Is the government going to do what it argues the poor should do?
I am a carer - working 24/7
Based on the minimum wage - of no less than £5.52 per hour, I should be paid - 40x£5.52 for the basic hours, 40x1.2x£5.52 for weekday overtime, 32x1.5x£5.52 for weekend working overtime.
Total - £775.20 per week! (compared to the £44 paid).
The result is my partner - a manic depressive - has stayed out of mental health units for the past 5 years, compared to 3 sectionings of 6months under the Mental Health Act during the 4 years before, noting New-Labour closed down our local mental health unit!
You are getting something for nothing - is it only good enough to argue that about the poor?
Just as an aside, I'm a PhD grad in Mechatronics! I'd love to earn in the real world - does your policy include a complete reversal of all New-Labours almost complete destruction of engineering? My research department which was tutoring 120 in 1995, when I joined, was preparing to teach 600 a year when New-Labour came to power, and was closed almost to the day that I finished my PhD (as it researches new technologies - compared to New-Labours previously vaunted idea of 'research free universities' as promoted by Gordon Brown circa 2001). After all, research leads to development of new products, leads to new jobs!
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