How does work solve the cost of living crisis when in-work poverty, when back in 2019-20, 17% of working households were in poverty.
If the answer to that is just get a better job, who will do the crucial low paying jobs that people will avoid?
When companies make record profits and pay their CEOs and shareholders record amounts, while the average worker that enables those profits is scraping by on a state topped up minimum wage, we have a real problem. Pay at the top should be capped by the pay at the lowest echelons of the company.
What does Boris know about work?
Again he shows his total incompetence and take us for fools. Lol
If we stripped MP’s of their expenses (averaging £200K a year some as high as £400K) I think the government would very quickly solve the cost of living as they would have to start footing their own gas and electric bills etc. The system is fucked.
Edit: To clarify I’m not suggesting we strip MPs of ALL expenses, however I feel it is unreasonable for them to claim their utility bills for their homes, when people are already struggling to cover the cost of their own gas/elec/etc.
Further Edit: My point was this: I feel it is unreasonable for MP’s to be claiming for gas/electric on whatever home, for work or otherwise, when the general population is expected to pay extortionate prices for their own utilities.
Prosperity gospel bullshit, if you’re poor it’s because you’re not working hard enough
I am a civil servant with a semi-important job.
I work 8 hours a day and lose two to the commute because only certain staff get to wfh. Sort that out first.
With the remaining 14 hours a day I must sleep, so there go eight. With the remaining six hours I must prepare myself for work, wash, shave, cook, shop, rest, be a partner to my partner, look after my own physical and mental health, administrate my home, have a social life, be ill, work on my own self-improvement, and so on.
We are likely getting a ~~1.1% pay rise~~ 8% pay cut this next year.
Yet again the Conservatives are using the technique that normally saves them, victim blaming.
They don’t seem to understand the severity of the situation facing the country, everyone is a victim now! (nearly).
They seem unable to change modes and become public service focussed. Not really surprising considering all the genuine conservatives were booted out.
Pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstrapsism is the Tory way
Struggling pensioners are going to love this advice.
How is work the answer when employment is at high levels? It’s almost like wages are the problem.
Why is is right that everything goes up by 10% except the cost of labour?
But with the way prices are going up, we’ll soon be working just to support the energy companies anyway you utter twunt.
Work is the solution but the pay gap within companies is increasing? I guess work is only the solution for them at the top, which actually makes sense given who Alex de Pfif cares about.
Looking forward to their next election slogan: “arbeit macht frei”
Meanwhile incoming recession causes mass unemployment in the private sector and the Tory geniuses response will be to cut jobs in the public sector.
Tory wet dream is average people having to work 60 hours a week to afford basic quality of life while accepting any deregulation or concessions their employer puts upon them. Of course he will say this dressed up in just world moralism.
If you feel trapped by all the rising costs, just remember:
Work makes you free
> Boris Johnson hopes to blunt calls for urgent action on the cost of living crisis by stressing that work is the best route out of poverty
> Johnson told the Welsh Conservative conference on Friday: “I’m proud to say that you have to go all the way back to 1974 to find a time when the unemployment was as low in the UK as it is today
It says so much doesn’t it
Says the Eton toff who’s never worked a day in his life.
“Arbeit macht frei” wait he was supposed to use his inside voice for that. /s
How can getting a better job resolve this problem? There are only so many jobs going about that pay better money and it’s now dog-eat-dog so chances are very slim getting something better. Even if you get something better – chances are you work longer hours so it doesn’t make sense to get something better. He is talking shit.
Work will set you free
Ah yes the deserving poor idea.
Straight out of the victorian age.
Yeah because nobody has ever thought of working before
Maybe if the jobs gave us a pay that kept up with inflation but when they choose to give a 2% or less pay increase whilst big companies choose to make the prices go mental… I think something other than working needs to happen like I don’t know.. price caps? Windfall taxes?
The cheeky piece of fucking shit taps up donors for everything from wallpaper to take aways and he comes away with this shite. Tory cunts
Ok so make the millions of poor paying jobs pay better and people will do them 🤡
In a very real sense, work will set you free.
*Arbeit macht frei* as people once said. At least he now only builds concentration camps: the death camps will come, later perhaps not very much later. Make sure you do not look foreign, cover up your EU stickers. If you are roma, run.
They cheered low income workers and hailed them as heroes now they’re telling them to stop being lazy and work harder.
As someone who works from home with a fully stocked fridge of cheese I’m pretty fucked aren’t I?
Dear Boris Johnson,
I’ve worked continuously for the last 20 years, working through promotions and job changes to the position I’m in now. Diesel has risen to £1.80 a litre from sub £1 and my energy bill has gone from £70 to £150.
Why did the cost of living crisis happen despite following this advice for the last 20 years?
Is it because you’re talking out of your arse?
Regards,
A shit-tonne of people.
I already work full time, what more can be expected?
Ah of course! It was MY fault for struggling while working 60 hours a week, i should get a 4th job and then everything will be okay!
We need a JFK/Abe lincoln type scenario w these lot pronto.
Of course he does, those tax raises aren’t there for nothing..
