tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post7573397451391304008..comments2024-03-18T16:33:31.633+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Boris-Cummings in tactical nuclear strike on RemainiaCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-67877988777034020942019-08-29T17:05:00.427+01:002019-08-29T17:05:00.427+01:00"I do not see a way out of this"
A labo...<i>"I do not see a way out of this"</i><br /><br />A labour shortage, then suddenly firms will find all kinds of clever people who didn't have the paperwork. With a labour surplus AND a degree surplus, the HR people can be lazy.<br /><br />I trained as an IT bod in the mid 80s on the strength of A levels and an IQ test - they were desperate to find people. My course was full of clever 28 year old drop outs dropping back in again. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-8513078024130320312019-08-29T13:19:58.407+01:002019-08-29T13:19:58.407+01:00It has become clear that whilst ~50% of the youth ...It has become clear that whilst ~50% of the youth are studying for a degree, 50% of the jobs do not require someone with the training a degree provides.<br /><br />The unfortunate thing is that for a lot of the 'better' jobs you need a degree (or more) otherwise you dont have your CV read by a human, never mind an interview.<br /><br />I do not see a way out of this.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-85873364987139000212019-08-29T12:48:54.599+01:002019-08-29T12:48:54.599+01:00Jim, our own elite hates Brexit - which is why it ...Jim, our own elite hates Brexit - which is why it hasn't happened more than 3 years after the vote.<br /><br /><i>"the next wave will be to trim the middle classes"</i><br /><br />That was happening way before Brexit. I wrote in my blogging days that those who celebrated the decline of unions would find that "market forces" would come for them too. <br /><br />Just look at what the average middle class 60 year old inherited compared with what their children inherit.<br /><br />Free university education - gone<br />Paid nursing education - gone <br />Final salary pensions - gone <br />Affordable housing - gone<br />Relatively safe city streets - gone<br /><br />I have supervised 22 year olds with 2-1s from Russell Group unis (and in one case Cambridge) on £15,000 a year. <br /><br />(The nursing disaster is going to kill people. Back in the day you hit the patients wards and bedpans from almost day 1, and some people soon found they weren't cut out for it, and that was a good thing for them to discover asap (it's why first year med school exams are stinkers - get the people who are going to fail out in year 1 not year 4). Now you might be massively in debt by the time you find that out, and may have to continue into nursing when you really shouldn't be there) <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-41789121121345319242019-08-29T12:25:52.179+01:002019-08-29T12:25:52.179+01:00Not the time to abide by the Climate Change Act th...Not the time to abide by the Climate Change Act then, Jim. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18590269591470939162019-08-29T12:09:40.298+01:002019-08-29T12:09:40.298+01:00Sad to say I don't think a slow decline is sus...Sad to say I don't think a slow decline is sustainable and I do recognise the decline in real wages across much of the West may have led to the call for Brexit. This looks to be a widespread and common problem and one that will get worse. Even Germany will suffer at least some of this problem. We will be competing with all of Europe selling pork pies and fancy pencils to the South Seas, its the only game in town.<br /><br />The trouble is that we humans are limited. Hoping to teach tensor calculus to 14 year olds is not going to help. Remember we invented the lithium battery - what have we to show for that intellectual property - nada. IP is very hard to nail down and monetise. We can't brainbox our way out of this. Worse still, those with a marketable intellect can easily offshore the financial rewards keeping them out of the Treasury's sweaty hands. Good for them.<br /><br />Also pulling up the drawbridge Donny style is a non runner. American manufacture offshored to China is merely shifting to Vietnam and India. Asia has not even started on Africa. The central problem we face is that some of our middle classes are useful but overall too expensive, they push up housing and other costs. This forces out manufacture which is a good way to leverage ordinary people. So lower costs to succeed. The next wave will be to trim the middle classes.<br /><br />The West's Average Joes will gradually become a consumer base from which wealth is slowly extracted. The monetisable housing and commercial stocks will be bought up and turned into rentals for as long as the cash flow lasts. The process is inevitable, the question is which target to pick off first. This is surely the real motivation behind Brexit, we are making ourselves an easy target ably assisted by our own elite. The Brits have made themselves easy pickings, be in the vanguard Brits, you voted for it. jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00470816959796395467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-68777605310225125292019-08-29T10:33:14.571+01:002019-08-29T10:33:14.571+01:00We have to rebuild manufacturing, because it's...We have to rebuild manufacturing, because it's the only area in which massive productivity gains are possible. <br /><br />You can increase productivity in some areas of service job (eg voice recognition to replace the legal secretary (who's probably in India, not in your office) but there are huge and important areas (e.g. nursing) where potential for increases is limited. Therefore if you want your hairdresser or care home assistant to have a higher standard of living (remember that?) other areas have to increase productivity.<br /><br />(Modular housing looks like an obvious target here).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-77617034663144605932019-08-29T10:30:18.979+01:002019-08-29T10:30:18.979+01:00Anon at 10.24 has it right.
