Tag Archives: Theresa May
How contagious will the Uber-ruling be?
The complicit agreement between those who work in the “gig-economy” not to work for those who run the gig-economy has succeeded for much longer than Uber and Deliveroo. The same arguments were being had about the status of self-employed insurance … Continue reading
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Tagged AE, auto enrolment, delieroo, DWP, gig-economy, pensions, Technology, Theresa May, tips, uber, workplace Pensions
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Value for money – we have won a battle not a war.
The FCA Consultation Paper CP16/30″Transaction cost disclosure in workplace pensions” is a very good piece of work and allows IGCs and Trustees to know what their members are paying to have their pension pots managed. It unlocks one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Carpe Diem, Conference, Conservative, CP16/30, Technology, Theresa May, Transparency, TTF
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Walk on! A panegyric for May’s interventionism.
This footpath is not a road – it is a footpath; it is not closed, it has been closed; it is not blocked by roadworks , the footpath is walkable but the pedestrian has to walk past some red tape. If … Continue reading
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Tagged Basingstoke, Global Markets, Housing, Infrastructure, Interventionism, pensions, Road Closed, Technology, Theresa May, town planning
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May’s way
I’ve been trying to work out what’s going on in British politics and how to characterise the changes in direction within our two major parties (and why our third parties seem so marginal). I’m concluding that what is going … Continue reading
Should we block the triple lock?
Ros Altmann speaks out (shock!) We now have three former pension ministers making a lot more noise than our current pension minister. Ros Altmann who we are now realising never should have done the jog Steve Webb who should … Continue reading
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Tagged Gregg McClymont, New State Pension, nick timothy, Ros Altmann, state pension, Steve Webb, Tax, tax credits, Theresa May, Treasury, Triple-Lock
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Cometh the hour, cometh the woman? What can the PM learn from entrepreneurs? Stephen Kelly blogs
It may be a little controversial but I think it is ok to say this because I am one of the category: white men over 40 have an amazing capacity for getting the country into a bit of a mess, politically speaking. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Entrepreneur, pension playpen, Sage, Stephen Kelly, Theresa May
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Walk walk walk – not talk talk talk
I have just read an article by Sophie Baxter that puts numbers to the failure of David Cameron to create a one nation Government. It explicitly draws parallels with Cameron’s oration to the nation on entering #10 six years ago. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservative, Conservative and Unionist, Philip Hammond, talk the talk, Theresa May, walk the walk
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May be!
Well it was nothing if not “brutal”, though I expect that will be spun to “pragmatic”. The conservative party abandoned any further flirtations with democracy, closed ranks and appointed Teresa May as leader and – from tomorrow- Prime Minister. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Business and Economy, DWP, Employment, Government, Insurance, Leadsom, Politics, Stephen Kelly, Theresa May
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Women rock
It should come as no surprise to anybody that the two leading candidates for our next prime minister are women. Leadsom and May have survived the BREXIT disaster with their dignity intact and integrity intact. I would have no worries … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea leadsom, Angela Rayner, Business, pensions, Politics, rock, Theresa May, women, women rock
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This dread butcher and his fiend like queen
My blog yesterday likened the mail between Sarah Vine and Michael Gove to Lady Macbeth winding up her husband to kill the King. For Duncan (or better Banquo) read Boris – though I had no prescience that but minutes after I published … Continue reading
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Tagged Banquo, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Duncan, Gove, Lady Macbeth, Leadsom, Macbeth, pension, Politics, Theresa May
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