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Absolute scenes to see Tory-Lab on less than 50 seats combined. It’s credible that Labour get decimated across the board, a lot of polls had shown them only hanging in London and few other major metropolitan cities where they are particularly vulnerable to the Greens. The ‘Red Wall’ has always...

Not in my case because the leverage was on my side. It’s a great when you can play suppliers against one another. Likewise, a contract for an existing supplier has remained the same prices since 2021 because the competition in the sector has kept prices down otherwise businesses will change the...

Since we’re exchanging playful barbs… Do you even understand the difference between revenue and profit? 😉

On the macro level, the public sector produces less of it does and is measured on than pre-covid. Considering the technological advancements in the workplace, that tells you something. So we can go around in circles talking about how to measuring what nurses/teachers produce… the bottom line is...

They don’t and you know it deep down. Look at your comments on the NHS, £25bn or whatever has lead to no improvement. All the public sector pay rises and productivity is still behind COVID levels, this is an outlier in Europe. There’s no accountability in the public sector and when something...

So a small % of middle managers? What happens in the public sector if these people don’t deliver? In the private sector, they get sacked. Consider why public sector worker productivity is consistently behind that of the private sector. Without obfuscating about public sector productivity being...

Consultants are the worst. That is the one industry I cannot stand (especially and genuinely sneer at. They tell you the sky is blue and never actually make decisions of consequence themselves. Your second sentence supports what I said and exposes two things; 1) managers are in that small % I...

Not necessarily. The business I’m with had to absorb significant losses on 1-2 big contracts because of inflation driven by the war in Ukraine. Fixed term contracts are normal in the business world and in fact, a contract I’ve negotiated personally is fixed for 3 years. What you’re explaining...

With respect BSB, how many public sector workers ever had to do any of the following: - manage a budget - be responsible for cost saving initiatives - negotiate a contract/tender for business - fire someone for poor performance - make a business decision of consequences e.g. redundancies...

Do you ever tender for business or just accept the additional costs? One of the reasons I’ve kept operating costs in my area is that my supplier knows that I’ll tender their business if they increase my costs. Likewise, elsewhere in business, operating costs rose 30% post-COVID, so they...

It’s not sneering. If a cabinet was built of venture capitalists, we’d both be calling that out and be sceptical of their ability to manage public services. With that in mind, do you reckon the cabinet considered the impact of the NI hike on employers would play out in the real world? No...

Let’s explore the use of ‘real terms’, this is slippery. Have their budgets grown? Yes or no. In the private sector, if inflation is at ‘5%’ doesn’t mean you increase what you spend by 5%. That’s a terrible way of doing business. Whereas any budget increase below inflation in ‘public sector...

You can’t be serious? How many Labour run councils are bankrupt, or nearing bankruptcy? On the national level, Labour nicked one of Reform’s dumbest policy ideas (increasing NI on foreign workers) and applied it to the whole workforce. On Reform as a party, what are people’s reasonable...

Local councils are full of incompetency and corruption, made up of failed MPs. Irrespective of party allegiance. Our MPs are low grade, our councillors cut from the same cloth. If we’re going off local councils, the biggest shambles is Birmingham Council who is completely bankrupt… Of course...

Is anyone surprised that this has gone badly? Zarah Sultana’s politics is befitting of a uni student union than MP or potential party leader. Low grade politicians across the board.

Define ‘under resourced’. The NHS will get £246.8bn from now until the end of the parliament. The NHS budget has only grown, the question is by how much. No one can actually give a concrete figure of what the NHS ‘needs’. They can’t because it’s a money pit. Even under the last Labour...

Thankfully, Grimes’ durability is elite. He’s been playing 40+ games a season since the season we went down to L2. At a rough guesstimate, he’s missed about 15 games in the last 8 seasons through injury/suspension/wasn’t picked. In the absolute worst case scenario, Lampard will find a way to...

It’s funny because people were actually saying this last preseason.

The games now until Birmingham away are difficult. After this game we have more or less played the entire top half away from home. Only Bristol in the Top 6, no parachute teams away.

Thought it was a different and quality way to open the game to be honest! However, it must be said we’d have received pelters as a club if we didn’t win tonight and rightfully so!!!