through really traumatic circumstances. they are going through a difficult time in their lives and we are finding that their cases are not being dealt with quickly enough. we really need to see proper investment in the justice system so we need morejudges, more courts, more police officers, more lawyers and there is not enough funding in the system at the moment. i was going to say, what is happening is that victims are now getting to a stage where cases are being adjourned a number of times before they get to conclusions, some trials are taking 2 3 years before they are concluding and victims are just getting to a stage where they have had enough. it s hanging over them and they get to a point where they just can t support action them and they get to a point where theyjust can t support action any further. ., , , . further. from my experience, certainly. further. from my experience, certainly. as further. from my experience, certainly, as a further. from my experience,
so, a lot of disruption. but we have seen here in recent weeks and months a good number of workers from a variety of sectors going out on strike, all of them saying that they need their wages to reflect the higher cost of living, saying that they are simply struggling to pay their bills and their bills are going up. the two unions involved in today s industrial action are demanding respectively pay increases of 10.5% and 12% for their members. they are high demands but actually if you look back at the last few weeks and months, you can see that postal workers and metalworkers, who also went out on strike, were able eventually to secure fairly substantial increases in wages as a result of the industrial action they took, so it will be very interesting to see what comes out of today s action.
policing. yet it is at the heart of what police do and at the heart of what police do and at the heart of what communities value, having known police officers who know where the problems are with drug dealing outside schools and the problems in terms of young people, or community problems. yet, we are getting none of that from this plan. this is just empty rhetoric at a time when the conservatives are still actually damaging our communities by taking the police and pcsos off our streets. . r the police and pcsos off our streets. ., , ., ., , streets. let me ask you a brief question. streets. let me ask you a brief question, could streets. let me ask you a brief question, could you streets. let me ask you a brief question, could you support i streets. let me ask you a brief i question, could you support this? and we will talk more about the detail? 50 and we will talk more about the detail? ,, ., and we will talk more about the detail? ., , , ,., and we will talk more about the d
through really traumatic circumstances. they are going through a difficult time in their lives and we are finding that their cases are not being dealt with quickly enough. we really need to see proper investment in the justice system so we need morejudges, more courts, more police officers, more lawyers and there is not enough funding in the system at the moment. i was going to say, what is happening is that victims are now getting to a stage where cases are being adjourned a number of times before they get to conclusions, some trials are taking 2 3 years before they are concluding and victims are just getting to a stage where they have had enough. it s hanging over them and they get to a point where they just can t support action them and they get to a point where theyjust can t support action any further. ., , , .
also would reduce the ability of the court to disqualify a serving prime ministerfrom office. remember that minister from office. remember that benjamin ministerfrom office. remember that benjamin netanyahu himself is facing legal action and has been accused of corruption, the trial is ongoing, lasting forever, but ongoing, and the accusation is that he has confused his own personal interest with israel s interest, something he dramatically and strictly denies. there is a statement coming from the leader of the opposition. the outgoing prime minister is no longer so active and the leader of the opposition we now have instead, he, himself, served in government before the previous government collapse, remember there had been a series of