Tories to get Britain working

[daffy654]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8289169.stm

I was just reading this report on the BBC website and i'm a little concerned by one part of what Cameron said in the interview.

"Welfare reforms would use tax reform and deregulation to help employers take on new staff and encourage the creation of new businesses"

It is the deregulation bit I am worried about. Do the tories plan to abolish the minimum wage and take employees rights away from them? Or am I reading too much into this statement?

[ll_billym]

If you watch the video (after 26m30) it sounds like he was just talking about regulation of the banking sector only.

I think the person who wrote the story got a bit confused.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8289436.stm

[jake-the-peg]

Clearly there's no point trying to "Get Britain back to work" if there are 8 applicants for every job.

So they have to have some way of generating those jobs - hence the rather vague "tax-reform" and "deregulation".

Let's put it this way - if they do abolish the minimum wage they could quite easily claim that it was covered by this phrase in their manifesto.

They might have difficulty removing certain rights like anti-discrimination laws due to EU commitments.

This is a big reason the Tories are anti-EU. The EU provides UK workers with a lot of protection that they'd like to remove.

[R1Geezer]

The Tories are not anti EU, they have pro and anti wings, they are split down the middle as are Labour on this subject.

[jake-the-peg]

The Tory pro-EU wing is pretty small as is the Labour Anti-EU wing.

I don't think you could seriously claim that both are split "down the middle"!

[daffy654]

I suppose we will have to wait and see what reforms they bring in when they get elected..........it seems a foregone conclusion that they will be.

[rov1200]

The Tory philosophy of getting people back to work is to give control to businesses above the worker. They believe if industry is strong they can have more control and in effect have little confidence in the worker to turn things round.

For instance the car scrappage scheme would never have been attempted. The reason is because taxpayers money has put the consumer in control above the producer.

You could say Tory top down policies in the past have so annoyed the unions and work groups and has been the major problem of relations in the workplace. We can expect further regulation and discord in the future if they achieve power.

[rov1200]

People must have short memories. The Labour party have just got rid of Blair for appearing and acting like a conservative. Now we have a Tory leader who appears and will act like a Labour politician.

Only today Cameron said a woman earning £150 will lose 96% of her benefits and how unjust it was. I suppose she would be allowed to keep those benefits under his regime.