Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

No. Minimum wage rising all the time to end up at £8 in 2020. That's not much of a rise in 6 years. Inflation and normal rises would make it close to that anyway. The recommended 'living wage' for London is currently £8.50. As usual Labour is not giving much away. Add to that, the promise to cap child benefit for the whole of the next parliament and people are unlikely to get much at all.

THESE ARE THE FACTS TANKER stop being silly, do your maths.............

“Ed Miliband goes into this week’s Labour Party Conference with another ‘big’ announcement. He is pledging to raise the minimum wage to £8 an hour. The minimum wage will be £6.50 an hour from October 1st this year, so on the face of it, that looks like a big rise,” he writes.

“However, the £8 figure is what it will be in 2020. Labour want to raise it in stages in consultation with business. £8 an hour would be 23% rise on the current rate, but that doesn’t take inflation into account. To keep the minimum wage fixed in real terms, it must rise by inflation each year. So if Labour were to simply fix the minimum wage in real terms up to 2020, what would its value be?

“If we assume inflation of 2% a year, by 2020, the minimum wage would be £7.32 an hour. With 3% it would be £7.76.

All they are promising is a 24p per hour, rise year on year with inflation at 3% which it is forecast for 2020.

And remember this they dont get free TV licences, free bus passes, cheap beer at the darby and jones club, free tea and coffee all day at the village hall with a free dinner thrown in. No free local lottery tickets, no 5 or 6 free xmas dinners etc etc. No pensioner rates at the local chippy.

You should be glad your children and grand children are going to get a few pence per hour more.

GF THAT IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS
the only pensioners that get help are those that never saved never worked
and they are better off than those that saved and worked
if you saved you get no help .
what planet are you on .

give true facts not crap

Well its a Tory government thats giving them the extra benefits, have a word with your local Tory MP and complain to him not me.

at this moment pension is £ 113 a week never here him saying pensioners should get the living wage the clown never mentions pensioners .
and will not answer any e mails you send him if the question is one he does not like to answer . a liar never does

Personaly I think pensioners get a pretty fair deal compared to others in society, I do admit though that the Tories by keeping interest rates down so low have hit pensioners savings BIG TIME and for years on end but those same pensioners who are moaning about their savings going to silch will still go out and vote for Camoron so its their own silly faults.

gf so you are like ed will not answer the question . if the min wage goes up to £320 and pension £131 a week prices will rise pensioners will starve

that's if he gets in power god help the old age pensioners .

and I am not going to vote tory . nigel farage is the only one talking sense

the avge working man as savings of less than £ 3000 facts not fiction and for the last 7 years no one is saving only the rich

gf I thought you was a caring good person why have you changed to being yes man
the only way to help the low paid is to tax the rich by lowering the 40 % tax on pay over £75k

football players are way over paid tax the clubs higher on all earnings and they will have to cut wages and make them pay for all the problems they cost the local people having to clean up police the area

Hey just hold on, hold your horses if you are so poor what are all these trips abroad about then and for a considerable length, they are obviously holidays either that or your a closet Jihadi.

ahhhhhhh youve gone quiet now TANKER.

I am speaking for the low paid pensioners I like fair play and think about those that are worse off than the lazy people getting more than those that worked all their lives

I am not hard up and pay more tax than most

if you are not happy with your pay get another job simple

off to cuba for small hol on Friday

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GF THAT IS A LOAD OF BOLLOCKS!!!! LOL

TANK, tell us something we don't know. He's been spouting it for months along with Brother Fred! :0)

ahhhhhhhhhh so you are a well off pensioner then.

So whats all the complaining about?.

I could understand it if you were like some of the guys up at my tory club, poor devils have to go about in them free grey taxis and eat at the village hall twice a day, it costs them nothing and its a fantastic breakfast and evening meal really top grub plus they get a free days shopping trip every 2 weeks.

But they dont go abroad.

post 66088 wheres that??.

CUBA....your a closet COMI then TANKER, how can you be so 2 faced.

Youd have donkey as transport thier mate and do your washing in the river.

Plus youd be eating yam at every ,meal.

All gone quiet now that the cats out of the bag, him being a COMI and Carson his side kick in it with him.

Comrade Carson... Palace, Palace, Palace, Palace.