Dave A 🚜

This is the chef's kiss of Reform policy ideas. The perfect example of public appeal vs retarded policy. Which is really what Reform is all about. There are so many ways this would will be abused or backfire so I will list them all. 1. I said last night, company directors/owners will suddenly be earning 60 hours weeks every week (but not really). 2. Employee collusion - Business convert salaried roles to lower rate hourly pay, but pays fake "overtime". The employee gets more take home pay but the employer's payroll costs reduce. 3. Diversion - Many jobs don't pay overtime. Teachers for example. If they did, we'd be bankrupt. Why go into teaching on £35k a year when you could earn that on less hours with overtime elsewhere? Efficiently run company don't have overtime opportunities at all, making them less attractive than those that do. 4. Unfair advantage - Let's say your a small landscaping company employing 5 guys by gaming the system above. You have an unfair advantage over the bigger company playing by the rules. Jobs will be lost as smaller, less scrupulous companies gain advantage over those that play by the rules. 5. It shrinks the job market - Offering overtime becomes a recruitment advantage. In which case employing 5 people to do a job with overtime is better than employing 6 with none. 6. It can shrink productivity - It's now in your interest to stretch your workload over more hours or game the system. Which means more hours worked for the same production. 7. If you think the answer is that there will be increased compliance enforcement and auditing from an already overwhelmed HMRC when Reform want to cut the civil service I'm afraid you're mistaken.

Today will be the hottest day in May in the UK in our temperature records, with highs of 35 degrees Celsius expected📈 The current May record is 32.8 °C. Records are usually only broken by tenths of a degree - making this heatwave unprecedented for the time of year 🌡️

The right needs to unite to defeat the dangers of the left. Country before party, Britain before ego. As a Tory, I’ve said I think the Tories should not have stood in Makerfield. Same goes for Restore. This is not any old election. It is a very specific one where the national interest should trump other considerations.

The government has confirmed that its new packaging tax will go ahead despite it adding 0.5% to inflation. Food inflation is expected to rise to 7% by the start of 2027, says the Bank oh England, with the packaging tax a significant factor. The tax is causing not just inflation but also the destruction of the British glass manufacturing sector. Encirc, which produces roughly a third of all the glass bottles in the UK — 3 billion annually — is threatening to withdraw a £500m investment unless the tax is withdrawn. But for Labour more tax is always the priority. 1/2