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Post by bathstoke on Mar 11, 2020 21:27:08 GMT
So an economy where stacked against the least well off, where the employer has his boot on the throat of his sweat is something to be celebrated? This was raised in PMQ's today This is not full employment, it is pure exploitation. Momo my step grand daughter is a health care worker on zero hours contract. However she loves it because she gets as many hours as she wants sometimes having to turn down work. On average she works 52 hours a week but could get many more if she wanted them. How does that fit with "exploitation"? You tell me, thats completely subjective.
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 11, 2020 23:40:13 GMT
I still cannot believe that Rishi read out John McDonnells budget! 🤯
As a centre left leaning liberal snowflake I tip my hat to a Tory Chancellor - fantastic speech and well delivered; someone should get onto Yorkshire Tea see if they need a new 'face' for the brand.
The devil will of course be in the detail and the hypocrisy of the cheering benches for the eye watering sums of borrowing after 10 years of cheering for eye watering levels of austerity certainly will not be forgotten.
Another special mention to Mark Carney aswell, really disappointing that he will be leaving the BOE.
However for less than 30 days in the job that was a fantastic start for Sunak very much an unconservative conservative.
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 11, 2020 23:45:48 GMT
So an economy where stacked against the least well off, where the employer has his boot on the throat of his sweat is something to be celebrated? This was raised in PMQ's today This is not full employment, it is pure exploitation. Momo my step grand daughter is a health care worker on zero hours contract. However she loves it because she gets as many hours as she wants sometimes having to turn down work. On average she works 52 hours a week but could get many more if she wanted them. How does that fit with "exploitation"? There will always be exceptions to the rule. If you asked 100 people on a zero hours contact who would rather be on fixed hours or casual the overwhelming majority would want the security. I actually agree with your grand-daughters position the flexibility for some is a huge benefit and dont believe they should be scraped in full as they do benefit a small % of the population. However they should should be - as I described before - the exception and not the rule.
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Post by bathstoke on Mar 12, 2020 8:09:15 GMT
I still cannot believe that Rishi read out John McDonnells budget! 🤯 As a centre left leaning liberal snowflake I tip my hat to a Tory Chancellor - fantastic speech and well delivered; someone should get onto Yorkshire Tea see if they need a new 'face' for the brand. The devil will of course be in the detail and the hypocrisy of the cheering benches for the eye watering sums of borrowing after 10 years of cheering for eye watering levels of austerity certainly will not be forgotten. Another special mention to Mark Carney aswell, really disappointing that he will be leaving the BOE. However for less than 30 days in the job that was a fantastic start for Sunak very much an unconservative conservative. Yet not one of the filthy rags has cried ruin... it’s almost like the media are in the Torys pockets. I’d say it’s like a totalitarian propaganda machine, but they’re too much of a shambles. Shambles: A yard for slaughtering animals...
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 12, 2020 10:42:09 GMT
Momo my step grand daughter is a health care worker on zero hours contract. However she loves it because she gets as many hours as she wants sometimes having to turn down work. On average she works 52 hours a week but could get many more if she wanted them. How does that fit with "exploitation"? There will always be exceptions to the rule. If you asked 100 people on a zero hours contact who would rather be on fixed hours or casual the overwhelming majority would want the security. I actually agree with your grand-daughters position the flexibility for some is a huge benefit and dont believe they should be scraped in full as they do benefit a small % of the population. However they should should be - as I described before - the exception and not the rule. Actually thats not true read the Taylor report, 68% of the people who expressed a view on their hours didnt want more, even with people who didnt mention hours taken into account it was 58% and since then the % figures are thought to have increased. The reason being it suits their lives and gives them flexibility.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 10:50:05 GMT
I still cannot believe that Rishi read out John McDonnells budget! 🤯 As a centre left leaning liberal snowflake I tip my hat to a Tory Chancellor - fantastic speech and well delivered; someone should get onto Yorkshire Tea see if they need a new 'face' for the brand. The devil will of course be in the detail and the hypocrisy of the cheering benches for the eye watering sums of borrowing after 10 years of cheering for eye watering levels of austerity certainly will not be forgotten. Another special mention to Mark Carney aswell, really disappointing that he will be leaving the BOE. However for less than 30 days in the job that was a fantastic start for Sunak very much an unconservative conservative. I'd like to know why Sunak and the government think that now is the right time to deliver a high spend\high borrowing budget when the details of Brexit have yet to be understood. Surely he could have implemented a safe solid budget to see us through the next 12\18 months and the reappraise the situation once we know the outcome of Brexit negotiations. However, the big difference to yesterday's budget and the Labour budgets under Blair and Brown is that we may see a better return on infrastructure and business spending than we did on giving away big fat pay increases for public sector workers and those on benefits. If there's one thing austerity has done it's proven that much of Brown's spending on the public sector was unnecessary and a complete fucking waste. It seems that governments with big majorities just can't resist the temptation of spending too much.
