Will that include jury service?

Nothing to see here….! 👍🏼

Can you imagine the people who have to live/work/be around with these saddoes! They’ve no other life than to kvetch about others. Pity ‘em & block the feckers.

Pity she wasn’t given a speaking slot, which would put her under pressure to actually speak to policy & performance & report what she’s doing for Wales.

Business got used to the idea that skills training & education would be paid for from the public purse or by students themselves. They bought into the idea of mobile supply of ready trained labour. Society incl employers having to get their heads around the fact that workforce > a necessary cost.

Yes. It’s been very expedient for successive governments & employer cohorts to ‘park’ people on NEETS or disability categories. It costs investment to build the workforce; employers used to have apprenticeships (costing £££) & FE/HE took up the slack. Businesses will always complain it’s too dear.

Supposedly Leftish indeed! I am hearing lots about young workers being edged out by employers’ preference for older ‘more reliable’ employees. Yet we are also told that older workers are exiting the workforce early in record numbers. So, which is it?

And, of course, the fact that a highly paid ‘senior’ political correspondent is only now turning from mischief-making to ACTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS 🧐

Noting that the article is nearly 10 years old(but the current trajectories are similar, I agree). Could upturn with focus on improving youth life chances.

Thing is, as a new immigrant, I was in the hotel jobs with Irish, Filipinos, Spanish, Italians etc. No Londoners would take them, Northern English took those jobs as Thatcherism destroyed their home towns & cities.

I’d be f*cked by current U.K. immigration thresholds: started off in hospitality industry; agency work; self-employed painter & decorator (funded me through a BA & MA). PhD scholarship to academic career. That wouldn’t happen now. Govs forget that people start low & then grow business or careers.

I’d be f*cked by current U.K. immigration thresholds: started off in hospitality industry; agency work; self-employed painter & decorator (funded me through a BA & MA). PhD scholarship to academic career. That wouldn’t happen now. Govs forget that people start low & then grow business or careers.

Eat up, pay up, f*ck off’ atmospheric.

Tell that to the Poles, the Nordic & Baltic states. They’re on the frontline.

Wipe your nostrils, you shysters, before you piss away granny’s savings again.

(Liberal) Europe has very recent history of dictatorship & autocratic violence. 1/3 citizens also want to FAFO like MAGA. But contemporary neofascist right is fundamentally radicalised and financed from the USA.

Some differences: Fascism followed economic catastrophe; European countries were competitive imperial powers or outright hostile to each other; America was not fanning the flames & direct encouraging Hitler, Mussolini, Franco. Today US is destroying its legacy on another continent.