Who gets to determine “living wage”? What if I WANT to work for £10/hr and the state stops me from doing so? Also, how do you feel about more small business going bankrupt and more people ending up on benefits?
@@brofrombrum8502 ...are you doing this? Or just asking for a friend, who owns a business that cant afford to pay people? Rotten businesses should not be propped up by the state. Industries critical to the UKs future maybe.
@@KiwisDownUnder I agree, I believe all subsidies for medium and large businesses should be cut. Regulation on housing and planning reform could well solve much of the tight squeeze on living standards, maybe then more people will be able to do okay on around £10/hr. We are only propping up the government’s ineffective policies and paying dearly for it. Small businesses will struggle. Am I wrong?
These days, it appears that people have been conditioned to be more concerned about the multimillion-Pound corporations nearby than themselves. That have been profiting from the community via low-wage methods and decreased workers rights
The one that concerns me is employer national insurance, not because I care about employers because I think it will likely result in slower wage growth, something which we have already struggled with for a decade.
Right wind media grooming. We're in a downward spiral. If they don't control govt, they'll get their readers to hate it for them and give the green light to businesses to not pay bonuses, not raise wages etc, and say it;s all the fault of labour. Guarantee nothing will happen to profits, prices will still rise, and regular workers will get poorer. Story of this nation
@@CoolSocialist Tick. When I worked in a corporate, my charge-out-rate was $250 ph. I got paid $50 ph. I thought "there's something wrong with this" and started my own business. I earned twice as much, had less stress and was able to help some under-employed friends.
It's a fair question....too many businesses these days getting away with paying abysmal wages that they themselves could not live on....Supermarket workers for one...how many of them have to rely on top up benefits to top up their wages and yet they rake in huge profits..?? That's where Government could save loads of money paid in benefits...make these corporate companies pay proper wages so people don't have to rely on benefits...You go to work to earn a wage...not claim benefits!!!
I fully agree hazel.They got away with everything for 14 years.This has to stop and this labour budget is a start.All we want is a fair society not run by greedy thugs at the top.
Struggling small businesses are pitted against minimum wage workers when the real enemy is the economic conditions. Landlords squeeze money out of the economy providing nothing whilst small businesses that provide value are punished.
I reluctantly agreee with you, people who don't work, breeding like rabbits, help nobody. But to say don't have kids if oyu can't afford them, that would send our population plummeting within a couple of generations as the vast majority of working people need benefits to make ends meet. People need to be paid properly. Minimum wage should be £20 an hour and if you can't afford to pay it then your business doesn't deserve to operate in a fair and just society.
Early 2000s I was on the books of several employment agencies, and one guy offered me a job with an insulting hourly rate, saying well you can top it up with tax credits.I declined the offer. My point is that many of these businesses delberately offerd low pay, and took advantage of the tax credit system. Time to pay up, or ship out.
It's worse than that - if you can't afford to pay enough that your workers don't also need to claim benefits, then your business is being subsidised by our taxes...
It's funny how those who tend to complain when we talk of raising the min wage are also the same ones who complain that the social security bill is to high.
The answer should not only be no, but should also be any company utilizing foreign labour, wishing to import goods, and doesn't produce evidence that they are conforming to local standards of minimum wage is fined to allow the goods through. It's far past time we stopped this race to the bottom in terms of labour costs and encouraged domestic production of goods. Every time we have to ship something, it's an environmental cost to truck it from the factory to the port, ship it on the boat and truck it again from the dock and to the warehouse instead of from factory, to warehouse, to consumer.
Its not arbitrary, its a gradient. There is s point where you can afford to be in business and a point where you can not or will not. The gov can move that point in either direction. This time they chose to put people out of work and it was not the minimum wage. It was the increases in national insurance.
James I started a business in 2017 and my running costs have gone up around 40 to 50% since then small to medium sized businesses are closing down and their employees are therefore losing their jobs and it’s because the government has a similar view as to the title of this video!
You not considered the title a fact if you're not in a position to pay a living wage you're not in a position to employ people or think you're running a business. The minimum wage is recommended as a suggestion minimum amount .
I run a small care business which cares for vulnerable working age adults with learning disabilities, sensory impairments and autism. 95% of our revenue is therefore through public funding mainly through local authorities. As a result all of this income is pretty much dictated by civil servants’ decisions within these departments with little to no negotiation. The current economic environment has squeezed funding and as a result has meant that living wage increases in businesses like mine are becoming problematic. I used to pay way over the NLW for all of my careers (including ones without much experience or relevant qualifications) but now these staff are only just on a rate above NLW.
it's always quite perplexing how many gammony manbabies seem to hate James O'Brien but continue to watch his show and feel the need to comment each time they do so.
Love how much contempt people without businesses or the capability of running businesses have for those who do go out and create opportunities for people.
How have we become a society where working a full time job means you don't earn enough in wages to pay for basics, needing the government to step in and top those wages up so that you can afford basics?