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Mar 12, 2020 11:47:01 GMT
I still cannot believe that Rishi read out John McDonnells budget! 🤯 As a centre left leaning liberal snowflake I tip my hat to a Tory Chancellor - fantastic speech and well delivered; someone should get onto Yorkshire Tea see if they need a new 'face' for the brand. The devil will of course be in the detail and the hypocrisy of the cheering benches for the eye watering sums of borrowing after 10 years of cheering for eye watering levels of austerity certainly will not be forgotten. Another special mention to Mark Carney aswell, really disappointing that he will be leaving the BOE. However for less than 30 days in the job that was a fantastic start for Sunak very much an unconservative conservative. I'd like to know why Sunak and the government think that now is the right time to deliver a high spend\high borrowing budget when the details of Brexit have yet to be understood. Surely he could have implemented a safe solid budget to see us through the next 12\18 months and the reappraise the situation once we know the outcome of Brexit negotiations. However, the big difference to yesterday's budget and the Labour budgets under Blair and Brown is that we may see a better return on infrastructure and business spending than we did on giving away big fat pay increases for public sector workers and those on benefits. If there's one thing austerity has done it's proven that much of Brown's spending on the public sector was unnecessary and a complete fucking waste. It seems that governments with big majorities just can't resist the temptation of spending too much. I think it is dawning on a few people that Boris intends to use the post Brexit era as a new start for the UK, a defining moment in history...in one sense NOW BREXIT IS DONE , LET'S MOVE ON....." here's my new vision for Britain".....Now I can understand people saying " We're not sure what's going to happen"....but that isn't necessarily the time to be cautious....a bold, optimistic vision and leadership is needed.....the future cannot be predicted but we can shape it by what we do and say NOW, Who would or could have predicted the impact of the Coronavirus? And while Boris is " getting Brexit done" and getting on with it, Labour are, in my opinion, giving the impression of a drab , backward, moaning , sideline party. They are still debating Brexit, wondering what they should do in general, seem to have spent a month discussing how men are actually women, McDonnell was on the radio this morning saying how this budget is simply a partial nod to putting right 10 years of Austerity....what he simply does not seem to get...HE MAY WELL BE RIGHT , but people don't want to win a retrospective ideological battle, they just want to get on with it , as things are now, post Brexit. The Labour party and the current crop of non entity politicians have badly misled and let down the working class...it is Labour who could have had the opportunity to deliver a post Brexit" vision for Britain"..along the lines of the Atlee post war reforming government....but they really did not have the courage or conviction....I even doubt that they would have given us as much a " socialist " budget as Sunak has.
