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WHERE'S THAT DAMNED "LIKE" BUTTON...?!?!


 
Posted : 06/10/2021 6:39 pm
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BBC summary points out only one policy mentioned in 45 minutes

That one policy…

https://twitter.com/rob_merrick/status/1445727287295479808?s=21


 
Posted : 06/10/2021 7:12 pm
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Official communications from the office of the Prime Minister yesterday…

BUILD BACK BATTER

…and, one I missed…

BUILD BACK BUTTER

https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1445270828204105733?s=21

( another Telegraph plug in that one )


 
Posted : 06/10/2021 7:28 pm
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https://eand.co/this-is-the-brutal-reality-of-brexit-1639c6c5e653

This makes a scary read.


 
Posted : 06/10/2021 9:57 pm
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Official communications from the office of the Prime Minister yesterday

Dead cats. Everywhere. Misdirection. Obfuscation.

Everyone laps it up. Good old Boris. What a jape!

Meanwhile 1000s of needy households have GBP1000 taken away from them as household bills skyrocket and taxation goes up (for the lower classes, natch) while our prime minister makes jokes about locking up the general public.

Well. Hold on tight everyone. Or just relax and watch it pan out. Depending on your circumstances.


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 1:22 am
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I can't believe those tweets are genuinely from his Twitter account.

I know they are and that they are 100% genuine but I still cannot bring myself to believe it.

Beyond parody. Beyond belief. Beyond anything a fiction writer could dream up.

We are well and truly screwed, are we beyond saving?


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 2:02 am
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The government of a rich country is literally reduced to the role of a desperate procurement agent in a small, failing department store chain. It’s every bit as ridiculous as it sounds.

100%


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 9:21 am
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Owen Jones' report at the Tory conference is excellent. Actually challenging them.

Everything that is wrong with a Tory in a 20min clip.

Lies about state spending and taxes. Mantras about hard work and the lazy. Bullshit about poverty. Etc.

So out of touch with reality but equally this serves them well.

(Apologies if this has been posted)


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 10:21 am
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Owen Jones’ report at the Tory conference is excellent. Actually challenging them.

Cue lots of snobbish sneering at OJ. Interesting the bit where they seem to want more union power and higher minimum wage. It's a bizarre situation when the tories seem to be more bothered about supporting workers than labour are.


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 10:29 am
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Yep they can sneer or they can see a bit of journalism actually being done.

Who else would do this sort of thing?


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 10:38 am
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It’s a bizarre situation when the tories seem to be more bothered about supporting workers than labour are.

Yes.

I guess they've been backed into a corner about private enterprise having to step up and deliver the results to the economy - having been supported through the pandemic.

It gets the Tories out of state supported responsibility of the market. (Temporarily). It's convenient.

But we know the buck stops with the state no matter what your ideology. Some of them don't yet understand that.

They're in for a shock, after this minor uptick we will be back to recession. Just like we were heading Q4 2019.


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 10:57 am
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But we know the buck stops with the state no matter what your ideology. Some of them don’t yet understand that.

How people can still not grasp this... after the 2008 crash... after the pandemic... it's crazy, isn't it. They'll still be drawing their pensions though...


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 11:29 am
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In the Owen jones clip above, 6min 40seconds in.........Id like to see that fat ****er repeat his claim of "people need to sit down and work out their money" to my mate, she'd ****ing lamp him.


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 4:22 pm
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John Crace, as always, perfectly summarises Johnson’s speech… politics as light entertainment for morons

https://twitter.com/johnjcrace/status/1445807589044867076?s=21


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 11:02 pm
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morons

You can't call them that.

Daz, daz, where are you to defend the indefensible again...?


 
Posted : 07/10/2021 11:48 pm
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Can't find it but yesterday the Express had Boris on the front cover, the picture almost literally depicting him as a massiah.

Today...

When the Express starts to voice concern (though not pinning out on Boris. Yet.) it's a sign things are definitely starting to deteriorate.

I suspect many more Tories are far more worried then they are publicly letting on at the moment.

They must know that Boris is doing nothing more than a grand King Canute reenactment on a national scale.

