Inflation

My husband works for a small construction and plant hire company. He thinks they may be going onto a 3 day week very soon. The fuel and material costs have got too expensive.

I also know a fella working for a timber hauliers and he was told recently to be prepared for a shorter working week too.

😒

Wouldn't it be wonderful to just do three days a week if one could afford to however, the vast majority have to slave away until 65.

More likely to be due to incompetence or not involving the right people (those on the frontline with the practical knowledge) in the procurement process. The latter is a strong possibility if you have somehow ended up with a contract to buy 1 litre bottles of body wash and wasting most of it because a smaller volume would have been sufficient.

You can also get a similar scenario but in reverse - items purchased which aren't fit for purpose because of penny pinching. Again, not asking the right people for their input is a strong possibility here.

Thought everyone was supposed to be working 3 days a week, automation having replaced half the jobs by now. That's what we got told by the powers that be.

Must be happening by 2030. Still, they better get the finger out, people are not getting any younger.

People really need to get off pre pay electricity and transfer the same weekly amount to a normal provider via their banking app. It’s criminal that those who pay IN ADVANCE are charged more.

We’re near enough to the border that we go north and fill drums (filled a bowser once and drove all the backroads 😁). It would cost less than a fiver to drive there and back and the difference on 112 litres is 50 euro. I don’t feel one bit guilty about it. You gotta do what you gotta do.

I was in the builders providers yesterday morning, no one in there, empty on a monday morning @ 8am.

It’s coming into holiday time but it does tally with the anecdotes I am hearing about jobs not going ahead due to the costs

Sometimes, you have to laugh:

Hotels deny allegations of price-gouging (14 june):

In an unrelated new 2 weeks later, Dalata (Ireland’s largest hotel group) says recovery is surpassing expectations with revenue up 9% compared to march/april 2019 and expected to rise to 18% of pre-pandemic level in may/june:

I don’t think “expectations” was the right word to use.

...we need to figure out how to look after each other, in regards our energy needs, we all go through periods of surplus and deficit energy supplies, it makes sense to further integrate our energy systems, across the whole eu, and including the uk, even one country experiencing serious shortages, could be detrimental to all of us, this has to be done, and quickly

unfortunately i think you could be right, we re clearly moving back towards more nationalism than anything, which will more than likely lead to further chaos, as i suspect very few, if any country, can truly meet its own energy requirements long term. noting, protectionism is a fundamental policy at eu level anyway, but not really for the average joe and/or mary!

...how well connected are such institutions to whats actually happening on the ground!

...id love to see your evidence that this is so....

A new bracket in the middle of the existing high and low ones. It's the basic income tax not accumulative with all the others

Before it was 20% for the first 36k and then 40% after that.

Guessing here on the amount but it could be 20% for 36k, 30% for remainder up to 45k and then anything over is back to 40%.

...but are the fundamentals of these decisions truly representative of our reality, and do these decisions truly represent the reality of the general population?