Wow. According to this image it looks like nurses - whose real-terms pay has declined by at least 20% since 2010 are responsible for driving up UK borrowing. Thanks for clearing that up BBCNews
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Brexit and tax evasion are driving up public borrowing but the multimillionaire tax evading owned media, who largely supported Brexit never mention it.
I don't care if it drives up borrowing. I don't care how nhs staff are paid or teachers and jannies and MOST OF ALL FOR GOD'S SAKE PAY CARERS PROPERLY. These wages are essential. Find another way to drive inflation down.. Hey, do RENTS AND HOUSE PRICES DRIVE UP BORROWING?
The BBC worked for the Tories and now works for the red version. Editorial decisions on images, headlines, innuendo and choice of Top Stories are designed to contain accuracy but wrapped up in camouflage.
The biggest mistake was making nursing training a university course which effectively reduced staffing levels, costing students a fortune perhaps to find they don't like the work
Doesn’t matter which country you look at nurses are under paid, under valued and face a working environment no one you know would accept. Unless, they are a nurse.
Such a disingenuous headline. It's basically saying that ANYTHING that the government spends money on, drives up borrowing. Culture war against ordinary workers, perpetrated my the rich. Unfortunately this kind of stuff cuts through to the Tories' / Reform working class useful idiots.
I fully support the pay rises but while the deficit still exists of course increases in govt spending will drive it up. How does anybody not understand that?
We need press reform. Especially of the BBC. Shake up the board and replace kunsberg with someone actually neutral.
I'm not even saying make it slanted left. Fit it, so it does what it's supposed to.
I guess you don't understand economics
Giving huge pay increases to public sector workers means inflation... unless we increase in productivity or efficiency
NHS squanders billions each year and are never held to accout sadly ...
That's the tragedy ... but you keep banging your narrative drum
I notice their low-key suggestion that Bluesky is a threat to young people's safety online https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c238y83l48jo whilst saying nothing about the right wing/conspiracy/propaganda binfire that Twitter has become. Pretty clear alignment of interests.
BBC governance is crucial - the last govt put its own placemen in charge & Labour shd do the same. We need to somehow balance out the appallingly right wing dominated media landscape.
A couple of nights ago, the BBC news reported that the loss of the £300 winter fuel allowance for pensioners was pushing many into poverty…. That and that alone was the cause, apparently! No mention of any other factors at all!! 😵💫
This is why I don't pay the BBC to lie to me.
It's not hard:
No "live" TV (stream on demand instead)
No BBC iPlayer (you'll find most of their stuff in YouTube)
No paying them £169.50 a year. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv/tv-licence/
Public Sector Pay deals, Put Cash in People's Pockets They don't need to Borrow to Buy a Pint!
The public sector is the part of the economy that includes government-owned businesses and industries The BBC?
This accounts for half the Country.
as well as the services they provide to YOU the public
My daughter works as a nurse in a GP practice and they have been told up they will not be getting the pay rise. Presumably the Doctors are keeping the money to fund their Employer contributions.
Complete shite. Only 2.5% pay rise this year in local govt, the worst public sector pay deal of all. Already wiped out by the new 2.3% inflation rate just revealed. Real terms, we are similar in the reduction. Appalling reporting.
One other point. Lots, if not most, of Public Sector employees haven't actually received their rise yet. The overall figure may have been given but that's only when negotiations start on how to distribute the funds...
And still forgotten that Public Sector pay rises, of which a hefty chunk never leaves Government hands due to direct taxes with the rest still going back into the Treasury via indirect taxes (eg VAT) or flowing into the private sector and thus helping drive the economy.
Yeah, that real-term pay cut over the past 15 years, but the tanking UK economy is all our fault.
I'm just recalling that time during COVID when one of my ICU colleagues went home and tried to commit suicide, writing in the note that it was all too much. Yeah, it's all our fault.
Fuck you, BBC.
There’s low, and then sinking very low. Clearly nothing to do with the er, bankers and the squandering of public money by successive governments. Beggars belief.
Once you read The Deficit Myth by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social you’ll have an even bigger stick to beat the neoliberals with, including the current government.
BBC has been turned into everything that is untrustworthy and degenerate in a national broadcaster.
Needs reform and rebuilding by good people on independent principles.
Until then treat with healthy skepticism at the very least.
It's really offensive. I'm in a different bit of the public sector and we're still worse off in real terms than we were in 2010. Solidarity with the nurses.
The standard of news reporting at the BBC has been steadily falling for years.
It runs adverts on its own channel telling you that it is loved and trusted.
Which is a good thing because you would never know this from watching its content.
Absolutely! Why do they need pay anyway? Surely, just the love of caring and doing good should be enough to sustain them. Leave remuneration to the important folks who need to trickle down blessings on the rest of us.
Most certainly. And, unfortunately, I think it's intrinsically linked to their concept of the 'natural order of things' and religion. They would prefer to erase any and all progress made in the 20th century.
As ironic as what you've written sounds that is actually the way these Tories think 'just be grateful you've got a job, we know it's stressful & demanding but other people are more worthy because they might make money' !
