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The Nasty Right Showing Their True Colours
Jeremy Hunt says we must become more like Asia.
I.E. Larger gap between rich and poor, increased poverty, starving children, etc.
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I.E. Larger gap between rich and poor, increased poverty, starving children, etc.
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//Many politicians are often guilty of adopting a patronising tone....\\
You think so? Substitute 'all' for 'many' and 'always' for 'often' and you may be nearer the mark. In my lifetime the most patronising politician was Barbara Castle, swiftly followed by Ted Heath, with Harold Wilson coming a distant third.
You think so? Substitute 'all' for 'many' and 'always' for 'often' and you may be nearer the mark. In my lifetime the most patronising politician was Barbara Castle, swiftly followed by Ted Heath, with Harold Wilson coming a distant third.
The need for tax credits is because big employers, especially supermarkets, pay low wages and do not give their employees enough hours.
Attacking the worker who has this dismal contract instead of the employer who pays less than a living wage is clearly avoiding tackling the root of the problem.
The employers usually stagger 12 hour contracts over 3 or 4 days, hampering the ability of the employee to get additional work.
Something needs to be done about the benefit system having to suppliment the wages of employees of super successful businesses like supermarkets. But penalising the people trapped in that situation is totally missing the point and terribly unfair.
Attacking the worker who has this dismal contract instead of the employer who pays less than a living wage is clearly avoiding tackling the root of the problem.
The employers usually stagger 12 hour contracts over 3 or 4 days, hampering the ability of the employee to get additional work.
Something needs to be done about the benefit system having to suppliment the wages of employees of super successful businesses like supermarkets. But penalising the people trapped in that situation is totally missing the point and terribly unfair.
I am sure it would be relatively easy to find out which employers are costing the nation a fortune because its employees have to claim tax credits.
We should tax those supermarkets a similar amount to the tax credits claimed by its poorly paid staff. So the burden shifts from the tax payer.
Obviously that won't happen because if these large employers began to give their employees enough hours to live on, they would have to employ less staff (1 person doing 40 hours instead of 4 people doing x 10 hours). The result woyld be higher unemployment and more benefit in total being claimed.
So the attack on Working Credits is both spurious and self defeating for the Government.
We should tax those supermarkets a similar amount to the tax credits claimed by its poorly paid staff. So the burden shifts from the tax payer.
Obviously that won't happen because if these large employers began to give their employees enough hours to live on, they would have to employ less staff (1 person doing 40 hours instead of 4 people doing x 10 hours). The result woyld be higher unemployment and more benefit in total being claimed.
So the attack on Working Credits is both spurious and self defeating for the Government.
I walked past all those well-dressed obviously 'very hard working' folk queuing to get into the Conference yesterday. Looked like they'd left the kids with the help, ditto the housework, delegated all tasks at work and cleared off to eat overpriced snacks and praise the ultra capitalist economies of the world.
These folks confuse being personally wealthy with a healthy and just state. They are returning us to the 1840s, morally and economically, where being successful and rich was equated with being chosen by god, and poverty was equated with moral deficiency and wickedness.
These folks confuse being personally wealthy with a healthy and just state. They are returning us to the 1840s, morally and economically, where being successful and rich was equated with being chosen by god, and poverty was equated with moral deficiency and wickedness.
So tghis is what he actually said:
"There’s a pretty difficult question that we have to answer which is essentially: are we going to be a country that is prepared to work hard in the way that Asian economies are prepared to work hard, in the way that Americans are prepared to work hard? And that is about creating culture where work is at the heart of our success
Note the bit about the Americans, but for some reason the nasty left have chosen to ignore this.
"There’s a pretty difficult question that we have to answer which is essentially: are we going to be a country that is prepared to work hard in the way that Asian economies are prepared to work hard, in the way that Americans are prepared to work hard? And that is about creating culture where work is at the heart of our success
Note the bit about the Americans, but for some reason the nasty left have chosen to ignore this.
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