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 12, 2020 12:58:56 GMT
I'd like to know why Sunak and the government think that now is the right time to deliver a high spend\high borrowing budget when the details of Brexit have yet to be understood. Surely he could have implemented a safe solid budget to see us through the next 12\18 months and the reappraise the situation once we know the outcome of Brexit negotiations. However, the big difference to yesterday's budget and the Labour budgets under Blair and Brown is that we may see a better return on infrastructure and business spending than we did on giving away big fat pay increases for public sector workers and those on benefits. If there's one thing austerity has done it's proven that much of Brown's spending on the public sector was unnecessary and a complete fucking waste. It seems that governments with big majorities just can't resist the temptation of spending too much. I think it is dawning on a few people that Boris intends to use the post Brexit era as a new start for the UK, a defining moment in history...in one sense NOW BREXIT IS DONE , LET'S MOVE ON....." here's my new vision for Britain".....Now I can understand people saying " We're not sure what's going to happen"....but that isn't necessarily the time to be cautious....a bold, optimistic vision and leadership is needed.....the future cannot be predicted but we can shape it by what we do and say NOW, Who would or could have predicted the impact of the Coronavirus? And while Boris is " getting Brexit done" and getting on with it, Labour are, in my opinion, giving the impression of a drab , backward, moaning , sideline party. They are still debating Brexit, wondering what they should do in general, seem to have spent a month discussing how men are actually women, McDonnell was on the radio this morning saying how this budget is simply a partial nod to putting right 10 years of Austerity....what he simply does not seem to get...HE MAY WELL BE RIGHT , but people don't want to win a retrospective ideological battle, they just want to get on with it , as things are now, post Brexit. The Labour party and the current crop of non entity politicians have badly misled and let down the working class...it is Labour who could have had the opportunity to deliver a post Brexit" vision for Britsin"..along the lines of the Atlee post war reforming government....but they really did not have the courage or conviction....I even doubt that they would have given us as much a " socialist " budget as Sunak has. I am a little confused a few weeks ago the government was the most hard right fascist government ever elected now apparently they are socialist :/) I think you are right boris, cummings and all have identified brexit as a step change moment, Labour are arguing over Tony Blair, self ID and gender fluidity.....
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Post by bathstoke on Mar 12, 2020 13:01:53 GMT
I'd like to know why Sunak and the government think that now is the right time to deliver a high spend\high borrowing budget when the details of Brexit have yet to be understood. Surely he could have implemented a safe solid budget to see us through the next 12\18 months and the reappraise the situation once we know the outcome of Brexit negotiations. However, the big difference to yesterday's budget and the Labour budgets under Blair and Brown is that we may see a better return on infrastructure and business spending than we did on giving away big fat pay increases for public sector workers and those on benefits. If there's one thing austerity has done it's proven that much of Brown's spending on the public sector was unnecessary and a complete fucking waste. It seems that governments with big majorities just can't resist the temptation of spending too much. I think it is dawning on a few people that Boris intends to use the post Brexit era as a new start for the UK, a defining moment in history...in one sense NOW BREXIT IS DONE , LET'S MOVE ON....." here's my new vision for Britain".....Now I can understand people saying " We're not sure what's going to happen"....but that isn't necessarily the time to be cautious....a bold, optimistic vision and leadership is needed.....the future cannot be predicted but we can shape it by what we do and say NOW, Who would or could have predicted the impact of the Coronavirus? And while Boris is " getting Brexit done" and getting on with it, Labour are, in my opinion, giving the impression of a drab , backward, moaning , sideline party. They are still debating Brexit, wondering what they should do in general, seem to have spent a month discussing how men are actually women, McDonnell was on the radio this morning saying how this budget is simply a partial nod to putting right 10 years of Austerity....what he simply does not seem to get...HE MAY WELL BE RIGHT , but people don't want to win a retrospective ideological battle, they just want to get on with it , as things are now, post Brexit. The Labour party and the current crop of non entity politicians have badly misled and let down the working class...it is Labour who could have had the opportunity to deliver a post Brexit" vision for Britsin"..along the lines of the Atlee post war reforming government....but they really did not have the courage or conviction....I even doubt that they would have given us as much a " socialist " budget as Sunak has. Who made you spokesman!?!
