Nigel Farage hasn’t wargamed his by-election very well – politicalbetting.com
Nigel Farage hasn’t wargamed his by-election very well – politicalbetting.com
3 in 4 Brits (74%) state that the parliamentary standards commissioner should be investigating whether Nigel Farage leader broke parliamentary rules ?73% say investigation should continue even if Farage wins the Clacton by-election ? https://tinyurl.com/5n8er7mc
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· 16% think Nigel Farage is right to resign as an MP and stand for re-election to parliament in the resulting by-election. 16% think he should have continued as an MP. 54% think he should resign and leave parliament.
· 74% state the standards commissioner should be investigating whether Mr. Farage broke rules by failing to declare a £5m gift received from a Reform UK donor before his election.
· 73% of the public believe the investigation should continue even if Farage wins the upcoming by-election, compared to 15% who think it should not continue in these circumstances.
What percentage think that he should resign, leave parliament and conduct the first manned landing on Uranus?
“ Visa sponsor opportunity at a PREMIER location. 🛬
JVR Stores — a Premier shop in Cwmavon, Port Talbot — is now a licensed UK "Skilled Worker" visa sponsor, added to the Home Office register last month.
(Home Office register; Companies House 10442538)
Link in the comments 👇”
https://x.com/based_data_uk/status/2077641755994800414?s=61
Or he's just an overweeningly arrogant chuff like his idol Trump.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2077714480461476019
Reportedly more than 50% of Dominoes Pizza franchises have at least one worker on a skilled worked visa.
Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio.....
The bartender says “I can’t serve you, you’re off your tits”.
And by the time you are reduced to making implausibly terrible threats, it's already too late.
As good British people they use cheques.
Unfortunately for Nigel's little caper, that figure barely moves if he wins.
Paul Greengrass has made a film about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Doctor Who alumnus Andrew Garfield is Wat Tyler. It's called "The Uprising" and here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkrhHebz1Q
"Hey guys, what date can we issue this on to *really* drive the point home? How about September 11, Paul? Sorted!"
The beach parties seem rather ungrateful.
The idea that raising wages might assuage the shortages is, apparently, anathema.
If they're not, then that is broken and needs fixing.
And someone mentioned last time we discussed this a scam where people theoretically get paid but then two-thirds of the money is returned to the employer in fees and deductions so they aren't really - I find it hard to believe that's happening with any name brand like Domino's as if it were it would be headline news and I've never seen anything on that.
It's a marvel to live in a time when that's technically possible, but the terrifying sludge you get surrounding it, just by logging on...
The flyovers will continue until morale improves.
https://x.com/petehegseth/status/2077747620500439435?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
I think you're right that the scam deductions stuff is probably not happening at dominos. Although, in a franchise, the payroll is i think done locally not at central office.
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Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey has called on FIFA to ban the six Argentine players who celebrated with the "Falklands are Argentine" banner from playing in Sunday's final.
Ed Davey has told Sky News he has written to the president Gianni Infantino.
https://x.com/SamCoatesSky/status/2077775219909906912?s=20
So someone who understands how politics really works is going to be by Andy's side..
Ed appears to be attention-seeking here.
If there are shortages that will damage the country's economy what should the govt do? Take control of businesses and make them raise wages? That would be crazy. But what the govt can do is temporarily increase the pool of prospective employees through varying the immigration rules.
Not legally worth that - selling them is illegal - but that is the market price. And you can blur the edges with processing fees and expenses.
A classic scam is that fees etc are paid to an offshore company, by the applicant. So the legal and financial system here only sees nominal fees being paid. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have been sent to a bank in Dubai etc.
Also - and somehow simultaneously - other parties not taking part is a disgrace and Count Binface is an Establishment plant, so how dare anyone mock the great Nige?
Now, it wouldn't happen with a job requiring formal qualifications, of course.
But who are we kidding when we pretend running a corner shop is a skilled occupation? I could do it with two weeks' on-the-job initiation, and so could you. Skilled my arse.
https://sports.yahoo.com/swiss-players-avoid-suspensions-provocative-world-cup-celebrations-serbia-fined-172446719.html
FIFA warned the three Swiss players, but ruled they hadn’t violated article 54 of the disciplinary code – “provoking the general public” – which would have called for a two-game suspension. Instead, they fined the players in accordance with article 57, finding them guilty of “offensive gestures or language.”
I'd suggest that what the Argentina players did last night was far worse than what Xhaka and Shaqiri did in 2018.
No to any more restrictions on fireworks.
What they Gonna do when Spanish players unfurl the Free Palestine banners during their victory lap a cause most of the Globe supports, award the World Cup to the USA?
I think the issue now in low-paid work is the quality gap. There is no shortage of people to fill positions, but a shortage of good, committed staff in it for the long-term.
This is particularly evident in the care sector, where there are a few really dedicated professionals who are brilliant at their job *and* a larger number of minimally-skilled, minimally-committed people who will probably quit within a year. Often notionally doing the same role at the same pay grade.
The ideal solution would be to pay the good ones a lot more than the bad ones, to retain and incentivise talent now, and to attract good candidates to the sector in the medium to long term. But for various reasons, most of them the fault of government policy and employment law, this doesn't happen and is unlikely to change any time soon.
One answer would be to lower the minimum wage, while simultaneously encouraging the expansion of a performance-related bonus culture amongst lower-paid jobs, ideally structured so it can be paid monthly. I once heard George Osborne talking along these lines (years ago, probably in opposition and prior to the crash) but it never got anywhere near policy.
Good luck enforcing against them.
If there's a shortage then pay a decent wage that fills the shortage. If the wage paid is above the threshold then a visa can be applied for if needed. If the wage is below threshold then the firm has at least three options they can do - (1) innovate and improve productivity so that the role is no longer required, (2) raise wages to the point the vacancy is filled, (3) raise wages to the point that a visa can be applied for.
There is no need to have shortage visas at a lower wage than the threshold.
Skilled gaps should be above the income threshold though in my view.
If its a genuine skill, then it should be valued as such, and paid accordingly which puts it above the threshold.
If its below the threshold, then how seriously is the firm valuing the skill? "Willing to work for peanuts" is not a skill.
Shabana Mahmood was right to try to push back five years.
Burnham is folding on this.
I have no doubt this is the system working as intended.
When I used to commute to work, I would avidly read City AM which was edited by Allister Heath before he went mad.
Heath pointed out many of the subsequent failings of Osbornomics including keeping QE going for far too long as a form of financial methodone for the City.
I've had the opportunity to re-acquaint and the City Editor seems to be one Simon Hunt. He was fulsome in his praise for Kemi Badenoch earlier in the week after she presented an outline of the proposed City and Business policy.
Today, after once again slamming the Triple Lock and we all know there's the economic argument and the political argument at work, he also contributed a fascinating article in support of Land Value Taxation. I really hope someone in Sir Ed Davey's team reads this and runs with it - LVT has been a Liberal policy for decades and Hunt sets out a strong argument in favour.
https://www.cityam.com/we-should-all-get-behind-this-wealth-tax/
LVT would replace BOTH stamp duty AND Council Tax. Yes, there will be winners and losers and the losers will shout loudest (as they always do) but there are strong arguments in favour of this approach.