Week in the UK. Good or bad

On Tuesday, the Evening Standard reported that strikes by nurses to end as ballot on more action fails to meet legal threshold .  T he threat of more strikes by nurses has ended after a ballot on further industrial action failed to meet the legal threshold. The Royal College of Nursing said 84% of its members who voted backed more strikes. But only 43% took part in the ballot, so it failed to reach the legal threshold of 50% required by the 2016 Trade Union Act. RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said in an email to members: “To every one of you who took part, whether by voting or encouraging others to, thank you. We have so much to be proud of. “While the vast majority of members who returned their ballot papers voted in favour of strike action, we did not meet the 50% turnout threshold necessary for us to be able to take further strike action. This news made readers skeptic about strikes movement in the UK. " Worn down it seems, a shrewed leader would offer a little more...

On Monday, it came to known that Cabinet Office may take legal action to prevent Boris Johnson’s unredacted diaries and WhatsApp message s being handed over to the official Covid inquiry. Officials are preparing to issue a response to the inquiry chair, Heather Hallett, by 4pm on Tuesday. Sources said they were likely to resist her demand for a cache of documents relating to the former prime minister’s time in No 10. This info was followed by sarcastic reaction on Reddit. "Clearly there is absolutely nothing to hide and they are considering legal action to simply save them from wasting their valuable time… quite the altruistic action really…" - "I said the same thing to the police when I was stopped with a boot load of definitely not drugs.Nothing to see in there, so I thought it would be nice to let them get off to have a break before their next call" "What is it called, the Online Safety Bill or similar? "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothin...

Tuesday clearly was not a day of good news. The mass media hurried to upset us with news that UK food price inflation at third-highest level since 2008 . That is why Jeremy Hunt to meet food manufacturers over prices as Kantar says rate is still ‘incredibly high’. At the same time the BBC issued an article explaining why food bills aren't shrinking - five things to know . It runs that food prices are 19% higher than a year ago. A grocery shop that used to cost £50 is now nearer £60. And it blames in this situation the war in Ukraine with Brexit adding to the red tape of importing food .  Yet, the readers have another opinion. " Because conservative governments put corporate profit before people. Simple as that." "I can answer that ; because it will make supermakets and suppliers record profit and they want a piece of the profit cake too." Others get to the root: "its the farmers fuel and heating, the fuel and heating at the storage/abbatoir, the electric a...

On Thursday, the UK public continued discussing a figure of former Prime Minister Johnson. This time, it concerned the inquiry into whether he deliberately misled parliament over partygate . This theme gained media attention from domestic and international media. Yet, many of them considered that it could be an end of Johnson's political career.   This day all of us also were able to estimate tax returns of Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer ... And to admire the fact that our Prime Ministermade £1.9m last year alone. The majority, however, had come to conclusion that "it shows nothing of value, because tax returns generally don’t, and were never going to. This whole tax return bollocks is shite anyway, it’s a yank problem imported across here to apply meaningless pressure to British politicians. People who thought this would help anything have no idea what a tax return actually is." Almost everyone had quickly realized that the UK current Prime Minister is out of touch w...

This Wednesday was marked by several unwelcome news. Thus we've been informed that UK inflation rate in surprise rise to 10.4% as salad crisis pushes up prices That was rather appalling. As usual, brave Britons faced this data with a good laugh.   "This means companies increase our pay to match inflation, right? Right? Unless you've got debt (which devalues with inflation), inflation is the worst." "Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...oh you're serious, let me laugh even harder AH HA HA HA HA HA! Best we can do is 0.1% over 3 years while profits go up by 50% year on year. And to compensate for those industry leading wage increases, we're going to have to sack a quarter of you and replace you with automation." Another piece of the Wednesday news runs that  MPs overwhelmingly vote for Rishi Sunak’s Brexit deal despite revolt led by Boris Johnson .  Readers of the Independent appear uninterested in impact of the Brexit deal on their lives. They willingly disc...