What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
I cannot believe how he is losing it with daft tax promises, even dafter Esther McVey deputy leader promise, and I stand to be corrected but has he not said he will bring back fox hunting
It is really disappointing as I would like him to have a place in the next cabinet but leader, absolutely not
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Would anyone notice if the GPs disappeared ?
Considering that they deliver 90% of healthcare consultations in primary care, I suspect so.
I suppose we could deregulate all medicines, let people use Google for self diagnosis and have a free market in healthcare. It would save on pharmacies too.
There was a poster on here a few years ago who wanted to stop paying NI because he never uses the NHS. Hopefully he is still hale and hearty.
Since we have no children can we get a rebate for the 9.4% of taxes spent on education*?
What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
Suddenly realised what this reminds me of.
Gibbon:
"The Praetorians had violated the sanctity of the throne, by the atrocious murder of Pertinax; they dishonoured the majesty of it, by their subsequent conduct. The camp was without a leader, for even the Praefect Laetus, who had excited the tempest, prudently declined the public indignation. [...] the more prudent of the Praetorians, apprehensive that, in this private contract, they should not obtain a just price for so valuable a commodity, ran out upon the ramparts; and, with a loud voice, proclaimed that the Roman world was to be disposed of to the best bidder by public auction.(10)
This infamous offer, the most insolent excess of military licence, diffused an universal grief, shame, and indignation throughout the city. It reached at length the ears of Didius Julianus, a wealthy senator, who, regardless of the public calamities, was indulging himself in the luxury of the table.(11) [...] Julian, eager for the prize, rose at once to the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifty drachms, or upwards of two hundred pounds sterling. The gates of the camp were instantly thrown open to the purchaser; he was declared emperor, and received an oath of allegiance from the soldiers, who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he should pardon and forget the competition of Sulpicianus.
[...] After Julian had filled the senate-house with armed soldiers, he expatiated on the freedom of his election, his own eminent virtues, and his full assurance of the affections of the senate. The obsequious assembly congratulated their own and the public felicity; engaged their allegiance, and conferred on him all the several branches of the Imperial power."
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Following the GBR scheme we could do it by public vote - the hospital / surgery with least votes is eliminated. After all this is a "democracy"
Or The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence could cut the QALY utility score from £20/30k to £2/3k.
We know what will happen.
The tax-slashing winner will get in - do one of the tax cuts probably income tax by adding to the debt pile and then bluster about the others until everyone has forgotten.
Truss's idea about turning covid debt into some kind of extremely long war bond might be worth looking into, but it is a very different world to the 1940s.
How would that be different from any other very long term government bond ? Unless you're going to make its purchase mandatory...
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Ditto schools ?
And remove the state pension from every fifth pensioner.
Yes, it is simple really. Like the decimation of a Roman Legion, repeated to get a double effect.
On a point of PB pedantry, repeated decimation would only get you down to 81% ...
If you were selective about it, you could reduce costs rather more than that.
Just thinking that making people cabinet ministers for 2 months or 2 days isn't helping with public spending, given the payoffs they get, is it?
I note Bone has yet to pledge his Boris bung to charity, as did the Education Minister for a day (whose name I've already forgotten).
What the hell are they doing spending the money even for that?! If they don't think it legitimate to claim then they shouldn't bloody claim it. Doesn't matter if they spend it on the dogs at Wallyford or send it to Oxfam. It's still spending it.
What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
I cannot believe how he is losing it with daft tax promises, even dafter Esther McVey deputy leader promise, and I stand to be corrected but has he not said he will bring back fox hunting
It is really disappointing as I would like him to have a place in the next cabinet but leader, absolutely not
He was poor on Sophie's sunday show I thought unfortunately. Rather robotic and nervous. I though Javid came across better.
Only one performance so early days. But I suspect he knows he is running to be considered if there is a cabinet of all the talents.
I think Truss is the best candidate, even though ideally I want Sunak to win for entirely selfish reasons. Hopefully we get a Sunak v Truss final two, in which case either I'll get a good payoff, or the best candidate becomes PM. 👍
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
Regarding milk, it's worth saying that our corner shop did 2x2litres for £2 for years (going back as far as I can remember so probably since 2010).
That went to £1.20 each back in January (discount removed), £1.40 in March and it's now £1.60 per 2 litres.
So that's a 60% increase in fairly short order because as the owner states everyone needs to make money...
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Would anyone notice if the GPs disappeared ?
Considering that they deliver 90% of healthcare consultations in primary care, I suspect so.
I suppose we could deregulate all medicines, let people use Google for self diagnosis and have a free market in healthcare. It would save on pharmacies too.
I think between them pharmacies and hospitals could pick up the slack tbh. If you're binning off GPs then you can expand your budget between those.
