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That is a plainly absurd statement. If you believe that then you believe that New Zealand and Canada (not to mention everyone else) are currently run by racist governments.
I dont doubt that an irrational fear of foreigners is a driving force for some people in how they vote, but you totally over estimate that driving force.
The reality is that the UK will probably become the country in europe that has the fairest immigration policy that bases it's criteria on skills rather than any other factor such as where someone happens to have been born
I paraphrase, but you are essentially saying anyone who doesn't support the free movement of people (presumably globally?) is racist.
Thats just ridiculous. You can choose to not support a laissez faire immigration policy for dozens of reasons.
It's like saying anyone who opposes the free movement of money across borders does so because they hate money.
Someone can object to how something is managed or organised without objecting to the whole concept of something. You can disagree with an immigration policy without objecting to immigration as a concept and certainly without meaning you are racist towards the people involved
So do you agree with say someone working at Dominoes on a zero hour contract gets called in for 12 midday
The shop is very quiet so gets sent home at 1 but then gets asked to come back at 6 because it might be busier then or if it gets busier sooner we will give you are call.
No, in the example given, I dont agree and as said I think people should be offered a contract after a relatively short period of time.
However, sometimes zero hour contracts suit people. They may want the flexibility for example. It works for some, not for others.
As a main job, I am totally with you - you cannot plan your finances with a zero hour contract at all.
I could have had a job with a company that was subbing work from Welsh water. They paid lads £11 an hour and paid travel time and digs etc. I was less experienced so would have started on £9.50/or £10 the lads told me when trying to convince me to apply.
I got £18 an hour off the agency.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b1930558.html
“We were quite surprised,” he said. “I’m sure pay and conditions for HGV drivers have improved, but ultimately I have decided to carry on in my role at an investment bank. My wife has never driven anything larger than a Volvo, so she is also intending to decline the exciting opportunity.
Are there any depths to this Government's incompetence?
Bizarre some folk in this thread thinking better wages is not a positive , and folks suggesting folk don't get paid enough and live on the breadline ??
From Bloomberg Article Aug 21
U.K. wage growth hit a record as companies posted more than 1 million new job vacancies for the first time in an unprecedented*scramble*for staff following the loosening of lockdown rules.
Average earnings in the three months through June surged a record 8.8% from a year earlier, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday. While the figure partly reflects distortions created by the pandemic, underlying wage pressures are also gathering pace.
Meanwhile here in Poland I’m busily employing 400+ people to replace the 400+ jobs (plus supply chain jobs) being lost in UK. Our customers have decided not to place any more business in the UK due to the spiralling costs.
It's bizarre that the Tories who fight tooth and nail against increased wages and minimum wages could inadvertently end up helping increase wages ..
Those increases though will eat into their corporate pals profits and soon we will see more reductions in corporate taxes and more increases into taxes for working class People.
Increased wages is good.... But what Tories do is screw the working classes who may benefit from those increases with extra taxes & reduced benefits, while further creating conditions where their corporate chums pay less tax.
Trickle down economics pioneered by Reagan and Thatcher ended up with creating a huge divide in society, it doesn't work.
Weve also got our public sector on a pay freeze.
Not totally true
Unions representing hundreds of thousands of local government workers have rejected a 1.5% pay offer, describing it as “insulting” to staff who worked hard to keep vital services running throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
The offer came despite the 2021-2022 public-sector pay freeze set out by chancellor Rishi Sunak in November’s spending review, which has meant no annual increase for all but the lowest-paid civil servants. The offer for council staff was tabled by the local government employers, rather than the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government.
Unison, the GMB and Unite – which represent 750,000 council and school-support staff across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – said the Local Government Association’s 1.5% offer was “disappointing” when it was made earlier this month. Each has now turned down the offer on behalf of members.
Jon Richards, head of local government at Unison – which is the largest union force among council staff – said 1.5% “simply isn’t good enough”.
We can't trust a word that clown says. He sits on a throne of lies and hypocrisy.
Increased wages is a good thing, but really not if your NI and taxes are increased to eat up any increases you get....combined with a cut in benefits.
Which the Tories do all the time.
It's not the increase in wages I have an issue with, it's a government who consistently make it much more difficult for working class People to keep their modest increase... And much easier for the already wealthy and high earners to keep their money and in fact create conditions so they can make more.
Also the Tories claim that wages have increased £4000 per year... I don't know many people who have had a £4000.per year increase. This is just a manipulation of figures.