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Britain's Hardest Workers - Inside the Low Economy Wage BBC 2
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We cannot STOP immigration while we are in the EU.
we can stop half but dont... the argument re employing educated skilled workers from outside the eu doesnt wash with me. a simpler idea would be to encourage students to further their education by pumping more money in instead of charging uni fees etc.....and fill the better jobs with those. its a cheap way fo running the economy...just as bad as employers who employ people on low wages. problem is its gone on for so long now a reversal will cause a big problem....the low wages side that is. even pumping money into education for school leavers would need to come from somewhere. we are stuck.. what gives? |
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The Co-op paid £82million in tax last year.
Amazon, Apple, eBay, Starbucks and Facebook paid a combined total of £52million. I know who I'm more angry about! that will only get worse imo. they need to increase corporation tax but lowered it to try to get foreign investment......... |
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the argument re employing educated skilled workers from outside the eu doesnt wash with me.
What difference should it make from where they come from? |
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come on guys we are just being screwed by the bosses
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Today on Red Button
Poland most common non-UK birth country Poland has overtaken India as the most common non-UK country of birth for people in the UK Immigration 327,000 for the year to March. Consistent since 2001, we get 1 million immigrants every 3 years.. This will continue while we stay in the EU. |
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There was a farmer on the news last week claiming the country would be finished if he couldn't get his cheap foreign labour to pick his cauliflowers and cabbages. Leaning on his Range Rover talking to the reporter making all sorts of unsubstantiated claims of impending disaster if a contract and fair wage had to be supplied.
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The low wage thing is cods wallop.
If the wages were higher then the goods and services prices would be higher. So the lower paid are still in same boat. |
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I see that Callisto-moon, but I still want a fair minimum wage and work for everybody in this country.
We should tax the rich a little more, or at least ensure they pay their tax they are currently required to. It is a compromise I accept. I am not asking for a communist republic. |
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there has been a surge in Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants it would seem, remember Keith Vaz mocking UKIP's predictions because only 1 had turned up when they were eligible to enter the UK? smarmy **** sitting at an airport drinking coffee with a Romanian immigrant, the ONS estimate that as of last year there are around 250,000 of them here now. May is believed to be considering sending back all those who are not performing skilled labour.
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Construction industry stopped training people because there was an ample supply of EU workers that could be ditched at the drop of a hat and paid substantially less.
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lfc1971
24 Aug 16 20:14 Joined: 06 Nov 11 | Topic/replies: 8,558 | Blogger: lfc1971's blog yes i agree with that Studyform. But also until we address the question of mass immigration with some honesty we will continue to decline, and this decline will get quicker. Just imagine lfc1971, without immigration into the new world, your wonderful, beloved USA would never have existed. |
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^ this one`s an idiot.
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alias quite hasn't gr5asped what immigration means.
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Alias why you avoiding the politics forum? Anything to do with the GERS figures?
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I hear dear Nicky is 15 billion down.
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Grossly exaggerated says Nicki, it's only £14.8 billion.
However on the plus side tractor sales are up for the 23nd year running. |
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*2nd
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There is no easy solution.
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I have down absolutely loads of low paid/minimum wage jobs. Pretty much without exception they were harder than the better paid jobs I have had. But they lacked skill or responsibility. Kind of obvious really, watching it now.
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Has been a very interesting week's viewing, rob. Presented quite fairly with opinions of people in many fields from many organisations with no real political attachments.
Some interesting facts from it too. eg, only 1 in 4 minimum wage workers ever get the chance to get a wage rise or promotion. |
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This is the first episode I have watched, and only vaguely. Minimum wage increases are the simplest and most effective solution imo. I prefer that to tax credits or something similar. That and, of course making the cost of housing less. Housing benefits is a sh1t, admission of defeat. Houses and rents are too expensive, I largely blame the labour govt 1997-2007 for that.
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I, as you know, put the blame on the 18 years before that - as well as the 97-07 continuation of the same.
It's all been said earlier in the thread, rob. Certainly the amount of expendable income after rent/council tax/bills (let's not forget the cost to all of us for privatisation) remaining in any wage packet is too low. The cost of roof over head is ridiculous. Every day were reverting to Victorian ways and means. It's frightening. |
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*we're not were
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