Budget 2024

[bluethrunthru]

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an estimated 75k jobs have been lost thanks to their installation - its also estimated over half of the increased thieving is not due to these vids you see of a gang raiding the fridge in a Tesco Express its down to people dodging payments on self checkouts.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

an estimated 75k jobs have been lost thanks to their installation - its also estimated over half of the increased thieving is not due to these vids you see of a gang raiding the fridge in a Tesco Express its down to people dodging payments on self checkouts.

Yeah, but self service checkouts don’t silently judge you when you’re buying some rubber gloves, a cucumber and some Vaseline.

 

[bluethrunthru]

I suspect the most abused part is the "look up item" on any of them ........................ hmmm Pink Lady Apples at £3 a gram - if I just confidently push the screen where it says Gala Apples at 30p a tonne like who would know ..................

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I suspect the most abused part is the "look up item" on any of them ........................ hmmm Pink Lady Apples at £3 a gram - if I just confidently push the screen where it says Gala Apples at 30p a tonne like who would know ..................

Birthday cards are much cheaper as carrots too.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Birthday cards are much cheaper as carrots too.

there is a reason why they don't sell loose caviar then?

 

[BlueAnorak]

Major job losses coming up in the hospitality sector before Christmas. Many pubs are no longer viable due to increased Employer NICs and si may close.
This is on the back of private care homes announcing trouble last week and a number of manufacturing companies decided to pack up in the UK last week due to increased Employee NICs.

Jacking up employee costs by 2.5% tends to do that.

Of course prices coukd go up 5% to pay for it. 2.5% for employee costs and 2.5% for increased material costs.
Of course, inflation taking the hit will drive up interest rates up that will cist business even more money.

 

[117 M34]

Major job losses coming up in the hospitality sector before Christmas. Many pubs are no longer viable due to increased Employer NICs and si may close.
This is on the back of private care homes announcing trouble last week and a number of manufacturing companies decided to pack up in the UK last week due to increased Employee NICs.

Jacking up employee costs by 2.5% tends to do that.

National insurance doesn't change until April so any job losses before then are using it as an excuse

 

[BlueAnorak]

National insurance doesn't change until April so any job losses before then are using it as an excuse

So businesses should take the hit when it happens rather than preparing for it?
Business doesn't work like that I'm afraid. Especially as redundancies also cost money and have to be paid for.

 

[117 M34]

So businesses should take the hit when it happens rather than preparing for it?
Business doesn't work like that I'm afraid. Especially as redundancies also cost money and have to be paid for.

Getting rid of staff right before the busiest time of the year might not be the best business move

 

[BlueAnorak]

Getting rid of staff right before the busiest time of the year might not be the best business move

Maybe but it will happen ahead of April

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I’m just wondering who’s going to be left after everybody fucks off?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I’m just wondering who’s going to be left after everybody fucks off?

Just the grooming gangs. There’ll be no one to point them out.

 

[bluethrunthru]

people like this grifter doing articles presumably for pay to identify with refugee's - he could always buy a dinghy - or in his case a yacht and flee to somewhere that will save him - if he gets a big enough one he could take some of his fellow fleeing refugee's with him

Jeremy Clarkson rages UK is being 'ethnically cleansed' of farmers for 'new towns for immigrants' in furious rant

The Clarkson's Farm star has continued his tirade against the government's inheritance tax raid

www.gbnews.com

 

[bluethrunthru]

I’m just wondering who’s going to be left after everybody fucks off?

from memory only Pastor Martin Niemoller

 

[TinFoilHat]

As expected the big corps threatening to sack people because they have to pay some more tax.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

As expected the big corps threatening to sack people because they have to pay some more tax.

Well, how do you expect them to make those billions of profit and dividends for their shareholders, while we, the tax payer, subsidise their business.

The reality, it will be put on prices and they won’t lose anything.

 

[Manc in London]

Major job losses coming up in the hospitality sector before Christmas. Many pubs are no longer viable due to increased Employer NICs and si may close.

Most pubs I go to literally have a handful of staff and I would expect they are pretty much paid minimum wage. The impact would be marginal. I would suggest their business model is not viable if a 2.5% rise in employers NIC makes them 'fall over'. What would they do without the business rate relief they have benefited from?

This is on the back of private care homes announcing trouble last week and a number of manufacturing companies decided to pack up in the UK last week due to increased Employee NICs.

The private care home industry whose profits have increased by around 30% since the pandemic, while massively overcharging local authorities and paying crummy salaries to care workers? My eyes are welling up.


This is reminiscent of the guff about private schools going bust, even though independent research has suggested it is nonsense. No doubt most articles about this are in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph.

 

[N1985]

Yeah, but self service checkouts don’t silently judge you when you’re buying some rubber gloves, a cucumber and some Vaseline.

Take them to the till. Live dangerously

 

[hampshireblue]

The Times on Saturday: Page 45, IAG (BA owner) moans because the NI change will add £20m to costs. Page 52, IAG buy back £300m shares with excess cash, whilst anouncing 10% increase in profits to £2bn in 9 month period. Profit margin is 22%. Oh dear!

 

[bluethrunthru]

Well, how do you expect them to make those billions of profit and dividends for their shareholders, while we, the tax payer, subsidise their business.

The reality, it will be put on prices and they won’t lose anything.

the reality is that this will restore the NI contribution back to where it was before Hunt reduced it in 2023. On the back of that reduction I don't recall the same employers responding with joy and announcing investment in the business and a recruitment spree