We are waiting for the other 27 to catch up to the fact the eu comission are supposed to be employed by the 27 and not the 27's bosses. They are slow but I think they re getting there.
How can the French have higher production rates, when they worlmthe fewest hours a week and are always on strike and its illegal to check your work email at home?! #smellsfishierthanahookersdrawersat4inthemorning
Because they invest more in technology (and in infrastructure, think TGV etc) that helps increase productivity than we do....and they work longer hours than you think, or the stereotype suggests (at least my colleagues at our DC in Strasbourg do)....and strikes tend to be limited to the public sector (which is bloated/overly protected).
FPMLS have you ever done any work with the French?! IME within the motor and financial industries, there stereotype is totally spot on. The technology is an argument, but as with most stats the basis of them is open for massaging for a particular standpoint
Thought I'd go and see how its calculated. Seems it all starts with GDP, then divided into the number of hours worked. So if a country produces lots of low value items' and works long hours, it actually means they are less productive (?!) Scenario seems to be: sell high value, low maintenance financial services (is that Luxembourg?) and have people work fewer hours because they get paid well and can afford to work less = high productivity sell low value, high maintenance tourism (is that Spain?) and pay people far less because the sale value is less = low productivity Yet the second scenario delivers more things, to more people, over longer hours and cant be done in less.... So productivity really is a measure of the value of one unit of something produced, its not how much is produced, and the more automated and more expensive the item is, the more 'productive you are. Or employ loads of people working few hours for the same GDP and bingo Another 'nothing like real world' calculation to ignore then
I know you like quoting reuters chuckles so undoubtedly will accept this, oo an the U.K. going in the other direction..sacre bleau https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-f...st-in-a-year-in-march-pmi-shows-idUKKCN1HA0UL
No1 productive country...Luxembourg...lies, damn lies & statistics That's beside the fact that 85% of Luxembourg's economy is based on banking. ... So, the economic output generated by these individuals are counted as domestic product for Luxembourg but the people who generate that product don't live in the country and so aren't part of its population when we calculate GDP per capita.
Reports in the media today that ‘the City’ is showing stronger than ever and the EU are offering concessions as they are getting scared of a no deal and have started to offer concessions. We should go for no deal and pay nothing no matter what they offer
The figures have always shown the eu will get hurt more than us BUT only if we have a wto/free trade deal THAT involves tariffs. Again being the good friend we are to our fellow europeople, we said we would wave if they did too. As a leaver because of the eu comission, the U.K. has largely bent over backwards, in divorce terms, we would be the nice partner leaving but wishing good terms so to remain friends, the eu has been our partner that realises or past has been a good one and the eu comission has been that shit stirring cvnt of a lawyer that wants to see everyone unhappy except themselves, and I think the 27 are waking upto that finally. Europe isn't junker or barnier, it's the people of the 28 and the commission are driving people away
Seems the Romanians are getting pissed off with their politicians too: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=2000063436682977
I don't read papers, saw one at mothers, thing it was the FT or summit? Who told you anyway - I telt them not to