Boris has been incredibly lucky, incredibly but luck never lasts. Particularly when being depended upon.

Unfortunately, when the cards go against him, he takes is all down with him.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 1:49 am
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How people can still not grasp this… after the 2008 crash… after the pandemic… it’s crazy, isn’t it. They’ll still be drawing their pensions though…

Absolutely.

There's this Thatcher myth that used to exist on a Tory sticker - "free enterprise works".

Well yeah it does until it don't.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 7:58 am
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It’s a bizarre situation when the tories seem to be more bothered about supporting workers than labour are.

Nationalism combined with socialism. Potent stuff.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 9:10 am
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Someone should come up with catchy title for it.

They’re usually good at snappy slogans


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 9:19 am
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Boris has been incredibly lucky, incredibly but luck never lasts.

Unfortunately I don't see any signs of it coming to an end any time soon . . . .


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 12:48 pm
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When the Express starts to voice concern

As I was saying years ago... the tabloids will swap back to a "Rip Off Britain" narrative just as soon as they can be sure that the public won't blame any of that on Brexit.

The big question for Johnson is... will they protect him in the same way that they protect the Brexit programme? They have so far... to blame Johnson is to blame Brexit... but as time moves on, will the government start to take the flak from the media (and the public) if they can perform the (arguably illogical) leap to the conclusion that the problem is Johnson without it being about Brexit? And even if they do... does Sunak manage to avoid the fallout of that turn in opinion?


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 12:57 pm
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Why pig farmers and fishermen aren't dumping containers worth of rotting unsold pork and fish at the gates of Downing Street is a mystery to me frankly. In France there would've been riots by now.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 1:01 pm
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Owen Jones’ report at the Tory conference is excellent. Actually challenging them.

wow! im like lost for words. More people need to see this


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 1:01 pm
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just watched more than the suggested clip 6min 40seconds imagine actually being a tory and voting for some of these people thus basically saying you share these values. we are in a very sad state


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 1:55 pm
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crisis what crisis ? would be funny if his advice was rejoin the SM & CU.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 4:34 pm
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crisis what crisis ? would be funny if his advice was rejoin the SM & CU.

Problem being that he will come up with ideas to sort the issues but it will include mainly stuff they can't or won't be seen doing. I think there is a whole load of people that can cure the countries ills but it's not what they want to hear. I am getting to the stage that I feel the UK is the drunk going round the pub p155ing everyone off and the quicker someone bursts its nose across its face the better.That will be when half the clowns that voted for him realise he is way out his depth.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 5:11 pm
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just watched more than the suggested clip 6min 40seconds imagine actually being a tory and voting for some of these people thus basically saying you share these values. we are in a very sad state

That's the thing, I can't imagine being a tory. I can only guess that they do share those values and a lot of people have through my lifetime as the tories always get a good vote, in certain areas a vote they will never lose.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 5:16 pm
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would be funny if his advice was rejoin the SM & CU

Johnson is now claiming that the negative effects of Brexit (the ones he claimed wouldn't occur previously) are in fact the rationale for Brexit... it might have turned out to be poison rather than medicine in the bottles he was selling... but now the country needs that poison... and we can't do anything to water it down. So drink up. Feel the pain. Embrace the pain. Enjoy the pain. Shout down anyone pointing out ways to mitigate against the pain. With that political message being the centre of Johnson's (current) messaging, what could Dave Lewis possibly usefully suggest? Making trade with nearby countries easier? Take back control of our borders. Make recruiting easier? That's embracing "cheap foreign labour"... (ignoring that fact that EU workers in the UK are on average paid more the UK workers, and would have to paid even more to get them to come over here to fill gaps now).


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 5:19 pm
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That Owen Jones thing. Interesting who he could talk with and who had an entourage positively discouraging him from being able to even get close. Worrying insight into how stupid the party think these people are?


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 7:01 pm
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Remember the recession, and the double-dip recession and then more recession . . . until what had been "recession" became "normal" ....


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 7:14 pm
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Not quote sure why everyone is spaffing their pants at the Owen Jones thing. It is OK, though.

