Rats leaving the sinking ship. And a load of rats at that. What an utter disgrace of a so called government to just run away from their total mess.
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Rats leaving the sinking ship. And a load of rats at that. What an utter disgrace of a so called government to just run away from their total mess.
I'm guessing this won't make The S*n's front page and that they've known about it for quite some time.
How can you just not do your job for a year and not tell the people you're working for? Only MPs could do this.
I remember the days when people used to argue that MPs weren't paid enough and therefore had to take second jobs to supplement their income. Turns out they could go full time in a second job because they don't even need to turn up for their primary one.
Reminds me of the old rhyme; "He runs away lives to fight another day, he who stays and stands his ground, stands to get his 'clock' knocked around"
or
When the enemy is within sight, with over whelming odds... get the hell out!
Both I suspect straight out of the 'Tory government in panic' playbook, when even the Minister for Defense is off on his bike.. its 'hit the Road' Rishi!!
One of the many "unwritten rules" that the tories have broken recently is that you weren't supposed to use the official government media for propaganda purposes. An interesting example:
Here's the government view of new guidance to pension funds - encouraging them to take riskier investment decisions with their standard "default" funds:
Here's the FT on the same subject:
In other words it's the kind of statement that would get a pension provider or a financial advisor into trouble instantly and store up some legal claims for later. Incidentally if you are (or were) paying into a "defined contribution" scheme through a workplace pension or whatever you should read the FT article even if you don't normally pay much attention to pensions stuff.
Here's the government view of new guidance to pension funds - encouraging them to take riskier investment decisions with their standard "default" funds:
Here's the FT on the same subject:
In other words it's the kind of statement that would get a pension provider or a financial advisor into trouble instantly and store up some legal claims for later. Incidentally if you are (or were) paying into a "defined contribution" scheme through a workplace pension or whatever you should read the FT article even if you don't normally pay much attention to pensions stuff.
Proud to represent the (Conservative) Party!
Healthcare, cost of living, struggling to pay bills? Nah feck that, let's talk about degrees,
Without giving a single example...
Surely rip-off rental markets, rip-off gas & energy prices, rip-off food & fuel pricing would be a higher priority?
He just likes the graphic and posting on social medial. Such a cnut.
None of the trade deals she's signed are of benefit to the UK, nor would an Indian or USA deal. "You don't know what you're doing!"
Oh good, another catchphrase.
It's as shite as his "make people do better English so they can speak gooder" as well as his one about improving maths and the eleventeen other distractions.
Meanwhile….
It’s over
Didn't think I'd be at any risk of agreeing with Mark Francois about anything, but here were are.
No kidneys
She's gaming the system.
Twitter doesn't care whether you are laughing at her or calling her a moron, just as long as you are looking.
And she gets a share of the ad revenue. Easy for anyone with a relatively high profile now, and you will see a lot more of it.
Great job Elon.
Anyone who gets ads on Twitter only has themselves to blame.
Makes no sense. The problem with getting a job fresh out of uni is that you're trying to convince the employer you're better than the competition. The competition for jobs is therefore the issue because only one person gets it regardless of degree quality.
What I think Sunak wants to actually do is increase entrepreneurialism and ergo create more jobs but that would require improved schemes and/or loans making it so you don't need a rich daddy to give you a leg up. There's only a finite amount of those.
But he knows that – the whole Tory party do – and is just being a fecking cnut as usual.
Apprenticeships are a nice idea admittedly but only if they pay well and have good career prospects. Simply adding more is not an indicator of that.
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Boosting apprenticeships yeah? That’s why loads of apprenticeships have the same funding per apprentice as it did in 2013. Even ones that have recently increased have barely been bought in line with 2013 funding once you take inflation etc into account.
The government is a fecking shambles.
I know a lad who's just finished his 2nd year at college training to be an electrician. To be able to continue he needs to find an apprenticeship, but of course there's nobody willing to take him on so he's looking at having wasted 2 years and starting adult life with just a handful of GCSEs.
For a relatively small investment, the gov could give him every chance to earn a good income and pay taxes. As it is, he's increasingly likely to join the ranks of the unemployable.
But of course it's the tories implemeting it, so we won't need to look back in 5 or 10 years time and see that it failed to make a real difference. It will be setup to fail. It's just another promise they can brag about in the short term.
Bloody hell. How old is he? Do they not want to take him on because he’ll need a higher wage than a young apprentice, or are they just not hiring much currently?
I did my first year as an electrical apprentice and my boss stuck me with some waster who used to skive off and smoke weed at lunchtime. Of course me being 18 thought this was quality.
Ended up not continuing it because I couldn’t live off £80 a week, was already having to pay my mum rent etc. I dread to think what wage I could have been on now. Certainly would have saved a lot on the house I’m renovating
Bloody hell. How old is he? Do they not want to take him on because he’ll need a higher wage than a young apprentice, or are they just not hiring much currently?
I did my first year as an electrical apprentice and my boss stuck me with some waster who used to skive off and smoke weed at lunchtime. Of course me being 18 thought this was quality.
Ended up not continuing it because I couldn’t live off £80 a week, was already having to pay my mum rent etc. I dread to think what wage I could have been on now. Certainly would have saved a lot on the house I’m renovating
He's 18. He'd take any amount really. Certainly to start with. There's not much work around here anyway, but especially for shy kids.
That’s mad. You’d think companies would be crying out for someone who’s already been studying. When I did mine I’d barely used a pair of wire cutters before.
It's an island. How can they not find anywhere to dock.
It's not that there's no money left, it's that we're wasting it on shit like this and sending refuges to Rwanda for £170k a head.
Hey that’s not fair.
You should include the who and the why and then determine that we’re a silly country.
Hang on. Wait. I thought you were one of us
Edit: Sorry, saw the context, you are one of us and this is a silly country. Sir fecking Shaun fecking Bailey.