On the subject of the Southport murders, if there was a possibility of terrorist activity, the police and security services have to do a deep investigation, it isn’t helpful to spread fear of terror, without all the facts, doing that actually helps the terrorist, as in , the spread of terror
this is the same mentality our "friends" across the pond have been pushing (and the rich keep getting richer)... unfortunately this simplistic take leaves out some realities.. now of course some business models should not be in business if they cant pay reasonable wages.. but theres a bigger picture overlooked.. the target is the larger companies who actually can afford (rather than paying their CEOs 20mn a year).. which is fair.. but when they do increase (because they can afford) you then end up with small/mid suffering who actually cant pay (or find employees) while other running costs stay high.. thus the small/mid start to close and you see the "franchising" and consolidation of the business sectors which ultimately will benefit the conglomerates.. Govt taxation on the bigger companies and redistribution of govt funds to help reduce the burden on the small/mid to ensure (1) costs of living stay within a reasonable level so that you dont have this burdening need to keep increasing wages and/or (2) other running costs for those companies stay artificially low to allow for the re-allocation towards paying higher wages.. but that runs counter to the Capitalist animal that has been let loose...
Wages in the US are much higher and employers also pay the vast majority of health insurance costs. So your analysis doesn’t reflect the reality “across the pond”.
@ simplistic take.. you leave out many other issues with living in the US like public transportation.. but to humour your lazy point of health insurance being covered (which is starting to dwindle for small and medium companies as insurance companies are consolidating and not making it affordable for those companies to keep the insurance) even with the health insurance the deductibles are high so the employee is still out of pocket a lot more for medical issues (medicine, copay etc etc).. even with insurance a child birth (because small and medium companies can’t afford the platinum platinum plans that bigger companies can offer) still sets you back thousands and thousands of dollars.. Try again
Minimum Wage is a Numbers Game. It should be atleast a Living wage in most parts of the country with a little extra for fun. At best it will be enaugh to make it possible to save up to ownership of a decent flat over 30 years.
1:17:02 this has never been me, I suspect I'm somewhere on the spectrum. I get deeply uncomfortable when I have to have short & basic conversations with coworkers. I can have brief interactions where we talk shop, but I literally start sweating when someone walks into my office to have a friendly chat.
It's always the same minimum wage goes up i can't afford that .well lets keep low paid workers as low as possible. That's been the story for me all my working life. I am a HGV driver. Pension poor because of low pay. Done my best . I an 64 years old and 2years to retirement.
Ian Dale a labour broadcaster? He briefly left LBC to stand as a Tory MP. Until video came out of him previously voicing his contempt for the constituency. Sort of makes him more qualified to stand as a Tory.
Instead of talking bout how difficult it is for an employer to stay open and grow and pay people enough to have a life while they make the money for the owner, why don’t we address the elephant in the room? Capitalism requires either a massive overhaul or outright replacement? I mean, none of this conversation even allows room for environmental catastrophe, massive inequality, abject poverty in the vicinity of unthinkable wealth, political influence of concentrated capital, outsourcing of consequences to the global south, war over resources or anything else… You guys call these conversations “undergraduate”? Maybe the education is indoctrination?
Does this privately educated, middle class simpleton actually understand business are struggling with rising costs also. We didn't need tax increases of we scrapped net zero, foreign aid and funding foreign conflicts. From 2024 to 2029 that's £40 to £50 billion saved from net zero and depending on yearly budgets £40 to £60 billion saved from foreign aid which includes £3 billion a year for Ukraine. Labour is just as bad as the Tories, in fact worse.
Robinson didn't almost jeopardise the trial - the trial was over. The scumbags were going in for sentencing. Not the only error so far in this monologue.
If the trial was over, what was the point of him "reporting" on it? You do know sentences can be appealed, don't you? Grounds for such an appeal could include if the defendant feels there was outside influence which led the Judge to give to harsh a sentence.
@@mickreaddin4979 Nope. It went to appeal with UKs top judge and he said the entire conviction was unsound and released Robinson from prison. If you want to argue with that please don't as they are the facts rather than an uninformed opinion.
@@mickreaddin4979 PS you didn't even read my comment properly - THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED. THE SENTENCE HAD ALREADY BEEN DECIDED AND THEY WERE GOING IN TO BE TOLD WHAT IT WAS. You can't prejudice a trial that is over! Appeal is entirely separate.
@@spooky1304 It seems you didn't read my reply properly, try again. Why was Robinson "reporting" on a trial that was over. And I'm not talking about the trial of Robinson, you seem to be getting yourself confused. (And can you please stop shouting?)
@@mickreaddin4979 Here's what you said: 'Grounds for such an appeal could include if the defendant feels there was outside influence which led the Judge to give to harsh a sentence.' Completely uninformed and wrong. Why was Robinson reporting..? Probably because he felt like it..?
Honestly, as an American, I’m pretty sure something like PMQ’s would have only served to make Trump more popular, especially in his first presidency. Trump’s greatest strengths are his charisma and his ‘I don’t give a f***’ attitude. His supporters absolutely love when he goes on unhinged rants because it drives people like me(who actually care about facts) insane. He undoubtedly would have just ‘owned the libs’ every week and moved on with his life.
When you put wages up without changing tax thresholds to match it is that more people will end up paying more tax so the extra few quid on their earnings just go back to the government it’s a clever way of making it seem like they are helping when actually they are not.
