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 Sunday, Britons learned that democracy is at threat as UK government is doing little to help those unable to vote . It turned out that as many as 9.4 million people across Great Britain, 17% of eligible adults and equivalent to nearly one-in-every-five of us, are missing from the electoral register or not listed at our current address so we may not be able to vote, with the complete inaction of the government. Mirror readers are not happy with this news. The most popular comments are about a great election fraud which would establish Tory dictatorship in the UK: " We have been downgraded to an obstructive democracy just above repressive." " It's called voter suppression Kev, and it's aimed directly and squarely at those people who do not normally vote Conservative. The Tories have lifted the cunning plan straight from the American Republicans - in the same way as they adopted their woke/culture wars, statue and flag worship. Look on well at the US, a ...