Exactly, these workers should be happy with their pay stagnated at 2010 levels.
its disgusting the way workers are asking for pay rises to match inflation over last 12 years.
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its disgusting the way workers are asking for pay rises to match inflation over last 12 years.
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Every single person in this country has access to education. Nobody is forced to be a low paid "worker". If there are 100s or 1000s of people who can do the job you do and are happy to do it for less, why should the employer pay you more? if you don't like the pay, find a job that pays better, if you don't have the skills learn them.
If you want more money, become more valuable.
If you want more money, become more valuable.
Are you saying that in a free market, people are free to set their prices at as much as they can get?
You can always give yours back or to a charity of your choosing if it sticks in your craw because it was a Tory pledge that was honoured and you don’t agree with it.
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The same people who pay hundreds of £millions for PPE that doesn't work
Of which £30million ended up in the greasy palm of the Tory peer and her family who elbowed to the front of the queue
Up the VIP lane.
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Its very easy to look back at the start of the pandemic with what you know now and be a critic of those making decisions without the benefit of your hindsight.
Back in the start when we thought we'd have thousands of people needing ventilators, had no sight of a vaccine coming anytime soon and medical professionals were dropping like flies, it was right for the government to use all resources to secure what they could asap.
Everyone can look at what was done and say, with what we know today, we could have done it better.
It seems JohnD's pinup girl is also used to getting money for nothing:
Back in the start when we thought we'd have thousands of people needing ventilators, had no sight of a vaccine coming anytime soon and medical professionals were dropping like flies, it was right for the government to use all resources to secure what they could asap.
Everyone can look at what was done and say, with what we know today, we could have done it better.
It seems JohnD's pinup girl is also used to getting money for nothing:
Imagine a country where everyone expects hand outs, and to take out without putting in like our Angie?
And spot the people busily feathering their own nests, and mutually back-scratching with their chums at the nation's expense.
What a pity they didn't do that, and prioritised their buddies instead.
More profitable to be the pub landlord friend of a Cabinet Minister than a manufacturer in the UK.
Then why are we in the state we're in?
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could be a lot worse.
Part of the problems are due to these issues:
1 - We had a pandemic which resulted in significant impact to our productivity for 2 1/2 years.
2 - We chose to fund people to sit around rather than have massive unemployment and we ran up huge debts as well as enabling a lot of fraud.
3 - We had a massive surge in demand post pandemic, which caused inflation and that has now dried up (boom then bust)
4 - We have a major power doing everything it can to f*ck up the western economy
5 - We are supporting the victim of an invasion with weapons and sanctions which harm us too
6 - We are adapting to post Brexit Britain
I could probably keep going.
Part of the problems are due to these issues:
1 - We had a pandemic which resulted in significant impact to our productivity for 2 1/2 years.
2 - We chose to fund people to sit around rather than have massive unemployment and we ran up huge debts as well as enabling a lot of fraud.
3 - We had a massive surge in demand post pandemic, which caused inflation and that has now dried up (boom then bust)
4 - We have a major power doing everything it can to f*ck up the western economy
5 - We are supporting the victim of an invasion with weapons and sanctions which harm us too
6 - We are adapting to post Brexit Britain
I could probably keep going.
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Communism then, like say Cuba.