Good point. Are they saying that it’s difficult for a young black woman to prosper in the PCP, or that to speak out in the war on woke is brave in the country of the Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph, Spectator, GB News and sundry obsessed Leon types?
I see Ms Truss is another one running for PM rather than the actual position of Leader of the Conservative Party. An interesting choice of focus which say to me that this is all about getting through the door of No.10 rather than leading a major political party.
In short, personal ambition and Primus inter pares can be chucked in the bin. It is also what makes such people unfit for the job and that is before we even begin to examine their crazy proposals.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
Regarding milk, it's worth saying that our corner shop did 2x2litres for £2 for years (going back as far as I can remember so probably since 2010).
That went to £1.20 each back in January (discount removed), £1.40 in March and it's now £1.60 per 2 litres.
So that's a 60% increase in fairly short order because as the owner states everyone needs to make money...
Yes. The imposed loss-leading position driven by "take it or fuck off" supermarket buying has collapsed. There are actual profit margins now being generated which we need if we want a dairy industry.
But again, the elephant in the room is a lack of staff. In a lot of rural areas there is no real unemployment amongst viable staff...
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Would anyone notice if the GPs disappeared ?
Considering that they deliver 90% of healthcare consultations in primary care, I suspect so.
I suppose we could deregulate all medicines, let people use Google for self diagnosis and have a free market in healthcare. It would save on pharmacies too.
I think between them pharmacies and hospitals could pick up the slack tbh.
Queue times at the local A&E can now be 12 hours +...
Pharmacies can pick up some of the slack, hospitals really can't....
Is this leadership contest going to be all about tax cuts?
If it is, then I'd suggest that Sunak - as the source of people's frustrations with rising taxes - is doomed, and Zahawi has done well to come up with an eye-catching pledge to cut spending by 20%
It's a tabloid staple that vast sums of public spending are wasted in simple and obvious ways. Anyone criticising the plan has to justify hundreds of billions of pounds of government expenditure as 100% necessary. I could see this being a similar reality/make believe dividing line as Johnson's no more extensions.
What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
The majority of candidates seem to realise they will get nowhere without wrapping themselves in the flag, and promising uncosted tax cuts and an anti-woke, hanging and flogging agenda.
It has been a handy reminder why I should never vote for any of the duplicitous *******!
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
tbf it is not a bad video. Spoiler: she wants members to vote for Liz Truss.
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Would anyone notice if the GPs disappeared ?
Considering that they deliver 90% of healthcare consultations in primary care, I suspect so.
I suppose we could deregulate all medicines, let people use Google for self diagnosis and have a free market in healthcare. It would save on pharmacies too.
I think between them pharmacies and hospitals could pick up the slack tbh.
Queue times at the local A&E can now be 12 hours +...
Pharmacies can pick up some of the slack, hospitals really can't....
What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
There’s possibly a horrible downside for the Tories ramming home to the general public they are hell bent on massive tax cuts for the rich and deep cuts and austerity to public services?
That is not what the Tory Party candidates are saying at all, of course! But how are the general public putting two and two together? When governments talk directly to all voters about these things it’s a carefully nuanced message.
Unless you can have months of ramming home tax cutting message to your membership without it impacting at all how the general public now view you. A worsening poll position may be driven by this.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
As this absurd and ill judged race to promise widescale tax cuts develops I really hope Sunak v Mordaunt become the final two
Yep. Though I can see the pitch that Tugenhat is making I would be astonished if he finds a way through. They really do need to get on with this - too many idiot candidates making stupid promises which are either maliciously vindictive or economically insane. Taking a brand that is absolutely trashed and trashing it some more - with that crook Johnson and his government of never-been's still in office.
I see Ms Truss is another one running for PM rather than the actual position of Leader of the Conservative Party. An interesting choice of focus which say to me that this is all about getting through the door of No.10 rather than leading a major political party.
In short, personal ambition and Primus inter pares can be chucked in the bin. It is also what makes such people unfit for the job and that is before we even begin to examine their crazy proposals.
Revealing, the way the Tory Party thinks it owns the UK. Rather like Labour did in Scotland.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
Regarding milk, it's worth saying that our corner shop did 2x2litres for £2 for years (going back as far as I can remember so probably since 2010).
That went to £1.20 each back in January (discount removed), £1.40 in March and it's now £1.60 per 2 litres.
So that's a 60% increase in fairly short order because as the owner states everyone needs to make money...
Yes. The imposed loss-leading position driven by "take it or fuck off" supermarket buying has collapsed. There are actual profit margins now being generated which we need if we want a dairy industry.
But again, the elephant in the room is a lack of staff. In a lot of rural areas there is no real unemployment amongst viable staff...
