UK VIII: Testing Times

[CMcK]

Apparently we have the guts to make the UK a high wage society,

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58810781

ts amazing how barefaced this what-if-ism is, Ive said it before and i will say it again the "I've got mine" attitude is whats keeping the Torys in power. The people at the bottom being sold a myth that every single one of them can also get theirs is what their trying to sell here.

Their not talking about raising the wage of non skilled labour so how dose say a supermarket worker get the guts to get his high wage, The only way to level up that job is into management or a supervisor role and you cant suddenly make every entry level person in the UK a supervisor as you will always need more people to stack shelves work warehouse and work checkouts than supervisors and managers its how that kind of business works.

That’s the American Dream (tm) repackaged for Northern England. I’ve seen less transparent windows.

[Cassius_Smoke]

High wage, low tax economy...

Public sector is still on a pay freeze
New NI tax has been introduced

[Neon Ignition]

Golden nugget moment:

Boris Johnson delivering a speech in Manchester justifying a scenario where the Government effectively surrenders responsibility for its decisions leading families to not be able to feed their children or pay to keep a roof over their heads by shifting the weight of responsibility to employers and the public to pursue imaginary high rate salary roles and to illustrate his point directly states that it's the right thing to do because it is true to the approach, decision making and ethos of Margaret Thatcher.

Wow... just... Wow.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Intel have chosen not to open a manufacturing plant in the UK because of Brexit.

[Asura]

Intel have chosen not to open a manufacturing plant in the UK because of Brexit.

Nah, but I bet they're going to open a small business, slightly higher than the square footage necessary for some kind of threshold. Just in case we become a tax haven. Which I'm pretty sure we will.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Council tax set to rise. So that ticks the box of a low tax country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58822666

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/oct/07/uk-energy-bills-could-rise-30-in-2022-warn-analysts

Energy prices are set to continue to rise sharply in 2022 for consumers

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/oct/07/russia-nord-stream-2-gas-energy-uk-house-prices-markets-ftse-business-live?page=with:block-615ec5538f08de9fa77849d3#block-615ec5538f08de9fa77849d3

Whilst the Government is committed to letting more energy firms collapse

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/07/nord-stream-2-approval-may-cool-gas-prices-europe-russia

And Russia moves in to capitalise on the situation

[Lebowski]

A predicted 30% raise in energy prices for the uk consumer, a new a national insurance tax and a council tax Hike, the HGV shortage causing petrol and food shortages and pushing up the price of goods all on top of stagnant wages, the end of 2021 is looking pretty bleak.

If anything positive is gonna come out of this its that the UK public might finally wake up when the real hardship hits us square on the Jaw, its not just going to affect low paid workers but has the potential to cause middle earners to question why they have so much less money than they did 2 years ago as well, hopefully more people will start looking into why.

[Asura]

A predicted 30% raise in energy prices for the uk consumer, a new a national insurance tax and a council tax Hike, the HGV shortage causing petrol and food shortages and pushing up the price of goods all on top of stagnant wages, the end of 2021 is looking pretty bleak.

If anything positive is gonna come out of this its that the UK public might finally wake up when the real hardship hits us square on the Jaw, its not just going to affect low paid workers but has the potential to cause middle earners to question why they have so much less money than they did 2 years ago as well, hopefully more people will start looking into why.

Those damn Eurocrats!

->Open Spoiler<-

[Neon Ignition]

It's been a rough week but at least COVID is a bright spot in the news

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Vaccination programme close to stalling and cases return to above 40,000

Oh...

[Cassius_Smoke]

Discovered this, which is both important and worth a read through.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_named_in_the_Pandora_Papers

(Former) Heads of Government

Tony Blair (also Cherie Blair)

Ministers

Jonathan Aitken

Legislators

The Lord Deighton

Politicians

Ben Elliot

Patrick Robertson

Relatives of Government Officials

Helena de Chair (Jacob Rees-Mogg's wife)

Businesspeople (Donors to parties)

Alexnader Temerko

Mohamed Amersi

Lubov Chernukhin


All, except Blair, are donors for the Tory party.

[fishbowlhead]

Golden nugget moment:

Boris Johnson delivering a speech in Manchester justifying a scenario where the Government effectively surrenders responsibility for its decisions leading families to not be able to feed their children or pay to keep a roof over their heads by shifting the weight of responsibility to employers and the public to pursue imaginary high rate salary roles and to illustrate his point directly states that it's the right thing to do because it is true to the approach, decision making and ethos of Margaret Thatcher.

Wow... just... Wow.

Ok as an employer i’d like to make a statement directly to Boris.

F off you useless waste of oxygen.


End of statement.

[fishbowlhead]

Intel have chosen not to open a manufacturing plant in the UK because of Brexit.

Obviously. They wouldn’t of bothered anyway unless give massive tax breaks.

[Neon Ignition]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akgxm5/bbc-expected-to-quit-stonewalls-lgbtq-diversity-programme

The BBC is expected to pull out of a major Stonewall programme as it repositions itself to drop a pro-LGBTQ stance and instead move to a supposed neutral stance on the subject

[Brad]

That’s like dropping a marketing company. It doesn’t mean you stop marketing. They might not like the way stonewall operates, or think it’s poor value for money. Of course the click bait headline wants to imply that bbc don’t care about LGBT matters.