Great news, yesterday George Osbourn said that he planned to increase the minimum wage to £7: Only the Low Pay Commission has the power to do this so George must be planning to resign from the Chancellorship and apply to work for the Low Pay Commission!
(However, I am not sure that he has the qualifications for the LPC job as he has never shown an interest in the cost of living before!)
Secondly, the one big thing he promised to do 4 years ago was to reduce the national debt which was just under £70 billion at the time. Now it is over £200 billion because George struggled to get the economy going by not having any plan except 'cuts'. Cuts, of course, did little but strangle the economy and throw people out of work. Now that the rest of the world is climbing out of recession, it is thankfully dragging the UK along with it.
On the 15th of January 2014, George voted AGAINST the Labour motion to raise the minimum wage. Then just 24 hours later he changed his mind and announced this empty promise. What is he up to? Well empty headline grabbing of course! Oh dear, the Tories are on the run.
LABOUR wants to see a LIVING WAGE not just a minimum one and will tackle the crisis of the massive gap between rich and poor.
