Government

2022 - 12 - 18

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UK government will stay 'resolute' on nurses' pay, says Oliver Dowden (The Guardian)

Minister defends refusal to override pay offer despite threat of further industrial action in January.

Taylor said there was the “possibility of progress”, as seen with the pay offer for nurses in Scotland. I do not want people to miss out on vital treatment and operations, but that is what will happen if we divert resources from frontline services into unaffordable pay increases.” “It does seem as though the door is shut by the government when it comes to this question of pay,” he told BBC Breakfast.

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Opinion | Government secrecy hides corruption and covers for the ... (Toronto Star)

Recently, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc were almost insolent in their testimony before a ...

Is that why the time taken to respond to each request is going up, and the percentage of requests fulfilled is going down? Government secrecy produces bad government; gives a pass to the incompetent; encourages corruption in procurement; and enables legislation tilted to favour the rich, powerful and connected. Ford must pray no one involved is revealed to have broken bread with him; those same developers had given tens of thousands of dollars to Ford in recent years. That shambolic, finger-pointing circus showed Canadians in painful detail the efforts by many officials to hide information and pass the buck. They’ve governed this way for well over 200 years, ever since King Gustav III staged a coup d’etat and instituted open government in the 18th century, as a means of revealing corruption in Parliament and the judiciary. Imagine living in a democracy where open access to everything politicians and governments say and do is automatically made public.

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Iranians Lose Hope Having The 'Worst Government In 80 Years' (Iran International)

Iranian politician Hojjat Mirzaei, a former economic official, has characterized President Ebrahim Raisi's team as "the weakest of its kind in the past 80 ...

These situation led to major protests in 2017 and 2019, and the latest presidential election in Iran in 2021 made the situation even worse." [former Iranian Interior Minister Abdollah Nouri also said](https://www.iranintl.com/202212174888) that "The Islamic Republic has reached a dead-end." He maintained that "none of these have happened and it appears that there has been no will in Iran since 2017 to improve the situation. He said: "It is obvious that the people's financial situation will worsen, and their hopes will fade away when the government replaces experienced officials with those who have no outstanding background or experience. Most recently, reformist cleric Mohammad Ashrafi Esfahani called the Raisi administration ["the weakest government in Iran after the 1979 revolution." ["the weakest government in Iran's history."

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