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Work is a ladder, most people have to start at the bottom, if it's £9.50 per hour or £10.00 you shouldn't matter, you should be thinking it's the bottom step, what can I do to earn more, not facking tories give me a 20% rise, whats happened to ambition?Originally Posted by JamesWales
JW, I totally agree with you. Unfortunately the vast majority of posters on here are leftist, anti Tory, deluded brainwashed Labour voters. Hence we all always have a Labour Govt in Wales..... Now that really is a worry!
And the other side there are right wing deluded brainwashed Tory supporters and why we have a Tory Govt. 😂😂😂
Just give pay increases based on inflation
We've never had it so good look we are top of the table we have the most!
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...n-nhs-24301231
In a ideal World, the problem is it would add to inflation and drag the problem on longer, we need the country to dig deep and grind through the next two years, we've had to do it before and we will have to do it at certain times in the future.
All Drakeford should be concentrating on is this, it's peoples lives, forget speed gimmicks, free prescrptions, longest covid restrictions in the World and all the party politics, get these numbers down, do whatever it takes!
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/h...n-nhs-24301231
NHS Wales waiting times: Two years growth and new record
Waiting times for hospital treatment in Wales have again reached record levels, latest monthly figures show.
They reveal two years of solid growth since the Covid pandemic began.
But the longest waits - those of more than two years - are starting to go down, although 68,000 are still waiting that long.
The figures for April show more than 707,000 patients were waiting for hospital treatment, although the rate of increase has slowed.
Emergency waiting times nearly worst ever
More cash wanted to help older people manage pain
Wales' top doctor not ruling out future lockdowns
'I spent four nights in A&E waiting for a bed'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-61908285
What does this have to do with a thread about Mick Lynch?
More billionaires than ever richer than ever, but it's the poor who had to dig deep, right.
Erm no. If 9.50 per hours means you are not able to afford basic living costs then you are happily condemning a shit load of people to poverty.
The aim of the minimum wage should be to ensure basic living costs can be covered by somebody in full time employment, not some Dickensian tool to motivate the lazy.
yes, and in my opinion the minimum wage should be enough to live off without any additional benefits.
As it is we have ended up in a situation that businesses pay so little that the poorest have to rely on handouts from the government and charities in order to survive, and those at the top have bigger and bigger pay.
Why do we allow this?
You can work your guts out in a full time job in this country and still struggle to make ends meet
There should be additional help for housing and working tax etc for people who need it, but people need to want to help themselves and move to a better paid job, it is only considered as a stepping stone to a decent wage.
Why would you pick and stay in a job like that?
There is google these days, type in what jobs pay what, and try not to pick one that pays minimum wage?
Train drivers and Lorry drivers pay quite a bit, aim for something like that as a mininum if you're educated consider alternatives, there are plenty of well paid jobs and plenty of badly paid jobs ?
Yes and there always will be and should be (based on skills/demand/supply etc.), but none of them should pay a full time employee less than it costs to live.
I don't understand how people have been convinced that it is out of reach for one of the wealthiest countries in the world to ensure people in full time work earn enough to live.
It isn't to any of our benefits not to do this btw, I would stake a lot that there isn't anybody on this board who benefits from rampant wealth inequality and an oligarchical government ensuring that the very wealthy minority are continually protected. So why do people cheerlead for it?
You've nailed it. Why the **** haven't poorly paid people thought of just getting a better paid job in order to alleviate their problems? It's baffling!
Just get a better job, it's simple
Also, who is going to do those jobs?
Its always been this way for young people. This generation is not special.
Some kind of freedom of movement to make it easier for citizens of other countries to come and work?Just get a better job, it's simple
Also, who is going to do those jobs?
For some people it is that simple!Just get a better job, it's simple
Also, who is going to do those jobs?
Some of the track workers will think, great use the drones to check the tracks give me the redundancy, I'll train to be a Lorry driver and keep some of the money for back up cash, earn more money and jobs a good one!
Others will stay on strike as long as possible keep asking for more cash to stay in the comfort zone.
whilst it is true that the minimum wage has outpaced inflation, and the nil rate band has also increased considerably, the single biggest cost that most people face will be housing. Given house prices rise on average about 10% per annum, we shouldn't crack open the champagne just yet, given many people are finding it more difficult to get on the housing ladder.Well someone said no one was better off, to which I proved that the minimum wage rises in the last decade have gone up twice as fast as inflation.
If only you lot could eliminate economic facts and anyone with different opinions, then finally you would be happy!
This is the problem with statistics, taken on their own they don't tell the whole story. When boomers were in their 20s, the average life expectancy was considerably less than it is now. As most unfettered homeownership occurs in your 50s and beyond, its true to say that as people live longer, the nations wealth is going to decrease for any age group year on year. Whether the drop from 22% to 7% can be accounted for this alone, I doubt.
True thats the biggest problem for the young, they can still buy a house, but its very difficult and they need a decent wage so it's very hard. House prices should fall this year or next, hopefully that will help a few more to be able to buy their own homes.
I think Landlords buying power has pushed prices beyond the average youngster, there needs to be some carrot or threat of a stick to persaude landlords to reduce portfolios so youngsters can buy rather rent which is dead money.
It is only in the past 12 years that interest rates have been as low as they are. Interest rates historically were around 7-10%, on occasions rising to 15%. It is accepted that housing is the single biggest cost, so I can't see how interest rates being a fraction of what they were back then has made the situation as bad today as you are alluding to.
You need to move away from the Thatcherite policy of homeownership that you favour. Whilst home ownership is nice to have, take a leaf out of our continental cousin's playbook where renting is so much more the norm.
Of course, but you're being very selective with the facts you choose to use.
In the main, it isn't though. And that's why they're striking. And it is why teachers, nurses, doctors etc will be next.
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