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Vandals are out on Marlpit Avenue as ULEZ takes effect
Criminal damage to public property continues in Coulsdon, as data suggests a sharp reduction in the most polluting vehicles using the capital’s roads Expansion: ULEZ has helped to improve air quality in central London. The Tories oppose it Just as it did in inner London when introduced (by the then-Mayor, Boris Johnson, in case you needed reminding), all the early signs are that ULEZ is already…
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Sunak Triumphs in Commons as Rwanda Deportation Bill Secures Majority, Faces Ongoing Challenges in Lords
In a surprising turn of events, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak emerged victorious in the Commons as his controversial Rwanda deportation bill secured a majority of 44 votes. Despite facing a rightwing rebellion within his own party, Sunak successfully navigated the political storm, quelling dissent and pushing his flagship immigration policy forward. The prime minister is set to hold a press conference at No 9 Downing Street to provide an update on the government's immigration policies and address questions from the media. This comes after the bill passed with a vote of 320 to 276, marking a critical moment in Sunak's leadership. While the immediate threat from Tory rebels has been averted, Sunak now faces a new challenge in the House of Lords. Crossbench peer Alex Carlile has warned of "significant attempts" to defeat the Rwanda Bill in the upper chamber, raising concerns about international treaty obligations and the reputation of the British legal system. Despite the victory, Sunak's Rwanda plan is not out of the woods yet. The government's refusal to specify when flights to Rwanda will commence sets the stage for a prolonged battle in the House of Lords. The Labour Party's commitment to convention makes it challenging for rebel peers to amass the numbers needed to overturn the government's decision. As Sunak prepares for a press conference to address the nation, the spotlight is on the implications of his victory. Home Office minister Chris Philp asserts that the Rwanda Bill should pass through the Lords "fairly fast" due to its relatively short length. However, the ongoing debates and potential amendments in the upper chamber could lead to political back-and-forth before the bill becomes law. In the aftermath of the Commons vote, internal party dynamics are under scrutiny. Despite three resignations and a week of rebellion, Sunak's ally Chris Philp insists that the prime minister has emerged "stronger." The political landscape remains tense as Tory rightwingers, unsatisfied with the robustness of Sunak's Rwanda plan, now shift their focus on persuading him to quit the European Court of Human Rights. The stakes are high, with MPs stressing the need for Sunak to demonstrate the effectiveness of the legislation by ensuring flights to Rwanda commence by spring. Failure to do so may spell trouble for the prime minister's electoral prospects, while the Labour Party maintains a substantial lead over the Conservatives in the latest polls. The Rwanda Bill's journey is far from over, as it moves to the House of Lords for further scrutiny, potentially reshaping the future of immigration policies in the UK. Read the full article
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Chris Philp faced questions from MPs on the 2019 Tory manifesto pledge on policing.
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Mick Lynch, General Secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) has been in the media all day talking about the rail strikes and god what a great spokesperson he has been for them.
Here he is handling some ridiculous line of questioning from Kay Burley who is trying to suggest the union will be encouraging violence on the picket lines and referencing the 1980’s miners strikes, which is pretty absurd for a whole host of reasons:
Here he is calling Chris Philp, a Tory MP and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport a liar approximately 900 times for spouting nonsense on Newsnight (I can only post one vid so these will be links)
Here he is telling Richard Madeley he’s talking “twaddle” for asking him if he’s a Marxist, which tbh I think was polite because imo Richard Madeley is just a c u n t xx
And if you’ve any uncertainty as to why rail workers are striking, these two clips will be a good place to start
#join a union#don’t scab#and remember why it matters#solidarity forever#fuck the tories#never cross a picket line#mick lynch#rmt#rail strikes#union reps
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Dickheads of the Month: October 2022
As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of October 2022 to make sure that they are never forgotten.
