The greatest (most awful?) irony of the whole thing is that they could have spent that money on processing the asylum backlog, let those who were given asylum into the workforce & filled the jobs… (View Post)

As we build out grid connections for EV charging to car parks, hooking up solar becomes a no brainer as well. (View Post)

Personally I’m a VAT supremacist, so this is grist to the mill. VAT on everything! (View Post)

The problem is that they /have/ moved to the private sector - the NHS has something like 100k unfilled jobs, current teacher recruitment in secondary schools is running ~50% below the target. At some… (View Post)

£29k is very close to the median pension for a couple in this country: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/pensioners-incomes-financial-years-ending-1995-to-2023/pensioners-incomes-financial-yea… (View Post)