My desire to keep working in the UK is at an all time low. WFH or not. Its just too expensive, too mind numbing and the pay isn’t enough. I’ve done plenty of research on available jobs in my sector and now I’m exploring what my options are outside the UK.
The guy that gave himself and his cronies a £2200 CoL wage increase at our expense!?
How is work the fix when wages have been stagnating for the past decade? How are pensioners and people who already have jobs but are still struggling supposed to survive?
Fuck these people, it’s so demoralising to constantly hear the shit they come out with, but we can’t do anything about it because they hold all the cards.
Certainly, working a normal, full time job *should* be enough to feed your family, pay your bills, have a social life, hobbies, holidays, save a bit each month for a rainy day, and all that sort of stuff. With reasonable levels of benefits for anyone unable to work for valid reasons.
As a wealthy country we also ought to be looking at reducing the working week to 4 days, and even making it possible for one partner to not work if (heaven forbid) they prefer to look after their own children.
The fact that many jobs don’t pay enough to live on without benefits, and the fact that this is getting far worse quite rapidly, is entirely the fault of the government.
He couldn’t tell the difference between work and a party.
No shit. Fucking capitalism, huh?
Seriously, these guys just want slaves.
Not being funny, i work, my wife works.
Our wages aren’t going up in line with the costs, so how the hell do we get out of this other than get second jobs?
How about Tories actually do their job if work is important? While they’re at it how about they actually pay their taxes so young people don’t get tax rises to compensate the losses. Stop sniffing children and start governing the country.
What use is a minimum wage if you are not guaranteed a minimum standard of living?
Nurses and police officers using food banks, but of course the Tory line is work more until your hands are nothing but bone and grime while they sexually assault you. Honestly fuck the lot of them and those who vote for them.
We are at 3.7 unemployment. Below 3 percent and it no longer works as a tool to cool the economy. There are more vacancies than unemployed. 55 percent of benefits go to the pensions another 40 to workers to top up shitty wages. Wages that cannot be increased without the inflationary aspect… So in typical style another schrodingers policy to solve fk all but demonise a tiny percentage for distraction and tabloids soundbites.
Listen, everyone.
He’s not talking to you. He’s not saying it because he thinks it true.
He’s saying it to the people who vote for them. Old people that think everyone that’s young and complaining are just soft and don’t want to work.
He’s saying it because all those people will nod their head, smile to themselves for being that much better than everyone else, and vote Tory.
“Instead of being poor, have you tried not being poor?” – Conservative solution to the cost of living crisis.
Something about work setting you free, hmm? Needs to be short and catchy. Maybe in German.
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How does work solve the cost of living crisis when in-work poverty, when back in 2019-20, 17% of working households were in poverty.
If the answer to that is just get a better job, who will do the crucial low paying jobs that people will avoid?
When companies make record profits and pay their CEOs and shareholders record amounts, while the average worker that enables those profits is scraping by on a state topped up minimum wage, we have a real problem. Pay at the top should be capped by the pay at the lowest echelons of the company.
What does Boris know about work?
Again he shows his total incompetence and take us for fools. Lol
If we stripped MP’s of their expenses (averaging £200K a year some as high as £400K) I think the government would very quickly solve the cost of living as they would have to start footing their own gas and electric bills etc. The system is fucked.
Edit: To clarify I’m not suggesting we strip MPs of ALL expenses, however I feel it is unreasonable for them to claim their utility bills for their homes, when people are already struggling to cover the cost of their own gas/elec/etc.
Further Edit: My point was this: I feel it is unreasonable for MP’s to be claiming for gas/electric on whatever home, for work or otherwise, when the general population is expected to pay extortionate prices for their own utilities.
Prosperity gospel bullshit, if you’re poor it’s because you’re not working hard enough
I am a civil servant with a semi-important job.
I work 8 hours a day and lose two to the commute because only certain staff get to wfh. Sort that out first.
With the remaining 14 hours a day I must sleep, so there go eight. With the remaining six hours I must prepare myself for work, wash, shave, cook, shop, rest, be a partner to my partner, look after my own physical and mental health, administrate my home, have a social life, be ill, work on my own self-improvement, and so on.
We are likely getting a ~~1.1% pay rise~~ 8% pay cut this next year.
Yet again the Conservatives are using the technique that normally saves them, victim blaming.
They don’t seem to understand the severity of the situation facing the country, everyone is a victim now! (nearly).
They seem unable to change modes and become public service focussed. Not really surprising considering all the genuine conservatives were booted out.
Pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstrapsism is the Tory way
Struggling pensioners are going to love this advice.
How is work the answer when employment is at high levels? It’s almost like wages are the problem.
Why is is right that everything goes up by 10% except the cost of labour?
But with the way prices are going up, we’ll soon be working just to support the energy companies anyway you utter twunt.
Work is the solution but the pay gap within companies is increasing? I guess work is only the solution for them at the top, which actually makes sense given who Alex de Pfif cares about.
Looking forward to their next election slogan: “arbeit macht frei”
Meanwhile incoming recession causes mass unemployment in the private sector and the Tory geniuses response will be to cut jobs in the public sector.