It took 37 days before the Liz Truss premiership began to collapse in on itself, as she sacked Kwasi Kwarteng and Chris Philp - which included recalling Kwarteng from meeting with the IMF in Washington DC - to sack them for implementing the economic policies she said she would implement throughout her leadership campaign, which also tanked the economy the second she implemented them, leaving her looking for a bus timetable as she had the sudden urge to throw anyone but herself under one
...and 45 days before Liz Truss earned her place in history by being the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British history, beating the record held by George Canning by the best part of eighty days and without her dying from tuberculosis when taking office like Canning was, which begs the question whether she would have lasted an even shorter amount of time if she didn't use the Queen’s death to take a two holiday at the start of her premiership
...which led to the BBC becoming disturbingly invested in the prospect of seeing proven liar Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson returned to Downing Street, leading to Chris Mason claiming that he already had the 100 votes to get on the ballot - parroting a claim by Guido Blog from several hours earlier saying the same thing, which was soundly debunked by various MPs who Guido claimed were supporting him stating that was not the case
...ad then proven liar Boris Johnson ruled himself out of the Tory leadership race, but he definitely had those 100 votes to get on the ballot, honest, and he wasn't claiming he had 102 votes when he only had 57
...all while Tory bots were calling the Southampton-born Sunak a Muslim migrant, and various local Tory parties were threatening to deselect their sitting MPs if they did not support “Daddy” returning, which of course I am not going to suggest is in any way related to Jacob Rees Mogg running proven liar Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson’s campaign
...and when Rishi Sunak unveiled his new cabinet it was an utter shitshow, with Suella Braverman regaining the Home Secretary job she lost the previous week for the breaking ministerial code, fellow ministerial code breakers Robert Jenrick and Gavin Williamson getting gigs in as Immigration Minister and Minister Without Portfolio respectively, climate change denier Therese Coffey being Environment Minister, rampaging TERF Kemi Badenoch being named as Equalities Minister, and walking beacon of incompetence Dominic Raab being named both Deputy PM and Justice Minister
The brass neck of Kwasi Kwarteng trying to say the British economy didn't slump as a direct result of his mini budget and, actually, it was The Queen’s death that caused uncertainty which led to the crash would have been surprising...if it was said by somebody other than the bloke who sat there giggling during the minute's silence at The Queen’s funeral
It took Liz Truss just 36 days of her premiership before she was running and hiding instead of facing an urgent Commons question about her budget, which only led to Penny Mordaunt to use the fact she'd been sent in Truss’ stead to stick the knife in and say that, no, she did not believe Truss was hiding under a desk - which is now forever enshrined in the Hansard
The fact that Suella Braverman has managed to get the phrase “Guardian reading, tofu eating wokerati” forever enshrined in the Hansard, making sure of it by the volume she was shouting that phrase when in Commons, is made even worse by the fact that it was not an off-the-cuff remark, as she was reading it off a sheet of paper meaning somebody prepared that gibberish - which also happened to be her last Commons performance as Home Secretary, as she resigned the following day for multiple security breaches
...and then ultra-relatable nice guy Rishi Sunak gave Braverman her Home Secretary job back as soon as he became PM, as if Braverman hadn't been sacked for breaching security protocols when she emailed official documents to her personal email address, downloaded them to her phone, and then emailed them with her personal email account to somebody who definitely should not be receiving them a mere six days earlier
There’s nothing dictatorial about Suella Braverman talking at the Tory conference to say her dream isn’t an end to the cost of living crisis, or seeing Covid consigned to the history books, or the UK proving it can stand on its own after being duped out of the EU by a slogan on a bus. No, instead she said her dream was seeing a flight taking migrants to Rwanda
...and then we had Rachel Reeves showing just what a viable alternative we have by saying that the Tories’ lack of deporting migrants is a “failure” the same day that Braverman said she “dreams” of deporting people to Rwanda
...and then it turned out Suella Braverman not only lied to the standards committee about immediately realising her mistake and contacting them when it came to light she was sending emails to the recipients of classified documents from her Gmail account to delete the email and pretend that they had not read it, but she hadn’t done that twice - she’d done it at least six times
...and when Suella Braverman found her back against the wall she doubled down hard by using National Front rhetoric about migrants inside Commons, so the Hansard is going to have a permanent record of this, which in turn led to her handlers at the ERG throwing a ring of protection around her suggesting only her enemies want to get rid of her as opposed to, oh I don’t know, anybody who wants believes that a Home Secretary should not need MI5 having to tell how to use an email account properly without compromising national security, let alone one whose only move is to go full fash about migrants
...and Braverman’s insane babbling led to Jonathan Gullis demonstrating what a monumental bellend he is by naming the hotel in his constituency where migrants are being housed - within 24 hours of a far-right terror attack on a migrant centre in Dover
Billionaire manchild Elon Musk finally bought Twitter because it's somehow easier for him to pay $44bn to avoid the shame of going through with his empty promises for once instead of the $1bn to admit he was acting like a tart as per usual, and after immediately sacking all the heads his talk of freeze peach led to a tsunami of racist slurs pouring over the platform like it was a beach the Tories had allowed sewage to be pumped over, and then his next bright idea was to suggest charging $4.99 a month to keep verified status which looks uncannily like him empowering sock puppet accounts to pollute the Twittersphere...and then fired the entire board and made himself God King of Twitter, a move which definitely doesn't look like a bad case of Short Man Syndrome
When it fell to Therese Coffey to have her moment in the spotlight to remind us just how much overpromoted shite there is in the Tory party, she casually mentioned handing off her prescribed antibiotics to friends and family. Or, to put it another way, the Health Secretary casually admitted to breaking two counts of The Human Medicines Regulations Act 2012
So now we know that Alex Jones would rather owe $965m in compensation to the Sandy Hook families rather than admit that he was wrong. That doesn't make him look like a cast iron fuckwit...
