I don't know why you think the minimum wage is an achievement. A LABOUR government should have achieved far more than that for the low paid. In fact after 8 years of Labour , there shouldn't BE any low paid. The argument about lifting the minimum wage to a decent level is that it makes UK uncompetitive. Yet the low pay is mostly in service sector jobs, and they have nothing to do with export. You can't export a hospital cleaner's job, for instance. And witness the BA thing the other day. 670 low paid workers - mostly asian women - summarily fired for daring to protest , and the union which is supposed to defend them hamstrung by laws introduced by Thatcher and enthusiastically enforced by Labour against the poor. Where are the labour party stalwarts to protect those poor women against such disgusting treatment? Where is the conscience of the labour party these days when they have the means to squash such offensive behaviour? So sorry to disagree Dave, but minimum wage is not an achievement, it is a con to allow this government to pretend it is defending the vulnerable , and it is an obscenity that the party which is supposed to protect the poor should allow them to be exploited in such a way.

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