What Truss could save by linking benefits to pay instead of soaring inflation
Pensions for example.
When inflation was higher than wages growth then pensions were linked to wages. Then when wages growth was higher than inflation, switched to following inflation. And so it goes – as I say, this has been done before.
And of course why CPI was adopted over the more expensive RPI.
Previous Chancellors didn’t have to deal with intellectual titans such as Kay Burley or Beth Rigby…
Ottokring,
Nor does Truss. Stop doing interviews with them. Sky is about 1.5 million viewers, and as they’re the sort of people who are watching Kay Burley, morons who can barely add up.
Truss should get onto places like YouTube where she can actually explain what she’s doing. Go onto shows like Triggernometry, start a channel. Explain things rather than being subject to daft gotcha questions which don’t give you any room to do that, and which really are not Truss’ forte. She is gaining nothing by doing these.
Or… link benefits to productive work. If you don’t do any productive work you don’t get any benefits. Benefits could then be renamed wages and if you don’t work, you don’t get wages. We could then call ‘welfare’ – employment. Radical or what?
Someone mentioned many years ago that the the system judges that you have a problem and tells you to stay at home on benefits. It’s not interested in what you can do.
Remploy used to provide employment for people with special needs. Not saying it was better / cheaper/ more economic than them sitting at home doing nothing, but they produced something.
As Alec F once said, “Don’t talk me about what he can’t do, show me what he can do”.
No, as we used to get from a commenter here when this subject came up. The point of Remploy was this. Sure, the afflicted are always going to be taken care of by society at large. Their production was near an irrelevance. It was the fact that they did something which earned them their own money. Their brow, their sweat, their money. An entirely fake independence, a deliberate construct to tell a lie. And yet one that – to the commenter here’s daughter at least – made her life hugely better the way she saw it. That was her’s, to be spent as, when and if she wanted. Mine, fuck off! Even if independence and agency cannot actually be achieved it’s something that human beings value. And that’s the value of the Remploy, below min wage and all the rest of it ideas.
Brilliant by the Viscount of Worstall.
Even if it’s a biscuit, still very nice.
@Bloke on M4 – “Truss should get onto places like YouTube where she can actually explain what she’s doing”
That would require her to know what she’s doing and be capable of explaining it. I have seen no evidence for either so far.