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He backed the £15 an hour minimum wage, he is now saying that things have changed since he made that commitment, he is right, things have got more expensive. He is not only taking on Tory party clothes he is adopting their propensity for lying.
£15 minimum wage is an impossibility. Cost of goods and services would have to rise to accommodate it. Then the rise in pay would not be worth as much as they thought. Then everyone else's pay would have to increase as the costs of goods had increased.. messy.
The cost of goods and services has increased that is why we need a £15 minimum wage.
dead_soft
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What would your plan be to help those who were struggling and then had a wage that has gone up 2% whilst cost of living has gone up over 3%?
By controlling and reducing living costs, like utility prices, cost of housing, food etc etc.. You cant just demand people are paid more. A lot of the businesses that pay minimum wage cannot afford to pay £15 p/h.
tsubaki
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For government it should be to reduce the cost of living, which raising the minimum wage does not do.
If it was up to me, the two areas I’d go after first are housing and transport, both areas where government action could relatively easily be made - by a massive expansion in social housing provision (which will reduce cost of rents across the sector, reduce HB spending and eventually cause house prices to fall) and by increasing availability of and reducing the cost of public transport.
Doing that sort of thing is going to put more “spare” money in people’s pockets than bumping up the MW.
Did he though?
Been a disaster this week.
They have such an open goal with the country in collapse and they’re too focused on identity politics and infighting with eachother.
They have such an open goal with the country in collapse and they’re too focused on identity politics and infighting with eachother.
It’s infuriating.
Might as well give the Tory party a lifetime lease on number 10 at this rate.
tsubaki
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“each other” is a bit much - this has been kicked off totally by one side
He did, and he should. He is the leader of the Labour Party, a party of the left. As the leader of a party of the left it is for him to espouse the principles of the left not change them to suit his gentrified ideal of the left. If he disagrees with the ideolo the Labour then maybe he is in the wrong party.
It most important thing is not to get him into power by moving the party to the right but to come up with fully costed socialist policies and to lead the debate and convince the electorate that a socialist party is in the interests of the majority.
He is deluded if he thinks party unity is second to electoral success, there is no electoral success without party unity. He needs to find some way to connect the parliamentary party to the grass roots.
…I always thought Starmer needs to set things up for somebody else. If Labour are to become electable, he needs to stand firm and see off the Momentum left just as Kinnock did with Militant.
Rule change has to be applied, power to elect the leader has to be within the remit of MPs and not the members.
Rule change has to be applied, power to elect the leader has to be within the remit of MPs and not the members.
tsubaki
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Eggs the members have a better idea of who would be a good leader than MPs do.
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