http://www.cityam.com/1414419679/uk...-popular-in-areas-with-the-fewest-immigrants? "Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini, of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, found European immigrants paid a staggering £2,610 more in taxes than they received in benefits each year between 2007 and 2011." Which is about right, since all the noticeable EU migrants around me appear to be doing all the ****ing work.
You miss the point Mike: It's not about who gets what or what's good for business, it's about the government serving the interests of the people. Wages going down and the cost of living going up is not in the interest of the people.
£100 quid an hour for a British plumber in 2002 was a cost of living expense for the average man. Back in 2002 a £100 expense really kicked my **** in. Now I don't really give a **** (that is looking likely to change as my job is ****ed, mind). It's the average (80% who earn less than 40k a year) person who pays the higher wages for working class jobs in the price of services rendered - once you get a few quid behind you the difference to your actual standard of living between a £50 plumber and a £100 plumber is marginal. People keep bitching about wages being pushed down as if costs aren't also getting pushed down. Now I can get a Harvard University lecturer's entire course on morals, on my Kindle and on Youtube for about £4 all in (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBv2ZGC2VI, http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Money-.../ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=) - 30 years ago that type of Harvard educational access cost thousands of pounds (and the random luck of birth of being born into a upper class American family). As people have had their disposable income freed up because they can download the latest episode of Boardwalk Empire they've started pushing it towards a rat-race of housing, pushing costs even further up. The problem with humans is they want to spend their ****ing money as soon as they earn it - and the headline cost of living increases in the likes of property are because stupid ****s keep using their new spare cash (which they no longer spend in HMV) on ****ey 1 bedroom flats in London, pushing it up for every other ****. Anyway, Up The Ra.
You've got some global capitalist utopian vision clouding your judgement. In the last decade these things have gone up: property (buy or rent), food, petrol, household bills. In the last decade these things have not gone up: wages.
I swear I won't Google this - but has food really went up? McDonalds used to be a birthday treat for me when I was a kid. Household bills (i.e.) energy and fuel have went up because the likes of the 800 million people who have recently been pulled out of poverty in China are demanding a piece of the action. The best Government in the world probably can't magic more energy out of nothing (we're still waiting on cold fusion...). I'm thinking I'm coming across as cocky - but I'm actually terrified. The world is **** and the Universe doesn't care about my over-inflated-ego. There's every chance a yellow man will **** me up the economic arse, but it will almost certainly not be Labour or the Tory party, or the Polish fella down the road's fault.
We need to reduce the global population by 90% to be sustainable me and the boys at the lodge have been given a time frame. New airborn super Ebola will kick in next September.
Mick is the original McDonalds supersize me. Food prices haven't gone up? A Mr Freeze used to be 5p now it's 20p. INFLATION
China's shadow banking sector is something crazy like 75% GDP! Their procession to masters of the world is far by certain. They have a huge property bubble and the government is not allowing failing industries to go bust. U-U-UVF
Nope, good old British PC. Sorry for the delay in replying, had to crank the steam valve and put more coal in the burner.
