6 Months On From The Election.....

Freya5

Casdon

Other than an above inflation minimum wage rise and this do you mean mae13?
www.gov.uk/government/news/15-million-to-help-charities-get-spare-produce-to-those-in-need

Yes that's a positive, but along with National Insurance rise and other business costs, higher costs passed onto consumer, business will not take on employee if one leaves, they won't employ more people. Why don't you listen to businesses before putting this rise as a positive.
See what CBI have to say about this.

CBI is writing from the perspective of businesses Freya5, and would never support paying more to employees, that’s not what they are about. However not paying people a wage they can live on, and forcing them to rely on universal credit support and foodbanks is not the way forward.

Reeves is said to be backing a new application for the Rosebank oilfield, much to the chagrin of Milliband and others. The government (presumably at the behest of Milliband) is apparently going to prevent renewal of exploration applications so Lord knows how that will turn out. Meanwhile the head of GB Energy has said that it will take 20 years to provide the 1000 new jobs Starmer promised for Aberdeen, and my car and millions of others, as well as millions of homes, will continue to require fossil fuels for many years to come. What an unholy mess.

Maybe we need a government that is doing things that will take years to come to fruition. Doesn’t Japan have a ministry for forward planning? We need to stop thinking of quick fixes for problems and look at things in the long term. Maybe that’s one of the problems of having fixed term governments that have to achieve things quickly.