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Zarah Sultana has completely fallen off. A year ago you'd think she'd be a key part of an insurgent left, but the Greens have been able to make Sultana and Corbyn irrelevant.

no shade but why would i literally ever buy a home… you still have to pay a mortgage monthly that would be the same cost as just paying rent atp. and at least with renting, the expenses for anything that goes wrong falls into the landlord instead of on you

My question in regards to the Green Party pledge to raise the minimum wage to £15 is why stop at £15? If it holds true that all we need to do to improve living standards is just increase the minimum wage then why not make it £20, £30 or £40. Whats the economics behind £15?

Landlords are bailing out. New research shows that some 254,000 buy-to-let properties in Britain came on to the market in the year to the end of March. That's 700 a day & it's an increase of 28% over 2024. Taxing & regulating landlords out of the market will result in tenants paying higher rents. It's such an obvious point but many politicians refuse to understand it.

A minimum wage of £15 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I’ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a £15 minimum wage is actually more than £15 an hour for the company, because you have to add: - 12.07% holiday - Sick pay - Maternity pay if and when required - National insurance - Pension contributions These costs would mean the shop loses money because remember, energy costs are up, rates are up, regulations are up. Now you can pass these costs onto the consumer - that would mean charging a lot more for coffee, people won’t pay it. The likes of Starbucks and Costa can, because they have economies of scale. The independent doesn’t. Now the little socialist will say well this is your fault, if you can’t run a business that can afford to pay its staff properly, but the little socialist has never run a business and does not understand the dynamics. Now I could pay some staff off and fill those hours myself or reduce us to one staff member during certain periods - but this proves the point that a minimum wage costs jobs. There was a time when these jobs were done by kids, perhaps on the weekend, paid a lower wage, no holiday and no silly employment rights. Perhaps they were even paid cash. The dynamic worked and small businesses like this could operate. It was also a great first job. Sadly now it isn’t worth employing entitlement youngsters at this level of pay. So alas, I don’t need the stress, the business would close, a number of jobs would be lost. Economics is about understanding these dynamics, no vibes. The cost of living is not solved through passing on inflation to the business, it is solved by ending high inflation and creating prosperity. This is what socialists don’t understand, they can’t create prosperity, they can only destroy it.

My question in regards to the Green Party pledge to raise the minimum wage to £15 is why stop at £15? If it holds true that all we need to do to improve living standards is just increase the minimum wage then why not make it £20, £30 or £40. Whats the economics behind £15?

My question in regards to the Green Party pledge to raise the minimum wage to £15 is why stop at £15? If it holds true that all we need to do to improve living standards is just increase the minimum wage then why not make it £20, £30 or £40. Whats the economics behind £15?

Studies have shown that the Kaitz index can reach as high as 80% without a pronounced disemployment effect. Current median wage is £19.67/h, meaning the labour market can absorb a minimum age potentially as high as £15.73