From the timber-panelled warmth of our boardrooms and suburban bunkers we can observe a growing cold front is upon the UK economy.
Inflation and recession are firmly gripped and workers are in revolt. We can thank ourselves for a decade of inflationary and hubristic policy that has bubbled tech-led markets and over-funded technology development at the expense of under-funding our staff. This winter has seen something of a return to a ‘winter of discontent': union strikes, spiking food and fuel inflation, falling productivity and recession. A decade of austerity in public services combined with sluggish wage inflation (among the G7) combined with stretched-work-patterns had left the UK workforce emaciated both ...
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