I'm sure you meant a percentage of the extra few quid of their earnings just goes back to the government. Kinda sounded like you meant all of it did but we'll forgive this unintentional omission.
People should be paid on how productive they are. Just because a company sets an arbitrary figure for the 'living wage', it doesn't necessarily mean that a business can afford to pay it for the whole workforce. I've seen it myself, there unproductive workers wages are subsidised by the productive hardworker who deserve a higher wage, but don't get the raise they deserve because it's gone to meet unproductive person's 'living wage'.
If the company can’t pay its staff living wages it is by definition not a viable company. The other “running costs” are also a requirement of running a company, none of these costs are negotiable, nor is exploiting workers for your own gain. All running costs are the bar that is set to opening a company, this stuff isn’t difficult, you just feel some entitlement I can’t begin to understand to profit on the hard work of people you can’t provide a liveable income to, sorry, not right.
@@mattsharpey361A living wage is an arbitrary figure that's an extremely blunt too. A 'living wage' in London would be different to a small town. Add this to the employer's NI contribution increase and business rates increase, it's actually going to have overall negative effect. Also remember employers contribute to the employees pensions, so what is seen by some a s a small increase here and there, is actually a big increase in costs for a business. It's likely that businesses will take off these extra costs from any potential pay increases for employees! I'm saying this as a working employee (not a business owner).
@ these are all costs of owning a business, if you can’t meet them, your business is not viable right? As for minimum wage being a blunt instrument, no minimum wage in any western nation is even close to a liveable wage. You have been lied to, if you are indeed an employee you’re arguing FOR your own oppression. I will never understand how people can’t understand these basic concepts.
@@mattsharpey361 No I understand the basic concepts (I've got a degree in accountancy & finance) and studied people like Thomas Sowell, Austrian school of economy etc The true minimum wage is £0 (unemployment), or the big multinationals with move their production to 3rd world countries. Look at supermarkets and fast food chains with their self scan checkouts. A minimum wage is just a sticky plaster for high immigration (suppresses wages) and increase in rents (higher demand for accommodation). You are conflating the big multinational companies that can absorb the increase in cost, with regular small to medium size businesses which make up the majority of businesses in this country.
@@harminderkambow9642When you have a concept of a business/company, many factors are brought into play when considering the viability/sustainability of said business/company. Factors which include: cost of materials for the making of the end product, building/renting a premises to house the business, energy, and wages for workers needed to assemble/handle the final product etc etc. If paying for any of the individual factors means you're making a loss from selling your product or just breaking even, then the business isn't a viable business. However, if you're prepared to pay the very minimum the law allows you too and in turn allow the government to make up the shortfall of an actual living wage, *you* may be making a profit from exploiting your workers *and* the government. Which makes you a parasite.
James has somehow managed to blame the Labour budget decisions on the tories. This left wing propaganda from LBC and James is truly pitiful. It’s okay to raise taxes as long as it’s labour then James?
Yes because it is the tories fault they left such a mess. There was plenty of ways the tories could have recouped some of the money spent. They did none.
You should not legislate for this small business cannot compete with the multi national companies who get tax concessions. profit from people stuck in the benefits prison .whilst small business is hammered into bankruptcy it should be a simple contract you work for an hour and I will pay you what we agree beforehand both sides are happy and able to negotiate a business will pay much more to a worker who delivers and less to a lazy worker just like the subcontractors do
The year is 2040 minimum wage is at £112p/h. Amazon has monopolised everything... James O'Brien: ' If you can't pay your staff minimum wage then maybe you shouldn't have a business'. 😂😂
@@twisteddancer7773 "No choice" because there was video evidence of him taking part in a riot. Serves him right. What was the reaction on the right when David Gilmore's son was filmed swinging from the Cenotaph? "Lock him up". And he was, although not for that particular incident.
So now 18 year olds can use their mobile phones whilst working and be paid £10 an hour.....call me cynical but if I was an employer I would ensure that employee's work is monitored to reflect it......ex apprentice who initially was on £5 a week........also I'm of the opinion that experience counts so older workers bring more to the work experience.
...and 60 year olds can hang around the coffee machine gossiping about last night's game whilst the company is paying into their pension funds. I'm sure if you were an employer, there would be cameras everywhere and workers would only be allowed one comfort break per shift - 5 mins max, one sheet per person per visit.
Sit down grandpa, you don’t own your staff, you enter into a business transaction with them. If you’re not happy with their productivity, you can and do sack them, if you are happy with it you keep them employed-loved and must pay a wage they can have a decent standard of living on. It’s not difficult to understand, you’re just horribly propagandised.
So the counter terrorist police searched his house in late July and found a PDF of a terrorist nature and shared this with the government when? Furthermore the Home office tweeted an image of those at the Rotherham Hotel stating that they will arrest all the criminals. So they are able to prejudge that crime yet the South port attacker it was a matter of allowing the process to proceed. Is that not two tier?
When a suspected criminal claims to be innocent, a police investigation then takes place. The investigation then turns up *evidence* which proves one way or the other. The PDF sounds like military training/educational material. Should a civilian have it? Probably not. Should it be available for civilians to download? Probably not. Many of those arrested for the rioting, either filmed themselves doing it or were filmed doing it by others. If a person is on film committing a crime, it's not beyond the reasons of probability to suggest they've committed a crime.
