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30.11.2020:
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down for: A Home and Small Business
Viewpoint by Len Tondel, from 1st November 2020
By
way of explanation. The
term 'home business' consists of two words.
'Business' is the second one; it's there to
qualify and support the word 'home' and all
that goes with it - and not vice versa. Consequently,
we also list below, items which are of interest
and value to the home. Whether in its context
as an office or as a part of your family and
lifestyle but always
directed at the improved prospects and enjoyment
that running a business from home, in its entirety,
can bring.
For a current, multi-part
overview of
starting and running a
business from home,
go here: http://www.homebusiness.org.uk/features.htm
 30.11.2020:
UK use of credit rises as buy-now-pay-later
schemes 'encourage overspending'. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/personal-finance-uk-use-of-credit-rises-as-buynowpaylater-schemes-encourage-overspending-130656775.html
It's why sponsors and donors grease Tory
arses.
Half
of consumers plan to spend less this Christmas.
https://www.scotsman.com/business/consumer/half-consumers-plan-spend-less-christmas-3049184
Might
have something to do with half of consumers
having a lot less to spend this Christmas.
Actors, pilots, oil workers … thousands
from Covid-blighted jobs join parcel courier
army. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/29/actors-pilots-oil-workers-thousands-from-covid-blighted-jobs-join-parcel-courier-army
Has the Tory regime and its brownshirts and
fake gurus stopped announcing these armies as
'self-employed entrepreneurs'?
Brits
could save £4.3bn by switching to secondhand
gifts this Christmas. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/brits-could-save-43bn-by-switching-to-secondhand-gifts-this-christmas-070025426.html
Or, they could try making Christmas gifts
and save £4 billion more.
Christmas
comes early as UK farms sell out of trees.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/29/christmas-comes-early-as-uk-farms-sell-out-of-trees
More
than 10,000 turkeys to be killed after bird
flu discovered at fattening farm. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/more-than-10-000-turkeys-to-be-killed-after-bird-flu-discovered-at-fattening-farm/ar-BB1bsABB?ocid=msedgdhp
Not to worry. Just Eat (shit), etc, have
got plenty more turkeys in their customer databases.
Chelsea
leave supporters "appalled" by £75
ticket price for return of fans. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/premier-league/chelsea-leave-supporters-appalled-by-75-ticket-price-for-return-of-fans/ar-BB1brcW2?ocid=msedgdhp
Well - financing Israeli terrorism is an
expensive business. In fact Chelsea supporters
should be charged ten or a hundred times that
amount to help ease the burden on the British
taxpayer.
UK
and France sign deal to prevent Channel migrant
crossings. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/uk-france-sign-deal-prevent-171056025.html
'Refugees' not 'migrants'. (Although one
does accept this is a propaganda statement for
the fake news gutter press.) So. How is this
prevention exercise going to happen? Britain
and France are going to stop bombing the countries
these refugees come from? And anyway, Little
Ingerlandt desperately needs intelligent grafters
given the imminent prospect of being left with
nothing but Brexit and Tory voters.
29.11.2020:
Big fall in Black Friday UK retail sales despite
online spending boom. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/big-fall-black-friday-uk-181853345.html
Surely the lumpenproletariat hasn't deduced
that playing video games and ordering Eat Out
(shit) doesn't exactly enhance their spending
power?
Coronavirus:
UK millennials at greater risk of debt from
buy now pay later schemes. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-uk-millennials-at-greater-risk-of-debt-from-buy-now-pay-later-schemes-122011330.html
Holidaymakers
face ‘serious problems’ using travel
booking sites. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/27/holidaymakers-face-a-serious-problemsa-using-travel-booking-s/
Something to do with no countries left wishing
to see poxy, shit-faced Brits?
Police
investigate ‘Toilet of England’ prank
on Kent road signs. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/28/police-investigate-a-toilet-of-englanda-prank-on-kent-road-si/
This is clearly an offence serious enough
to merit police time when the movements of terrorists,
murderers, rapists and thieves can otherwise
be ignored. Including of course, the criminal
Brexit vote. On the other hand, a solution would
seem to be very simple. Hand out the names and
addresses of everyone locally who voted for
Brexit and let lorry drivers, etc, use their
toilets. Or just their front gardens would do.
Are
you a secret spender? Britons hide an average
of £600 worth of debt from their nearest
and dearest (and it seems women are worse than
men). https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/are-you-a-secret-spender-britons-hide-an-average-of-600-worth-of-debt-from-their-nearest-and-dearest-and-it-seems-women-are-worse-than-men/ar-BB1brjCM?ocid=msedgdhp
Brexit
Bullshit Latest: https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review-3/
Logistics
Fiasco: During Logistics UK’s Get Ready
for Brexit webinar, Brexiteer Michael Gove provided
little help or substance to the event and seemed
to be using the occasion as an opportunity to
rebuff suggestions that government had been
seeking to direct blame towards business for
any chaos that may ensue. He went on to say
– “What I cannot say is what the approach
on the other side of the border will be. What
I do know, though, is the approach the EU has
taken throughout the process.” As Gove
was speaking a UK test run of the new border
checks resulted in five-mile lorry queues from
Dover (source).
Shipping
Fiasco: Ships diverted from the heavily
congested hub ports of Felixstowe, Southampton
and London Gateway have mostly discharged their
UK imports at the Benelux ports of Antwerp,
Rotterdam and Zeebrugge But now carriers are
struggling with their relay options that could
see the delays extended well into next year.
This could mean stock is missing out on the
Christmas market and will then congest ports
after a complete red-tape change as a result
of Brexit. Trade paper – The Loadstar,
reports of importer fury. The problem is that
the smooth real-time movements of shipping containers
and loads has been disrupted and Britain can’t
cope. The problem is not just the limited capacity
at the main UK ports, there is also a dearth
of feeder tonnage to relay the containers. One
major feeder operator said that UK containers
could be stuck on the north continent for some
time. “There is not a single-celled vessel
open in the whole of North Europe at the moment,”
he said, “and there are thousands of boxes
discharging on the wrong side of the Channel!”
(source).
Forecast
Fiasco: The government is now withholding
information even from the Office For Budget
Responsibility (OBR) over Brexit. The assumption
here is that the OBR forecasts would show even
more negative effects if it had been provided
with the correct information. Below is an extract
from the OBR forecast that clearly shows the
government has not provided requested information
with regards to Brexit.
From
the Horses Mouth: One thing the OBR reports
confirms is this. No matter how the government
or various high-profile characters try to dress
Brexit up – you cannot make up the economic
loss of no-deal Brexit by signing trade deals
with other countries. It says – “Both
the governments own estimates and those of independent
experts suggest that gains from all third-party
country free trade agreements (FTAs) are likely
to be modest. Such deals are unlikely to compensate
for the costs associated with the failure to
secure an FTA with our nearest and largest trading
partner (source).