Billionaire manchild Elon Musk has decided that what the world really needs is him stepping in to both the Ukraine/Russia and Taiwan/China tensions, and in both cases telling Ukraine and Taiwan to roll over for the country with the higher GDP and like it, so much like his cars he really should stay in his lane
So to recap, at the Tory conference Conor Burns groped somebody at a conference bar and was immediately dumped by the party, which made his being in proven liar Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson’s resignation honours - mainly for walking in when then-Foreign Secretary De Pfeffel was receiving a blowjob from Carrie Symonds who at that time, was definitely not De Pfeffel’s wife, in the Foreign Office - an embarrassment for the government, and somehow Scary Spice was also involved. You see, if this was a work of fiction, absolutely nobody would believe it...
Charming individual Lee Anderson apparently didn't consider that maybe it's not a good idea to assault somebody who is interviewing you, especially since the person you assaulted was filming you assaulting them
Optics lessons for the staff of the Chinese consulate in Manchester after they responded to a pro-Hong Kong demonstration outside the consulate by grabbing somebody, pulling them onto the grounds, and kicking the shit out of them in front of several cameras recording the whole thing
Militant TERF JK Rowling has been having a normal one, as at the same time she's Mermaids of “paedophilia” she’s also attacking Nicola Sturgeon for being a “destroyer of women’s rights” and not, as is one suggestion, maybe considering that she's gone off the deep end even by her standards - and that’s before unintentionally channelling her inner Ranier Wolfcastle by saying she sleeps at night because she has lots of royalty cheques
This month Kanye West is trying to gain some form of relevance by hanging around with Candace Owens with the pay of them wearing “White Lives Matter” t-shirts like a pair of ignorant, MAGA-enabling twats
...and then Kanye West went and suggested exterminating the Jews while claiming you can't accuse him of antisemitism because he's black - and then decided that he hadn't doubled down hard enough, so started chatting bollocks about how George Floyd actually died of a fentanyl overdose
...while somehow both Hadley Freeman and The Jewish Chronicle both found themselves looking for excuses to not criticise Kanye for his antisemitism, which is an interesting stance for them to take given their gatekeeping of the subject
...and when Kanye West got dropped like a bad stench by Adidas for his continued batshittery, what completely normal adult action did he take? March into Sketchers’ HQ uninvited on the assumption that they’d gladly pick up his grossly expensive trainers
About standard of Donald Trump Jr to demonstrate that the orange doesn't fall far from the tree thinking he was oh-so-funny to post an oh-so-funny “joke” to his Instagram about how one of the MAGA louts assaulted Paul Pelosi in his home with a hammer in an attempt to murder Nancy Pelosi
Billionaire manchild Elon Musk apparently thinks it's a good look to whine about how the Starlinks he donated to Ukraine cost him a lot of money, which not only makes it look an awful lot like he doesn’t know what the word “donated” means, but also neatly sidesteps that it is costing Ukrainians ₴25,000 a month to keep those Starlinks running so it's not like they aren't making him money every month in a warzone while he whines that he didn't get market value for them
Wait, did Tim Pool actually tweet that when the billionaire manchild takes over Twitter that people Tim Pool disagrees with politically should have verification labels that mark them as “communists”? Why yes, yes he did
Bad look from Mikel Arteta praising Thomas Partey for “everything he’s been through”, which is an interesting euphemism for “I’ve got no problem playing somebody currently under investigation for rape, and definitely don’t think that publicly praising him will look bad at any point”
Brilliant idea by Blizzard when launching Overwatch 2 to ban anybody who uses a pre-paid phone contract from playing Overwatch 2 on the assumption that they're cheating, which made the game even more of a joke than the servers habitually crashing when Overwatch 2 launched or how it's so riddled with microtransactions that trying to naturally grind every unlock for one character would take five years
Oh boy, if anybody had forgotten what a piece of shit Keemstar is and always was, his response to the revelation that Amouranth has an abusive and controlling husband was a classic example of “Her husband is abusive, but...”
Somebody organising Twitch signed off on having a foam pit at TwitchCon that was so shallow that it left Adriana Chechik needing a metal rod in her spine after breaking her back in two places while LochVanness dislocated her knee - but they did make sure to have people sign waivers beforehand...
The Tory conference got off to a great start when Daniel Grainger of the Young Conservative Network called Birmingham, which was hosting the event, a “dump” - leading to Andy Street, the Tory Mayor of the West Midlands, to wade in and give him quite the proverbial slap
It took a while, but Lauren Boebert has just about realised that “Let’s go Brandon” is not two words...
Quite the disconnect from John Cleese to appear on the BBC to complain that, if he appeared on the BBC, he would be a victim of “cancel culture” - but what else can be expected from somebody who signs up with GB news to pay off his alimony debts?
