Boris Johnson tells workers to accept pay cuts or UK faces 1970s–style ‘stagflation’

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  1. First it was “don’t ask for a payrise”, now it’s “accept pay cuts”, next it will be “accept job cuts”. General strike now before it’s too late. Austerity is a failed ideology.

  2. Wait what….it’s on **us** now? **We** have to take pay cuts, or it’ll be **our** fault that the economy disintegrates “1970’s-style”?
    Why are the British people swallowing this crunchy manure? We didn’t in the 70s.

  3. Stagflation is a made up term by rich elites who increase their own takings year on year and reduce the spending power of those below them. General strike, NOW. End this farce.

  4. They are petrified of Wage Inflation. When you have Bailey and now him come out with similar comments you know the outlook is bad.

  5. Absolutely! Pay cuts are obviously the very best solution to extortionate increases in utility, food and fuel bills! /s

    What a complete tosser!

  6. To be honest, at this juncture it doesn’t matter wtf he says, when and where he says it and whatever subject it’s on; I find it difficult to accept that *anyone*, from his nearest and dearest to his bitterest enemy has any regard for or even believes a single fucking word that issues from his ruddy, porcine chops.

  7. Same guy that gave covid contracts worth billions to his mates and delivered absolute hourseshit track and trace m? All at the tax payers expense?

  8. Everything is getting a lot more expensive and he wants you to live on less income?

    Do trade unions have any power against this? After the miners strike I can remember Thatcher promising doing all she could to take away any power trade unions had.

    Also look what happens now when people protest. Other people complain about their protests slowing them down.

    We defo have a very hard few years ahead and I feel sorry for the kids who are going to end up trying to grow up 70s style poor like I did.

  9. The 1970s were a time of real terms pay cuts. When Thatcher took over, she presided over an economically disastrous time of inflation up to 9.3% and Britain continued being the “sick man of Europe”.

    Tell us more about how you’re trying to project the damage of your Brexit onto us, de Pfeffel Johnson? We’re not to blame here. Didn’t you run under a “Get Brexit Done” slogan? Own your results, Alex.

    Tory economics: Not even once.

  10. Remainers: if we leave the eu the uk will be flung back to the economy we had in the 1970’s

    Leavers: don’t talk rubbish that’s just project fear!

    Today’s headlines: Boris Johnson tells workers to accept pay cuts or UK faces 1970s–style ‘stagflation

    How can they expect people to except pay cuts when literally everything is going up……. its a wonder that they haven’t taxed the air we breath.

  11. Whilst your pay being indexed to inflation? Without a cut?

    Jog on Bojo. You’re a complete twat.

  12. The [declared] wealth of the 10 richest people in the country if redistributed could give every worker in the UK a one-off bonus of over 5k. Pay rises are not the issue, it is the hoarding of wealth by the 0.1% that holds the rest of society underwater.

    Tax the corporations and tax the rich. No the jobs won’t all magically disappear, there will still be profit to be had and so the large companies will either continue to pursue it or new enterprises will fill the void.

  13. Household budgets were tight after years of austerity. Then a pandemic. Now EVERYTHING is going up in price. Why would anyone possibly want a pay rise?

  14. I maintain that if a society cannot pay people enough, as individuals , to buy the basics of life, then that society has failed. The lowest earners do not stand a chance of dignity right now. It really is a poor show.

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