For those thrown into uncertainty and unemployment, the government needs to raise the rate of universal credit and legacy benefits – to £260 a week. That’s equivalent to the value of 80% of weekly earnings on the national living wage.
GDP’s down 30% this quarter. Maybe. This is just the time to raise the reservation wage, right?
If you pay people to be poor you’ll never run short of poor people. Don’t they teach that in economics class?
So GDP is – according to the Grauniad – down 30% to 70% of norm and the aforesaid Grauniad wants to give the unemployed 80% of “national living wage”. That’s nearly twice the Old Age Pension – so is that going to be doubled or are Pensioners expected to survive on half the income of sofa-dwellers?
So how much is left over for those actually working?
Grauniad never liked “Make work pay” – but “Make idleness pay” is a new low.
Yeah, but no. I’ve been saying this the Great Navigators indicated a few weeks back that HS2 was still a runner:there is no no reality. It’s business as usual, but now the great grandchildren are stuck with the bill.
Reminds me of a vox pop Al-Beebra did at the time of Lehman’s collapse. Down in Bristol. Reporter speaking to a typical crunchy granola woman of the hardship to come as she dangles her toddler in an artisan coffee house, and asks her what she thinks of it what came, absurdly, to be called ‘austerity’.
“What I’d like to see is more childcare for mothers who want to work”.
I paraphrase, but slightly.
And bear in mind, these tosseurs already think they’ve been through hardship to make a veteran on 1939-45 blush.
And don’t get me started on that lot…
By Kate Bell
Who is Kate Bell?
Kate Bell is head of the TUC’s rights, international, social and economics department
Ah, the TUC. So a horny handed daughter of toil?
Kate Bell’s “work” experience:
Policy Adviser on Work and Pensions
Labour Party
Sep 2013 – Jun 2015
Freelance Policy Consultant
Freelance Policy Consultant
Sep 2010 – Sep 2013
London Campaign Co-ordinator
Child Poverty Action Group UK
Jan 2012 – Aug 2013
Director of Policy Advice and Communications
Gingerbread
2003 – 20107 years
Research Fellow
Center for American Progress
Jun 2008 – Sep 20084 months
Ever wonder why the trade union movement is completely fucked?
Raise unemployment payouts?
FFS man. I know people who work under-the-table who are pissed right now because they can’t lounge at home and collect unemployement because benefits have already been raised to or above the level of un-reported pay they’re getting.
Because of people like me?
And various unsavoury bits and bobs of case law, IIRC.
VE Day 75 Years On – Totalitarianism Has Almost Won
Delers spot on
Locally there’s ‘outrage’ that some ‘essential workers’ are low/minimum wage and the govt has promised $1billion to top up their pay, likely we will see a rise in minimum wage pushed through to support the ‘essential workers’
Le Roi Jean Quinze: Because of people like me?
That’s a touch obscure, Woy.
By way of response to Steve’s question, Mr B.
It took me so long to descend from my celestial throne, I didn’t notice Agammamon had slipped in before me.