September and October are usually busy months in business, a time when many projects and recruitment campaigns kick off following the summer holiday period. However, this year is different. We are currently experiencing a market that is extremely quiet and business confidence seems very apprehensive. Why is this? Why is the business market – particularly that of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that I and my colleagues work with – so quiet, so apprehensive?
What we are being told is the uncertainty of the Government’s plans are largely behind this pause. Not only apprehension of what the Autumn budget at the end of October may bring to the business world, but apprehension of the much awaited plans for changes to employment legislation. The uncertainty of what these will be and when they will be announced, combined with the rumours of squabbling behind the scenes both with the trade unions and between Government ministers, provides no reassurance and does little to help business confidence, particularly amongst SMEs, who provide the engine room to our economy.
Businesses are nervously awaiting announcements from the Government on its proposals for new employment legislation, part of its “New Deal for Working People”. It initially stated these would be published within the first 100 days of the new Government. This window expires around October 13th and we have not yet heard any concrete date for the announcement, though mention was made during the recent Labour party annual conference that the proposals would be announced during October.
The proposals are expected to include very significant changes to the landscape of employment, including banning zero hours contracts, ensuring ‘day one’ employment rights (which currently only apply after two years’ service), the scrapping of existing restrictions on industrial action and giving trade unions a bigger role across all employers.
The changes are expected to have far reaching impacts on all employers across the U.K., and will be particularly challenging for those small and medium sized enterprises who we work with. There are 5.5 million SMEs in total across the U.K., employing two thirds of all workers. SMEs typically do not have their own HR or legal teams to interpret and implement new legislation or the resources to administer any additional bureaucracy. Businesses are telling us they have real concerns that the changes could have serious consequences for them, while the continuing uncertainty around the new requirements is delaying decision making, investment and recruitment. They are holding back on projects and recruitment as they fear the new legislation may make these unviable, financially or risk wise.
The changes could therefore have a significant overall negative impact on the economy and growth, stifling entrepreneurism and future employment prospects.
There appears to be a degree of chaos in Government around the development of the proposals, with the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, Jonathan Reynolds, disagreeing with the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, over how probation periods would work should day-one employment rights be introduced. There is a huge lack of business experience across the Cabinet, including the Business Secretary himself. In 2001, Reynolds graduated in politics and history from the University of Manchester. After leaving university he worked for the local council for a short period, then trained to be a solicitor, prior to working as a political assistant for the MP James Purnell. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2010, a role which he has continued in to date.
The concern of business leaders is that Government ministers and particularly Rayner, with their combined inexperience of business and their strong ideological leanings, will give in to the demands of the trade unions when finalising their proposals for Parliament. Despite only 20% of the registered electorate voting Labour, the party currently has 403 seats in Parliament (after the suspension of seven Labour MPs and the resignation of Rosie Duffield) and a simple majority of 157 seats. Therefore, its proposals are likely to sail through the House of Commons with ease and only the Lords will bring closer scrutiny.
The power dynamics between the unions and business, combined with the ongoing uncertainty, are increasing concerns across the business community. Ministers seem to be struggling to remember that they are no longer playing student politics. They must realise that playing along to the trade union fiddle, increasing bureaucracy and red tape required of employers, the majority of whom are SMEs without large teams ready to apply and manage these requirements, could have a hugely damaging impact. The economy continues in a perilous state, with both public and private debt continuing to increase. Now is not the time to add further burden to the economy and business, stifling the chances of growth and recovery.
Steve Chilcott is an HR professional of 30 years and founding member of Fair Job U.K., an HR consultancy aiming to depoliticise the U.K. workplace.
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Thanks for this interesting take on the matter.
“Quite why the rich and financial institutions are so intent on grabbing agricultural land, I don’t know.”
I don’t claim to know why they are, but it’s not exactly surprising, is it? I mean, we all need food so if you own the land the food comes from then you control the food supply. Why would you not want to do that? Also, land is the classic limited commodity – if you can, why not corner the market, at a knockdown price.
The real interest of all the people is that a Land Value Tax is implemented so as to give much of the inherent value to the community leaving the added value for the owners.
Assuming you mean that this would replace most/all other taxes, I think the idea has some merit.
Follow the money, follow the power, follow the control. Classic operational Master of the Universe mentality. Masters (and Mistresses) of a kind master and mistress together.
Also known more prosaically as Headmaster and/or Head Girl Syndrome.
Resist!
