"Adrian" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:33:06 +0100, michael adams wrote:

Given the state of the UK economy in the 1970s, who can blame her?

If it was all caused by unions, what accounts for the present mess?

Sorry, are you suggesting they're even vaguely comparable?

At the moment, the taxpayer is subsidising employers profits to the tune
of £76 billion per annum, as a result of the starvation level wages
being paid to their non union workers

Small problem with that claim - the legal minimum wage is already about a
quid an hour above the "living wage" for a couple, both working full
time, no kids.

I notice you've snipped the quote I included, which was taken directly from
Rupert Murdoch's "Sky News".

So here it is again, with the link

" There are some estimates that whilst £8bn on benefits goes to the unemployed,
an estimated £76bn goes to people who are working."

http://news.sky.com/story/1513826/wo...f-welfare-cuts

I include the link so you could check for yourself that nothing is being made up.

So are you saying that Rupert Murdoch's "Sky News" are lying ?

Or that their figures are correct, but that the UK Govt has made some sort of "mistake"
in doling out £76 billion of taxpayers money, when you've proved it here on UseNet
that they needn't have done ?

So which is it ?

A Murdoch lie, or a big Government mistake ?



The other small problem, of course, is that it has nothing to do with the
actual question.

The actual question was whether the UK is presently in a mess comparable to
that which existed prior to Thatcher.

I'm suggesting that any country that has to subsidise low wages to the extent
of 76bn a year with taxpayers money, is most definitely in a mess.
With a government which is clearly in the pockets of a small minority
of employers to the exclusion of everybody else.

Which is a situation which can't last indefinitely and which nobody should
welcome whoever they are.


michael adams

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