Seanjd
Player Valuation: £30m
There are other ways of creating mass amounts of jobs instead of pandering to these scummy companies.
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There are other ways of creating mass amounts of jobs instead of pandering to these scummy companies.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Ok. How?
Based on earlier postings I think this feller is hoping for a socialist republic in the UK.
Seanjd
Player Valuation: £30m
Through the government creation of jobs by nationalising major services, such as rail and power.
It wasn't that long ago that these services employed far more people than they do now, paid higher wages and delivered better services.
Del
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Wouldn't work mate, Stupid idea
toffee matt
Player Valuation: £60m
Minimum wage £30 per hour.
Living wage £35 per hour.
Drinks are on me
Living wage £35 per hour.
Drinks are on me
Mrk
Player Valuation: £40m
The fact that you seem to think that everyone is employed by 'morally bankrupt' and 'scummy' companies just highlights how little understanding you have of this issue. The vast majority of people employed in the private sector are employed by small and medium sized companies, many of who would probably love to be in a situation that would allow them to pay their employee's more.
I think if you bothered to take off your blinkers, you'd quickly realise that a majority of business owners in the UK have a genuine interest in the happiness and health of their workforce - they're not out to squeeze them for everything they have, they just pay them what they can afford.
For you to suggest that any company who can't adhere to your ludicrous 'morals' shouldn't exist is just about the most deluded thing I've seen in this thread - which is quite an achievement.
Sorry lid...the drinks now cost £35.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
Take it you are old enough to remember waiting weeks for the GPO to get round to sending you a telephone then? Then even longer for a line to be fitted?
But I will conceed that some of the privatisations looked a bit daft then, and still do now. Water in particular. Never really understood how that could be a competitive market.
Seanjd
Player Valuation: £30m
Don't think I've ever claimed that "everyone is employed by morally bankrupt and scummy companies", which shows how little attention you pay to other people's posts.
My argument is that we should not pander to major companies who threaten to leave the UK if they have to pay their work force more. I have never mentioned small and medium sized companies.
By the way, this is a political debate. Let's not make it personal.
Seanjd
Player Valuation: £30m
No, I don't, but I remember being supplied an atrocious Virgin Media service and paying well over the odds for it.
That's my point. Water, Gas Electricity. Public Transport. These things do not need to be competitive. These are essentials which should not be profit driven.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
What major companies are these mate?
Seanjd
Player Valuation: £30m
I was responding to somebody else who claimed that by raising the minimum wage, large companies would relocate abroad. I will try to find some examples, though.
roydo
in memoriam - 1965-2024
I do have some sympathy with that. Trouble is, they were so far the other way before they were privatised, they were an utter shambles. Badly run, no idea of "customers", costing a fortune to run, and highly unionised, and not in a progressive way.
And yeah, they do make a profit, but large bundles of that is lobbed back into their industries for infrastructure, research, and the like. Its not all bad mate.
Imagine if it was left to the government (of any colour), to build and maintain the mobile network, or the internet/broadband network? Wouldnt happen.
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