Ministers have signed a charter on behalf of the Civil Service committing to best practice for supporting civil servants diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Can’t just let a dying person go home and die in peace. Let’s extract every bit of capitalist value we can from them first.
It’s not a government policy, it’s a trade union initiative. UK government signed the charter as an employer of 2 mln civil servants.
Yes, that is the policy I am talking about. The UK government wants this initiative to be expanded, so it signing onto this charter. It’s a fairly standard thing for governments to trial potential policies by implementing them on their own employees. The government signing on also further normalises the initiative, giving it momentum that could be used to create a national law.
It’s a good thing when large employers concede to trade unions and give their workers more rights.
The move should be considered in a broader context. Suppose starmer’s government manages to make this initiative into a national wide law. This would represent a victory for the trade unions? Certainly. Would it, in theory constitute an extra right? Yes. In a better context, would this be a nice law to have? Yeah.
However, in the context of starmer’s broader eugenics agenda, it would be a win for the eugenicists. It would give them ammunition to point how the dying and disabled don’t need government assistance because they can get a job and can’t be fired for having a terminal illness. It plays right into that narrative in a time where the UK government knows that their disability benefit cuts are controversial.
If the government was increasing benefits, or expanding them, or making them easier to get or anything of that sort of nature, I would in fact be praising this very initiative/move.
Yes, that is the policy I am talking about. The UK government wants this initiative to be expanded, so it signing onto this charter. It’s a fairly standard thing for governments to trial potential policies by implementing them on their own employees. The government signing on also further normalises the initiative, giving it momentum that could be used to create a national law.
The move should be considered in a broader context. Suppose starmer’s government manages to make this initiative into a national wide law. This would represent a victory for the trade unions? Certainly. Would it, in theory constitute an extra right? Yes. In a better context, would this be a nice law to have? Yeah.
However, in the context of starmer’s broader eugenics agenda, it would be a win for the eugenicists. It would give them ammunition to point how the dying and disabled don’t need government assistance because they can get a job and can’t be fired for having a terminal illness. It plays right into that narrative in a time where the UK government knows that their disability benefit cuts are controversial.
If the government was increasing benefits, or expanding them, or making them easier to get or anything of that sort of nature, I would in fact be praising this very initiative/move.