@mickreaddin4979 did the home office tweet about Southport attacker as they did with the Hotel at Rotherham. The answer is no Thus the two are treated differently. Both parties are presumed innocent.
It’s ok for a millionaire to say that 😂 businesses has to put their products up significantly to pay for the rise in their labour force .. thus all across uk the price of every product will go up significantly but wages won’t .. thus the person still loses out significantly
@emilymccartney1593 Why was there no footage of the Southport alleged attacker going into court. Historically I recall when there would be footage of the prison van at least. If you do not want conspiracies to thrive then the issues that arise should be addressed. B t w he is not my cult leader I am more of a Jeremy Corbyn supporter
@@emilymccartney1593 normally they would show the prison van of the perpetrator. The media would be falling over themselves providing images. But no not this time. Conspiracies can be extinguished when things are brought in to the light
Re: Sunak's final song. I don't know but in a better alternate universe all future leader debates are a battle of songs. It would really show their imagination and give me something different to judge them on (taste). The danger is we might get Oasis, Ed Sheeran or Adele as the PM (insert names as personally appropriate). Although Oasis as the government would be entertaining at least. It'd be like Liz Truss with swearing.
No nation has ever taxed itself to prosperity. Rachel Reeves/UK Labor may want to consider the following. During the last 15 years the Eurozone/UK economies grew by around 6%, the corresponding growth in the US economy in the same time period was 82%. There's a reason why all the globally dominant hi-tech companies are US-owned, every last one of them. Trump/Vance, 2024
Aside from the entire postwar period where the wealthiest were taxed at rates around 90% Weird how everything started to decline at the same time people like Thatcher and Reagan decreased it
@@trevormannsfield Then go for it, raise taxes on the wealthiest to 90%, do it and see what happens. Currently the top 1% of earners typically pay much more in taxes than many other Americans. Nationwide, this group contributes 45% of total personal income taxes collected.
@@landonmiller6943 I'll never understand the instinct to defend a class of people that you will never be a part of. Are you still secretly under the impression that one day you'll be a billionaire?
@@trevormannsfield Was born and raised in the UK, left the UK for the US a few days after I graduated with my PhD and have done very well, much better than was possible in the UK, that's for sure. Here, Americans admire and respect success, they don't indulge in the politics of envy. Cheers from Texas😁
If your business "can't afford" to pay its workers a living wage, you don't have a business model, you have an exploitation model.
or you're struggling in a knackered economy?
Who gets to determine “living wage”? What if I WANT to work for £10/hr and the state stops me from doing so? Also, how do you feel about more small business going bankrupt and more people ending up on benefits?
and you are small enough to exploit someone in Asia and open the factory there and just import stuff back to UK.
@@brofrombrum8502 ...are you doing this? Or just asking for a friend, who owns a business that cant afford to pay people?
Rotten businesses should not be propped up by the state. Industries critical to the UKs future maybe.
@@KiwisDownUnder I agree, I believe all subsidies for medium and large businesses should be cut. Regulation on housing and planning reform could well solve much of the tight squeeze on living standards, maybe then more people will be able to do okay on around £10/hr. We are only propping up the government’s ineffective policies and paying dearly for it.
Small businesses will struggle. Am I wrong?
These days, it appears that people have been conditioned to be more concerned about the multimillion-Pound corporations nearby than themselves. That have been profiting from the community via low-wage methods and decreased workers rights
"Won't someone think of the poor corporations?!" [Insert hang-wringing]
The one that concerns me is employer national insurance, not because I care about employers because I think it will likely result in slower wage growth, something which we have already struggled with for a decade.
@@cup1966wow I agree. This is something people don't understand.
This is going to hurt employees more than people realise....
Right wind media grooming. We're in a downward spiral. If they don't control govt, they'll get their readers to hate it for them and give the green light to businesses to not pay bonuses, not raise wages etc, and say it;s all the fault of labour. Guarantee nothing will happen to profits, prices will still rise, and regular workers will get poorer. Story of this nation
*If you can't pay the living wage, you shouldn't be in business. Workers deserve better.*
Yep. I pay my subbies half of what I charge and it results in loyalty and diligent workers.
@andrewstevenson118 It also increases productivity and employee retention, it's a win win.
@@CoolSocialist Tick. When I worked in a corporate, my charge-out-rate was $250 ph. I got paid $50 ph. I thought "there's something wrong with this" and started my own business. I earned twice as much, had less stress and was able to help some under-employed friends.
Facts
He made his money ,,he doesn't care about the workers
It's a fair question....too many businesses these days getting away with paying abysmal wages that they themselves could not live on....Supermarket workers for one...how many of them have to rely on top up benefits to top up their wages and yet they rake in huge profits..?? That's where Government could save loads of money paid in benefits...make these corporate companies pay proper wages so people don't have to rely on benefits...You go to work to earn a wage...not claim benefits!!!
I fully agree hazel.They got away with everything for 14 years.This has to stop and this labour budget is a start.All we want is a fair society not run by greedy thugs at the top.