Maybe. Or maybe the public will be more sympathetic towards nurses, and less towards driving examiners, benefit case managers, food standards inspectors, or immigration officers?
Sadly, there are too many people who suck this shit up and take it as gospel. It’s vile behaviour from the BBC - I wonder if the person responsible has ever needed NHS treatment?! They should be ashamed (but of course, they’re not) 😡
If they mean personal borrowing as in, in real-terms NHS workers have been getting poorer by the year and are putting the kids’ Xmas presents on credit again this year, then bang on.
The same decline has happened to the ABC in Oz. Once the gold standard of journalism. Muddy the waters at the top, it leaks over everyone and you get a pool of pungent water. So sad 😢
It's the migrants It's the Pensioners It's the Public sector workers Meanwhile the Monarch's Govt & HM Opposition work tirelessly for their Rich Greedy Donors to further their self-serving agendas.
Sadly the BBC has become a journalist laughing stock. What’s equally as bad is that there are people believing this as critical thinking is almost absent. I bet they don’t diss on the nurses when they need medical care. Just saying…..
So it’s fine for public sector workers to have their pay frozen or capped for the majority of the last 14 years and where they work be stripped to the bone. However if literally any other section of society looks like they may lose out, it’s unacceptable.
Did @bbcnews bother to research how much of that 'extra cost' was actually the eye watering sums paying for agency staff and overtime, because of the chronic staff shortages in the NHS?
1980's tory propaganda. Years of them claiming people caused inflation, because they had pay rises during the 10% inflation era, and if they hadn't they would have starved to death with a 90% income loss.
Debt slavery is an entirely intentional outcome of fiat currency-based central banking. It always WAS intended to be a predatory ponzi scheme to dominate people and economies with racketeering.
Either the BBC doesn’t know Russia is at war with all the countries that support Ukraine or it’s become Lord Haw Haw🤢
‘Putin denies blah blah’
as if he is a credible commentator rather than an arch liar and successful propagandist.
Yep & that's the reason most of us felt uncomfortable with the 'doorstep clap' once it was taken over from the people by @bbcnews at the behest of the Tory Government !
Blame nurses. Not Brexit, regulatory failures, austerity, Covid corruption, £500m uncollected taxes, unwillingness to tax mega/wealth, Covid fraud write-offs, government mismanagement of just about anything & so on & so forth…
Can we find the young lady in the photo? I don't think a real nurse would be happy or consent to this image being used with that headline, could they ask for removal?
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Issuing new bonds in exchange for new £s it created earlier is not “borrowing” and is in keeping with tradition rather than necessity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p08jbbry/why-we-need-to-debunk-the-deficit-myth-
I'm not even saying make it slanted left. Fit it, so it does what it's supposed to.
Giving huge pay increases to public sector workers means inflation... unless we increase in productivity or efficiency
NHS squanders billions each year and are never held to accout sadly ...
That's the tragedy ... but you keep banging your narrative drum
...the nurses how can they be more produvtive
Do the math !
The nurses are not the problem.... geez...
It's the rest of the rotten nhs
Of course it does
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#BBCNews !
And if you’re confused by the graph: yes, despite the title of the article, the borrowing growth is zero once one account for month variability
Sorry. I meant billionaire. So easy to get them mixed up.
It's not hard:
No "live" TV (stream on demand instead)
No BBC iPlayer (you'll find most of their stuff in YouTube)
No paying them £169.50 a year.
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/broadband-and-tv/tv-licence/
If real.reason=“Brexit”
Print.select.random(
“Nurses”,
“Pandemic”,
“Putins war”)
The public sector is the part of the economy that includes government-owned businesses and industries The BBC?
This accounts for half the Country.
as well as the services they provide to YOU the public
not.
...there's a blame the public servants mantra !
#BBCNews
..the 'journalist' are doing their bidding !
I'm just recalling that time during COVID when one of my ICU colleagues went home and tried to commit suicide, writing in the note that it was all too much. Yeah, it's all our fault.
Fuck you, BBC.
It's the propaganda arm of the Tory party.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/staggering-cost-of-kings-coronation-revealed-386186/
Not this though...hmmm.
How did they come into existence, exactly?
..avoid it like the plague !
Needs reform and rebuilding by good people on independent principles.
Until then treat with healthy skepticism at the very least.
It runs adverts on its own channel telling you that it is loved and trusted.
Which is a good thing because you would never know this from watching its content.
Nothing wrong with this.
...giving unlimited publicity to Clarkson & Farage's 'poor old (millionaire) farmers' !
So if these people are essential, why are they not on £100k, while there are plenty of people not classified as essential on that sort of pay?!
Yeah… right..
..I'm surprised they aren't sending us paper tissues !
FROM ME TO ALL ANGEL NURSES
© PAOLO BOLZONI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmvNYKuKmqw
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/16/nhs-across-uk-spends-a-staggering-10bn-on-temporary-staff
Rather than blaming it on oil prices tripling.
Show trials now!
‘Putin denies blah blah’
as if he is a credible commentator rather than an arch liar and successful propagandist.
Sure, they could’ve picked a better image, but nurses ARE public sector.
If you’re witlessly jumping to conclusions on just that without reading, that’s on you, not the BBC.