Yep - 20 years of shite profits meant that the sons and daughters of farmers quit farming and did something else.
Most of Mrs Eek's colleagues are sons and daughters of farmers who decided that a low paid (well pay is 20%+ less in real terms than in 2010) working for the national park was more profitable than working at the farm.
Well you were complaining last thread about none of them being serious or attempting to balance the books.
The tweet is:- Nadh Zahawi tells Sky News he plans to impose 20% cuts on every government department in order to pay for his planned tax cuts.
And that 20 per cent figure tells us that this is either not serious or is damn stupid. It is plucked out of thin air, it is too large for simple efficiency savings (which, by the way, everyone has tried) but there is no accompanying policy that would naturally slice a fifth off anyone's spending; it is to be uniform across Whitehall, again with no regard to policy.
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
tbf it is not a bad video. Spoiler: she wants members to vote for Liz Truss.
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
That’s a good sign of her having spent money on setting up the site professionally, as opposed to having a friend throw up a one-page Wordpress template in half an hour.
I think Truss is the best candidate, even though ideally I want Sunak to win for entirely selfish reasons. Hopefully we get a Sunak v Truss final two, in which case either I'll get a good payoff, or the best candidate becomes PM. 👍
If it was Sunak v Truss I would vote for Sunak with reservations. Though at least Truss is more conservative than she was
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
Mmm. I want to abolish world poverty. Without setting a date or a route to doing it, my pledge is sadly of limited value.
Surely you could at least pledge to reduce all world poverty by 20% in the course of this parliament, Nick ? I think you'd make a fine new leader for the Conservatives.
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
tbf it is not a bad video. Spoiler: she wants members to vote for Liz Truss.
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
Zahawi hasn't pledged to cut spending by 20%. Well except for civil servants. He's going to cut those by 20%. Not the whole of spending.
Considering the only source for this claim was Adam Bienkov, who is a notorious liar that Scott etc regularly quote who will put the most twist on whatever anyone in the government says, it was fairly obvious immediately that it wasn't true.
If he'd genuinely said it, there'd be a real source saying so. Not a discredited liar like Bienkov as the only one saying he'd said it, then a bunch of idiots on Twitter extrapolating from what a liar said.
But the main focus of them all is how much more public debt shall we accrue in the next two years to try and retain power in 2024 - none of them seem to have any actual ideas about how we get out of this mess.
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
Zahawi hasn't pledged to cut spending by 20%. Well except for civil servants. He's going to cut those by 20%. Not the whole of spending.
So he is going to keep spending the same but cut the people who manage the spending by 20% - which just means fewer checks so more money being spent inefficiently.
What happened? Just a few weeks ago he was a sane pair of hands?
Desperation to be thought a contender, I suppose.
The majority of candidates seem to realise they will get nowhere without wrapping themselves in the flag, and promising uncosted tax cuts and an anti-woke, hanging and flogging agenda.
It has been a handy reminder why I should never vote for any of the duplicitous *******!
It’s a handy reminder how there may have been swings and roundabouts in Tory membership - many thousands walking away when likes of Philip Hammond and many others expulsion to the wilderness - influx of blukip fatberg that had been building up out there over 20yrs. And the stench from the blukip fatberg - Yuk!
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Following the GBR scheme we could do it by public vote - the hospital / surgery with least votes is eliminated. After all this is a "democracy"
Or The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence could cut the QALY utility score from £20/30k to £2/3k.
We know what will happen.
The tax-slashing winner will get in - do one of the tax cuts probably income tax by adding to the debt pile and then bluster about the others until everyone has forgotten.
Truss's idea about turning covid debt into some kind of extremely long war bond might be worth looking into, but it is a very different world to the 1940s.
It was something worth doing in 2020 or even early 2021. The cost of doing it now is way, way more than it was then.
In 2020 / 2021 inflation was a pipe dream - now it's reality and there is no way my pension fund is going to accept a 3-5% return when inflation is 10%...
Your pension fund might accept below-inflation returns if the alternative is a crashing stock market. Mine is down about three years' worth last time I looked.
A Hell of a lot better than that pretentious tripe from Penny Mordaunt. It was mercifully shorter to start with and the VO was at least her own. We were also spared the portentious music track that made it sound like a spoof.
But having said all that it's not a campaign video that's going to win this election and her cloying loyalty to Johnson will surely disqualify even if her if her lack of ability manages to escape attention.
But the main focus of them all is how much more public debt shall we accrue in the next two years to try and retain power in 2024 - none of them seem to have any actual ideas about how we get out of this mess.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
There are people who live in Wisbech already. Why aren't they doing the work?
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
I'm not sure there is much left to save with many councils. Other than having them go bust and writing off all their debts.
