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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:26 11 Dec 2024
Don't really see why it's relevant, but I work in Environmental Law. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:21 11 Dec 2024
A £100000 house anywhere in Swansea would need total renovation, somebody may be able to get a studio flat but that's about it.
Include council tax, utilities, insurance, transport and a food shop and people will be skint.
And that's Swansea which has to be one of the cheapest places in the UK to live. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:14 11 Dec 2024
Nobody is saying they shouldn't be. But lower earners nowadays will never be in an equivalent position. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:12 11 Dec 2024
That doesn't increase linked to the triple lock.
No we can't afford that either, and we need to reduce the expenditure there too. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:02 11 Dec 2024
That was a reply to to someone who said if someone on minimum wage needed more cash they could work more.
I don't think pensioners should need to. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 20:59 11 Dec 2024
It's not about that to me. It's about the suggestion that public sector workers don't deserve the pay rises they're being awarded under labour when they fall way behind the % equivalent rise of the state pension due to the triple lock.
I don't begrudge pensioners anything, but the fact of the matter is that we can't afford the triple lock. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 17:46 11 Dec 2024
It was a reply to a cliam that a pensioner had to sell their home to pay for care.
Pensioners can work if they want too. Many do. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 17:44 11 Dec 2024
On which they pay Ni, income tax and make full contributions to everything else. To watch the swans a care worker pays £32.50 an OAP £20. The care worker will pay to get there on a bus, the pensioner travels for free.
I'm only calling for fairness in increases. I don't think people being given a pay rise a rise of 4.1% by the government can moan about someone getting a rise of 2.8% from the same government. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 13:27 11 Dec 2024
I don't think an extra hour or two would cut it. Salary to house price ratio nowadays is about x 9, in the 70's it was x 4. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 12:44 11 Dec 2024
The person looking after them will never be able to afford to buy a home. |
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Reply | No builders
at 12:43 11 Dec 2024
It depends who those 2.5 million comprise of. I assume (as is the case now) many will be students living in the student flats that have sprung up all over the UK making hedge funds billions of pounds.
Also it's not an increase in levels of migration so from a supply and demand perspective should increase the stock available and therfore not increase costs.
We need housing reforms and a reduction in migration though. |
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Reply | No builders
at 12:22 11 Dec 2024
Phillips didn't let her finish though.
She did say there are plenty of houses but not enough social / affordable homes. That sounds about right.
I'm no fan but think she's being misrepresented. [Post edited 11 Dec 12:24]
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 11:55 11 Dec 2024
I'm only calling for parity.
A care worker who'll have to pay for bus fare, TV licence, full price to go anywhere, eye tests, etc getting a 40% lower raise than the people they are caring for is not acceptable. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 09:57 11 Dec 2024
The state pension will go up by 4.1% over the same period due to the triple lock.
That does seem unfair to me. |
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 09:52 11 Dec 2024
I don't think we can really blame Labour for the immigration situation. It's a Tory problem. In the last 5 months Labour have deported record numbers of failed asylum seekers, increased funding to the border force, facilitated the Glasgow interpol conference at which trafficking was discussed and influenced Germany to make trafficking to non EU countries illegal.
I'm not a Labour supporter, but that is what they've done that the Tories didn't but could have.
We can't cap illegal immigrants we can only stop them coming here, we can't cap legal immigrants becasue we don't know how many we need. And we do need them.
We're not importing unemployable people we're importing people to do the jobs we won't. They don't require skills they just require you to be able to breathe and move in most cases. Look in a care home or at the stadium on a match day.
Also take a look at a university campus too - we need foreign students to keep universities going. |
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 06:41 11 Dec 2024
Health is devolved and Labour are in charge of spending the allocated cash, but until July the amount was controlled by the Tories in Westminster for 14 years. Austerity there is austerity here.
Westminster have now given a bit more, hopefully they'll put some pressure on the Senedd to remove universal free prescriptions too |
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Reply | Farmers
at 13:54 10 Dec 2024
"The finiancial year" should be sent to room 101 |
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 13:53 10 Dec 2024
Yes totally fed up, I'm also fed up with our freeloaders abusing it.
It got exponentially worse under the Tories and Reform's plan to deal with it is unworkable nonsense. Who does that leave us with? |
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Reply | Farmers
at 10:25 10 Dec 2024
It's not just the supermarkets. Their customers have to put their hands up too. |
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