Tory wet dream is average people having to work 60 hours a week to afford basic quality of life while accepting any deregulation or concessions their employer puts upon them. Of course he will say this dressed up in just world moralism.
If you feel trapped by all the rising costs, just remember:
Work makes you free
> Boris Johnson hopes to blunt calls for urgent action on the cost of living crisis by stressing that work is the best route out of poverty
> Johnson told the Welsh Conservative conference on Friday: “I’m proud to say that you have to go all the way back to 1974 to find a time when the unemployment was as low in the UK as it is today
It says so much doesn’t it
Says the Eton toff who’s never worked a day in his life.
“Arbeit macht frei” wait he was supposed to use his inside voice for that. /s
How can getting a better job resolve this problem? There are only so many jobs going about that pay better money and it’s now dog-eat-dog so chances are very slim getting something better. Even if you get something better – chances are you work longer hours so it doesn’t make sense to get something better. He is talking shit.
Work will set you free
Ah yes the deserving poor idea.
Straight out of the victorian age.
Yeah because nobody has ever thought of working before
Maybe if the jobs gave us a pay that kept up with inflation but when they choose to give a 2% or less pay increase whilst big companies choose to make the prices go mental… I think something other than working needs to happen like I don’t know.. price caps? Windfall taxes?
The cheeky piece of fucking shit taps up donors for everything from wallpaper to take aways and he comes away with this shite. Tory cunts
Ok so make the millions of poor paying jobs pay better and people will do them 🤡
In a very real sense, work will set you free.
*Arbeit macht frei* as people once said. At least he now only builds concentration camps: the death camps will come, later perhaps not very much later. Make sure you do not look foreign, cover up your EU stickers. If you are roma, run.
They cheered low income workers and hailed them as heroes now they’re telling them to stop being lazy and work harder.
As someone who works from home with a fully stocked fridge of cheese I’m pretty fucked aren’t I?
Dear Boris Johnson,
I’ve worked continuously for the last 20 years, working through promotions and job changes to the position I’m in now. Diesel has risen to £1.80 a litre from sub £1 and my energy bill has gone from £70 to £150.
Why did the cost of living crisis happen despite following this advice for the last 20 years?
Is it because you’re talking out of your arse?
Regards,
A shit-tonne of people.
I already work full time, what more can be expected?
Ah of course! It was MY fault for struggling while working 60 hours a week, i should get a 4th job and then everything will be okay!
We need a JFK/Abe lincoln type scenario w these lot pronto.
Of course he does, those tax raises aren’t there for nothing..
My desire to keep working in the UK is at an all time low. WFH or not. Its just too expensive, too mind numbing and the pay isn’t enough. I’ve done plenty of research on available jobs in my sector and now I’m exploring what my options are outside the UK.
The guy that gave himself and his cronies a £2200 CoL wage increase at our expense!?
How is work the fix when wages have been stagnating for the past decade? How are pensioners and people who already have jobs but are still struggling supposed to survive?
Fuck these people, it’s so demoralising to constantly hear the shit they come out with, but we can’t do anything about it because they hold all the cards.
Certainly, working a normal, full time job *should* be enough to feed your family, pay your bills, have a social life, hobbies, holidays, save a bit each month for a rainy day, and all that sort of stuff. With reasonable levels of benefits for anyone unable to work for valid reasons.
As a wealthy country we also ought to be looking at reducing the working week to 4 days, and even making it possible for one partner to not work if (heaven forbid) they prefer to look after their own children.
The fact that many jobs don’t pay enough to live on without benefits, and the fact that this is getting far worse quite rapidly, is entirely the fault of the government.
He couldn’t tell the difference between work and a party.
No shit. Fucking capitalism, huh?
Seriously, these guys just want slaves.
Not being funny, i work, my wife works.
Our wages aren’t going up in line with the costs, so how the hell do we get out of this other than get second jobs?
How about Tories actually do their job if work is important? While they’re at it how about they actually pay their taxes so young people don’t get tax rises to compensate the losses. Stop sniffing children and start governing the country.
What use is a minimum wage if you are not guaranteed a minimum standard of living?
Nurses and police officers using food banks, but of course the Tory line is work more until your hands are nothing but bone and grime while they sexually assault you. Honestly fuck the lot of them and those who vote for them.
We are at 3.7 unemployment. Below 3 percent and it no longer works as a tool to cool the economy. There are more vacancies than unemployed. 55 percent of benefits go to the pensions another 40 to workers to top up shitty wages. Wages that cannot be increased without the inflationary aspect… So in typical style another schrodingers policy to solve fk all but demonise a tiny percentage for distraction and tabloids soundbites.
Listen, everyone.
He’s not talking to you. He’s not saying it because he thinks it true.
He’s saying it to the people who vote for them. Old people that think everyone that’s young and complaining are just soft and don’t want to work.
He’s saying it because all those people will nod their head, smile to themselves for being that much better than everyone else, and vote Tory.
“Instead of being poor, have you tried not being poor?” – Conservative solution to the cost of living crisis.
Something about work setting you free, hmm? Needs to be short and catchy. Maybe in German.