Rachel Reeves

[Spiderman]

Nothing can be as disastrous as Honk Kong@s typing,even the Titanic went a few miles before hitting rock bottom.Nice of you to swing by.

Oh I think it can. You are welcome

 

[French eagle]

There are major differences between the Balkans and Rwanda,for Rwanda you need lots of sun cream. I would enjoy tickets just like her ,never refuse a freebie,it is only wrong if it is a bribe.Unlike the Tories they have put money into border force instead of cutting their money.

So you think Lord Alli dishing out holidays on his island, use of flats , money have nothing to with him having a pass into No. 10 do you ? I guess it's all unrelated. And right on cue Reeves is at it again. Reeves’s Sabrina Carpenter freebie furore proves our politicians should avoid one thing: fun | Zoe Williams

 

[beak]

You seem an expert on Border Force and its funding, pray tell how you claim to know so much. How do you know the freebies were not a bribe or perhaps an incentive to assist in certain areas? Didn’t the FA supply tickets to Taylor Swift and for 2TK to watch football about the same time as the Football regulator was being discussed? Something the FA were not in favour of. Still probably pure coincidence

I avidly read the news and as far as bribes are concerned the right wing press often make hay over the freebies but non have alleged bribery and if they could they would.so your answer is reading and discerning.As a spiderman you must suffer a lot from sticky fingers.

 

[beak]

So you think Lord Alli dishing out holidays on his island, use of flats , money have nothing to with him having a pass into No. 10 do you ? I guess it's all unrelated. And right on cue Reeves is at it again. Reeves’s Sabrina Carpenter freebie furore proves our politicians should avoid one thing: fun | Zoe Williams

It is one thing for lord ali to offer stuff up and another as to what IF ANYTHING he gets in return.Do you have convincing proof?

 

[Nutmegyeti]

Trying to pick a favourite out of this Labour government and the previous Tory one is like trying to pick a favourite Palace striker out of Cenk Tosun and Yaya Sanogo.

Just easier to call them both s***.

Bit of an unfair comparison that one.

Tosun only played 4 and a bit games and did his ligaments.

Sanogo played 10, and never got round to picking up the banjo, let alone swinging it for the cow’s arse.

To the topic at hand.

Which one would be better than RR, hard to say.

 

[Spiderman]

I avidly read the news and as far as bribes are concerned the right wing press often make hay over the freebies but non have alleged bribery and if they could they would.so your answer is reading and discerning.As a spiderman you must suffer a lot from sticky fingers.

As a person who worked for BF for many years and whose spouse still does, you are way off the mark with your recent comments about BF, just saying. Hope my typing is ok, it’s these sticky fingers you know

 

[beak]

As a person who worked for BF for many years and whose spouse still does, you are way off the mark with your recent comments about BF, just saying. Hope my typing is ok, it’s these sticky fingers you know

Who is bf your boyfriend? Typing pretty good.

 

[Spiderman]

Who is bf your boyfriend? Typing pretty good.

I am hoping you are being sarcastic, if not Border Force. One of its many names over the years. Names change but nothing else does ( whoever is in Government).

 

[beak]

I am hoping you are being sarcastic, if not Border Force. One of its many names over the years. Names change but nothing else does ( whoever is in Government).

the curse of the abbreviation.

 

[Living In Hope]

I don't think Rachel Reeves and this government are ill-intentioned, but they seem to think that talking a good game about the importance of business and enterprise is enough. Their policies don't back up their words. To start recovering its prosperity the country needs 2 key things.

1. To return to a culture under which people are expected to look after themselves rather than expecting others (via the government) to look after them.
2. Productivity growth, which from first principles is the only way in which we get better off overall as opposed to some getting wealthier and others poorer in equal measure.

Of course point 1 is part of achieving point 2, and you could write a book on what this means in practice. But let's start by eliminating the workers' rights bill and the aim for a 4 day week (a sure-fire way to impoverish the nation further), cutting silly regulation, getting real over net zero, and linking public sector pay settlements to productivity improvements.

 

[Spiderman]

I don't think Rachel Reeves and this government are ill-intentioned, but they seem to think that talking a good game about the importance of business and enterprise is enough. Their policies don't back up their words. To start recovering its prosperity the country needs 2 key things.

1. To return to a culture under which people are expected to look after themselves rather than expecting others (via the government) to look after them.
2. Productivity growth, which from first principles is the only way in which we get better off overall as opposed to some getting wealthier and others poorer in equal measure.