By 2016 we were well...Anon at 10.24 has it right. <br /><br />By 2016 we were well on the race to bottom - being propped up by a credit bubble. <br /><br /><br />Nick - The 'life of ease' will end, Brexit or no Brexit. Though Brexit will be a convenient source of blame. <br />(The Climate Change Act will get off scot free.)E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-55763881354038206102019-08-29T10:25:51.927+01:002019-08-29T10:25:51.927+01:00Jim - Boris is not going for hard Brexit. It is li...Jim - Boris is not going for hard Brexit. It is likely we are going to get WA with a backstop tweak. <br /><br />All we hear is him talking backstop backstop backstop. <br /><br />Three times Remainers voted down a deal. There weren't enough Eurosceptics in Parliament to throw WA out so who did it ? And there lies the whole problem - a parliament unrepresentative of its people, there should have been a majority of Leavers in it. <br /><br />This disconnect is why the EU Referendum Act was passed in the first place - they honestly believed that they would have won in the same proportions that they see in the Palaces of Westminster dining club. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-15914108779827277052019-08-29T10:24:26.767+01:002019-08-29T10:24:26.767+01:00Jim, since 1997 real wages have fallen, while real...Jim, since 1997 real wages have fallen, while real house prices have more than doubled. We cannot continue as a low-skill, low-wage economy and continue to fund the NHS and any sort of welfare state.<br /><br />43% of working age adults don't pay any income tax, and it's not like they are all stay at home mums. That ship sailed in the Thatcher years. <br /><br />We are actually de-industrialising in some areas - like the automatic car wash, getting rarer because you can pay 4 Kosovans to do it. <br /><br />You seem to think this slow decline is sustainable. I don't. In another few years, Ukraine will be in the EU, and Turkey too (if Erdogan goes). There are A LOT of low-skilled people in the world who would just love to come to the UK. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-52182948682042092252019-08-29T09:55:38.980+01:002019-08-29T09:55:38.980+01:00Nigel - there have been plenty of tactical nuclear...Nigel - there have been plenty of tactical nuclear strikes sadly. What do you think the point of all the testing is by North Korea for example? <br /><br />Anyhow, I wrote that headline expecting to see a hilarious day-long meltdown by Remainia and I was not wrong. So much that I actually laughed watching Sky News in parts as they ran around phoning every remainer they could. <br /><br />I also think this is tactics, as I am with Jim a little in that Hard brexit will be economically damaging and we really need a deal. however, Boris is not stupid and this may also come to pass and give much more in joy to behold as the left lose their project and war for another decade to their bitter enemy. Of course I am being optimistic, there are lots of roads to nowhere or worse too. CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-67044166438235276722019-08-29T08:37:23.045+01:002019-08-29T08:37:23.045+01:00Jim, the types of recent failings of our governmen...Jim, the types of recent failings of our government which you list are bad enough, but to be found in every nation: the idleness and venality of merely mortal politicians<br /><br />(throughout the EU and EC, too, of course)<br /><br />but the EU is profoundly, intentionally non-democratic; and its claims to be "rules-based" are a sham. (It is rules-based for day-to-day trivia, but the EC does whatever it thinks it can get away with (= almost anything at all) when there's something they really want)<br /><br />the question is this: how much of your freedom are you prepared to sacrifice for a life of ease? It is well understood that for many people, most of the time, the answer can be: <i>well, pretty much all of it mate, since you ask</i><br /><br />but if properly led and inspired, the answer can be: <i>give me freedom, or ...</i>Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-34060682457470290842019-08-29T07:04:41.403+01:002019-08-29T07:04:41.403+01:00Give a fool enough rope and they will hang themsel...Give a fool enough rope and they will hang themselves. That is what Boris will do to the Tory party and the UK. Let us hope the Remainers sit on their hands and let Boris do their work for them.