Oh joy, it seems that Just Stop Oil have been studying the Extinction Rebellion handbook for how to actively torpedo your own message below the waterline due to being a bunch of bellends by thinking it was a genius idea to throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery, not least because tomato soup was an Andy Warhol painting. Although it seems they noticed their mistakes, as they instead turned their attention to chucking paint on 55 Tufton Street and the offices of News UK instead
Not a good look from PlatinumGames and Nintendo when it emerged that they offered Hellena Taylor just $4000 to reprise her title role for Bayonetta 3, and when she rejected the insulting offer they simply made up a reason for her departure and hoped nobody would question it - which didn't work when Taylor went public with their offer, which mainly caused Hideki Kamiya to act like such a child by going on a blocking rampage (and this is Hideki Kamiya we’re talking about here, who blocks anyone who looks at him) that was so over the top that Twitter temporarily suspended his account thinking he was a spambot
...and then it turned out that Hellena Taylor omitted a few details in her criticism of PlatinumGames, specifically as she was offered $4000 per recording session so would have been paid between $12-16,000 for recording dialogue for Bayonetta 3 - which, is still underpaid - and then it emerged that one of the charities she was urging fans to donate what they would have paid for Bayonetta 3 was an anti-abortion bunch of crackpots, so as a result she has screwed up video game voice performers asking for fairer pay because when somebody has a legitimate gripe they’ll have Hellena Taylor thrown in their face
Maybe if Jeremy Clarkson didn't brag in his Sun column about a legal loophole allowing him to operate a restaurant on his farm, he wouldn't have had the restaurant on his farm shut down with extreme prejudice by the HMRC
Obnoxious bellend James Corden continued the charm offensive that is his very existence when visiting Balthazar - and was promptly banned from the premises for being a complete arse to their waiting staff
If I wait two years, will I see shinyloveranchor swinging by this post to mouth off about how I can't say who is or isn't a Dickhead of the Month because I’m neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg before hiding behind the block function like a brave little edgelord...or will Tumblr be dead by then so nobody will care either way?
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Britain’s migrant invasion that wasn’t
Immigration Britain’s migrant invasion that wasn’t
A sense of proportion would help
AS BRITAIN SWELTERED in a heatwave—or, as most Europeans would describe it, summer—Priti Patel was far from the only Londoner to go southwards in search of sea air. But the home secretary’s outing, on August 10th, was hardly a jolly. Her day was full of pow-wows with border guards, not of ice cream and sandcastles. In Dover she clambered aboard a police vessel named Invicta and conferred with officials, a latter-day Boudicca inspecting her troops.
A steady trickle of migrants attempting to cross the English Channel in dinghies from camps in Calais has inspired a sea of tabloid headlines. Nigel Farage, a loudmouth Brexiteer, made hay. Tory MPs joined in, too: Natalie Elphicke, who represents Dover, accused incomers of “breaking into our country”; a group of 25 members of the parliamentary party saw not bedraggled groups of people desperate enough to risk drowning but hordes of “invading migrants”. Ms Patel’s trip to the seaside was an attempt to placate such critics. “Ministers want to get it off the front page of the Daily Mail,” says David Wood, a former head of immigration enforcement at the Home Office.
Populists in the media and Parliament make much of a steep rise in such crossings, from about 2,000 last year to 4,000 or so this year, according to an unofficial tally. Less remarked on is that this represents a small fraction of those who claim asylum in Britain: last year they numbered 36,000. And despite the myth that most migrants make a beeline for Britain, far more seek asylum in France (about 124,000 last year) or Germany (142,500). Photographs of the needy huddled in unseaworthy craft recall the migrant crisis of five years ago. But, says Laura Padoan of UNHCR, the United Nations’ refugee agency, “it’s really misleading to talk about a crisis. When I was in Greece in 2015, there were 11,000 people arriving on an island every day.”
Britain’s focus on the issue is regarded with some bemusement across the Channel. On August 11th Chris Philp, the immigration minister, was dispatched to Paris where, according to a press release, he held talks with “the French government”. Such circumlocution did not quite disguise the fact that his hastily-arranged meeting was with officials, not his opposite number: neither of the ministers concerned deigned to interrupt their summer break.
Still, hashing out a plan to stop the crossings—ideally by making it easier for migrants to apply to join relatives in Britain as well as by stepping up French intelligence-gathering and border patrols—is a good idea. That is not because this luckless flotilla poses a threat to Britain; rather that the Channel is the world’s busiest shipping lane. No route is safe—migrants who cross by lorry risk asphyxiation—but this one is particularly dangerous.
A crackdown would also deprive organised criminals of a lucrative revenue stream. Migrants pay smugglers between £1,000 ($1,300) and £5,000 for the 21-mile crossing, depending on the seaworthiness of the vessel, says Mr Wood. And it would deter potential migrants from making the long journey to France in the hope of crossing the Channel. “The black-market migration industry can adjust very quickly to how countries manage their borders,” says Henry Sherrell, an immigration wonk. “If you don’t get on top of it, something small can become something large.”
