I wonder if they are going to change the stupid system of pumping money into failing schools until the are “outstanding” and then slowly reduce funding because they obviously don’t need it, until the school is failing again…

Good!

There is the point where if the person had valid identification, and National Insurance, and was paid via HMRC, that the onus should be on notifying the business of a change of status. Whether that’s the student or HMRC I don’t know. They would notify the business on a change of required tax.

There are 28 million families in the UK. [1]

Your article implies there are 25 million houses and 1 million is empty. [2]

The empty houses in the photos are not suitable for living in and should be condemned if they haven’t already. Rebuilding a mid-terrace house is not simple and even after blow all of that we managed 1 million out of the 4 million required to at least have one home per family. That sounds like a terrible plan to work on the most expensive work and ultimately not make a dent in the issue.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/bulletins/familiesandhouseholds/2023#%3A~%3Atext=There+were+28.4+million+households%2C-parent+family+(11%25).

[2] https://www.actiononemptyhomes.org/why-empty-homes-matter

https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/#respect

We will also modernise, simplify, and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process. We will remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance;

Hmm.

Weren’t you in power over those 10 years?

Surely you should have done something about it rather than waiting until now to complain.

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Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD proved that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7byXFPtgaV0

For those of you who think it sounds weird, it’s not an uncommon practice as it is basically the same as Most Favoured Nation policy that a lot of industries use.

You get paid the amount requested, unless someone requests more (and its agreed to) and you automatically get paid that much.

Just because you struggle to have a normal relationship, doesnt mean we all can’t.

The courteous thing to do, if your not sure there is space, is to stop and wait until the moving obstacles have cleared out of the way.

Yeah, it’s an interesting difference.

There was a lot of pop culture references in IT Crowd, all the music posters, the retro computers, etc. but the cast didn’t even acknowledge it.

So we aren’t getting a trade deal. Right?

You’ve convinced me. That does sound like a UK Government ideal.

Next you’ll be trying to tell me the Saudis might not have UK ideals at heart!

Hopefully this should be blocked to prevent a hostile foreign state from owning and controlling core infrastructure, on the grounds of national security. 🤞

What’s that? A flying pig?

That and it was the Brexit pre-cursor.

Would you like this dying child to get a ventilator, or an alternative voting system?

Turns out, you’ll have neither.

Not entirely unknown, but I would like it to be Rahul Kohli. Unfortunately I wouldn’t be surprised if he is too old now.

I’m not saying I agree with this, but just to explain what is happening.

Companies pay tax on profits. The idea being that if I make metal widget that I sell for £1 then just flat taxing me at (for example) 20% would mean I owe 20p tax.

Now if I bought the metal from my widget from a Sunderland refinery, and they charged me 50p for the metal to make the widget then my £1 widget is actually only worth 50p, and that 20p tax starts looking fairly high. If I paid someone 30p to sell it for me then that 20p tax puts the widget down to worthless and I’ll not bother making it, depriving the taxman his 20p.

The plan therefore is to tax profits. After paying the refinery, my 50p profit is taxed at the 20% making it less likely that I’ll get in a position where I don’t make it, unless it really is unprofitable.

The issue with this is that if I owned the refinery as well then there’s nothing to stop me selling the metal at £1 so effective profits are £0, or negative with employee costs. Tax obligations £0. Now move the refinery to a tax haven, or sell at cost it to my “warehouse supplier” based in the Caymans who then sell it to the widget factory for the maximum amount means I’ve exported all my profits. The product doesn’t ever have to go near the Caymans.

This is what I understand Starbucks does, with their Swiss division selling the beans at outrageous prices to make the coffee shops a loss.

What’s the solution? I assume taxing takings but that could destroy small businesses who have been doing this correctly or business that runs on fine margins.

Millenials complained about it a lot, to the point where millennial is short hand for “lazy” for a lot of older generations.

Gen X made films mocking company culture and shitty work environments.

The youth today aren’t the first to complain, they aren’t the first to be called lazy, and they won’t be the last. Fuck the older folks who call any of them lazy.