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Post by bigjohnritchie on Mar 12, 2020 13:28:46 GMT
I think it is dawning on a few people that Boris intends to use the post Brexit era as a new start for the UK, a defining moment in history...in one sense NOW BREXIT IS DONE , LET'S MOVE ON....." here's my new vision for Britain".....Now I can understand people saying " We're not sure what's going to happen"....but that isn't necessarily the time to be cautious....a bold, optimistic vision and leadership is needed.....the future cannot be predicted but we can shape it by what we do and say NOW, Who would or could have predicted the impact of the Coronavirus? And while Boris is " getting Brexit done" and getting on with it, Labour are, in my opinion, giving the impression of a drab , backward, moaning , sideline party. They are still debating Brexit, wondering what they should do in general, seem to have spent a month discussing how men are actually women, McDonnell was on the radio this morning saying how this budget is simply a partial nod to putting right 10 years of Austerity....what he simply does not seem to get...HE MAY WELL BE RIGHT , but people don't want to win a retrospective ideological battle, they just want to get on with it , as things are now, post Brexit. The Labour party and the current crop of non entity politicians have badly misled and let down the working class...it is Labour who could have had the opportunity to deliver a post Brexit" vision for Britsin"..along the lines of the Atlee post war reforming government....but they really did not have the courage or conviction....I even doubt that they would have given us as much a " socialist " budget as Sunak has. Who made you spokesman!?! Diane Abbott asked me to say it, because she didn't want to say anything herself. Can we still say spokesman or should that be spokesperson?
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 12, 2020 15:23:18 GMT
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 12, 2020 16:07:18 GMT
Says the man who voted for free broadband Unless I missed it, most people are happy with the capital spending / investment that your article says is massively increased, 2.8% for day to day services seems reasonably the main complaint seems to be 10 years of slowing down the growth of public service spending is not being attempted to have been reversed in one budget which is just a bit of a weird argument as this has never been claimed.
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Post by mrcoke on Mar 12, 2020 16:51:03 GMT
I took over one business once that had large investment plans. When I closely examined what was proposed there was simply not the resources in terms of personnel and timescale in the business plan to implement what was proposed.
I think there is the same potential issue with the Chancellor's budget. For example it is one thing to say you are going to give MOT and local authorities loads of money to repair and improve roads, but there has to be the contract and supply resources existing to deliver the work. There are only so many aggregate plants, tar mcadam plants, ready mix concrete plants, and road repair companies. You can only shut down so much of the road system at any time. I'm not being negative just basing my view on 8 years working in the quarrying industry.
I think the government will actually struggle to increase the capital spending by the amount proposed. As pointed out above it is a lot harder to spend constructively than just throw loads of money into doctors and dentists pay and reducing the working week to 4 days.
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 12, 2020 16:55:59 GMT
I took over one business once that had large investment plans. When I closely examined what was proposed there was simply not the resources in terms of personnel and timescale in the business plan to implement what was proposed. I think there is the same potential issue with the Chancellor's budget. For example it is one thing to say you are going to give MOT and local authorities loads of money to repair and improve roads, but there has to be the contract and supply resources existing to deliver the work. There are only so many aggregate plants, tar mcadam plants, ready mix concrete plants, and road repair companies. You can only shut down so much of the road system at any time. I'm not being negative just basing my view on 8 years working in the quarrying industry. I think the government will actually struggle to increase the capital spending by the amount proposed. As pointed out above it is a lot harder to spend constructively than just throw loads of money into doctors and dentists pay and reducing the working week to 4 days. Agree with much of what you say but I think the point on resources is that most companies operate at little spare capacity after all who apart from Stoke City wants to pay people for doing nowt, if you give the funding to councils or whoever they then tender the contracts and firms source extra staff or materials as required.
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 12, 2020 18:33:06 GMT
There will always be exceptions to the rule. If you asked 100 people on a zero hours contact who would rather be on fixed hours or casual the overwhelming majority would want the security. I actually agree with your grand-daughters position the flexibility for some is a huge benefit and dont believe they should be scraped in full as they do benefit a small % of the population. However they should should be - as I described before - the exception and not the rule. Actually thats not true read the Taylor report, 68% of the people who expressed a view on their hours didnt want more, even with people who didnt mention hours taken into account it was 58% and since then the % figures are thought to have increased. The reason being it suits their lives and gives them flexibility. The Taylor Report is slightly misleading in that it is around 67% that stated that they did not want more hours. I feel the zero hour contract has been politicised and somewhat demonised and again I reiterate I don't feel they should be scrapped as I agree with the flexibility. However it does need looking at as I feel it should be an 'opt out' available to employee's rather than the default position of organisations of recruiting on the zero hour proviso.
