Agenda 2019

  http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/dec/30/pay-workers-more-cbi-firms Pay workers more, CBI chief tells thriving firms Director General of CBI: John Cridland. John Cridland, director-general of the CBI, is either living on some planet millions of miles away from reality, or he is treating us all to a "tongue in cheek" piece of New Year nonsense. Companies exist on a simple premise. Charge their customers the maximum price that they possibly can, and at the same time pay their workers the absolute minimum that they can get away with. Should the workers protest, then scream "Holding the country to ransom" and rely on the divisions within society, the prejudice of bias within the press such as the Mail or Sky News, the support and encouragement of many MP's (who have their own agenda in any case) and the fear of working people generally that they may find themselves without jobs. There is no incentive for any employer  "benefiting from the...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/10/mps-vote-to-increase-pay-86250_n_2448503.html?1357840986&utm_hp_ref=uk  MPs Call For 32% Pay rise MPs Call For 32% Pay Rise Of £86,250 As Survey Finds Most Feel Underpaid  A few days after voting through a 1% cap on benefit payments, and after freezing public sector pay increases for the past three years, and after allowing public utilities and transport to increase fares and charges way above inflation, this bunch of avaricious parasites seek an increase in their salary of 32%. This demand is an insult to millions of people in this country who are enduring the austerity of cuts in their services and restrictions in their salaries and pensions, due primarily to the incompetence of this and previous governments who have allowed banks and financial institutions to accumulate vast profits and almost bankrupt the country in doing so. Politicians are now completely bereft of ideas on how to resolve the economic problems, an...