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ernie_lynch – Member
big_n_daft – Member
Thirdly, you could get 2 million people back to work, so that they are all paying taxes …….. instead of pushing unemployment up even higher.
Fourthly, you could force employers to pay a living wage so that the government isn’t forced to subsidise them through the benefits system.
“How are you going to do the first one with a expandeible workforce due to EU membership who will be attracted by your second idea?”
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The job of the British government is to provide the conditions for decent jobs which pay decent wages…….for British workers.
It is not the responsibility of the British government to solve Lithuania’s or Poland’s unemployment problems …….that’s their problem.
The EU can go and **** themselves as far as I’m concerned – they have no moral right to tell a sovereign nation how to conduct their affairs.
And I have to say, of all the excuses I have ever heard for not paying a decent living wage, the suggestion that it will attract foreign workers has to be the most pisspoor.
Are you seriously going to tell British workers that they have to be kept deliberately poor, lest foreigners are attracted ? Yeah right, it’s for there own good really. Funnily enough though, it’s the complete opposite for bankers and the super-rich ……. they need to be even wealthier and have huge pay rises otherwise they will bugger-off to another country. How very convenient…….if you’re a wealthy Tory banker. ffs
And before you start whingeing “but the economy can’t afford to pay all workers a living wage” I’ll remind you that Britain is the 5th wealthiest nation on earth. If those responsible can’t get their act together so that all workers get a living wage, then they, or the system, is incompetent, and should be replaced.
No one in full-time employment in Britain should need to have their wages topped up by the taxpayers through the benefit system. Unless of course there are exceptional circumstances [/quote]
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