Zahawi hasn't pledged to cut spending by 20%. Well except for civil servants. He's going to cut those by 20%. Not the whole of spending.
That's not going to pay for much in terms of tax cuts, is it?
But yes, that's the sleight of hand here. Say that he found a way of cutting one (smallish and unusual) bit of spending by 20% and leave the impression that he can cut everything by 20% without reducing service quality.
In "How to lie with statistics", Darrell Huff called it a semi-attached figure.
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
tbf it is not a bad video. Spoiler: she wants members to vote for Liz Truss.
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
I found it very cheesy.
Given the parallel discussion about dairy pricing, I'm not certain we can afford cheesy...
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
I was disappointed not to see her riding along on top of a battle tank or waving to the crowd below from CCHQ... oh wait, that was Maggie. How did I make that mistake?
Another one - she has been releasing them for the last year at least
tbf it is not a bad video. Spoiler: she wants members to vote for Liz Truss.
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
I see Ms Truss is another one running for PM rather than the actual position of Leader of the Conservative Party. An interesting choice of focus which say to me that this is all about getting through the door of No.10 rather than leading a major political party.
In short, personal ambition and Primus inter pares can be chucked in the bin. It is also what makes such people unfit for the job and that is before we even begin to examine their crazy proposals.
Revealing, the way the Tory Party thinks it owns the UK. Rather like Labour did in Scotland.
But the winner WILL be PM of the UK. I think it’s right that this is emphasised - the selectorate have a wider responsibility than just selecting whoever best reflects their own values. Others have rightly objected that some are not taking this fundamental aspect of the contest seriously enough.
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
What duplication occurs in a 2 tier council. When you have 2 tiers both tiers have different responsibilities.
And you really want planning done on a local level - Bishop Auckland's town centre has been destroyed by the decision of the county council to allow a out of town retail park to be built. That application had been on a back burner for years because the previous district council knew what the impact would be and had made it clear that they wouldn't allow it. Then councillors from 60 miles away got a vote and allowed it to be passed.
Oh and 60 miles is minor - the new North Yorkshire unitary council will take over 3 hours to get from one end to the other (120 miles).
Zahawi hasn't pledged to cut spending by 20%. Well except for civil servants. He's going to cut those by 20%. Not the whole of spending.
That's not going to pay for much in terms of tax cuts, is it?
But yes, that's the sleight of hand here. Say that he found a way of cutting one (smallish and unusual) bit of spending by 20% and leave the impression that he can cut everything by 20% without reducing service quality.
In "How to lie with statistics", Darrell Huff called it a semi-attached figure.
Is there a link to the full interview to put this into context ?
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
I'm not sure there is much left to save with many councils. Other than having them go bust and writing off all their debts.
The simplest way would be to close every fifth hospital and GP surgery, and not replace them.
Would anyone notice if the GPs disappeared ?
Considering that they deliver 90% of healthcare consultations in primary care, I suspect so.
I suppose we could deregulate all medicines, let people use Google for self diagnosis and have a free market in healthcare. It would save on pharmacies too.
No messin’, straight for the selectorate’s jugular.
How - given that he is responsible for cutting one of the biggest parts of levelling up. For every NIMBY who didn't want HS2E there are 5+ (possibly 50+) people who did.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
There are people who live in Wisbech already. Why aren't they doing the work?
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
People won't move from Widnes to Wisbech when there's nowhere to live in Wisbech, apart from a bed in a dorm room. So many of our economic and social issues come back to the housing crisis.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
I'm not sure there is much left to save with many councils. Other than having them go bust and writing off all their debts.
Two websites needed to be hosted. Two offices, two sets of councillor expenses.
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
What duplication occurs in a 2 tier council. When you have 2 tiers both tiers have different responsibilities.
And you really want planning done on a local level - Bishop Auckland's town centre has been destroyed by the decision of the county council to allow a out of town retail park to be built. That application had been on a back burner for years because the previous district council knew what the impact would be and had made it clear that they wouldn't allow it. Then councillors from 60 miles away got a vote and allowed it to be passed.
Oh and 60 miles is minor - the new North Yorkshire unitary council will take over 3 hours to get from one end to the other (120 miles).
I do find it hilarious when people moan about out of town retail parks "destroying" town centres.
Typically the same people who have made it all but impossible to drive into and park in town.
So no shit Sherlock that people end up preferring to shop in out of town retail parks, which they can easily drive to and park at, rather than town centres, which they can't.
Stop trying to pedestrianise town centres, build decent amounts of parking, and maybe town centres would be revitalised again.