If
you want to read a more in-depth view of the
effects of both Covid and Brexit on the economy,
this thread provides all the information you’ll
need. Brace yourself though – it makes
for grim reading but in brief says worst-case
scenario is that Britain could be carrying an
eye-watering 126 per cent of national debt on
its back by 2025/6 (READ MORE). That’s
another £500 billion of debt to service
on top of the £2 trillion it sits at right
now.
Brexit
decision – Right or Wrong: Here we
are barely a month away from crashing out of
the EU without a deal. As we’ve nearly
arrived the latest poll results that asks the
question – “In hindsight, do you think
Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave
the EU?” – sees the gap widen to 56
per cent now thinking Brexit is a bad idea.
In December 2016 it was 50/50, 12 months later
it switched to 52/48 thinking it was a bad decision,
a year later 53/47, exactly the same last year
and this year 56/44. And yet, we watch in real-time,
the extent of the damage being done to the country
for reasons nobody wants to explain, that the
majority of people don’t want, with a government
that clearly cannot properly negotiate (source).
28.11.2020:
Report casts doubt on UK pledge to prevent low-quality
food imports. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/27/report-casts-doubt-uk-pledge-prevent-low-quality-food-imports-brexit
People
warned of risks of tax avoidance schemes as
clampdown intensifies. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/26/people-warned-of-risks-of-tax-avoidance-schemes-as-clampdown-int/
New
UK tech regulator to limit power of Google and
Facebook. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/27/new-uk-tech-regulator-to-limit-power-of-google-and-facebook
Amazon
launches counterfeits programme. https://homeofdirectcommerce.com/amazon-launches-counterfeits-programme-to-support-smbs/
Amazon has launched a programme in the UK and
Europe in an effort to tackle counterfeit goods.
The 'Intellectual Property Accelerator' is designed
to make it easier and more cost effective for
small and medium-sized businesses to obtain
trademarks to protect their brands.
‘Become
a beefatarian’, urges odd EU-funded advert
for European beef. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/beefatarian-advert-video-eu-beef-climate-b1762427.html
27.11.2020:
Online retailers prepare for ‘biggest Black
Friday’ as stores stay shut. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/26/online-retailers-prepare-for-a-biggest-black-fridaya-as-store/
Ofcom
watchdog signals Royal Mail could cut letter
deliveries to five days a week but orders it
to get more efficient. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/ofcom-watchdog-signals-royal-mail-could-cut-letter-deliveries-to-five-days-a-week-but-orders-it-to-get-more-efficient/ar-BB1bnqB7?ocid=msedgdhp
New
UK measures place 98% of hospitality trade under
tough restrictions. https://www.cirmagazine.com/cir/new-measures-place-98pc-of-hospitality-under-tough-restrictions.php
US
Billionaires Grow Wealth By Over $1 Trillion
Since Coronavirus Pandemic Began, Says Report.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/billionaires-wealth-grows-coronavirus-pandemic_uk_5fbf9e4ac5b66bb88c64b9f0
The 9/11 effect was clearly losing its earning
power so another 'disaster' was inevitable.
Whereas the real profits from covid have yet
to come.
26.11.2020:
Rishi Sunak ignores small business and self-employed
in Spending Review. https://smallbusiness.co.uk/rishi-sunak-ignores-small-business-and-self-employed-in-spending-review-2551671/
EU
to ban British sausages if Brexit trade deal
isn't set by January 1. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/eu-to-ban-british-sausages-if-brexit-trade-deal-isn-t-set-by-january-1/ar-BB1bkB1e?ocid=msedgdhp
There are genuine British sausages to be
found in the EU? Where? (Apart from the frying
pans of a few loyal ex-pats.)
Boris
Johnson warned six months of port ‘mayhem’
ahead in 2021, even if trade deal agreed. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/brexit-news-live-boris-johnson-075342765.html
Formula
One faces charge of aiding sportwashing by racing
in Bahrain. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/25/formula-one-faces-charge-of-aiding-sportwashing-by-racing-in-bahrain
There are culprits far worse than Formula
1 when it comes to sportwashing - the Olympics
above all but athletics and professional cycling
are otherwise the most regular frontrunners.
Apart from Arab teams, even Israeli terrorists,
war criminals and thieves have their own professional
bike team - TITS (Team Israeli TerroristS) -
which has managed to recruit the shameless,
multiple has-been champion Chris Froome recently.
Everyone knows it's a pure propaganda exercise
although the point has been deliberately overlooked
by Little Ingerlandt's conspiring gutter media,
which spends more column-miles every day trying
to make sure a future democratic government
doesn't deprive them of their tax-avoiding,
taxpayer-subsidised, snout-in-trough privileges
by dreaming up endless anti-Semitic fantasies,
rather than delving into some newsworthy journalism.
How
to save money when starting a small business.
https://www.startupdonut.co.uk/blog/20/11/how-to-save-money-when-starting-a-small-business
25.11.2020:
Surge in online shopping eases pressure on UK
retailers, says CBI. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/24/surge-in-online-shopping-eases-pressure-on-uk-retailers-says-cbi-covid-19
The big retailers, perhaps. And that's all
she wrote.
Most
Black Friday products 'were same price or cheaper'
beforehand. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-55058121
This has long been common knowledge - other
than amongst the dummies who believe what they
read in the fake news.
£200
high street vouchers to be given to every household
in Northern Ireland. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/high-street-voucher-northern-ireland-b1760852.html
1%
of farms operate 70% of world's farmland. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/24/farmland-inequality-is-rising-around-the-world-finds-report
And are responsible for 90% of the world's
covid cases, no doubt.
Paris
police in 'shocking' clash at migrant camp.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55055914
This kind of brutality towards refugees -
not 'migrants' - by the French police on the
specific instructions of their racist, separatist
(secular) politicians has been going on for
years and is just another element which has
contributed to the growing boycott of all things
Merde In France. Especially when the country's
elitist, Jewish President Macron and his henchmen
open their mouths. And of course one of his
biggest fans from across The Channel is none
other than evil-doer and terrorist-hugger, Pratti
Pute-el. And her undemocratic, un-elected American
stooge of a Prime Minister who has a similar
policy to Macron. 'Fuck business!' (Unless it's
banks, big corp and the murder industry.)
24.11.2020:
More than half of UK retailers believe they’ll
be ready for the end of the Brexit transition
period – but almost a third have done nothing
to prepare: study. https://internetretailing.net/themes/themes/more-than-half-of-uk-retailers-believe-theyll-be-ready-for-the-end-of-the-brexit-transition-period--but-almost-a-third-have-done-nothing-to-prepare-study-22349
Nearly
half of families forced into debt since start
of pandemic, figures show. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/families-debt-poverty-children-uk-b1759318.html
Black
Friday: Security officials warn shoppers to
stay safe while hunting for deals online.
