u/gwaddo91

Heard a news story this morning about Scotland's First Minister spending a load of public money to go to the World Cup. For balance, the news reader also gave the Conservative's stance on it which of course was along the lines of, "He should've paid for it himself. This isn't good enough" etc.

Whilst I (along with most people I imagine) agree that it's a colossal waste of £45k, I realised that I have never heard the Tories agree with anything Labour have done/proposed.

I know it's their job to challenge opposing parties but sometimes it feels like it's purely for the sake of point scoring. Andy Burnham could announce he's giving 5000 homeless people a bed for the night and Badenoch would say, "well it should be 5001, that's not good enough". You get my point.

So my question is basically, has there ever been a time when Labour have come up with a policy and the Tories have gone, "actually that's a pretty good idea." Or vice versa. Or with any party really.

I've been driving for around 18 years and for the last year or so this seems to be more common than ever before. You're behind someone coming up to a roundabout, you can see the roundabout is clear and safe to proceed. Yet the car in front seemingly sees an imaginary stop sign and comes to a halt, causing me to brake unnecessarily and the cars behind me to do the same.

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I can obviously understand slowing down just in case as that is the safe and logical thing to do. But stopping dead seems more unsafe to me and disrupts the flow of traffic.

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Maybe people just aren't as good at forward planning and looking at the road ahead anymore. Or are younger drivers being taught differently now?

Potentially going to get removed as I am not an Aldi employee. This is on behalf of my friend who doesn't use reddit.

She's currently quite poorly with flu and had an early morning shift today. I said to her that surely taking a day or two off sick to recover is a good idea. She told me that if she calls in sick for a day she doesn't get paid. Surely this isn't right? A big company like Aldi surely has some sort of sick pay scheme? Even if it's just SSP. She had a day off to care for her child and soon after a day off after her Grandparent passed away and she was by her bedside all night and didn't receive any pay for either of them. Can someone set me right on this because that seems crazy to me. She is contracted to 30 hours a week if that makes any difference which I don't think it does.