Wednesday, October 6, since Manchester, the British Prime Minister has advocated the rise in wages. An attitude that arouses perplexity.
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The crisis, what crisis? Wednesday, October 6, since Manchester where he closed the Conservative Party’s annual conference, Boris Johnson delivered an amazing great ideological gap, advocating the rise in wages, accusing companies not enough “investing in people”, sweeping The severity of the shortages affecting the United Kingdom and refusing to consider the Brexit or lack of anticipation of its government as aggravating factors.
Gasoline pumps are still dry in the southern United Kingdom, pig farmers begin to slaughter a part of their flocks for lack of butchers, the rackings of supermarkets are sparse and dozens of Thousands of heavyweight drivers lack the call, the quotas of Europeans who have left the country because of the Pandemic of Covid-19 and post-Brexit migration laws too restrictive. To believe the British leader, these “constraints and tensions” are only side effects of the “fastest” economic recovery of the G7.
As for the lack of labor, you have to go for a “old broken model”, which has been too long on “low wages”, and “companies that used immigration As an excuse for their failure to invest in people, their skills, equipment or machines they need. ” The rumor even ran – it was reported by the Times – that the Prime Minister was ready to announce an increase in the minimum wage. At the moment when Keir Starmer, the leader of Labor, in full centrist repositioning operation of his party, is opposed to a too substantial increase in this social minimum.
The Great Difference. Boris Johnson
The Johnsonian maneuver is a priori formidable for Labor, which may be lined on the left on topics, however, at the heart of its political position. Boris Johnson has added Wednesday, denouncing “one of the most unequal societies of all rich countries”, explaining that “no other government before has had the courage to tackle this problem”, avoiding specifying that the Conservatives have been governing the country since 2010. The day before, his wife, Carrie Symonds, had affirmed during an event on the sidelines of the congress that the Prime Minister was “completely committed” to protect the rights of LGBT people “and even to increase them” .
m. Johnson also insisted on his slogan “Levelling Up” (“pull up” the country), presented as the ultimate answer to the expectations of the voters of the northern district of England who voted prevail than for the plowing, At the end of 2019. Without going into details. The “Levelling Up”, for him, is to “offer hope and opportunities to those who feel left behind”.
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