logical step for Labour is to reverse Brexit

[motorbiking]

Why not work towards levelling the cost of living across the country as well?

or the whole of Europe or the world? The simple fact is, the expensive parts and cheap parts are that way for a reason.

Would take decades, but surely - in a relatively small island such as ours - this ought to be a goal.


Trouble is, everything is designed to be SE and London centric; transport links and lack of investment elsewhere being prime examples.

Not designed that way - just makes sense when 60% of people are there

It continues to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

set minimum wage regionally and the NW could be a boom region as employers flocked to take advantage of cheaper labour

 

[morqthana]

Perhaps minimum wage should be regional?

Based on a couple renting a 1-bed flat both working full time.

So where does the next generation of people come from?

 

[morqthana]

set minimum wage regionally and the NW could be a boom region as employers flocked to take advantage of cheaper labour

Labour which would not be able to afford to buy what the employers make or provide.

 

[morqthana]

The problem with rents is that successive governments have increased the tax burden on landlords over the years so that any rent increase is a direct responce to those government interventions. Like having to pay tax as an income on the outgoings and now the new +2% tax on landlord profits, or not being able to refuse pets = increase in rent to pay for wear and tear that can not be taken from rental deposit as its wear and tear and not "damage". So more and more private landlords are selling up -- guess what - that leads to less homes available for rent and what do you think the effect that has on the remaining available homes to rent

In the UK, the average tenant spends 30–40% of their disposable income on rent. In London, that figure regularly pushes over 50% for single tenants or low-income households.


In Germany, more than half the population rents, and yet affordability remains high. Renters typically spend 25–27% of their disposable income, and long-term leases are the norm.

Rents are regulated, increases are capped, and evictions are hard to enforce without cause. Yet despite this, many German landlords enjoy consistent, long-term income with low void periods and minimal tenant churn.


French renters spend about 25–30% of their disposable income on rent. Paris is expensive, but rents across the rest of the country are much more modest.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Labour which would not be able to afford to buy what the employers make or provide.

But look at the profit that could be made !

It's a very short sighted attitude to not let workers earn enough to spend

 

[morqthana]

what I have said is that people should be helped and motivated to develop more valuable skills so they are worth more money.

It is a fact that there will always be low-skilled jobs which need doing. People who do them should be treated with respect and dignity, no matter how unskilled they are, and be paid enough to have a decent standard of living, decent housing, and a family life with just one person earning, no matter how unskilled they are.

 

[morqthana]

It's a very short sighted attitude to not let workers earn enough to spend

Henry Ford was a pioneer of "welfare capitalism", designed to improve the lot of his workers and especially to reduce the heavy turnover that had many departments hiring 300 men per year to fill 100 slots. Efficiency meant hiring and keeping the best workers.

Ford astonished the world in 1914 by offering a $5 daily wage ($157 in 2024), which more than doubled the rate of most of his workers. A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper editorialized that the announcement "shot like a blinding rocket through the dark clouds of the present industrial depression". ...

Detroit was already a high-wage city, but competitors were forced to raise wages or lose their best workers. Ford's policy proved that paying employees more would enable them to afford the cars they were producing and thus boost the local economy.

 

[Brigadier]

or the whole of Europe or the world? The simple fact is, the expensive parts and cheap parts are that way for a reason.

Not designed that way - just makes sense when 60% of people are there

set minimum wage regionally and the NW could be a boom region as employers flocked to take advantage of cheaper labour

Thank you for agreeing with me.

 

[motorbiking]

But look at the profit that could be made !

It's a very short sighted attitude to not let workers earn enough to spend

and all entirely of your own invention

Perhaps minimum wage should be regional?

Based on a couple renting a 1-bed flat both working full time. Now that would encourage some levelling up

1) two people sharing a home having enough to live on minimum wage.
2) a state that encourages and motives them to improve their skills so they are not stuck there forever.

 

[JohnD]

Minimum wage is contrary to free market economics.

That's right.

And poor people starving to death or being homeless, slavery, and old people praying to be let into almshouses when they are no longer fit to work, are entirely aligned to free market economics.

What is the point you hoped to make?

 

[motorbiking]

That's right.

And poor people starving to death or being homeless, slavery, and old people praying to be let into almshouses when they are no longer fit to work, are entirely aligned to free market economics.

What is the point you hoped to make?

why do you make things up, pretend people said them and then ask, why they said it, when you know they didn't?

 

[JohnD]

why do you make things up, pretend people said them and then ask, why they said it, when you know they didn't?

Your foolish post makes no sense.

Perhaps you are blinded by rage.

Did you read it in a press release?

 

[motorbiking]

Your foolish post makes no sense.

Perhaps you are blinded by rage.

Did you read it in a press release?

how are you getting on proving I am an extreme brexer, something else you made up?

You know people might actually engage you in sensible debate if you stop posting lies and nonsense.

 

[aveatry]

why do you make things up, pretend people said them and then ask, why they said it, when you know they didn't?

Its completely mental - there are a few others on here that do too

 

[morqthana]

why do you make things up, pretend people said them

Do you mean like the way you make up the idea that when someone writes something and doesn't say it's a quote that he's pretending that someone said it?