Consumer should be king, if everyone is choosing to go to the out of town retail park, then it was completely right that it should be allowed to be built, because that's what people wanted. If people didn't want it, they wouldn't go there. "Don't build this, because it will be popular" is the worst possible argument to deny planning consent and is precisely why the very nature of requiring consent should be abolished if it were up to me.
What? I bought butter yesterday for £1.60. Lurpak at £10?????
The price of Lurpak Spreadable has displaced Meghan as the new Daily Mail obsession.
There is normally an article every day on it the moment.
What’s the underlying issue, they had a factory shut down with Covid, or a supply chain problem with one of the ingredients?
I am not sure if I should spread this rumour but apparently Lurpak are creaming it in by milking the inflation crisis for all its worth. But er indoors thinks this story is not even margarinally true and just churned out by Russian bots.
Zahawi hasn't pledged to cut spending by 20%. Well except for civil servants. He's going to cut those by 20%. Not the whole of spending.
That's not going to pay for much in terms of tax cuts, is it?
But yes, that's the sleight of hand here. Say that he found a way of cutting one (smallish and unusual) bit of spending by 20% and leave the impression that he can cut everything by 20% without reducing service quality.
In "How to lie with statistics", Darrell Huff called it a semi-attached figure.
He can't even cut the 20% he is suggesting (and let's ignore it's not new because it is already JRM's aim) without impacting service quality because the 20% he is cutting is 20% of the quality management
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
I'm not sure there is much left to save with many councils. Other than having them go bust and writing off all their debts.
Two websites needed to be hosted. Two offices, two sets of councillor expenses.
What? I bought butter yesterday for £1.60. Lurpak at £10?????
And it's not like spreadability is an issue in this weather, just leave it out of the fridge
On the one hand apparently 14 million people live in poverty (BBC yesterday passim, something I am sorry to say I profoundly disbelieve), while The DM can worry about the problems of people who pay £4 a kilo more for an imported product than a UK alternative that has been less messed about with.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
Nothing aspirational in being lucky enough to being born to wealthy and well-connected parents.
No messin’, straight for the selectorate’s jugular.
It is very good, and notable that when Shapps goes through the list of "I can..." he just says "campaign" to avoid the jarring alliteration and rhyme (half-rhyme?) and break up the rhythm before it turns into a sing-song.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
The problem is not the private schools “Like Eton”, it’s the hundreds of small community private schools up and down the country, to whom the middle classes aspire to send their children, many of whom rely on charitable status to survive. Tax them, to target schools “Like Eton”, and they’ll close, adding to the burden on the State and upsetting tens of thousands of parents.
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
There are people who live in Wisbech already. Why aren't they doing the work?
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
Wisbech will be a commuter village now in the same way that Grasmere and elsewhere now are. The country side isn't full of unemployed people looking for work, it's full of retirees and rich commuters willing to drive 2 hours a day when required.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
Can you explain why private schools should be subsidised by the general publc?
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
There are people who live in Wisbech already. Why aren't they doing the work?
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
People won't move from Widnes to Wisbech when there's nowhere to live in Wisbech, apart from a bed in a dorm room. So many of our economic and social issues come back to the housing crisis.
Well yes, but @RochdalePioneers is arguing people should move from Warsaw to Wisbech, but thinks its impossible to move from Widnes to Wisbech.
If you need people to move for a job, that job needs to pay a competitive enough salary to entice people to move. The problem is that some businesses thought they could entice people to move for National Minimum Wage, where they'd have 7 workers living in a three bedroom house.
That's no longer an option, but it never was healthy either.
Either pay a decent salary, or invest in automation, or your business isn't viable.
I would support this on the condition that any MPs who voted for it, give unlimited personal financial guarantees that if we subsequently re-employ the people we lay off as consultants on higher wages, as we inevitably will, then it is the MPs who fund it first until they all go bankrupt.
Labour should propose such an amendment, to point out the silliness. Do we ever learn?
What? I bought butter yesterday for £1.60. Lurpak at £10?????
The price of Lurpak Spreadable has displaced Meghan as the new Daily Mail obsession.
There is normally an article every day on it the moment.
What’s the underlying issue, they had a factory shut down with Covid, or a supply chain problem with one of the ingredients?
I am not sure if I should spread this rumour but apparently Lurpak are creaming it in by milking the inflation crisis for all its worth. But er indoors thinks this story is not even margarinally true and just churned out by Russian bots.
What? I bought butter yesterday for £1.60. Lurpak at £10?????
The price of Lurpak Spreadable has displaced Meghan as the new Daily Mail obsession.
There is normally an article every day on it the moment.
What’s the underlying issue, they had a factory shut down with Covid, or a supply chain problem with one of the ingredients?
I am not sure if I should spread this rumour but apparently Lurpak are creaming it in by milking the inflation crisis for all its worth. But er indoors thinks this story is not even margarinally true and just churned out by Russian bots.
