From the Telegraph, I see that Gordon Brown, our monocular prime minister, is trying to weasel out of his pledge of ‘British jobs for British workers.’ It was a stupid thing to say, considering the free movement of labour that is about the only benefit of the UK’s membership in the EU, and now there have been strikes over some Italians taking the fabled ‘British jobs.’
Fair enough; I’d probably weasel too.
But then, when asked his view on possible sympathy strikes, he burbled this:
“That that’s not the right thing to do and it’s not defensible,” he replied. “What we’ve set up as a process to deal with the questions that people have been asking about what has happened in this particular instance.”
That’s not even a sentence.
He went on: “When I talked about British jobs, I was taking about giving people in Britain the skills, so that they have the ability to get jobs which were at present going to people from abroad and actually encouraging people to take up the courses and the education and learning that is necessary for British workers to be far more skilled for the future.”
He wants people in Britain to have the skillz. Hurrah. But his loquacity (can I call it that, or is the choice of word almost too kind?) is awe-inspiring. The education and the learning. Well done. Skillz – learnin’, you know – for British workers to be more skilled.
Wouldn’t it have been vastly easier, and consumed less precious oxygen, for him to say, ‘I didn’t mean jobs. I meant skills. You know. British skills for British workers. QED. Now fuck off, I’m busy.’? Clearly, sensible, concise elegance is too much to ask for from somebody who makes his living by his silver tongue. The twat.
Is ‘going on strike’ a skill?
If the fat useless lying one eyed jock had told the truth in the first place,his rambling unawnser’s
may carry more weight.Labours biggest lie.
3 million new jobs created in the economy.What they forgot to say,is 2.2 million of those jobs went to foreign nationals.All in the attempt of keeping british wages down.Brown and his Labour cohorts
should be shot for treason. DIE YOU BASTARDS>
mmm,its usually people on good wages who say that wages are too high.lets try it this way.A married couple on low wages,lets say for arguements sake £6.50 per hour.they are home owners living in a two up two down terraced house up north, worth £60,000 when they bought it.They have a mortgage of £400 per month.
their council tax is £140 per month
gas bill £120 per month.
electric of £40 per month
water £24 per month
tv licence£15 per month
food£70 per week
car insurance £40 per month
£15per month for car tax
£60 per month for petrol
Thats roughly £1150 pounds to pay out.Not including clothing or luxuries such as mobile phones,sky tv,internet,pubs,smoking.
that leaves them £50 per week each out of wages,
for pastimes luxuries and clothing.
As you can see wages are not way too high in this country.
you have only deducted 1x£70.00 for food.
It should be 4x£70.00 and also roughly £60.00 each in tax and national insurance.
this was based on a genuine couples income-
i.e mine and my partners, that was before i found myself unemployed due to neocon new labour’s
fantastic running of our country.
I agree,im not here for argueing.Ijust like to get my point across.Ionly ended up here by accident.
(put Gordon Brown is a twat in google)
anyway i agreed with all of your original post.
Dean
If it is, we’re still screwed; Europeans do that better, too.
(1) When a government says it’s ‘creating jobs,’ the claim is almost always a lie.
(2) Foreign nationals from the EU cannot be denied jobs in this country; foreign nationals from outside of the EU add, generally speaking, to the overall productivity of Britain.
(3) British wages should be lower than they are, at least in many industries; high labour costs are one of the reasons Britain is less economically competitive than it could be.
Hmm.
£6.50 x 2 x 40 = £520/wk.
£520 x 52 = £27040/yr
£27040 / 12 = £2253.33pcm
£2253.33 – 400 – 140 – 120 – 40 – 24 – 15 – 70 – 40 – 15 – 60 = £1329.33pcm after bills and expenses.
Divide that by four, and you find that what they actually have per week is £332.33. Not including whatever they pay in tax, of course. And, naturally, that assumes your fictional married couple both work. Now – where is your figure of £50 coming from?
Aha! Thanks for pointing that out. This is what happens when I try to do maths. I stand corrected. Anyway, let us not argue at cross purposes. I also think Labour have done a terrible job running the country, although I’ve only been on site, so to speak, for four years of it. But I don’t think low wages are a good example of their shit governance, considering that British wages are amongst the highest in the world.