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Bit racist, her name is Ffion.

I could definitely smell the fumes rising from the screen. Moving away from the hyperbole if we do just look at the numbers and view this as the new minimum wage it is a statement of fact that this will be the fastest rise since it was introduced. It is also high by international standards and...

If achievable I would agree but I think in practise the system is so complicated it is nigh on impossible to guarantee no poor person (define poor?) will ever be worse off. Same problem with the always making work pay line, good idea, noble goal but devilishly difficult to achieve. By the way...

If the overall effect means most or even a significant majority of the poorest people are worse off then no it isn't acceptable. But there are always likely to be anomalies where some are worse off unfortunately. There will probably always be cases where some people are not better off in work...

Or The government is however inefficiently or cack handedly trying to reduce state subsidy so private companies are responsible for paying a reasonable wage to their employees rather than relying on or hiding behind the taxpayer.

That's exactly what he hoped some private companies making independent decisions would do, well spotted. Conniving bar steward.

Allowing for time of post and possible level of inebriation I see nuance and tone of a post can sometimes be missed, perhaps i should have used :whistle: instead of :thumbsup: ? Saying that it is a strange mindset that views increasing minimum pay by a significant amount as a bad thing. You...

What a bunch of meanies .. on the day the living wage is introduced giving a significant pay rise (£6.70 to £7.20) to many of the lowest paid in this country and "this will make the UK's low pay threshold "one of the highest" minimum wages of all the developed economies, says the Financial...