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what happens when some dont want to be educated, just as they dont want to work. carrots are all nice, sometimes you need some stick. too much pandering has left many without sense of respect and responsibility. all work is meaningful otherwise no one would want it done.

the real question is do they know what they are?

of course they mean annually. £10m is hardly extreme, that's a successful business, probably take in a lot of GP partnerships, housing associations, a lot of charities (save tax on profits but have a lot of assets). imagine what 2% yearly tax on BHAFC will do to their finance to put into...

what's really a fallacy is the concept of comprehensive education being some uniform experience. in reality you get streamed and once set on a path very difficult to move between streams unless there is a genuine mis-assessment of ability, and the kid and parents make the effort to catch up...

funny how some people go to so much length to discredit a technology that may be the only feasible way to achieve net zero. it's as if they dont want that to work and have another agenda.

it is a conincidence. that funding is over 25 years and was mostly already planned. makes use of the old oil and gas fields, creates a new industry, actual does something useful towards delivering net zero carbon.

what are the hard economic decisions we keep getting told about? thats the langauge of austerity 14 yrs ago. i'm pretty sure the election pitch was a plan to increase growth, which increase money available to spend and improve services. the tough decisions would be allowing development and...

until they want to spend their money. at which point it comes into the country and gets taxed. not a lot to spend money on in Jersey, Cayman etc, other than reinvest into something else.

or, 3) lazy journo's dont look into much these days, until someone starts making a fuss. then they'll be all over it like proverbial flys. it's odd this story flares up now, with only references in the past few days, now Robert Peston on it... just as we have Labour party's conference.

it shows he's unpopular, not a disaster. not much of anything has gone wrong in past 3 months, except Labours PR department. maybe trying looking in colour?

defined benefit in public sector will usually be better than most in private. people dont appreciate the employer contributions paid on their behalf, and the security of these schemes. have to be in large multi-nationals to get anything comparible, smaller business until recently often had...

wouldn't that make their training take longer, to cover similar experience? they are paid additional for those hours too, the dispute mis-represented that, giving the first year basic pay without the shift and unsocial hours extras. and they go in eyes wide open, with ambitions of several...

one place might be around the number of for poverty or absolute poverty, 60% or 40% of median earnings. would pay out somewhere bewteen 15-20k. though such a target would highlight state pension is quite a way below that. the main problem is no system to check, have to do some claim with...

1920's Germany, Argentina on and off past 50 years, '00's Zimbabwe, Venezuela past decade or so. it's so frequently demostrated that loose monetry policy trashes currency value it's comical to pretend otherwise. there is no infinite money glitch without screwing the economy. fortunatly we...

that would be when we were on the gold standard. tell us how the Victorian Exchequer created money, did they grow it or transmute it from finest Green? :moo:

it goes to the heart of our welfare state not to do means test. we dont like it, stigma apparently, though people actually needing benefits seem happily enough to claim. except perhaps that older generation most affected by this policy. either way, this is highlighting there isn't a practical...

pretty sure that's the root of this. having chosen the strategy and set out their narrative, picked the wrong battle, and then stuck with it to avoid early claims of a u-turn. i still half expect them to turn about on it and introduce some higher threshold at least, but there's no easy way to...

i did when checking on the points forming the black hole. they cite the IFS with an estimated 10-20bn hole by end of the parliament, which is largely made from the pay awards. there was no expectation of these large pay awards in the 2021 spending review, because there was underestimated...

dont think it's semantics, it's different policies. the claimed budget black hole is comprised of the Home Office not accouting for asylum processing cost, a public sector pay settlement above 2% and a bunch of minor transport and other costs. the Consevatives were fudging the asylum costs...

those choices and others (e.g. employers NI, pension relief) are still to come. that's what makes WFP so odd to lead with, and doesn't even raise much on it's own.