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/black-friday-security-officials-warn-173741505.html
Brexit:
Plans for roadside toilets for hauliers trapped
in Channel port queues ‘still unknown’.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-channel-lorry-driver-toilet-b1760387.html
23.11.2020:
Brexit: Business groups attack government instructions
to ‘follow rules’ that are yet to
be decided. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-trading-rules-business-groups-b1759135.html
Britons
face two-hour waits at passport control after
Brexit transition period. https://uk.yahoo.com/style/britons-face-two-hour-waits-174617766.html
Secondhand
no longer second-best for UK's 'circular economy'
consumers. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/22/from-baby-clothes-to-ikea-furniture-were-shopping-secondhand-to-save-the-planet
Christmas
tree sellers allowed to reopen in England despite
lockdown. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/nov/22/christmas-tree-sellers-allowed-to-reopen-in-england-despite-lockdown
Christmas
post dates 2020: When is the deadline to send
letters and parcels in the UK and internationally?
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/christmas-post-dates-2020-when-is-the-deadline-to-send-letters-and-parcels-in-the-uk-and-internationally/ar-BB1bfKUV?ocid=msedgntp
British
ski workers ‘set to lose seasonal jobs’
after Brexit. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/22/british-ski-workers-set-to-lose-seasonal-jobs-after-brexit
22.11.2020:
Black Friday: brush up on prices as that 'deal'
might not be a bargain. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/21/black-friday-brush-up-on-prices-as-that-deal-might-not-be-a-bargain
Online
shoppers fail to get parcels but struggle to
get refund. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/21/online-shoppers-parcels-refund-black-friday
UK
and Canada agree post-Brexit trade deal. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/uk-and-canada-agree-post-brexit-trade-deal/ar-BB1bewTk?ocid=msedgdhp
Or, what folk outside fake news/Tory propaganda
quarters would call an agreement to have a chat
again after the terms of any Brexit deal become
apparent.
Supermarkets'
own-brand champagne beats French houses in Which?
test. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/21/supermarkets-own-brand-champagne-beats-french-houses-in-which-test
That's been going on for a long time - and
not just with champagne. I thought only French
state propaganda and fake news had been ignoring
developments?
Macron
blames Russia and Turkey for bolstering anti-French
sentiment in Africa. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/macron-blames-russia-and-turkey-for-bolstering-anti-french-sentiment-in-africa/ar-BB1bcLoW?ocid=msedgdhp
'Anti-French sentiment in Africa' doesn't need
any help from Russia and Turkey. The French
have managed to do that for 200 years all by
themselves! (And wasn't everything the western
media's fault last week?) Still - while French
businesses continue to suffer at the hands of
political stupidity, covid and a boycott, their
Islamophobic Jewish financier of a ('secular')
hypocritical president continues to motor his
mouth ('freedom of speech').
'I
was embarrassed to tell friends about my business'.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54971198
'I
was a stage manager and now I'm a bike mechanic'.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54976533
21.11.2020:
Biggest fall in numbers of self-employed since
2005. https://www.freelanceuk.com/news/16795-covid-19-breaks-crisis-mould-culling-not-creating-freelancers.shtml
The
Covid-19 pandemic has not resulted in more people
freelancing or starting a business as was the
case in past financial crises. In previous recessions
and financial crises rates of self-employment
increased due to people leaving employment and
starting their own business. Figures from the
Office of National Statistics have revealed
that during Q2 and Q3 2020, 277,000 people left
self-employment, the highest number since 2005.
Retail
sales up by 1.2% in October despite local restrictions.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/20/retail-sales-up-by-1-2-in-october-despite-local-restrictions/
FSB
calls on MLAs to step up to salvage Christmas.
https://www.fsb.org.uk/resources-page/fsb-calls-on-mlas-to-step-up-to-salvage-christmas.html
We
don't know what an 'MLA' is in yet another fashionable
example of the media speaking 'French' (endless,
lazy, unexplained abbreviations), so, sorry
about that. Or, perhaps the FSB should just
lurn to speek Inglish?
Rise of phishing attacks on HMRC poses risks
to businesses.
https://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2020/11/rise-phishing-attacks-hmrc-poses-risk-businesses
Changes
to CIS announced. www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-tackle-construction-industry-scheme-abuse
HMRC has announced changes to the Construction
Industry Scheme (CIS), which will come into
force from 6 April 2021.
$427bn
a year lost to tax abuse by firms and rich individuals,
study finds. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/20/427bn-a-year-lost-to-tax-abuse-by-firms-and-rich-individuals-study-finds
Macron
demands Brexit trade agreement is translated
into French even if it risks accidental no deal.
https://uk.yahoo.com/news/macron-demands-brexit-trade-agreement-105859042.html
'Modern' French, will that be? In which case,
it looks like babble will get the job. (Talking
high-speed gibberish; talking simultaneously
and over each other; talking in childish 'code'
and laughing at their own, immature and un-funny
schoolboy jokes; using half-English expressions;
making snide remarks; etc; etc.) Perhaps Macron
should devote some time getting the French to
learn their own language and culture instead
of persecuting Muslim children with Nazi-style
IDs and state propaganda?
20.11.2020:
Business secretary tells firms to 'act now'
on Brexit and warns there will be no extension.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/business-secretary-tells-firms-to-act-now-on-brexit-and-warns-there-will-be-no-extension/ar-BB1b8teY?ocid=msedgntp
Home
working here to stay as companies learn to adapt.
https://www.cirmagazine.com/cir/home-working-here-to-stay-as-companies-adapt.php
Credit card and loan customers to get extended
payment holidays for up to six months. https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/breaking-credit-card-loan-customers-23037069
COVID-19:
UK visa requirements relaxed for overstayers,
NHS workers and entrepreneurs. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-visa-requirements-relaxed-for-overstayers-nhs-workers-and-entrepreneurs-12136330
In addition, American female entrepreneurs
considered 'shagworthy' by Little Ingerlandt's
un-elected American Prime Minister, Booho Johnson,
will be allowed to stay indefinitely and will
receive a substantial taxpayer-funded grant.
US
to designate Israel boycott movement BDS as
antisemitic. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/us-to-designate-israel-boycott-movement-bds-as-antisemitic/ar-BB1bavI6?ocid=msedgntp
This has long been expected as the US is
a major Israeli terrorist partner with anything
but change to be expected from the forthcoming
Biden regime, either. Cowardly, murderous commercial
thuggery and crimes against humanity at their
worst. Boycott all Shit Made In America, too.
19.11.2020:
Businesses turn to start-up loans in record
numbers as lockdown sparks ideas. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/businesses-turn-to-start-up-loans-in-record-numbers-as-lockdown/
Ethnic
minorities, disabled people, renters and young
‘at risk of problem debt’. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/16/ethnic-minorities-disabled-people-renters-and-young-a-at-risk/
Hundreds
of firms fast-tracked for lucrative Covid contracts
after tips from ministers and MPs, report reveals.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/covid-contracts-fast-tracked-rules-nao-b1724458.html
That's what bent politicians are for.
Record
62% of debit card payments were contactless
in August. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/record-62-of-debit-card-payments-were-contactless-in-august/
18.11.2020:
Brexit trade deals to be put in force before
MPs get a chance to scrutinise them. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/brexit-trade-deals-to-be-put-in-force-before-mps-get-a-chance-to-scrutinise-them/ar-BB1b62zD?ocid=msedgntp
American Big Corp hasn't been grooming Little
Ingerlandt's un-elected Prime Minister, Boohoo
Johnson and his regime of fags for nothing!
