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Search & Destroy, on 28 May 2024 - 08:33 PM, said:

Of course I would, I've been in business for years and signed contracts for millions with much bigger companies and organisations...

But you still have to know how to deal with people properly these days so as not to put your employer in court due to not treating people according to the law....

Saw a great one today, a lawyer who used the pronoun they posting on LinkedIn about a promotion, first reply by an old school lawyer saying "good man".... some people can be led to the water but they still dont drink...

Misnomer, on 28 May 2024 - 07:06 PM, said:

They are the party of business - 121 business leaders have signed a letter dont you know. Well some of them are business leaders, a few are leaders of dormant companies or used to lead businesses...

Couldnt agree more on the uni point - when I was at school about 10% stayed to 6th form and about half of them went to uni. When my daughter was in 6th form, 90% stayed on to 6th form and 90% of them went to uni. All they did was make a degree the expected base qualification...

Read a piece today about apprenticeships and some young lad was saying he was loving his apprentice train driver on ?50k a year... not surprised! But for many people (and my daughter would say she was one of them) on the job learning and getting paid is more appealing than uni studies...

 Search & Destroy, on 28 May 2024 - 06:52 PM, said:

Are you saying men can't be midwives? You really do need that D,E and I training... has your employer got any to offer? Maybe they need to recruit someone

 The Earl of Chesterfield, on 28 May 2024 - 06:47 PM, said:

It is understood at her request, but not following the police file?

I didn't get it wrong on PPR, you can't have two. She could have zero tax liability if the house had been improved... but that isn't the same as saying she told the truth.

So nope, if this was a Tory MP you wouldn't be giving up, and nor am I. The law is the law, you can only have one PPR so she didn't get tax advice saying otherwise...

The Earl of Chesterfield, on 28 May 2024 - 05:34 PM, said:

Its coming from clamping down on tax dodgers... a line taken straight from the Labour leaflet on how they are paying for stuff.... that and VAT on schools, which apparently could result in half of kids who would go to private school needing to be absorbed by the state in the next 5 years...

But thanks for confirming they are both as bad as each other!

PS in very basic economics they teach about elasticity of demand - what happens to demand as prices change. You find that necessities are inelastic - so demand changes little when price goes up and so revenue rises. For luxuries they tend to be elastic so demand goes down alot (a bigger precentage) when prices rise and so revenue falls. Private education is probably a luxury for many - so substitute price rise with "prices rise due to adding VAT" and see what will happen... This is month 1 of a GCSE course, you'd think Reeves and SKS would know that much...

As for the holiday, its half term, it was probably booked... would I go in his position, absolutely not!

s42blue, on 28 May 2024 - 06:21 PM, said:

and bizarrely criticising the Tories for using a line from the Labour funding money tree... apparently it can only be used by Labour, doesnt work for the Tories...