MonsterMonster
@MonsterMonster@lemmy.world
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 6 days ago:
They’ve got shareholders to feed. Somebody has to pay their inflated dividends.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 1 week ago:
Actual teaching is not the main part of the job anymore. Teachers are being used as social workers, child minders, parents, filling in the gaps where others are not doing those roles. All of that is wrapped up in red tape.
I’m not a teacher but I looked into it a few years ago. After having our own kids late in life I got to see the hell that teachers go through and many leave for new careers.
All of this on top of the debt that people take on to pay for the training, on top of the debt taken on for a degree.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that this is happening.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 1 week ago:
Until Christmas the last time I went to a WH Smith’s was when they had a record section.
Called in this Christmas for a last minute board game and ended up buying on Amazon. The stores are tired and don’t seem to have a purpose.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 1 week ago:
I’m surprised the High Street stores have remained opened for this long. They were past their usefulness well over a decade ago and have been supported by their airport and hospital shops by ripping customers off.
Outdated. Expensive.
- Comment on UK should learn from Donald Trump’s ‘boosterism’, Rachel Reeves says 1 week ago:
“planning, deregulation, energy and trade.” It’s the combination of deregulation and energy that troubles me. Didn’t the financial crisis of 2008 to now start with deregulation of the banks?
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 1 week ago:
On the whole the pub chains, or breweries as they were once known, have themselves to blame. The pursuit of bigger profits through increased rents & leases and drinks prices have led to them being a luxury item. This started back in the mid nineties at the latest.
I remember small pubs being bought out, closed for a million pound refurbishment, reopened with a fanfare and new prices to match putting off customers. The supermarkets saw this and took advantage.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
Designed by a seven year old with a broken crayon.
- Comment on UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn 3 weeks ago:
It would seem that Fujitsu doesn’t need to bid as it’s being handed the contract on a plate.
- Comment on Private parking rules review prompted by £2,000 five-minute fine 3 weeks ago:
Car parking companies in the UK are close to being sanctioned theft.
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- Comment on 'Ripped off' caravan owners start compensation fight 4 weeks ago:
I looked into a static caravan to rent out about ten years ago. Very quickly established, from one of the better operators, that when you add up their fees for this and that there are significant costs. The fine print usually states caravans must be no more than 10 years old and site has first option on buying back. The latter is where you lose a lot of money. As said that was one of the better sites.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on UK government announces tender for live facial recognition technology 2 months ago:
There was a time, not long ago, that this type of sensitive contract would have been awarded to China.
- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 5 comments
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 3 months ago:
There seems to be a race to the bottom when it comes to pay across all industries. These are wages from almost 30 years ago for a middle level IT person. In 1994 a typical high end IT manager for a national corporation was around £70k+.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by more than expected 3 months ago:
Here’s a reminder of what the water companies have been doing to get into this mess.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Harvest in England the second worst on record because of wet weather 3 months ago:
It’ll be interesting to know the level of impact of turning arable land over to solar farms.
- Comment on Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she needs to raise £20bn. How might she do it? 3 months ago:
The clue might be France.
Closing corporate tax loop holes will help a fair bit.
- Submitted 3 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
- Comment on Nationwide to launch mortgages at six times' income for first-time buyers 4 months ago:
It’s a shame wages weren’t keeping pace.
- Submitted 4 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 8 comments
- Comment on Internet replaces TV as UK’s most popular news source for first time 4 months ago:
It’s very rare that we watch broadcast TV or record anything to a PVR. It’s all streaming on Netflix/Amazon to TV or on my phone. Haven’t watched TV in the conventional sense for some years now.
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- Comment on Fish and chips price rise tops UK takeaways 5 months ago:
Chip shops will go the same way as pubs.
- Submitted 5 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 15 comments
- Comment on Mike Lynch's co-defendant in US trial dies in UK road accident, lawyer says 5 months ago:
I think this story will be around for a while.
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 5 months ago:
Mmm Gerhard Schroeder and Russia rings a bell …
Why Gerhard Schröder won’t unfriend Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s pal Gerhard Schröder won’t be kicked out of Germany’s Social Democrats
- Comment on Britain’s nuclear submarine software built by Belarusian engineers 5 months ago:
You couldn’t make this stuff up.