Guido’s founder and editor Paul Staines appeared on GB News this morning to explain the reasoning behind the twelfth annual #PositiveXDay.
Maybe, just for one day, we can all try;
Make an effort to reach out to those with which you usually have violently opposing views. Or simply share your support by clicking this link #PositiveXDay
Labour is set to impose the requirement on companies to allow “compressed working” when requested by employees. The “Plan to Make Work Pay” will work to prevent businesses to reject the demands where possible. Skills Minister Jacqui Smith said this morning that ministers “think that flexible working is actually good for productivity.” The evidence so far isn’t exactly inspiring…
The government has crafted the plans in “close consultation” with trade unions who are campaigning for a full four-day week across the public sector, too. Analysis from the TaxPayer’s Alliance of union proposals finds that they would cost a whopping £30 billion per year if applied. Around a 15% rise in productivity would be needed to counter that. There’s a long way to go on that one…
At the current rate ministers will “get round the table to reduce the working week” before Christmas. Civil Servants will be jumping with joy…
Out-of-work migrants are costing the taxpayer an eye-watering £8.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Centre for Migration Control. This comes as ONS figures reveal a record 1,689,000 non-UK nationals are either out of work or simply not bothering to look for a job. And that excludes students and asylum seekers…
Meanwhile, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has blasted the Home Office for repeatedly overspending on asylum support, exceeding the budget by a whopping £7.6 billion over the last three years. Illegal channel migrant crossings continue to surge as well, with over 20,000 migrants crossing in 2024 so far. This expensive issue will leave Labour in choppy waters…
Guido hears shadow cabinet secretaries Coutinho and Trott have written draft endorsement op-eds for fellow female shadow cabinet member Kemi Badenoch in this weekend’s Sunday papers. The endorsements are reportedly set to kickstart Badenoch’s attempts to woo MPs ahead Wednesday’s crucial first round ballot…
Rival camps tell Guido they are “unsurprised.” One quipped: “You can’t forge a path to forty votes on the back of two of your pals from Cabinet.” Another said: “Claire’s been going round telling everyone her best chance of a tilt at the job herself is the leader blowing up after three years.“ That’s a yellow card if anything is…
Tomorrow is the twelfth annual #PositiveXDay,* the day when we all try to be a bit nicer on the sometimes hellish social media platform. Guido and co-conspirators will be trying to engage even more civilly than normal today with everyone on X…
Maybe tomorrow you could, just for one day, try;
Social media is a little less angry than it was during the run up to the general election. Use Positive X Day to spark a broader conversation – on X and elsewhere – about how we, as users, can shape the norms that we want on social media. Help spread a bit of civility in these polarised times. X could be a place for the free exchange of information rather than the abuse of political opponents. To share your support just click this link #PositiveXDay
*Formerly Positive Twitter Day.
Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin says that the PM has removed the picture of Margaret Thatcher from the… Margaret Thatcher room. Who’s going to go up in her place – Arthur Scargill?
Gordon Brown put the painting of Mrs Thatcher up in 2007 and it has been there ever since. Either Guido was hallucinating or he remembers Keir lavishing praise on the Iron Lady a mere ten months ago, weathering a storm of criticism from his socialist colleagues:
“Margaret Thatcher sought to drag Britain out of its stupor by setting loose our natural entrepreneurialism.“
Looks like he’s flopped on that too. Guido has added it to his rolling list of Labour U-turns…
Maybe he’s embarrassed that he is a man and his party is the only major one to never have elected a woman as its leader. 16,555 days behind the Tories and counting…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”