When I witness a guy in his 60’s with tears starting to smart in his eyes telling an interviewer that he’s worked all his life and can’t afford to buy himself a pair of shoes, I know that the UK needs social and economic upheaval on a revolutionary scale.
@JohnEdwards33
But you don't want to bother yourself with serious thought UNTIL this happens.
How do employers manage to pay wages?
What happens if a business is making unusually good profits?
What's the average return on business investment?
If a job is simple can wages be high?
@Craig4P
What makes you think I don’t want want to ‘bother myself’ with poverty?
Your an idiot who can’t even be bothered to glance at my timeline.
You need dumping.
So you are.
@JohnEdwards33
Absolutely, the ostensible reasons proffered 2 justify further rounds of austerity are unacceptable. If they can't govern the country properly they have 2 be removed, by what ever means. I expected to be so minded in my youth, but not to be dreaming revolution in my 77th year
@JohnEdwards33
Totally. The state of the UK atm. When there are so many people who need and deserve support left completely. Capitalist cruelty at its ugliest.
@JohnEdwards33
If I witnessed the same thing I’d take him to Lidl and buy him a pair of trainers.
You might wait a long time for a government that is going to provide everyone with shoes.
By the way, ‘working all his life’ tells us nothing about his economic priorities.
@JohnEdwards33
I didn't retire to Thailand but came at 55 without a degree or TEFL to teach English for 6 months as a volunteer. I was offered a permanent paid position within a few months, remarried and made my home here. I took my pension at 65 but unaware till I was 67 it was frozen. Now 71.
@JohnEdwards33
What's tragic as well John, there are full-time working parents who can't afford new shoes for their children too, let alone themselves.
They all need the Tories out.
@JohnEdwards33
I think Western economies are collapsing under the weight of decades of upward wealth redistribution. We simply cannot afford to keep our rich in the manner to which they have grown accustomed.