The Nasty Right Showing Their True Colours

[Canary42]

Jeremy Hunt says we must become more like Asia.

I.E. Larger gap between rich and poor, increased poverty, starving children, etc.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tax-credit-cuts-very-important-cultural-signal-jeremy-172354784.html#v5HxiTd

[Togo]

He might mean work for a living when you are fit enough, instead of adopting the entitlement attitude, like the people of Asia appear to.

[agchristie]

I like his reference to his wife being Chinese as if that fact in some way softens and justifies his views!

[Togo]

//I like his reference to his wife being Chinese as if that fact in some way softens and justifies his views!//
Hardens and ratifies his views more like. You didn't call him racist, or non inclusive, or insular, or any of the other rehearsed slurs. Oh dear he touched an exposed nerve then.

[agchristie]

Togo, not at all! I find it patronising more than anything, a word which was used by Andy Hughes on the Healey thread. Many politicians are often guilty of adopting a patronising tone....

[Togo]

Many? All of them, but only, if you feel they have a point you can't possibly agree with because you have to think again. My bedside reading beckons.

[Svejk]

Not since Edwardian times was the gap between rich and poor as great as when the last Labour government engineered it. No surprise there, they loathe the working class.
I take it you approve of the Labour scheme (tax credits) to subsidize their corporate cronies paying unliveable wages.

[Jackdaw33]

//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.

[douglas9401]

Hi, I'm Jeremy.

Some of my best friends are Chinese.

The rest are complete scumbags and I agree with everything they say, do and propose.

[agchristie]

Hardly votewinning comments from Hunt as the Tories seek to press home their current advantage....

[Gromit]

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.

[Jackdaw33]

I have to agree with Gromit.

[sp1814]

Non-Sequitur of the Month Award:

[i]"My wife is Chinese and we want this to be one of the most successful countries in the world in 20, 30, 40 years time.[i]

Huh?

[ludwig]

// Something needs to be done about the benefit system having to suppliment the wages of employees of super successful businesses like
supermarkets. //

What do you suggest?

[Gromit]

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.

[Jackdaw33]

If the 5p per placcy bag went towards staff wages I would have no problem.

[Gromit]

Jackdaw,
The whole point of the bag charge is to encourage us to use less bags, not buy more.

[Mosaic]

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.

[mikey4444]

The issue of his wife being Chinese is neither here nor there and he shouldn't have brought it up in the first place...pillock !

[youngmafbog]

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.