Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera
Political thinking with nick robinson. 0ur movement is fighting, our movement is winning, our movement, brothers and sisters, is back, so said my guest on a new episode of political thinking. A conversation with, rather than a news interrogation of, someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs. Paul nowak is the new General Secretary of the tuc and this week, the trade Union Congress meets in his home city of liverpool. And it meets at a time when there are more strikes than there have been for many years and at a time when paul nowak says, working people are fighting back after the longest sustained squeeze on their incomes in two centuries. Paul nowak, welcome to political thinking. Thank you. Now another thing you once said. Oh, dear. I fit every stereotype of a daily mail Trade Unionist. Im a slightly overweight, Balding Scouser who gets a little too aerated. I think it is an accurate description, dont you . Well, we will see, shall we . What gets you aera
what does not mean that all, it means what i m does not mean that all, it means what i m interested in is when people what i m interested in is when people take that very difficult decision to take strike action, we make decision to take strike action, we make sure decision to take strike action, we make sure their voices heard and is as effective make sure their voices heard and is as effective as possible, that might mean as effective as possible, that might mean coordination, it might mean centralisation, might not. let me jump centralisation, might not. let me jump back centralisation, might not. let me jump back to james the first, there is an jump back to james the first, there is an important point here about the race to is an important point here about the race to the is an important point here about the race to the bottom, i agree with them race to the bottom, i agree with them on race to the bottom, i agree with them on one thing, i would like to see
a massive shake up of the uk s finances the chancellor unveils a series of tax cuts and other economic measures. changes are announced to income tax and stamp duty, and kwasi kwarteng abolishes the cap on city bonuses. we promised a new approach for a new era, we promised to release the enormous potential of this country. our growth plan has delivered all those promises and more. labour said the changes are a comprehensive demolition of the government s last 12 years in power. it is a budget without without figures, a menu without prices. speaker, what has the chancellor got to hide? the institute for fiscal studies says the announcements
working people for wanting to have a fair pay increase. what do you mean by that when you say, they seem to be blaming working people? well, they seem to be picking a fight with unions. what do you mean by that, though? ..as representatives of working people. they have been blaming working people for asking for a pay rise and saying they are going to have to tighten their belts. in what way, just to clarify this, frances, in what way have they been blaming people for asking for a pay rise? they have said it publicly that workers should expect to take some pain and what we are saying is that we have seen city bonuses at bumper levels, we have seen the boardroom top pay also at bumper levels and, of course, profits are recovering and all working people are asking for is a fair share of the wealth that we produce and decent public services. we can t have nurses and social care workers queueing up at food banks