Can't do that, then the Supermarkets would move abroad.😉
I also agree. I thought of Amazon workers, too, when reading your comment
Too right.
All of the major UK supermarkets pay more than the minimum wage.
Struggling small businesses are pitted against minimum wage workers when the real enemy is the economic conditions. Landlords squeeze money out of the economy providing nothing whilst small businesses that provide value are punished.
24 hour news is a huge reason why these people with no lives need constant stimulation from news that angers them.
No. You should not be able to pay people less than they need to live on.
Stop looking at workers as numbers that only produce money, these workers have families, rent to pay, etc.
Equally. If you can't afford to pay for your own kids, you shouldn't have any. Here come the whataboutery! 😂😅
I reckon a lot of people agree with you on that.
I reluctantly agreee with you, people who don't work, breeding like rabbits, help nobody. But to say don't have kids if oyu can't afford them, that would send our population plummeting within a couple of generations as the vast majority of working people need benefits to make ends meet. People need to be paid properly. Minimum wage should be £20 an hour and if you can't afford to pay it then your business doesn't deserve to operate in a fair and just society.
@@theauldscientist £20 an hour is a bit unrealistic, but it absolutely should be better than it is.
@theauldscientist so what. We might have a better quality of humans. With some ambition. Saying that. Work hard and they take it all away.
@@supercadccSo what 16 then😂 the minimum wage is almost 13 quid lol.
Thank you James O'Brien
Early 2000s I was on the books of several employment agencies, and one guy offered me a job with an insulting hourly rate, saying well you can top it up with tax credits.I declined the offer. My point is that many of these businesses delberately offerd low pay, and took advantage of the tax credit system. Time to pay up, or ship out.
It's worse than that - if you can't afford to pay enough that your workers don't also need to claim benefits, then your business is being subsidised by our taxes...
It's funny how those who tend to complain when we talk of raising the min wage are also the same ones who complain that the social security bill is to high.
I have been on £29k for the last 11 years and going on to 12 years. Our bosses need to put our wages up to £31k we not asking for much
“Kindness, decency, and tolerance” has always been the British way? 😯 😂
The answer should not only be no, but should also be any company utilizing foreign labour, wishing to import goods, and doesn't produce evidence that they are conforming to local standards of minimum wage is fined to allow the goods through. It's far past time we stopped this race to the bottom in terms of labour costs and encouraged domestic production of goods. Every time we have to ship something, it's an environmental cost to truck it from the factory to the port, ship it on the boat and truck it again from the dock and to the warehouse instead of from factory, to warehouse, to consumer.
Its not arbitrary, its a gradient. There is s point where you can afford to be in business and a point where you can not or will not. The gov can move that point in either direction. This time they chose to put people out of work and it was not the minimum wage. It was the increases in national insurance.
The minimum wage needs to be the living wage and should be regularly increased to match the increases from yearly inflation.
A plumber on minimum wage? Give me a break!
Only if he's a apprentice
The kind of simplistic comment that could only come from someone who's never been an employer.
Close all these businesses down and make taxpayers fund them on benefits. That will work.👍
Every penny of minimum wage increase normally is spent locally !
James I started a business in 2017 and my running costs have gone up around 40 to 50% since then small to medium sized businesses are closing down and their employees are therefore losing their jobs and it’s because the government has a similar view as to the title of this video!
@ I’m in the UK mate!
You not considered the title a fact if you're not in a position to pay a living wage you're not in a position to employ people or think you're running a business. The minimum wage is recommended as a suggestion minimum amount .
So only the super rich can own a successful business, nice
@@thomasbestwick7038only the super rich can afford to pay people enough to live on?
Blame your corporate competitors, not the people doing the work in your business.
I run a small care business which cares for vulnerable working age adults with learning disabilities, sensory impairments and autism.
95% of our revenue is therefore through public funding mainly through local authorities. As a result all of this income is pretty much dictated by civil servants’ decisions within these departments with little to no negotiation.
The current economic environment has squeezed funding and as a result has meant that living wage increases in businesses like mine are becoming problematic. I used to pay way over the NLW for all of my careers (including ones without much experience or relevant qualifications) but now these staff are only just on a rate above NLW.
OBrian should be on a minimum wage as he uses minimum amount of his brain!
Maximum amount of his vocal chords that he loves so much to hear.
He must very clever then.
@@edwinfloweron a radio show, who knew. Thanks for telling me how radio works.
You sound like you're triggered by him but cannot make a counter argument.
it's always quite perplexing how many gammony manbabies seem to hate James O'Brien but continue to watch his show and feel the need to comment each time they do so.
U really think your struggling local pub can afford these wages?
What about Southport !?
call yourselves journalists'if so do your job...
Love how much contempt people without businesses or the capability of running businesses have for those who do go out and create opportunities for people.
How have we become a society where working a full time job means you don't earn enough in wages to pay for basics, needing the government to step in and top those wages up so that you can afford basics?
Maybe not, but that is little consultation to the people who then would have no job at all.
In Glasgow 'how' means 'why?'
