Irishbeekeeper

ha! reminds of that brilliant movie Lord of War, 'There are There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?'

scrubbedexpat056

To get back to the the OP's original question of a prediction on what we are going to wake up to on 30th March 2019, what I find most worrying is that it is literally impossible to predict. Not in general terms or details, not nationally or in foreign policy, not economically, socially, culturally or ethically. Not in imports or exports, not in jobs, incomes, economic and social divides. Not in the rejuvenation of the neglected parts of UK, not in migration both professional and humanitarian. Not in anything.
The only thing predictable about 30th March 2019 is that we were always going to be in the position of having no idea what was going to happen. Brexit was never about voting in favour of a definite, quantifiable future, it was about rejecting a perceived past.

scrubbedexpat141

But we'll have 350m quid more a week for the NHS and we'll be taking back control. I mean, it can't fail just on those points alone. It's got to work, morons said so.

Johnnyboy11

And we'll have three less layers of bureaucracy: European Parliament, European Commission and European Council. Really looking forward to April

Millhouse

Millhouse

mikelincs

Of course the caveat to that is that there will be NO savings after the loss of earnings by industry, the extra costs of imports, the loss of the value of the pound, the loss of many of the EU workers etc.

Millhouse

mikelincs

No, realist..

scot47

Now we know that they really will spend a squillion ponds on the NHS it is all hunkey-dorey. Excuse me now, I have to report back to the State Hospital for the criminally insane.

ExpatAl

NHS is in desperate need of reform anyways. Any extra budget will be swallowed without any necessary improvements to the frontline (more just middle management inflation and non-jobs like 'diversity and inclusion managers'.

scrubbedexpat141

So diversity is a bad thing?

ExpatAl

Not what I said however such jobs to remain politically correct are a waste of resources IMO.

scrubbedexpat141

You said that it's a non-job and now that it's a waste of resources, so logic dictates it can't be a good thing in your mind.

Actually, instead of being costly, hiring someone to increase levels of diversity probably offers a greater ROI than lots of other 'support' or 'admin' or 'HR' type roles.
McKinsey have done enough studies to show that boards with greater diversity perform best and also that boards with greater diversity generate more revenue. Credit Suisse even demosntrated through research that more money made by diverse boards wasn't linked to the pre-existing strength of the company.

Perhaps if the NHS, which is already diverse by nature of being such a large employer, promoted it even more, they generate greater efficiencies to stop wasting resources?

Just a thought.

Millhouse