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Cameron: "Cuts will change our way of life"


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Comprehensive stuff.

 

It wasn't your point. It wasn't the point you typed out anyway, if it was the one in your head.

 

if you keep your answers very brief and vague then you can keep saying you're getting misrepresented though. Good plan. Flesh on the bones gives people targets and good politicia...sorry... any good poster knows that.

 

It is the point I've been making, I've just spent several posts saying that firefighters and bankers aren't the same ffs.

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Barcalys cutting 19,000 jobs, with half of them to be cut in Britain.

 

I found the bolded bit quite interesting. 20,000 losing their jobs to technology, but not doing 3 day weeks for 5 days pay as boldly claimed by Stronts.

 

All those hardworking people losing their jobs. All because they seen white dee the scrounging fuckers, soon to be leeches on hardworking tax payers money bet they have flat screen tvs and gramophones that play mp3s. Get them on workfare in tescos for their dole its not right they get money for nothing, ignore the money they have paid in and forget the fact tescos are getting free staff and subsidies. Welfare is there as an emergency for people who will never have to use it not to be wasted on people who need it. Sick of humans who don't have lifetime permanent job security or aren't already financially secure for the rest of their and their descendants lives.

 

Why the fuck aren't people on 7 pound an hour or zero hour contracts putting aside some of that massive disposable income their obviously left with after they have paid all the bills and covered the debts and saving it for a rainy day or the future like real hardworking people do. Nobody on less than 100 grand has ever done a hard days work in their lives, hard work always pays that's an absolute fact. You work hard, you become rich, your social background, your IQ, your physical and mental health are irrelevant nobody who has tried has ever failed.. ever. The reason these dregs in factories and the service industries and such are where they are is because their fucking bone idle and we shouldn't put up with them. We need to inspire them and the best way to do that is to make them work harder for less, gain more debts which will make them work even longer and harder which will push their hardwork levels closer to matching decent hardworking families levels. Its fucking wrong that some people have worked their arse of to make billions have broken every moral code in the name of graft yet white dee and her welfare buddies reap all the rewards. These fucking parasites living in pure luxury smoking Rollie's have fucking free view boxes some even have a cupboard just for their Hoover, fucking world we live in. It will only be a functioning society when people work solely for food and shelter and when you don't work you die.

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Cameron says if we can't raid bank accounts for unpaid taxes we will have to raise tax. I don't think that's a threat that is going to go down too well. I'm all for unpaid taxes being claimed but the state being able to just dip into your bank account and take it seems like the tip of the wedge. A wedge that will be shoved up the arse of the middle and working classes as time and opportunity arises. There really feels like an unsavoury agenda that's happening around the world now. I can't say I think the future looks too bright or at least it doesn't if your not in the elite group.

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my mate runs a small business.They used sell dvd's but they couldn't compete with a company may have been play.com who didn't pay vat as they weren't UK based.Even though they were.

 

He votes tory as well. Lovely lad but funny how turkeys can vote for Christmas

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Yeah, I wonder how many new working poor we have this year.

 

http://www.livingwage.org.uk/blog/nationwide-brings-living-wage-high-street

 

A new poll shows less than one in ten adults believe that they could realistically live on the minimum wage, highlighting the appetite for a higher Living Wage across the UK in order to cover essential bills and help build savings.

 

The poll was commissioned by Nationwide Building Society in partnership with the Living Wage Foundation to highlight the gap between the current minimum wage and the increasing cost of living. It comes as the Living Wage reaches a significant milestone after Nationwide became the first major high street name to sign up as a Principal Partner, which is a commitment to help encourage other firms sign up to the scheme. 

 

Nationwide’s position as a Principal Partner follows the Society’s accreditation as a Living Wage employer. This accreditation is a pledge by the Society to pay all employees, from permanent employees to contractors and temporary workers, at least £7.65 an hour, or £8.80 in London - significantly higher than the current minimum wage of £6.31 an hour.

 

According to the survey, 16% of people in the Britain earn less than the Living Wage. This increases to over one in five (22%) when looking at those in the lower social grade group (C2DE).

 

Fewer than one in ten people (9%) feel they would be able to maintain a reasonable standard of living on the minimum wage of approximately £950 a month, according to the survey, while around half of people (51%) said they would need to earn at least £1,100 a month to maintain a reasonable standard of living – broadly the monthly salary of someone receiving the Living Wage.

 

When asked on which three things they would spend an additional £148.07 a month - the difference between the Living Wage and the National Minimum Wage – those in the lower social grades would be most likely to use this extra income to provide basics for themselves and their families. More than half said they would spend the difference on food (51%), while 47% would use the money to cover bills. More than four in ten people would use the money to bolster, or start, savings (43%).

 

The survey also found that 85% of people think that companies should voluntarily pay their employees the Living Wage if they are able to. More than half of those polled stated that they would be more likely to use the goods and services of a company that paid its employees the Living Wage (54%).

 

Rhys Moore, Director of the Living Wage Foundation, said: “We are delighted to welcome Nationwide to the Living Wage movement as both principal partners of the Living Wage Foundation and accredited employers.

 

“As the UK’s largest building society, this move brings the Living Wage to high streets across the country, and showcases that the best employers are voluntarily signing up to pay the Living Wage now. The Living Wage is a robust calculation that reflects the real cost of living, rewarding a hard day’s work with a fair day’s pay. This poll shows that the benefits of the Living Wage are felt first and foremost at home, with employees better able to afford essentials, from feeding the family to saving for a rainy day.

 

“The National Minimum Wage provides an effective robust minimum floor for wages and has all but eliminated extremely low pay in the UK. One side effect is that we now see rates of pay at the lower end of the market clustered at or just above the National Minimum Wage. The Living Wage provides a recognised benchmark for employers who are able to pay more.”

 

Alison Robb, Group Director at Nationwide, said: “We are hugely proud to become a Principal Partner of the Living Wage Foundation, and we are looking forward to working with the Foundation to encourage other employers to sign up in future. Nationwide’s Living Wage accreditation shows our commitment to doing the right thing by our people and we are proud to take a leading role in the campaign for fairer pay.”

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Makes me laugh how London is so lauded. The British rich have had the tables turned on them, so whereas they used to turn Cornish villages into ghost towns as they bought up summer homes, now the Russians and Kuwaitis are doing it to them. Apparently a lot of property firms advertise their pads outside the country years before they advertise them here.

 

What could be a bigger symbol of a bankrupt culture than a pimped out capital city where your own people can no longer afford to live. Pathetic. Just a modern day Rome, the poor on one hill, the obscenely wealthy on the other that control the politicians, a debt ridden economy, withering military and an eroded sense of culture, purpose and self.

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More that you're just seeing the disagreements that have been happening in private for the last four years being made public.

They're disagreeing for very good reason - Michael Gove's ideological insistence that 'free' schools are the future of education. Not happy with allegedly trying to fix it so Ofsted judge them differently to state schools, he's now trying to plug a massive overspend with money earmarked for other projects. The sad thing is the inevitable inquest in years to come over money that should have been spent on children being frittered away on inflated buildings projects and 'consultancy' fees.

 

You have to ask, why would private bodies wish to run schools if they aren't supposed to make a profit?

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