Cardiff flat owner gets tax bills for 11,000 Chinese firms
Dylan Davies's hundreds of VAT bills for companies he had never heard of totalled £500,000.www.bbc.co.uk
I may be wrong, but surely part of this is linked to the Conservatives obsession with business and the economy. If the rules are so relaxed as to allow this to happen then it's not fit for purpose.
well any work is automatically harder than no work. Who would even want to set up an automated system?
But guns make the country safer...they said so.Gunman Kills 5 Co-Workers at Louisville Bank on Livestream, Police Say (Published 2023)
The police did not give a motive for the shooting in the Kentucky city but said that the gunman, who also died, had been a bank employee.www.nytimes.com
Saw a stat online that said there's been a mass shooting (4 or more people injured/killed) every 16.4hrs so far this year in America
146 in 100 days
Staggering
Republicans say every time "it's too soon after the event to talk about gun reform", considering they are happening every day it's something that never stops being true. The fact Republicans are dedicating more time to limiting reproductive rights, criminalising crossing state lines for abortions, attempting to outright outlaw the Democrat party (genuinely, on tried to pass a bill to make the party illegal), attempting to defund the whole DoJ and FBI, attempting to subpoena the previous DA for Manhatten, removing voting stations from campuses, removed 2 Democrat representatives from a state legislature, removing mail vote dropboxes from Democrat areas and attempting to vote in favour of gerrymandered districts that have already been struck down by the state supreme court as unconstitutional tells you everything. They are charging down the path to fascism supported on the back of an ill informed, deluded and militant far right wing.Gunman Kills 5 Co-Workers at Louisville Bank on Livestream, Police Say (Published 2023)
The police did not give a motive for the shooting in the Kentucky city but said that the gunman, who also died, had been a bank employee.
Saw a stat online that said there's been a mass shooting (4 or more people injured/killed) every 16.4hrs so far this year in America
146 in 100 days
Staggering
Local councils need more central government funding its dry up of that source of revenue over the past 13 years that is causing councils to find those savings. As well as completely needless initiatives like voter ID.
It's the same with everything. For example when they say teacher's are getting a pay rise what they don't say is that this has to come from existing budgets and so schools have to make savings in either resources or support staff. Tbh I disagree with the focus of teachers on pay. Yes they deserve a pay increase like most public sector workers, but really they should be striking over the state of schools and being forced to teach more with less by a government that refuses to fund schools properly. Maybe it's the paper's spinning it, but these strikes as a whole should focus less on pay increases and more on public bodies being funded properly to provide a good service.
As someone who once spent a month normalising data from the entire London electoral role. I entirely hear you.
On the resources bit, part of the issue is that schools now teach from the new curriculum which was introduced under the Conservatives, though the process started under Labour. Basically teachers were fed up with the curriculum being too prescriptive and narrow and asked for a one with more freedom to teach. Conservatives being the vindictive ***** they are basically said, okay here are some vague generic statements about what children should learn, you go and create all the lessons from scratch to meet these statements. Honestly it was a mess the first few years and still is in many schools. Either schools have spent money they don't really have on schemes of work which becomes prescriptive again. Or they try to create their own curriculum for teaching which is hit or miss and every teacher new to the school has to be retrained in it when they join. Or teachers are just left to teach how they want which is even more hit and miss, especially with new teachers who lack experience. In my experience every year schools change leadership or change the curriculum so that teachers are constantly replanning and making new lessons and resources. I've never been to a school where the planning and resources are all ready and you only need to tweak it a bit to suit your class.
