Precisely! Saying the employee doesn't pay employers national insurance is as intellectually dishonest as claiming that a driver doesn't pay fuel duty, they just pay the price per litre at … (View Post)

Yes they do. They pay for it in recuced wages as it comes out of their wage budget. To claim otherwise is dishonesty, pure and simple. (View Post)

Employers NI is income tax, no real difference whatsoever. Employers account for it in their budgeting, if it wasn't there then they could afford higher wages. (View Post)

The notion of McDonnell being in the Treasury last year is absolutely horrific. Forget business support, he'd have happily let the economy fail and nationalised the whole bloody country instead. (View Post)

I think there's about a 30% chance that by 2024 the UK is actually ahead of where we would have been otherwise. Strong momentum continuing, plus trillions of fiscal expenditure globally, plus in… (View Post)