Home counties

I really wanna know where you were born and brought up, first and foremost, 'cause I've never asked you, so this is the perfect platform to do that.

Well, I was actually born in Somerset, um, but I, I grew up in the Home Counties, so in Amersham, in Buckinghamshire.

Fantastic.

And what was your childhood like, Lela?

Could you take your sales skill set and turn your hand to a business development role? Could you take your customer service skill set and turn your hand to an operational role? There's lots of different avenues that you can go down.

So which locations are you seeing talent move to? We've actually seen a really big increase in activity in the home counties and the Midlands over the last 12 months.

I think this is partly driven by the uncertainty in the market and the investor market, the international buyers have dropped off a little bit, which is meaning that developers are focusing much more on a domestic market.

So the home counties in the Midlands are pretty buoyant.

And those developers, the salaries are even challenging London salaries now.

And what advice can you give for progressing your career? Age old, age old thing, but don't become comfortable.

what's happened to salaries and bonuses in new homes over the last 12 months? And what do you anticipate going forward? We've definitely seen an increase in

salaries in onsite sales roles over the last 12 months.

And as not just any old director of cricket, it's, he, he's the leading director of cricket in the whole country as far as I'm concerned, 'cause he's the number one Liverpool fan out there with me, so I'm quite happy about that.

So welcome back to the show, Datchet director of cricket, promoted to the Home Counties Premier League, Mr. Tom Lambert.

How we doing, bud?

I'm good, mate.

Um, and you know, I, I, I will have a preconceived idea having played in the Premier League for four or five years with Datchet, um, of, of what's to be expected.

But as I say, it's back to, back to square one again.

It's, the problem to solve is Home Counties Prem, um, and what is it, October the 6th or whatever it is today, I've got quite a few months to get my head around that.

Still look to players, what are we short of? What do we need? Um, what makes us more competitive, more consistent, more dynamic? Um, and what are the tools that win you a Premier League? Well, I've got some ideas on that, um, and pretty basic stuff really, um, and just trying to put those formulas on the pitch.

Well, I, I think, to be honest, what we have now in the UK is we have two center-right parties.

We have a, uh, center-right party in the South, a Marks & Spencer party, the Conservatives, that appeals to the Home Counties and people who are better off.

And then we have a northern, it, yeah, particularly actually East-West divide is as important as the North-South.

A, a slightly more sort of blue-collar in feel, and that party is Reform.

Crikey.

Well, I was brought up in Sussex, and then at a fairly young age we moved to, uh, the Home Counties, up into Buckinghamshire and the Chilterns.

Um, and it...

I know people wouldn't think of Sussex as being rural these days, but in those days it was, definitely.

... would like it.

I would imagine the people of the Home Counties would like that speech.

Mm.

It was, you know, the things that she said on inheritance tax I can see would appeal to, you know, people who are well-to-do.