How many claps is 1%?

[SardiniaFox]

I think supermarket workers, most on a pittance, deserve a pay rise more

At least the medical profession know they could, one day, be asked to deal with a pandemic in potentially dangerous circumstances

not sure you could say the same of your average Tescos worker

I agree, but with certain supermarkets making profits out of Lockdown, maybe that is a matter for them?

 

[HughJanus]

Just a guess of course but it sounds like the typical chicanery we get in these matters. The government offer a derisory amount, the shit hits the fan, the independent committee recommended a low but better offer and low and behold everyone goes home a winner

 

[Foxgolfer]

That's £174 million every year though.

But there’s 350 m per week available . Have you forgotten the red bus ?

 

[Foxgolfer]

Just a guess of course but it sounds like the typical chicanery we get in these matters. The government offer a derisory amount, the shit hits the fan, the independent committee recommended a low but better offer and low and behold everyone goes home a winner

Except the government then say the rise must come from existing budgets and some poor buggers surgery is cancelled .

 

[Billsballbag]

Taxes eventually pay for everything and it would be easy and deserved to give nurses (and porters etc) a more generous pay rise.

It would also be accepted by the majority of the electorate.

If the government weren’t so dense they could easily claw back the money by tinkering with GP’s benefits.

Whilst nurses live on an equivalent pittance the average GP now retires at under 60 years old mainly due to the tax rate they’d otherwise pay on theit pension.

 

[Club_B00k_Crutchless]

That's OK then. So let's do things another way...

We have c.187,000 currently working for the NHS - it's simplistic maths but the cost of the failed Track & Trace system at £22bn, would have paid for a guaranteed £11.7k annual increase in salaries for each one of those NHS workers for the next 10 years.

Anyway, all this talk of £22bn is a load of bollocks. It's 37 now.

Need a link or Pen4 will be crying

Test and Trace bill to pass £37 billion after quiet Budget cash injection

The London Economic | Test and Trace will get another £15 billion in government cash, the small print of the Budget has confirmed | Politics

www.thelondoneconomic.com

 

[Glimmer]

I agree, but with certain supermarkets making profits out of Lockdown, maybe that is a matter for them?

while there are working tax credits, and share holders, I think its safe to assume they wont be looking at employees salaries any time soon

There are other professions I could have used - bus drivers, refuse collectors, delivery people, food processors and so on, all in the line of fire for catching covid and none likely to get a pay rise

And then there are the people who have lost their jobs...

 

[Club_B00k_Crutchless]

while there are working tax credits, and share holders, I think its safe to assume they wont be looking at employees salaries any time soon

There are other professions I could have used - bus drivers, refuse collectors, delivery people, food processors and so on, all in the line of fire for catching covid and none likely to get a pay rise

And then there are the people who have lost their jobs...

That's it, exactly what they want. Argue among yourselves over who deserves a pay rise while bunging their chums a load of cash.

 

[Harwichfox]

Perhaps their mate Philip Green the tax dodger could fund it he'd have sell his private yacht though.

 

[Harwichfox]

If we tax the rich tax dodgers we could fund it properly.

 

[Swinster]

We, ordinairy people, have sacrificed our jobs, our holidays, our family and social life and in many cases our health to 'protect' the NHS.

Maybe it is us that deserve the pay increase?

Here here

 

[Swinster]

Who gives a fuck how much it costs.
Johnson was praising them just hours before it was announced that they’re effectively getting a pay cut.
We were short of 30,000 nurses before COVID. I’d imagine a lot more will quit once we e got through this.

Some may quit to go to private health care I grant u that but a lot of them won’t come out of nursing. Completely as they won’t get a job any where else with as good a benefits as the nhs fact

 

[AFCDorset]

If we tax the rich tax dodgers we could fund it properly.

Tax the richest 5% of earners. You know, the 5% that pay 50%of all income tax, those Tax dodgers?

Are you familiar with the Laffer curve?

Cut taxes, stop spending money we don't have.