Whitehall Workshy: Time to Put Britain’s Civil Service Back on the Tools
The asylum chaos is just the start. If we don’t sack the slackers and bring in proper grafters, we’re heading for trouble on the streets. Let’s stop pretending: the UK civil service is broken. Not creaking, not struggling—broken. It’s turned from the engine room of government into a bureaucratic black hole, swallowing money, time, and […]
WeFix Hits New Heights as Pimlico Goes Down the Pan
At WeFix HQ the phone is ringing off the hook! Our HR team is working overtime to hire more of the engineers who are up to our high technical and personal standards. As fast as they bring on new engineers demand for our services rockets up even more. I hear the news at Pimlico is […]
After UK Government’s Steel Takeover, it Should refer itself to Bankruptcy Court, for what a Judge called being ‘Hopelessly Insolvent’
Yesterday the UK Government took control of Liberty Steel, which has three sites, two in Rotherham and another in Sheffield.Before the PM’s panic privatisation was ordered yesterday the firm, which has been making steel in Rotherham for 202 years; employs 1,500 workers, and was reignited in 2018 by King Charles, was wound up at insolvency […]
Time to Ditch the Snobbery and Back Apprenticeships
Every August we get the same feel-good TV shots of beaming teenagers waving their A-level results, teachers clapping, proud parents filling their phones with happy memories that are instantly posted on Facebook. The media laps it up, and why wouldn’t they? Most journalists went to university themselves. Most teachers did too. So it’s hardly surprising […]
Britain’s got Talent but not Enough of it is on the Tools!
I’ve been banging on about this for donkey’s years — and I’ll keep shouting until someone in Westminster gets off their backside. Britain’s got a skills shortage the size of the Channel Tunnel. And unless we start churning out apprentices like a proper production line, the country’s going to seize up. We Need skills! We’ve […]
Stop the money, stop the free health care, stop the free hotels, and the boats will stop all by themselves
If you arrive in the UK on a small boat and you will be ‘detained’; assessed for removal, and returned to France, with no future possibility of claiming as asylum in the UK. That’s the (Labour) party line. It all sounds very good and proper, except if that was the whole truth, why do so […]
James Whale – an all time original!
This morning I got the news that my friend James Whale MBE died. At this point convention says that I should say that his death came after ‘a long battle with cancer’. But my brave friend didn’t rage against his disease, he took it in his stride, lived every day to its fullest. And I […]
Reeves’ ‘Budget Bombshell’ was no April Shower, it was the beginning of a business bloodbath!
Three months ago, fallout from Rachel Reeves’ first budget left UK businesses praying for a miracle to save them from the double-whammy of increases in the National Minimum Wage and employers’ National Insurance (NI). 50,000 firms nearing collapse And now, just three months after Labour ramped up the cost of doing business for millions of […]
Why Summer is the Smart Time to Service Your Boiler
Avoid the autumn rush and keep your home warm and worry-free When the sun’s out and heating is the last thing on your mind, your boiler probably isn’t getting much thought. But summer is actually the perfect time to get it serviced, and here’s why. 1. Beat the Autumn Rush Come September and October, boiler […]
It’s a sad reality – but overcharging and the brazen ripping-off of customers is still an unpalatable truth in our industry!
Sadly, it has come to our attention at WeFix London that tradesmen working for competitor companies are ripping off customers by inflating the value of parts and labour. It seems this is not a few isolated incidents, but and organised scam with, on occasions the complicity of plumbing merchants, who are prepared to issue inflated […]
