to ask how you would stop companies and investors leaving the UK?

If you have a read around, many are probably paid much less - evidently the pressure to work 60 hours a week is intense, and many employees seem to be paid the equivalent of £35 - £40k equivalent, so not great (and that's for analyst roles, not the cleaning staff), and ridiculously low for someone working a 60 hour week.

What about Amazon - do you think their warehouse staff are paid fairly, considering their toil has put Bezos where he is?

Do spacex employees get paid minimum wage?

Most of these multi billionaire types only got where they are by paying thousands of people minimum wage.

Very easy to say from the rarified atmosphere of your ivory tower. Try reading the room.

I don't need to. However if others need to, it's doable.

There are fraudsters in all communities and in the grand scale of things wealthier people pay a far higher % in this country than others. It’s not like there’s no lower threshold and everyone pays 20% on everything. You earn more you start paying a higher % on that. You earn less you pay a lower % and for those on less than £12570 you pay nothing! and are entitled to benefits

Why is their "fair share" always a larger % that anyone else is expected to pay

Maybe that's because they pay their fair share of taxes and dont try to weedle out of paying anything they can?
2 way street innit

Yes, we know. We also know that you don’t even work full time. Maybe you should practise what you preach.

Hs2 costs have mostly risen due to the utterly abysmal construction contracts used. A competent organisation would not agree what are effectively cost plus contracts where the construction firms invoice their costs plus overheads and profit - there is no fixed price or even inflation linked price so wage and overspending is encouraged all the way down the subcontractors and consultants.

He also said Labour’s economic plans wouldn’t work and we’re looking at slow anti growth measures impacting rn. Then autumn budget with higher taxes incoming.

The partygate thing was ridiculous, walking into a meeting and having a drink. Nonsense

People wanted Starmer and co so we’ll see how it goes. Not too well going by ratings.

Rishi Sunak specifically said that Liz Truss would cause a mess and she did.

HS2 costs have overrun due to the stupid planning laws in this country. The COVID loans were done with minimal vetting due to the extent of the crisis and that they immediately needed to help people. Chasing every single fraudulent claim would have had costs as well.

His fines were just political opportunism. Especially the partygate fine, he did absolutely nothing wrong. He just entered a meeting room too early and happened to walk into an impromptu celebrations.

Rishi Sunak also wanted to end the sick not culture and get more people working. Rishi Sunak believes in work

Thank you.

The main reasons the City is in the dire state it is now are:

a) the huge drift of pension funds out of UK equities, some of which is because of government policy, some of which is to do with pension funds' risk aversion, much of it is to do with a negative spiral caused by the damage to stock valuations from Brexit...

b) Brexit itself. I know how these threads always go so shoot me, but it was blindingly obviously at the time that decoupling the London market from continental Europe was going to have a seriously negative impact on our markets. But that, of course, was waved away as "project fear".

One of the many many bitter ironies about Brexit is that many of the people who have benefited most from the historical strength of the City of London (people in the satellite towns in Kent and Essex who were massively enriched by working in the City or industries connected to it) were the people who voted in this massive act of economic self-sabotage in the interests of "taking back control". I know we're not allowed to call them idiots but at the very least its fair to say they weren't thinking straight.

Deep sigh....

Ha ha He and his party created the storm though didn't they? Truss, uncontrolled spending, corruption, look at HS2 and Sunak writing off £29billion of spending... highest asylum pp spending in the world.... unbelievable really.

So you think his fines were all part of a conspiracy, the authorities out to get him, maybe it was Murdoch because his parents didn't have Sky?

#PoorRishi

Inflation is one of those things govts have little control over, now they cannot even set interest rates.

Nope, i don't want more state support, i want less, people should, when at all possible, stand on their own 2 feet & work, so i don't agree with the wasteful WFA changes, far to generous.

When you read on here I think many don’t want it, they want to grow state support instead.

I've also been thinking 80 hour weeks aren't all that bad.

There are 7*24 = 168 hours in a week

You sleep 8 hours a day that's 112 hours left.

You work 80 hours. You have 32 hours left each week for recreation

For me. I think we should invest a lot in stem education and training. Apart from dysalculia and severe learning disabilities it shouldn't be seen as acceptable just to be "bad at maths".

The U.K. needs rich people and rich companies to invest in stock exchange companies - we have few of either. And many of our rich people are Chinese or Middle Eastern or Indian with the freedom to invest anywhere.
Whenever some Cambridge research establishment comes up with anything it’s snapped up by Silicon Valley or similar.
I think we are stuffed but we could be doing more to get non workers working -there seems to be a shortage of tradespeople everywhere but many people on benefits.
And constant new regulations making it harder to employ people.
We need to toughen up and some pips need squeaked but govs are scared to do anything.

Well that works if you want to remain American.
I didn’t think you paid tax in Texas…..

Does Texas Have a State Income Tax?
No, Texas does not have a personal or corporate state income tax. This means:

• Individuals do not pay state tax on wages, salaries, or retirement income.
• Businesses do not pay a corporate income tax.

And look where that’s got us.

Brexit allowed us to treat all immigration fairly. We didn't just prioritise from the EU, we treated the world fairly.

His 2 fines were BS. For Boris' birthday party in 2020 he happened to walk into a meeting room a bit early and just joined in and had some snacks and drinks in a room they were already having a meeting in.

When he was PM he was fined for not having a seatbelt in the back of a car in a video on social media.

In July 2024 inflation was around 2.2%. back down to normal levels

As for the negative growth and then the growth at the end. We had weathered the storm and had come out stronger thanks to Rishi

Yes, would be the biggest thing any Govt could do, whether its possible is another matter.

Yet another reason to know Sunak is incompetent, he is a hard core Brexitier.

Yep agree with this and @Gagcaa

Anyway we are here now with Starmer and Reeves, plus the rest of Labour. They seem to have painted themselves into a corner, we'll see how they deal with negative growth results today and budget in Autumn.

Reverse Brexit. We were warned before what would happen.