Kemi B - the best form of welfare is a well paying job...

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She is absolutely right isn't she? Discussing the triple lock pension challenge and instead focusing on getting people into work. Do you agree with her ? Working 3 or 6 or 9 hours to then top up with benefits isn't the way forward (not including disabilities in here )

So they are getting the money already rather than it getting taxed as inheritance.

There was a thread on here a while back where a few people suggested that anyone unemployed should be removed from their homes, and forced to live in prison like conditions so grim that they would accept any job to get out.
They were serious too.

There are people who think bringing back workhouses is genuinely a good idea.

I have come across countless careworkers in the last 20 years, given turnover is generally 30% pa, where DD1 has been. I can tell if someone is good, the first time I see them with DD1. Where she lives does a 17 day induction course and there are 1,200 staff there. (I don’t know what proportion are care staff). I am sure they have the experience to tell, who is good or not, during that induction?

Nope it doesn't assume anything it is basic economics, employers pay whatever they need to to get the staff. If supply of staff is lower (no mass immigration) wages go up. And if we didn't import a load of cheap Chinese tat (bad for the environment) and our energy wasn't the highest in the world, employers could afford to pay more and products works last longer even if they cost abit more.

That's trickle down economics and pure capitalism. Which has been shown to benefit only a few at the top. We have regulations because businesses cannot be trusted to act in the interests of their workforce. And if you allow that to continue, what you get is crime and civil unrest, which costs more. Pure unregulated capitalism doesn't work. Communism doesn't work. The balance lies somewhere in between.

Including sex work?

I wonder whether they would still be of that opinion if they themselves were suddenly made redundant?