No, I can’t see any problems here.
A permanent furlough system should be baked into the UK economy to help workers see off the impact of future crisis, union leaders demanded today.
The TUC called for a ‘daughter of furlough’ scheme based on Rishi Sunak‘s eye-wateringly expensive Job Retention Scheme.
It argues that climate change, technological change and the threat of future pandemics mean that such a scheme may be required in future.
It argues that such a scheme would lessen the impact on the economy in terms of lowering unemployment, boost recovery through support of retail spending and ‘prevent widening inequalities’, which see women, disabled workers and minorities become the first to lose jobs.
Just one wee fly in that ointment. Who will pay for it?
Surely it should be a ‘non-binary gender fluid offspring of furlough’. How dare they peddle their sexist descriptions in these enlightened days!
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Yeah, economic advice from Francis O’Grady of the TUC. Can’t see anything that could go possibly wrong with that, provided you have a magic money tree or an oil well full of kruger rands to pay for it.
Yes, time to move your remaining funds into bricks, mortar and a tradeable commodity. Maybe something that can be readily bartered / traded. Expect restrictions on anything marketed as ‘tax free’.
Because those of us with a bit set by will be expected to water that ‘magic money tree’, frequently.
“Just one wee fly in that ointment. Who will pay for it?”
You haven’t been paying attention, have you? The rich will pay for it, of course.
Of course. And when the billionaires have all been held upside down until their pockets are empty, who will pay for it?
You reactionaries, you always have an excuse not to do the right thing. 😉
Hahaha.
All billionaires, and their millionaire accountants, have their money, or more realistically, their assets, safely stowed on little islands, somewhere sunny, with cheap staff. Probably in wife’s, all legally tied up. Actually getting hold of them in this country, turning them upsidedown and shaking them would only produce a little bum fluff. Suits that expensive have no room for inelegant fat wallets. The inconspicuous man two steps behind carries the Platinum Card.
Ah, but socialists can’t tell the difference between assets and liquid funds.
What they call furlough is unemployment benefit. The left is very good at using words that do not mean what people think they mean.
That said, it’s the same for the “right” (well, the slightly less left).
It’s worse than that, it’s subsidising businesses to keep people on that they don’t need. At least with unemployment benefit, you are expected to be looking for work, not sitting on your backside enjoying the sunshine in the garden. Okay, I know some people do that anyway, but you get my point.
How can anyone possibly be so stupid and ignorant as to think that we can just go on indefinitely paying people to do nothing?
This is a rhetorical question, right?
Well not really, these people actually are that stupid, that is self evident. As things stand we have our CINO government practicing magic money tree economics anyway. Surely it can’t go on for ever and the longer that it does, the bigger the crash is likely to be.
One wonders.
The reason that people like Francis O’Grady of the TUC come out with these crackpot ideas is because they have never actually had to hold down a real job, or run a taxed business… they have all lived their lives in the comfy world of Union or Council employment, where money is free because you just take it off other people.
In O’Grady’s case I doubt that she even knows the price of a loaf of bread, let alone the cost of her moronic idea
Frances, not Francis. Francis is a boy’s name. Ask me how I know. 😉