Aldi own brand butter is now £1.75 per 250g so £7 per 1kg. 30% more for a branded product isn't that big a difference as I'm sure @RochdalePioneers will confirm
What? I bought butter yesterday for £1.60. Lurpak at £10?????
And it's not like spreadability is an issue in this weather, just leave it out of the fridge
On the one hand apparently 14 million people live in poverty (BBC yesterday passim, something I am sorry to say I profoundly disbelieve), while The DM can worry about the problems of people who pay £4 a kilo more for an imported product than a UK alternative that has been less messed about with.
When you redefine ‘poverty’ to mean ‘inequality’, then there will always be poverty, and always be groups of the self-interested campaigning against it.
That said, the issues with fuel and energy prices are causing serious problems, and need to be addressed before the winter.
One area for cost saving - councils. Everyone needs a council, but noone needs more than that. Some upfront cost, but future savings as duplication is eliminated. Unitary system for all.
I'm not sure there is much left to save with many councils. Other than having them go bust and writing off all their debts.
Or council tax going through the roof
That has already happened. Your lot imposed the social care levy and removed direct funding of adult social care. The levy doesn't raise enough money to pay for care, so it leaves the council worse off AND people paying more council tax.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
Can you explain why private schools should be subsidised by the general publc?
Good question. On the other hand, will it swing a single vote Labour's way? This smacks of red meat to keep MPs onside, rather than a serious attempt to address educational inequalities.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
The problem is not the private schools “Like Eton”, it’s the hundreds of small community private schools up and down the country, to whom the middle classes aspire to send their children, many of whom rely on charitable status to survive. Tax them, to target schools “Like Eton”, and they’ll close, adding to the burden on the State and upsetting tens of thousands of parents.
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
Nearly all private schools seem very unlike what I think of when I think of a charity. I have no objection to private schools that actually act in a manner more like a typical charity having charitable status.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
So the privately educated Starmer wants to pull the ladder up by removing the charitable status which funds more scholarships and bursaries and leads to facilities being shared with state schools and the community.
Though no surprise, Labour governments always do it, even Blair's
No messin’, straight for the selectorate’s jugular.
How - given that he is responsible for cutting one of the biggest parts of levelling up. For every NIMBY who didn't want HS2E there are 5+ (possibly 50+) people who did.
To oversimplify it greatly, HS2 passes through Tory seats and stops at Labour ones.
So, he’s continuing Boris’ silly plan and wasting the savings on corporation tax cuts? Well it’s a view I suppose. I’m surprised how rot-brained they all are bar Sunak and (possibly) Mordaunt. Mostly because she hasn’t proposed much.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
The problem is not the private schools “Like Eton”, it’s the hundreds of small community private schools up and down the country, to whom the middle classes aspire to send their children, many of whom rely on charitable status to survive. Tax them, to target schools “Like Eton”, and they’ll close, adding to the burden on the State and upsetting tens of thousands of parents.
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
The problem is not the private schools “Like Eton”, it’s the hundreds of small community private schools up and down the country, to whom the middle classes aspire to send their children, many of whom rely on charitable status to survive. Tax them, to target schools “Like Eton”, and they’ll close, adding to the burden on the State and upsetting tens of thousands of parents.
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
If they rely entirely on charitable donations and don't charge for entry then they should keep their charitable status. Otherwise they are just organisations that provide a service primarily to people on above average incomes so it's a bit hard to see why, in an era of squeezed public finances, they are worthy of a public subsidy.
A story which illustrates so many lies and misunderstandings about what is happening out there: 1kg of butter? Who in their right mind buys that for domestic use? So the basic proposition is silly. Whats more, other brands are available who do basically the same product for less cost per kilo.
But - and its a big but - read and understand the comments and analysis about the dairy industry. There have been some *whopping* price rises. So the industry can afford to pay people more. And yet cannot find staff. Because quite simply British workers do not want to work in agriculture / food. At any price. We continue to have a staff shortage. And the "point-based migration" system fails to do its job and bring people in.
You mean its not bringing in people who are being offered competitive salaries?
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
I mean that in the real world there is no solution other than imported labour. There is no labour pool available in many rural areas to do the work. So you're looking at farmers having to offer incentives to get people to relocate from Widnes to Wisbech to work in their dairy. Which they can't and the people won't. And even if they did the price of milk would then be so crazy that we would switch to cheaper imports.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
There are people who live in Wisbech already. Why aren't they doing the work?
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
Like I said, your theory is worthless compared to the reality on the ground. Having watched desperate factory managers offer substantially more than they were already paying (which was not minimum wage) in Anglia and not getting enough new staff to add a shift I know what reality is. Unlike you.
