The crises at OFSTED continue to mount, as inspectors threaten to walk out over the rushed training regime for the new inspection system which is being implemented earlier than planned (and for which… (View Post)

A sane budget would of course abolish NI and instead split the tax between higher income tax and higher corporation tax. I'll believe that will happen when I see a pig flying over Cannock Chase. (View Post)

I think a lot of them will probably be glad of an excuse to quit, from what I've seen. I don't think there would be quite so much resentment around this extra training if they weren't … (View Post)

I had a friend called Claude once. Well, actually, his name was Eric Bottom. But he once tried a lion tamer's job, for a dare, and wasn't exactly a success (although he survived). So foreve… (View Post)

If they really wanted to help small owner owned businesses raising the VAT threshold to say - £400,000 turnover would be a good start. (View Post)