Potholes are causing £1m a month in repair claims. So why don’t they get on and fix them? Because it will cost £9bn to bring our roads back up to pre-2010 scratch, so it’s cheaper to pay the claims (as most of those who start try to get money out of a local authority will give up before they lose the will to live) and delegate the problem to the next government. However, to put that £9bn in context, we spent £830bn bailing out the banks…
“Lords to probe shake-up of IR35 rules”
‘IR35’ basically says that if you’re ‘self-employed’ but only do work for one company, you’re actually an employee, should be taxed like one and get holidays, maternity leave etc. etc.. It’s been around for 20 years or more and has been difficult, nigh impossible to...
