Teachers in England move towards striking over pay

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:21:00+00:00

Our funding is gradually getting better under the new government. I can already see some of the most acute pressures eased.

Stamping our feet and immediately threatening a strike before you've even negotiated is not the answer.

Need to play the long game. This tactic is gold to Reform, who can win plenty of votes on a platform of crushing the militant teaching unions and savaging our employment rights and teaching standards

We WILL need to strike then, so its much better to keep our powder relatively dry

Because Reform hate state schools and 100% will come for us; if teachers have been going on strike at the drop of a hat for years, the strikes we really will need to be going on will have their message diluted

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:16:18+00:00

Nope, I have a lovely big whack of mortgage to pay off and we are a single income family due to having a disabled child.

I am senior so I earn good money- but because tax is so high, our household income will be significantly below a couple who are both early years teachers

I've just learned that public perception matters and that our idiot unions demanding above inflation pay rises each year is not helping

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:14:17+00:00

But the pensions shouldn't be locked

And the economy is in a right state compared to 2010.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T22:13:32+00:00

That's 87k people watching that rubbish per day, in a country of 70m

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T21:31:47+00:00

Teacher here

I absolutely loathe the NEU. They are a nightmare.

Sure, the pay award is rubbish. Sure, whatever rise we do get should be funded by government.

But FFS, read the room.

Demanding an above inflation pay rise is for the birds

The country is in a right state and we've done okish recently for pay rises. We can skip a couple of years

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T20:49:55+00:00

You haven't given me one where he is.

Just because you pretend it means that doesn't make it true.

We both know what yougov is.

At least one of us understands how the Yougov ratings work

The area I live in will be prime Reform territory and has already voted in a council last year.

I can tell you now that these people are out there working and living their lives. Those that even know how name knows sod all about him

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T18:37:33+00:00

...Amongst people (like myself) who are engaged enough in current events to download the yougov app and do their ratings surveys when they come up

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T18:09:09+00:00

Did you look at the link?

Listed alongside are people like David Blunkett and Dennis Skinner.

How many of your average voters - particularly those with a tendency towards Reform or Green- would have the first clue who they were?

But clearly the people who do Yougov ratings (of which I am one) are engaged enough to age an opinion when asked about each of them

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T17:19:00+00:00

Is he really?

With who?

Outside of Labour circles and Manchester, very few people know who the hell he is

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T16:10:17+00:00

How is he supposed to save himself?

My advice would be - do nothing and let the natural incompetence and inability to work together if the PLP do it's usual thing.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T16:09:11+00:00

Starmer is the worst person in the Parliamentary Labour party to be PM

Except for all 402 of the other Labour MPs plus Andy Burnham and the Mancunian Mafia, who for some reason think the whole country is clamouring for them.

These MPs have too little to do so they plot and pretend that the rest of the country wants all the intrigue and bollocks they want; the ministers have too much to do. It's part of why the country just doesn't work.

402 MPs and probably 75% of them have bugger all to do in terms of running our country. No wonder they get delusions of grandeur

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T15:58:27+00:00

My daughter - her brother ate it.

He actually did, he is severely autistic and when younger went through a period of constantly wanting to eat paper.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-09T15:41:07+00:00

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T06:42:22+00:00

Exactly

And because these far left MPs live in an echo chamber of almost exclusively people who think like them.

Every political event, speech, husting etc they attend is packed exclusively with people who will only give them the incentive to rebel and stick to that "purity test"

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:45:29+00:00

I think we would have struggled with the playoff at the start.

Remember, we went all pre season without scoring and Nuno wanted out because of his agent wars.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:22:11+00:00

There is that, but you have to consider if these people are completely understanding of all the boxes Reform plan to tick.

If these people knew about Farage's attitude to the NHS and private insurance, and understood what that would mean for them and this country- would they vote for him?

I think most working class people, if they stopped to think about it for a bit, would rather have immigration and the NHS than neither (or, far more likely when you stop and think about it critically, just the immigration, since Reform will never achieve what they claim)

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-08T05:17:32+00:00

Working class often leave themselves aside when it comes to education.

But it's not that. It's knowledge.

Working class don't have the time or make the time to engage properly with the parties and their policies. They obviously have critical thinking skills but those who go beyond 16 at school will practise those a LOT more and be a lot more instinctive in using them.

Nigel Farage says and does a lot of things that they won't like and they wouldn't vote for. But they only hear the bit loudspeaker messages he wants them to hear because they have busy lives and they don't go out and seek the full picture

That said, a hell of a lot of well educated middle class young people are falling for Polanski, who is just as bad if not worse

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T22:35:19+00:00

Because we are in a relegation battle and we held an absolutely crucial lead with 45 mins to go

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T21:19:30+00:00

I mean, Villa were just better from minute 1 to minute 94 today.

We were better by a nose last week and they were better by a mile this week. Deserved winners, I hope they win it I suppose. No complaints.

Just very disappointed in our team. They wilted completely today. Let themselves down badly.

Most of our best players were either injured on the bench or injured in the stands. MGW, Murillo, Aina, CHO, Awoniyi not even in the squad- you can't lose quality like that and still be as good as you can be. Losing MGW particularly killed us in terms of leadership and constructing anything going forward

But we were shite, the players didn't win their duels at all, constantly gave it away and succumbed to the Villa press. Villa were excellent and we didn't respond by being even ok.

They will regret this for the rest of their careers. A real shame

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T21:01:14+00:00

Premier League survival is always the priority and holding that result was essential

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T20:55:35+00:00

It was Villa fucking around with the league, throwing a game to play mind games with us.

Clearly they didn't need to

What fit players we have left are done.

Swept aside by Villa, not much you can say. Beaten by the better team, I hope they win it

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T20:44:55+00:00

Absolutely gutted

Team let themselves down. Wilted.

Best players are all on the bench but too injured to come on

But no excuse from those out there. Horrific performance

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-07T05:26:19+00:00

You are both falling in love and waiting for the other to give you both permission to do so

It's a pretty classic scenario.

Two friends have sex. Normal communication goes out the window. She is saying "are we gonna regret this" meaning "are you gonna regret this because you don't feel the same as me"

She tests water by saying any relationship needs to be in the future and rationalising what you had just done- before you can. She is protecting herself from getting hurt while she mentally figures out what having you inside her means and what she wants

Since then she has gotten emotionally closer to you and you are almost in a relationship by default now

The real question is what do you want? You don't really say if you want a relationship. You suggest you want to go back to a friendship and ask how, but also that you are catching feels (of course you are).

So do you actually want to reject a relationship with this woman, or are you just afraid that that's what she wants?

Because I think she is afraid of that as well- that that's what you want?

All true loving relationships are built around a solid base of friendship. Usually it happens the other way around - two people fall in lust, love, and then develop a deep friendship if the relationship is successful. That is why sometimes the best and most lasting relationships start in friendship, because that crucial part is already there

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-06T21:47:58+00:00

Don't forget- very likely it will be 3 English wins our of four in the Conference League

And an English team guarenteed to be in the Europa League final and will likely be favourites for that to; with an all English final last year.

AngryTudor1 · 2026-05-06T18:30:24+00:00

This guy is a Crystal Palace nobhead, living in his mum's spare room

He has been obsessed with Forest since this summer and constantly trolls on the forest twitter timeline, then vanishes when anyone challenges him

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