On the subject of the Southport murders, if there was a possibility of terrorist activity, the police and security services have to do a deep investigation, it isn’t helpful to spread fear of terror, without all the facts, doing that actually helps the terrorist, as in , the spread of terror
It's just a terror law, obviously it's investigated.
If you cant afford to raise four kids....Should you be a parent. Take your time James.......
this is the same mentality our "friends" across the pond have been pushing (and the rich keep getting richer)... unfortunately this simplistic take leaves out some realities.. now of course some business models should not be in business if they cant pay reasonable wages.. but theres a bigger picture overlooked.. the target is the larger companies who actually can afford (rather than paying their CEOs 20mn a year).. which is fair.. but when they do increase (because they can afford) you then end up with small/mid suffering who actually cant pay (or find employees) while other running costs stay high.. thus the small/mid start to close and you see the "franchising" and consolidation of the business sectors which ultimately will benefit the conglomerates..
Govt taxation on the bigger companies and redistribution of govt funds to help reduce the burden on the small/mid to ensure (1) costs of living stay within a reasonable level so that you dont have this burdening need to keep increasing wages and/or (2) other running costs for those companies stay artificially low to allow for the re-allocation towards paying higher wages..
but that runs counter to the Capitalist animal that has been let loose...
Wages in the US are much higher and employers also pay the vast majority of health insurance costs. So your analysis doesn’t reflect the reality “across the pond”.
@ simplistic take.. you leave out many other issues with living in the US like public transportation.. but to humour your lazy point of health insurance being covered (which is starting to dwindle for small and medium companies as insurance companies are consolidating and not making it affordable for those companies to keep the insurance) even with the health insurance the deductibles are high so the employee is still out of pocket a lot more for medical issues (medicine, copay etc etc).. even with insurance a child birth (because small and medium companies can’t afford the platinum platinum plans that bigger companies can offer) still sets you back thousands and thousands of dollars..
Try again
Minimum Wage is a Numbers Game. It should be atleast a Living wage in most parts of the country with a little extra for fun. At best it will be enaugh to make it possible to save up to ownership of a decent flat over 30 years.
1:17:02 this has never been me, I suspect I'm somewhere on the spectrum. I get deeply uncomfortable when I have to have short & basic conversations with coworkers. I can have brief interactions where we talk shop, but I literally start sweating when someone walks into my office to have a friendly chat.
It's always the same minimum wage goes up i can't afford that .well lets keep low paid workers as low as possible. That's been the story for me all my working life. I am a HGV driver. Pension poor because of low pay. Done my best . I an 64 years old and 2years to retirement.
LBC The Labour Broadcasting Corporation.
Ferrari loooooves labor
Ian Dale a labour broadcaster? He briefly left LBC to stand as a Tory MP. Until video came out of him previously voicing his contempt for the constituency. Sort of makes him more qualified to stand as a Tory.
Yep those famous lefties like Nick Ferrari and Ian Dale
Little jimmy wrote a book, called it how to be right about everything. Guessing thats irony 😂😂 it didnt do well
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I would also say it’s very insightful and shows the truth from the lies
Instead of talking bout how difficult it is for an employer to stay open and grow and pay people enough to have a life while they make the money for the owner, why don’t we address the elephant in the room? Capitalism requires either a massive overhaul or outright replacement? I mean, none of this conversation even allows room for environmental catastrophe, massive inequality, abject poverty in the vicinity of unthinkable wealth, political influence of concentrated capital, outsourcing of consequences to the global south, war over resources or anything else… You guys call these conversations “undergraduate”? Maybe the education is indoctrination?
Does this privately educated, middle class simpleton actually understand business are struggling with rising costs also. We didn't need tax increases of we scrapped net zero, foreign aid and funding foreign conflicts. From 2024 to 2029 that's £40 to £50 billion saved from net zero and depending on yearly budgets £40 to £60 billion saved from foreign aid which includes £3 billion a year for Ukraine. Labour is just as bad as the Tories, in fact worse.
Continuation of the 5p fuel duty cut ?
The Sainsburys et al still haven't passed this cut from start to date - yet ?
Robinson didn't almost jeopardise the trial - the trial was over. The scumbags were going in for sentencing. Not the only error so far in this monologue.
If the trial was over, what was the point of him "reporting" on it? You do know sentences can be appealed, don't you? Grounds for such an appeal could include if the defendant feels there was outside influence which led the Judge to give to harsh a sentence.
@@mickreaddin4979 Nope. It went to appeal with UKs top judge and he said the entire conviction was unsound and released Robinson from prison.
If you want to argue with that please don't as they are the facts rather than an uninformed opinion.
@@mickreaddin4979 PS you didn't even read my comment properly - THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN CONVICTED. THE SENTENCE HAD ALREADY BEEN DECIDED AND THEY WERE GOING IN TO BE TOLD WHAT IT WAS.
You can't prejudice a trial that is over! Appeal is entirely separate.
@@spooky1304 It seems you didn't read my reply properly, try again. Why was Robinson "reporting" on a trial that was over. And I'm not talking about the trial of Robinson, you seem to be getting yourself confused. (And can you please stop shouting?)
@@mickreaddin4979 Here's what you said:
'Grounds for such an appeal could include if the defendant feels there was outside influence which led the Judge to give to harsh a sentence.'
