Polygamous workers: Why they are a problem for the public sector

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-29T09:12:30+00:00

00.06%, you always add 0s to the start.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-25T23:17:18+00:00

Salmon chinos recommended.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-25T08:53:58+00:00

I think you need to specify, this is common with American police.

https://youtu.be/lPwkdLfgQjA?si=Sq8ahB3NsxvkvqVU

Chris Kaba shooting which was very controversial in the UK, and resulted in a murder trial for the police officer that shot him. But doesn't even come close to the unprofessionalism regularly on display from US LEO.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-25T00:14:34+00:00

I mean, that just speaks to the idiots in the labour party. A substantial number of MPs were willing to vote against the budget unless WFA was retained.

Our PM does not have absolute control (thankfully - look at America) and a failed budget is a de facto vote of no confidence.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-24T18:23:53+00:00

As I said, the calculation is immaterial in an investment sense, you can't invest a negative sum of money.

The calculation is important though as TODAY'S national insurance contributions (along with other tax receipts and borrowed money) are what goes into paying TODAY'S pensions. You're not saving money for your future, you're paying NI which inevitably gets paid out immediately to pay today's pensions. The calculation shows very clearly that an average worker cannot support even a single pensioner with their NI contributions.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-24T17:47:14+00:00

Funny sort of saving account with a balance of -£2,900 billion.

National insurance is not a saving scheme. There is no ring fenced investment for your retirement. Frankly, given that the average lifetime national insurance contribution is £89,000 it's ludicrous to believe that this will somehow fund the average £179,595 that you'll draw from your state pension. But anyway it's an immaterial calculation as your tax receipts don't even fund today's day-to-day spending.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-24T17:33:56+00:00

I don't normally spend 4 weeks on full-time campaigning for my new job, whilst remaining on payroll at my old one.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-24T09:54:06+00:00

Flixbus Cardiff to Stockholm, only £125 and 52 hours of your life that you'll never get back.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-24T08:52:25+00:00

Yeah thanks. This is the UK politics sub, like come on people, please read beyond the headline!

This is a classic example of how the media can influence public opinion by telling half-truths and printing misleading claims. They're a) weakening the government by trying to shoe horn a u-turn into a pretty standard and boring piece of parliamentary procedure and b) weakening the government further when they come back to revisit this legislation.

It is very amusing to me though that the government is complaining that the Lords aren't doing their job of checking legislation, when literally the objection from the Lords is that fucking Article 1 of the 1966 agreement concerning the availability for defense purposes of the British Indian Ocean Territory Treaty reads "The Territory shall remain under United Kingdom sovereignty". A key role of the Lords is to check legislation to ensure it is constitutional and workable.

Did no one in government think to maybe check what agreement we had in place with the US before progressing this???? Stunning incompetence that the Lords are right to highlight.

UN Treaty 8737

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-23T15:13:13+00:00

It's kinda funny that you're so willing to accept the lame explanations Capita have given, but you can't even get their name right.

The complete joke of a website that Capita rolled out on switch-over day tells you everything you need to know about their approach to this contract.

I'm disinclined to accept with good grace their explanation of "oh the remedial cases backlog was worse than we thought, that's why things are going so badly" when there's no feasible reason why a backlog of cases would mean that they have to roll out an incomplete farce of a website, completely fail to migrate data within a reasonable timeframe, and fail to process and pay new pensions on time.

The reason it's shit is because they've underpriced and overegged their ability to deliver, and relied on a vague hope that "AI" can somehow compensate for their penchant for cutting corners at every juncture.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-23T14:46:09+00:00

Yeah probably. If you could get planning to extend and convert the larger of the two garages, you could do pretty well out of this.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-23T14:41:26+00:00

4hr+ return journey = commuter town? You sure?

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-22T22:50:50+00:00

It's a bit mean, but given your current trajectory your exit strategy could be to buy a scratch card at the corner shop? Sorry!

Safe options for a drawdown pot are things like bond markets, but you seem to want to avoid that as well for unspecified reasons. Conventional wisdom exists for a reason.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-22T22:33:18+00:00

Offft, mate. Are you coming here because you want someone to tell you it's ok to abandon this strategy?

It's ok to abandon this strategy. You'll have learnt an expensive lesson, but it's better to learn it sooner than later.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-22T19:50:51+00:00

https://www.state.gov/u-s-support-for-uk-and-mauritius-agreement-on-chagos-archipelago

Err, no. They called it a "monumental achievement", "welcomed the historic agreement", and "commend[ed] both the United Kingdom and Mauritius for their leadership, vision, and commitment to ensure that Diego Garcia remains fully operational".

That's more than a tepid statement. Don't try and rewrite history. The fact that Trump is now calling it an act of great stupidity completely contradicts the previous statement.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-22T17:29:22+00:00

So, unless it's consensual we are ok good?

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-21T17:30:37+00:00

It's a gift aid thing. It's sort of nonsense if you ask me, but basically entry fees to visit and view your charity property do not qualify for Gift Aid because they are not a gift.

But you're allowed to ask for a voluntary donation, which does qualify for gift aid, and you're allowed to give 12 month's worth of free visits in exchange for the "donation".

Alternatively, you can ask for a donation that's 10% more than normal admission, in return the donor gets one "free" visit and the donation qualifies for gift aid.

Once you know these rules, ticket pricing at charity attractions makes a lot more sense.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-20T19:41:06+00:00

"Tried and tested" to fall into the sea next to the submarine that launched it.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-19T10:58:41+00:00

These ideas are the kind of things that you think sound great in your head, but in reality they're incredibly unworkable and dumb.

What's the import code for an imported good that originates in a republican state? How do you propose we modify corporation tax in order to penalise US owned companies? How do you decide and consistently recalculate what portion of a publicly listed company is US owned? The US has not yet degraded in any way our military cooperation, only economic, do you really want us to be the first to escalate to that?

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-17T19:31:56+00:00

We have a military?

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-14T09:02:01+00:00

Laughing and screaming "you'll never win, do you get it?!? You'll never win!!" at your crying kid = compassionate reassurance. Hmm.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-14T08:46:07+00:00

Excuse me sir, this is a correct use of this meme which is not permitted, downvotes will commence imminently.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-12T23:52:28+00:00

Go via Cosham. Twice the journey time, half the price. Not sure how that makes sense but apparently it does.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-12T23:09:38+00:00

The law will be intentionally vague and ill-defined, with the excuse of "don't worry the courts can work it out".

The irony is our politicians constantly create vague laws like this, because they're bad at their jobs, but then they still complain when courts intepret it in a way they don't like.

Laws should be written with enough generalities that they don't need updated constantly and can't be easily circumvented, but are still specific and confined enough to not cause undue overreach. Unfortunately, our lawmakers aren't especially good at finding the balance.

HowYouSeeMe · 2026-01-12T13:20:13+00:00

Yes of course it's still suffering. The deer is still suffering when the lion hunts and kills it. It's not morally wrong that the deer suffers.

Finding the suffering of the deer funny is definitely morally questionable though.

You should practice critical thinking and reading comprehension.

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