becoming the norm

Claiming Benefits and working on the side.i.e selling cars on the side. washing cars on the side.working in their mates shops getting cash in hand..Stands out a mile whats ruining this country.going on holiday and claiming benefit in there own country. Nobody the wiser.

Albion

It is what is known as the 'Black Economy'

Tommy tee, white folks do it as well

Tory ministers are experts in it

Handsomeminer

albion was on about people on benefits so why as usual bring politics into it?

because it,s politics that pays out the benefits .

He dosn t get it

Why do you two always have to brings politics into topics which have nothing to do with your obsession of the Tories?

We know they are bad, but do you have to keep reminding us of them?

why would a person come off benefits to work cleaning cars for minimum salary for an extra 50 pound a week if you want someone to come off benefits you have to make it worthwhile for them and just not a life on minimum salary Zero-Hour Contracts

You are absolutely right Peter Israel.
A lot of agencies are greedy and will pay peanuts and expect you to sweat blood on a zero hour contract.

My friends nephew works for an agency and its disgusting what he has to put up with. Its common for him to be sent home in the middle of the night without pay if a machine breaks down. Also he has turned up for work only to be promptly sent home due to the fact that there is no work due to a breakdown or whatever. He has the option of wasting a holiday or losing a nights pay. Some agencies expect you to be at their beck and call and it is not uncommon for the employee to receive a text at short notice to cancel their shift or to ask them to come to work when they have previously been informed that they are not required.
A lot of British people will not tolerate that and refuse to work. And I also would not tolerate it.

Cheshire Puss

It's no wonder yoo don't vote Tory ......

But as regards paying 'peanuts' yes I have been paid 'peanuts' and am not joking either, 67 hours week working in a shop, plus travel time, in my case travelling by bus and train to Bolton, and not allowed to sit down in the shop, no dinner hour, just eat your dinner in the back and then back to work in the shop, it closed at 6,00pm by the time the cashing up was done, and night safe banking, it was more like 6.45pm and I took home £42.00 a week and that was in the late 1970s and early 80s, whilst Whuspy was in't club playing darts, I was on me way home, on't train and then a bus, and every word of that is TRUE

Some of yoo lot don't know yer born

Nobody should have to tolerate it that's why the Tories are anti union

Hey up he's back!! The bloke who takes his pieces of silver off the Tories nothing but a Judas you ugly pitmon

Handsomeminer

When I started work, Sunny Jim was in charge James Callaghan and Labour had been in power since 1974 and before that it was Ted Heath, but thanks to your lot, he only lasted four years before he was kicked out, and that pillock Heath took us into the EEC the Common Marke and I never liked him anyway, instead of running the country he was sailing on Morning Cloud, the Tory tosser, and before that Labour had been in power from 1964 to 1970, but what did your man say ? that Dennis Heally Chancellor say, I am going to "tax the rich until the pips squeak" yes well it wasn't just the rich who he made 'squeak' he made me 'squeak' too, and I was poor, they took between a third and a half of my pittance of a wage from me

TTS 47 pound in the late 70 is to day worth 337 pounds
Value of £47 from 1978 to 2024 TTs i was on a pound an hour in 1990 for a 40 hour week and it was 11 hour days plus 5 hours on a Saturday

Eggbeater I know you don't get this concept but all the pensions I get I've paid for during my forty odd year working so don't class me with yourself

Peter Israel

The operative year for me is actually 1980 and the amount was £42 so yoo should've gone to Specsavers, or the Israeli equivalent, when according to those statistics £42 was worth 225.71 it should be remembered that inflation was very high in the late 1970s LINK

However, how do you compare the spending power of then to now and come up with a figure, because people spend money in different ways, and today we pay for a lot more goods and services than we did in 1980, so I think it is impossible to make a comparison, and I don't believe in a lot of these 'statistics' anyway.

TTS you said late 1970's so i used 1978 £47 in 1978 is worth £337.93 today know need Specsavers of me ..... It sounds like to me when it comes to math you are using the same calculator as Farage and Boris used to write on the side of the bus

TTS it was still a pound a pint in the 80's

Peter Israel

Ale was no where near a pound a pint in 1980, if yoo are on about beer ?

In fact we were buying in rounds in 1980, three of us, which was bitter, mild and lager, and you buy those three pints for less than a quid.

Peter Israel

Thinking back, and comparing myself to other folk who I knew back then, I was on about half the wage I should have been on.

maybe they shud look at that tory front bench for claiming & cheating .

Nowt but a self serving bunch of spiv s their sense of entitlement rivals the royal family

It's not about how long you've worked pitmon my argument is about you taking money off the folk you don't like!! There's no way I would take anything off people I don't like but then again I have morals

Ia m not taking money off anyone it's my money ,paid in over 40 years you half wit have you never had a job

I bet you think the NHS is free too

Ol man River.

Chicken George you are new to this site and you may of been on under a different guise going of your comments Either post positive comments or don't bother to waste our time with inane comments. You will soon be made inactive i am afraid