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Post by colin on Nov 12, 2024 8:32:56 GMT
"Carla Whelan, chief executive of the Regis and Supercuts group of salons, said the increase in employer national insurance contributions “will see salons which have been around for many years close” as the £25 billion tax rise undermined profitability.
“This creates an impossible profit and loss for individual hair salons where labour is circa 50 per cent of the cost,” said Whelan, whose group is the largest “owned”, or non-franchise salon group, in the UK."
"A survey carried out by the British Hair Consortium, an industry group, found that two in five respondents to the survey said they were considering closing their businesses in the next 12 months.It also suggested the majority of salon employers would consider switching to a self-employed model in order to deal with the increase because they “feel forced to do so in order to survive” — even where the move may not be lawful."
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Post by colin on Nov 12, 2024 8:33:16 GMT
"The Night Time Industries Association said that four in ten late-night venues are facing closure while UK Hospitality, an industry group, warned over the weekend that budget policies, including the national insurance rise, would “cause small business closures, job losses and cancelled investment”."
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 10:23:37 GMT
"Nurseries have already paused capital expansion plans; others have imposed a recruitment freeze despite official estimates that 35,000 new nursery workers will need to be recruited to meet the demand for universal childcare when it is fully rolled out in September.One senior figure in the sector said that the whole scheme was now in “jeopardy” as a result of an “unintended budget consequence that no-one appeared to have thought about”. Arguably the root cause of a lack of childcare is that the government chose to regulate the childcare industry, thereby banning informal child care. Also obviously, making it more expensive. Presumably further discouraging potential parents from becoming actual ones. |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 12, 2024 14:36:01 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. |
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Post by colin on Nov 12, 2024 15:11:47 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. A very interesting programme. Identified two major flaws in the system :- * Data transmission from box to energy supplier is split into two different methods. In the South by mobile phone network. In the North by radio masts ( which have big gaps in coverage) * The Elec companies-BG notably -lobbied to do the installation instead of the network. Result fragmented man + van installations. by different companies. large failure rate with awful response record. |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 12, 2024 15:24:01 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. A very interesting programme. Identified two major flaws in the system :- * Data transmission from box to energy supplier is split into two different methods. In the South by mobile phone network. In the North by radio masts ( which have big gaps in coverage) * The Elec companies-BG notably -lobbied to do the installation instead of the network. Result fragmented man + van installations. by different companies. large failure rate with awful response record. Thanks for posting it - I will get around to watching it because this sort of thing quite worries me. There is the potential for monitoring allsorts, and messing with people in various ways. Also the potential for controlling people’s use of leccy. Hard to believe experts like energy suppliers would mess things up though! It’s almost like we can’t always rely on experts… |
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Post by colin on Nov 12, 2024 16:16:10 GMT
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 16:37:57 GMT
Well no, its been publicised for years that smartmeters dont work. The whole first generation meters had to be replaced because they didnt do something, incluing you couldnt use them if you changed supplier. And then thers just not working. Recently had one replaced, bloke said he is doing it all the time. Dont remember exactly what he said but I think a particular brand just doesnt work or packs up. But looked at another way, this is all working perfectly. The electricity companies get paid for what they do, so if they replace your meter 100 times they get to bill for doing it 100 times. As to sending round debt collectors when you dont owe anything, or are disputing the case, thats normal too. I see the program criticise the decision to get supply companies to install meters, and making it voluntary. Which means one engineer gets sent to one address randomly as people agree to one. Whereas the cheap way to do it would have been to send in a team and do an entire road all in one go. The different companies used different meters, which were incompatible with each other. Many didnt work, but that was still a hit for having installed a meter as required by government. And...it seems the north of England uses a different system altogether to the south. So they are incompatible, and where one kind doesnt work you cannot switch to the other. The southern lot can boost the signal by adding an aerial, the northern cannot. Implication would seem to be they might have to replace them yet again, and presumably also the back room equipment receiving data. Brilliant for the companies, being paid every time they have to change something. Moreover, there is no one to blame for this. They installed meters as agreed by government, if they dont work well tough. Pay to install some more. Although it is obvious why many of these meters arent working, poor signal, the companies still repeatedly replace them before agreeing thats the problem. Well, they would...keep being paid to do it. That is, in the end we the customers are paying every time they come round and change the meters again. Oho! Panorama say one of the people who they used as an example has finally had his smart meter fixed. Living in the north where northern pattern meters dont work, his company has now agreed to install a southern type phone-in meter. After years of operating this wonderfully lucrative one by one process which has totally failed to nmeet targets for installing meters, head of British gas has now asked if government will make installation compulsory because there is no other way of meeting his targets, which the company promised faithfully years ago they could do if only the government would give them the contract. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 16:42:06 GMT
"A survey carried out by the British Hair Consortium, an industry group, found that two in five respondents to the survey said they were considering closing their businesses in the next 12 months.It also suggested the majority of salon employers would consider switching to a self-employed model in order to deal with the increase because they “feel forced to do so in order to survive” — even where the move may not be lawful." Times Cant see that happening... perhaps we will all go out and rob banks because tax has gone up? |
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 12, 2024 16:47:38 GMT
NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook MessengerIt seems their staff have been improperly using these channels for business communications. Consider the security considerations for their customers. It was reported in August, that the UK banking regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is considering a probe into how bank workers use messaging services.
