I knew it! I knew that deep down he wasn’t really on the side of bankers, hedge fund managers, and non dom tax dodgers – the scourge of the poor and disabled. Not a bit of it! He’s really a socialist Trojan Horse, acting like just another cold-eyed, heartless Tory, devoid of empathy or compassion. … until now

He’s just been biding his time. Awaiting his moment of glory (hat has nothing to do with an upcoming election. Oh no. You cynic!) This is what he’s waited for!!! To strike a blow for the workers at last!! Go Dave!!!!!

David Cameron tells bosses to give workers a pay rise

The Prime Minister will order businesses to give staff a pay rise, claiming that falling costs mean firms have more cash to reward their employees

Order, no less!

What are we all planning on spending our new found wealth on then? I’m getting a gold plated unicorn

I work in the public sector so Dave is my boss. Please can my pay rise back to what it was three years ago?

PUblic sectors worker rechoice at hearing this

i am sure he does not just mean MPs and they can look forward to below inflation bumper wage rises

Yep, still waiting for my public sector salary to rise.

Ideally to make it higher than the maximum benefits cap that I help enforce for him 👿

I knew he was really a liberal when he put gay marriage through. That wasn’t a sop to the left, oh no.

“His call is designed to open up further dividing lines between the Conservatives and Labour before the general election”

Come to a pretty strange place if Tories calling for pay rises puts a division between them and Labour. The actual difference is, if Ed said this he’d have the entire press screaming in his face.

if Ed said this he’d have the entire press screaming in his face.

Cameron’s only able to say it because Ed has managed to paint himself into a corner that’s so ridiculously anti business that the Tories can announce it without upsetting their donors.

nice guy dave think hes fairly sincere.. interarcted well with the school kids the other day,

tories getting a lot of stick for stuff that happened whilst they were in oppostition.. as the labour treasury minister left a note saying.. we ve no money..

have any public service workers gone hungry? judging by the households on my street they ve all got cars less than 3 years old the retired copper has two.. the retired tax collector a new cottage in france..the nhs staff going to florida in august for 3 weeks.. the maths teachers husband is now a house husband.. our daughters primary hiring more teaching assistants they now be two per class plus the teacher.. adnittedly i ve just bought a three year old van and mrs dropped for a new 64 plate car, we ve booke dthe summer holiday.. lifes not shabby at the moment and i ve not had a pay rise in 8 years my income tax bill has been consistant for the last three years after it took a dive from about 4 times what i paid..

daves taking it dor not collecting tax from the millionaires.. how much better did gordon brown do.. all this hsbc stuff seems to predate the tory govt.. so thats why invisible brown stays invisible.. teflon..

I’m sure he expressed exactly the same views in private, last night, to the great and the good, the City financiers, Hedge fund managers, captains of industry, who all paid £15000 to have dinner with him last night

Kelptocratic horror, isn’t he?

Busy stripping the public sector to the marrow whilst he and his mates’ snout for lucrative sinecures in the very companies that are benefiting from this fraudulent hive off.

Where’s that barge pole of mine ?

Damn, damn I can’t find it.. 😈

Totalshell – I voted for the tories as someone had to sort out the budgetary disaster that Labour left.

MrsMC and I both work in the public sector. We haven’t gone hungry, but those of us who still have jobs (half of MrsMC’s team have gone) have not exactly been rolling in clover.

I’m getting a gold plated unicorn

I’m not selling 8)

sort out the budgetary disaster that Labour left.

That’s worked out well then! As the deficit gets wider and economists have pointed out the chancellor stuffed the recovery in 2010 with his policies.

So, the minimum wage is getting bumped up to the living wage level and tax credits are being abolished then?

I’m going to email dave, as he is my employer when is he going to honour this.

Dave is flogging stupidly expensive statues of Thatcher to stupidly rich Tory fanatics for YOU! It’s all for you. The people that put him in his position and who he serves. What a thoughtful chap!

I’m not sure what businesses are experiencing falling costs. We’re not.
But then we don’t import crap from abroad and sell it at a massive profit.

I’m not sure what businesses are experiencing falling costs.

Christ, a business that doesn’t use electricity, gas, petrol or diesel?

What do you make, hand woven tofu baskets?

Like all politicians, he’s a liar.

a business that doesn’t use electricity, gas

Thing is those costs aren’t falling until April. So most businesses (SME, the larger ones can negotiate a fall now due to their spend) won’t see a fall in the cost of energy until a month after that or maybe later. Some won’t see a fall at all as the landlord will keep the saving.

My domestic rate has already fallen, I guess the business market is different ?

have any public service workers gone hungry? judging by the households on my street they ve all got cars less than 3 years old the retired copper has two.. the retired tax collector a new cottage in france..the nhs staff going to florida in august for 3 weeks.. the maths teachers husband is now a house husband.. our daughters primary hiring more teaching assistants they now be two per class plus the teacher.. adnittedly i ve just bought a three year old van and mrs dropped for a new 64 plate car, we ve booke dthe summer holiday.. lifes not shabby at the moment and i ve not had a pay rise in 8 years my income tax bill has been consistant for the last three years after it took a dive from about 4 times what i paid..

Allthepies said My domestic rate has already fallen, I guess the business market is different ?

It was more an attempt to show not everything announced happens at once. One of the big energy suppliers introduced a large cost reduction due to take effect from April. Where I work we don’t use diesel at this time of the year and our landlord supplies the energy. It’s a bit more nuanced than the headlines suggest.
Muggins managed to change contract the day before a price fall. Doh!