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Whatever happened to the 16-year-old Angela Rayner, the one who trained to be a care worker before climbing up the political ladder?
It seems as if that Angela has disappeared: just like the job opportunities once afforded to her will when the deputy prime minister brings in her ideological, anti-business, anti-jobs Workers’ Rights Bill which will likely send youth unemployment soaring.
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Currently, an employer minded to give a job to someone wet behind the ears or rough around the edges won’t do so once this Bill comes into effect.
In giving full employment rights to workers from day one, businesses are already planning to cut back on recruitment.
Making the situation worse still, this Bill makes it easier for workers to take employers to tribunals, with staff getting “civil legal aid” to do so.
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So if an employee can’t afford lawyers the Government’s new Fair Work Agency will help them, which will cause havoc in the workplace and bring forward costly, unaffordable legal battles.
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And if that isn’t enough to stop you ever wanting to employ anyone ever again – or even shut up shop immediately – there will also be new powers for the Government to sue employers directly over workplace issues, even if the employee has not made a claim.
And of course, this legislation also strengthens Labour’s trades union masters and makes it easier to go on strike. Even the Labour governments of the 1970s would have baulked at introducing this extremist nonsense.
This new legislation, even by the Government’s own assessment, will cost employers across all sectors a staggering total of ￡5billion a year.
The only people making money from this – as usual – will be those lefty lawyers taking countless tribunal cases at the taxpayer’s expense, crucifying business owners and killing off enterprise.
This, of course, comes on top of the crippling costs to businesses of the increase in employers’ National Insurance contributions.
In a last-ditch attempt to stop this economic act of self-harm, the British Chambers of Commerce, Federation of Small Businesses, Institute of Directors and Make UK will this week go to the House of Lords in the hope they will lay amendments to deal with the worst excesses of the Bill.
Sadly, their chances of success range from slim to nil, and therefore this lethal combination of Rayner’s Rights and Reeves’ Rates will see jobs disappear faster than Elizabeth Taylor got rid of husbands.
And the people who will suffer the most will be the people who find it hardest to get a job already, such as young people, part-time workers and single mums. This isn’t a Workers’ Rights Bill, it’s a No Workers Bill. Angela is literally Rayn-ing on the parade of the working classes she claims to champion.
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Over my lifetime I’ve learnt to deal with all kinds of male comments directed towards me. Growing up, my school holidays were spent with my dad on construction sites which taught me a lot about male banter. Some of the guys were laugh-out-loud funny. Their repartee was really just about showing off and was largely innocent and fun. Even their wolf-whistles were as much to draw attention to themselves as directed to the women walking past.
I contrast this to the sneery dismissiveness I’ve found among male politicians – mainly on the Left – which no doubt goes some way to explaining why Labour has never had a female leader and why many, including the Prime Minister, can’t define what a woman is.
But last week in the House of Commons even I was surprised by the full throttled condescension directed at me by Sir Nicholas Dakin, MP for Scunthorpe, who couldn’t answer my question about passing a law to get rid of the Sentencing Council to stop a two-tier justice system being introduced in the UK.
This Minister would have benefited from his school holidays being taken on a building site. He would have learnt something about humorous exchanges, rather than resorting to nasty loathsome insults.
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There are many things to criticise China for, but this is not one of them. As far as I am concerned, the country is perfectly within its rights to impose the death penalty for drug smuggling.
Anyone who breaks the law in China should do so in the full knowledge of what the sentence will be if caught, and accept the consequences.
Indeed, maybe their policy is more effective than ours when it comes to deal with the scourge of drugs in society.