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[malvolio]

Bollocks. I have never posted an article, and most of my news comes from Reuters, Sky, BBC and the like, rather than biased newspaper coverage. I notice you didn't mention all the Guardian based rubbish that gets posted without challenge...

And I am not right wing, I am anti-incompetent...

[malvolio]

I read in one report that he is separated from his family and rarely sees his son. Family life...???

The real problem is not that this is a court case, but that there is any kind of case to answer in the first place. Big ups for Tony and the Yooman Rites industry......

[malvolio]

I think you need to read some history. As I recall it, that was a cock up with Major taking us into the EU Exchange rate mechanism at the wrong value. The downturn in the early 80s was a result of Thatcher having to sort out the mess she got from Callaghan and the pain to come was was predicted by her...

[malvolio]

That was Brown living off the good work of Lawson and Howe
getting things on a firm growth path. Compare that to what the Coalition inherited from Brown the PM.

It's an unbroken rule, one gang wreck stuff the next gang fix it again. It is not a self-maintaining process....

[malvolio]

No it won't , without a major change in approach. Perhaps starting with a Chancellor that understands macroeconomics


I'm guessing you weren't around in the 70s.


Or come to some sort of agreement with Farage? Don't care what Farage or Badenoch say now, if there...

[malvolio]

Better for whom? Islington and the unions perhaps, probably not the rest of us......

[malvolio]

Have you read the whole thread?

The discussion is not about the legality or otherwise of a handcuff, merely its applicable term. The OP for good reasons wants to minmise it. All I've been saying is that using the Regs is not how to approach that aim.

And this antique middle...

[malvolio]

In that case, it is nothing to do with you. The contract between the "client" (or whoever) and the agency is separate to yours with the agency. More to the point, if the agency will be earning no more income as a result of the "client's" decisions to cut them out, they have nothing...

[malvolio]

OK, but your status under the Regs won't make a difference to anything and never has. A 12 month non-compete clause is perfectly reasonable, if you are supplying or are in possession of business critical knowledge. If you aren't then it's restraint of trade. If you're going to argue about it, at least...

[malvolio]

Or, to paraphrase, it won't work and you may be out of a job....

[malvolio]

And they truly believe that will prevent the government working out who they were...?

[malvolio]

In theory yes. There is a good chance the renewal will be withdrawn. The agency want the opt out because if you are inside the regs they have to do a lot of extra paperwork as well as take on a level of financial risk around late payments by the end client....

[malvolio]

Strictly speaking you can't opt in, you are in unless you specifically and correctly opt out. AIUI you can only withdraw an opt out on renewal of the contract.

However the earlier comment is quite correct. When we challenged HMG on the whole nonsense of the opt out and its abuse, their...

[malvolio]

Some years back, when I was arguing about the merits or otherwise of the opt-out - the Regs are so poorly drafted that they applied to areas they were never intended to apply to - I goaded one of our regular agency contributors to look into his agency's use of the opt out. He discovered (surprise, surprise)...

[malvolio]

A lot of time and effort went into getting Israel and the main Arab nations to agree on a way to work together . That concord stopped on Oct 7th when Hamas attacked Israel. It still exists, however, and they are basically aligned against Iran.

Similarly the current ceasefire is holding...

[malvolio]

They can't hit back. Iran can. So can Saudi and Egypt, in various ways.

There are no terrorists in Gaza anyway. They are a branch of the Iran military pretending to be a government (following an election some while ago...)....

[malvolio]

Not that unknown...

But Trump's playacting risks destabilising an already fragile situation. Before long he's going to upset someone with the muscle to hit back....

[malvolio]

I know several people who won't have £10 at the end of the week, much less the ability to put some of it aside......

[malvolio]

The world does not exist to keep HMRC happy....

The main idea of having a company is to have funds to support yourself (and the company) when you have no income. So depending on how much money is in the company, be it cleared profits from earlier work or input from Director's loans, it...

[malvolio]

Not quite. Every role will require a risk assessment. The local Security team will decide whether or not an "existing" clearance vet is suitable for the new role. If it is, within the 12 month timeframe, then you won't be re-vetted (although you will still need to do the paperwork at some...