@WilliamClouston It's a 'before school' club not a breakfast club. It's on brand for the Labour Party to make it about feeding the poor. Left and right are both getting over excited about a piece of toast.
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Dr Daff
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All children should receive a good lunch at school. Breakfast, however, is a family responsibility. In a healthy society the state has no business here.
Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP
Enjoyed Kemi’s quip about free breakfast clubs being a defining legacy of this Labour government. When the Tories deride breakfast clubs, it shows how out of touch they still are. A £450 saving is a lot for working families. Easing the morning rush makes a big difference.
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@cmwrawcliffe Working in a coffee shop is not and never should be seen as a primary income. It should provide a second/supplementary income or a job for students/backpackers.
If coffee shop work is considered a primary income that requires at least £15ph our jobs market is royally f@&ked.
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If you can't pay people a wage they can live on, your business is subsidised by the state. And that's NOT a sound business model.
The economically illiterate person is you, pretending to be a good businessman while expecting others to support you through their taxes .
Peter McCormack 🏴☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪@PeterMcCormack
A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.
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@DaleJohnsonBBC Feel free to show me where the two types of standing foot are defined and differentiated. Isak was not shooting with a standing foot for balance when contact was made. His foot was planted (your words) post shot.
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A look at some key VAR incidents:
📌 Should Van de Ven have been sent off for Isak tackle?
📌 Natural collision or serious foul play?
📌 Simons red
📌 Why did Garnacho escape?
📌 Should Ekitike's goal have been ruled out?
➕ Comparisons of past cases
bbc.co.uk/sport/football…
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@DaleJohnsonBBC Semantics. So a foot he is standing on is not a standing foot. Got it, thanks.
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@Dr_Daff That's not what a standing foot is defined as in these terms.
A standing foot is the foot which is used for balance when releasing a shot.
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@DaleJohnsonBBC So we agree. The leg he was standing on when Van der
Ven made contact with it, out of control and with excessive force.
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@Dr_Daff He didn't. It was the leg which Isak shot with. He planted that leg and it ended up between Van de Ven's.
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@Dr_Daff That would be true if Van de Ven had gone through Isak's standing leg.
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@DaleJohnsonBBC @pmcobb @slbsn For me both should be offside, way too subjective. A rule that any player within the width of the goal and inside the 6yd box is automatically active and interfering with play.
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After last night's article, it's worth showing the clear difference between the Liverpool offside, and Man City's goal v Wolves which was onside through VAR.
At no point is Bernardo Silva near the flight of the ball.
Andrew Robertson ducked out of the path of the ball.
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@Johnnybwes24890 @Robwomble @Watch_n_Wait @FUDdaily In my personal experience 4 hours of focused working from home without distraction would take 2 days working in an open plan office.
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@Robwomble @Watch_n_Wait @FUDdaily If a "day's work" can be completed by lunch if you're not in an office, then you've still only done half a day's work.
Workers are typically paid by time, not on a "piece-work" basis.
Your "logic" goes some way to explain why uk productivity is so low.
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So what? Most bureaucrat jobs can be done from home. Ultimately, it comes down to work ethic. If people have no work ethic working at home, they're not going to have one in the office either. It's for management to know who has one or not. There is no spyware tech solution that can determine who is effective or not - and nobody would want to work for an employer that spies on them all the time.
Shop floor mentality like this rapidly makes for a toxic, demoralising workplace where fearful workers do performative make-work tasks that just corrode their motivation, trust, and goodwill, and it does nothing for productivity.
If you then fire on the basis of who is doing the least pointless busywork, you end up keeping the dross and losing the independent thinkers and innovators who manage their time well and do out of hours work. Employees have to be assessed on outcomes, not as mouse-wigglers.
Home working is one of the very few good outcomes from lockdown, which has vastly improved the lives of office workers who otherwise have to spend hours a day pointlessly commuting at enormous expense, to endure endless distractions, useless gossiping, and pointless meetings. Take home working away and most of your best people will be looking for alternate employment. The suggestion that everyone in the public sector who works from home is a shirker is precisely the sneering Tory attitude that will lose Reform public sector votes.
Zia Yusuf@ZiaYusufUK
Kent County Council spends £100,000,000 of taxpayer money per year on employees that ‘work from home’. Reform’s DOGE team spent several days there and the office was a wasteland. Nobody working. The CEO says these employees have monitoring software on their laptops but she does not “actively check” whether their employees are using them. Kent Council is refusing point blank any analysis of the (anonymised) data. I wonder why? There is much, much more to reveal about just how much Kent Council is taking advantage of taxpayers.
