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It's becase they're up everywhere, under Truss it was just us.

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I think we're probably hitting a point where we have to be so tough, that only the liars are getting through. So if you're fleeing war and tell the truth you've got no chance. You've gotta be gay, afraid of water and allergic to baguettes to stay here now

Wider problems cause IMF intervention, and the gov has no option but to put a stop to it. Rapidly legislate and smash things through the courts. As is, with endless appeals, stupid ideas about sending people half way around the world, it'll get no where.

I don't think there is an achievable solution at this point, until the whole thing collapses.

The tories tax all of the productive parts of the economy very highly, and all of the unproductive parts very lowly, then can't understand why we have little growth.

It makes sense to pay out bonuses on the back of their amazing performance

I'm not sure changing the fall guy will do much good at this point. Problem is none of them want to stand up and say we're ******ed

Our own NCSC signed off on the use of Chinese equipment in our phone networks. We also import thousands of Chinese per year. It's a ridiculous state of things and needs to stop. It's not about being racist / xenophobic, it's about stopping our own countries destruction

Website testing isn't necessarily low paid, it can be a fairly lucrative job, especially if you're a woman (or present as one as this person appears to be doing). Testers can earn 90% of what engineers can.. I always though it was a great little role, a lot less stress and responsibility, near identical pay. Just a lower ceiling, very hard to progress past senior.

Head over to the remote working thread, and everyone is far more efficient working from home 🤔 In all seriousness, why would you work. The benefit system is that ******ed up, working full time at minimum or a low wage seems hardly worth the effort.. better getting an illness and putting your feet up

But it makes no difference to the user. They don't have a choice now. If the change was made and they were never told, they would never know beyond the colour of the flame being a bit different

The cap is BS anyway. It's removed if any of your kids have SEN.. if you're a lifer on benefits its very easy to get out of the cap with ADHD, or other spurious unprovable conditions.

I watched a slot on the news about this last night, and not one resident had a remotely sensible argument. It was all the usual tripe "it'll confuse old people", "People with disabilities won't like it" I didn't hear one sane reason. We have a country full of whiners with nothing else to do.

Exactly. Every chance this guy loses this house and is replaced by a family on benefits. people here will say he shouldn’t have overpaid, well yes, but it isn’t like renting has been a walk in the park either. we need hpc to stop this from happening to others

I just can't see hiking income tax as being politically viable. On top of income tax you have pension, and in a lot of cases student loans - workers will be saying enough if enough. Tories are ******ed

Read the article. They aren't doing compressed hours, they're literally doing 4 days instead of 5 but are more 'efficient' so there is no loss in services. Of course no one at the council wants to look at the elephant in the room there

Receiving unemployment benefit in Poland is not easy. To qualify, you have to have been employed in the country for at least 365 days over the 18 months prior to signing on. -- Under Polish rules, if you were working for less than five years beforehand, you only get 80% of the benefit. The measly amount is not topped up with housing benefit, because that does not exist. --- Thats not the case here is it? It would be impossible to suggest anything like that here

This is a great article. It's so strange that we have a benefits for life culture, and that its seen as cruel to not allow someone to simply not work for their whole adult life. I wonder with our current financial situation if we'll end up like Poland

How do benefits and the like work in Australia? Do they not have the same problem as us with many not working, things like housing benefit? How does the rest of the western world do it?

Problem with renting is, you can be kicked out at reasonably short notice, you're then stuck arguing the toss over deposits, etc while trying to find a new place. A lot of this isn't a problem if you're a free wheeling bachelor, however if you're a family with kids in school etc, having to move around at someone elses whim is a disaster

They even have a page on EDI https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion-edi/ How much are british government agencies spending on this stuff? Everyone needs water, it is inclusive by its very nature. As you say, stop with this ********, and do your goddamn job

£500k per year to totally fail at your job. Absolute scam

If the figure stays frozen at £40k, it won't be long until all cars are effected. Seems to be the tory way atm.

Covid shifted any sense of personal responsibility over to the government. See energy price cap, see people on the dole whinging about cost of living. The answer is never, work, earn more money, or put effort in.