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)

Satellite photos show that Russia has pulled most of the tanks out of the military bases in the east. I suspect the only actual defences in place are a token infantry presence and the threat of nucle… (View Post)

If the government is paying then the VAT comes straight back into government coffers anyway though. The Treasury isn’t going to care whether they pay VAT on things, although individual government dep… (View Post)