Any solution requires cross-Channel co-operation. When the Brexit transition period ends in December and, with it, Britain’s right to return incomers to the country where they first claimed asylum, ministers will become even more reliant on France. Hostile press briefings implying that the French government is holding Britain to ransom by “demanding” £30m for enhanced border measures are counter-productive. If this really is a crisis, it is an unusually cheap one to tackle. ■
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline "A rather small invasion"
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This is how messed up the Tory Party is. They just don't get it. "I'm not going to offer any sort of commentary or criticism on Damian Green, he's going to be feeling dreadful this morning and we should have some sensitivity and sympathy for that" (Chris Philp, Tory MP)
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Yes we CAN? Four MPs lobbied to support vital climate Bill
Residents who have become increasingly concerned about the climate emergency have taken their protests to the doorsteps of Croydon’s four MPs. The time is now: some of the Croydon climate group protesting outside the constituency office of Environment Secretary Steve Reed Campaigners from the Croydon Green Network rounded off their lobbying by meeting Croydon East MP Natasha Irons, ahead of the…
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Foreign nationals should be banned from buying more than half of houses in new developments, says Tory MP
Foreign nationals should be barred from buying more than 50 percent of houses or flats in new developments of more than 20 properties, a Conservative MP has proposed.
The 50 percent limit is one of a series of changes put forward in a report by Croydon South MP Chris Philp to boost house-building towards the Government’s target of 300,000 homes a year and ensure that more new homes end up with…
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Pilot union leader enjoys luxury Med cruise with his family while BA travellers’ plans are ruined
Strolling in the Sardinian sunshine, Brian Strutton seems to be enjoying his summer break.
But thousands of families have had their holiday plans ruined – thanks to the pilot strike arranged by the union boss in his polo shirt.
Mr Strutton is on a luxury break in the Mediterranean as thousands of BA customers scramble to save their own holidays.
The airline said yesterday it has received almost 140,000 calls and tweets from panicking passengers forced to rearrange trips due to three days of strikes next month.
Strolling in the Sardinian sunshine, Brian Strutton seems to be enjoying his summer break. But thousands of families have had their holiday plans ruined – thanks to the pilot strike arranged by the union boss in his polo shirt
Up to 450,000 holidaymakers have been caught up in the mayhem, caused by a dispute over pilots’ pay. Some needlessly forked out for alternative flights after BA wrongly told them their bookings had been cancelled.
But Mr Strutton appeared oblivious to the chaos as the Mail traced him to the Italian island of Sardinia on the second stop of a seven-day cruise with his family.
The £141,000-a-year general secretary of pilots union Balpa strolled round the port of Olbia yesterday morning with his wife Sue and adult son, shortly after disembarking from the Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship. The ‘Cosmopolitan Classics’ cruise, which is operated by travel firm Tui and costs £923 per person, is believed to be an early birthday treat before Mr Strutton’s 60th next month.
The ship has two pools, seven restaurants and capacity for 2,000 guests. Passengers have described being aboard as an ‘amazing’ experience, and describe being ‘treated like royalty’.
Mr Strutton was condemned by holidaymakers and MPs alike last night. Former Tory minister David Davis said: ‘Under normal circumstances no-one would deny Mr Strutton a well-earned holiday.
‘However, his proper place is back at the negotiating table in London because every day lost means thousands of ordinary people cannot have the privilege of a holiday.’
Chris Philp, a Tory MP who has campaigned for tougher anti-strike laws said: ‘It is shocking that while ruining everybody else’s holiday, Mr Strutton is sunning himself rather than working to resolve the issues. This is a contemptuous slap in the face for holidaymakers across the country.’
Mr Strutton is on a luxury break in the Mediterranean as thousands of BA customers scramble to save their own holidays. The airline said yesterday it has received almost 140,000 calls and tweets from panicking passengers forced to rearrange trips due to three days of strikes next month
BA customer Jacki Whitehouse, 40, had been due to fly to Sardinia with her fiance but has been caught up in the strike chaos. She said Mr Strutton ‘should feel guilty and thoroughly ashamed’.
The Balpa chief faced further fury on social media. One passenger wrote on Twitter that Mr Strutton has ‘stuck two fingers up to 450,0000 passengers by going on holiday at this important time’.
More than 3,000 Balpa members who fly for BA – including captains paid £167,000 a year on average – will strike on September 9, 10, and 27 after rejecting an 11.5 per cent pay rise over three years, plus an extra 1 per cent bonus. BA’s chief executive Alex Cruz has said the ‘inflation-busting’ hike would have pushed the average package of its captains above £200,000.
Up to 450,000 holidaymakers have been caught up in the mayhem, caused by a dispute over pilots’ pay. Some needlessly forked out for alternative flights after BA wrongly told them their bookings had been cancelled. But Mr Strutton appeared oblivious to the chaos as the Mail traced him to the Italian island of Sardinia on the second stop of a seven-day cruise with his family
The walkouts are set to trigger the cancellation of hundreds of flights – with around 850 BA journeys scheduled in and out of the UK on each strike date. There will also be disruption on surrounding days caused by knock-on delays.
Passengers are being rebooked by BA on flights with other airlines where available, although many are being forced to cancel their trips. Hours after announcing the strike dates, Mr Strutton jetted off from Bournemouth airport to Palma, Majorca on Saturday before cruising on to Naples.
The Mail caught up with Mr Strutton on the second stop of the journey in Sardinia where passengers could be seen admiring the spectacular views of the coast. The tourists appeared to be enjoying themselves, with some jogging around the top deck and others peering through the windows.
