonder what percentage pay increase Mrs May has had over the last 8 years?

magnumpi

Dontcha just wish someone had asked her that question

JonboyE

https://www.facebook.com/EvolvePolit...1112301807375/

DandNHill

She wouldn't have replied anyway.

She would have given some vague explanation of the economy and avoided the real question altogether.

BristolUK

She seems to have morphed into Victoria Wood

Shard

She's a spectacularly vacuous politician, not sure what the public see in her.

On Jezza, I can't understand why he can't bring himself to explicitly denounce the IRA. It's not an issue for me, and I'm happy to accept his 'all violence is reprehensible' line, but clearly​ there are some voters who want him to 'say the words'. So why doesn't he? It's common knowledge that the IRA were a terrorist faction, and I can't see any gain to be made by insisting to be impartial.

There are parallels to his refusal to explicitly confirm whether he would press the nuclear button or not, but here I think he's perfectly entitled to prevaricate. It sounds like he wouldn't, which is fair enough. Although as one of the QT audience members noted, perhaps not satisfactory to the many voters who are keen to kill millions of people.

Jingsamichty

It's funny how there isn't a magic money tree to keep nurses' pay in line with inflation, but there is a magic money tree to bail out the banks (375bn), to replace Trident (205bn) and for a new fast HS2 train to London (80bn).

The Tories seem happy to maintain that we're skint and see libraries and playparks closing, instead of saying, "hang on, perhaps we've cut things too far".

Shard

It's a shame nobody in the audience made that point.

Oink

I bet she naffs pigs.

Novocastrian

And where she got the £435,000,000,000 which Quantitative Easing has cost since 2008?

scot47

A fiduciary currency is by its very mature the product of a magic money tree. The great and the good choose what that paper money is spent on. Trident, HS2, Pocket Money for the Royals, £300 a day for the Peers. I can think of other things I would choose !

Oink

Not bad money for saying 'okay yah' and wearing a carpet.

dave2003

Since 2010, parliamentarians have received a 31% pay increase.


The increase was awarded by an allegedly independent body-appointed by whom, I wonder?


They are just like their Canadian provincial and federal counter parts, who point to their 'independent' boards having approved pay increases, claiming that without pay increases that attracting the right people would be difficult, which to me confirms that politics is a career, and not the public service they claim it to be.


David Dingwall, a cabinet minister under Chretien, later to be President of the Royal Canadian Mint, resigned after questions about his expenses. Denied a pension, he then sued for his pension, saying-'I am entitle to my entitlements'.


Get your bum on the gravy train, and after five years, a pension that ordinary folk could never realize.