Tuesday 31 December 2019

More Than The Minimum

You could call your cat the Living Wage, but that would not make it so. Still, the increase in what the Government insists on calling the National Living Wage is welcome enough in itself.

Such people as might ever be minded to defend the Blair Government always, and only ever, cite the National Minimum Wage, a single measure from Tony Blair's first Queen's Speech.

And, again, that was welcome enough in itself. But Blair positively boasted of retaining the most restrictive anti-union laws in the developed world, meaning that that minimum became in fact the normal wage across much of the economy.

I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.

2 comments:

  1. In a better world, you would have been Leader of the Labour Party.

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    1. In a much better world, I would not have needed to have been.

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