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Reply | Should we go to war
at 20:17 22 Dec 2024
I don't doubt that for a second, but if you can actually measure what they're doing there's no hiding place. |
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Reply | Should we go to war
at 19:07 22 Dec 2024
I manage people who work from home. I know exactly when they're online or not and I know exactly how productive they are.
We're busier than before COVID and no longer need an office, that saves £500k a year. |
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Reply | The Black Belt Barrister
at 08:22 21 Dec 2024
I just don't buy that it is correct, even if it was it would be easily defendable through the use of weasel words at the time and unknown aspects of the financial position.
What does "support" mean and the £20 billion black hole for example. |
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Reply | The Black Belt Barrister
at 08:17 21 Dec 2024
It can't really work like that. Judging them on their manifesto alone is enough to see they would be a disaster.
None of it is deliverable and none of it is affordable. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 14:59 19 Dec 2024
Most of the Nigerian students I've spoken to are planning on going to study somewhere else once their visa runs out. Canada is usually mentioned. I don't think any have said they're planning on going back to Nigeria. |
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Reply | Axel Rudakubana
at 23:45 18 Dec 2024
I suspect he'll end up in a secure hospital for the rest of his life, and that's too good for him. There is no doubt he did it.
I'd wager there'll be a defence of ASD or similar lodged.
A full trial will be awful for the families and the jury who have to sit through it. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 20:38 18 Dec 2024
Immigration is only the solution because too many people from Britain don't work. Plenty more traditionally British people do not make a fiscal contribution and are in fact a financial burden.
Sort that out and we can drastically reduce legal immigration very quickly. |
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Reply | All this Budget Speculation
at 20:34 18 Dec 2024
No we should be able to accommodate people who the country needs, we can't due to a lack of investment.
I don't know what you mean by "last time I saw" edit. Apologies I get it now, my comment was a bit of a generalisation but it's from my experience of the people who work there and talking to them. Most can barely speak English, including simple phrases to work behind the bar [Post edited 18 Dec 20:47]
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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 12:42 18 Dec 2024
I'm not a fan of the level of support / social engineering that the Welsh language gets, the indirect costs must be substantial.
But I don't have a massive problem with this it's just names for new constituencies, they had to be called something.
I think Sons of Omri is highlighting the significant problem. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 09:25 18 Dec 2024
Richard Tice has just been on Times radio saying that Reform wouldn't pay it either.
So Labour won't pay it, the Tories didn't and Reform wouldn't. Either one of them should. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 18:53 17 Dec 2024
It's inevitable.
The biggest piece of blatant bribery was the two Tory NI cuts. A desperate attempt to get votes which if it failed Labour would have to find a way to pay for. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 11:12 15 Dec 2024
It's a similar number to previous years though. The biggest deterrent is that they'll end up being sent back to where they came from. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 09:26 15 Dec 2024
It's incredibly difficult for an awful lot of them.
I was speaking to a final year med student this week her debt is astonishing.
But people question why they strike and what they do to deserve their pay award. |
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Reply | Is Europe turning ?
at 08:24 15 Dec 2024
I've read this morning that the government have broken more migrant deportation records, increased illegal working raids by 30% and are fast tracking processing and deportation for asylum seekers from safe countries
Maybe they'll win back a few reform voters, at least those plans will work. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 23:10 14 Dec 2024
I totally forgot about student debt. I didn't start paying that back for a few years and my debt was tiny compared to graduates nowadays.
It's crippling for some people. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:06 14 Dec 2024
I bought my first house on Llangyfelach Road for £34000 in 2001. I was earning about £14k a year relatively fresh out of university. It was a total doer upper.
That same house has just sold for £95000 after being trashed in the years since, by tennants I assume. It's a doer upper again.
Sorry. It's £110k and still for sale. I'm not surprised. https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/68594472/?search_identifier=70d961e1bb
The job I was in when I bought that house now pays £23k pa. I couldn't afford to buy that house now [Post edited 14 Dec 22:09]
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:54 14 Dec 2024
Nick Candy has deserted the Tories not Labour.
I'm not pretending Labours budget is anything other than difficult, I do think employer NI contributions is dodgy ground but it's far too early to say what the outcome will be.
Also don't forget that Reforms policies were and are unfunded nonsense. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:38 14 Dec 2024
I do.
I'd have voted for abolish if they weren't right wing lunatics.
Give me a new centrist abolishment party and they'd probably get my vote. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:36 14 Dec 2024
I can't disagree with much of that. We have too many politicians and the vast majority aren't up to the task. Unfortunately the higher up the political pole the less in touch they are with the public.
Drakeford was a prime example of this. Totally and utterly out of touch with the people who voted for him. But then look at the circus around electing his successor. It's taken a change in speed limit to engage most people, and that's probably the least of his mess ups. His Draconian COVID rules saw him increase his vote!
I've said before but unfortunately there are enough Labour activists and members in Wales to give them carte blanche to do what they want. The other, and more important, side of the coin is the 50+% of people who don't vote at all. Get them out to vote and things will change, but that's exactly why the politicians don't want them to. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 21:25 14 Dec 2024
No I don't.
And I think the rest of your post speaks volumes. Firstly they haven't trashed the economy, there's a chance we're heading in to a small recession but we'll have to wait and see. They have alienated a lot of the public but I don't think they had much choice, the country is knackered they had to make difficult decisions and the press mullered them for it.
They've only had 10% of the time they'll be in government so far, and nowhere near enough to make a difference to much at all. The mess we're in will take a minimum of 10 years to begin to be addressed. |
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