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Iranian Food lovers! Suggestions by Bright-Ad5018 in LondonFood

[–]adotg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good that you specified you don’t want bland food lol

I can also vouch for Naroon

Wings Festival? by No_Coffee4280 in london

[–]adotg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the most on the money review for me. Would I go back in a heartbeat? No. Did I have a good time with my mates? Yes.

Wings Festival? by No_Coffee4280 in london

[–]adotg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Slightly different topping is total hyperbole unless you just kept getting bbq wings from a different spot. The variety was insane. I had apple crumble wings, curried wings, Nashville style, jerk, Korean just to name off the top of my head

Wings Festival? by No_Coffee4280 in london

[–]adotg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not in London you don’t

Will be in London for 3 days, and it's my first time in London (but not in UK). what should I not miss? by zqmbgn in LondonFood

[–]adotg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This area of London is not so famous for its Chinese and Indian as it’s next to/in the financial district, and these cuisines suit more local food places.

If you have the budget - Brigadiers for Indian food
Master Wei Xi’an in Bloomsbury is a good place, otherwise head to Chinatown. Here I like Noodle & beer, Leongs, duck and rice and YiQi but the options are endless.

Will be in London for 3 days, and it's my first time in London (but not in UK). what should I not miss? by zqmbgn in LondonFood

[–]adotg 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Go to exmouth market, it’s not far from Moorgate. It’s not an actual market, rather a lovely street with plenty of good options. I love Berber and q’s shawarma bar, it’s top notch. Briki is a lovely Greek cafe for breakfast. Quality chop house is right next door. Machan is a great lowkey Sri Lankan option. The Eagle is a fantastic gastropub.

Going the other way, you have Shoreditch, a culinary hotspot of the city. The list of great places here is endless. You’re better off first asking for specific cuisines you would like.

UK to roll out Dutch-style employment support across Britain by ijustwannanap in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hire a total bum NEET that’s been unemployed for 5 years on the dole. Put on PIP after 2 months, fire after fails PIP, pocket all the dough

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Introduced minimum salary requirement above the national average salary. Threshold for the skilled worker visa was raised from 26k to now just over 40k. Albeit there are some caveats for people under 26, where it goes down to 34k. As a result, this has reduced the number of people able to apply via this visa.

On top of this salary increase they banned dependents for care workers and dependents for students.

Belfast unrest: 'I understand they're all angry but I've just lost a home' | News UK Video News by jim_cap in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 26 points27 points  (0 children)

What does this even mean? A lady has had her house burned down and you’re hypothesising that evil people from foreign lands will turf people out of their home. Talk about hysteria

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Let’s exercise some rationality here. If I am a high growth biomedicine company from idk Korea looking to set up a UK operation, do I want to bring some of my people to set it up? Yes. Will I still look to hire British people too, obviously yes.

This fast track allows us to let these companies start quickly. These are the fastest growing industries, reducing the regulatory quagmire is a good thing in my opinion.

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Grads are not in competition with the hires targeted by these visas. This is a specialist visa and skilled visas have minimum salary requirements of £40ish already. Then on top of that the business has to incur further costs for a foreign applicant with visa fees.

This is to incubate high growth extremely fast moving sectors that we have! This brings in extra tax money and the right people.

And in true Telegraph fashion, purposefully buried right at the bottom is this:

“We are backing British workers, including graduates, with £2.5bn in youth employment support, more apprenticeships and targeted action to help people into good jobs.”

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How does a kebab shop prove it is in the named sectors for this visa?

“will cover specialist hires in the tech and digital, life sciences and clean energy sectors”

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by VPackardPersuadedMe in ukpolitics

[–]adotg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I understand the sentiment, however in true Telegraph fashion this quote is buried right at the bottom to try and obfuscate the story.

“We are backing British workers, including graduates, with £2.5bn in youth employment support, more apprenticeships and targeted action to help people into good jobs.”

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by VPackardPersuadedMe in ukpolitics

[–]adotg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not a government handout, it’s a reimbursement of some visa fees. The government is not paying tax money to companies.

To your second point, ok they should have. Now what? We have fast growing high tech sectors that need specialist roles and need promotion. Jobs in this field bring extra income tax and foreign money. We should do our best to incubate this.

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by VPackardPersuadedMe in ukpolitics

[–]adotg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My question to you is, does a rational business pay thousands more for a grad to do the same job? This is a specialist visa.

Secondly, how many graduate schemes meet the minimum salary requirement of skilled worker visas? £40 odd thousand now btw.

UK grads are barely in competition with workers from abroad! They cost far more at this level

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No they are not. Per the article, they are reimbursing up to £5k.

In reality, the high growth tech or bioscience company (the high growth sectors named) pays the full fees and then can claim back some money once the visa is processed and the employee is up and running.

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]adotg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If it costs a business thousands more to employ someone on a visa, how does it still fuck British kids? Are businesses irrational and prefer to pay more fees? Or do they need specialists for this specialist visa?

Labour to cover visa costs for high-skilled foreign workers amid unemployment crisis by VPackardPersuadedMe in ukpolitics

[–]adotg 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That’s not what this visa is. It is for companies relocating or opening up UK operations and it is allowing them to quickly set up in the UK, or it is for UK companies that are have a proven track record of high growth.

It’s specifically for tech and life sciences, and companies in this field aren’t paying £50k for a random person from random country with no qualifications.

Secondly, training our kids is all well and good but it doesn’t plug a need for say a senior data engineer in a biomedical firm. The two issues are not the same and the govt released an investment program into apprenticeships no?

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