We should be following Swedish 6 hour working day, rather than the Chinese / US working model

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Yet again more backwards encouragement in living standards. In Sweden they are now beginning to embrace the 6 hour working day as it is better for employees and employees with productivity. Yet our government are trying to push the Chinese as something we should follow, when they have well known awful employment conditions. I honestly thought it was some kind of spoof joke!

the Chinese employ 50 people to milk a cow and claim full employment

there isnt really enough full time work to go round is there, I suppose we can always pay some people to dig holes on the day shift and then another load of people can be paid to fill them in during the night shift.

While we're at it we could pay some people to roll boulders up hills and then watch them roll down again, just as long as we're all kept busy doing something

Someone was on our local radio this morning wondering if Jeremy Hunt was someone she used to work with - in a laundry in Bradford.

I doubt if he'd recognise hard work if it bit him on the arse.

I don't think you can blame ancestry for being not a very nice person. I am descended from aristocracy

I wasn't really - it was more of a lighthearted comment on the apparent feudalism revival.

Nice stealth boast though

I did see this a while ago and wonder if we ought to send it to our government.

But don't most low-paid workers (the group he was addressing) in the US work stupid hours in order to get health insurance? As in, not necessary in a country with an NHS? Is this so we can get used to the US style healthcare system he clearly wants?

hopeful no not at all. Low paid workers here in the US are normally covered by Medicaid. It doesn't pay for them to work too many hours.

I am sick and tired of our Government implying that their own people are lazy, incompetent, workshy wastrels.

Where is their pride in their own country?

somethingonce
Wasn't meant to be a stealth boast. I'm not my nana who thought it made her better than the neighbours.
Just a comment, I'm normally the one booing my distant cousins names whenever we come across reference to them.