Mass governmental run (wef,un,nato,who,blackrock) industrial food production for the masses = complete overarching control that beats communism out of the ball park! All this to be done nice and slowly and patiently so as not to enrage the prolls! if anyone mentions what’s happening just call it, say.. mis or disinformation!
I wonder what blue chips bought many of the Dutch farms before they voted in that new party that saves their ass! A few committed suicide because of being forced off their land because if these fake nitrogen initiatives. Evil WEF psychopaths pushing this with the Build Back Better mantra.
It is so they control the food supply. And if you control the food supply, you control the people (you allow to live).
All part of the CONTROL and depopulation Agenda.
M. Zermansky’s “Declined” looking more and more like our future.
“Quite why the rich and financial institutions are so intent on grabbing agricultural land, I don’t know.”
Crikey, I’ve been banging on about how the Davos Deviants wish to destroy the country pretty much since the Scamdemic started. The intention to steal our farmland is part of this destruction. Our farmers are the backbone of this country, hard-working, enterprising, entrepreneurial and committed, qualities which must be eradicated in order to destroy Britain and its people – not discounting hordes of muslim Gimmigrants of course. And once organisations take control of land which they will not have a clue how to manage the food shortages are built in. Starving populations are of course much easier to manage.
Useless solar and wind farms are simply cover ups for taking good agricultural land out of the food production chain so let’s not be kidded by this crap.
Quite why David Craig fails to see the obvious is beyond me.
The aim of the globalists / Davos Deviants is the destruction of Great Britain. Simple as. Stealing farmland from farmers is but one part, albeit a massive part of the equation.
Agreed, those who control the food supply control the people. We will be subjected to food which has high levels of chemicals, where the prices are controlled by cartels of producers, who as they do in the States fund the political party that looks after the best interests of the corporate heads.
When the Dutch farmers were being turfed out on a massive scale, people were theorising what the purpose of all this is; we know the excuse was nitrogen fertilizer but what was the real reason. People like Dr Dave Martin talked about plans to merge some cities with towns etc with the development of ‘Smart Cities’, others talked about large Food Hubs including the Dutch PM at the time.
Chemicals, AND the mRNA clot-shots of course.
I do see the obvious. But rather than state it, I preferred to let readers come to their own conclusions. My point with this article was to do the research to expose Labour’s corruption, as not a single mainstream media journalist seems to have noticed the way abrdn have used Labour to enrich themselves at our expense.
Thanks for your response.
I’d assume they cosied up to the other half of the Uniparty before Labour had a go…
I remember arguing with a farmer who was not that clued up in the DD Globalists; He told me people have no business in looking into why Bill Gates is buying up so much farmland in the US because he is a private citizen. I hope that particular person has changed his mind on that, because being a small farmer, he is the turkey that would vote for Christmas.
He would have a point had Gates not made it clear his desire to meddle in our lives and as such negate his right to privacy.
Well the first five of us to comment on this article have all come to the same conclusions. No surprise there then.
It’s reasonable to assume this chap would also concur…LOL;
A Labour Party activist is ill advised to knock on this man’s door.
“Labour can f**k off, Labour have fucked this country right up, full of f**king Muslims & all this sh*t. This country is f**ked”.
“F**k off Labour scum”.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1879479134356979977
Now that chap should be on the honours list!
I suspect he’s a Reform voter, personally.
Quality Mogs. Quality.
A gentleman of fervent perspicacity and admirable loquaciousness!
Top video, made me chuckle!
As government and bureaucracy has ‘blossomed’, there have been two serious implications for national government, neither of which are desirable
One. It has been possible for ‘leaders’ to avoid leading, by abdicating power upwards. A prime example of this is the EU. We could pay 650 British MP’s just to keep their rubber stanps inked, and meanwhile to amuse themselves [at our expense] chasing libidinous SPADs around Westminster. There was no longer a need for them to even pretend to manage anything, even though some tried very hard to give the impression that they did [Hancock, BoJo, Covid]. The Climate Change Act was another egregious example of this, in fact anything involving the WHO
Two. There has been a proliferation of rules, laws and requirements introduced below the level at which MP’s can intervene. 20mph in Wales; everything in Scotland. MPs are saved the hassle of having to manage matters, they just leave it to others, policies are enacted which have never been debated at Westminster.
And if you are not qualified for the job but get dumped into HM Treasury as a stooge, what better than adopting the thinking undertaken by others [Demos] and making it your very own policy? Follow the money on that one, though….
World’s most valuable farmland? Ukraine.
World’s most expensive real-estate land?
