Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "Labour could increase the minimum wages for non-standard working hours" video.

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Dangerous nonsense. Pubs and cafes are community hubs. They have a social function way beyond their commercial presence.
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@andrewhyde2560 The old nonsense about wages causing spiralling inflation? They don't.
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@andrewhyde2560 No. It's not "fact". People get paid more, they spend more, the economy grows to absorb the inflation. That's not an off-the-wall theory. It's been understood by all credible economists for at least 80 years. If you take the trouble to punctuate your sentences properly so that you sentences are coherent, you might actually learn to structure your thinking so that your opinions are coherent. For example, you're arguing that what happens in Australia, a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world, is a disaster. Does that really make sense to you? Just asking.
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@andrewhyde2560 Australian commercial practices have no relevance whatsoever to the subject at hand but your question is the wrong way around. You should be asking "Would you rather have the standard of living that Australia has or the one that we have?" Australia's businesses make that charge because people will pay it. Why are they willing to pay it? Because they get higher wages! The reason your mate has to make ridiculous hours to earn not very much is because he lives in a low wage economy where all the money goes to the rich where ordinary people can't afford proper prices.
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@andrewhyde2560 There's a good reason why no one's answering your question. It's completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. You seem to be citing an Australian commercial practice and, for no apparent reason, linking it to a minimum wage figure which no one has proposed. To make it even more absurd, you start talking about the UK Labour Party. What have they got to do with anything being discussed here?
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@andrewhyde2560 Why do semi-literate (note grammar and punctuation) reactionaries all seem to think that Richard Murphy is a Labour Supporter? Anyone with the political understanding of a twelve year old can tell that he's not.
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@andrewhyde2560 Are you not aware that you need grammar and punctuation to make words mean something? Accusing someone of not making sense then stringing a series of words together into a meaningless word salad is is about as funny as you can get. Your dribbling nonsense might well be relevant to the Labour Party if anyone could translate it into English. But as it's unlikely that anyone on this web-site supports Labour, we have to wonder why you would want to share it with us.
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@andrewhyde2560 "if someone should get paid more to work out of hours, why on earth would I come out of hours to your house for FREE??????" No. You're talking about two completely different things. If you worked for someone else, they would be paying you. That's the law, it always has been and no one of any political party is proposing to change it. If you're working for yourself, it has nothing whatsoever to do with minimum wages. It's down to commercial practice. For example, if I want building work done, the builder wants the work so he'll come and give me an estimate - or he'll pay someone to do it and work the cost of that into his prices. If I call out a plumber, on the other hand, I'll usually have to pay a call-out fee. It's certainly nothing to do with minimum wage legislation. I didn't say anything about your spelling, by the way. It's grammar that makes your comments unreadable. When we talk to each other, we use pauses and changes in tone to convey meaning. When we write, we have to use punctuation and capital letters to tell people when we're ending or starting a new sentence or phrase.
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@andrewhyde2560 "Who are you or anybody to start reeling off ideas about increasing pay when I bet you employ not one single person." I'm a citizen in a democracy, pal. I have the same right as you to "reel off ideas" as you. Employing people does not give you special rights - no matter how much better than other people you think you are. "Quick question why would it be acceptable for a employer to have to pay someone, but not for you to have to pay someone who is self employed???" Because I am not employing him. I am contracting him. And you answered your own question when you pointed out that he will factor that time into his overall estimate. He is, of course, free to charge for giving estimates. That's his business decision. "British industry has been crushed and forced to move aboard due to a complete failure under the past labour government." I think you'll find that British manufacturing collapsed under Thatcher because her policies favoured finance capitalism. In any case, the following Labour government was no less Tory than she was and pursued the same policies. Blair has fully admitted that. A last thought for you. If minimum wages and unions are so damaging, why have countries like Sweden, The Netherlands and Germany, which have much stronger unions and higher minimum wages done so well, while the UK has declined? They also have much higher immigration, by the way.
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@andrewhyde2560 Tax rates in Germany are similar to those in the UK. They are higher in the Netherlands and Sweden. All three countries have higher unemployment benefits but less unemployment. The UK is one of the least generous in Europe. Unfortunately, your outdated and disproven views have been the ones that have guided the narrative here for the last fifty years or so of uninterrupted Thatcherism. That's why we're declining.
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@andrewhyde2560 "how they can better themselves instead of relying on the government to wipe there back side they voted for brexit after all." Yeah! And how's Brexit going then? Prospering in the brave new world, are you? You live in a fantasy world where Thatcherism worked and the rich make the economy work. It doesn't and they don't. We've just had 45 years of Thatcherism and, under Keir Starmer we're going to get another five. The British economy will sink even further into a low-tax low-spend ditch and you'll watch other countries speed past you - like Poland just did. But you'll will keep keep drinking the trickle-down Kool-aid and blaming everyone else for your failure as a country. Luckily, I live in Scotland and we'll be kissing you all goodbye in the very near future.
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