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Mulvie Le Phew

I honestly don’t know how anyone earning minimum wage survives, I’m on twice that and it’s a struggle especially with everything going up all the time.

£3.20 a week increase is not much but I’m sure it would be welcome amongst those in this income bracket.

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david brown

comment (1) i could not agree more, unless you are learning your job.
the fact that this debate comes up every year, still says to me that our cost of living must be too high.
£3.20 aweek = three litres of milk or the childrens brekfast cereals, its not even a pint of beer , depending where you go.
out of the the £3.20, there is tax and social to come out of this sum. sorry i do not have the figure, as i squandered my time at school.

if you have 10 people its £32.00 a week, would a business fold because of this figure?
with what is proposed with gst and parking going up , it can only lead to high inflation in the long run , so it is only fair that those at the lower end , should at least have a hand with the weekly shop for food.

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mo

Not even enough to put juice, instead of tap water,back into the school packed lunch box.

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haricotfou

isnt it time to consider making the minimum wage realistic? squabbling over whether or not an extra £3.20 per week is affordable to business seems almost pointless if not squalid.

companies already get generous tax breaks – and lets not forget, wages are deductible from their overral tax burden (so in the end, we all end up sharing the cost of the increase in minimum level)

bear in mind an average family with 2 kids and a mortgage will pay not much more than 14% tax effectively, the ‘lucky’ majority of us can afford a bit more to raise our fellow humans out of poverty and misery.

ask yourselves this – would you really want to get out of bed for less than £10 per hour?

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