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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 19:47 1 Dec 2024
They do elect to do something else in most cases. The problem is that, for whatever reason, British people aren't prepared to either work at these jobs long term or build experience and a CV from the bottle up. I don't know if it's laziness, a sense of entitlement or another reason.
I've said before I don't understand why the stadium isn't fighting potential staff off for match day posts. To me a steward job seems pretty easy, but a significant minority of them are foreign students.
Those foreign students then end up with a British degree and become a valuable human resource and move on to something else. |
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Reply | Farmers
at 21:49 30 Nov 2024
It will and it will be clear. In fact it's quite clear now, it's just those jumping up and down about it who are providing all the misinformation and misleading people for various reasons.
It's really not too bad.
I'd be far more cheesed off by losing my inheritance to pay for my family members care, a farmer would never have to do that. |
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Reply | Farmers
at 20:48 30 Nov 2024
It's not legislation yet. And it is misinformation.
It will only effect a small number, it's been done to close a tax avoidance loophole.
Rich people buy farm land so those who inherited it from them didn't pay IHT, Clarkson admitted as much, that inflates the price of farmland to farmers among others.
Now they'll have to pay, I don't think people like sheikh Al Makthoum should be able to avoid IHT.
Now they can't. Some farmers families will have to pay but really not many. |
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Reply | Farmers
at 20:12 30 Nov 2024
The number is already very small. Farmland isn't worth much if if house can't be built on it.
As I understand should inherited farmland be subject to IHT it can be paid over several years interest free. That doesn't apply to other forms of IHT. No farm land needs to be sold to cover the cost.
The uproar against farmers IHT stinks of misinformation. To me it seems a sound and fair policy. [Post edited 30 Nov 20:16]
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Reply | Farmers
at 18:35 30 Nov 2024
It's about closing a loop hole and that's why Clarkson is going loopy. He (and plenty of others) bought land to avoid IHT and now they have only avoided 20% of it.
It would be nice if there was a way to claw the other 20% back too. |
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Reply | Electric vehicles
at 10:22 30 Nov 2024
Like I said, no scientific consensus.
The media lie and misrepresent. Just follow, and question, the science. |
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 10:16 30 Nov 2024
I agree.
1000000 a year is a startling number and shows why stopping the boats won't really help in the grand scheme of things and the Rwanda scheme was a non starter. |
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 09:28 30 Nov 2024
Because they do jobs we won't do. It's cheaper in the short term. That's all politicians are interested in.
I wouldn't wash someone's genitals for £11 and hour. |
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Reply | Electric vehicles
at 09:24 30 Nov 2024
Science told us to stop using CFC's. We did and the Ozone layer repaired itself.
There was never consensus about an ice age. Although one day there will be another one.
There's pretty much total consensus about climate change. |
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Reply | Electric vehicles
at 07:22 30 Nov 2024
The damage we do is considerably worse than volcanoes. Unless about 50 huge ones erupt at the same time and even that would be short lived. |
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 07:15 30 Nov 2024
Because it's cheaper in the short term. They do jobs we either won't do or can't do. That has to change in most cases, but a government is only looking at the next election and not 20 years down the road. |
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Reply | Electric vehicles
at 22:34 29 Nov 2024
I'm familiar with that and there's a lot more where that came from. They're usually caused by the same gases that humans are emitting now and are followed by a massive extinction.
From that article.
"A huge outpouring of lava, known as the Deccan Traps, occurred in India during the latest Cretaceous. Some paleontologists believe that the carbon dioxide that accompanied these flows created a global greenhouse effect that greatly warmed the planet."
I'd rather avoid that. If we could tax stupidity we'd be fine. [Post edited 29 Nov 22:43]
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 22:17 29 Nov 2024
We don't take the majority in, we invite them because we need them. Whether that's because they pay to be at university or because we need them to work.
Is it too many? Probably. Is it too many for the services we can provide. Definitely.
Both of those are our fault. |
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 20:48 29 Nov 2024
It's a rant I agree with.
The problem is that no party can deal with the problem without being pillored.
Means testing WHA is fine, agricultural land being exposed to a reduced inheritance tax is fine too. We need to go further too. |
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Reply | Migration into the UK July 2022 - June 2023
at 20:00 29 Nov 2024
It's hard to disagree with any of that. I do think the issue of over stretching resources needs to be acknowledged as a Tory austerity problem rather than immigration, but this is the situation we're in and it needs to be sorted.
It's going to cost us. It's as simple as that. |
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Reply | Live music?
at 14:10 29 Nov 2024
I just don't understand how Newton Faulkner is relatively unknown, but a less talented fellow ginger guitar looping artist is has managed to sell out Wembley and headline Glastonbury. |
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