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 12, 2020 18:37:24 GMT
I still cannot believe that Rishi read out John McDonnells budget! 🤯 As a centre left leaning liberal snowflake I tip my hat to a Tory Chancellor - fantastic speech and well delivered; someone should get onto Yorkshire Tea see if they need a new 'face' for the brand. The devil will of course be in the detail and the hypocrisy of the cheering benches for the eye watering sums of borrowing after 10 years of cheering for eye watering levels of austerity certainly will not be forgotten. Another special mention to Mark Carney aswell, really disappointing that he will be leaving the BOE. However for less than 30 days in the job that was a fantastic start for Sunak very much an unconservative conservative. I'd like to know why Sunak and the government think that now is the right time to deliver a high spend\high borrowing budget when the details of Brexit have yet to be understood. Surely he could have implemented a safe solid budget to see us through the next 12\18 months and the reappraise the situation once we know the outcome of Brexit negotiations. However, the big difference to yesterday's budget and the Labour budgets under Blair and Brown is that we may see a better return on infrastructure and business spending than we did on giving away big fat pay increases for public sector workers and those on benefits. If there's one thing austerity has done it's proven that much of Brown's spending on the public sector was unnecessary and a complete fucking waste. It seems that governments with big majorities just can't resist the temptation of spending too much. Paragraphs 1 and 3 I couldnt agree more. 👍 Paragraph 2 is utterly astonishing especially considering what is front and centre in the news right now.🤯
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 12, 2020 19:48:09 GMT
Actually thats not true read the Taylor report, 68% of the people who expressed a view on their hours didnt want more, even with people who didnt mention hours taken into account it was 58% and since then the % figures are thought to have increased. The reason being it suits their lives and gives them flexibility. The Taylor Report is slightly misleading in that it is around 67% that stated that they did not want more hours. I feel the zero hour contract has been politicised and somewhat demonised and again I reiterate I don't feel they should be scrapped as I agree with the flexibility. However it does need looking at as I feel it should be an 'opt out' available to employee's rather than the default position of organisations of recruiting on the zero hour proviso. The problem with that is employers would opt out or zero hour contracts would become 12 hour contracts or whatever the minimum is set at, essentially many of those jobs are what used to be casual labour that if there was no demand there would be no job, these jobs dont automatically convert to 35 hour a week jobs.
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Post by RedandWhite90 on Mar 12, 2020 20:36:45 GMT
The Taylor Report is slightly misleading in that it is around 67% that stated that they did not want more hours. I feel the zero hour contract has been politicised and somewhat demonised and again I reiterate I don't feel they should be scrapped as I agree with the flexibility. However it does need looking at as I feel it should be an 'opt out' available to employee's rather than the default position of organisations of recruiting on the zero hour proviso. The problem with that is employers would opt out or zero hour contracts would become 12 hour contracts or whatever the minimum is set at, essentially many of those jobs are what used to be casual labour that if there was no demand there would be no job, these jobs dont automatically convert to 35 hour a week jobs. Exactly right. And for me and many others an employer should as their default be offering a minimum base of hours to an employee. Whether that be 10 12 16 whichever. That provides safety and stability and the knowledge of a set income as a minimum. (As the report would suggest the overwhelming majority of these jobs require in excess of 30 hours) Alternatively an employee can 'opt out' should they choose and work on a fully flexible basis but it is their choice to do so.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2020 21:32:38 GMT
The Taylor Report is slightly misleading in that it is around 67% that stated that they did not want more hours. I feel the zero hour contract has been politicised and somewhat demonised and again I reiterate I don't feel they should be scrapped as I agree with the flexibility. However it does need looking at as I feel it should be an 'opt out' available to employee's rather than the default position of organisations of recruiting on the zero hour proviso. The problem with that is employers would opt out or zero hour contracts would become 12 hour contracts or whatever the minimum is set at, essentially many of those jobs are what used to be casual labour that if there was no demand there would be no job, these jobs dont automatically convert to 35 hour a week jobs. A responsible employee can set up an annualised hours scheme in this day and age. The company I work for uses it for warehouse staff where the volumes spike at different times of the year, I was involved in the consultations and subsequent set up. They get paid a set amount each month irrespective of the hours they’ve worked/banked for continuity, it works well.....
