‘Giving with one hand and taking with other’
FOLLOWING our story about an increase for the National Living Wage in the Autumn Budget, you had your say on our Facebook page.
Trevor Harries: Minus the National Insurance and gas rise it’s a net gain of zero.
Chris Chewie Bentley: If you really want to make a difference drop the price of houses! It’s a sound idea but would never happen as the people who would stand to lose the most are the rich and powerful.
Debbie Rodwell: It’s next April. How are people going to manage with the rising energy, fuel and food costs over winter, especially with the £20 Universal Credit cut?
Michael Raper: What about OAP’s? Diane Walker: That’s more than a pension.
Marlene Anderson: It’s time to empty Parliament.
Chris Roberts: So people working 10-hour days get an extra £5.90 a day, that’s not even enough for a kebab on the way home.
Laura Ellis: Yes great, but tax is going up gas and electric too so what difference does it make?
Pete Hogarth: £380 a week living wage? So why are pensioners getting less than half of that?
We also need to stop all final year salary schemes before they bankrupt the nation.
Andrew Greenwood: It’s not going to make any difference, what goes in one hand goes out in another. It’s all right putting wages up but everything else is going up so effectively not gaining anything, in actual fact probably worse off. Plus the more you earn the more tax they take off you. Government must think we are stupid.
Bert Bryans: My next pension is due to go up by 40p A MONTH. Tilly Rose Cook: Oh great 59p ... meanwhile taxes, energy bills and food prices are all going up. Pretending to do a good thing knowing full well it makes zero difference. Giving with one hand, taking double with the other. Yet still people vote for these Tory clowns. Carl Shirley: If they don’t start putting my bin back where they found it, then I’ll start charging the council.
Ryan Cuthbert: Tell you what... the rich are on fire giving us all that extra money. What will we do with it, so many things with that massive uplift?
Mick Patrick: Gimmick policy to win votes. When costs (like wages) rise, so does the price of the end product or service.
Krissie DK: What a joke! I wonder how much of a rise this lot give themselves.
Richard Freeman: Yes, but places now do four-on, four-off for that wage, which is scandalous when working weekends bank holidays. Lorraine Brittain: Always make out they are giving more ... they give it on one hand, then take it back with the other with rising taxes, so they aren’t giving anything.
Gary Barker: Then everything goes up to cover the cost increase to industries.
Rob Rice: I’d cut the pension and give more to the people who are actually working.