Extended
support for struggling mortgage borrowers confirmed.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/extended-support-for-struggling-mortgage-borrowers-confirmed/
Working
from home could lead to more racism and other
prejudice, report finds. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/working-from-home-could-lead-to-more-racism-and-other-prejudice-report-finds/ar-BB1b3uCH?ocid=msedgntp
Is this in the UK - or Macron's 'secular'
(apartheid) France?
Social
housing landlords in England face checks on
tenants' satisfaction. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/17/social-housing-landlords-in-england-face-checks-on-tenants-satisfaction
To be expected. Landlords are already unpaid
tax collectors, immigration and police officers.
Obviously to allow our public servants more
time to ham it up on pathetic reality tv shows.
Treasury
faces 'pay per mile' road tax backlash. https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/treasury-faces-pay-per-mile-155854267.html
Avoid
electronics from online marketplace sellers
this Christmas, charity warns. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/16/avoid-electronics-from-online-marketplace-sellers-this-christmas/
Scam
warning as self-assessment tax deadline approaches.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/17/scam-warning-as-self-assessment-tax-deadline-approaches/
Calais
warns hauliers of ‘difficult’ consequences
of wrong post-Brexit paperwork. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/calais-warns-hauliers-of-difficult-consequences-of-wrong-post-brexit-paperwork/ar-BB1b3uJt?ocid=msedgntp
French
parasite fonctionnaires and emmerdeurs will
be looking forward to this.
Iceland,
Asda and Aldi among supermarkets selling meat
from pigs ‘painfully mutilated’ on
UK factory farms. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/iceland-asda-and-aldi-among-supermarkets-selling-meat-from-pigs-painfully-mutilated-on-uk-factory-farms/ar-BB1b57P3?ocid=msedgdhp
Macron
accuses English-language media of 'legitimising'
violence in France. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/macron-accuses-english-language-media-of-legitimising-violence-in-france/ar-BB1b4byU?ocid=msedgntp
Not unlike the French in the countries they
occupy, then? Still, it is a 'secular' French
characteristic that upon losing an argument,
out come the abstractions, insults and the spread
of blame. The kind of cowardly evasion which
the country's increasingly stressed business
community is not too appreciative of at the
moment.
17.11.2020:
Rural rents jump as tenants escape to the country.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/14/rural-rents-jump-as-tenants-escape-to-the-country/
Half
of online shoppers suffer parcel delivery issues
since lockdown. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/15/half-of-online-shoppers-suffer-parcel-delivery-issues-since-lock/
Labour
demands inquiry into lobbyists secretly serving
as Government advisors. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/labour-demands-inquiry-into-lobbyists-secretly-serving-as-government-advisors/ar-BB1b22C6?ocid=msedgntp
Sounds suspiciously like 'anti-Semitism'
to me. Perhaps it's time to level some charges
of 'Islamophobia' for a change? Just in case
the 'fuckin' plebs' start getting bored or suspicious.
BSA
to be reborn as electric motorcycle maker thanks
to Indian billionaire. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/16/bsa-electric-bike-motorcycles-uk
It seems the only prospects for Made in Britain
continue to be supported by foreigners. While
fake Brexit patriots just continue to shaft
the taxpayer.
Terrorist
group founder now running online neo-Nazi T-shirt
business. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/national-action-neo-nazi-terrorist-group-founder-ben-raymond-blackguard-b1723241.html
On the other hand, Labour's Blairite terrorists
write columns for the fake news gutter press,
retain positions of political and commercial
influence and generally continue to draw salaries
paid for by the public.
16.11.2020:
Millions of UK households worried about paying
rent over winter, survey finds. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-uk-households-worried-paying-071656499.html
£14bn
of UK products imported from 'dubious supply
chains'. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/14bn-of-uk-products-imported-from-dubious-supply-chains/ar-BB1b1CA5?ocid=msedgntp
Business as usual then.
Fifteen
countries, including China, agree to form world's
largest trading bloc. https://news.sky.com/story/fifteen-countries-including-china-agree-to-form-worlds-largest-trading-bloc-12133171
Obviously, the Terrorist States of America
and their colony, Fagland Ingerlandt, are not
included in the bloc despite the Brexit propaganda
camp claiming it already has hundreds of new
trading partners in the bag.
Sold!
Surge in UK homes being bought at auction.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/15/sold-surge-in-uk-homes-being-bought-at-auction
Black
Friday: The carbon cost of your online shop.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/black-friday-the-carbon-cost-of-your-online-shop/ar-BB1b1VK2?ocid=msedgdhp
Bookshop.org:
How a ‘scrappy’ online bookseller
is trying to take on Amazon. https://www.cityam.com/bookshop-org-how-a-scrappy-online-bookseller-is-trying-to-take-on-amazon/
15.11.2020:
Third of companies unable to top up their bounce
back loans. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/13/third-of-companies-unable-to-top-up-their-bounce-back-loans/
Pandemic
drives ebook and audiobook sales by UK publishers
to all-time high. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/14/pandemic-drives-ebook-and-audiobook-sales-by-uk-publishers-to-all-time-high-covid
Black
Friday and Christmas bargain-hunters warned
of online scams. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/13/black-friday-and-christmas-bargain-hunters-warned-of-online-scam/
Pubs
urged to sign up to Grapevine Local hub. https://beertoday.co.uk/grapevine-1120/
£3bn
green home grants scheme faltering just weeks
after launch. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/14/3bn-green-home-grants-scheme-faltering-just-weeks-after-launch
This is down to an excessive amount of 'red
tape' apparently. Brexit Tory red tape. (Or
a lack of bungs up bent Tory arses.)
Violent
extremism linked to failure of migrants to integrate,
EU says. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/violent-extremism-linked-to-failure-of-migrants-to-integrate-eu-says/ar-BB1aZh0Y?ocid=msedgdhp
A fact which has clearly been confirmed by
hundreds of thousands of ex-pats living in the
EU every time British football fans come a-visiting.
And how are EU/NATO (North American Terrorist
Organisation) members getting on with their
'integration' in over a dozen Muslim countries
in the Middle East and Africa? In between dropping
thousands of tons of bombs, war crimes, sponsoring
and arming every terrorist in the region, thieving
and displacing millions of refugees?
Brexit
Bullshit Latest: https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review/
With
Brexit negotiations, things are literally
on a knife-edge with the EU. Another week has
failed to produce an agreement and there is
really only a week to go before a stalemate
is declared and the United Kingdom is left high
and dry. The thought that the UK, in the middle
of a pandemic and an economic crisis, with millions
of jobs hanging in the balance – is willingly
to go through with a no-deal Brexit is really
quite frightening.
