adam277:
Completely Disagree with Winseer.
If you want change vote Labour.
At the worst at least all drivers will be on at-least £10ph. I’ve not worked for less than £10ph since a decade ago.
Unions will not doubt get more rights so will also have more say in the workplace. Unions will keep the right to strike, but still won’t achieve anything by doing so if the firm simply shuts down, and moves abroad for a “softer regime”.
As for the argument that Labour will bankrupt the country I think its a poor one. Also It would bankrupt this country spending £28 that we don’t have yet compared to £1 out of the £4.32 that we DO. I would criticise the Tories for not spending closer to the £4.32 - but that’s something that can be ironed out in the next parliament.
If you do not earn a lot of money than voting labour makes the most sense as any tax increase will likely not affect you. If you’re on benefits - yes. Voting Labour does make absolute sense. Getting unemployment down then - crushes the Labour vote. 
My view of british politics is that it is a see-saw. Labour spend too much and then the tories come in with austerity. rinse and repeat. I think this has worked for quite a long time now and will continue to do so. Labour promise to spend what they have not raised yet, and the Tories don’t spend what they’ve ALREADY raised anywhere near enough. That’s room for lots of extra Tory “upsides” as yet unmentioned, but with Labour - a load of flagship expensive policies -will end up being dropped. I used to vote Libdem until Brexit came along - just as a protest vote. But I always vote, and it sticks in my craw to have to make a similar choice to what the Americans made - the lesser of two evils - in this election.
Lets also not forget that when Labour introduced the minium wage people like Winseer were not doubt claiming that this would bankrupt our country and put alot of companies out of business.
Actually, I was in favour of a more vigorously implemented (and considerably higher!) minimum wage - where companies “undercutting that” - actually got suits being sent to jail as a result.
“Defrauding the Public”. The harshest implementation of a LIVING wage - would be a nice mixture of my stance Hard Left on Finance, Hard RIGHT on Law and Order.
I once ran a small business supplying office stationary, in particular computer peripherals. I struggled to break into corrupt markets where a large firm simply bribed officials and the buyers at another large outfit interested in buying the same line of products I sold - but at marked-up prices.
Think about how bent that is: I’m trying to flog 100 branded floppy disks for say, £25 to the local council/education authority/offices and the larger supplier does 100 of the SAME BRANDED DISK for £45 + VAT…
The only way the “buyer” is going to go for the LATTER deal - is if they’ve been bribed to shut out “fair competition” from people like me.
THIS is the way the EU works in spades of course. “Friendly to Big Business, and f— the rest”. 
I closed the business down, before it went into the red in the end. 
Took a job at RM shortly after, got my car licence later that year, and got my HGV licence 3 years after that.
I’ve been anti those Pro EU Big Businesses my entire life - the Brexit Referendum - asked my opinion on that for the first time ever. I voted Leave, and even NOW that gets resisted.
Only I’m not alone any longer - am I?
I guess I’ve always had a chip on my shoulder about how the rich use their cash and influence to f— over the ordinary worker, and I absolutely despise the “Champagne Socialist” of which Corbyn is one - regardless of those that would call him “Left Winger”.
He’s richer than Boris Johnson FFS!