The unsaid line from the 'New Tory' socialists is that they supposedly want strong unions and higher wages, but if it comes (one way or other) out of their own pocket, then they'll be sharpening the pitchforks.

The others are the usual dismissive tories - born with a silver spoon, they just cannot comprehend the life of a normal person. Gove only spoke because he loves the sound of his own voice more than anything. The rest of them either can't be seen to be endorsing higher wages because their funders will do them over if they do - and those non-exec directorships will be withdrawn. The others actively don't give a **** because if you are poor, you must be a bad person.

Arseholes.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 7:33 pm
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I have noticed a lot of stories going with the line of what do the Tories have to do to suffer a loss in the polls? It genuinely seems like they can now do whatever they please, throw a few soundbites out to the headline writers that will keep the core supporters happy then just do whatever you want.

As long as the house prices stay strong and pensions are still being paid they can screw everyone else over it seems.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 8:23 pm
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Who will bloody the drunken Boris' nose?

That'll be Scotland leaving the union.

As to Reluctant Jumper above, even the break up of the UK won't sink the tories. Pretty sure it'll just strengthen them.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 8:41 pm
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Scotland leaving strengthens their hand considerably - they'd lose what 2 Tory MPs but a whole heap of other opposition and swing the balance even further in their favour.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 8:57 pm
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...throw a few soundbites out to the headline writers that will keep the core supporters happy then just do whatever you want.

Keeping their core supporters isn't enough. What are the Tories doing to keep their non-core supporters happy? Which they obviously are if practically every opinion poll since January are to be believed.

And an arguably more important question, why are Labour and the LibDems barely keeping their own core supporters happy?

Why aren't non-Tory core voters queuing up to support Labour and/or the LibDems?

According to Yougov Boris Johnson is only the second most popular politician in the UK, the most popular politician is also a Tory, so it's hard to argue that Tory support is all down to the personal appeal of Johnson, as some seem to.


 
Posted : 08/10/2021 10:06 pm
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it’s hard to argue that Tory support is all down to the personal appeal of Johnson

Agreed. Pretending that you can be paid £50k a year for driving a forklift with no onward effect on the economy and pandering to racism and xenophobia is far more effective.

What happens in a global sense to an economy that overpays for manual work at the expense of FE and stuff like research?

Rampant inflation, that is what.

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Posted : 08/10/2021 11:19 pm
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Is driving a forklift in the list of "highly skilled, highly paid" jobs?

You could have a minimum wage of £50 per hour and everyone would then be happy that they are earning loads. They wouldn't be any better off because everything would cost more (services and products) and exports would drop to zero as all the stuff made in UK would cost way more than anywhere else in the world so are imports would increase massively but at least we would be paid well.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 7:52 am
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Let's all look forward to the day we will need to bring home our wages in a wheelbarrow. We can all earn £50k/yr if the £ is worth **** all.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 9:25 am
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Why does nobody question bankers etc taking their wages home in wheel barrows? It's not about the numbers it's the relationship between pay and how much profit is taken from your labour time aka 'class struggle'.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 9:40 am
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it's the relationship between how much you are paid and how much it costs to live.

Freemarket is seemingly great when it benefits the rich, but when it benefits the poor, it's a problem..


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 9:46 am
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Let’s all look forward to the day we will need to bring home our wages in a wheelbarrow.

You are Milton Friedman and I claim my £5000000000000000000


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 10:17 am
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Jesus, I see the self-serving snobs on here are still persisting with the fiction that paying people at the bottom more will make everyone else poorer.

Well diddums! Even if it were true I’d rather live in an economy where people can afford to keep a roof over their heads and feed their families without being at the mercy of rapacious landlords and ever decreasing state handouts.

It’s not true though. There is huge scope in our economy to rebalance the distribution of wealth. This unfounded fear of inflation is just the latest economic myth, like austerity and ‘repaying’ the debt, to justify business as usual. Have a word with yourselves FFS.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 10:49 am
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Jesus, I see the self-serving snobs on here are still persisting with the fiction that paying people at the bottom more will make everyone else poorer.

