//..but according to Brexiteers that is indeed what we voted for.//
Really?
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, here's another reason why My Lord Wolfson may have difficulty recruiting workers at his warehouses:
https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/job-listing/warehouse-operative-next-JV_IC3316430_KO0,19_KE20,24.htm?jl=1008270771014&pos=101&ao=1275521&s=21&guid=0000018468a23b378bd41578f9357111&src=GD_JOB_AD&t=ESR&vt=w&ea=1&cs=1_dc6b8f41&cb=1668202774024&jobListingId=1008270771014&jrtk=3-0-1ghka4eu1im9i801-1ghka4eujg2ec800-fe630c5d550d3db4-&ctt=1668202796229&srs=EI_JOBS
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Warehouse Operative (Rotherham):
Shift Patterns Available:
Wed-Sat/Thur-Sat 11.00 - 23.00
Fri-Mon Rotating (06:00 - 14:30/14:30-23:00)
Friday - Monday 06:00 - 16:30
This role does involve aspects of lifting, reaching and manoeuvring (you could walk up to 5 miles a day!) so you must be comfortable with physically demanding tasks.
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The pay rate for this exciting opportunity to walk up to five miles a day? £9.80 an hour. £17,836 pa for a 35 hour week. Roughly £15,700 after standard deductions.
Somebody doing this job who has a non-working partner and two children will receive just short of £7,000 pa in Child and Working Tax credits. So their pay will be increased by roughly 45%. So My Lord Wolf’s organisation is paying roughly two-thirds of the going rate and having the rest made up by the taxpayer. Any hard working migrants from the EU that he would like to see allowed to come here would be similarly supported |(before you consider minor disbursements such as education and healthcare).
So let's have a look at Rotherham, where Next is having difficulty recruiting. At the end of last June there were 36,600 people “economically inactive” in Rotherham:
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/lmp/la/1946157122/printable.aspx
Of these, 3,200 want a job and 33,400 do not. Of those, when looking at the reasons for their inactivity, 3,500 stated “Other”. They are not students, retired, long term sick or caring for others. They simply don’t want to work. So there’s a little evidence (if any was needed) that some people simply don’t want to work. But it also demonstrates that My Lord Wolfson has some 6,700 people whom he might persuade to come and work for him in Rotherham. And before he stamps his feet to insist the UK should import unskilled labour to help him out, he might like to say why his workers (wherever they come from) should have a third of their wages paid by the taxpayer.
He needs to pay them more and the government needs to pay them less. Then the reset that this country’s economy needs might get under way.