Of course point 1 is part of achieving point 2, and you could write a book on what this means in practice. But let's start by eliminating the workers' rights bill and the aim for a 4 day week (a sure-fire way to impoverish the nation further), cutting silly regulation, getting real over net zero, and linking public sector pay settlements to productivity improvements.

You could have also mentioned reversing the employers NI Contribution hike, which has led to numerous redundancies. So your point 1 however valid, won’t happen whilst unemployment is on the increase

 

[HKOwen]

The present government are doing better than the Tories ,under them we had lies,printing "funny Money" flights to Rwanda that cost £5 hundred million and never took off. Trips to Barnard Castle which apparently is better than a visit to an optician, lock down p*ss ups in Downing street,deserting the beaches on D-day commemoration. Labour are collecting the money to make the N.H.S. work They are putting money into pothole repair and have beefed up the border patrol all in a few months.I am chuffed to have voted Labour and intend to do the same next election.

Just the two moons on your planet? Just kidding, I realise you're a parody account pretending to be contrarian idiotic ideolog.

Your snipes are very childish so I suspect you maybe a young person.

 

[HKOwen]

RFA might throw a hail mary and try to amend her fiscal rules because of exceptional circumstances, making defence expenditure increase a matter of national security

 

[CPFCSaturn]

I don't think Rachel Reeves and this government are ill-intentioned, but they seem to think that talking a good game about the importance of business and enterprise is enough. Their policies don't back up their words. To start recovering its prosperity the country needs 2 key things.

1. To return to a culture under which people are expected to look after themselves rather than expecting others (via the government) to look after them.
2. Productivity growth, which from first principles is the only way in which we get better off overall as opposed to some getting wealthier and others poorer in equal measure.

Of course point 1 is part of achieving point 2, and you could write a book on what this means in practice. But let's start by eliminating the workers' rights bill and the aim for a 4 day week (a sure-fire way to impoverish the nation further), cutting silly regulation, getting real over net zero, and linking public sector pay settlements to productivity improvements.

I have to say that I think any suggestion that our economic fortunes can be turned around by a cultural shift and just pulling up the bootstraps is miles wide of the mark.

 

[Nutmegyeti]

I don't think Rachel Reeves and this government are ill-intentioned, but they seem to think that talking a good game about the importance of business and enterprise is enough. Their policies don't back up their words. To start recovering its prosperity the country needs 2 key things.

1. To return to a culture under which people are expected to look after themselves rather than expecting others (via the government) to look after them.
2. Productivity growth, which from first principles is the only way in which we get better off overall as opposed to some getting wealthier and others poorer in equal measure.

Of course point 1 is part of achieving point 2, and you could write a book on what this means in practice. But let's start by eliminating the workers' rights bill and the aim for a 4 day week (a sure-fire way to impoverish the nation further), cutting silly regulation, getting real over net zero, and linking public sector pay settlements to productivity improvements.

What she also needs to start (or rather stop) doing is treating “Business” as one big entity.

Big business and small business is not the same. Running a business and being self employed is also not the same thing.

For example blanket banning Zero Hours contracts - great idea for big businesses - who do take the mick. Will be a killer for a 16 year old looking for a Saturday job, or someone in need of casual hours.

Small businesses don’t react in the same way as big. Big is about shareholder profit (and nothing wrong with that), smaller do tend to me more close knit and susceptible.

Once you start treating Amazon, Tesco etc the same as your small businesses then the losers won’t be the former. You will kill the engine room of small business though.

I look at it and think why would I hire an apprentice now for example. Over £25k to employ someone, plus my time investment. Thats for a four day week as well, as one day is college. It’s three years before I see a profit.

If I do happen to make any money above £50k, HMRC will take 50% + of it.

I’m sure the NI raise looked a good idea on paper. So then again so did the Poll Tax.

 

[HKOwen]

What she also needs to start (or rather stop) doing is treating “Business” as one big entity.

Big business and small business is not the same. Running a business and being self employed is also not the same thing.

For example blanket banning Zero Hours contracts - great idea for big businesses - who do take the mick. Will be a killer for a 16 year old looking for a Saturday job, or someone in need of casual hours.

Small businesses don’t react in the same way as big. Big is about shareholder profit (and nothing wrong with that), smaller do tend to me more close knit and susceptible.

Once you start treating Amazon, Tesco etc the same as your small businesses then the losers won’t be the former. You will kill the engine room of small business though.

I look at it and think why would I hire an apprentice now for example. Over £25k to employ someone, plus my time investment. Thats for a four day week as well, as one day is college. It’s three years before I see a profit.

If I do happen to make any money above £50k, HMRC will take 50% + of it.