Not everyone. Just those with low paid jobs or no job who have little to no discretionary outgoings, and find all their costs rising. The richest won’t even notice. If we only raise wages in key sectors (using “market forces”, which is really about creating shortages through government policy), the people who will be hit are the vast majority of those on low and no pay who are, right now, seeing their costs rise far faster than their incomes. People on low incomes need to see their incomes rise. The government needs to take real action to make that happen. Not just big up the problems caused by getting rid of immigrants as if it was an unalloyed public good for all.

There is huge scope in our economy to rebalance the distribution of wealth.

Absolutely there is. Which is why the government is making direct taxes more progressive, increasing taxes on wealth such as inheritance tax, increasing taxes on capital transactions and decreasing taxes on the lowest paid. Sorry, what? It’s doing the opposite? And getting away with it by lying through it’s teeth about real wages for the lower paid? And even people on the left are cheerleading for their lie because they’ve linked it to Brexit? Well, that is surprising (well, no, it isn’t).


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 10:54 am
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Jesus, I see the self-serving snobs on here are still persisting with the fiction that paying people at the bottom more will make everyone else poorer.

all those people need to do is look to countries like Germany, the low countries and Scandinavia

All have far less unequal societies and all are happier

the UK is the outlier with its impoverished poor and super wealthy rich


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 11:02 am
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the UK is the outlier with its impoverished poor and super wealthy rich

Yes. It is. And it’s about to get worse.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 11:05 am
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And even people on the left are cheerleading for their lie because they’ve linked it to Brexit?

Oh FFS no one on the left is doing this. And no one is supporting Boris. What we are doing though is calling out this fantasy that going back to a pre-brexit position where immigration holds down wages so that the comfortable middle classes can be kept in the manner they’re accustomed is a load of bollocks. If you hadn’t noticed this was the main reason we ended up with the brexit clusterf***. And you want to go back to that?


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 11:24 am
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Immigration has not held down real wages. Getting rid of lots of workers in key private sectors (any workers) will result in wage increases in those sectors. That is not the same thing. The knock on effect on the majority of the poor (the middle classes, cancelling their Netflix and gym memberships I couldn’t give a toss about) is being conveniently glossed over by people wanting to paint Brexit more generally, and a policy of excluding EU citizens more specifically, as benefitting the working poor. It is going to make their lives worse, while benefiting the richest. The problems created by the last ten years of Tory rule is about to get a whole lot worse.

Look at the countries TJ listed. How have real wages for the lower paid increased there since the 2008 crash? How have inequalities been reduced there? Did they exclude foreigners to make those gains? Or were those newcomers actually part of the economic growth, and it was other national and regional policy that was used to ensure all benefitted from that, unlike here?


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 11:44 am
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Immigration has not held down real wages.

Immigration without adequate minimum wage and worker protections absolutely held down wages. I didn’t hear many remainers campaigning for those though pre-brexit though. Many were quite content with the status quo of cheap imported labour papering over the gaping structural cracks in our economy. Now those are fully exposed they need fixing properly. Obviously the tories aren’t going to do that, but if you think this is going to result in a movement to go back to what we had before then you’re mistaken.


 
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So, getting rid of one of the positive things this country had going for it (EU workers here filling key gaps in the workforce not being taken up by “our own”) is a good thing because it “exposes” the poor protections our UK government put in place for all workers? What’s the next step? EU immigrants did not hold down wages. They were paid more than us for one thing, and that they helped the economy SHOULD have meant wage rises for all, but didn’t, because of the UK government’s policies. So, we’ve got rid of a key economic benefit, and many valuable people… what’s the next step? This government increasing protection for workers, making sure all workers receive a good wage, and putting in palace a progressive and redistributive taxation system? Good luck with that.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 12:17 pm
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So, getting rid of one of the positive things this country had going for it (EU workers here filling key gaps in the workforce not being taken up by “our own”) is a good thing because it “exposes” the poor protections our UK government put in place for all workers?