Britain’s
international trade department, headed up
by Liz truss has emphatically failed to meet
any of its own targets. It has not replaced
enough of the basic agreements with governments
around the world that Britain had as a member
of the EU. The EU has 44 preferential trade
agreements in place with individual states or
regional trading blocs, covering 77 countries
in total. Britain has not yet signed up one-quarter
of lost trade after four years of effort. The
FT reports that as far as the EU is concerned
– “More trade agreements are in the
pipeline: Brussels is negotiating with Australia
and New Zealand and has struck a deal with the
South American Mercosur bloc (South America
– Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay)
that is awaiting ratification. They are a subset
of the 750 agreements the EU has negotiated
with other governments around the world —
covering everything from trade to co-operation
in handling dangerous nuclear materials. The
UK will automatically lose the rights and benefits
of these deals when its post-Brexit transition
period ends on January 1 (source).”
In
the meantime, the DUP and Sinn Fein leaders
have sent a joint letter to the European Commission
describing as “unacceptable” the alleged
threat to the continuity of existing food supplies
to Northern supermarkets once the Northern Ireland
Protocol takes effect (source). The reality
of Brexit in N.I. is now just a few short weeks
away and trouble is brewing. The same can be
said north of the border where Scottish independence
will be the reality of the May elections ticket.
In
addition, this week we’ve learned that
US firms will gain access to Britons’
personal data via the Japan trade deal that
no-one, including MP’s was allowed to scrutinise
before it was agreed. Campaigners have warned:
‘Current restrictions on European data
to stop regulated transfers to the USA, would
disappear.’ Somehow, this is not mainstream
news either. This onslaught of our withering
privacy is astonishing and before long will
be as intrusive as China is to its own people.
Truss
said in a recent speech at Chatham House: “It
is the government’s ambition to secure
free trade agreements with countries covering
80 per cent of UK trade by 2022.” Even
if that were true, which it won’t be, Britain
still loses 20 per cent of its trading partners
that will have to revert to WTO rules. This
was something else not written on the side of
a bus. Liz Truss was also accused this week
of misleading MPs and the public over her new
Japan trade deal, because all the tariff “wins”
are for goods the UK does not export to the
country anyway (source).
14.11.2020:
One in five thinking of leaving self-employment.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/K-November/Hours-and-incomes-of-self-employed-workers-stayed-low-over-summer
More
than half (58%) of self-employed workers had
less work than usual in August 2020. The 'Covid-19
and the Self-employed: Six Months into the Crisis'
report published by the London School of Economics
indicated that one in five are thinking of leaving
self-employment as a result of the pandemic.
The report has also revealed that 28% applied
for a second grant under the Self-employment
Income Support Scheme and of those who hadn't
applied 38% were not sure if they were eligible.
Self-employed
missing out on pension savings. https://www.professionaladviser.com/news/4023022/millions-self-employed-locked-pension-saving-research
A
report by the Pensions Policy Institute has
revealed that just 15% of self-employed workers
are saving into a private pension scheme. The
report also reveals that the average pension
wealth of someone who is self-employed is £121,200
compared to £203,200 for someone who is
employed. The reason for the difference is that
the self-employed do not have access to an auto-enrolment
pension scheme.
Bank
of England governor fears lack of 'goodwill'
in no-deal Brexit. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/bank-of-england-governor-fears-lack-of-goodwill-in-no-deal-brexit/ar-BB1aXz4B?ocid=msedgdhp
13.11.2020:
Debt crisis warning as UK reports steep rise
in emergency borrowing. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/12/debt-crisis-warning-uk-records-steep-rise-emergency-borrowing-coronavirus
Home
repossessions plunge but number of people in
mortgage arrears increases. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/12/home-repossessions-plunge-but-number-of-people-in-mortgage-arrea/
ATM
usage slumps after Britons rush to withdraw
cash before lockdown. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/atm-usage-slumps-after-britons-rush-to-withdraw-cash-before-lockdown/ar-BB1aWgqT?ocid=msedgntp
Which the criminal banks will be using as
part of their continuing excuses to dispense
with cash altogether.
Capital
gains tax revamp could hit three times more
people. https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/news/increase-capital-gains-tax-hit-091950064.html
Errr. That's why these proposals have been
made.
Post-Brexit
lorry queues could make Kent 'toilet of England'.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/post-brexit-lorry-queues-could-make-kent-toilet-of-england/ar-BB1aWHfv?ocid=msedgdhp
Not just 'The Farage Garage' but The Farage
Shithole' as well?
France, Germany push for tighter EU borders
after attacks. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/eu-tighten-rules-online-extremism-142513337.html
Europe's leading 'collaborators' clearly
want to make their mark on EU border chaos and
not leave it just to covid and Brexit. France
of course, has used 'terrorism' as an excuse
since 2015 to exceptionally tighten its own
border controls already - obviously to no avail.
(Assuming we don't subscribe to the assorted
theories that 'terrorist' attacks are being
provoked as a means of drumming up business.)
Perhaps our two NATO members should simply reconsider
their own participation in Middle Eastern and
African turmoil and just get on with the job
of looking after their public's wider interests?
In which case casualties in the tens of thousands
in both countries due to politically stupid,
criminally incompetent mishandling of the covid
pandemic could be targeted instead?
12.11.2020:
Shoppers relying more on buy now, pay later
schemes, survey finds. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/10/shoppers-relying-more-on-buy-now-pay-later-schemes-survey-find/
UK
firms fear for their survival as time runs out
to agree non-EU trade deals. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/uk-firms-fear-for-their-survival-as-time-runs-out-to-agree-non-eu-trade-deals/ar-BB1aTh7e?ocid=msedgntp
Brexit:
Fresh border chaos fears as ‘haulier handbook’
to prevent meltdown on 1 January is delayed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-border-handbook-delays-january-lorries-b1720990.html
Desperate
borrowers face mounting credit card bills: Surge
in people turning to sub-prime plastic charging
interest of 35% and beyond. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/desperate-borrowers-face-mounting-credit-card-bills-surge-in-people-turning-to-sub-prime-plastic-charging-interest-of-35-and-beyond/ar-BB1aUzsA?ocid=msedgdhp
Deutsche
Bank: Tax home workers 'to help pay those who
cannot'. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54876526
People 'working from home' on the other hand,
would have their own, much more intelligent
ideas on how 'to help pay those who cannot'.
Limiting bankers' bonuses to levels commensurate
with the rest of the working population, for
example. Removing tax breaks for offshore corporate
skivers and freeloaders - the banks included.
Make sure that the banks are fined realistically
for criminal and money-laundering activities
and that that money is placed in the taxpayers'
kitty and not just re-cycled back to the banks
again. And so it goes on.
Dozens
of 'misleading' energy adverts removed.
https://www.scotsman.com/business/consumer/dozens-misleading-energy-adverts-removed-3032102
11.11.2020:
A million people may quit self-employment in
Covid-hit UK – study. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/10/a-million-people-may-quit-self-employment-in-covid-hit-uk-study
Or, 1 million out of the 3 million fake self-employed
who aren't really 'self-employed' at all. Other
than in Tory fake news and propaganda.
