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Some Cambridge type has seemingly come up with 300k charging in 5 minutes.
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Lord call me Dave having a good week firstly praising
China, and now seeking to sidle up to EU https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/24/foreign-secretary-says-uk-friend-neighbour-ukraine/ Britain needs closer ties with the European Union and should work more closely with Brussels on international and defence policy, David Cameron has said. The Foreign Secretary called the bloc “a friend, a neighbour and partner” as he hailed support for Ukraine as an example of cooperation between the Government and Brussels. But Lord Cameron faced an immediate backlash from some Conservative MPs |
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Professor Johnathon Portes has published a report showing
that while non-EU migrants into the country raise productivity - the opposite is true for migrants from the EU The most obvious explanation is that recent non EU origin migrants are more highly skilled / highly paid and more productive than EU origin migrants If the results continue to hold this would appear to justify the rationale for the new system which ends free movement |
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British business is addicted to a constant supply of cheap labour.
They have created the housing crisis, NHS waiting lists & the pensions timebomb. |
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Plenty of houses in my estate agents window , Nobby.
It is the tories fault to the extent that the NHS looks after us too well - we are living longer - creating the pension problem. (Don't forget Gordon Brown effectively ended the final salary pension scheme for millions with his stealth tax on pension pots - unforgivable - oh and he had blown the lot by the time he was booted out !) The Tories have given the lowest paid a 20% wage increase over 2 years, obviously costing big business billions , wealth shifted into the hands of the lower paid. |
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Don't forget Gordon Brown effectively ended the final salary pension scheme for millions with his stealth tax on pension pots
The majority of FS scheme investments are in bonds, unaffected by the ACT change whose effect has been grossly exaggerated. Also Brown introduced the pension protection fund, without which, hundreds of thousands would have lost their pensions due to inadequate thatcher era regulation. |
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Anyone who thinks there isn't a housing crisis should go and try to rent a house or a flat. They'll find there any decent properties are prohibitively expensive and they all are very insecure.
It should be possible to be a waitress or a check-out worker and be able to rent a good property and still have some money each week to live on. |
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Ros Altman - clearly thinks Gordon Brown is to blame Dave , and I agree with her.
https://pensionsandsavings.com/pensions-tax-relief-changes-legacy-of-gordon-browns-pension-raid-should-be-a-warning-to-the-new-chancellor/ . |
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Maybe the problem is that too many people don't have the skills that employers are willing to pay for ? - just a thought...
Easier to blame everybody else though. |
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Maybe the problem is that too many people don't have the skills that employers are willing to pay for ? - just a thought...
You are dead right!! We need to sack whoever has been in charge of education and vocational training for the past decade. The Tories have had 10 secretaries of state for education in 13 years. The list reads like a roll call of village idiots. |
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ros altman is and always has been a PR woman. As I said the "tax raid" didn't effect bonds (was accompanied by a corporation tax cut) and was an additional subsidy to the tax reliefs on contributions that the tories have always hated.
The major cause of the demise of FS schemes was the disappearance of the large industrial employer. All "grouped" pension schemes are somewhat ponzi-ish and unless the number of active employee members at least stays the same, the number deferred/retirees begins to rapidly spiral into a hugely disproportionate liability that can be enormously volatile as interest rates change. The reduction in trades union influence in the workplace has allowed newer companies to avoid guaranteed schemes and replace them with inferior simple contributory ones avoiding future risks and liabilities. |
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"Initially, this wasn’t a problem. Booming stock markets in the 1990s led to even fatter pension fund surpluses and this proved an irresistible target for the Blairite government that came to power in 1997. The chancellor, Gordon Brown, abolished substantial tax relief on dividends that pension funds received on their investments.
The financial effect of this tax snatch was colossal. It was estimated that the loss of this tax relief had extracted, in total, over £118 billion of income by 2014. If this lost income had been even conservatively invested, pension funds may have benefited by an additional £230 billion." https://theconversation.com/britains-great-pension-robbery-why-the-defined-benefits-gold-standard-is-a-luxury-of-the-past-100844 . |
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That article has a list of factors of which the act change was one (also figures [of dubious source] quoted were from all pension funds, not just FS)
However over all this - it was taxpayers money - the lolirony of right wingers whining about taxpayers subsidising pension funds. |
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Maybe the problem is that too many people don't have the skills that employers are willing to pay for ? - just a thought...
