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We've seen what happens when workers organise themselves into unions, it inevitably leads to the workers being used as political pawns which benefits no one. I'm not against unions as I think they can be constructive to a business or industry but it's when politics are involved that the problems...

Maybe I have but I've never abused it!

Where is the incentive for people to better themselves if you pay them just enough to live on without working for it? As a member of the EU, UK wages were suppressed for the working poorest and low skilled by an over-saturation of the labour market by cheap low skilled migrant labour competing...

What surprises me most is the lack of enthusiasm from the left wing posters on here and elsewhere when it comes to supporting and extolling the virtues of the new government's plans with regard to worker's rights. The silence so to speak is deafening with an almost complete lack of debate which...

I'm not so sure ZHCs have been forcing down wages in recent years, arguably that was the result of the EU's economic migration policies which resulted in the UK having a far too abundant supply of cheap unskilled migrant labour which definitely forced down the wages of the lowest paid. Since...

I'm neither right wing nor left so don't have a political axe to grind and I come from a background of working for myself since leaving school in the 1960s. I've been looking at the Labour government's Employment Rights plans and I can't help but think that contrary to what they hope to achieve...

When the Labour government has built all the social housing it needs to meet the demands of society and migrants there will be no desire or requirement for privately owned rental housing which means house prices will plummet due to the market being flooded with properties which were once rental...

I'm not in the 'game' as you put it. The major problem has been the 'greed' of ordinary house purchasers thinking that buying a property was a sure way of making a fast buck so to speak which created the housing bubbles going back to 1988. They're responsible for the strain as you put it on the...

If successive governments of both colours had over the past 40 years built sufficient rental housing to keep pace with population growth and changes in who and why people rent properties then there wouldn't be any housing issues so let's lay he blame at the feet of those responsible. I know this...

For the job in the OP, I'd opt for power as opposed to hand cutting. I have an old DeWalt folding radial arm saw which I bought used many years ago but it got rarely used and languishes on my home workshop wall as I speak as I found that a mitre saw with stand was more practical for taking out...

Of course you can have excellent services if EVERYONE pays their fair share of income tax! But not everyone is! One can't expect excellent services if you're not contributing enough and the top 10% of earners are already contributing over 60% of the revenue to the tax burden so to see service...

So your civilised society is what? A society perhaps where success is met with punitive taxes while mediocrity is rewarded and subsidised? Civilised Society sounds very much to me like a meaningless left wing political sound bite if I'm honest. Up there with other political sound bites like...

You'll never have a fair and just society as long as the lion's share of taxation is paid by so few! Taking an even bigger share of the better off's income to subsidise the failure of the majority not to pay enough tax is a recipe for disaster. It's little wonder that the wealthy will find...

I chose to work rather than choosing education when I was younger. Poverty didn't hold me back and I've never resented anyone who has done better than me or who is better off! How much money others have simply doesn't cross my mind. Life isn't fair, especially when we look at the money low IQ...

Do you think that if Marxism took hold and wealth was redistributed, that would be the answer? My conclusion is that given the propensity of many people to squander their earnings or waste education opportunities is enormous and I'd argue that within 5 years due to lifestyle choices etc, you'd...

How is low wages, long hours and high rents the fault of the successful?

Since when is Inequality or failing social policies the fault of the successful or the wealthy?

I'm not well off but I believe taxes are too low for what we expect government to provide. Unfortunately most people don't think that way and expect those who are already paying the lion's share of the tax burden to pay even more. That is not my idea of a fair society nor is it remotely fair...

If you want a civilised and fair society, punishing the successful with punitive taxes is not going to change things. EVERYONE and not just the rich have got to pay their fair share of the tax burden. Clearly the vast majority of taxpayers are simply not paying enough in tax and expecting those...

I'm by no means wealthy nor a Tory so here's how I see it. The government is clearly spending more than it's raising in tax revenue which means the country is living above and beyond it's means to pay which is patently obvious judging by the amount of borrowing the government has been doing just...