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In the interim, we do need seasonal workers, not least because it is skilled labour and those on seasonal visas are experienced farm workers who work across Europe. Farms have tried increasing their pay offer, but native workers tend to be slow to pick up the skills and are hopelessly unreliable. They do a few days and then vanish.
Ideally, we need agriculture to invest in agri-botics, but there is nothing wrong in principle with a seasonal workers visas, so long as it is not abused in the way that care visas are, as a back door immigration scam. We will always have to make provision for offshore and fisheries workers too. It's a dirty, dangerous job, and many wouldn't do it for all the money in the world. I'm all for minimal immigration, but any system we adopt must be pragmatic, at least in the interim. Fixing immigration is going to take a decade or more.
Thales@thalesofbucks
@FUDdaily people do come and go, but we don't 'need' seasonal immigrant workers. Brits used to do it all
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@CoderPW @BladeoftheS Norway seems to manage just fine. Were we in the SM there would have been no NI protocol or backstop or any other supposed EU trap. If anything staying in the SM would have neutered the EUs negotiating position and strengthened the UKs.
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Right but the EU's insistence on putting conditions on retaining access that would threaten the peace between Ireland and Northern Ireland was the issue.
The UK had no option but to opt out.
It's like arguing that everyone in the US has access to excellent healthcare because the hospitals exists when the reality is that you have to be well off financially to benefit. "you can be healed of any ailment, just bankrupt yourself for us".
"you can do it if you want, you just have to crap on local peace treaties for us" is not a reasonable choice.
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The UK never voted to leave the Single Market.
In fact we were promised we wouldn't leave it.
So why can we not rejoin it?
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@CoderPW @BladeoftheS Had we chosen to stay in the SM the EU wouldn't have been able to use Ireland as leverage. The SM would have solved most of the Ireland border issues.
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You also forget that the EU played games with our issues in Ireland that were settled b opening old wounds and trying to play the Irish off against one another by drawing hard lines on rules because they wanted a hard border with stricter rules if they couldn't "govern" us, a bigger concern at the time.
Pure communist dictatorship behavior.
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@CoderPW @BladeoftheS I took issue with "That was never an option" that's all. Ever closer union is what you sign up to as an EU member, it does not exist as part of the EEA treaty (single market only).
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Yeh ok ... Every "deal" negotiated with the EU had the principle that they still talk about today baked in "ever closer union" ... which means "Brussels gets final say on any disputes", our failure to accept that was the issue then I guess.
Barnier is a liar, does everything behind closed doors, we've seen that with their attempted censoring of this platform.
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@CoderPW @BladeoftheS It was very much an option. The Govt officially set out the Norway model as an option before the referendum. gov.uk/government/pub…
And it was step 1 on the Barnier staircase of Brexit options.
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That was never an option, a vote for Brexit was a vote for exiting the single market.
The EU made that perfectly clear before the referendum.
The only reason we can't rejoin it though is politicians with egos.
They make the rules and can change them or decide we aren't breaking them at any point, but they won't because the EU is an elitist club of fascists that want control over everything.
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@StephenBowles62 @Colin2482 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter You both seem to misunderstand what should be a rather simple point. Coote isn't the problem, it's the organisation that that enabled his bias and behaviour to go unchallenged.
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@Dr_Daff @Colin2482 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter The officials which you distrust so much ,that currently officiate in the PL and the EFL are all under the PGMOL, so as Colin said their the same personal. PGMOL sack Coote, PGMOL disband,Coote can still referee as his not part of PGMOL thats basically your plan going forward.?
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David Coote’s career, certainly at any significant level, is obviously over. He wasn’t a particularly good referee but it looks like he needs help. And some new friends. This is a personal and professional humiliation for him and also deeply damaging for the refereeing community. Refs are going to have their decisions questioned even more. PGMOL has a major task on its hands to restore faith in officials. It’s not a great generation of refs but it’s worth remembering that there’s never been more simulation and scrutiny and they are human beings.
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@Colin2482 @StephenBowles62 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter It has too much autonomy and not enough transparency. Compromised refs are a symptom, PGMOL is the cause.
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@Colin2482 @StephenBowles62 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter PGMOL has created a close-knit, defensive culture of us vs them with some suspecting that protecting mates comes ahead of sporting integrity.
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@StephenBowles62 @Colin2482 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter They don't have to be employed by PGMOL.
Referees won't vanish into thin air if you get rid of PGMOL.
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@Dr_Daff @Colin2482 @Kroyston_ @MrProWestie @henrywinter So if we're not using any officials that are currently employed by the PGMOL that work in the top 5 leagues, where are we suddenly getting all these new officials from ?
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