Yeah, Training staff seems to be a thing of the past if you can import them ready trained. |
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One also wonders where tax relief goes when
it is disallowed... Tory donors pockets perchance? |
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Sit 3 million brits on their arses watchin
Jeremy Kyle whilst 3 million Johnny foreigners seemlessly fill job vacancies being well educated and job trained. |
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If you have the pick of millions of people from
all parts of the world who wish to come to England to live and work .. that is an inevitable consequence .. think of it as the Football premier league |
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think of it as the Football premier league
What a w4nker. We are importing hospital porters and care home workers not world class strikers. |
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Are we indeed? If that is the case, there must be ten million care home workers and hospital porters by now, yet we still need more.
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U.K. overtakes US in attracting global talent
says OECD report .. The U.K. has a long history of attracting highly skilled workers However the OECD report cites changes made to the UKs migration regime after Brexit as the main driver behind the country’s rise up the rankings Little noblets confused … again |
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Are we indeed? If that is the case, there must be ten million care home workers and hospital porters by now, yet we still need more. They arrive on visas for care workers, work for a week or two, then move on to better paid work. This is what happens when your government is incompetent. |
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Eastbourne Adolf
Little noblets confused … again ‘Skilled Worker’ visas have only seen a 9% increase in the past year (+9 per cent) however ‘Skilled Worker – Health and Care’ visa grants have more than doubled (+135 per cent) to 143,990. I'd say you were confused but I don't think even you believe the sh!te you post on this forum. |
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^ qed. little noblets still confused
It like trying to explain things to a child Skilled people such as Eric Haaland and others are a rare thing The U.K. overtakes US in attracting global talent .. |
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It's OUR government nobby, not just mine as I didn't vote for them either. "Incompetent"? I don't dispute that, all governments are incompetent to a greater or lesser extent, and get worse as time progresses.
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The U.K. overtakes US in attracting global talent
As Adolf, with all this global talent do tell us what the UK leads the world in? |
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UK’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal worth even less than previously thought, OBR says
Office for Budget Responsibility says UK entry into the Indo-Pacific agreement will add just 0.04% to GDP in the long run The UK’s flagship trans-Pacific trade deal, which was presented as a cornerstone of post-Brexit “global Britain”, will deliver even less benefit to the economy than the tiny uplift that was previously predicted, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility. |
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Very high immigration rates ,housing crisis ,ridiculous levels of wokery..........Brexit Britain.
Eire actually and still in the EU ,last time I checked. |
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£29.5 billion vote of confidence in Brexit Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67538837 . |
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Remainers in tears again , poor lambs
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Eire actually and still in the EU ,last time I checked.
They’ll be forming their own political parties next. I expect it to happen in England first. They only have to take over the Labour party and they're well into doing that already. |
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£29.5 billion vote of confidence in Brexit Britain.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67538837 .. What is he selling them, Nat West, buck palace battery factories... |
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt's plan to sell off NatWest shares
'could cost taxpayers £28bn' Daily fail Remarkably close numbers. |
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yhtl how can you comment of the economy when you haven't seen the books?
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Lol, that's why I'm asking what is he actually selling
Are you a complete idiot as well as being a stalker. |
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Johnny The Guesser • November 27, 2023 8:39 AM GMT
£29.5 billion vote of confidence in Brexit Britain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67538837 cool - that would be claw us back to ~£40bn disinvestment in 2023 |
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Britain’s growth outlook is ‘worst I’ve ever seen’, says Andrew Bailey.
Bank of England’s forecasts indicate economy will barely grow over next two years |
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But of course things in the EU are even worse which is why they are scratching around for a way to persuade UK to rejoin. Ursula was at it again yesterday and many EU business owners are really getting angry about the barriers to trade with UK. They want our money. First our contribution to their awful overspending gap and second to buy their goods. French traders are angry about the 90 day rule so it is being dumped. Apparently UK home owners have been leaving France in droves. Meanwhile Holland will be leaving EU soon. We don't need to be members, just ask for a free trade deal that suits us as much as them.
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Meanwhile Holland will be leaving EU soon
What is it going to use for money? |
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More interesting to me ,would be the new members they may decide to assimilate and their obvious problems and impacts:
Kosovo ,Serbia ,North Macedonia ,Montenegro ,Moldova........and the two wild cards Ukraine ,which would totally destroy the current ludicrous ,(CAP) common agricultural policy.......and Turkey ,currently holding back 4.5 million migrants at a price 6BN euro The irony of Europe flooded by Albanians not as unwelcome illegal economic migrants......but as bonafide EU citizens immediately entitled to be housed and to claim benefits may prove amusing. |
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Leaving the euro would be a titanic task and very costly as they would be taking on a huge chunk of debt. Varoufakis proposed creating a digital currency to run alongside the euro when he threatened to extricate Greece. The Netherlands would have to do something similar that might be easier these days since cash is almost dead.
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