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footflaps - Member
We have a long way to go to get back to pre-2008 levels of living standards!
We do indeed, but let's hope the next stage will be based on better foundations than unsustainable levels of borrowing. Hmmm....
Lets not turn this site into the Daily Mail?
Eh. Explain.
Yes in a capitalist system it will almost definitely be real money wont it 😕
Job vacancies rose at their fastest pace for more than 15 years last month...particularly in construction and engineering
How do they measure this
Regularly looking on websites for work* I see the same jobs listed by the same agencies across multiple websites. They then get relisted again and again
No one ever gets a reply when they apply
I agree it is starting to pick up as boom follows bust just like night follows day.
We do indeed, but let's hope the next stage will be based on better foundations than unsustainable levels of borrowing. Hmmm....
For a whole host of reason, blue collar wages have been falling for decades in real terms, leaving people with two choices to maintain living standard:
1. work longer hours
2. borrow more
Until we start upping wages across the board, we can't get back to 2008 levels of consumer spending without a corresponding rise in consumer borrowing.
On my previous point, socialist was in parentheses for a reason.
The colour tinting of my specs doesn't alter the fact that the change to local housing allowance in 2008 encouraged landlords to put up rents to pick up the higher benefit funding. Exactly what was predicted by landlords organisations, those in the civil service who advised on the proposals, and the experience of the pilot areas.
Any government pushing through a point of principle despite experience and expert advice is a bunch of moronic incompetents. As the coalition is demonstrating every bit as much as the last lot.
Criticise my views if you like, but my wife and I both work on the frontline with this area of society. Our combined take home pay is below the benefit cap. The situation in London makes it easy to be distracted by Daily Wail headlines as they focus on extremes. But there has to be a way of creating jobs for those who are able to work so that money can be targetted to provide benefits to those who cannot work
I dont know enough about LHA tbh to debate tbh and a further google suggest your view is probably the correct one 😳
Sorry.
Our combined take home pay is below the benefit cap.
Perhaps you should direct your anger at your low pay and the system that keeps you in chains and others in great wealth, rather than getting cross at other poor people?
I agree some wages are really low but we need to increase wages not decrease benefits [ generally]