Kern wrote:
Amusingly, the EU itself is
asking for a 7% budget increase. I'm sure that's going to be popular.
I know, they are so detached from reality on the one hand, then there is the need to stop the whole Euro bubble from bursting.
Germany get to sell all their stuff to Europe and France get the bulk of the money to ensure fizzy piss made in one area (Sorry Champagne) is always expensive
My Aunt lives in France and has a well-paid job. She is sick of the stress so has arranged a deal where she hands over for 6 months from home and then gets a redundancy package of 3 months’ pay. Not bad as she wanted to leave and the company asked her to stay.
On top of that the French social security will pay her 80% of salary for 2 years. Furthermore if after 2 years she wanted to start a business this payment could be extended for the first year of setting the business up.
Now my Aunt had work for 10 years or more for this company and paid her taxes, point is so have I and so have lots other UK people and we don’t get anything like this. If I was laid off and then paid most of my salary for 2 years I wouldn’t be in a hurry to look for a job.