The Balpa chief faced further fury on social media. One passenger wrote on Twitter that Mr Strutton has ‘stuck two fingers up to 450,0000 passengers by going on holiday at this important time’. Pictured: The Marella Discovery 2 cruise ship in the Sardinian port of Olbia
More than 3,000 Balpa members who fly for BA – including captains paid £167,000 a year on average – will strike on September 9, 10, and 27 after rejecting an 11.5 per cent pay rise over three years, plus an extra 1 per cent bonus. BA’s chief executive Alex Cruz has said the ‘inflation-busting’ hike would have pushed the average package of its captains above £200,000
Mr Strutton, his wife and son disembarked at around 9.30am. The captain assured passengers over a loudspeaker it was a ‘belter’ of a day and told them to enjoy their trips, which included a tour of a local museum. By 5.30pm they were back on board for a ‘dress to impress’ night. Next stop is the Tuscan port of Livorno.
Andrew Bridgen, a Tory MP said: ‘[Mr Strutton] should not be on a luxury cruise – he should be in London negotiating. Many of these pilots are already paid more than the Prime Minister. I have supported Balpa in the past but you can’t defend the indefensible’.
Last night Mr Strutton said: ‘On Thursday I offered BA the chance for further negotiations but they said no. I asked if they would consider arbitration but they said no.
‘I’m still working while on holiday so BA can contact me at any time if they change their mind but have not done so, they’ve not made any contact at all. The real question is, with the options I’ve given BA, why do they prefer a strike?’
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How did your MP vote on the deal?
TORY AYES (286)
Nigel Adams (Selby and Ainsty),
Bim Afolami (Hitchin and Harpenden)
Peter Aldous (Waveney),
Lucy Allan (Telford),
David Amess (Southend West),
Stuart Andrew (Pudsey),
Edward Argar (Charnwood),
Victoria Atkins (Louth and Horncastle),
Richard Bacon (South Norfolk),
Kemi Badenoch (Saffron Walden),
Harriett Baldwin (West Worcestershire),
Stephen Barclay (North East Cambridgeshire),
Henry Bellingham (North West Norfolk),
Richard Benyon (Newbury),
Paul Beresford (Mole Valley),
Jake Berry (Rossendale and Darwen),
Bob Blackman (Harrow East),
Crispin Blunt (Reigate),
Nick Boles (Grantham and Stamford),
Peter Bottomley (Worthing West),
Andrew Bowie (West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine),
Ben Bradley (Mansfield),
Karen Bradley (Staffordshire Moorlands),
Graham Brady (Altrincham and Sale West),
Jack Brereton (Stoke-on-Trent South),
Steve Brine (Winchester),
James Brokenshire (Old Bexley and Sidcup),
Fiona Bruce (Congleton),
Robert Buckland (South Swindon),
Alex Burghart (Brentwood and Ongar),
Conor Burns (Bournemouth West),
Alistair Burt (North East Bedfordshire),
Alun Cairns (Vale of Glamorgan),
James Cartlidge (South Suffolk),
Maria Caulfield (Lewes),
Alex Chalk (Cheltenham),
Rehman Chishti (Gillingham and Rainham),
Jo Churchill (Bury St Edmunds),
Colin Clark (Gordon),
Greg Clark (Tunbridge Wells),
Kenneth Clarke (Rushcliffe),
Simon Clarke (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland),
James Cleverly (Braintree),
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (The Cotswolds),
Therese Coffey (Suffolk Coastal),
Damian Collins (Folkestone and Hythe),
Alberto Costa (South Leicestershire),
Robert Courts (Witney),
Geoffrey Cox (Torridge and West Devon),
Stephen Crabb (Preseli Pembrokeshire),
Tracey Crouch (Chatham and Aylesford),
Chris Davies (Brecon and Radnorshire),
David T. C. Davies (Monmouth),
Glyn Davies (Montgomeryshire),
Mims Davies (Eastleigh),
Philip Davies (Shipley)
David Davis (Haltemprice and Howden),
Caroline Dinenage (Gosport),
Jonathan Djanogly (Huntingdon),
Leo Docherty (Aldershot),
Michelle Donelan (Chippenham),
Nadine Dorries (Mid Bedfordshire),
Steve Double (St Austell and Newquay),
Oliver Dowden (Hertsmere),
Jackie Doyle-Price (Thurrock),
Richard Drax (South Dorset),
David Duguid (Banff and Buchan),
Iain Duncan Smith (Chingford and Woodford Green),
Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton),
Philip Dunne (Ludlow),
Michael Ellis (Northampton North),
Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East),
Charlie Elphicke (Dover),
George Eustice (Camborne and Redruth),
Nigel Evans (Ribble Valley),
David Evennett (Bexleyheath and Crayford),
Michael Fabricant (Lichfield),
Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks),
Mark Field (Cities of London and Westminster),
Vicky Ford (Chelmsford),
Kevin Foster (Torbay),
Liam Fox (North Somerset),
Lucy Frazer (South East Cambridgeshire),
George Freeman (Mid Norfolk),
Mike Freer (Finchley and Golders Green),
Roger Gale (North Thanet),
Mark Garnier (Wyre Forest),
