State of the Market

[escapeUK]

Dear god man.

Literally no one can call any government led by Keir Starmer as hardline communist. If by public scroungers you are including Doctors then I suggest you train for ten years to do the job if it is that easy.

Why have all the shops gone? Ever heard of internet shopping?

Like it or not the previous government was turfed out at the last election and now someone else gets a go for five years. It's called democracy.

Educate yourself on Comrade Stamer:

"Socialist Alternatives was the British section of the International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency (IRMT), a formerly Trotskyist Pabloite group based in Paris.^[1] Being a small group in the UK, it was best known for the Marxist magazine of the same name founded in Oxford^[2] by Ben Schoendorff^[3] and partially edited by Keir Starmer from 1986 to 1987"

Yeah we've had the internet for over 20 years now, and its a crap experience for certain things for instance buying clothes and shoes. So how does that account for the loss of much of the high street in the last year or two?

We don't have democracy here. That's quite obvious.

[BlueSharp]

I've had a few enquiries this week on my availability from recruiters. Better days on the horizon?

The increase in Employers NI might bring outside IR35 assessments back into vogue so could be a glint of light in a dark budget. Better still they could scrap IR35 completely in the interest of fairness as Div will be taxed at income rates or they scrap small business rate relief on corporate tax...

[dsc]

I've done multiple concurrent contracts. At one point I had three gigs at the same time. They were all part time roles. You're assuming that every client wants 40h a week.

Nope, that's why I said "You'd need to be doing some form of consultancy where you spend way less than 40hrs a week on a client and then maybe you'll manage a couple of clients. If you do a classic bum on seat / soft dev / 40hrs a week role, you are effectively an employee with less control over you and more money in your pocket (or should I say in your company bank account)."

Never have I said it's impossible, but most of us don't work that way and it's not what clients want most of the time. Typically it's a bod they want for a full week / 40hrs and trying to paint this as a "business" is rather silly. What you've described however is how we should be operating and this I would actually call a proper business.

[ladymuck]

Nope, that's why I said "You'd need to be doing some form of consultancy where you spend way less than 40hrs a week on a client and then maybe you'll manage a couple of clients. If you do a classic bum on seat / soft dev / 40hrs a week role, you are effectively an employee with less control over you and more money in your pocket (or should I say in your company bank account)."

Never have I said it's impossible, but most of us don't work that way and it's not what clients want most of the time. Typically it's a bod they want for a full week / 40hrs and trying to paint this as a "business" is rather silly. What you've described however is how we should be operating and this I would actually call a proper business.

You did indeed say that, apologies. I skim-read while pretending to pay attention to something else and should have just done one thing at a time

[oliverson]

Its not close because even though the polls are neck and neck, because its an Electoral College the Democrats need to win by 3%+ points to stand any chance of winning the EC. Clinton won the popular vote by 2.1% but failed to win the EC , Biden won by 4.5% and so was able to win the EC.

The Democrats are now left hoping the Polls are underestimating Harris support by 3%. And she is really 3% ahead of Trump and the polls just are not showing it.

Or hoping they can pull a stunt with those dominion voting machines?!

[dsc]

You did indeed say that, apologies. I skim-read while pretending to pay attention to something else and should have just done one thing at a time

No probs, but I think it raises an interesting point ie. what is classed as a business and how "outsiders" see contractors. I think to most, 40hr - one client contractors are not really seen as a business and I tend to agree. Yes I get that some jump from 3-6month contract to another 3-6month contract, but I'd still class this as temp "employment" (where all the perks are simply converted into cash). Now I'll get my coat and bugger off before I get eaten alive...

[oliverson]

I've had a few enquiries this week on my availability from recruiters. Better days on the horizon?

The increase in Employers NI might bring outside IR35 assessments back into vogue so could be a glint of light in a dark budget. Better still they could scrap IR35 completely in the interest of fairness as Div will be taxed at income rates or they scrap small business rate relief on corporate tax...

I don't see that at all, quite the opposite.

What I feel will happen is that firms won't take on new employees and instead engage people on inside IR35 contracts, so as to avoid both Employer's NI and employee rights. Either that or just not take anybody on, perhaps offshore work where it is possible to do so.