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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 16:52 28 Jan 2025
I'm not quite sure how you can say wages are not a driver of inflation.
As a key cost for businesses, it's obviously a driver of inflation.
If wages go up, then as sure as eggs are eggs, prices will go up. It's a simple rule of economics, as you yourself have said in your 3rd paragraph.
The increase in the National Minimum Wage in April is highly inflationary, as to keep pay hierarchies in place, businesses will be under pressure to pay similar percentage increases to staff higher rungs up the ladder.
And when this doesn't add up, it will be those at the lowest end who lose out. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 13:33 28 Jan 2025
Of course, raising income tax by 1p would have been an infinitely more sensible solution.
Employers would still have given pay rises and would still have been looking to recruit.
But Starmer and Reeves decided the political embarrassment of doing a blatant U-turn from their manifesto was a bigger crime than tanking the economy and bringing on inflation and a recession.
They have of course instead done more subtle U-turns.
"No increases in tax for working people".
Is council tax not a tax? |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 13:23 28 Jan 2025
In proportional terms, the increase in cost from employing people on average pay (using £35k as your example), is not that massive.
Also, I think a small business can to some notable extent offset the increased cost from the increased Employment Allowance which will be available (this could positively impact Buggalugs' business based on the number of employees there, I think).
However, where a business has a lot of people earning the minimum wage (or close to it), the significant increase in the minimum wage, allied with the Employers' NI increases, means that the increase in cost is a much larger proportion, mainly due to the drop in the NI threshold from £9,100 to £5,000.
We are seeing the fall-out from the Budget this week with Sainsbury's making 3,000 redundant from their in-store cafes, for which Reeves' Budget was the final nail.
There is also a big impact on businesses which employ a significant number of part-time or seasonal workers. Hospitality being a big example.
Saintmark1976 may think that Reeves has some kind of romantic ideology of the big corporates simply swallowing this burden. If that is the case, he and Reeves are both totally mistaken.
It is a large number of people at the lowest end of the pay scale who will suffer with their jobs. [Post edited 28 Jan 13:46]
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Reply | Juric
at 09:28 28 Jan 2025
Where do you get that from?
He was with us for the first 3 to 4 months of the season, just before the World Cup that winter. |
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Reply | Dibbling on his way to Spurs ?
at 09:09 28 Jan 2025
Seems to be rumours of a sale and loan back to us for the rest of the season.
Which would mean that we would have all the inconvenience of his injury.
Therefore highly plausible.
Every day something happens in this game to make me love it a little bit less. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 08:41 28 Jan 2025
I have no idea why anybody would set up a business in this country now.
And the absolute final nail is looming with the utterly disastrous Employment Rights Bill.
That is a complete clusterfcuk of madness which is going to basically be a complete deterrent to a business employing anybody.
At this rate, it won't be just the millionaires deserting this country. There will be lots of people shifting their businesses of all sizes into other countries. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 06:55 28 Jan 2025
To add a further point.
I agree with the concept of a minimum wage.
But it is simply too high.
As will be borne out with the untold thousands of redundancies looming in the pubs, restaurants, care homes and hotels sectors.
Hospitality will be absolutely decimated.
Enjoy your visit to the pub while you can. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 06:42 28 Jan 2025
1. You came out with the drivel about tax credits around the time of the Budget and were shot down by a number of people on here about that.
2. Give me some data on the percentage increase in the minimum wage since it was introduced, compared with the percentage increase in average pay across all pay groups. Then I might start taking notice.
3. We shall see.
I voted Labour at the last election, as I did at the last 3. So I have no political agenda in shooting down the E-grade Economics of Reeves |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 22:56 27 Jan 2025
1. The minimum wage was a heck of a lot lower when it was first introduced.
2. Are you oblivious to all the job losses that have already been announced in the last couple of months because of the Budget???? That was just the start. April is going to bring an absolute sh1t storm of high inflation and unemployment. |
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Reply | Dragan Solak Speaks Out About Ivan Juric
at 15:17 27 Jan 2025
He comes across as caring a lot about the club.
However......
It just sounds like they are making it up as they go along.
They get Nathan Jones in. Long ball merchant.
Then after a brief dalliance with Selles (now doing well at Hull BTW..), they want a style of play where we build from the back at all costs.
Then they dispense with the chief protagonist of that style of play, when it was clear it was never going to work in the Prem.
And then say that Juric is finding it difficult as we don't have the players to play the style of play he wants.
I think we all knew that was going to be the case.
We need to get the work permit sorted for Spors and then let him get on with it. |
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Reply | Shea Charles
at 15:11 27 Jan 2025
We do appear to have fallen out with Sheff Wed somewhat, what with the Rohl stuff.
I did read somewhere that we temporarily recalled Charles as a contingency in case Chelsea recalled Ugochukwu. But I have no idea if that is true. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 10:19 27 Jan 2025
It's the National Insurance increases that there should be protests about.
There will be untold jobs lost in the next 6 months because of it.
Because of the drop in the threshold from £9,100 to £5,000, it's the people on the lowest pay scales who will lose out, as in proportional terms the cost of employing them is increasing by the most. So they will be the people who will be worst impacted.
But as the Minimum Wage is going up significantly, they probably think they will be a lot better off. Not realising they will actually be the people most likely to lose their jobs.
Sneaky, despicable politics by Reeves. And terrible economics. |
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Reply | If Bournemouth can do it with gates of 11,000 why can't we.
at 10:12 27 Jan 2025
The big thing for them was that they unfortunately managed to get back up within 2 seasons of being relegated last time round.
If they had not done that, I suspect they would be in League 1 now, where they belong.
But yeah, their recruitment, both of managers and players is a million miles ahead of us.
They still have the likes of Alex Scott to call on, who has hardly played this season, but is the sort of player we should have been all over; from Guernsey and played in our youth team.
They will doubtless lose their manager and the likes of Semenyo, Huijsen and Zabarnyi within the next year or two.
But they always seem to be able to replace them without weakening the side.
It pains me that they are going to get into Europe. |
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Reply | Thats it I have had enough now
at 12:44 26 Jan 2025
How the hell did this not get picked up by VAR?
Red card all day long.
Totally corrupt League.
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Reply | Soft centre
at 11:49 26 Jan 2025
Another thing which makes no sense to me.
I dare say Bree may well be very useful next season, but he can have few complaints about the number of appearances he has made this season. |
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