Petition for New Election

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DoraGray · 25/11/2024 11:45

There is a petition on the Petition Section of the UK Government and parliament website calling for a new General Election.

These petitions can be signed by anyone and anyone with an email address and a postcode can sign it in a second and once any petition gains 100,000 signatures, Parliament has to consider debating it.

This particular petition has gained over 2 million signatures in a very short space of time and is gaining more every minute.

AIBU to think that the government should take it down or at the very least ignore it. It is an attempt by the far right to destabilise.

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DogInATent · 26/11/2024 20:09

caringcarer · 26/11/2024 19:34

I just heard on the radio on the way home a van making plant in Luton is closing at the end of March with 1100 jobs potentially going. They sited Labour carbon zero targets and increases to employers NI contribution as why it is happening.

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Would you like to buy a bridge?

PandoraSox · 26/11/2024 20:46

caringcarer · 26/11/2024 19:34

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It is not just in the UK that this sort of thing is happening in the car industry, though.

www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/20/ford-cuts-jobs-europe-uk-slowdown-ev-sales

www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/03/volkswagen-cuts-plan-sends-shock-through-the-detroit-of-east-germany

EasternStandard · 26/11/2024 20:50

DogInATent · 26/11/2024 18:24

Rain Newton-Smith, chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) on Monday said that businesses were in “damage control” mode following the Chancellor’s tax raid, with nearly two-thirds of employers cutting their hiring plans as a result.

UK industry has historically relied on low pay to compensate for low productivity. Of the G7 nations, the UK ranks 5th for productivity with only Italy and Japan being lower. UK industry investment crashed around Brexit and has remained low, and economic growth has tracked lower than for other nations over the same period of time. If a rise in labour costs c.3.5% (+/- 1.5% depending on sector) rise in labour costs doesn't trigger productivity investment, I'm not sure what will.

Economic growth has been stagnating for almost a decade whilst the cost of public services rises. This wasn't really a surprise to the CBI (which isn't as representative as it claims, in any case).

Growth was up in first half of the year

That's now pretty much stagnated plus private sector contraction

There'll need to turn that around, instead of decreasing as they are

noblegiraffe · 26/11/2024 21:11

Not sure criticising Labour for not turning around in 5 months what the Tories struggled to do in 14 years is particularly reasonable, particularly given the absolutely dire state of public services that they left the country with.

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