I’m sure the NI raise looked a good idea on paper. So did the Poll Tax.

You are crediting her with intellectual bandwidth

 

[Spiderman]

What she also needs to start (or rather stop) doing is treating “Business” as one big entity.

Big business and small business is not the same. Running a business and being self employed is also not the same thing.

For example blanket banning Zero Hours contracts - great idea for big businesses - who do take the mick. Will be a killer for a 16 year old looking for a Saturday job, or someone in need of casual hours.

Small businesses don’t react in the same way as big. Big is about shareholder profit (and nothing wrong with that), smaller do tend to me more close knit and susceptible.

Once you start treating Amazon, Tesco etc the same as your small businesses then the losers won’t be the former. You will kill the engine room of small business though.

I look at it and think why would I hire an apprentice now for example. Over £25k to employ someone, plus my time investment. Thats for a four day week as well, as one day is college. It’s three years before I see a profit.

If I do happen to make any money above £50k, HMRC will take 50% + of it.

I’m sure the NI raise looked a good idea on paper. So then again so did the Poll Tax.

Totally agree with your 3rd paragraph. My son is registered as fulltime carer for his girlfriend but has a part time zero hours contract, work is mainly in school holidays. He enjoys this job and being able to choose( more or less) which days he works, fits in very well. If zero hours contracts disappear so will his job. Another on full time benefits

 

[NMPalace]

You could have also mentioned reversing the employers NI Contribution hike, which has led to numerous redundancies. So your point 1 however valid, won’t happen whilst unemployment is on the increase

Employer NI will rise from 13.8% to 15% from April - a 1.2% increase.

Ultimately most companies will 'reduce' 2025 payrises to staff to compensate - my employer has reduced my cost of living payrise for 2025 by 1%. So i'm getting 5% rather than 6%. Current average private sector pay increases are c5.8% ATM.

No one likes to pay more tax but the employer NI was already quite high.

Many company CEOs are blaming this for price rises or staff layoffs, but quite frankly your business strategy must be pretty poor to start with if a 1.2% increase on staff costs cannot be absorbed.

It appears the most vocal companies are those in retail and hospitality and they pay quite poorly. I suspect the increase in minimum wage (which is surely a good thing) is having a much greater impact, but rather than admit they pay poorly and are being forced to increase wages they can blame the govt.

Compare the NI increase with say utility costs doubling as they did a couple of years ago. What do you think had the biggest impact on businesses?

 

[Badger11]

Employer NI will rise from 13.8% to 15% from April - a 1.2% increase.

Ultimately most companies will 'reduce' 2025 payrises to staff to compensate - my employer has reduced my cost of living payrise for 2025 by 1%. So i'm getting 5% rather than 6%. Current average private sector pay increases are c5.8% ATM.

No one likes to pay more tax but the employer NI was already quite high.

Many company CEOs are blaming this for price rises or staff layoffs, but quite frankly your business strategy must be pretty poor to start with if a 1.2% increase on staff costs cannot be absorbed.

It appears the most vocal companies are those in retail and hospitality and they pay quite poorly. I suspect the increase in minimum wage (which is surely a good thing) is having a much greater impact, but rather than admit they pay poorly and are being forced to increase wages they can blame the govt.

Compare the NI increase with say utility costs doubling as they did a couple of years ago. What do you think had the biggest impact on businesses?

Yup I agree with this. Many companies are looking to cut costs and reduce staff so RFA's budget gave them the perfect excuse.

It was the same with Brexit, they all piled on and blamed Brexit even when we hadn't actually left.

 

[Runningman]

Employer NI will rise from 13.8% to 15% from April - a 1.2% increase.

Ultimately most companies will 'reduce' 2025 payrises to staff to compensate - my employer has reduced my cost of living payrise for 2025 by 1%. So i'm getting 5% rather than 6%. Current average private sector pay increases are c5.8% ATM.

No one likes to pay more tax but the employer NI was already quite high.

Many company CEOs are blaming this for price rises or staff layoffs, but quite frankly your business strategy must be pretty poor to start with if a 1.2% increase on staff costs cannot be absorbed.

It appears the most vocal companies are those in retail and hospitality and they pay quite poorly. I suspect the increase in minimum wage (which is surely a good thing) is having a much greater impact, but rather than admit they pay poorly and are being forced to increase wages they can blame the govt.

Compare the NI increase with say utility costs doubling as they did a couple of years ago. What do you think had the biggest impact on businesses?

The start point for paying NI has reduced from £9100 Pa to £5000 pa. That change alone increases costs by over £600 per employee.
Particularly hits those businesses that employ part timers.