Posts by ArthurMow

Cheeky chappy rides horse around London filling station, singing: 'I don't need petrol 'cos he runs on carrots'

Do none of the 5.2m registered EU citizens want to drive a truck?

Not sure that a few hundred visas changes the available workforce much:

https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/07/02/are-there-really-6m-eu-citizens-living-in-the-uk/

Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

Pensioners need to pay more tax..

This: "Second, it would mean pensioners pay more tax. That's not really a vote winner."

May well be a vote winner now that young working age people are more likely to be in poverty than pensioners, and don't have a house or any prospect of buying one. I reckon 10 years until increased tax on the oldies is seen as the right thing to do.