What happened on 14th July 2023 - With your comments in the Web

On Friday, web users discussed that Liz Truss been paid £15,770 an hour for second jobs. 

Meanwhile, MPs with second jobs have an average wage of £233 per hour, Sky News can reveal. The typical rate for MPs is 17 times the national average - and over 22 higher than the minimum hourly wage. The highest hourly rate for a current MP goes to Liz Truss, who got £15,770 per hour.

Ms Truss's most lucrative work since leaving Number 10 has been a speech in Taiwan. She was paid at a rate of £20,000 per hour - nearly 1,500 times the UK average hourly wage - for her insights into global diplomacy.

Even higher than Ms Truss is Boris Johnson, who resigned as an MP last month. His hourly rate comes in at £21,822, but having left parliament, he is free to work without having to publicly record his earnings.

"I have to work for a whole year for roughly the same money as that useless turd gets in an hour..."

"Really makes you curious, at what point would a pay like that be not classed as a job, but a bribe?"

"hope no one is surprised, politicians are the most corrupt/greedy people. We need to vote for the common folk like you & i to be in parliament and not public school boys/girls. It is disgusting that many politicians are from the same school. Don’t waste your time trying to say nepotism is not a thing in westminster. It’s a mess, a Eton mess"

Also on Friday, it came to know that Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students taking “low-value” degrees in England, a measure which is most likely to hit working class and black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants.

Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business, the prime minister will announce on Monday.

But vice-chancellors say the measures will act as a “red flag to students”, who will be turned off the idea of entering a capped course as they feel it will damage their life chances, at considerable cost to institutions.

The numbers cap is unlikely to affect the bulk of courses offered by Oxbridge or Russell Group universities, whose students tend to go on to “highly skilled” jobs requiring a degree and above-average earnings.

"There needs to be a bigger push for apprenticeships. Even for careers that typically require degrees, such as software engineering, apprenticeships are a great alternative to university that won't leave the person in crippling debt.

Pros and cons to both options of course, but both options should be equally pushed. Apprenticeships may also cut down on people going for "low-value " degrees."

"We should start by cutting the number of people who learn classics but have no grounding in ethics not any practical worth in society by living off passive income.

Or maybe just fuck off and appreciate learning for learning's sake, irrespective of its economic worth."

"Hybrid courses like the ones nurses and doctors do have a place, but some jobs, like nurses and doctors, can't be full apprenticeships.

The big problem with apprenticeships is that if the students don't have much classroom time then they create a lot of environmens of "we've always done it this way", without external knowledge to question that.

Uni courses (especially accredited ones) have their place because they produce mostly consistent outcomes no matter where you go. Obviously there's variation, but a CS student from Warwick will know most of the same things as a CS student from Essex.

For example, the number of self taught or apprentice programmers I've come across who don't know that complex algorithms don't scale is incredible but not surprising."

NHS cannot afford to finance pay rises from existing budgets, hospitals said on Friday.

Vital services could be cut if the government insists on funding NHS pay rises from existing health budgets, the leader of England’s hospital bosses has said.

Sir Julian Hartley, the chief executive of NHS Providers, said the health service could not afford to finance the increases itself and that without additional funding, social care, prevention and public health services were at risk.

He said: “The government has announced a pay rise for doctors and dentists, but this has not yet been agreed with unions, and funding for it remains unclear.

“The NHS does not have the cash to fund this uplift without additional support from government. Trusts’ budgets are already stretched to the limit. If the Department of Health and Social Care is asked to absorb the cost, vital areas such as social care services, prevention and public health services are also at risk of being cut.”

 "They just increased immigration surcharge. My graduate route visa will now cost 3000. Two months before my student visa ends. 400 left in account, no job. Qualified MSc data science with distinction.

Great to be here in the UK. Loving the effects of brexit. University ripped my pockets. Told there was shortage of skilled workers here. Tossing a coin over staying here for another month vs going back home and starting things from scratch again."

"A spokesperson said the health secretary, Steve Barclay, would refuse to hold any talks on pay with the unions, but would be approachable for discussions on any wider workforce issues

Lol do your fucking job your twonk.

This is so insane. These strikes and this issue around pay has been going on for over 12 months. It has without doubt contributed to hundreds of deaths and god only knows how many people having to suffer unduly. And the man in charge apparently thinks he's done a good job by sitting round a table for all of 10 minutes, in which the only statements he's made are that he won't negotiate at all under the opposing party... Withdraw their position altogether and promise not to do anything disruptive if they don't like where the negotiation goes...?

Who in the ever living fuck is watching this stuff and supporting how our government is behaving here?"

"Would be helpful if the Government had a plan to cope with increasing demands on the NHS.
And those plans should include recruiting staff and paying them fairly.
Promises of 40 New Hospitals in the future ring so hollow given how very little they've done up to now. Seems as long as the rich get richer, everything is just perfect in Toryland."