Completely uninformed and wrong.
Why was Robinson reporting..? Probably because he felt like it..?
Honestly, as an American, I’m pretty sure something like PMQ’s would have only served to make Trump more popular, especially in his first presidency. Trump’s greatest strengths are his charisma and his ‘I don’t give a f***’ attitude. His supporters absolutely love when he goes on unhinged rants because it drives people like me(who actually care about facts) insane. He undoubtedly would have just ‘owned the libs’ every week and moved on with his life.
So True!! Facts and expertise don’t get the mob on their feet, look at MSG rally 😮
When you put wages up without changing tax thresholds to match it is that more people will end up paying more tax so the extra few quid on their earnings just go back to the government it’s a clever way of making it seem like they are helping when actually they are not.
I'm sure you meant a percentage of the extra few quid of their earnings just goes back to the government. Kinda sounded like you meant all of it did but we'll forgive this unintentional omission.
@ did you no read what I wrote correctly?
@@stefanbroughton5895 yes, did you type what you meant correctly?
@@saxman1276 nope what I wrote was correct I just guess your not capable of understanding clear facts.
You've gone full Partridge, reality is now comedy.
People should be paid on how productive they are.
Just because a company sets an arbitrary figure for the 'living wage', it doesn't necessarily mean that a business can afford to pay it for the whole workforce.
I've seen it myself, there unproductive workers wages are subsidised by the productive hardworker who deserve a higher wage, but don't get the raise they deserve because it's gone to meet unproductive person's 'living wage'.
If the company can’t pay its staff living wages it is by definition not a viable company. The other “running costs” are also a requirement of running a company, none of these costs are negotiable, nor is exploiting workers for your own gain. All running costs are the bar that is set to opening a company, this stuff isn’t difficult, you just feel some entitlement I can’t begin to understand to profit on the hard work of people you can’t provide a liveable income to, sorry, not right.
@@mattsharpey361A living wage is an arbitrary figure that's an extremely blunt too.
A 'living wage' in London would be different to a small town.
Add this to the employer's NI contribution increase and business rates increase, it's actually going to have overall negative effect.
Also remember employers contribute to the employees pensions, so what is seen by some a s a small increase here and there, is actually a big increase in costs for a business.
It's likely that businesses will take off these extra costs from any potential pay increases for employees!
I'm saying this as a working employee (not a business owner).
@ these are all costs of owning a business, if you can’t meet them, your business is not viable right? As for minimum wage being a blunt instrument, no minimum wage in any western nation is even close to a liveable wage. You have been lied to, if you are indeed an employee you’re arguing FOR your own oppression. I will never understand how people can’t understand these basic concepts.
@@mattsharpey361 No I understand the basic concepts (I've got a degree in accountancy & finance) and studied people like Thomas Sowell, Austrian school of economy etc
The true minimum wage is £0 (unemployment), or the big multinationals with move their production to 3rd world countries.
Look at supermarkets and fast food chains with their self scan checkouts.
A minimum wage is just a sticky plaster for high immigration (suppresses wages) and increase in rents (higher demand for accommodation).
You are conflating the big multinational companies that can absorb the increase in cost, with regular small to medium size businesses which make up the majority of businesses in this country.
@@harminderkambow9642When you have a concept of a business/company, many factors are brought into play when considering the viability/sustainability of said business/company. Factors which include: cost of materials for the making of the end product, building/renting a premises to house the business, energy, and wages for workers needed to assemble/handle the final product etc etc. If paying for any of the individual factors means you're making a loss from selling your product or just breaking even, then the business isn't a viable business.
However, if you're prepared to pay the very minimum the law allows you too and in turn allow the government to make up the shortfall of an actual living wage, *you* may be making a profit from exploiting your workers *and* the government. Which makes you a parasite.
Tuned in to hear O’Brien squirm….i wasn’t disappointed 😎
opened up the comments to see farage-fan gammons getting triggered by O'Brien...wasn't disappointed (never am).
James has somehow managed to blame the Labour budget decisions on the tories. This left wing propaganda from LBC and James is truly pitiful. It’s okay to raise taxes as long as it’s labour then James?
Well it's better than lowering taxes, especially for the wealthy, and breaking the country as the Tories did for the last 14 years.
Yes because it is the tories fault they left such a mess. There was plenty of ways the tories could have recouped some of the money spent. They did none.
The problem with Minimum Wage is it becomes Default Wage.
Utter nonsense, your la la land is rot and the budget has proven it
Brilliant question . I would suggest in most cases absolutely 'no', ....one should not be in beeswax!😄💯💞
Britain's biggest propagandist
You should not legislate for this small business cannot compete with the multi national companies who get tax concessions. profit from people stuck in the benefits prison .whilst small business is hammered into bankruptcy it should be a simple contract you work for an hour and I will pay you what we agree beforehand both sides are happy and able to negotiate a business will pay much more to a worker who delivers and less to a lazy worker just like the subcontractors do
The year is 2040 minimum wage is at £112p/h. Amazon has monopolised everything...
James O'Brien: ' If you can't pay your staff minimum wage then maybe you shouldn't have a business'.
