Redistribution of wealth in the UK

varian

Did anyone really think that Trump, Putin and Marine le Pen had the best interests of the UK at heart?

... coupled with those behind the Leave campaign - No.

Growing the pot has been a failure of most UK governments since 1945 and I doubt any future government can really achieve it.

ronib

Dinahmo do you mean regime change with Labour or Lib Dems or Reform in power? Exactly how might the conversation go with President Putin to halt the Ukrainian war? Will President Putin be persuaded?

Labour of course

ronib

Are we not part of NATO? Does no one speak to each other? I don’t understand why we are so accepting of a prolonged war.

This is wrong on every level.

Of course NATO is discussing the war but when Ukraine is being invaded by a madman what are we to do?

One of Putin's recent ideas is to drop a nuclear bomb into the Yellowstone volcano in the belief that it will erupt. If it did so then North America would suffer from a nuclear winter but such an eruption could not be caused by a nuclear bomb.

Short of assassination there's very little that can be done to stop Putin, other than his generals turning against him or popular opinion in Russia wanting the war to end.

PamelaJ1

I don’t have the answers but I have thought for a long time that the benefit system is part of the problem.
No, I’m not suggesting it is abolished but it should be made easier for those on benefits to increase their income without losing the safety net of the system. That way they may be able to increase their employability and begin to get back to full employment gradually.
I had an employee once who didn’t want a pay rise. It would have taken her over some threshold or other so I do know that it used to happen. It may have changed.

Many of those who are employed and also receiving benefits work for the large supermarkets who realised that they could increase their profits and therefore their dividends by taking advantage of the benefit system. When WFTC were introduced it was in the belief that people could be encouraged back to work but it didn't quite work.

Most of the supermarket workers are indeed part time, some will be on benefits working their 16 hours allowed, many students, evenings, weekends and holidays and regular part time, some only do one day a week.

The attraction is the 20% discount I get on my shopping it easily adds £2 an hour to the wages.

Dinahmo then it hadn’t been worked out properly.
You would think that with the brain power available in the civil service ( if not in government) someone could come up with a solution?

Katie59

Most of the supermarket workers are indeed part time, some will be on benefits working their 16 hours allowed, many students, evenings, weekends and holidays and regular part time, some only do one day a week.

The attraction is the 20% discount I get on my shopping it easily adds £2 an hour to the wages.

The 16 hour rule is no longer relevant with UC.

I don’t believe that Putin will attack America in the way you suggest. I think Putin is adept at playing a good psychological and bizarre game and it’s best to ignore the gameplay.

Above in reply to Dinahmo