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There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas Time, the only gift they'll get this year is refugees Just doesn't have the same ring to it

I agree with you that bad companies take advantage of loyalty. I always try and do the opposite with my staff and pay them more than someone coming in new to reward their loyalty. It's a huge pain in the ass to recruit, especially now with the shortages we have in skills and labour. Recruitment fees are frankly disgusting. It costs so much to recruit new staff in time, fees and training etc, so I want to do it as infrequently as I possibly can. The prospect of taking someone on, paying a recruiter, investing the time to interview and screen the numpties out, onboarding, training, probation periods etc and then to see them leave before 12 months is just not something I want to deal with so I tend to screen out people who have a history of doing that kind of thing. Just on recruiters...it's like dealing with a swarm of locust. You put out an advert somewhere and you can guarantee you're going to lose a week fighting off a load of kids trying to call and email going "I've seen your advert and I've got x number of people who might be suitable, here's a bunch of CV's".

I look at a number of things in addition to who's best qualified. How well they fit, attitude to work, drive to succeed, what they're looking for in the job. I do also look at their history of changing jobs. There's loads of people who only stay at places for 6-12 months. If they tend to move around alot, that's a red flag for me that they might not be committed or might be just purely financially motivated and I'll be back to recruiting again in a matter of months.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-minister-returns-cop28-rwanda-vote-parliament-2023-12-12/ When you’re at a climate summit but need to fly back for a quick vote to save Sunaks skin before getting flown back out again… Embarrassing

Even if he manages to get this through today it's going to get the arsehole amended out of it by both wings of his own party, let alone what Labour will try to do, then the Lords as well. We're back to where we were in 2018/2019 where the Tories can't govern at all trying to put out todays fire while knowing tomorrow there'll be another. We need an election now.

Nothing official. Just chatter online about how the Saudi's run a quite sophisticated program, the mysterious turnaround in results with the same exact players, which magically occured the moment the takeover went through, the premier leagues very shoddy rules, particularly around asthma medication. It could all be conspiracy nonsense admittedly.

It’s time for them to knock the financial doping into overdrive… and maybe the actual doping from what I’ve read.

Or spent it on actual immigration officials to process them properly, admit the ones that have a claim and deport the ones that don’t. Radical idea, I know.

He’ll surely get at least the January window to try and make some changes to the squad. By that time they could be well in the mire…you can hope

Yep if his objective for the day was to light his own career on fire and dance around it, mission accomplished.

Words change their meaning all the time depending on the context of who is using them and why. Take the word “gay” for example…my 96 year old grandmother uses the word all the time to mean something entirely different than what a right wing skinhead would. I don’t see why that applies any less to Arabic words than it would to say English and French.

The question I want answered is why can’t Pando keep his trousers on? Is he some kind of sexual deviant?

In her defence, we did invent concentration camps. You can’t get more British than something we did to the boars. If it was good enough for the empire, it’ll do for now.

I really don’t understand what’s so hard about this at all. Calling for violence against any people is surely wrong whatever the context. I do have to wonder why as a society we’re not challenging what clearly is fascistic language and chanting.

Of course he is. The only way those guys stay at the club is if they continue this revolving door of managers and keep getting the slate wiped clean.

I still don't understand how the country can be so broke when the people are literally taxed on everything. Income, NI, Council, VAT, Fuel, Alcohol, Tobacco, Road, Sugar, Gambling, Inheritance, Insurance, Stamp Duty, Excise Duty, Capital Gains, Dividends, Corporations, Rates. The list seems endless. Where's all the money go?

Thanks mate. I'm trying to repress all memory of that man.

I don’t know what it is with Sheffield United but they always seem to employ the biggest rocket polishers as their manager. Heckingbottom, Wilder, Warnock…

I still don’t see why it’s needed. I agree the Man City tactical foul situation needs addressing and has done for years tbf but you can easily do that by making it a yellow card offence and instructing the refs to get hot on it. He can only do it twice and he’s done.

I agree with Paul Merson. You’ll kill the game with sin bins. Teams will go full Tony Pulis with everyone behind the ball and wasting even more time than they already do. Plus it adds even more incentive to the players who exaggerate contact to try and get players carded. I don’t get what problem this is trying to solve. We already have reviews with the VAR if it’s borderline yellow/red. Can someone tell me why we need a punishment stronger than yellow but less than red?

I don't want Ramsey sold but I definitely don't agree it sends the message you think it does. Aaron Ramsey, Archer and Philogene have been sold but they all went to good clubs and are all playing pretty well. It's really rare to get one club players and the other lads will look at that in the academy and see success stories. They're players that were trained here, loaned out, got time in the first team and ultimately left to play first team football at good clubs. What's the problem there? They're all young and their stories with us might not be over. Jacob Ramsey is a different case as I no longer see him as a youth player. He's a first team player now.

I think as with a lot of things we're not responsible for the actions of those who came before us so but in this case we're still directly benefiting from something that was wrong, although with hindsight definitely protected them from the instability in that region. They're one of kind and irreplaceable so I get why the inclination is to hold onto them. They remind a lot of people of a time where Britain massively punched above it's weight and they're rightly proud of some of what we did in the world, but when the people of Greece are this upset about it I think this generation has to look to the future. That future is in cooperation and people not seeing us as some kind of imperial master race our ancestors sought to be but rather a partner that can be trusted to act in good faith. Giving them up would be a massive act of good will that costs us basically nothing.

Return them and make a big deal about how it's the right thing to do to own up to the mistakes of Empire. That we've protected and maintained them while the Greeks were occupied by the Ottomans and then the Nazi's but it's time for them to go home. The greek people have been our friends for a lot of years, we've shed blood together. It'll mean a lot to them and we'll barely notice they've gone. The British museum has made enough money over the years and surely has enough other stuff to put on display. If they're so bothered by it then return them and do some kind of agreement to have some of them back from the Greeks on a lease.

We’ve been saying that for years though. That there core vote tends to be older, gods waiting room type folk who’ve got nothing better to do on a cold Thursday than cast a vote for the triple lock with no care for whose taxes are paying for it. Yet they keep getting in. Why is that? I do wonder if there’s some truth to the theory that people generally get more conservative leaning as they get older. If I ever feel tempted I’ll be sure to throw myself from t here nearest cliff and do my bit for the nation!

Well the goal with these parties has always been to influence the direction of the Tories more to the right, not to actually cost them seats as they're clearly of the opinion that a Labour would be worse for their goals. It's more the looming threat of annihilation that they've been using rather than the actual practice of them full on going for the Tories. If that's changed then sure it's possible that would happen, but a threat when the Tories don't really believe they'll follow through on it is surely ineffective. It's a giant game of chicken really, isnt it? I don't think the Tories necessarily see being out of power for 1 or 2 cycles as a reason to burn the system to the ground and start again. I'm sure they'll just see it as part of the ebb and flow of our system. One that's been massively advantegous to them for a century.