That’s one year in isolation though Steve. You’re also looking solely at one type of investment too. The article also points out that although the investment amount is up against a backdrop of decline since 2016 the number of projects being invested in from foreign investment is down.Not sure that last statements quite true. Could we be more attractive to invest in, of course….maybe drop CT by half to irelands level although I’m not sure now is quite the time to be slashing CT, or agree to follow EUs agri/food/veterinary standards which I’m sure would help little. There is no doubt that political instability (shitshow) and the lack of clarity/barriers post brexit haven't helped us in recent years but to say we are an unattractive place to invest is factually incorrect
Foreign Direct Investment: UK grows as Europe declines
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in UK has grown with its European share of FDI increasing, largely driven by resurging digital investment.www.ey.com
UK most attractive for financial services investment
EY’s latest Attractiveness Survey for Financial Services finds the UK remains Europe’s most attractive destination for financial services investmentwww.ey.com
Not sure that last statements quite true. Could we be more attractive to invest in, of course….maybe drop CT by half to irelands level although I’m not sure now is quite the time to be slashing CT, or agree to follow EUs agri/food/veterinary standards which I’m sure would help little. There is no doubt that political instability (shitshow) and the lack of clarity/barriers post brexit haven't helped us in recent years but to say we are an unattractive place to invest is factually incorrect
Foreign Direct Investment: UK grows as Europe declines
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in UK has grown with its European share of FDI increasing, largely driven by resurging digital investment.www.ey.com
UK most attractive for financial services investment
EY’s latest Attractiveness Survey for Financial Services finds the UK remains Europe’s most attractive destination for financial services investmentwww.ey.com
Standards of living in this country are dropping like a stone and predicted to do so in to next year, something needs to be done.
For most people, whether the uk is an attractive place for foreign investors is neither here nor there and the fact it is doesn't seem to be having a positive affect on most people finances.
That’s one year in isolation though Steve. You’re also looking solely at one type of investment too. The article also points out that although the investment amount is up against a backdrop of decline since 2016 the number of projects being invested in from foreign investment is down.
But it’s one year in isolation. It doesn’t show you the bigger picture.Foreign direct investments is a pretty good barometer of our attractiveness though. Think we’ve been No 2 for the past few years. Agree there has been a decline since 2016 but my point was that doesn’t make us unattractive…less attractive fair enough
I’m actually surprised we are that high considering what’s happened over the last 18-24 months
I'm becoming more and more convinced that all the Tory advisors are fleeing the sinking ship and getting employed by Labour. It's so embedded with right wing theory he's making Blair look like Corbyn and is something you'd expect from a Tory party pre-Boris nutters. I know he'll be being told he needs to court Tory voters but he really is pushing that far right he's going to be alienating Labour supporters, but I guess he's taking it for granted that they won't change their vote, which I find a bit insulting actually.“Frankly, the left has to start caring a lot more about growth, about creating wealth, attracting inward investment and kickstarting a spirit of enterprise,”
Great Keir. And you’ve got a list of these magical growth policies that require zero spend have you? And decided not to pick up the Nobel Prize in Economics for such a discovery? How modest!
He’s going to actually have to do something at some point. He can’t keep making mom and apple pie statements and never actually commit to a policy.
Should start looking at it creatively at a local levelI’m even starting to think some form of PR may not be a bad thing - such is the state of our politics
I'm surprised you're letting it upset you. Normally a prospective next Government has to promise all kind of things in their attempt to get people on side to be elected. Here you have someone who will win regardless so can pretty much say what he wants and without over-promising, meaning he can easily achieve everything he sets out to and after term one will be able to say tick, tick, tick. If they have resource then they can tackle some of those problems and demonstrate how they've over-delivered.
The only hope is that if people aren't taken by what's on offer that the complacency means apathy or splitting the vote for an alternative somehow costing seats. It will still be a Labour majority , but with any luck Conservatives still get 200+ seats for a decent opposition, but I fear around 400+ Labour and that means everything simply waved through.
The point being though, that you need some kind of vision. And this government isn't just unpopular because of sleaze, but letting services crash to their knees. I'm sure people do want to see a plan for the NHS for a startI'm surprised you're letting it upset you. Normally a prospective next Government has to promise all kind of things in their attempt to get people on side to be elected. Here you have someone who will win regardless so can pretty much say what he wants and without over-promising, meaning he can easily achieve everything he sets out to and after term one will be able to say tick, tick, tick. If they have resource then they can tackle some of those problems and demonstrate how they've over-delivered.
The only hope is that if people aren't taken by what's on offer that the complacency means apathy or splitting the vote for an alternative somehow costing seats. It will still be a Labour majority , but with any luck Conservatives still get 200+ seats for a decent opposition, but I fear around 400+ Labour and that means everything simply waved through.
The point being though, that you need some kind of vision. And this government isn't just unpopular because of sleaze, but letting services crash to their knees. I'm sure people do want to see a plan for the NHS for a start
I wouldn't be able to name one thing Starmer stands for, let alone three things he'll be able to tick off as achievedafter term one will be able to say tick, tick, tick.
Shut up JeremyWould have thought he be honoured to have a nick name akin to that of his hero, Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher.
got more than double that in a couple of hours and then the GoFundMe appears to have been taken downOuch
Indeed.Centrist meltdown on Twitter.
Coalition of Corbynistas and tories are responsible for this apparently.
Starmer refusing to commit to ending an unpopular tory policy nothing to do with it of course.
Class sizes are predicted to fall dramatically in the coming years, ironically not due to political intervention, but because of the plummeting birth rate.Can I also say it’s a fucking disgrace that 25 years later and we still have class sizes over 30.
You know the solution will be to employ less teachers and / or close the school however, if it continues.Class sizes are predicted to fall dramatically in the coming years, ironically not due to political intervention, but because of the plummeting birth rate.
Already a couple of the better primary schools in Birmingham (where my daughter works) are saying they are actually undersubscribed for next September's intake. This has been unheard of before.
No, the solution will be to encourage more immigration.You know the solution will be to employ less teachers and / or close the school however, if it continues.
It will solve itself - there is already not enough teachers to go around. How long until a school has to close its doors because it can’t staff it.You know the solution will be to employ less teachers and / or close the school however, if it continues.
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