We’ll have a new PM within a couple of days, of course, so all of these problems may be sorted if you’re reading this on catch-up. And, sorry, Liz, but any sorting will need a big, a very big action plan and injection of borrowed cash. Meanwhile, London already seems to have more tourists than natives, especially those of US$ denominated origins, as, despite our cost of living crisis, we’re now a cheap exchange-rate destination. So, one rather bleak silver lining, unless you were hoping to relax with a G&T on a Costa. The other is that most of the investment funds that certainly our clients hold won’t be reliant on the performance of the UK stock market. So, don’t panic when you look at the FTSE; and, believe me, Cornwall beats the airport and channel tunnel queues anyway.
“The working-from-home illusion fades”
Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.
