Farmer Saint

On the farm today. Non-exec is not a full time job you know.

Too funny you getting stuff wrong over and over and over and over and over... Tell me again about your Dubai mates who are worried about their kids inheritance.

It's actually more a measure of confidence in British based business v other countries stock markets, considering the majority of investments into stock markets tends to be global index funds invested in by pension funds and insurance companies.

Welfare spending increased by £334 billion? Where the fuck did you get that figure from? More asking AI to do your homework for you I guess. The fact that you think it increased by 1.5 times the budget of the NHS shows you have no fucking grasp of figures and/or the ability to verify your very dodgy figures. What a chump.

I think he agrees with tax avoidance TBF...it's only benefits cheats that he doesn't agree with.

An additional odd bit of news - obviously not conclusive, but interesting 🤔

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg4gzr56wd2t Good news, hopefully another interest rate cut on the way, which should lead to higher investment, increased spending and a better economic position.

I think this changes authority by authority. I had to take one of my daughters friends to A&E in early December after a broken arm in a skating accident, and she was in a cast and back at the skate park within 80 minutes. We were amazed and told another parent who had a similar experience two weeks earlier with a broken wrist. Maybe they were just good at doing arms.

Based on what Alex posted, why are you assuming that those in A&E contribute the least?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33j7m7y17xo FFS...

Not sure about abolishing the NHS improving the economy - it would obviously allow us to spend elsewhere though.

And yet the FTSE is smashing it, so large businesses are doing well (as they use technology to replace people). I'm not sure why you thought a Labour government would necessarily improve the economy greatly - we had/have broken public services after years of managed decline from the Conservatives. You couldn't genuinely have thought they would not put more money into public services? It's a Labour government. Either way the economy has improved, just maybe not as much as you had hoped. Who did you vote for at the last election?

What was the growth in 2023 (0.3%)? How was 2018 and 2019 (1.4%)? Very similar to Labour was it not? Not sure this is the victory lap you think it is, employers NI is a far bigger barrier to employment than minimum wage.

You want my genuine reason for these unemployment figures. AI is already driving a lot of entry level jobs out of existence. It's something one of the firms I'm working with is doing with data entry/harvesting. Those jobs that were previously employed in the UK (or outsourced more recently) are starting to move to AI. There needs to be a genuine drive to protect jobs, and the Government is sitting on it at the moment.

The COVID bounce-back years that I referred to you mean? It would be useful if you read what is written. Why the fall in 16 & 17 year old unemployment then, they are more likely to be on minimum wage than those in the slightly older bracket? Or are they choosing to employ more younger people to ensure they don't have to pay above minimum wage?

Surely that's got to be an advantage of being an estate agent?

Unemployment for 16 & 17 year olds has fallen though, so don't think it has anything to do with the minimum wage. Benefits and Employers NI though, that's where the big issue is. What is odd is it is matching 2015 though - what was the reason for high youth unemployment then? At least the economy is still outpacing anything the Tory's could do outside COVID bounce-back over the last 8 years. Got to have some positives.

I thought he was an estate agent.

Aliens are inevitable. That they visit us and probe Wisconsin hillbillies is another thing altogether.

What encouragement for business growth would you like to see?

More votes to be taken from Reform TBF.

100%, it was clumsy language, but he apologised for it. End of.

That's it's. It's more ageist and misogynistic in my eyes, but I have no doubt that the people doing it are white.

How is it a bizarre point? You're saying Neville should be investigated if Ratcliffe is because what Neville said is more racist - and yet you agree with what Neville said. The problem with "colonised" is the implications and historical connotations of the word, hence why what he said is worse. Either way, neither should be charged with anything.