<br /><br />There is no coherent economic case for Brexit, all the Leavers have now is 'Sovereignty'. But the track record on sovereignty is pretty poor. Our parliament drags its feet over contaminated blood, it had to be threatened with European courts before Hillsborough got any sort of factual inquiry and our precious sovereign parliament ballsed up a simple building regs update and gave us Grenfell.<br /><br />Unfettered our precious parliament will deliver even more abuses and succeed in never investigating them, because it is sovereign, no-one to keep tabs.<br /><br />But situation gets worse. Post Brexit there will be no shortage of shiny German cars or Gucci handbags or Yqem - if you have the money. The real problem will continue to be income - income to pay for the NHS, the roads, rails etc etc.<br /> <br />Boris has pulled an amusing stunt and reminds us that strategy is useless without tactics. But it is still true that tactics without strategy is mere noise. The only strategy Boris/Cummings have is a race to the bottom, rejoice in that.jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00470816959796395467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-81205167530642504102019-08-29T02:00:48.245+01:002019-08-29T02:00:48.245+01:00Ich finde Großbritannien hat bessere und seriösere...Ich finde Großbritannien hat bessere und seriösere Politiker als einen Boris Johnson verdient, einen Mann der schon bei Brexit Referendum gelogen hat das sich die Balken biegen nur um ein wankelmütiges Volk auf seine Seite zu ziehen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-13281800202559011962019-08-28T23:31:37.440+01:002019-08-28T23:31:37.440+01:00I feel that I may have heard a phrase somewhere, s...I feel that I may have heard a phrase somewhere, somewhen,that may be appropriate;<br /><br />Shit or get off the pot.<br /><br />Three years seems to be more than adequate.Anomalous Cowshedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128613687139232168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-27294090605514733042019-08-28T20:43:06.464+01:002019-08-28T20:43:06.464+01:00Has there ever, on this planet, been a tactical nu...Has there ever, on this planet, been a tactical nuclear strike?<br /><br />Given not, what is its political equivalence?<br /><br />Given that is unknown, what is all this pontificating?<br /><br />Best regards<br />Nigel Sedgwickhttp://www.camalg.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-15731524785350272352019-08-28T19:34:34.297+01:002019-08-28T19:34:34.297+01:00Ask nancy reagan
She probably had a better idea t...<br />Ask nancy reagan<br /><br />She probably had a better idea than most of our political classes.<br />I can lend you a ouija board.<br /><br />She will make more sense than OJ<br /><br />Back on strategy, talking to the cleaners this evening, they thought leave was a 'just waiting for 1 nov thing' and do not really care about deal or no deal.<br />One was interested in the NHS as her mum is in hospital and another was interested in schools as his youngest is starting a new school.<br />All those announcements on schools / police etc may be talking to the parts of the country that do not care overmuch about brexit or london based pols.<br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-44940789325683387872019-08-28T19:12:57.939+01:002019-08-28T19:12:57.939+01:00That the Boy Jones is a pillock is a matter of his...That the Boy Jones is a pillock is a matter of his written record.<br /><br />No point in harping on about what Vote Leave said about a deal - the 5th Column Remainers stitched that up with their back channels to Brussels.<br /><br />Also no mention of the fact that MPs ratified the 31st October as (the second) leave date. Proroguing Parliament just enacts what they have already voted for.<br /><br />No, the heat is because they imagined they could keep this crap fest going for long enough that eventually staying in the EU was no longer the losing option. They bitched and moaned so long the grown ups gave up on them like some petulant teenager on a long journey.