I HAVE learned not to wait for an honest answer from a politician.
During PM's question time (January 8), Cameron said that keeping wages down could create more jobs.
Or put another way, a ‘worker glut’ pushes down wages and conditions, exactly as described in New Scientist, making the rich richer.
Here is a simple amateur analysis: under Thatcher the Tories were split over mass immigration between “business tories” who want it to make the rich richer, and 'political tories' who oppose it for re-election purposes because they know there is a democratic majority opposed.
The Left (supposedly Labour) have an identical split, where the wealthy aloof ‘liberal left’ can see no wrong in mass movements of workers – they are clueless about real people’s lives.
This leaves those on the ‘left’ who can actually see ordinary people’s problems in education, employment, housing and health.
The Lib-Dems are a combination of ‘business tory’ and ‘liberal left’ and are a great demonstration of the innate intelligence of the electorate in recognising that combination and rejecting them as a mass movement party.
We can see that Cameron is a ‘business tory’ and John Tanner is ‘liberal left’ and that both wish to see a ‘worker glut’ for their own selfish purposes.
The answer to bad decision-making by small numbers of politicians is to engage the largest number of the people affected in answering those very important, awkward questions – with referendums.
S. NICHOLSON
Campbell Road
Oxford
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