Fundamentaly were at a impasse with countless strikes, now the Teaching Unions are up in arms as if there wasn’t another sector to add to the list of striking ones. Though it is time the Government reached a pay settlement withthe Public sector, Thatcher herself reached a compromise with the Unions in the first part of her tenure as PM.
There might be something to be said of sector deals on pay and conditions for Public sector workers in light of the Inflation issue eroding they’re spending power and the unsustainable gap between them and the pay rise seen in the private sector, if its seen on a graph, its stark in difference.
On the NI protocol the UK government is straining sinews to reach a compromise and increasingly there was hope that the trade in goods, data arrangement was the harbinger of progress of the the wider negotiations. James Cleverly has been relatively impressive to the previous foreign secretary and head and shoulders above the tragic Truss. There yet still does seem to be the motivation and effort still on both sides to reach a compromise with each other. If it comes to fruition.
This potentially, along with the recent British military aid to Ukraine and European political community idea of Macron’s could push Britain into the inner sphere of Continental Europe’s power plays.
Yet still outside the EU yet still punching above it’s weight given the support it has shown the the aspiration of Ukraine to have a European direction and future with the EU as a member state.
The state of the narrative has the potential to improve over the Economy with energy and gas prices reducing the overall level of Inflation to below 6% by years end.
GDP Q3 of this year might well herald economic recovery after the doldrums of last year and dreary forecasters who might well end up being showed up thankfully by events in the energy markets. Improving the Eurozone climate that would then feed into the British Economy.
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