Meanwhile, back on the subject of Labour now realising their mistakes and suddenly listening after a decade and more of doing the opposite....
Heard Yvette Cooper today on Radio 4 talking about their plans for immigration and using the opportunity to bash the current govt. on the minimum wage, which she says must be addressed as part of the immigration question, with prosecution being the required sanction. She came out with a nice statistic too - there have been no minimum wage prosecutions in the last 2 years she exclaimed! Sounds awful doesn't it? Gives the impression that there were sooooooo many more when her crew were running the show. So how many minimum wage prosecutions were there during Labour's tenure? It must have been a lot more surely or her statement would be disingenuous wouldn't it? So, thousands then? Hundreds maybe? Dozens surely? Well, according to the Low Pay Commission, there have been only 7 since the minimum wage was introduced in 1999. So none in the last 2 years during a major recession. Not so surprising then? Rather puts Cooper's assertions in a different light I reckon...