OT: The sooner we're out.....

The poor trade unions membership these days is simply rather the same as Brexit. The gullible being taken in by those in whose interests are better served without unions. Dressed up to be in the interests of the common man. It's called brain washing.

And often use their knowledge to achieve a lot more with a lot less effort. You get paid what you're worth. Demanding everybody gets at least a certain amount is insanity.

And often use their knowledge to achieve a lot more with a lot less effort. You get paid what you're worth. Demanding everybody gets at least a certain amount is insanity.

Quite. Given so many don't actually use much cash these days does it make a difference which unit is used assuming all sing from the same songsheet?

But is going to make a difference when trading with other countries. Commission. etc each time you change.

The idea that a country who has its own currency can control the value of it is flawed. A badly run country is one regardless of the currency.

Its much more due to the big industrial manufacturing operations no longer being anything like what they used to be and with operations like the BBC using contractors instead of full time employees and those contractors who work for themselves not seeing the need for a union.

you have to use labour and transport to take the alternative raw materials to the dog food factory

tim

We have enough difficulty at times having an interest rate that suits the South of England, the North, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - often even struggling to suit any two. How on earth can a single interest rate be right for Germany's high performing economy, Greece's struggling one and everyone inbetween?

SteveW

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Which is a Health and Safety directive.

In article , Martin writes

Yes.

Yeah. Let's spend more on the NHS instead.

Crikey. You're still believing the writing on that bus. You're certainly one in a million.

Pray tell, bert. Which ones of the current hard Brexiteers in the Tory party are also keen to fund the NHS properly?

Which ones are keen to sort out the problems in the 'rust belt' of England that so many voted brexit on that promise of it helping them?

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I just knew some dick would bite.

We could buy a new hospital every month for the money that's currently going into that fancy Brussels wine cellar. Troughing bastards!

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Define "fund the NHS properly"

Northern Power House dear boy, And it was a Tory who sorted Toxteth. Its a Tory who brought hope to the thousands on sink estates abandoned to a dreary life on benefits (esp. disability allowances) by Labour.

It was the Tories who moved thousands off of Unemployment Benefit and onto invalidity Benefit in the 1980's so at to massage the Unemployment count

From the Daily Telegraph -

I blame Margaret Thatcher.

In the early years of her reign, it was the late Prime Minister who decreed, for purely cynical political reasons, to massage the rocketing unemployment figures by encouraging as many former workers in the industries she had decided should be consigned to history to claim what was then called "Invalidity Benefit".

michael adams

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No need since you prefer endless real cuts. Until it effects you, of course.

Does that come from the same script writer as 'Brexit means Brexit'?

No surprise you prefer a pithy phrase to action.

A Tory? Must be a very powerful person who deserves a sainthood. If only it were true.

But there's an easy way to stop people being dependent on benefits. Stop paying them. You just know it makes sense.

Very wise move. After a short time, they can say those disability benefits are being fiddled, by changing the rules.

Same as finding accommodation for the homeless outside your borough. After a suitable interval, they become the problem of that new borough and you've solved your figures.

So just a common or garden stupid leftycvunt then.

Might have guessed as much