😂😂
James just admit your deluded
* you're
Rip Peter Lynch. He didn't do anything Mr o Brien
If he "didn't fo anything" then why did he plead guilty?
@garethjones9605 Because he had no choice. He would have got a much longer sentence
@@twisteddancer7773 😁
@@twisteddancer7773 "No choice" because there was video evidence of him taking part in a riot. Serves him right.
What was the reaction on the right when David Gilmore's son was filmed swinging from the Cenotaph? "Lock him up". And he was, although not for that particular incident.
@@RichardSFord *Gilmour* FFS
So now 18 year olds can use their mobile phones whilst working and be paid £10 an hour.....call me cynical but if I was an employer I would ensure that employee's work is monitored to reflect it......ex apprentice who initially was on £5 a week........also I'm of the opinion that experience counts so older workers bring more to the work experience.
...and 60 year olds can hang around the coffee machine gossiping about last night's game whilst the company is paying into their pension funds. I'm sure if you were an employer, there would be cameras everywhere and workers would only be allowed one comfort break per shift - 5 mins max, one sheet per person per visit.
Sit down grandpa, you don’t own your staff, you enter into a business transaction with them. If you’re not happy with their productivity, you can and do sack them, if you are happy with it you keep them employed-loved and must pay a wage they can have a decent standard of living on. It’s not difficult to understand, you’re just horribly propagandised.
So the counter terrorist police searched his house in late July and found a PDF of a terrorist nature and shared this with the government when?
Furthermore the Home office tweeted an image of those at the Rotherham Hotel stating that they will arrest all the criminals. So they are able to prejudge that crime yet the South port attacker it was a matter of allowing the process to proceed. Is that not two tier?
US Army treatise/an opinion upon said AlQ warring manual.
Not the actual 'thang'.
@suzyqualcast6269 still an unusual thing to possess.
When a suspected criminal claims to be innocent, a police investigation then takes place. The investigation then turns up *evidence* which proves one way or the other. The PDF sounds like military training/educational material. Should a civilian have it? Probably not. Should it be available for civilians to download? Probably not.
Many of those arrested for the rioting, either filmed themselves doing it or were filmed doing it by others. If a person is on film committing a crime, it's not beyond the reasons of probability to suggest they've committed a crime.
@mickreaddin4979 did the home office tweet about Southport attacker as they did with the Hotel at Rotherham.
The answer is no
Thus the two are treated differently.
Both parties are presumed innocent.
It’s ok for a millionaire to say that 😂 businesses has to put their products up significantly to pay for the rise in their labour force .. thus all across uk the price of every product will go up significantly but wages won’t .. thus the person still loses out significantly
Exactly
This doesn’t answer why people should be able to be paid less than a living wage
James It does not help the conspiracy theorists when TR is broadcasted going into court and the Southport accused is displayed as a cartoon drawing.
It’s a court drawing. It’s perfectly normal.
There was one of your cult leader Waxey Lemon, from court the other day.
@emilymccartney1593 Why was there no footage of the Southport alleged attacker going into court. Historically I recall when there would be footage of the prison van at least.
If you do not want conspiracies to thrive then the issues that arise should be addressed.
B t w he is not my cult leader I am more of a Jeremy Corbyn supporter
@@emilymccartney1593 normally they would show the prison van of the perpetrator. The media would be falling over themselves providing images. But no not this time. Conspiracies can be extinguished when things are brought in to the light
@@greamespens1460you’ve never seen a court drawing before? Because that’s not what they are
@@emilymccartney1593Did you watch the documentary ?
Re: Sunak's final song. I don't know but in a better alternate universe all future leader debates are a battle of songs. It would really show their imagination and give me something different to judge them on (taste).
The danger is we might get Oasis, Ed Sheeran or Adele as the PM (insert names as personally appropriate). Although Oasis as the government would be entertaining at least. It'd be like Liz Truss with swearing.
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No nation has ever taxed itself to prosperity.
Rachel Reeves/UK Labor may want to consider the following.
During the last 15 years the Eurozone/UK economies grew by around 6%, the corresponding growth in the US economy in the same time period was 82%.
There's a reason why all the globally dominant hi-tech companies are US-owned, every last one of them.
Trump/Vance, 2024
Aside from the entire postwar period where the wealthiest were taxed at rates around 90%
Weird how everything started to decline at the same time people like Thatcher and Reagan decreased it
@@trevormannsfield Then go for it, raise taxes on the wealthiest to 90%, do it and see what happens.
Currently the top 1% of earners typically pay much more in taxes than many other Americans. Nationwide, this group contributes 45% of total personal income taxes collected.
@@trevormannsfield The top 1% of US earners contributes 45% of total income taxes collected.
Trump/Vance, 2024.
You beat me to it!!
@@landonmiller6943 I'll never understand the instinct to defend a class of people that you will never be a part of.
Are you still secretly under the impression that one day you'll be a billionaire?
@@trevormannsfield Was born and raised in the UK, left the UK for the US a few days after I graduated with my PhD and have done very well, much better than was possible in the UK, that's for sure.
Here, Americans admire and respect success, they don't indulge in the politics of envy.
Cheers from Texas😁