In the long run Brexit will raise wages for lower-paid UK workers, starting with lorry drivers and waiters.Yes. First Brexit now this. While the poor get poorer.
Unfortunately for the lower paid that is a guess. Lorry drivers may see a rise because of the shortage of drivers if the companies can’t see another way around it but that situation does not and will not apply universally.In the long run Brexit will raise wages for lower-paid UK workers, starting with lorry drivers and waiters.
I keep seeing this coming out of ministers and back benchers' mouths in direct response to questions about the driver crisis.Brexit will transition the UK from a low wage / low productivity society towards a higher wage / high productivity society. Changes like this take a long time and other events (eg covid) overshadow them.
Brexit will transition the UK from a low wage / low productivity society towards a higher wage / high productivity society. Changes like this take a long time and other events (eg covid) overshadow them.
Pinched this:
Just been in the supermarket. The chap in front of me, mask wearer obviously, had a trolly stuffed to the gunwales with tacos, pimentos, every type and every packet the shop had of tortillas, serrano ham, chorizo sausage, 36 cans of San Miguel and a dozen bottles of a nice young Navarra wine.
I thought to myself, Hispanic buying.
It comes to something when one of the most obviously corrupt and incompetent Governments in living memory is under no pressure to reform from the opposition.Didn't listen/watch Starmer's soliloquy yesterday at the Labour Party conference.
I assume it was crammed with one-liners, crap puns and sexual biology untruths.
Meanwhile we have a shite government being shite. What a time to be alive.
It comes to something when one of the most obviously corrupt and incompetent Governments in living memory is under no pressure to reform from the opposition.
To be fair to Starmer he's too busy telling his own MPs not to point it out, to be able to point it out himself.It comes to something when one of the most obviously corrupt and incompetent Governments in living memory is under no pressure to reform from the opposition.
To be fair to Starmer he's too busy telling his own MPs not to point it out, to be able to point it out himself.
Losing Scotland was a disaster for Labour. They had always been pretty much easy wins and mean that if Labour ever want to take power again then they are going to have to learn to compromise and appeal to the centre and the left rather than either/or…Brexit was not mentioned once, apparently. He was the architect of Labours disastrous election result, as it was all about Brexit.
I think that is a huge failure, irrespective of personal Brexit opinions, this was the working class, red wall issue.
He is having an existential crisis between appealing to the traditional Labour voter (Brexiteer) and courting the new Labour (Remainer)* voter.
*I know this is simplistic, but it's merely meant to be illustrative as to the divide.
My whole department were sent home and it has cost a small fortune to send kit to peoples homes.I think time will show furlough to be one of the most catastrophic things that ever happened to this country for the following reasons:
1) For financially having to pay for it and the future repercussions this will have in the scaling back of future government funded programmes.
2) For making people not want to work in offices again and the impact this will have on the urban-rural landscape, transport infrastructure and property market long term.
3) For putting a severe dent into the country's work ethic. People now always seem to have a ready made excuse of not delivering what they promise and this seems to be a by-product of furlough, working from home and reduced accountability as well as 'COVID related issues' being very easy to translate to 'couldn't be arsed.'