

Now the party's backbenchers have branded the deputy leader 'unprincipled' after she told the BBC Newscast podcast rail strikes are 'lose-lose' for both sides.

Leader Sir Keir Starmer this week said the industrial action 'shouldn't go ahead', but shadow ministers Lisa Nandy and Wes Streeting are among those who have indicated their support for the strikes. The Labour party has appeared conflicted about the strikes, to begin later this month, which will see thousands of rail staff walk out from rail companies across the country - and now deputy leader Angela Rayner has been branded 'hypocritical' for not supporting the action. She has been using credit cards to pay for food.Five Labour MPs who have spoken out in support of the upcoming rail strikes have received a total of £20,000 in donations from the left-wing RMT union, new analysis shows. Her bank charges £3 a day for any account overdrawn by more than £3,000 even when the overdraft is authorised, and Jenny is finding it hard to manage. One of her problems is that she is incurring £90 of bank charges each month, even though she has an authorised overdraft. Jenny, a 40-year-old who got into debt when she decided to work part-time for a spell before returning to full-time work in November 2013. In the meantime she has consolidated her debts and is slowly paying back her creditors.
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Citizens Advice told her how to apply for a debt relief order, but she decided not to go ahead as she is hopeful that this situation is temporary. She found this loan impossible to pay back and subsequently ended up with five loans with different companies, totalling around £6,000. She then found herself getting deeper and deeper into debt and decided to take out a payday loan because she couldn’t afford to pay her daughter’s nursery fees. She immediately struggled to pay her bills and got into arrears with her council tax, electricity and gas. When he left, Sarah had to try to find several hundred pounds a month to make ends meet. Until then, Sarah’s income of £25,000 a year covered her rent (£825 per month), food and nursery fees, while her husband paid the council tax and fuel bills. Sarah, a 44-year-old community nurse with a six-year-old daughter. He said examples of nurses and other care staff who had struggled included: “We need to help low-paid NHS and other staff who are looking after our most vulnerable neighbours avoid falling into the clutches of the payday loan companies or using high-cost bank overdrafts and credit cards,” he said. However, Thomas said there was a need for one that all NHS staff could join, and his call has been backed by Unison. There is already an NHS credit union based in Glasgow, which was set up in 1998 and caters for NHS employees and their family members in Scotland and the north of England. Some, such as London Mutual Credit Union, also offer far cheaper versions of payday loans. Thomas, whose bill will be debated in the House of Commons on Wednesday, said he was aware of a number of cases of NHS and care staff who had got into financial difficulty and taken out payday loans, but then found themselves in an even worse situation.Ĭredit unions are co-operatives owned and controlled by their members that have traditionally specialised in loans and savings for the less well-off, but are now targeting people of all incomes with revamped products.