It follows a fine issued by energy regulator Ofgem to Morgan Stanley over calls made on private phones over WhatsApp - breaching rules on record-keeping.
Outside of banking, there have been issues with staff using apps in the public sector, with questions surrounding how ministers have used WhatsApp for government business in recent years.
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 12, 2024 16:51:19 GMT
In Labour Party news Sue Gray will not take up new regions roleSue Gray will not take up her post as the prime minister's envoy to the nations and regions.
She was initially appointed to the newly-created role after departing as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff last month, saying she "risked becoming a distraction".
The government had previously said she was taking a short break before taking up her new position.
A friend of Ms Gray said: "Sue has taken a decision not to take the role. She’s going to focus on other things."
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 17:08:45 GMT
NatWest blocks staff from using WhatsApp and Facebook MessengerIt seems their staff have been improperly using these channels for business communications. Consider the security considerations for their customers. It was reported in August, that the UK banking regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is considering a probe into how bank workers use messaging services.
It follows a fine issued by energy regulator Ofgem to Morgan Stanley over calls made on private phones over WhatsApp - breaching rules on record-keeping.
Outside of banking, there have been issues with staff using apps in the public sector, with questions surrounding how ministers have used WhatsApp for government business in recent years. The problem might be that governments are seeking to force whatsapp to deliberately break the security on their transmissions so government (and hackers) can read it. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 17:09:23 GMT
In Labour Party news Sue Gray will not take up new regions roleSue Gray will not take up her post as the prime minister's envoy to the nations and regions.
She was initially appointed to the newly-created role after departing as Sir Keir Starmer's chief of staff last month, saying she "risked becoming a distraction".
The government had previously said she was taking a short break before taking up her new position.
A friend of Ms Gray said: "Sue has taken a decision not to take the role. She’s going to focus on other things."
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 12, 2024 18:16:54 GMT
A very interesting programme. Identified two major flaws in the system :- * Data transmission from box to energy supplier is split into two different methods. In the South by mobile phone network. In the North by radio masts ( which have big gaps in coverage) * The Elec companies-BG notably -lobbied to do the installation instead of the network. Result fragmented man + van installations. by different companies. large failure rate with awful response record. Thanks for posting it - I will get around to watching it because this sort of thing quite worries me. There is the potential for monitoring allsorts, and messing with people in various ways. Also the potential for controlling people’s use of leccy. Hard to believe experts like energy suppliers would mess things up though! It’s almost like we can’t always rely on experts… It's fairly typical Government/Civil Service incompetence. Whoever thought that dividing the country into two along a line from Liverpool to Hull and having two incompatible systems for communications between the smart meter and the supplier deserves to lose their job. Of course MPs, the majority of whom are scientifically illiterate, rely on their civil servants to give them good advice and if those civil servants are scientifically illiterate as well it is hardly surprising that they make a pig's ear of it. If they hadn't privatised National Grid in the first place it would have been the natural organisation to look after everything in England and Wales. In most areas (towns and cities) the mobile signal is strong enough; they just need the radio for rural areas. Scotland still has to be treated separately because it is split between SPEN and SSEN, but it's not rocket science. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 12, 2024 18:55:28 GMT
It's fairly typical Government/Civil Service incompetence. The interviewee on panorama said the distribution companies persuaded the government to allow them to install meters themselves, rather than the obvious solution adopted in other countries to leave it to the network company, national grid. It would seem the companies chose their own meter systems. How much persuading the government needed to hand them this lucrative contract, wasnt explained. