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Title: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 30 October 2024, 15:40:47
Er, I mean, budget...

Almost halving the threshold for Employers NI is a pretty effective way to totally opps over business growth. Which in turn will mean fewer people employed and will cost the State more in welfare whilst also reducing overall productivity and in turn revenue, not only for those businesses, but also the State by way of reduce tax income.

Cue a very slow, sarcastic hand clap.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 30 October 2024, 17:33:22
She's also signed the death warrant for family farming, but I suppose they aim to cover the countryside with solar panels and make us eat processed insect pap.  ::)
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: STEMO on 30 October 2024, 18:45:53
She's also signed the death warrant for family farming, but I suppose they aim to cover the countryside with solar panels and make us eat processed insect pap.  ::)
Processed insect pap? I'm liking the sound of that 😋
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Varche on 30 October 2024, 20:00:20
Buy shares in pap.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 30 October 2024, 20:22:54
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 30 October 2024, 20:25:50
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File inder "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
You'd like to think they were being ironic... Unfortunately they aren't.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: STEMO on 30 October 2024, 20:36:42
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
These people are like football managers. There's a finite amount of them, so they just get recycled between clubs. 'Your last club got relegated but it wasn't your fault? Ok, you'll do'
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 30 October 2024, 20:49:38
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
These people are like football managers. There's a finite amount of them, so they just get recycled between clubs. 'Your last club got relegated but it wasn't your fault? Ok, you'll do'
It's the 'Shit floats' school of management.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Raeturbo on 30 October 2024, 22:50:26
Yep, and another one….

https://www.thejc.com/news/politics/labours-new-justice-secretary-was-accused-of-encouraging-mob-rule-at-pro-bds-protest-buv7nom8
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 31 October 2024, 11:57:24
She's also signed the death warrant for family farming, but I suppose they aim to cover the countryside with solar panels and make us eat processed insect pap.  ::)
Processed insect pap? I'm liking the sound of that 😋

Compared with gristle and connective tissue of unknown origin you find in a Ginsters pasty it'll taste like steak.  :)
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: TheBoy on 31 October 2024, 13:01:43
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
Which is what HS2 needs to survive until completion of the current route from Brumingham to Wormwood Scrubs (the bit into Euston isn't funded yet).  So makes perfect sense to put him there, as he can then tell the government how wonder the pointless vanity project is.

We all know it needs scrapping.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 31 October 2024, 15:52:01
Surely your not suggesting theres corruption involved here ?  :D
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 31 October 2024, 17:37:54
Surely your not suggesting theres corruption involved here ?  :D
Nothing to suggest when it's as plain as the nose on your face.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: STEMO on 01 November 2024, 07:28:13
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
In the news

David Goldstone, who was announced in the Budget as chairman of the Office for Value for Money, will be paid £950 a day for an average commitment of one day a week, the Treasury said yesterday. The compensation amounts to £49,400 over the course of a year - equivalent to a full-time salary of £247,000 and significantly more than Sir Keir Starmer's £166,786 salary.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 November 2024, 10:16:36
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
In the news

David Goldstone, who was announced in the Budget as chairman of the Office for Value for Money, will be paid £950 a day for an average commitment of one day a week, the Treasury said yesterday. The compensation amounts to £49,400 over the course of a year - equivalent to a full-time salary of £247,000 and significantly more than Sir Keir Starmer's £166,786 salary.

That's value for taxpayers mony that is!  :y                                                                                      ;D
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Raeturbo on 01 November 2024, 18:29:30
That’s piss taking that is
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 November 2024, 18:36:40
It's like a merry go round of lucrative jobs for these people.  ::)

A couple of years being completely ineffective in one role, so they get shuffled off to another well paid job for a bit, before moving on again.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: LC0112G on 01 November 2024, 18:50:00
My sister called it Seagull Management, and the term seems apt.

They swoop in, do an awful lot of squawking, sh1t over everything, before flying off again.
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 November 2024, 22:00:53
Apparently our new champion for value for taxpayers money can't talk about HS2 because of conflict of interests!  :o    ::)     ;D

https://order-order.com/2024/11/01/new-value-of-for-money-chair-cant-discuss-hs2/
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Raeturbo on 01 November 2024, 23:03:57
My sister called it Seagull Management, and the term seems apt.

They swoop in, do an awful lot of squawking, sh1t over everything, before flying off again.
               Nice😄👍
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: STEMO on 07 November 2024, 18:38:27
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
Talking of HS2

https://news.sky.com/story/hs2-boss-reveals-163100m-bill-for-a-railway-line-bat-shed-that-isnt-needed-13250044

You really couldn't make it up
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 07 November 2024, 20:37:03
She ( or SKS) has appointed David Goldstone as Chairman of the new office of value for taxpayers money.
His previous job ? Several years on the board of HS2 !
File under "you couldnt make it up.  ;D
Talking of HS2

https://news.sky.com/story/hs2-boss-reveals-163100m-bill-for-a-railway-line-bat-shed-that-isnt-needed-13250044

You really couldn't make it up

That's bat shed crazy!!  :o  ::)
Title: Re: Fag packet maths...
Post by: Varche on 07 November 2024, 20:37:18
Crikey, that is bad. It is our( well your money) going down the pan.

Reading today about how the USA will under Trump , supported by Musk ( a man I wouldn’t invite to a dinner party) will cut away the things like consideration of bats, newts, rare habitats and so on so big projects can be done quickly. ( sounds like the Victorian era!)

There has to be a mid point just like there ought to be a mid point in politics. Extremes are good for no one except right or left wing nutters