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How is it meaningless? This is nonsensical point to make. You’ve got record levels of funding and increasing headcount in the public sector whilst less services are being delivered. You can blame ‘austerity’ as the boogey man but frankly, funding for the NHS and other areas still increased...

Let’s assume that’s true. The public sector was providing the same services in 1997 (healthcare, teaching, policing and so on) so explain how it’s not a bad thing that productivity has gone down?! We’ve had a tech revolution so how productivity hasn’t gone up should worry anyone.

Low income skilled migration certainly wouldn’t have helped. We’re one of the least automated economies in the developed economies. Ironically, Reeves’ employer NI raise has raised the costs of labour so businesses are accelerating the drive for automation (think more self-checkouts etc) as...

As a whole, the public sector productivity isn’t recovering expected. It was more productive in 1997 than it is now. I don’t think everyone being in the office would automatically fix that, but the figures in the public sector are particularly damning and something needs to change drastically...

I just can’t see being a product the club would expect to make much in ST wise. For corporations, the box is the better route and the balcony offering is a bit better for punters looking for a ‘premium’ product. The Mahou experience was fun when I did it, but the novelty would wear off...

To be honest, it seems like a cash cow for day trippers like away fans (who can’t get tickets) and corporate events. £150 a pop for unlimited booze till half time, a good meal and the game itself is not bad value. Most boozy away days would cost £150 in total for an adult if you include...

There’s clearly a balance to be struck which is why most workplaces does a hybrid go 3:2. I don’t disagree with much of this and 5 office days a week for me wouldn’t be practical. In relation to the civil service, the specific issue here is that the public sector productivity is declining. In...

The seats are central tbf… the lounge itself is to the side. It was a good experience as a one off, but much prefer being in the stands with fellow proles.

Missed the point. It’s all the optics around reduced services, productivity coupled with WFH. It wouldn’t be a problem if people could get through to someone instead of being bounced from automated voicemail to voicemail. It’s also an easy target for politicians to attack. In many cases...

The context is that the public sector’s productivity is decline. Most taxpayers definitely feel they can’t talk to a human at HMRC, be it face-to-face or on the phone. This isn’t a good look and most taxpayers probably feel that they should be in office.

Refugees welcome, British tourists go home… 😂

The NHS staff pay rises has certainly lead to borrowing increasing and almost definitely taxes in the autumn budget… but that’s another conversation to have later on in the year. On this topic, successive governments have chosen to be reliant on migrants to fill NHS roles. It’s systematically...

With the specific example you’ve raised, just reform the system so that refugee and asylum is granted temporarily with the expectation the claimants can return when safe to do so. Right now, the refugee and asylum systems are pathways to gain residency and this is not what was intended (at least...

Does anyone on here dabble in triathlons? I’m considering getting into the sport after trying a ‘sprint’ event last week on holiday. I finished 2nd to last, only finishing above a 77 year old veteran who smoked me in the swimming leg! 😂 My swimming was genuinely terrible.

Swansea signed Angel Rangel from a semi-pro team.

We’ve got Blackburn at home according to a ‘leak’ on social media. It probably isn’t credible.

The bureaucrat who came up with the acronym knew exactly what they were doing naming it FATCA… 😂

Yes, Denmark had v similar issues, made changes to their immigration system and it’s removed anxiety of the public over migration and it’s nullified their ‘far right’. Frankly, yes. I’m glad you use a healthcare worker as an example because the health and social care worker visa route has...

EEA migrants, yes. Non-EEA migrants, no. This pattern is repeated by all EU countries that monitor this (such as Denmark and the Netherlands). Why is it unreasonable? If you’re a net drain on the exchequer, the British taxpayer shouldn’t be paying for you. The public benefit test takes place...

What you’re describing is how Denmark allocates social housing which is actually a different policy area to immigration and asylum policies. With respect, you have conflated the two to turn around and say people making reasonable suggests are ‘cherry picking’. Your ‘all in or nothing’ approach...