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 13, 2024 7:38:13 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. I know you are making a joke there, but lots of us maybe even yourself have debated the switch to electric vehicles, and part of that will rely on being able to sell cheap electricity in the middle of the night. Also probably to introduce variable tariffs throughout the day. Unfortunately I have heard further criticism of the smart meters, that they are only capable of recording usage every half hour, so you cannot vary prices on a shorter timescale which might actually be useful. But until you get most people onto such meters, you cannot go forward with vehicle electrification. The state is relying on private individuals to install overnight charging points, because it itself is unwilling to install public street charging points. In principle the idea was everyone would by now have a fully functional smart meter, but in reality we have yet to overcome the technical issues preventing that happening. Obviously there is a by-product of not needing to employ meter readers, but that hasnt come about either. And it seems likely in that regard while most meters will now read automatically, the remainder will be more expensive to read than used to be the case. First because in the past one reader would go from house to house down a street, relatively quick, but now will spend more time tavelling between addresses further apart which still need reading. Plus all the houses on one street may be attached to different distribution companies, instead of all reporting to the same one as used to be the case. The whole business of reading meters is now far more complicated. There is a really good case that house meters should have remained the responsibility of national grid which would have operated all of them the same way and efficiently. But of course this would have taken away profits from the distribution companies, which therefore insist on doing it themselves. Dont you love privatised industry, the most expensive option is always the best? |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 13, 2024 10:26:23 GMT
Thanks for posting it - I will get around to watching it because this sort of thing quite worries me. There is the potential for monitoring allsorts, and messing with people in various ways. Also the potential for controlling people’s use of leccy. Hard to believe experts like energy suppliers would mess things up though! It’s almost like we can’t always rely on experts… It's fairly typical Government/Civil Service incompetence. Whoever thought that dividing the country into two along a line from Liverpool to Hull and having two incompatible systems for communications between the smart meter and the supplier deserves to lose their job. Of course MPs, the majority of whom are scientifically illiterate, rely on their civil servants to give them good advice and if those civil servants are scientifically illiterate as well it is hardly surprising that they make a pig's ear of it. If they hadn't privatised National Grid in the first place it would have been the natural organisation to look after everything in England and Wales. In most areas (towns and cities) the mobile signal is strong enough; they just need the radio for rural areas. Scotland still has to be treated separately because it is split between SPEN and SSEN, but it's not rocket science. One day, systems analysis might be a key component of getting a degree Leftie! Well, a guy can dream! But yeah, that familiar mix of less technical decision making plus fragmented privatised services has issues… |
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Post by Danny on Nov 13, 2024 10:31:43 GMT
It's fairly typical Government/Civil Service incompetence. Whoever thought that dividing the country into two along a line from Liverpool to Hull and having two incompatible systems for communications between the smart meter and the supplier deserves to lose their job. Of course MPs, the majority of whom are scientifically illiterate, rely on their civil servants to give them good advice and if those civil servants are scientifically illiterate as well it is hardly surprising that they make a pig's ear of it. If they hadn't privatised National Grid in the first place it would have been the natural organisation to look after everything in England and Wales. In most areas (towns and cities) the mobile signal is strong enough; they just need the radio for rural areas. Scotland still has to be treated separately because it is split between SPEN and SSEN, but it's not rocket science. One day, systems analysis might be a key component of getting a degree Leftie! Well, a guy can dream! But yeah, that familiar mix of less technical decision making plus fragmented privatised services has issues… It would seem when it was decided to introduce smart meters, no one required that that they all be mutually compatible for reading and reporting purposes. This seems to be because the decision was left to the private sector, which saw no advantage in having their meters compatible with their competitors. |
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 13, 2024 11:06:37 GMT
Ethnic minority voters: is there truth in old myths about why some groups are more likely to choose Labour?From June to September 2023, Focaldata surveyed 6,384 white voters and 4,780 ethnic minority voters, including 2,249 of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Caribbean and African descent. A colleague and I at UK in a Changing Europe, along with Focaldata, have used this data to analyse the myth and reality of ethnic minority support for Labour....There is strong evidence that the most economically deprived minority voters are the most likely to choose Labour. Among voters of Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Caribbean and African descent who earn less than £25,000, there is 93% likelihood that they will support Labour.Support for Labour does correlate strongly with economic deprivation in ethnic minority communities; high-income ethnic minorities are only slightly (not statistically significant) more likely to vote Labour than comparable white voters. There's more good stuff here, but you will need to read the whole article. Note that the survey was completed before the Hamas attack on Israel.
