I am going on a 2 day holiday to Weymouth. It is the first family holiday that I have been on in over a decade. I am slightly tired of politics because instead of sitting down and looking at how money is spent, or how many in work are actually in part-time or temp work.....It's just a load of people throwing mud around. If I wanted to see that I would apply for a job in a Safari park.
I met with a few Conservatives and they feared an SNP/Labour coalition. Honest to God I fear homelessness, worklessness, the future that members of my family face under a world hell bent upon social cleansing. (Jon Snow accused the housing sell off plan as social cleansing for poor people would be flung out of London). If poor people could simply stop being poor they would. We would pick up a job, throw being poor into the "poor chest", and then flog that on eBay to hipsters, thereby enabling us to live like kings and just gawk at the peasants that continue to be poor for the sake of it. (*The previous sentence contained trace elements of sarcasm and nuance.)
I do not drink/smoke/do drugs/ I essentially lead a life that could be described as perpetual austerity. Unfortunately my frugal nature does not benefit our economy because I spend as little as possible. I work as a temp because it is the only work I can get that pays a living wage. We have seen a rise in agency work and zero hours and people that earn a living that way, people like myself. We do not spend as much money as we have no secure source of income. Every time I hear a Lib Dem or Tory spout they have gotten X amount of people into work I want to know what kind of work, how much £££ per hour and how secure are these jobs? Someone working part-time or on zero hours counts as employed. Never mind that during the last few weeks of each month those on part-time work or zero hours are desperate for food and some, not all, resort to food banks.
With over 50 people applying for 1 part time temporary job in some areas, we really need to sit down and have a bloody long think about who is paying for this economic recovery. When people are paid below a certain level they qualify for income support, housing benefit. Basically when work does not pay a decent wage to an employee our taxes are used to help that employee survive. This is why George Osborne's plan has failed for many in work need support and if work was paying a decent wage then those people would not need support, they would be standing proud paying their own way and looking back at poverty as some ghastly distant memory. This is why the Conservatives have not gained the lead they need to win this election because many of the working poor are still waiting for this recovery to happen. Poverty, crappy pay and low hours are not a distant memory, for many of us this is the reality that we live in.
I digress, hopefully if they continue to throw enough mud maybe I could build my own house. :)
Have a great weekend,
Maybe the sea will calm me.
Michael
I met with a few Conservatives and they feared an SNP/Labour coalition. Honest to God I fear homelessness, worklessness, the future that members of my family face under a world hell bent upon social cleansing. (Jon Snow accused the housing sell off plan as social cleansing for poor people would be flung out of London). If poor people could simply stop being poor they would. We would pick up a job, throw being poor into the "poor chest", and then flog that on eBay to hipsters, thereby enabling us to live like kings and just gawk at the peasants that continue to be poor for the sake of it. (*The previous sentence contained trace elements of sarcasm and nuance.)
I do not drink/smoke/do drugs/ I essentially lead a life that could be described as perpetual austerity. Unfortunately my frugal nature does not benefit our economy because I spend as little as possible. I work as a temp because it is the only work I can get that pays a living wage. We have seen a rise in agency work and zero hours and people that earn a living that way, people like myself. We do not spend as much money as we have no secure source of income. Every time I hear a Lib Dem or Tory spout they have gotten X amount of people into work I want to know what kind of work, how much £££ per hour and how secure are these jobs? Someone working part-time or on zero hours counts as employed. Never mind that during the last few weeks of each month those on part-time work or zero hours are desperate for food and some, not all, resort to food banks.
With over 50 people applying for 1 part time temporary job in some areas, we really need to sit down and have a bloody long think about who is paying for this economic recovery. When people are paid below a certain level they qualify for income support, housing benefit. Basically when work does not pay a decent wage to an employee our taxes are used to help that employee survive. This is why George Osborne's plan has failed for many in work need support and if work was paying a decent wage then those people would not need support, they would be standing proud paying their own way and looking back at poverty as some ghastly distant memory. This is why the Conservatives have not gained the lead they need to win this election because many of the working poor are still waiting for this recovery to happen. Poverty, crappy pay and low hours are not a distant memory, for many of us this is the reality that we live in.
I digress, hopefully if they continue to throw enough mud maybe I could build my own house. :)
Have a great weekend,
Maybe the sea will calm me.
Michael
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