Online
shoppers hit new high but little sign of panic
buying. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/10/online-shoppers-hit-new-high-but-little-sign-of-panic-buying/
90
per cent of UK trade not covered by free trade
deals post-Brexit. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/90-per-cent-of-uk-trade-not-covered-by-free-trade-deals-post-brexit/ar-BB1aS9y0?ocid=msedgdhp
As regularly reported by the non-mainstream
independent media for the past six months.
Cheap
supermarket chicken risking ‘catastrophic’
new pandemics, report warns. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-chicken-supermarket-virus-pandemic-tesco-sainsbury-b1648358.html
The Tories wouldn't be Tories if they weren't
putting the country at risk: anything else would
be 'anti-Semitic'.
Saved
your bacon: Meat industry assures UK shoppers
no bacon shortage as Danish travel banned over
Covid mink. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/saved-your-bacon-meat-industry-assures-uk-shoppers-no-bacon-shortage-as-danish-travel-banned-over-covid-mink/ar-BB1aRWHO?ocid=msedgdhp
What's the risk differential between Danish
industrially reared dairy and pork products
and Danish industrially reared mink? (Although
Brexiteers Wetherspoons and Forte won't give
a toss.)
Advertising
junk food online could face ban as consultation
to be launched. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/10/advertising-junk-food-online-could-face-ban-as-consultation-to-b/
Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. (Dumb
Britain goes into shock.) Oh, my God. Oh, my
God.
Brexit:
US firms to gain access to Britons’ personal
data via Japan trade deal, campaigners warn.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/brexit-us-firms-to-gain-access-to-britons-personal-data-via-japan-trade-deal-campaigners-warn/ar-BB1aSjrx?ocid=msedgntp
The Tories wouldn't be Tories if they weren't
selling something which doesn't belong to them.
It would be 'anti-Semitic.'
10.11.2020:
UK shopper numbers down 15.4% as new English
lockdown starts. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-retail-springboard/uk-shopper-numbers-down-15-4-as-new-english-lockdown-starts-idUKKBN27P1DH
Brexit
Britain faces 5 to 10 year COVID recovery, Sorrell
says. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-sorrell/brexit-britain-faces-5-to-10-year-covid-recovery-sorrell-says-idUKKBN27P17N
UK
government fails to publish details of £4bn
Covid contracts with private firms. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/09/uk-government-fails-to-publish-details-of-4bn-covid-contracts-with-private-firms
Netflix
subscriptions and council tax bills can be used
to boost credit scores. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/09/netflix-subscriptions-and-council-tax-bills-can-be-used-to-boost/
Covid-19
hits HMRC customer response levels. https://www.accountancydaily.co/covid-19-hits-hmrc-customer-response-levels
Four
in 10 ‘have kept money secrets from family
and friends’. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/07/four-in-10-a-have-kept-money-secrets-from-family-and-friendsa/
09.11.2020:
Almost one-fifth of SMEs believe they won't
survive second UK lockdown. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/sme-businesses-believe-wont-survive-second-uk-lockdown-coronavirus-122247311.html
Businesses
and taxpayers ‘mugged’ by Covid-19
bailout loans. https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/businesses-and-taxpayers-mugged-by-covid-19-bailout-loans/
The Tory regime wouldn't be handing them
out otherwise!
Fears
rising that crooks will launch second wave of
fraud on Chancellor's £40bn bounce-back
loans scheme. https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8924585/Dark-web-crooks-scamming-Chancellors-40bn-loans-scheme.html
Conservative
minister ‘unaware’ local party association
received £10,000 from Covid relief fund
to help businesses. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-adams-conservatives-selby-ainsty-business-rates-coronavirus-b1645136.html
Brexit:
Liz Truss secures tariff wins with her Japan
trade deal – for products UK doesn’t
export. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/brexit-liz-truss-secures-tariff-wins-with-her-japan-trade-deal-for-products-uk-doesn-t-export/ar-BB1aMUFG?ocid=msedgntp
I'm sure it woud have impressed the fake
news gutter press and their readershits, though.
(Brexit Knobheads.)
Plea
issued to UK shoppers not to buy tortured meat
and dairy from New Zealand. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/rodeo-new-zealand-cowboy-calves-bulls-horses-b1622635.html
The overall picture is that wherever you
choose to buy your meat - from Just Eat (Shit)
to the supermarkets, animal welfare and product
quality will always be modern-day issues. Unless
you buy locally from sources you recognise.
While you still can.
The
gig economy is here to stay. Now let's humanise
it. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/the-gig-economy-is-here-to-stay-now-lets-humanise-it
The 'gig economy' has been around for a couple
of decades now although discretion has been
assured by the fake news media, official fake
'self-employment' statistics, and fagging Tory
brownshirts.
Brexit
Bullshit Update: https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review-31st-oct-6th-nov/
‘Fuck
Business’: In June 2018, Boris Johnson
was asked about corporate concerns over a so-called
hard Brexit, at an event for EU diplomats, where
Johnson replied – “Fuck business.”
It appears that little has changed given that
the government continues to warn business about
the huge business interuption that Brexit will
bring at the end of the year – but doesn’t
actually what change. Goinf along this line
of disdain of business – when Johnson did
not show up to a Confederation of British Industry
(CBI) conference this week, it was only the
second time in the history of the event the
country’s leader had not spoken at it (source).
Thumbs
Down: Just to give some perspective about
what the public really thinks of Boris Johnson
cosying up to Donald Trump. In Hanbury polling
for POLITICO — not a single British constituency
would back Trump. The poll confirmed that Biden
would win 76 per cent of the vote here to Trump’s
24 per cent (source). For Johnson – he’s
rapidly approaching a moment where he’ll
be mugged by the truth. If Trump wins and Johnson
attempts a trade deal with the USA – on
their terms (as reported), there will be mass
public protests. If Biden wins – Johnson
is forced into doing a deal with the EU –
and that deal won’t be anything as economically
advantageous as the one we had (source).
Born
to mislead: The FT has had enough of Boris
Johnson both in terms of Brexit and its handling
of Covid. These are just some of the words used
to explain Britain’s PM – “Johnson’s
missteps over coronavirus have closely followed
those he made over Brexit … He went beyond
patriotism to embrace British exceptionalism.
As coronavirus spread in early February, he
mocked the idea that it would affect the global
economy, insisting that the UK was “ready
to take off its Clark Kent spectacles”,
and act “as the supercharged champion”
of free trade … These futile promises are
a hallmark of Mr Johnson’s leadership…
Some people are born to mislead…”
– and so on. In other words, Boris Johnson
is dropping adherents to his personal crusade
like a drug dealer drops his goods in trade
in a police raid (source).
Criminal
Checks: Yvette Cooper, the chair of the
Home Affairs Select Committee asked the Minister
for Future Borders & Immigration what future
border security checks will be in Jan if the
UK loses access to the SIS2 criminal database
currently used to check everyone. Neither Minister
nor officials could say what system they have
or what would happen (WATCH TWITTER CLIP).