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 13, 2024 11:26:11 GMT
One day, systems analysis might be a key component of getting a degree Leftie! Well, a guy can dream! But yeah, that familiar mix of less technical decision making plus fragmented privatised services has issues… It would seem when it was decided to introduce smart meters, no one required that that they all be mutually compatible for reading and reporting purposes. This seems to be because the decision was left to the private sector, which saw no advantage in having their meters compatible with their competitors. yep, quite often it’s in their perceived interests to make things harder not easier, and as you no doubt know, this doesn’t just apply to energy! |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 13, 2024 11:41:43 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. I know you are making a joke there, but lots of us maybe even yourself have debated the switch to electric vehicles, and part of that will rely on being able to sell cheap electricity in the middle of the night. Also probably to introduce variable tariffs throughout the day. Unfortunately I have heard further criticism of the smart meters, that they are only capable of recording usage every half hour, so you cannot vary prices on a shorter timescale which might actually be useful. But until you get most people onto such meters, you cannot go forward with vehicle electrification. The state is relying on private individuals to install overnight charging points, because it itself is unwilling to install public street charging points. In principle the idea was everyone would by now have a fully functional smart meter, but in reality we have yet to overcome the technical issues preventing that happening. Obviously there is a by-product of not needing to employ meter readers, but that hasnt come about either. And it seems likely in that regard while most meters will now read automatically, the remainder will be more expensive to read than used to be the case. First because in the past one reader would go from house to house down a street, relatively quick, but now will spend more time tavelling between addresses further apart which still need reading. Plus all the houses on one street may be attached to different distribution companies, instead of all reporting to the same one as used to be the case. The whole business of reading meters is now far more complicated. There is a really good case that house meters should have remained the responsibility of national grid which would have operated all of them the same way and efficiently. But of course this would have taken away profits from the distribution companies, which therefore insist on doing it themselves. Dont you love privatised industry, the most expensive option is always the best? There is potentially a way around the smart meter problem, at least a way around big companies effing it up, if people are able to participate in more local energy schemes? Regarding the privatised utilities, notice how some in the middle class don’t seem as much fussed by the adverse effects as we might be?… |
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 13, 2024 12:48:22 GMT
Funnily enough my energy supplier just called to offer me the wonderful opportunity of a smart meter. Yet again. Roll on those halcyon days, when we all have our own leccy generation and don’t need to rely on these purveyors of metering at very high prices. Don’t know why they need meters anyway since the model appears to be to keep raising standing charges until almost no one can afford to use any actual energy. I know you are making a joke there, but lots of us maybe even yourself have debated the switch to electric vehicles, and part of that will rely on being able to sell cheap electricity in the middle of the night. Also probably to introduce variable tariffs throughout the day. Unfortunately I have heard further criticism of the smart meters, that they are only capable of recording usage every half hour, so you cannot vary prices on a shorter timescale which might actually be useful. But until you get most people onto such meters, you cannot go forward with vehicle electrification. The state is relying on private individuals to install overnight charging points, because it itself is unwilling to install public street charging points. In principle the idea was everyone would by now have a fully functional smart meter, but in reality we have yet to overcome the technical issues preventing that happening. Obviously there is a by-product of not needing to employ meter readers, but that hasnt come about either. And it seems likely in that regard while most meters will now read automatically, the remainder will be more expensive to read than used to be the case. First because in the past one reader would go from house to house down a street, relatively quick, but now will spend more time tavelling between addresses further apart which still need reading. Plus all the houses on one street may be attached to different distribution companies, instead of all reporting to the same one as used to be the case. The whole business of reading meters is now far more complicated. There is a really good case that house meters should have remained the responsibility of national grid which would have operated all of them the same way and efficiently. But of course this would have taken away profits from the distribution companies, which therefore insist on doing it themselves. Dont you love privatised industry, the most expensive option is always the best? I am fairly sure that the half-hour meter reading for smart meters is because the spot market for electricity generation is based on half-hour slots. There are long-term deals between electricity generators and and the electricity supply companies as well, but I don't know of any advantages from going to shorter slots. The fastest response to changes in electricity demand is currently from pumped hydro, which is less than 1 minute, and grid-scale batteries should get this down to a few seconds. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 13, 2024 18:22:57 GMT
