Can we have a government shutdown as well?

[darmstadt]

WHS and when the money's up, it's up. I'd add that the BoE should never hand government more than 95% of the revenues to ensure a reserve is built up, possibly in a Norwegian style sovereign wealth fund. I think the time has come to seperate the buggerers from the spunkers.

FTFY

[petergriffin]

It's the poor who are ruining this country because they earn too much.

[Jog On]

Volunteers are replacing paid workers at an alarming rate.

My last gig was putting in a Citrix desktop for a local authority so that anyone (read: unpaid volunteers) could access it from any device anywhere.

I think this is getting rolled out across more govt departments.

The pushback from the permies for anything to do with this project was unbelievable. I suppose to them it was like helping dig their own graves...

[darmstadt]

Volunteers are replacing paid workers at an alarming rate.

Maybe MPs should be volunteers? Volunteering to help your country, I mean how patriotic is that?

[sasguru]

It's the poor who are ruining this country because they earn too much.

There's an element of truth in this: in Germany exporters have prospered at the expense of capping workers pay, with the result that for the first time in Germany poverty and income inequality is increasing even as the country's stats show it doing well.

[hyperD]

Maybe MPs should be volunteers? Volunteering to help your country, I mean how patriotic is that?

I think in the past they were unpaid and did this through what they thought was best for their country. Their experience in the real world, the lessons learnt (uuurgh, hate that phrase).

Now we have these bunch of lawyers, privileged and career parasites that think only of themselves and pay the piper to sit and nurture within the belly of the beast.

Hideous scum the lot of them.

[SussexSeagull]

Would we notice?

[petergriffin]

Would we notice?

Sooner than many think.