All this levelling up, high wage, high skill economy is absolute garbage...unless what happens is a massive reduction in inequality at the same time.
Otherwise, all other things being equal, we will get rampant inflation.
However, as soon as there is a suggestion of a redistribution of income to reduce inequality the press start screaming about communism and no serious debate can be held.
Inflation will hit the poorest in society the hardest, it always does.
I'm annoyed. I went to see my parents yesterday, in their eighties, worried about putting their heating on because of the increase in their bills. The winter fuel payment will dent that a bit, but not much. Without doubt, old people will die this winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes. That is what inequality does.
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Unforunately and depressingly, I don't see anything which will improve matters in the near future.Meltham Massive, WilsdenBantam, vladimir and 6 others like this. -
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Thought not.
I've done all of the last three many times. And no amount of money would have persuaded me to do any of the first three.
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If you just hand it out to all your mates to set up incompetent Covid labs that misdiagnose thousands of cases, or start track and trace companies that don't have the first idea how to do it, it's absolutely fine, apparently. It's the inherent efficiency of the private sector, don't you know?Allotment Bantam, Nottsy, vladimir and 2 others like this. -
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Likewise, we'd never have had an NHS, or decent environmental and H&S standards. These things are never given up freely by businesses - they have to be fought for. And they are invariably opposed by the Tory Party, until they become so accepted as part of civilised life that they wouldn't dare remove them.
You only need to look at the likes of Amazon, Uber, etc to see how mega rich companies exploit their workforce when there is no workforce representation to fight for their rights.
I'm not anti- capitalist. I believe in a mixed economy. Command economies don't work long term, although there are certain tasks that are best performed by the public sector. There have to be incentives for people to invest and turn a reasonable profit. But there also have to be regulations to prevent exploitation and excessive inequality.
We'd have even better living standards if the higher echlons of our society hadn't been on investment strike for several decades - preferring to squirrel away their riches in offshore tax havens rather than pay UK tax on them or reinvest them in our economy. Why do you think the Tory government has always refused to join in with EU initiatives to cut down on tax avoidance? Because most of them, or their spouses, are some of the biggest offenders.Allotment Bantam, Petrov, vladimir and 1 other person like this. -
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An example of exactly what I'm talking about Hooch. We can spunk £37 billion in a lot of cases with no questions asked as to which politicians mates the money is going to but after all the campaigning by the likes of Rob Burrow, Doddie Weir and our very own Stephen Darby, this pathetic excuse of a government can't find a fraction of that money for funding into the awful disease of MND. I try not to think ot things like this because it makes me really angry.Petrov, SelbyFan and Hoochy-Min like this. -
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I hate the Labour Party but jeez this current Tory lot are a different level of pond life.vladimir and Hoochy-Min like this. -
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