PaulW
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4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Out, out, out. For the... · 0 replies · +1 points
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - And then they shall se... · 1 reply · +1 points
I thought science was driven by thoughtful scepticism and not consensus. Remember consensus held back science for hundreds of years, scorned Galileo Glaiei and Copericus amongst others and gave us witch hunts - try getting a job in a science faculty world wide in the 21st century. What has changed?
4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Should Conservative MP... · 0 replies · +1 points
Further I am trying to figure out which of Heath, Major, Cameron or May is the least Patriotic. All are sell outs.
5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - May is miscast as Prim... · 0 replies · +1 points
5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Welby's next stop shou... · 0 replies · +1 points
5 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Michael Tomlinson: I v... · 0 replies · +1 points
She should definitely avoid Social Justice with its association with SJW, Antifa and race/patriarchy and gender issues. Doesn't this MP get it? Concentrate and get it done. The we can discuss minority issues - or whatever this naive MP thinks social justice is.
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Garvan Walshe: Islamis... · 0 replies · +1 points
Unfortunately, no matter how illogical it seems in the age of science and the post enlightenment, the belief in what doesn't exist seems hard wired into our very being. Presumably there are good survival/comfort reasons for religion even if they are of little relevance in the "modern" world.
Sorry, but there is little chance an early victory over conspiracy theory that hands outs virgins to suicidal, idiotic losers.
I fear we will not see out the malevolence of islamism in our lifetimes.
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Corbyn, not Marr, chos... · 1 reply · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - Harry Forbes: The Yout... · 0 replies · +1 points
8 years ago @ Conservative Home - The National Living Wa... · 1 reply · +1 points
Such devices encourage a race to bottom; a target to aim at with goverment acceptance. This was not especially apparent until our borders were knocked down by the EU with the early conivance of the Labour Government.
So, instead of the market setting the rate and allowing for a shortage of labour to naturally set pay, we suddenly had the flattening of "lower" paid job rates with people from the less well paid parts of the EU finding even our lowest rates riches indeed.
Even generally higher paid areas such as drivers in distribution suddenly were being paid minim wage - I saw whole major companies effectively drop their wages to take on eastern European drivers - and who could blame them. But whoever thought the Labour Party was "for the workers"?
The "less employable" members of our national community were now having to compete for jobs with migrants who would accept almost anything.
And then the Idiot Brown further compounded the problem to help out "the poor" by expanding the wretched Tax Credit system. If you were an employer, what a great idea to have the government reduce your labour costs.
The new version will probably get the balance "somewhere handy" as long as the Tax Credit system is reduced to a sensible minimum or preferrably, toally abolished.
What it will do is jack up yet again the pull factor (Cameron - forget brandishing a measly settlement of in-work benefits).
But for the sake over the lower paid - it is a good thing.
It really is a pity we cannot have the labour market (with unions helping mediate the market forces) set the rates but we are lumbered with the open borders - I fear, forever.
So National Living Wage - good. Yes, but only just.