{"id":245750,"date":"2023-08-10T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=245750"},"modified":"2023-08-10T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T13:25:30","slug":"mel-stride-puts-his-foot-in-it","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/mel-stride-puts-his-foot-in-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Stride puts his foot in it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doncha just love Tory politicians? They can’t help showing themselves up. Every time they open their mouths, out pour the tactless attempts to gee up workers with faux-positive thinking. Recently the work and pensions secretary suggested<\/a> that over-50s could find rewarding new careers delivering pizzas for Deliveroo:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing here is the ability to log on and off any time you like, no requirement to have to do a certain number of hours over a certain period of time, which is driving huge opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Er no, what we’re seeing here is a gig economy which provides no holidays, no sick pay, no guaranteed hours and no pension scheme.<\/p>\n

In the words of Del Boy, “What a plonker!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-245750","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/245750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}