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  • #31
    Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

    Originally posted by blue matt View Post
    lets hope that Agencies now disappear and companies take people on and offer them job security and value them, as in the past they have just been a commodity to pick up an use and then discard when they are done with
    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.

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    • #32
      Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

      Originally posted by JamesWales View Post
      Sorry, you are wrong. Wanting a different immigration system does not equal racism. It may be academic code for racism, but academics suffer from confirmation bias more than anyone.

      Likewise, sovereignty means having greater control over decisions. Estonia wanted sovereignty when it left the USSR. Scottish Independence is about sovereignty. Ireland wanted sovereignty in the 1920's. You need to seperate the two concepts out, rather than apply your intepretation of it and assume everyone has the same conclusion.

      Incidentally, votes for far-right and racist parties are far higher in the EU than in western nations outside it, which rather suggests that your analysis isnt true. If people who had concerns over laissez-faire immigration policies or wanted more control over their own laws were just out and out racists, then this would be reflected in which parties they vote for.

      Sorry to piss on your fries.
      Xenophobia was a fecking massive factor in brexit

      Boris and his mob stoked the fires and watched it all burn

      People can deny this all day long if they want , I don't give a feck

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      • #33
        Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

        Originally posted by 19bluebirds27 View Post
        I know of a Doctor who had a HGV licence from his Army days 20 year s ago, that has just been written too by the Department of Transport.
        Highlighting the opportunity that exists right now.
        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.

        :hehe:

        Are there any depths to this Government's incompetence?

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        • #34
          Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

          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.

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          • #35
            Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

            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.

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            • #36
              Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

              Originally posted by life on mars View Post
              I do wonder if those type of tough , manual or dirty jobs will now attract a decent wage for Abattoirs , Farming Labour , HGV , Care Workers ,Cleaner and hospitality industry workers , as we see a welcome decline on agencies exploiting European migrants workers who are willing to work for far less than a UK worker ..
              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.

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              • #37
                Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                Originally posted by AfricanBluebird View Post
                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.
                A freeze was put on benefits when Cameron came in

                For about 6 years

                Now someone on 40 k is going to miss a pay rise

                But people on benefits struggle and slashing the benefit bill causes so many problems for those dependent on them

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                • #38
                  Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                  Weve also got our public sector on a pay freeze.

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                  • #39
                    Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                    Originally posted by AfricanBluebird View Post
                    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.
                    It is Boris , also blurted out the other day that companies should pay their workers more and rightly so , back door socialist ideals ?

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                    • #40
                      Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                      Originally posted by Hilts View Post
                      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”.

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                      • #41
                        Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                        Originally posted by life on mars View Post
                        It is Boris , also blurted out the other day that companies should pay their workers more and rightly so , back door socialist ideals ?
                        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.

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                        • #42
                          Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                          Originally posted by AfricanBluebird View Post
                          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.
                          They look after the rich at the expense of the poor that is what they do.

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                          • #43
                            Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                            Originally posted by JamesWales View Post
                            Even Michel Barnier, as EU as it gets was talking about sovereignty and limiting non EU immigration in the last few weeks
                            Four years on from the UK’s Brexit vote, a majority of British voters would now opt to remain inside the European Union, says new research.
                            Was that the correct (I daren't say right) link? Barnier could well run for president so he has to look for the Le Pen/Zemmour votes

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                            • #44
                              Re: Brexit Plus ? Higher Wage Economy

                              Originally posted by trampie09 View Post
                              They look after the rich at the expense of the poor that is what they do.
                              Furlough / Self employed covid grants were for everyone ( apart from the very small % who fell through the cracks )

                              infact you could say setting the SE grant limit at £7500 for the 3 month grant was a negative for the rich

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