And that was before Brexit. Its a lot worse now. There is no labour pool in rural areas waiting for someone to "just pay more".
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
The problem is not the private schools “Like Eton”, it’s the hundreds of small community private schools up and down the country, to whom the middle classes aspire to send their children, many of whom rely on charitable status to survive. Tax them, to target schools “Like Eton”, and they’ll close, adding to the burden on the State and upsetting tens of thousands of parents.
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
Exactly.
Eton will not be remotely affected by this.
The dear old "There are no marginal cases" PB fallacy. There's plenty of parents for whom this will make the difference beween just affordable, and not affordable.
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It is really disappointing as I would like him to have a place in the next cabinet but leader, absolutely not
Since we have no children can we get a rebate for the 9.4% of taxes spent on education*?
(*For the avoidance of doubt, I'm joking.)
Gibbon:
"The Praetorians had violated the sanctity of the throne, by the atrocious murder of Pertinax; they dishonoured the majesty of it, by their subsequent conduct. The camp was without a leader, for even the Praefect Laetus, who had excited the tempest, prudently declined the public indignation. [...] the more prudent of the Praetorians, apprehensive that, in this private contract, they should not obtain a just price for so valuable a commodity, ran out upon the ramparts; and, with a loud voice, proclaimed that the Roman world was to be disposed of to the best bidder by public auction.(10)
This infamous offer, the most insolent excess of military licence, diffused an universal grief, shame, and indignation throughout the city. It reached at length the ears of Didius Julianus, a wealthy senator, who, regardless of the public calamities, was indulging himself in the luxury of the table.(11) [...] Julian, eager for the prize, rose at once to the sum of six thousand two hundred and fifty drachms, or upwards of two hundred pounds sterling. The gates of the camp were instantly thrown open to the purchaser; he was declared emperor, and received an oath of allegiance from the soldiers, who retained humanity enough to stipulate that he should pardon and forget the competition of Sulpicianus.
[...] After Julian had filled the senate-house with armed soldiers, he expatiated on the freedom of his election, his own eminent virtues, and his full assurance of the affections of the senate. The obsequious assembly congratulated their own and the public felicity; engaged their allegiance, and conferred on him all the several branches of the Imperial power."
Unless you're going to make its purchase mandatory...
Only one performance so early days. But I suspect he knows he is running to be considered if there is a cabinet of all the talents.
I think Truss is the best candidate, even though ideally I want Sunak to win for entirely selfish reasons. Hopefully we get a Sunak v Truss final two, in which case either I'll get a good payoff, or the best candidate becomes PM. 👍
That went to £1.20 each back in January (discount removed), £1.40 in March and it's now £1.60 per 2 litres.
So that's a 60% increase in fairly short order because as the owner states everyone needs to make money...
Are they saying that it’s difficult for a young black woman to prosper in the PCP, or that to speak out in the war on woke is brave in the country of the Mail, Express, Sun, Telegraph, Spectator, GB News and sundry obsessed Leon types?
In short, personal ambition and Primus inter pares can be chucked in the bin. It is also what makes such people unfit for the job and that is before we even begin to examine their crazy proposals.
But again, the elephant in the room is a lack of staff. In a lot of rural areas there is no real unemployment amongst viable staff...
Pharmacies can pick up some of the slack, hospitals really can't....
If it is, then I'd suggest that Sunak - as the source of people's frustrations with rising taxes - is doomed, and Zahawi has done well to come up with an eye-catching pledge to cut spending by 20%
It's a tabloid staple that vast sums of public spending are wasted in simple and obvious ways. Anyone criticising the plan has to justify hundreds of billions of pounds of government expenditure as 100% necessary. I could see this being a similar reality/make believe dividing line as Johnson's no more extensions.
It has been a handy reminder why I should never vote for any of the duplicitous *******!
Her website lizforleader.co.uk was registered in June but more interestingly she is using the Cloudflare CDN, presumably in case other candidates try to ddos her.
That is not what the Tory Party candidates are saying at all, of course! But how are the general public putting two and two together? When governments talk directly to all voters about these things it’s a carefully nuanced message.
Unless you can have months of ramming home tax cutting message to your membership without it impacting at all how the general public now view you. A worsening poll position may be driven by this.
Or its not bringing in people at basically minimum wage?
The migration system is designed, rightly, now to bring people in if their starting salary is about £30k+ . . . we shouldn't be looking to bring people in who are earning less than that, because if they're on less than that they're a net drain not a positive.
So which jobs aren't being filled for a long time that are meeting that salary? Or do you mean that offering 10% over National Minimum Wage isn't enough?