Internal
Markets Challenge: Boris Johnson is facing
further legal action from the EU after he missed
a deadline to explain why he is planning to
break international law over Northern Ireland.
The European Commission confirmed on Tuesday
that the deadline to respond to the letter has
now come and gone without a UK response, meaning
the court action against the UK will move to
the next phase (source).
08.11.2020:
Independent shops hit out at high street chains
trading during lockdown. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/07/independent-shops-hit-out-at-high-street-chains-trading-during-lockdown
Amazon
Prime customers warned of scam phone calls.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/nov/07/amazon-prime-scam-phone-calls-bank-account
Company forced to change name that could be
used to hack websites. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk
07.11.2020:
UK-EU trade faces major disruption even with
deal, say auditors. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/06/uk-eu-trade-faces-major-disruption-even-with-deal-say-auditors
Increase
in support for self-employed. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-extends-furlough-to-march-and-increases-self-employed-support
Grant payments made under the Self-employment
Income Support Scheme (SEISS) for November 2020
to January 2021 will now be calculated at 80%
of average trading profits instead of 55%. The
increase will mean the maximum grant payable
will be £7,500. The Government has also
announced that the minimum income floor (MIF)
for self-employed Universal Credit claimants
won't apply until the end of April 2021. The
MIF was due to be re-introduced from 12 November
2020.
Financial
support for local businesses in England.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/932977/
ECONOMIC_SUPPORT_FACTSHEET_5_November.pdf
Businesses in England that are forced to close
due to national or local restrictions will receive
up to £3,000 per month.
06.11.2020:
British Banks Denied Pandemic Loans to Over
150,000 Companies. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/british-banks-denied-pandemic-loans-to-over-150-000-companies/ar-BB1aH2Yh?ocid=msedgdhp
£8m
losses reported due to fake PayPal emails.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/05/a-8m-losses-reported-due-to-fake-paypal-emails/
05.11.2020:
Banks must act responsibly when collecting Covid
loans from businesses – FCA. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/04/banks-must-act-responsibly-when-collecting-covid-loans-from-busi/
Banks
should refund more victims of computer takeover
scams, Which? says. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/03/banks-should-refund-more-victims-of-computer-takeover-scams-whi/
Debit
card spending jumps as England prepares for
lockdown 2.0, figures show. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/04/debit-card-spending-jumps-as-england-prepares-for-lockdown-2-0/
Handing
out spare keys to your home ‘could lead
to insurance being invalid’. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/03/handing-out-spare-keys-to-your-home-a-could-lead-to-insurance-b/
Which
businesses will close during lockdown? List
of shops from DIY to estate agents and hairdressers.
https://uk.yahoo.com/style/businesses-close-lockdown-everything-know-082051047.html
04.11.2020:
Businesses making eco-friendly claims to be
vetted by UK watchdog. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/businesses-making-eco-friendly-claims-to-be-vetted-by-uk-watchdog/ar-BB1aCEme?ocid=msedgntp
Over
£1bn in refunds being withheld for cancelled
holidays, Which? estimates. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/02/over-a-1bn-in-refunds-being-withheld-for-cancelled-holidays-whi/
Reforming
IR35 amid a pandemic slammed. https://www.contractoruk.com/news/0014762ipse_slams_reforming_ir35_amid_pandemic_slightly_perverse.html
Introducing
IR35 reform into the private sector at a time
when the economy needs a flexible workforce
to help it recover from coronavirus is "slightly
perverse", IPSE has warned while giving
evidence to a Treasury Select Committee.
Not
in our name: French Muslim leaders call anti-French
boycott 'unjustified'. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/not-in-our-name-french-muslim-leaders-call-anti-french-boycott-unjustified/ar-BB1aDPDY?ocid=msedgdhp
It's good to see the Muslim community at
large is behaving with intelligence and dignity
- unlike crisis-ridden French Judaism, led by
its regular, deliberate, Muslim-baiting president
and his taxpayer-funded cronies, driving anti-Semitic
feeling in all communities to unprecedented
levels.
03.11.2020:
UK to double support for self-employed during
England's lockdown. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-double-support-self-employed-155615088.html
UK
trade unions and small firms join forces to
prevent benefits cut for self-employed. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/uk-trade-unions-and-small-firms-join-forces-to-prevent-benefits-cut-for-self-employed/ar-BB1aARVL?ocid=msedgntp
CBI
chief warns of ‘bleak’ winter for
businesses due to impact of lockdown. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/11/02/cbi-chief-warns-of-a-bleaka-winter-for-businesses-due-to-impa/
An impact which would have been a lot less
'bleak' if the vast majority of CBI members
hadn't voted for the criminally incompetent
Tory regime, irrespective of lockdown.
Campaigners
hail dramatic government climbdown in battle
to protect post-Brexit food standards. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-food-standards-chlorinated-chicken-hormone-beef-liz-truss-trade-deals-b1503282.html
Let's see what happens, shall we?
UK
and U.S. confident trade talks are 'on track'
- UK trade ministry. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/uk-u-confident-trade-talks-112023527.html
Ah - there's a surprise! Just one line later.
Chips
are down: Brexit uncertainty causing Scottish
potato crisis. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/02/chips-are-down-brexit-uncertainty-causing-scottish-potato-crisis
'This
is revolutionary’: new online bookshop
unites indies to rival Amazon. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/02/this-is-revolutionary-new-online-bookshop-unites-indies-to-rival-amazon
French
economy minister moves to quell retailer rage.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/french-economy-minister-moves-to-quell-retailer-rage/vi-BB1aCnrb?ocid=msedgntp
'French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has
said the government will support small and medium
businesses during the lockdown, including by
providing technical and financial support to
sell their goods online.' For a country which
doesn't even know how to use a telephone yet?
Widely acknowledged as being the least IT-savvy
in the world? Still faithful to a Napoleonic
administration and feudal work practices? No
wonder Macron is lurching at Muslims again to
divert attention from his own regime in 'crisis'.
02.11.2020:
Fears Covid could scupper EU trade deal talks.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexit/fears-covid-could-scupper-eu-trade-deal-talks/ar-BB1azK01?ocid=msedgdhp
'Fears'? Surely that is what the Tories,
their fake news, Semitic gutter press and Brexit
Knobheads voted for?
Small
businesses react to second lockdown: 'What the
hell are we doing?' https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/small-businesses-react-to-second-lockdown-what-the-hell-are-we-doing/ar-BB1aAly0?ocid=msedgntp
Once again, 'we'? Whenever a criminally incompetent
regime and their fake news propaganda machine
get it so very wrong and threaten the country's
welfare, it always becomes the collective 'we'!
Mortgage
holidays extended for up to six months. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54768692
Boyfriends
for rent, robots, camming: how the business
of loneliness is booming. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/01/loneliness-business-booming-pandemic
In other words, millions of social media
fake friends for trolls, trailer trash, terrorists
and the lumpenproletariat isn't cutting it.
