Monday, 12 May 2025
Busy
Monday morning and a busy day today, so not much blogging until later. Everything seems to be trundling along as usual anyway.
Rachel Reeves dealt major blow with 1 in 4 firms planning to axe staff
One in four employers plan to make redundancies in the next three months, research has suggested. The number of employers expecting to increase staff numbers over summer has fallen to a record low outside of the pandemic.
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I wish I could say I am surprised, but Number Two Son’s employer has been badly affected by Labour policies (and not helped by the new US tariffs) and his job is looking increasingly precarious so we’ve been scanning job adverts on his behalf for a while.
Vacancies are becoming noticeably thin on the ground and, with competition increasing, suitable posts requiring a degree and at least two years of experience are currently offering £24k - barely more than the National Living Wage and not enough to meet the renting requirements for even a basic 2-bed flat in our region.
We tried looking at the public sector too, since businesses are looking so bleak; apparently they are ‘passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities’ or ‘particularly welcome interest from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled candidates’, which might explain why a straight white male with a wife and baby (and a 2:1) has yet to have references taken up or be offered an interview.
I’d say it’s not so much ‘trundling along’ as hurtling towards catastrophe with rapidly increasing speed.
Not to worry: her blundering won't affect those who really matter - her accomplices and their sponsors . . .
And it's all all self inflicted. This nation's economy could have been forging ahead with the right choices having been made and with the right people in charge.
Macheath took the words (right out of my typing fingers): “… hurtling towards catastrophe with rapidly increasing speed”.
Macheath - I hope it works out for Number Two Son, the public sector does seem to be a forlorn possibility. Many people already seem to be looking at the possibility of emigrating, our son is thinking about suggesting it to his children when they are older.
Jannie - and that's all she probably cares about.
Tammly - yes it is self inflicted. Labour voters must take a chunk of the credit too.
James - and no obvious brake.
This is not a blow for Rachel. For the newly unemployed middle aged it definitely will be.
For Rach, it is not a bug, it is a feature.
Wur doomed, Ah tell ye. Dooo-oomed.
Doonhamer - Rachel seems clueless to me, as if she blagged her way into the role and now assumes the government PR operation will blag a way through the mess.
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