I suspect some of those who laughed at the UK joining the CPTPP won't be laughing any more if that happens. (View Post)

To respond to your edit the issue is supply and demand. A higher NMW might incentivise more supply, however if it results in less demand then the result is unemployment. Unemployment is the result of… (View Post)

Not only that but at a time of a crisis in youth unemployment, the most recent announcement included a bigger percentage rise in the youth rate than in the older one. When the inverse would have been… (View Post)

Unemployment at a 5 year high today. Gee, who could have thought that jacking up taxes on employment at the same time as employment costs rise could have led to unemployment? Not the morons in Downin… (View Post)

No, it works wonders if you are only interested in plausible deniability, for your own career. To run anything at all well, including a department, requires an entirely different attitude. (View Post)