Two Tier Kier setting out the pain that is coming.......................

[sportsbob]

13 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:

I understand the Exchequer may be wrong above;

It seems according to one of her former superiors (during her time at HBOS) that she was "a relatively junior 'complaints support manager' who worked 'three levels below me'. He then made a more troublesome claim: that the Chancellor had 'nearly got sacked due to an expenses scandal' before landing herself in a sticky spot with the HR department for taking lots of time off for 'doctors/dentists visits'.  'Turns out she was doing Labour council business,' he wrote. 'When shown the facts, she resigned.' "

The 10 years she claims she worked for the Bank of England was also not correct.  She actually joined the Bank on its graduate trainee scheme, rather than as an 'economist' and spent about five (rather than ten) full years working there, while also taking 12 months out to study for an MA in economics from the LSE, and spending a year on 'secondment' at the British Embassy in Washington. 

I believe you are correct regarding the 'complaints support manager, I have seen a screenshot of the relevant email myself.

[hawkfanz]

On 19/11/2024 at 19:41, oowee said:

I think most of us on here care deeply for the environment within which we live. Unfortunately as humans we struggle to control our consumption given the chance. How many of us can say I wont take that holiday, buy that car, get a bigger house etc if the money is available. We are programmed to want more and more it's in the dna. Ultimately we have to live within one world and must limit consumption accordingly. How we do that I have no idea. None of us vote for less. 

The most obvious way, I guess is we do nothing. We wait for the famine, the war or whatever it may be to moderate our excess. 

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

[amateur]

55 minutes ago, hawkfanz said:

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

Ditto, except 35 years for the house, enjoy modest European holidays and I would have been quite happy driving around in my perfectly sound 14 year old diesel car, had not that tit Khan decided that it was a polluter, Labour having promoted diesels before, so now I'm in an electric.

[JohnfromUK]

1 hour ago, hawkfanz said:

me

 

ME ..ive lived in same house for 40 years no holiday since 2006,my car ive had for 12 years,

37 years in the house, recently changed car - but had previous one for 15 years and hope this one will do the same.  Had my Defender 29 years.  Not 'holidayed' outside UK for 36 years.  Not flown (other than as required for business before I retired) for 35 years.   Installed one of the very first condensing boilers in the UK 38 years ago and ran for 31 years.

One of the best environmental measures you can take is to make things last.

[JohnfromUK]

20 hours ago, sportsbob said:

I believe you are correct regarding the 'complaints support manager, I have seen a screenshot of the relevant email myself.

I think this may be the screenshot to which you refer.  I can't vouch for it's authenticity.

[mel b3]

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Gordon Bennett, very glad I had eaten before I saw that. YUK!

[Weihrauch17]

8 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

LOL!

[amateur]

9 minutes ago, mel b3 said:

I thought that it looked more like Diane Abbott

[mel b3]

4 hours ago, amateur said:

I thought that it looked more like Diane Abbott

I have the answer to that one , but I can't say it or I'll get banned 😄.

[JohnfromUK]

And here comes the standard and expected rising unemployment under Labour

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14122445/Businesses-war-Labour-Half-CBI-members-looking-cut-jobs-monster-Budget-tax-raid-Rachel-Reeves-tell-conference-TODAY-no-alternative.html

They will never learn that raising taxes and spending cuts jobs, stokes inflation and stifles growth.

[mel b3]

21 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

Gordon Bennett, very glad I had eaten before I saw that. YUK!

You'd be on that faster than ditchman dave 😄

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Just now, mel b3 said:

You'd be on that faster than ditchman dave 😄

You speak with forked tongue.  

[JohnfromUK]

[Mungler]

On 30/10/2024 at 18:13, Mungler said:

 

Gents, you know it.

Quasi on telly just now nailed it - they won’t get the growth they’re banking on and in two or three years time they will need to come back for more tax. This is just the start. 

And so that’s me calling ‘house’ all predictions fulfilled. 

[old man]

Don't worry, Diane, Kwazi and Liz now called in for specialist advice on how to turn catastrophe into disaster?

[Mungler]

4 minutes ago, old man said:

Don't worry, Diane, Kwazi and Liz now called in for specialist advice on how to turn catastrophe into disaster?

Liz and Kwazi actually had the right idea, but the rug pulled under from them.

Growth is everything.

[old man]

4 minutes ago, Mungler said:

Liz and Kwazi actually had the right idea, but the rug pulled under from them.

Growth is everything.

Not clever enough to discuss your point, all I was told was of the tanked economy.

[Gordon R]

Never thought Labour would sink so fast and as badly. I would be hard pressed to think of anything they have actually achieved.

Aside from stopping Channel crossings, cutting hospital waiting lists, smashing immigration gangs and deporting thousands of criminals, other successes elude me.

[stumfelter]

I'm not surprised about the impending tax rises, somebody's got to pay for the four star hotel residents.

[Newbie to this]

4 minutes ago, stumfelter said:

I'm not surprised about the impending tax rises, somebody's got to pay for the four star hotel residents.

Agreed  but it's more do do with paying for all that covid money, furlough etc. not to mention all the inflation (inducing) busting, public sector pay rises.

[Mungler]

The weird thing is, is that if everyone who reads a news paper or runs a business could predict (with accuracy) the predictable disaster that was inevitably going to follow the budget, then how could no one else see it in the cabinet? If they are that stupid and inept then we’re in serious trouble.

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, It is not going to stop there, The CBI say many many small businesses will suffer due to the NI extra cost, A Young lady cafe owner on the news said will not replace someone leaving, Multiply that across the UK and see the Unemployment rise, note i bet all the Labour MPs are getting all their expenses sorted, will have to see what Starmer and Reeves net worth will be after 5 years??

Edited Monday at 19:32 by oldypigeonpopper

[Mungler]

1 minute ago, oldypigeonpopper said:

Hello, It is not going to stop there, The CBI say many many small businesses will suffer due to the NI extra cost, A Young lady cafe owner on the news said will not replace someone leaving, Multiply that across the UK and see the Unemployment rise

Just chatting to a farmer.

He said the same - power cuts and unemployment by the time their term is out.

[oldypigeonpopper]

3 minutes ago, Mungler said:

Just chatting to a farmer.

He said the same - power cuts and unemployment by the time their term is out.

Hello, That sounds about right in my thoughts to, 3 Day Week ??