Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of London today to protest against low pay amid the “biggest squeeze on incomes since Victorian times”.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has organised the marches in the capital, as well as in Glasgow and Belfast, under the banner ‘Britain Needs a Pay Rise’ in the week after NHS workers made their biggest strike in 30 years.
Very nice, I’m sure. I just have the one question, where is the money coming from?
The magic money tree of course…. 🙄
“where is the money coming from?”
LR, stand in front of a mirror.
Look at the mirror.
There you see the source.
It was a rhetorical question of course.
My ‘advice’ was tongue-in-cheek, too. My comment was aimed at those protestors who might also peruse your pages.
I am currently preparing my end-of-year accounts for my accountant to do the tax return. They won’t be getting much out of me. Loose change, frankly, as I do all that I can to keep my money out of the greedy hands of the state and its client voters. Tax avoidance is a moral duty and I take it very seriously.
At least Oliver had decent enough manners to say please. Perhaps if these people asked nicely and then accepted the answer we might give them some priority later. Until then, their current actions are putting other tax payers off. Maybe that’s what Unison want, class war, dissent, revolution, Ebola down your street, third world status – we’re not all that far off, my God this list can go on for ever.
And Oliver was a thin, famished waif. A lot of the landwhales on that march have had too much to eat, not too little!
I suspect the people are pissed off because our lovely politicians just voted themselves an 11% pay rise- that is democracy in action. I have just been awarded a 0.7% pay rise. After tax, it means I can probably buy a happy meal at McDonalds. The New Zealand economy is supposed to on the ‘up’ and is certainly doing better than most Western nations. Even our cousins, the Aussies, are looking on in envy. But they wont come here to work, mind you. Our pay scales are way too low. Probably explains why New Zealand’s greatest export is its people.
I didn’t know Tipton was in New Zealand?
The 1% will cancel their orders for monocles and, er, new spats. Also, there will be a new tax on the bankers, which will in no way make the public sector more reliant on banking as a source of revenue in the future.