No I'd quite happily have as many foreign workers here as the economy can sustain. I'm a proponent of completely open borders (or preferably no borders at all). But we are where we are, and the goal of free movement of people can't be achieved with business as usual race to the bottom economics. It needs a combination of a suitable minimum wage, protections against hire and fire practices and zero hours contracts, and universal income support so that everyone can live without the fear of poverty.

This government increasing protection for workers, making sure all workers receive a good wage, and putting in palace a progressive and redistributive taxation system? Good luck with that.

So because you've given up on a progressive and less unequal economy, you think going back to pre-brexit race to the bottom is the preferred solution?


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 12:59 pm
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Rampant inflation, that is what.

Nonesense.

Inflation is historically driven by supply side shocks/lack of productivity.

Plenty of people have earned lots of scandalous amounts money - in the past 10 years and inflation has remained on the low side of less than 2%.

You might have a temporary uptick but the general trend is low.

Got to get out of this low paid mindset.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 1:12 pm
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So because you’ve given up on a progressive and less unequal economy

Given up? No.

I want us to address, and fix, the problems we have in the UK, rather than creating new ones for ourselves, and then cheering these new problems as if they were some kind of advancement.

This government are making the poorer poorer, and the rich richer, and people are supporting their damaging policies because they rid us of foreigners. Why are you one of those people?

Inflation is historically driven by supply side shocks/lack of productivity.

The is exactly what’s coming. High inflation is on the way. It’s not going to be caused by paying the lowest paid more. We can do that without it causing any major inflationary pressures. High inflation will come from a whole number of supply side shocks on the way, many made worse or caused by our self imposed trade handicaps, and from decreasing productivity due to a move away form modern just in time supply chains.

Got to get out of this low paid mindset.

Absolutely. And we need to put a stop to hidden low pay (often below minimum wage, never mind living wage levels) that more and more people are being pushed to accept, all the time, through perfectly legal ‘employment’ wheezes.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 1:14 pm
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Why are you one of those people?

Where have I supported the govt or 'getting rid of foreigners'? I voted to stay in Europe to avoid this very scenario. The only thing I'm supporting is the idea of raising wages and improving conditions for working people. I don't for a second think the tories will deliver that, but going back to what we had pre-brexit is not an option, and neither is importing workers in specific sectors (and why the hell would they come back anyway?). The only solution now is structural reform to create a more equal economy, and I'll support whoever is proposing to deliver that.


 
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It needs a combination of a suitable minimum wage, protections against hire and fire practices and zero hours contracts, and universal income support so that everyone can live without the fear of poverty.

This.

I don’t for a second think the tories will deliver that, but going back to what we had pre-brexit is not an option

Who decides the options? Just because you’ve given up, doesn’t mean we all have to. Not EU members, but having a closer relationship with all the countries around us (including other non-EU states) is an option that will bubble back up, bit by bit, over the decades ahead. Some revised form of easier moving of workers between countries will be part of that.

If we accept damaging self defeating policies as if they are positive, come the next election parties will double down on them. Nationalism and nativism become the political norm. That’s were we are heading. Gaslighted into a political space where low living standards are the fault of foreigners not the elected government.


 
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come the next election parties will double down on them. Nationalism and nativism become the political norm.

Improving pay and conditions for UK resident workers is not nationalism and nativism. Now that the immigration red herring has been taken out of the equation, people will expect an improvement in real incomes and opportunities. That's why you see tories talking up workers interests through gritted teeth, because they understand the stakes. After blaming immigrants for the past 20 years they now have no excuse.

This is where labour are royally f***** it up. Instead of doubling down on improving pay and conditions and positioning themselves on territory the tories could never inhabit (like a £15 minimum wage and UBI), they're defending an economic system - pre-brexit neo-liberalism - that is already history. Their nonsense rhetoric about balanced books, paying back debt, and fiscal responsibility is feeding into this myth that raising wages will make everyone poorer, and the end result will be a reinforcement of the pervading opinion among voters that labour don't support working people.


 
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Improving real pay and conditions for UK resident workers

Isn’t happening. It can happen, but getting ride of foreigners isn’t the route to making that happen. It will make it worse for them. Buying into the lie that it is foreigners, not the UK government, stagnating wages will help take us to a very dark place.