'Winter
of discontent' warning over home working.
https://www.scotsman.com/business/winter-discontent-warning-over-home-working-3020826
'Homeworking' not the idyllic scenario depicted
by successive fake business gurus over the past
thiry years then?
The
Leeds bakery that gave away 200 meals to families
struggling to feed children. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/31/the-leeds-bakery-that-gave-away-200-meals-to-families-struggling-to-feed-children
What a tragedy there aren't any decent people
like this in government.
How
To Get More Feedback From Your Customers –
3 Effective Ways. https://www.techsling.com/how-to-get-more-feedback-from-your-customers-3-effective-ways/
Brexit
Bullshit Latest. https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review-24th-30th-october/
Watch
This: As the week’s roll by there’s
a growing realisation of what Brexit really
is. And if you want an expert explanation put
into reasonably easy to understand words then
watch this clip. This is a chilling explanation
of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after
December. Adam Posen is the President of the
Peterson Institute for International Economics,
the No1 rated think tank in the world in international
economics. Posen has been an advisor to various
central banks, the IMF and the British government.
Advice – get a stiff drink and brace yourself
…(WATCH Twitter CLIP).
Biden’s
Europe: In a blow to the Brexiteers plan
to be truly ‘global’ – Britain
is no longer Europe’s “centre of gravity”
in the eyes of America — and particularly
if Joe Biden is elected president next month
— according to former senior diplomat and
cross-bench peer Peter Ricketts. After 40 years
defending Britain’s interests in the world,
Ricketts offered a sobering interpretation of
the impact Brexit is having on the U.K.’s
international standing. “When Biden looks
towards Europe, he will see Paris and Berlin
more as the centre of gravity of what’s
really important for America in Europe, both
economically and in security terms, and Britain
will be seen rather as an outlier, rather outside
the mainstream of Europe,” he said (source).
More
Contracts: Management consultants at Deloitte
and McKinsey, among others, have landed contracts
worth £180 million to carry out “strategic
programme management” related to the end
of the Brexit transition period. Government
documents show six identical contracts, each
worth £30 million. For their cash, these
firms are expected to “support the successful
delivery of the UK’s economic and political
independence” the contracts read. “Including
relationships with the EU and the rest of the
world” (source).
Lorry
Parks: Just as a dozen more massive lorry
parks emerge all over the country it appears
the government are using their own special powers
to get around planning regulations and as local
newspapers are reporting – none of the
normal environmental impact studies that should
be prepared for such a site had been made available
for scrutiny. These huge ‘truck stop’
areas have little in the way of facilities for
such things as drainage, electrical supplies,
toilets and so on. The real cost of these facilities
is unknown.
Farming:
Whilst the 80 seat majority government have
been given the mandate to get Brexit done –
the public are very strongly concerned about
what deal will be struck – and are especially
against any deal with America when it comes
to food and agriculture. A recent study showed
95 per cent of the public want the UK to maintain
food standards, 92 per cent want to maintain
animal welfare standards, 86 per cent fear low
quality and currently banned food products that
would come with a US trade deal. 68 per cent
even want new laws to fully protect the animal
welfare standards we already have (source).
The
Russians Again: Even The Telegraph acknowledges
that “an army of Russian trolls sent messages
across social media with the hashtag #ReasonsToLeaveEU
on the day of Britain’s referendum on membership
of the EU.” The article was based on new
data released by Twitter. Twitter graciously
released its data – not before or during
campaigning, but four and half years after the
event when it didn’t matter.
01.11.2020:
‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme accelerated
coronavirus second wave across UK, study says.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eat-out-to-help-out-second-wave-coronavirus-rishi-sunak-covid-b1446586.html
Wasn't that obvious from the outset? Just
a propaganda exercise aimed at 'fuckin' plebs'
who believe what they read in the fake news
gutter media.
Britons
claim they will head away to rural areas for
second lockdown. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/britons-claim-they-will-head-away-to-rural-areas-for-second-lockdown/ar-BB1ayDY2?ocid=msedgntp
They have got somewhere to go to in 'rural
areas', have they? Or will the Tory regime learn
a lesson from the French who allowed hundreds
of thousands of infected Parisites to head to
rural areas during their first lockdown, thus
spreading the pandemic beyond control.
Jump
in people missing card and loan payments ahead
of support cutbacks – Which? https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/10/30/jump-in-people-missing-card-and-loan-payments-ahead-of-support-c/
TSB
mobile and internet banking down as customers
struggle to log on. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newslondon/tsb-mobile-and-internet-banking-down-as-customers-struggle-to-log-on/ar-BB1axCJ7?ocid=msedgntp
Coronavirus
may be 'hitching a ride' with global food trade,
scientist says. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-may-hitching-ride-global-130250958.html
Given the scale of the pandemic, it's obviously
not a few Asian wet markets. And who is a dominant
player in the global food trade? Why if it isn't
Chicken-Shit USA!
Coronavirus
strain discovered in Europe 'accounts for 80
per cent of UK cases', study finds. https://uk.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-strain-discovered-europe-accounts-162130386.html
And where does Europe have most contact with?
Asian (even Chinese) wet markets? Or hundreds
of thousands of American terrorists stationed
all around the world and especially in Europe,
importing chicken-shit and shit beef, plus hundreds
thousands more wandering about uncontrolledly
as tourists visiting their latest colony, Little
Farageland.
Amazon
drops French Black Friday ad campaign as lockdown
starts. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-amazon/amazon-drops-french-black-friday-ad-campaign-as-lockdown-starts-idUKKBN27G0E3
Lockdown? Or the growing boycott of anything
Merde In France? Apart from highly lucrative
armaments exports, of course. Used predominantly
to murder Muslims in the Middle East and North
Africa.
US
and UK citizens are world’s biggest sources
of plastic waste – study. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/30/us-and-uk-citizens-are-worlds-biggest-sources-of-plastic-waste-study
Old news. Other than in the fake news media/state
propaganda.
31.10.2020:
Personal insolvencies fall to five-year low.
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/10/30/personal-insolvencies-fall-to-five-year-low/
Well - it's difficult to file for insolvency
if you have just died of covid. Or starvation.
Scrapping
the VAT refund for tourists would be catastrophic
for the UK economy. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/scrapping-the-vat-refund-for-tourists-would-be-catastrophic-for-the-uk-economy/ar-BB1awTcA?ocid=msedgdhp
Too true. Zero rating VAT on print publications
(the offshore, fake news gutter press, in other
words) costing the taxpayer £ hundreds
of millions a year for what is in effect, taxpayer-financed
state disinformation, hate-preaching and propaganda,
should be withdrawn instead.
Households
warned of dangers of celebrating Bonfire Night
at home. https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2020/10/29/households-warned-of-dangers-of-celebrating-bonfire-night-at-hom/
Man
pays £6 to set up business so he can employ
family and avoid 'rule of six'. https://uk.yahoo.com/finance/man-pays-6-set-business-180039385.html
With
our usual gratitude and thanks to BAD News and
Cobweb Info.
Len
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