sharp teeth views own hates exploitation of poor by those pretending to help them with other people's money sad people with closed minds always block you
@zarahussain999@BritainElects I am worried about the far left greens far right are totalitarian using nationalism and immigration to bring about a totalitarian murderous state the greens are using climate and immigration to do the same
When Rachel Reeves announced her £25bn NI tax hike in October 2024, unemployment stood at 4.3%.
In March this year it reached 5.5% with unemployment among 16 to 24-year-olds reaching 16.4%.
A 1.2% hike to NI was accompanied by the lowering of the threshold at which it starts being paid: from £9,100 to £5,000, directly targeting low-paid jobs.
@AlecMarsh writes that this could be part of a deliberate strategy developed by Torsten Bell's Resolution Foundation to manipulate productivity figures by trying to eliminate low productivity jobs. “Boosting minimum standards for pay and conditions would force low-productivity firms and sectors to up their game or shrink,” stated a 2023 Resolution Foundation report.
Shifting the low paid onto benefits both creates an illusory increase in productivity and expands Labour's voter base. If Labour wanted to actually improve productivity, they would tackle declining public sector productivity. But that would involve a clash with their union paymasters.
@mattyglesias@DanielJHannan We haven’t got a housing crisis we have a population crisis claiming the symptoms of the disease are the problem won’t cure the disease