tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post3979663424523929504..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: "Women abandon calls for equal treatment with men"Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-27206213113358801712018-11-09T15:47:59.345+00:002018-11-09T15:47:59.345+00:00CP, see here.CP, see <a href="https://www.waspi.co.uk" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-40808150214325473742018-11-09T06:16:41.987+00:002018-11-09T06:16:41.987+00:00MW sounds like plan...MW sounds like plan...Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-48287249180989468162018-11-09T02:35:43.789+00:002018-11-09T02:35:43.789+00:00Wfspe
Can you provide me a link to the campaign g...Wfspe<br /><br />Can you provide me a link to the campaign group?<br /><br />I would be interested to see what they have to say.CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-55514236234287030522018-11-08T22:00:34.232+00:002018-11-08T22:00:34.232+00:00L "women should get lower benefits than men b...L "women should get lower benefits than men because on average they live longer"<br /><br />Indeedy. Or pay the same but women only get it a couple of years later so that men and women on average get the state pension for the same length of time. Giving our long suffering husband a couple of years relaxing home time between bossed about by the boss and being bossed about by her indoors...Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-10981343190081625422018-11-08T21:25:17.119+00:002018-11-08T21:25:17.119+00:00MW. Isn't it the other way about? Redundancy,...MW. Isn't it the other way about? Redundancy, marital breakdown, ill health cause poverty? Or rather can lead to poverty? But even then, our welfare state - if it operates as it should - stops people actually starving to death or being without shelter.<br /><br />Returning the conversation to pensions, in theory as pensions were originally an insurance product, women should get lower benefits than men because on average they live longer.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-48831511691354800442018-11-08T20:03:57.211+00:002018-11-08T20:03:57.211+00:00LF, "not all bad things are caused by poverty...LF, "not all bad things are caused by poverty", no, not directly.<br /><br />But poverty clearly causes bad things. Whether the immediate cause is redundancy, marital breakdown, health issues or sheer bad luck, the result is poverty. Which in turn causes more bad things etc.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-54713459854578357402018-11-08T15:39:18.078+00:002018-11-08T15:39:18.078+00:00There is no reason at all for any 'child pover...There is no reason at all for any 'child poverty' in the UK. And I doubt that there is any. CPAG are incentivised to claim that there is as it feathers their own nest. Indeed when you take into account the value of entitlements like health services, education, subsidised housing (aka 'free land' :-)), benefits and including private food banks and other ral private charities (of which CPAG is NOT one), no-one in the UK is actually 'poor'. As in absolutely poor, as opposed to relatively poor.<br /><br />Nevertheless, as we all on here know, an LVT / CI system would ensure greater equity between landowners and serfs (as in mortgage or rent payers - I am a serf as far as my business premises is concerned). Furthermore, upwards of 80% of NAE income earners goes on rents and taxes.Lolahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04586735342675041312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-82222491485303173252018-11-08T13:56:10.878+00:002018-11-08T13:56:10.878+00:00I re-read your link and it says
"The most com...I re-read your link and it says<br />"The most common specified causes of homelessness were relatives and friends not being able to provide accommodation, relationship breakdown with a violent partner and the end of a shorthold tenancy,"<br />This "relationship breakdown with a violent partner " has nothing to do with the wealth of a country.<br />It is due to other issues, so although I think it is bad, I don't think it is poverty, not all bad things are caused by poverty.L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-10403928339843126252018-11-08T13:48:31.661+00:002018-11-08T13:48:31.661+00:00I was not being ironic.
Are more than 100K childre...I was not being ironic.<br />Are more than 100K children living on the street? Or is this a different definition of homelessness?<br />I find this<br />"Growing up in poverty means being cold, going hungry"<br />Hard to believe 30% of Children go hungry because of poverty?<br />As 28% of Children are meant to be overweight or obese it seems really hard to believe that.L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-18082465970223249482018-11-08T13:04:25.979+00:002018-11-08T13:04:25.979+00:00@LF
http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/child-poverty...@LF <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/child-poverty-facts-and-figures" rel="nofollow">http://www.cpag.org.uk/content/child-poverty-facts-and-figures</a><br /><br />You're welcome to take the figures apart but reductions in income are a big part of poverty. VAT has gone up by approx £1765 per household from 2010 to 2016, even more since then. National Insurance revenues AKA working age income tax has gone up twice as fast as income tax receipts. Refunds of these via tax credits or Universal Credits have been frozen.<br /><br />I don't think that phones are a particularly good measure of poverty. Homelessness certainly is, and 123,130 children were homeless in Q1 2018, an increase of 80% since 2007.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/27/child-homelessness-in-england-at-highest-level-since-2007" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/27/child-homelessness-in-england-at-highest-level-since-2007</a><br /><br />We are a much, much richer country than in the 70s or 80s, this is an entirely political choice.<br /><br />I don't believe that it is ever a child's fault that they are homeless or in poverty. Most pensioners on the other hand have had plenty opportunities to take responsibility for themselves...<br /><br />My apologies if you were being ironic though!mombershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650866436764567516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-38557441802383910452018-11-08T12:12:52.305+00:002018-11-08T12:12:52.305+00:00@mombers
Is child poverty really soaring? I remem...@mombers<br />Is child poverty really soaring? I remember in 80s having friends who didn't have a phone (landline). Is that true nowdays?<br />I would guess in the 70s even more people would not have a phone.L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-27608105731459791532018-11-08T12:08:46.888+00:002018-11-08T12:08:46.888+00:00@MW it's fantastic that we've now got a Ci...@MW it's fantastic that we've now got a Citizen's Pension in all but name. A glaring inequality under the old regime was that raising children was not counted as work, so women often ended up with a lower pension. Ironic that mothers had a lesser claim to their children's private property than strangers! Ideally a CI for working age folk, 0.5x CI for children and 1.5 or 2x CI for pensioners, but at a realistic and affordable agemombershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650866436764567516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-30318635328006919912018-11-08T12:02:48.599+00:002018-11-08T12:02:48.599+00:00Child poverty is soaring and pensioners are better...Child poverty is soaring and pensioners are better off on average after housing costs than working folk. It's an incredible waste of money spending almost £100bn on sending often perfectly healthy people on a taxpayer funded holiday for decadesmombershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09650866436764567516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-83239160064466691122018-11-08T09:38:44.749+00:002018-11-08T09:38:44.749+00:00There was also a case in the mid 90s where some wo...There was also a case in the mid 90s where some women wanted to retire at 65 but their employee forced them to retire at 60 and men at 65 and it went to either the ECHR or European Court of Justice.<br /><br />What I find weird are men complaining that women have to work as long as them, why?L fairfaxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12274756119129254373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-48470203354657896432018-11-08T07:36:00.666+00:002018-11-08T07:36:00.666+00:00S, ta, well done Mr Barber.S, ta, well done Mr Barber.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-29519014594067156472018-11-08T07:28:42.446+00:002018-11-08T07:28:42.446+00:00I think the EU equalisation ruling arose out of th...I think the EU equalisation ruling arose out of the Barber case, which originally wasn't to do with SPA:<br /><br />https://www.sackers.com/pension/barber-v-guardian-royal-exchange-european-court-of-justice-17-may-1990/Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-56725122693480359252018-11-08T07:11:27.863+00:002018-11-08T07:11:27.863+00:00S, that would have been even better!S, that would have been even better!Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-9177546326190533532018-11-08T06:56:15.819+00:002018-11-08T06:56:15.819+00:00I seem to recall this arose out of a case brought ...I seem to recall this arose out of a case brought by an Englishman who was hoping men's State Pension Age would be reduced.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.com