From my tweets this morning, best read from the bottom up:
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Congratulations – you are the demolition man and I like it.
UK will be like the fifties, without the manufacturing base. Either way I can’t see a future without UBI. Too many ‘bullshit jobs’ will disappear and, on current form, the state will not replace them. UBI then.
No damning with faint praise in your final tweet!
Mark, I agree about UBI, cutting the link between labour and income is a must as work disappears as it increasingly will.
Sorry, but there is so much work to do!!
Look at the state of the place?
We could electrify the whole existing railway system for a start!
More trams, larger networks!
Tidal power and hydro-electric!
Coastal erosion works and flood defences! C’mon – think jobs!
Thanks PSR – and, yuo know what? – the public would go for this.
“…job retention scheme is a miserably cheap package that is not enough to persuade any employer to keep on any employee that they know they cannot afford, but which will give a handy bung to those who had no plans to sack anyone”
I’m not sure such schemes can work at all then Richard – surely any amount high enough to actually save jobs would therefore not just be a “handy bung” to those that had no plans to sack anyone, but a monstrous one?