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Post by heworksardtho on Mar 12, 2020 22:40:19 GMT
UK inflation at highest since April 2012Rise in hate crime in England and WalesHouse prices: Have they actually gone up in your neighbourhood?Councils buying homeless one-way train tickets included are figures of a huge increase in homelessness the above links are from today in addition the Met police chief says that they will not investigate, criminal damage, car crime and shoplifting as they have been cut back so far and cant afford the police. People from Grenfell tower are still in temporary accommodation 4 months after the disaster when the PM saying that they would be rehoused in weeks we have a £500 million cut to NHS England to pay the DUP bribe for northern Ireland NHS They are attempting to redraw boundaries to make it virtually impossible for any other party than them to win the next election Oh and there new so called policies are ripped off from the Labour manifesto but don't worry because Brexit is the key and other things don't matter !! and they cant get this right with the chancellor/ foreign minister insulting the people we are trying to get a deal with This is an Inept government devoid of ideas that has no respect it is time that they left power and let others take control of this countries future as they certainly cant do anything worse than Chicken may and her cabinet of incompetent ministers Jezza chill out your 70
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Post by mrcoke on Mar 12, 2020 23:37:14 GMT
I took over one business once that had large investment plans. When I closely examined what was proposed there was simply not the resources in terms of personnel and timescale in the business plan to implement what was proposed. I think there is the same potential issue with the Chancellor's budget. For example it is one thing to say you are going to give MOT and local authorities loads of money to repair and improve roads, but there has to be the contract and supply resources existing to deliver the work. There are only so many aggregate plants, tar mcadam plants, ready mix concrete plants, and road repair companies. You can only shut down so much of the road system at any time. I'm not being negative just basing my view on 8 years working in the quarrying industry. I think the government will actually struggle to increase the capital spending by the amount proposed. As pointed out above it is a lot harder to spend constructively than just throw loads of money into doctors and dentists pay and reducing the working week to 4 days. Agree with much of what you say but I think the point on resources is that most companies operate at little spare capacity after all who apart from Stoke City wants to pay people for doing nowt, if you give the funding to councils or whoever they then tender the contracts and firms source extra staff or materials as required.I totally agree with you, but the budget is not about taking up a "little spare capacity", it is talking about a £650 billion including a 40% boost to spending on roads, on top of a 44% promised 18 months ago. Yes contractors can expand/grow their businesses, but it takes a long time to lay down the infrastructure I described in terms of additional plant capacity to produce the extra raw materials. You can't just go and produce 40% more materials for road building at the drop of a hat. This is at a time when we have record employment levels and people are saying we are going to be short of low paid labour for industries such as farming, due to brexit. I repeat the government is right to boost capital spending on infrastructure but I doubt the target they have set is achievable. Furthermore, isn't it typical that our government decides to boost spending on railways, just at a time we are selling off rail production! www.ft.com/content/52666772-db75-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92buk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-budget/hammond-to-increase-road-investment-by-44-percent-in-budget-idUKKCN1N10VGwww.ft.com/content/498dc1c2-1698-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 13, 2020 8:11:54 GMT
The problem with that is employers would opt out or zero hour contracts would become 12 hour contracts or whatever the minimum is set at, essentially many of those jobs are what used to be casual labour that if there was no demand there would be no job, these jobs dont automatically convert to 35 hour a week jobs. A responsible employee can set up an annualised hours scheme in this day and age. The company I work for uses it for warehouse staff where the volumes spike at different times of the year, I was involved in the consultations and subsequent set up. They get paid a set amount each month irrespective of the hours they’ve worked/banked for continuity, it works well..... That does work well for jobs that are basically full time at a guess your warehouse opens for normal business hours. A business like a macdonalds franchise restaurant open in some instances 24h a day has some staff only available for night shifts or day shifts or while the kids are at school so literally hundreds of staff it isnt going to work so well.
