Is this a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?
Labour's policy is to introduce one year's Paid Parental Leave (PPL). One of their MP's has just had a private member's bill drawn from the ballot to introduce 6 months PPL!
If Paid Parental Leave is such a great thing why not lobby for 2,3 ,4 or 5 years entitlement? Oh, of course, we already have that. It's the DPB. And a fine job its doing of reaping "social and economic" rewards.
In the final analysis PPL is just another scheme that forces one person to pay for another's choices. That's the principle we live with and its arbitrary application is what keeps far too many politicians, paid lobbyists, media and public relations people, unionists, etc non-productively employed.
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If we were ever in the same party (at the same time) this would not happen to us. Because we have principles. One of which is "user pays".
Whereas Labour's MPs have trouble remembering who is supposed to be paying for whom. Is it Peter we're robbing to pay Paul, or is it the other way around this time around?
Is this a classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing?
No. It's a Biblical idiom. Jesus said, "when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. ... when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing ..." (Matthew 6)
So not a classic case at all!
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