We're All In This Together?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue May 29, 2012 10:14 am

Probably true, but the smell lingers. As shown before with expenses fiddling, this is an issue which resonates with the public, rather than just exciting the Westminster village, and they remember it long after. In this case it will be "it's still going on, you can't trust 'em". Sadly many will also say the same about Muslims in general, of course, as there are already too many myths about election fiddles in constituencies with many Muslims.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 9:21 am

Pay freezes and low wage rises are 'new norm', says CBI

Quote:

Workers must face the reality that pay freezes and low pay rises are the "new norm" for companies trying to stay competitive, according to a leading business body.

Almost half of firms intend to push through a below-inflation pay rise in the year ahead, with one-fifth planning a pay freeze, the CBI warns in a new report on Thursday.

The report comes as separate research on Thursday, by Incomes Data Services, shows pay growth has eased with recent high inflation hitting workers' wages "hard".

...

John Cridland, CBI director-general, said: “Businesses have been creating jobs where they can over the past few months, and it looks as though that steady trend of employment growth in the private sector is set to continue.

“But hiring plans are cautious, and pay awards in particular remain low as businesses look to make sure they stay competitive in tumultuous times. We have to accept this constraint as the new normal – we will only be able to afford to pay ourselves more in the long-term by improving productivity and competing more effectively around the world."

Fuck the CBI, what a vile shower of grasping twats. Presumably this 'new normal' doesn't involve pay restraint for our hardworking chief executive overlords. It is interesting to see one of the paradoxes of capitalism in action, though - capitalists need to drive wages down because they pose a hurdle to further capital accumulation, but by doing so they lay waste to their own workers' buying power and so inadvertently condemn themselves to reduced profits, especially now that consumer credit isn't flowing as freely as it once did. These people seem to have a total blind spot when it comes to the fundamentals of demand. I don't know whether it's just ignorance or something more sinister.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7340

Perhaps they plan to market only to Executives, Oligarchs and Eastern Potentates.

And I also say that the CBI must be destroyed.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 11:43 am

Bones McCoy wrote:

Perhaps they plan to market only to Executives, Oligarchs and Eastern Potentates.

Maybe they're planning to offer all their products and services for free, so no need for wages. It's a bold new paradigm.

smod · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 12:50 pm

Reverse the granny tax? Nah, we'll just cut the tax relief on charitable donations in yet another budget U-turn.

http://t.co/9narCnhm

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4311

I thought these measures were all needed in order to fund tax cuts for the obsecenely wealthy, sorry, I mean to cut down the defecit that the previous government left us with.

new puritan · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 1:08 pm

smod wrote:

Reverse the granny tax? Nah, we'll just cut the tax relief on charitable donations in yet another budget U-turn.

http://t.co/9narCnhm

Convenient timing.

edit: apparently the BBC had this as their lead item on the 1 o'clock bulletins instead of Leveson. Job done.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 2:46 pm

As the Beeb presenters noted.

Osbourne: 'My job is to protect Brtiain from the gathering storm'

Me: 'Twat.'

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7340

smod wrote:

Reverse the granny tax? Nah, we'll just cut the tax relief on charitable donations in yet another budget U-turn.

http://t.co/9narCnhm

An excellent week for pasty eating caravan dwelling charity high rollers.

Shit week for Jeremy Hunt.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 7:19 pm

Not shit enough...

Kevin Clash · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:32 am **Posts:** 141

Jeremy Hunt is in it together with David Cameron.

Kevin Clash · **Joined:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:32 am **Posts:** 141

The Red Arrow wrote:

As the Beeb presenters noted.

Osbourne: 'My job is to protect Brtiain from the gathering storm'

Me: 'Twat.'

That was Michael Fish's job, and even he handled it better than Butt Nose.

satnav · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:31 am

ITV news tonight basically spelt out to viewers how the Tories had tried to manipulate the news agenda in order to bury the news about Leveson so i think that can be chalked down as an epic fail on the part of the governments spin doctors.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 12:54 am

We're All In This Together must be one of those things they wish they hadn't said.

It's up there with Back To Basics.

The Red Arrow · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:25 am

And Big Society.

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