Where we are now

[bluethrunthru]

Bit of comedy but this is where we are. People are not living the Life of Riley on benefits but remain on benefits because work doesn't pay - most are actually in work and claiming benefits that that taxpayers pay to subsidise employers billion £ profits.
People on sickness benefits are there for a multitude of reasons from life limiting cancer to a need for an operation that is in the NHS backlog.
Millionaires need to be taxed to pay for palliative care and NHS improvements. In work subsidies should be abolished overnight. Businesses that have a workable business plan like say Tesco having to pay enough to their staff to live on or lose staff ( remember even if they sign on there is a virtual negative impact as we pay those employee's benefits anyway ) and Tesco may have to survive on a few £mill rather than a couple of £bill.
Its not hard it just needs bollocks to redistribute ...... not wealth just profits earned by the efforts of the workers.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Have you lost your mummy?

 

[Don Karleone]

Bit of comedy but this is where we are. People are not living the Life of Riley on benefits but remain on benefits because work doesn't pay - most are actually in work and claiming benefits that that taxpayers pay to subsidise employers billion £ profits.
People on sickness benefits are there for a multitude of reasons from life limiting cancer to a need for an operation that is in the NHS backlog.
Millionaires need to be taxed to pay for palliative care and NHS improvements. In work subsidies should be abolished overnight. Businesses that have a workable business plan like say Tesco having to pay enough to their staff to live on or lose staff ( remember even if they sign on there is a virtual negative impact as we pay those employee's benefits anyway ) and Tesco may have to survive on a few £mill rather than a couple of £bill.
Its not hard it just needs bollocks to redistribute ...... not wealth just profits earned by the efforts of the workers.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Tax wealth not income.

MPs won't won't turkeys for Christmas sadly.

 

[metalblue]

Miss MB is a newly qualified midwife and gets top ups and is no better off working due to her personal circumstances.

It’s not just the big businesses that don’t pay enough. We have a low wage economy and that’s the root of much of our problems.

 

[Kompany Car]

Bit of comedy but this is where we are. People are not living the Life of Riley on benefits but remain on benefits because work doesn't pay - most are actually in work and claiming benefits that that taxpayers pay to subsidise employers billion £ profits.
People on sickness benefits are there for a multitude of reasons from life limiting cancer to a need for an operation that is in the NHS backlog.
Millionaires need to be taxed to pay for palliative care and NHS improvements. In work subsidies should be abolished overnight. Businesses that have a workable business plan like say Tesco having to pay enough to their staff to live on or lose staff ( remember even if they sign on there is a virtual negative impact as we pay those employee's benefits anyway ) and Tesco may have to survive on a few £mill rather than a couple of £bill.
Its not hard it just needs bollocks to redistribute ...... not wealth just profits earned by the efforts of the workers.

The main problem with everything you mention is globalisation. If you think a shareholder in another part of the world actually gives a shit about the rest of the UK then I dont know what to say.

Its all about profit, sectors effectively working as cartels with immense buying power and political power, to the extent that competition is almost non existent, in economics its known as monopsonistic power. Its like that across nearly every sector, you look at a company which you think is independent only to find its part of a much larger conglomerate. If a new business grows beyond a given size it gets bought out.

When companies are that powerful they can "agree" what tax they should pay when making profits in the UK then its clear who holds the whip hand.

 

[Magicpole]

Tax wealth not income.

MPs won't won't turkeys for Christmas sadly.

They will will Turkeys

 

[dickie davies]

One of our major accounts is a national retailer
They pay the shop floor staff minimum wage and supervisors receive an additional 20p per hour

 

[bluethrunthru]

One of our major accounts is a national retailer
They pay the shop floor staff minimum wage and supervisors receive an additional 20p per hour

Wow a Kings Ransom - oh wait that £86m from the Civil Grant