Look, that immigrants cause wage stagnation is a lie (or a red herring if you like). As that lie becomes entirely normalised, it will lead our politicians to double down on that scapegoating and embrace others. If you win, and keep power, by blaming others, then why campaign and govern in any other way?


 
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Isn’t happening.

Tell that to a truck driver.


 
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And the millions of other workers? Especially those on a lower income than truck artic drivers.

The next stage of all this will be… some people have seen higher wages… if you’re struggling, it’s your own fault, and those on a low income will be increasing blamed for their own increasingly difficult finances. Of course, they are less likely to vote than the higher paid.


 
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Do the Tories think that "high skilled, high paid" means high productivity? How do they measure productivity? Do the skills have to change regularly as the global economy changes?


 
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Do the Tories think that “high skilled, high paid” means high productivity? How do they measure productivity

That's the bonkers thing, paying people more to do the same job reduces productivity!


 
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Who pays for the higher skills? In Germany the federal government pays for 70% of the cost of driver training, for example. Could we not try that, to increase the skills of “our own”? How about our government bringing back the bursary for Nurses to be trained, rather than them borrowing money to work? There are many ways to develop a high skilled workforce. Why aren’t we doing so? [ look, there’s someone with an accent or dark skin doing the job … it’s all their fault ]


 
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The next stage of all this will be… some people have seen higher wages… if you’re struggling, it’s your own fault

Of course, that's been the tories (and many in labour) mantra for as long as we've had a class system. What I'm trying to point out though is that this continuing obsession of the liberal middle classes with immigration and inflation, will be perceived by many working people as opposition to them being better off. It's a self-defeating position.


 
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And the millions of other workers? Especially those on a lower income than truck drivers.

That's the Elephant in the room for me. Yes, truck drivers might get a rise, catering staff might get a rise but the vast, vast majority will not. The price of everything is going up but most people's wages are not and will not. How many million public service workers earn low wages? Are the Tories going to stop giving them a kicking long enough to pay them more?

A mate of mine works for a Gym equipment supplier and doesn't earn a huge amount. The cost of shipping has gone from 2.5k per container to 14k, putting £40 on the price of every Treadmill. The businesses they sell to refuse to pay more and the public are not buying them at the higher price. Is his boss in a position to raise his wage? The business very rarely turned a profit before the increased shipping.


 
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snobs

Nah, just people who realise 'productivity' is a measure of what you actually produce and at what cost.

Plonker.


 
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Who pays for the higher skills? In Germany the federal government pays for 70% of the cost of driver training, for example. Could we not try that, to increase the skills of “our own”? How about our government bringing back the bursary for Nurses to be trained, rather than them borrowing money to work? There are many ways to develop a high skilled workforce. Why aren’t we doing so? [ look, there’s someone with an accent or dark skin doing the job … it’s all their fault ]

They can talk about wage increases all they like but in the vast majority of cases it won't happen

Nor will they do anything that even dares to challenge their Thatcherite world view. So 'the all-powerful 'Market' will be left to sort it out. Or not.

Government must be small and essentially just a contracting out office. Under no circumstances must it get involved with anything like training or equiping people with skills.

That is entirely the responsibility of the individual. And if you can't afford the tuition fees, the thousands of pounds it costs to train as a lorry driving classes or a year unpaid as an intern... tough shit!


 
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So ‘the all-powerful ‘Market’ will be left to sort it out. Or not.

A market that is isolated. If we were a net exporter it could be made to work, but adding an unnecessary cost burden to imported products, where those products do not change in price (fx) with a devaluing £, is economic illiteracy and will end up hitting the lowest paid hardest.

My advice to an artic driver who is having a purple patch would be to use it to pay down as much of their mortgage as possible before interest rates wipe out that pay rise.

You cannot stick a fence up around a country and pay over the odd as a massive net importer of basic goods.

But I guess this is just more Project Fear...

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Buying into the lie that it is foreigners, not the UK government, stagnating wages will help take us to a very dark place.

Nationalism combined with socialism.


