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21/06/22
Maik:
--- Quote ---Boris Johnson plans to break rail strikes by allowing use of agency workers
Boris Johnson has responded to the biggest rail strikes in a generation with plans to break the industrial action by allowing firms to bring in agency staff, a move unions have decried as unworkable, unsafe and potentially breaking international law.
As 40,000 workers prepared for Tuesday’s strike, the most wide-reaching on the railways in 30 years, Downing Street brought forward changes to enable employers to replace employees with temporary staff.
The highly controversial measure would make disputes long and bitter, unions warned on Monday, with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) accusing Johnson of taking a step that “even Margaret Thatcher did not go near”.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/20/boris-johnson-plan-break-rail-strikes-agency-workers
Maik:
--- Quote ---Boris Johnson told by agency bosses to drop ‘worrying’ plan to use their staff to break strikes
‘The sector does not want to be involved in this. We are very opposed to this plan’
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rail-strike-agencies-boris-johnson-b2105134.html
Maik:
--- Quote ---Carriegate: No 10 admits pressuring The Times to drop Carrie Johnson story
Claim that Johnson tried to install partner in high-paying Foreign Office job denied by wife’s spokesperson
Downing Street has confirmed that members of Boris Johnson’s team intervened following the publication of a story about his wife Carrie in The Times, but denied that the prime minister himself contacted the paper to complain.
The story, which alleged that Mr Johnson had attempted to install Carrie in a £100,000-a-year job in the Foreign Office at a time when he was conducting a secret affair with her, appeared in the first edition of the newspaper on Saturday, but vanished from later copies and a version also disappeared from the Mail Online website.
It claimed that the idea of appointing Ms Johnson – then working in the Conservative Party press office as Carrie Symonds – fell apart when close aides advised against the plan. Mr Johnson was still married to Marina Wheeler at the time.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-carriegate-times-story-b2105025.html
Maik:
--- Quote ---Nadine Dorries Says She Does Not Fancy Boris Johnson, Despite The Memes
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https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nadine-dorries-says-she-does-not-fancy-boris-johnson_uk_62b0338ce4b0cdccbe601fe8
Trouble is, Nadine, just about no one believes you.
Maik:
--- Quote ---Giant stingray caught in Mekong ‘biggest freshwater fish ever documented’
An colossal stingray caught in the Mekong river has been touted by scientists as the biggest freshwater fish ever documented.
The 300kg (661lb) female stingray has usurped a 646lb (293kg) giant catfish caught in Thailand in 2005 from its place as the record-holder, scientists say.
The 3.98m long and 2.2m wide fish was fitted with an acoustic tag to track its future movement, before being released back into the river.
The giant freshwater stingray is an endangered species.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/giant-stingray-mekong-record-b2105513.html
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