David Gauke (South West Hertfordshire),
Nusrat Ghani (Wealden),
Nick Gibb (Bognor Regis and Littlehampton),
Cheryl Gillan (Chesham and Amersham),
John Glen (Salisbury),
Zac Goldsmith (Richmond Park),
Robert Goodwill (Scarborough and Whitby),
Michael Gove (Surrey Heath),
Luke Graham (Ochil and South Perthshire),
Richard Graham (Gloucester),
Bill Grant (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock),
Helen Grant (Maidstone and The Weald),
James Gray (North Wiltshire),
Chris Grayling (Epsom and Ewell),
Chris Green (Bolton West),
Damian Green (Ashford),
Andrew Griffiths (Burton),
Kirstene Hair (Angus),
Robert Halfon (Harlow),
Luke Hall (Thornbury and Yate),
Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge),
Stephen Hammond (Wimbledon),
Matt Hancock (West Suffolk),
Greg Hands (Chelsea and Fulham),
Mark Harper (Forest of Dean),
Richard Harrington (Watford),
Rebecca Harris (Castle Point),
Trudy Harrison (Copeland),
Simon Hart (Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire),
John Hayes (South Holland and The Deepings),
Oliver Heald (North East Hertfordshire),
James Heappey (Wells),
Chris Heaton-Harris (Daventry),
Peter Heaton-Jones (North Devon),
Gordon Henderson (Sittingbourne and Sheppey),
Nick Herbert (Arundel and South Downs),
Damian Hinds (East Hampshire),
Simon Hoare (North Dorset),
George Hollingbery (Meon Valley),
Kevin Hollinrake (Thirsk and Malton),
John Howell (Henley),
Nigel Huddleston (Mid Worcestershire),
Eddie Hughes (Walsall North),
Jeremy Hunt (South West Surrey),
Nick Hurd (Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner),
Alister Jack (Dumfries and Galloway),
Margot James (Stourbridge),
Sajid Javid (Bromsgrove),
Robert Jenrick (Newark),
Boris Johnson (Uxbridge and South Ruislip),
Caroline Johnson (Sleaford and North Hykeham),
Gareth Johnson (Dartford),
Andrew Jones (Harrogate and Knaresborough),
Marcus Jones (Nuneaton),
Daniel Kawczynski (Shrewsbury and Atcham),
Gillian Keegan (Chichester),
Seema Kennedy (South Ribble),
Stephen Kerr (Stirling),
Julian Knight (Solihull),
Greg Knight (East Yorkshire),
Kwasi Kwarteng (Spelthorne),
John Lamont (Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk),
Mark Lancaster (Milton Keynes North),
Pauline Latham (Mid Derbyshire),
Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire),
Jeremy Lefroy (Stafford),
Edward Leigh (Gainsborough),
Oliver Letwin (West Dorset),
Andrew Lewer (Northampton South),
Brandon Lewis (Great Yarmouth),
Ian Liddell-Grainger (Bridgwater and West Somerset),
David Lidington (Aylesbury),
Jack Lopresti (Filton and Bradley Stoke),
Jonathan Lord (Woking),
Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham),
Rachel Maclean (Redditch),
Anne Main (St Albans),
Alan Mak (Havant), Kit Malthouse (North West Hampshire),
Scott Mann (North Cornwall),
Paul Masterton (East Renfrewshire),
Theresa May (Maidenhead),
Paul Maynard (Blackpool North and Cleveleys),
Patrick McLoughlin (Derbyshire Dales),
Stephen McPartland (Stevenage),
Esther McVey (Tatton),
Mark Menzies (Fylde),
Johnny Mercer (Plymouth, Moor View),
Huw Merriman (Bexhill and Battle),
Stephen Metcalfe (South Basildon and East Thurrock),
Maria Miller (Basingstoke),
Amanda Milling (Cannock Chase),
Nigel Mills (Amber Valley),
Anne Milton (Guildford),
Andrew Mitchell (Sutton Coldfield),
Damien Moore (Southport),
Penny Mordaunt (Portsmouth North),
Nicky Morgan (Loughborough),
David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale),
James Morris (Halesowen and Rowley Regis),
Wendy Morton (Aldridge-Brownhills),
David Mundell (Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale),
Sheryll Murray (South East Cornwall),
Andrew Murrison (South West Wiltshire),
Robert Neill (Bromley and Chislehurst),
Sarah Newton (Truro and Falmouth),
Caroline Nokes (Romsey and Southampton North),
Jesse Norman (Hereford and South Herefordshire),
Neil O’Brien (Harborough),
Matthew Offord (Hendon),
Guy Opperman (Hexham),
Neil Parish (Tiverton and Honiton),
Mark Pawsey (Rugby),
Mike Penning (Hemel Hempstead),
John Penrose (Weston-super-Mare),
Andrew Percy (Brigg and Goole),
Claire Perry (Devizes),
Chris Philp (Croydon South),
Christopher Pincher (Tamworth),
Dan Poulter (Central Suffolk and North Ipswich),
Rebecca Pow (Taunton Deane),
Victoria Prentis (Banbury),
Mark Prisk (Hertford and Stortford),
Mark Pritchard (The Wrekin),
Tom Pursglove (Corby),
Jeremy Quin (Horsham),
Will Quince (Colchester),
Dominic Raab (Esher and Walton),
Jacob Rees-Mogg (North East Somerset),
Mary Robinson (Cheadle),
Douglas Ross (Moray),
Amber Rudd (Hastings and Rye),
David Rutley (Macclesfield),
Antoinette Sandbach (Eddisbury),
Paul Scully (Sutton and Cheam),
Bob Seely (Isle of Wight),
Andrew Selous (South West Bedfordshire),
Grant Shapps (Welwyn Hatfield),