I am fairly sure that the half-hour meter reading for smart meters is because the spot market for electricity generation is based on half-hour slots. There are long-term deals between electricity generators and and the electricity supply companies as well, but I don't know of any advantages from going to shorter slots. The fastest response to changes in electricity demand is currently from pumped hydro, which is less than 1 minute, and grid-scale batteries should get this down to a few seconds. There has been talk of smart appliances, so at peak load we might persuade all the washing machines and fridges to switch off, thereby avoiding the need for a pumped hydro plant. But would need a whole new set of meters installed once someone figured out how to make it work. (only bright spot would be the bloke who installed the new one seemed to think they are actually very cheap for the supply company to buy. His labour is much more costly) |
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Post by Danny on Nov 14, 2024 6:04:22 GMT
This is completely ridiculous propaganda. Well before the election providers of pre school child care were already closing and it was clear the government could not meet its promised expansion of child care places...simply because the amount paid to providers was insufficient to pay their costs. The only way it worked was for them to charge a lot more for 'extras', either a lot more for hours on top of those notionally paid for by govrnment, or charging excessively for providing the kids with ssential things like food or paper. I guess its fair to say there is a problem and the government needs to fix it, but the actual problem is the previous government failed to increase the hourly rate it paid for child care in line with rising costs...for years. The other link says charities involved in providing care for disabled adults and children will be unble to function. Well of course there will be a small impact on their budgets. But the article claims "Charities have warned of “life-changing consequences” for a million vulnerable children and adults", which is quite absurd. Firstly that the change could be of such a magnitude, but secondly if the role of charities is of such importance to a million people in the UK, then why on earth is this a task being performed by charities at all? Obviously it has to be essential services, which ought to have been covered by government care services anyway. Again, it comes back to slashed state services thanks to the last government.
Media are trying to pass this off as the result of NI rises, but thats simply trying to move the blame from where it truly belongs. The last government had a deliberate policy of shrinking the size of state services, and thats one reason why it was thrown out. They deliberatly made child care unviable, ended state assistance for the disabled. That was a choice they made. The current government is likely to seek to reverse these changes and has already started to reform the system. Part of that is the need to free up labour by pricing it out from non essential tasks, and thats a very good thing if we want to end immigration. The nation has to face reality, we must explicitly choose a level of services we believe should be provided and address which taxes are necessary to pay for this. Too many politicians are not willing to do this.
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Post by neilj on Nov 14, 2024 6:18:54 GMT
For those who want a change from the near constant anti labour bias of the Telegraph Times, Mail, Express Sun and even the Guardian on occasions, a different perspective here Worth reading the whole article, but the title gives it's general thrust "‘How Reporting on Private School and Farm Taxes Reveals More About Newspaper Owners Than Anything Else’ bylinetimes.com/2024/11/11/labour-budget-private-schools-inheritance-tax/"Conclusion The uproar, of course, is driven by two things. First, that death tax and school taxes go straight to the heart of British elitism. On land, as the Government argues on its agricultural taxes, the reforms are anticipated to impact only the wealthiest 500 estates annually, leaving smaller farms unaffected. They note that last year, the largest 7% of recent agricultural property claims made up 40% of the total agricultural property relief value, costing taxpayers £219 million. And on schools, as a Conservative Government-commissioned report into elitism concluded: Britain’s most influential people are over five times more likely to have been to a fee-paying school than the general population and that 7% of British people are privately educated, compared to two-fifths (39%) of those in top positions. |
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Post by colin on Nov 14, 2024 8:29:17 GMT
The British Retail Consortium warns that job losses and higher prices are now “inevitable”.
The Institute of Directors says the budget represents a “damaging hit”.
The Confederation of British Industry suggests there is no “real plan for growth”.
"Pharmacy owners in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have voted in favour of cutting opening hours and stopping home deliveries for the first time, in a protest over government funding.
The National Pharmacy Association (NPA), which ran the ballot, is calling for an annual £1.7bn funding increase to plug the “financial hole”."
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"Labour has confirmed council tax rises will be kept at the 5% cap next year, which could mean a rise of £100 for the average family’s bills."
A 5% rise would be almost three times above current levels of inflation, which in October fell to 1.7% – the first time it had been below 2% since 2021."
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Post by colin on Nov 14, 2024 8:44:37 GMT
Streeting's re-introduction of Milburn's league tables seems to have gone down like a lead balloon with medics interviewed on tv.
The usual pleas boil down to -you can't really compare one hospital with another because there are too many variables. Be that as it may , the familiar sound of the public sector trying to avoid accountability and any hint at productivity consideration is deafening.
So good luck to Streeting who seems focussed on what matters ( caveat-I thought Reeves was too !)
I hope he watches out for managers hiding bad news to fiddle their league table ( until the Public Inquiry that is ) though.
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