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£17,380?

I'm glad EV sceptics exists, I would never have bought one if the prices hadn't fallen through the floor.

Around 1/4 will be pre-commencement conditions such as the drainage, the Biodiversity and the terrorism stuff. It would be all sorted in a few months though. Any delays are due to the club not wanting to commit to the build.

It's much easier to get noticed at the Big 6 IMO.

And he has a chance of England selection at Chelsea whereas he doesn't with Leicester.

Brand new leaf arrived this weekend. £15k off asking price. Pleased so far, lots of car for the money

I don't use that website and aren't aware of it. Perhaps other employers aren't either. A similar search on Google came up with 100+ grad jobs in the east midlands and 100+ in Leicester alone. We have more openings in our business of 13 people than are advertised on that board. Perhaps it's a duffer? There has been an unofficial pause on spending in the public sector recently, it started around 3 months ago once it was clear there was an election looming. I suspect there will be some relaxing of this in the coming months.

We are only small so take 1 a year at £27k. I want to ditch this and start taking school leavers as high level apprentices to cut the universities out as they learn more in the workplace anyway. Other businesses in the sector are struggling big time to find staff at all levels. Lots of posts are filled with foreign graduates from India and Pakistan. I'm not here to provide career advice but I would strongly suggest careers in the construction or quarrying sectors. Salaries have risen 30% since COVID and good people are in very short supply. https://uniswales.ac.uk/strong-demand-graduates-amid-uk-skills-shortage Interesting link for clarity.

I think planning has been approved for this now.

We employ grads, there is a real shortage of them. The industries we work in are short in all roles from low skilled to high skilled. Skilled tradesman will be the investment bankers of the future I reckon. I'm not familiar with the job situation for physicists and psychologists. Perhaps they are the exception in the jobs market, I can only talk from the experience I have in construction which is dire and getting worse.

I'm not an AI expert. However, I would look at the jobs in a care home that can be automated such as cleaning and cooking. Cleaning in particular is already automated at home but businesses are still paying people to hoover and clean floors. Your point is very valid in that the ability to care and provide social support cannot be replicated by machine. So these jobs should be considered as being 'skilled' and will be so once the manual elements are done by machines.

I do. We are short of labour at all job/skill levels.

Indeed. I want 4 days and 200% though.

I have an example? A roof tile company (very local) has an automated machine to produce flat tiles. This machine produces the same number of tiles that 20 staff used to. It now has 3 maintenance technicians instead that looks after it following training. In another room, they still make the ridge tiles using the traditional method and 6 chaps produce 10% of the number and are paid less. They aren't last investing in the ridge tile machine and the 6 guys are being retrained and will earn more doing so. As with all businesses, they struggle for staff and the average age is increasing.

It won't, but it should. We will probably give in and continue to import labour. I'm currently driving our business to improve its automations with a view to protecting it from staff shortages that we are facing. Thus far, we are invoicing 30% more and have reduced our house by 10% in doing it. The plan is to work towards a 4 day week with the staff being paid for doing so.

We already have more jobs than people and it will get worse not better. If businesses achieve more with less staff on the payroll then wages will rise as the only work being done by humans will be work not possible by machines. There will be more specialist jobs in maintaining machines rather than low skilled labour it relies upon. We have an opportunity as a country to embrace the future as opposed to mining other countries for cheap staff to prop us up.

Taxes? So if less people achieve more they will be paid more. I assume they therefore pay more tax. Importing cheap labour has encouraged businesses to fail to invest in future technologies that improve output.

The solution is AI, robotics and automation not importing low paid staff from abroad.

5 goals and 3 assists in 800 minutes is a decent return. I can't see why they would want rid.

Jon approves of this approach.

Its not a swap but 2 over inflated transfer values between 2 clubs.

You haven't. Its a general comment that the if the ICC are bending over backwards to assist India then the key thing is to make sure they actually play and not just get byes due to weather.

I can't imagine Indian fans cheering an empty pitch with rain for days on end. Seems bizarre that the ICC wouldn't want to do all they could to make sure India play the match.

They will have been snorting it up all afternoon

Scouting our first signing? Who says we have no cash!