<br /><br />Now they have to face a final date where they need to so something. Until now it was to say no to everything. But what happens when saying no isn't enough?Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141297358269863170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-21186510829665457322019-08-28T18:29:51.930+01:002019-08-28T18:29:51.930+01:00Boris needs to find some spare Department of Sport...Boris needs to find some spare Department of Sport cash for Bury FC, or at least get HMRC to call the dogs off. If Cameron can find millions for that African Queen and Kids Company, surely BoJo can help the Shakers?<br /><br />It would be a signal to the North West that he can get things done. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-18279068598585630962019-08-28T18:09:56.169+01:002019-08-28T18:09:56.169+01:00It was only a matter of time before L'il Owen ...It was only a matter of time before L'il Owen Jones weighed in ...<br /><br /><i>Boris Johnson is trashing the democracy fought for with the blood of our ancestors</i><br /><br />https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/28/boris-johnson-trashing-democracy-blood-ancestors-brexitNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-24378777643238873282019-08-28T17:27:33.268+01:002019-08-28T17:27:33.268+01:00HM didn't stop it, anyway. Doubtless our judge...HM didn't stop it, anyway. Doubtless our judges, who've made Britain such a safe place, will want to have their say.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-35305059278473838732019-08-28T17:25:58.935+01:002019-08-28T17:25:58.935+01:00It's delicious to watch the self-loving and de...It's delicious to watch the self-loving and deeply delusional hubris of, frankly, nobodies, as they melt-down. Soubry telling the TV news that she, too, had asked to see the Queen; Grieve, a backbencher with every prospect of losing his seat by the new year, who will find life back in Temple Garden Chambers and future trips to Uxbridge magistrates court a little dull, but today he has his day in the Sun and can make the most absurd and deranged demands to eager remainiac fake-news peddlers ..<br /><br />I hope someone is cataloguing all the breakdown clips - they will provide us with great amusement in a couple of years.<br /><br />Bes of all is Bercow's holiday now being completely buggered. How can he relax for even a second after today's news? He'll be back tomorrow, I bet. Raedwaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11699610899843349594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-59473244696355497642019-08-28T16:20:05.641+01:002019-08-28T16:20:05.641+01:00People who are claiming to stand up for Parliament...People who are claiming to stand up for Parliamentary Sovereignty seem to me to be the people keenest to continue transferring sovereignty to Bruxelles.<br /><br />Quislings, the lot of 'em.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-45042567278961127602019-08-28T15:50:23.054+01:002019-08-28T15:50:23.054+01:00@CU
Little unfair, we elected MPs who stood on a ...@CU<br /><br />Little unfair, we elected MPs who stood on a Leave manifesto and then changed their minds after they were elected. Yes, this could have been foreseen but never-the-less they were the liars.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141297358269863170noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-35525797790417082732019-08-28T15:43:28.459+01:002019-08-28T15:43:28.459+01:00Anon - I hear Bercow is to be made a LABOUR peer. ...Anon - I hear Bercow is to be made a LABOUR peer. That will be three leftist speakers in a row. E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-29400759694152295652019-08-28T15:41:44.900+01:002019-08-28T15:41:44.900+01:00Whatever Boris is up to he knows the mood music to...Whatever Boris is up to he knows the mood music to play if he wants to improve poll ratings and election prospects and that's to talk Hard Brexit. <br /><br />"The public have changed their mind and want a second vote." according to Remain. That has been blown out of the water since the EU elections and the Tories know it. That's why we're where we are. <br /><br />E-Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16657071992016670517noreply@blogger.com