Liz Truss Said

[transam]

Smogg is responsible for meeting energy requirements. A known climate change sceptic. It seems he has changed his mind and realised it's a serious problem now.

However some one recorded him talking to some people while canvassing. One was saying we beat the germans during the wars. Mogg's reply an emphatic yes we did. He'd do the same sort of thing talking to climate change sceptics.

Exactly smogg is an asset to the government / UK

 

[Munroast]

Productivity and margin are not the same thing though. Productivity is related to how much is produced per person, whereas margin is related to how much profit should be made per item produced.
Obviously if productivity reduces, so does the margin, but whether a particular sector is high or low margin isn't relevant.

Productivity is affected by so many factors aside from the one Liz Truss herself was heard to suggest - that workers in this country are lazy.

Some other reasons:
Poor working conditions
Lack of investment in tools, machinery, technology, software, training
Lack of options for progression
Bosses who aren't good motivators, or worse, actually demotivate workers
Lack of incentives
Poor health, perhaps due to poverty

I could go on...

or being stupidly overweight - was in a city today and just amazed at the amount of fat people, some seem barely capable of walking down the street let alone be productive in a job. Their is a lot of people who have eaten so much food they can barely walk let alone work.

 

[Trazor]

or being stupidly overweight - was in a city today and just amazed at the amount of fat people, some seem barely capable of walking down the street let alone be productive in a job. Their is a lot of people who have eaten so much food they can barely walk let alone work.

Don't worry our new Health secretary will sort that out.....

 

[Notch7]

There was no mention of tax cuts for cheese.

I was most disappointed.

 

[Munroast]

Don't worry our new Health secretary will sort that out.....

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I thought you were joking at first - but you're not

 

[JP_]

After 2 months of smoke and mirrors, people are finally remembering why Boris left in the first place...

Same old story, same old politics, if you don't have a couple if mil in safe shares, you're screwed.

At least the mince pies are on the shelves in the supermarkets. Merry Christmas!

Hmmm, might not bother with outside Christmas lights this year. Or a turkey.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

So, let's say we have some train driver on £60k a year, free travel, free other perks and a good pension pot, and works only 35 hours a week. That could be deemed unproductive, even though the train driver may think he should have more money and spend even less time sitting at the front of a train turning a lever for a few hours.

The description of the £60k train driver is not complete without mentioning that he spent a good part of 2 years on furlough money whilst the minimum wage delivery driver still worked AND he now wants to strike for more pay.

 

[Justin Passing]

Lucky train drivers.
Many of them were working on full pay.

 

[Justin Passing]

 

[Deleted member 18243]

What's wrong with reopening the mines?

After our mines closed we bought and all used coal from foreigners who worked down the mines for less money.

Hypocrit!

 

[RonnyRaygun]

The description of the £60k train driver is not complete without mentioning that he spent a good part of 2 years on furlough money whilst the minimum wage delivery driver still worked AND he now wants to strike for more pay.

Plus, of course, they aren’t paid for the complexity of pushing a lever, they are paid for the unsociable hours and the responsibility of getting thousands of people safely to their destinations every day, which involves having to stay alert at all times for any changes in signalling or conditions. One lapse of concentration and it’s a literal train wreck.
Thankfully, train crashes are vanishingly rare due to the very good job that the drivers do.

If the trains don’t run on time that’s rarely due to the job the drivers are doing.

Plus, also remember the train drivers are / were striking in solidarity with other rail workers on much lower wages for whom a pay rise may be essential to see them through the winter.

 

[Notch7]

The description of the £60k train driver is not complete without mentioning that he spent a good part of 2 years on furlough money whilst the minimum wage delivery driver still worked AND he now wants to strike for more pay.

That’s tosh

the trains were running throughout pandemic.

 

[Notch7]

What's wrong with reopening the mines?

After our mines closed we bought and all used coal from foreigners who worked down the mines for less money.

Hypocrit!

So you aren’t a supporter of Margaret Thatcher then Andy

 

[motorbiking]

Train drivers are paid the salary because of collective bargaining. In a supply and demand model a job pays the amount necessary to get the right skill and experience. if we paid people according to the criticality of the work - Social media consultants would be on minimum wage and nurses in the 50% tax bracket.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

What's wrong with reopening the mines?

After our mines closed we bought and all used coal from foreigners who worked down the mines for less money.

Hypocrit!

Ask Thatcher ?

It was hailed as 1 of her sucess'.

But I wouldn't want to go back to opening them up. Time has moved on.