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Originally Posted by Hom3r
The trouble now is that were a couple of years ago a job salary was £22,000 a company looking for staff can now advertise it for £12,000.
In most cases with the rising costs of fuel, and public transport people living out side the job area cannot afford to live if they got that job.
I myself looked at a job that paid minimum wage against my out goings and it worked out that I would pay roughly £60 a month to work there.
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There is a social engineering trend that has been under way for some time but will accelerate with austerity measures.
Apart from the very rich many\most people get trapped in the trade off between income and cost. It is entirely possible to be relatively poor on a fairly high income level due to location. It is when such a situation develops that the difference between gross and net income hits very hard and an individual realises they are trapped. They are exploited by the state and local housing plus living costs.
The trend towards cheaper costs for greater profits within companies has become too normal and migrated into areas where costs are relatively low but salaries are below economic levels. With the draconian changes in welfare support structures it can only lead to extreme hardship and in time the multiple prongs of social engineering will unravel in a generalised explosion of anger.
It happened in the late 70's when people generally had taken as much pain as they could endure. The "Winter of discontent" doesn't see justice in historic reports but the UK was just about to get flushed down the loo and people were so depressed that they didn't care. It will take some time to get there again but the ingredients are falling into line and without more U turns than is possible is unavoidable.
People will not be marginalised with no hope and pointed towards supposed jobs with no financial viability. They will become angry and at some point need to vent that anger. Democracy is based on the premise that via majority vote those elected govern in the interests of the majority. This thread highlights an anti democratic trend whereby migrant workers are pulling down wages\salaries to distorted market levels and to the disadvantage of locals. The longer it goes on the more Brits are marginalised the greater the tensions.