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 13, 2020 8:35:20 GMT
Agree with much of what you say but I think the point on resources is that most companies operate at little spare capacity after all who apart from Stoke City wants to pay people for doing nowt, if you give the funding to councils or whoever they then tender the contracts and firms source extra staff or materials as required.I totally agree with you, but the budget is not about taking up a "little spare capacity", it is talking about a £650 billion including a 40% boost to spending on roads, on top of a 44% promised 18 months ago. Yes contractors can expand/grow their businesses, but it takes a long time to lay down the infrastructure I described in terms of additional plant capacity to produce the extra raw materials. You can't just go and produce 40% more materials for road building at the drop of a hat. This is at a time when we have record employment levels and people are saying we are going to be short of low paid labour for industries such as farming, due to brexit. I repeat the government is right to boost capital spending on infrastructure but I doubt the target they have set is achievable. Furthermore, isn't it typical that our government decides to boost spending on railways, just at a time we are selling off rail production! www.ft.com/content/52666772-db75-11e8-8f50-cbae5495d92buk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-budget/hammond-to-increase-road-investment-by-44-percent-in-budget-idUKKCN1N10VGwww.ft.com/content/498dc1c2-1698-11ea-8d73-6303645ac406I understand what you say on capacity but I honestly think a far bigger problem is getting all the legal ducks in a row (complusary purchases, environmental objections, planning permission or whatever the equivalent is) before a spade / digger can hit the ground and its also probable that the 40% cost increase is not a 40% increase in materials as the biggest cost is probably staff and machinery hire and purchase of land to build road on and besides these will all kick off at different times so they wont need all the increase on the same day. Having said all that I also agree its unlikely all the investment will be completed in the timescale as they never are ! On the steel thing isnt that more to do with thr chinese buying what was called british steel a long time ago who owned a plant in France that the french government can decide who owns it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2020 8:42:48 GMT
A responsible employee can set up an annualised hours scheme in this day and age. The company I work for uses it for warehouse staff where the volumes spike at different times of the year, I was involved in the consultations and subsequent set up. They get paid a set amount each month irrespective of the hours they’ve worked/banked for continuity, it works well..... That does work well for jobs that are basically full time at a guess your warehouse opens for normal business hours. A business like a macdonalds franchise restaurant open in some instances 24h a day has some staff only available for night shifts or day shifts or while the kids are at school so literally hundreds of staff it isnt going to work so well. I’m not saying it would work for every employer. But if you employ someone on a zero hours contracts and give them fairly regular hours you’re basically trying to get around certain workers rights. Our warehouses are 24/7 364 days a year, Sports Direct for example could do it with no issues at all, it’s clothing/footwear/sports equipment that follow pretty much the same yearly peaks and troughs......
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Post by Eggybread on Mar 13, 2020 10:36:22 GMT
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 13, 2020 10:49:16 GMT
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 19, 2020 11:59:10 GMT
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Post by rogerjonesisgod on Mar 19, 2020 16:22:41 GMT
Oof.
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Post by sheikhmomo on Mar 19, 2020 16:30:09 GMT
Like the Government, a lot of voters are 'ignorant and thoughtless'!
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Post by followyoudown on Mar 19, 2020 19:33:01 GMT
Shocking what were their MPs doing all this time too, can see why Sir Quivering lip jumped after being in charge of this. So many minor errors leading to a huge fuck up, the only thing I dont understand and not a criticism of the people who suffered is why did they not already have uk passports, most had been here 40 years they have never taken a holiday out of the UK in all that time ?
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