1. Maui. Up for sale after devastating fire.
2. Palm Beach. Up for sale after devastating fire.
3. Pacific Palisades. Up for sale after devastating fire.
I hesitate to comment, as my brain is starting to feel like a broken record, but we now have another connection between Labour and ‘the bosses’ wanting to destroy the structure of the country. Now if it was the Tory party, I could understand the dotted line from party, through think tank to evil globalists, but this is the workers’ party, the party of the downtrodden, and here’s where I become the broken record – who are the 25% still supporting this lawyer run, capitalist supporting, globalist lackey political party?
The Civil Service, wider Public Sector, University Sector, “Charity” Sector, large proportion of ethnic minorities, esp Muslims, welfare claimants and many in the traditional working class Labour-voting areas “cos we all vote Labour.”
Down to 25% in the polling. I reckon they could go down another 5% as some in the traditional working class Labour vote and Muslims abandon them.
20% will be rock bottom.
I suspect it’s because they know that the current western economic structure is likely to collapse at some point. At that point the fundamental truth will emerge: you still have to eat.
In contrast, other assets, like your latest fancy iPhone, will not necessarily be that useful.
“And around 1800 the Government started a Hat Tax. Each hat had to have a stamp sewn into it to show that it was legal. The penalty for forging these stamps was death”
Reminds me of the book ‘London’s Underworld’. Three Centuries of Vice & Crime. In it he mentioned that you could also get the death penalty of the stealing of Hops! suppose they liked their beer, and mead!
The WEF “you will own nothing” quote, was it just a prediction or an intention. There are National Plans here in the UK that they never talk about, apart when Stanley Johnson says the quiet bit out loud.
Whatever their motive it’s certainly sinister, and certainly bodes ill for normal people.
With arch globalist 2TK in downing street it’s hard to see how this ends eny time soon.
How many more families’ livelihoods will be destroyed before these people are stopped?
Anybody’d think the Great Taking was really a thing…
Makes my f@cking blood boil.
In a crowded field this lot are going to be the most unpopular government in history, and they’ve only been in 6 months, 11 days and 14 3/4 hours…
What the late Christopher Booker used to call “A sledgehammer to crack a nut that completely misses the nut”
Unless the nut is completely different from what they say it is.
Their behaviour is based on the assumption that there will be very few of us left. You need a base number, say 800,00, just to keep the infrastructure going. Making sure that nuclear power plants don’t melt down etc. Believe me they want us out of the way. The tightening of the financial noose is just a harbinger of what is to come. Everything is being strangled, fertiliser production for example. You can easily glean the effect of massive fertiliser production reductions and they have done it so that at least a third of the world population will have nothing to eat. Just in case you have a hard time in thinking of these people as ruthless.
Perhaps we should view our political leaders as “farmers” and the populace as “livestock”?
Or Prize Pigs and the other animals.
Yes, the “useless eaters” statement explains Agenda and therefore their behaviour.
Good article by David Craig, with useful information about Gates’ huge landholdings, also mentioning Stalin and the Kulaks, and asking about the reasons. Here are a few reasons:
1) Bill Gates, speaking for the Globalists, vowed to “Abolish Animal Agriculture”, including dairy and fishing, to force us all to be Docile Vegans Eating Bugs. Hence the decimation of the UK fishing industry.
2) Famine. Depopulation Agenda 21, set for 2030. Holodomor II.
3) “The Hunger Games”.
Sounds much like the continual destruction of “prime property” in the USA. Hawaii, California, which state is next? Only our financial institutions that keep getting mentioned are Blackrock and vanguard. Reminds me of the NWO…you will own nothing and be
. You will eat bugs. Up until a few months ago, the feds were harassing a famous Amish farmer who was selling unpasteurised milk to his many customers. I can tell you right now, the new administration has many battles ahead, but when President Trump says he will address the tax system in the USA, it is coming.
What I don’t understand is how all of us Global Vegan Serfs will be eating bugs, which are technically “animals”, and therefore not vegan.
Bill Gates’ plan to “Abolish Animal Agriculture” must also include abolishing “Insect Farming”, Eating Bugs and his much-vaunted Fake Bug Meat, because they are also “Animal Agriculture”.
And to think of all that money he’s invested in Bug Meat, all to be abolished under his own plan!
A farm is probably worth an awful lot in carbon credits, so ditching the fiat currency for land that will work in the new technocratic world order is very sensible for these financial only institutions.
The benefit that it gives more leverage on the people because you control the food supply, that is probably just an added bonus.