 
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You cannot stick a fence up around a country and not pay over the odds as a massive net importer of basic goods.

Especially if you are also going to hamper the production of basic goods at home with your own inept and short sighted policies. Which, is exactly what this government has been doing for 10 years, as regards energy, food, homes... and isn't proposing any plan for fixing any of it any time, soon, just barking at people working in the sectors hit to "do something" to solve the problems it has created for them.


 
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Nor will they do anything that even dares to challenge their Thatcherite world view.

Apart from paying people’s wages during the pandemic, propping up businesses, pouring billions into green energy and other infrastructure programmes, maintaining full employment, abandoning austerity and probably in the not too distant future increasing the minimum wage. Apart from all that, they’re not departing from thatcherism at all. 🙄


 
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departing from thatcherism

I'm not sure you've got Sunak's message... that's over.

in the not too distant future increasing the minimum wage

The minimum wage increase that was postponed in April, due to the pandemic, better turn up soon, because people need that over due bump in their wages desperately. I mean, you might be pretending that they've all magically had a pay rise because we got rid of foreigners, but even you know that isn't true. When the government stop dithering and delaying in delivering the bump in the minimum wage that was expected, and it comes a year late, I don't want you getting all excited about it, like you've been led up to that point by the media, please. It was painful enough on the run up to Johnson's big (empty) speech.


 
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Tell you what, Daz-lad.

You'll be sticking a blue rosette on and going door knocking in the Red Wall at this rate.

Nationalism combined with socialism. Ace.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 7:19 pm
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Immigration suppresses wages - in the case of the EU wages will even out over the whole area.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 7:44 pm
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Didn't think it was worth starting another thread.

Tory MP champions free speech:

“The other way we can stop the cancel culture is by actually saying to the woke left lecturers and the woke left teachers – who seem to be becoming more and more apparent – is that ultimately, what’s going to happen if you are going to push your ideology in the classroom there are going to be consequences for you,” he said.

Defeat cancel culture by cancelling people, seems reasonable. Also, any teacher mentioning white privilege should be reported to Prevent for extremism.

'The Toriban'


 
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in the case of the EU wages will even out over the whole area

In a hundred years perhaps. Not happened yet. Mind you, it's not happened across the UK yet either. Or the USA. Or within any large EU country. Still, back to TJ's post... how do "Germany, the low countries and Scandinavia" have more equal societies, and rising real pay for lower paid workers, while also providing more services for them, while also having Freedom of Movement and relatively high levels of immigrants in the workforce? What's their secret? Why don't we do some of that, rather than follow this "red herring" (I still maintain it's more than that, it's a lack of economic literacy paired with a mistrust and scapegoating of foreigners) of building a fence around ourselves and keeping people out?


 
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Sounds like you’ve bought into the whole package Daz

With this new National socialism, looks like you’ve found your spiritual home


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 8:13 pm
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Wages in respective jobs Kelvin. Not wages overall


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 8:24 pm
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What does that mean?

That salaries for similar roles will harmonise across the EU? Because they’re not even the same across Yorkshire. I’d love for wages in the southern EU countries to catch up with those in northern countries. Maybe one day they will, but that’s not been the trend since the 2008 crash.


 
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You’ll be sticking a blue rosette on and going door knocking in the Red Wall at this rate.

As if. You keep believing in your outdated stereotypes and political cliches though, and keep pretending that all was hunky-dory pre-2016.


 
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Sounds like you’ve bought into the whole package Daz

With this new National socialism, looks like you’ve found your spiritual home

Make your mind up binners.......is this present government "thatcherite" or "new national socialism".

You can't claim it is both, as you have very clearly done so today.

Unless of course you have a bizarre theory that Thatcher was also committed to "new national socialism".

Sort out your hyperbole mate and decide which one it is.


 
Posted : 09/10/2021 8:36 pm
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I’d love for wages in the southern EU countries to catch up with those in northern countries. Maybe one day they will, but that’s not been the trend since the 2008 crash.

Is that right? The only country I know a little about is Romania and as I understood it wages there have increased massively with EU membership and further integration.


 
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