Most of Mrs Eek's colleagues are sons and daughters of farmers who decided that a low paid (well pay is 20%+ less in real terms than in 2010) working for the national park was more profitable than working at the farm.
What you believe is great theory. Meanwhile in the real world...
I think you'd make a fine new leader for the Conservatives.
If he'd genuinely said it, there'd be a real source saying so. Not a discredited liar like Bienkov as the only one saying he'd said it, then a bunch of idiots on Twitter extrapolating from what a liar said.
Or will the 3 MPs currently without the whip have it temporarily restored?
But having said all that it's not a campaign video that's going to win this election and her cloying loyalty to Johnson will surely disqualify even if her if her lack of ability manages to escape attention.
If you pay a competitive enough salary, then people will move to take the job. Or you can invest in somewhere there are people.
"Bringing in people" is just getting people to move.
There is no reason those people need to move from another country, rather than somewhere in this one, other than that National Minimum Wage will attract people to move from Eastern Europe to Wisbech but won't get people to move from Widnes to Wisbech. A decent salary and good terms and conditions on the other hand will do.
If anyone is struggling to hire because they aren't paying a good salary, that's their problem, not ours. They either need to pay a good salary, or invest in automation, or their business isn't viable.
But yes, that's the sleight of hand here. Say that he found a way of cutting one (smallish and unusual) bit of spending by 20% and leave the impression that he can cut everything by 20% without reducing service quality.
In "How to lie with statistics", Darrell Huff called it a semi-attached figure.
No messin’, straight for the selectorate’s jugular.
And you really want planning done on a local level - Bishop Auckland's town centre has been destroyed by the decision of the county council to allow a out of town retail park to be built. That application had been on a back burner for years because the previous district council knew what the impact would be and had made it clear that they wouldn't allow it. Then councillors from 60 miles away got a vote and allowed it to be passed.
Oh and 60 miles is minor - the new North Yorkshire unitary council will take over 3 hours to get from one end to the other (120 miles).
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1546376913786118146
#KayBurley - So it's a 20% cut for every department?
Nadhim Zahawi - Yes... that will give me the headroom for tax cuts...
"Starmer to confirm pledge to end charitable status of private schools like Eton in speech today in Gateshead. He will say:”When I say we are going to pay for kids to catch up at school, I also say it’ll be funded by removing private schools’ charitable status."
Taxing aspiration is never a good look.
Two offices,
two sets of councillor expenses.
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/
https://www.bassetlaw.gov.uk/
Save the £000s and the millions look after themselves
Typically the same people who have made it all but impossible to drive into and park in town.
So no shit Sherlock that people end up preferring to shop in out of town retail parks, which they can easily drive to and park at, rather than town centres, which they can't.
Stop trying to pedestrianise town centres, build decent amounts of parking, and maybe town centres would be revitalised again.
Consumer should be king, if everyone is choosing to go to the out of town retail park, then it was completely right that it should be allowed to be built, because that's what people wanted. If people didn't want it, they wouldn't go there. "Don't build this, because it will be popular" is the worst possible argument to deny planning consent and is precisely why the very nature of requiring consent should be abolished if it were up to me.
https://news.sky.com/story/conservative-leadership-contender-nadhim-zahawi-gives-his-first-broadcast-interview-since-becoming-chancellor-12649736
...He told us how a 20% cut in the running costs of every government department would provide enough fiscal firepower to be able to cut taxes.
But Mr Zahawi's team later clarified he meant cutting the civil service head count by 20%, not departmental spending...
While leaving the actual Eton able to put their fees up a bit and not notice too much. It’s the worst class politics.
Politics of envy bullshit from Starmer.
If you need people to move for a job, that job needs to pay a competitive enough salary to entice people to move. The problem is that some businesses thought they could entice people to move for National Minimum Wage, where they'd have 7 workers living in a three bedroom house.
That's no longer an option, but it never was healthy either.
Either pay a decent salary, or invest in automation, or your business isn't viable.
Labour should propose such an amendment, to point out the silliness. Do we ever learn?
That said, the issues with fuel and energy prices are causing serious problems, and need to be addressed before the winter.
.... Ah.
Though no surprise, Labour governments always do it, even Blair's
No, an email or a phone call isn't adequate.
Eton will not be remotely affected by this.
And that was before Brexit. Its a lot worse now. There is no labour pool in rural areas waiting for someone to "just pay more".
I don't know the candidates well enough to predict who each will support. I guess it is a mix of friendship/enmity, hope of preference, policy.
I've had a go for fun. See:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Po2HA9a7DDVi8tuTf-cV-wXdEhIjcCUg2fGqRcvl_cI/edit?usp=sharing
It ends up with Braverman being the king-maker between Mordaunt and Tugendhat. But what do I know!
It does show how things can change.