What do you like most about our wonderful Tory Government?

[vegster]

There should be Statutory Sick pay which all employers pay, which is £88.45 a week. Sick pay has usually been left to employers in the past and I was fortunate enough to be employed in jobs where it was paid.
https://www.gov.uk/employers-sick-pay/entitlement

In my younger days companies actually paid sick pay after a year or twos employment. If you didn't take the piss you would normally get full pay for sickness up to a period of a month or six weeks. Inevitably, with the demise of the unions and an increasingly greedy business fraternity this sadly is now a rare benefit. My company ( A well known High street brand ) pays sick pay at the discretion of the directors on an ad hoc basis as to whether your face fits or not.

 

[OGH's Libido]

What I like is that they sorted the economy out.

I left in 2009 in fear of spinning my wheels, and now I've been offered a job so I'm coming back to the UK. I trust them to 'do a good job' and I feel confident that they are taking the deficit seriously.

What I don't like about them is that they cut welfare without seeming to be getting after corporate tax. Fixing corporate tax 'dodgers' requires an international (or pan EU) solution but I don't see any leadership from them on that.

So I'm coming home and am seriously thinking about signing up to join the Tories. I'm wary of them, but what's the use in complaining? They are the closest party to approximating my beliefs so I'd like to have a say. How will I sleep at night? I'm going to volunteer in my community. You can have it both ways.

 

[DataPoint]

I'm not Nibbles biggest fan but that really is a patronising response.

You understand this right?

Thought this was a fair response. Sorry Nibbles, but until you replace the deficit with a surplus the debt will grow! It's called arithmetic.

 

[JC Footy Genius]

What I like is that they sorted the economy out........... and I feel confident that they are taking the deficit seriously.

Well if you read many of the tremendously knowledgeable contributions in this thread apparently George Osbourne is a disastrous chancellor but as Britain is still one of the fastest growing economies in the G7 with record levels of employment and steady wage growth you may have a point.

So I'm coming home and am seriously thinking about signing up to join the Tories. I'm wary of them, but what's the use in complaining? They are the closest party to approximating my beliefs so I'd like to have a say. How will I sleep at night? I'm going to volunteer in my community. You can have it both ways.

Good for you, nice to see someone doing something constructive rather than moaning from the sidelines.

 

[Nibble]

Thought this was a fair response. Sorry Nibbles, but until you replace the deficit with a surplus the debt will grow! It's called arithmetic.

Yes. That was NOT the point I was making.

 

[Bozza]

Yes. That was NOT the point I was making.

Difficult to make any kind of point when you blindly copy and paste things you don't understand.

 

[Nibble]

Difficult to make any kind of point when you blindly copy and paste things you don't understand.

I understood it perfectly thank you.

 

[alfredmizen]

What I like is that they sorted the economy out.

I left in 2009 in fear of spinning my wheels, and now I've been offered a job so I'm coming back to the UK. I trust them to 'do a good job' and I feel confident that they are taking the deficit seriously.

What I don't like about them is that they cut welfare without seeming to be getting after corporate tax. Fixing corporate tax 'dodgers' requires an international (or pan EU) solution but I don't see any leadership from them on that.

So I'm coming home and am seriously thinking about signing up to join the Tories. I'm wary of them, but what's the use in complaining? They are the closest party to approximating my beliefs so I'd like to have a say. How will I sleep at night? I'm going to volunteer in my community. You can have it both ways.

What a great post.

 

[BadFish]

I don't know how they got the reputation of competence. Haven't they tripled the national debt in 5 years? With George Osbourne accruing more debt than any Labour government in history, combined.

And all the while people still believe that they are the party of sensible spending, austerity and not spending beyond their means. Thats quite impressive.

They are definitely good at politics and good at persuading the electorate that being good at politics is the same as being good at running a country.

 

[BadFish]

That is true, but does that set them apart from the other parties, who are all self serving and would sell their grandmothers for a majority?

Nope.

 

[BadFish]

Latest report puts it at $759,990. Still a chunk of money, of course. Perhaps being in the top 10% ($68,800) is more realistic for the majority of UK adults.

https://www.credit-suisse.com/uk/en...n-2015-underlying-trends-remain-positive.html

Surely if you look at most people's net wealth it would be in the minuses? Mine certainly is.

 

[El Presidente]

Surely if you look at most people's net wealth it would be in the minuses? Mine certainly is.

All of mine is with the ex-wife.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Surely if you look at most people's net wealth it would be in the minuses? Mine certainly is.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...lth-report-reveals-10-Brits-millionaires.html

One in ten Brits are millionaires according to this report.

 

[beorhthelm]

Surely if you look at most people's net wealth it would be in the minuses? Mine certainly is.

yep, why the obsession with wealth is wrong because there are so many distortions. the big issue seller is likely wealthier than the chap going to work buying a copy on his way, once accounting for debts. only when we get to the far end of middle age does it net positive for most.

 

[pb21]

With the vast majority of the tory government being made up of subservient goons, enthralled to the neo liberal capitalist agenda, yet still able to dupe 'hard working people' to vote for them is quite an impressive feat, even if I don't like it.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Fastest economic growth amongst major developed countries

 

[Soulman]

With the vast majority of the tory government being made up of subservient goons, enthralled to the neo liberal capitalist agenda, yet still able to dupe 'hard working people' to vote for them is quite an impressive feat, even if I don't like it.

Unfortunately the Labour party forgot about the "hard working people" in it's 13 years at the helm, which is why many like myself who voted Labour in 1997 vowed not to vote for them again. Their open door policy which drove wages of our own "hard working people" down coupled with the result of this meaning that making benefits more attractive mean't for many it was better financially to be on benefits than work, and for what.....VOTES that is for what. It is no coincidence that unemployment has fallen because it is now for many more benefiting to be in work.

 

[Leyton Gull]

Unfortunately the Labour party forgot about the "hard working people" in it's 13 years at the helm, which is why many like myself who voted Labour in 1997 vowed not to vote for them again. Their open door policy which drove wages of our own "hard working people" down coupled with the result of this meaning that making benefits more attractive mean't for many it was better financially to be on benefits than work, and for what.....VOTES that is for what. It is no coincidence that unemployment has fallen because it is now for many more benefiting to be in work.

OK well let's see what your boys do then. Nothing so far after 5 and a half years.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Unfortunately the Labour party forgot about the "hard working people" in it's 13 years at the helm, which is why many like myself who voted Labour in 1997 vowed not to vote for them again. Their open door policy which drove wages of our own "hard working people" down coupled with the result of this meaning that making benefits more attractive mean't for many it was better financially to be on benefits than work, and for what.....VOTES that is for what. It is no coincidence that unemployment has fallen because it is now for many more benefiting to be in work.

In statistics, the technical term would, I think, be specious correlation. But more simply put, that doesn't necessarily add up. It is an easy assumption to make, but is not necessarily true.

 

[Soulman]

OK well let's see what your boys do then. Nothing so far after 5 and a half years.

My boys,You will have a job seeing, I did not vote Tory.