Quote Originally Posted by WBA123 View Post
I don't think the solution is as easy as just to increase the minimum wage. I saw some in Labour a while ago asking for £15 per hour minimum wage, and their fiscal understanding genuinely scares me.

There is no quick fix to this, but the overwhelming answer is to proactively support and invest in business in the UK. This Government is severely lacking and have only done the opposite to this.

Growth has to improve, right now it is much slower than the US, France, Germany who are all ahead of us in this regard. If business productivity and growth improves then we can control inflation and interest rates better. And despite Brexit being a blocker, which has undoubtedly damaged business interests in this country. We're unlikely to be able to change that now for maybe a generation. So in the meantime, we need to invest in new industry sectors, so that our children and grandchildren have high skilled and well paid jobs available when they enter the workplace.

However, when you have a PM who when asked about the disruption Brexit would cause said F*** business, then what hope do you have.
"Growth has to improve, right now it is much slower than the US, France, Germany who are all ahead of us in this regard"

er not true. UK had the highest growth rate of ANY G7 nation in the last 12 months (about double that of France and Germany.) Source OECD