Latest updates: Mark Harper says minimum service level legislation may help ‘in medium term’ but not for current action
Good morning, and happy new year. You’ll be glad to hear that I haven’t recorded a new year’s messsage for you all, but if you’re missing out you can try Rishi Sunak’s first one (which was even more banal than these things usually are, and included the claim that he became PM three months ago, when it is more like two months), his second one (which was an improvement, and may have been recorded as a repair job), Keir Starmer’s (which was more prime ministerial, and had enough union jack presence to match a Liz Truss video), or Boris Johnson’s, which in some ways was the most interesting of the lot.
As usual, the former PM was peddling boosterism and, as well as saying he expected the economy to recover and Vladimir Putin to lose in Ukraine, he said 2023 would be the year when the UK would “finally start to take advantage of all our new freedoms, lengthening our lead as the best place on earth to invest, to start a business, raise a family, or just hang out in the pub”.
For the disputes that are going on at the moment, the way we’ve got to sort those out is by getting people back around the table and resolving the dispute.
Minimum service level legislation may well be something that will help for the medium term, but it isn’t going to be a solution for the rail strikes that are going on at the moment.
Latest updates: Mark Harper says minimum service level legislation may help ‘in medium term’ but not for current actionGood morning, and happy new year. You’ll be glad to hear that I haven’t recorded a new year’s messsage for you all, but if you’re missing out you can try Rishi Sunak’s first one (which was even more banal than these things usually are, and included the claim that he became PM three months ago, when it is more like two months), his second one (which was an improvement, and may have been recorded as a repair job), Keir Starmer’s (which was more prime ministerial, and had enough union jack presence to match a Liz Truss video), or Boris Johnson’s, which in some ways was the most interesting of the lot.As usual, the former PM was peddling boosterism and, as well as saying he expected the economy to recover and Vladimir Putin to lose in Ukraine, he said 2023 would be the year when the UK would “finally start to take advantage of all our new freedoms, lengthening our lead as the best place on earth to invest, to start a business, raise a family, or just hang out in the pub”.For the disputes that are going on at the moment, the way we’ve got to sort those out is by getting people back around the table and resolving the dispute.Minimum service level legislation may well be something that will help for the medium term, but it isn’t going to be a solution for the rail strikes that are going on at the moment. Continue reading…