Alok Sharma (Reading West),
Alec Shelbrooke (Elmet and Rothwell),
Keith Simpson (Broadland),
Chris Skidmore (Kingswood),
Chloe Smith (Norwich North),
Henry Smith (Crawley),
Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon),
Royston Smith (Southampton, Itchen),
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex),
Caroline Spelman (Meriden),
Mark Spencer (Sherwood),
John Stevenson (Carlisle),
Bob Stewart (Beckenham),
Iain Stewart (Milton Keynes South),
Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border),
Gary Streeter (South West Devon),
Mel Stride (Central Devon),
Graham Stuart (Beverley and Holderness),
Julian Sturdy (York Outer),
Rishi Sunak (Richmond (Yorks)),
Desmond Swayne (New Forest West),
Hugo Swire (East Devon),
Robert Syms (Poole),
Derek Thomas (St Ives),
Ross Thomson (Aberdeen South),
Maggie Throup (Erewash),
Kelly Tolhurst (Rochester and Strood),
Justin Tomlinson (North Swindon),
Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole),
Craig Tracey (North Warwickshire),
David Tredinnick (Bosworth),
Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Berwick-upon-Tweed),
Elizabeth Truss (South West Norfolk),
Tom Tugendhat (Tonbridge and Malling),
Edward Vaizey (Wantage),
Shailesh Vara (North West Cambridgeshire),
Martin Vickers (Cleethorpes),
Charles Walker (Broxbourne),
Robin Walker (Worcester),
Ben Wallace (Wyre and Preston North),
David Warburton (Somerton and Frome),
Matt Warman (Boston and Skegness),
Giles Watling (Clacton), Helen Whately (Faversham and Mid Kent),
Heather Wheeler (South Derbyshire),
John Whittingdale (Maldon),
Bill Wiggin (North Herefordshire),
Gavin Williamson (South Staffordshire),
Mike Wood (Dudley South),
William Wragg (Hazel Grove),
Jeremy Wright (Kenilworth and Southam),
Nadhim Zahawi (Stratford-on-Avon).
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London underground staff, BA cabin crew, to strike next month
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London underground staff, BA cabin crew, to strike next month
Fresh travel misery is on the way next month after London Underground workers and British Airways cabin crew both announced more strikes today. The Underground workers will stage two more sets of industrial action in a row over jobs and Tube ticket office closures, threatening fresh travel chaos in the capital. And BA cabin crew staff will stage a further six days of strikes next month – on February 5, 6 and 7 and again for three days from February 9 - in a dispute over pay.
This underlines the need for legislation to raise the bar for strikes on public infrastructure.
Chris Philp, Tory MP for Croydon
Unite is in dispute over members of BA's so-called mixed fleet, who joined the airline after 2010 and are on worse pay rates than other staff, the union says. The crew went on strike last week, but the airline said only a small number of flights had to be cancelled. And the Rail, Maritime and Transport union said its members on the Tube will walk out for 16 hours from 6pm on February 5 and for 15 hours from 10am on February 7.
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MP 'delighted' as Coulsdon banking hub set to open by April
Almost three years since the last bank branch in Coulsdon slammed its safe door shut for the final time, residents are about to get a replacement “hub” to provide all the services that were once taken as a standard feature of any high street. Work begins: the new Coulsdon banking hub is being fitted out, set to open by April The campaign has been driven by the East Coulsdon Residents’…
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MP Philp called out for being casual about truth and honesty
Pandering to the far right: Chris Philp, Croydon’s only Conservative MP, appeared on the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg programme yesterday Croydon’s only Conservative MP, Chris Philp, has waded in to the race row fuelled by far-right extremists including Elon Musk, Nigel Farage and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon over “grooming gangs”. Ever the opportunist, Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, used the BBC’s Sunday…
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Just 2% of Croydon voters join petition call for another election
Tax-avoiding millionaires and newspaper owners are getting all excited about calls for another election. The same people who have said it’s too soon for another vote on Brexit, reports WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Petition fury: except the national figures are not reflected in local constituencies A petition raised by a publican in the West Midlands who describes himself as “patriotic, not…
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