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  ...a lot of elderly people rely upon such care workers that today get paid much less than the minimum wage. That thing you say Barry that holds wages down, yet it is the steady downgrade that you argue for here.
  ...No! See ***
  ...What service levels?
  ...Less Tax revenue? From whom? Nobody stuck on working 10 hours or so a week will pay tax, unless they are to get £200/hour or so, is that who you mean?
  ...***The company need not pay for staff that are idle IF those same staff can have their wages made up through Benefits, after all "We are all in this together."
  ...Taxes will have to rise (in any case). Why should a company gain the benefit of a flexible workforce and pay nothing for it?
  ...I am certainly not saying that flexibility is a No-no, just that it MUST be a two-way street, and in any case unemployment is far too much a statistical convenience. Nobody in your position has anything to teach the unemployed about what it is like to be unemployed, especially in this day and age.
  ...For "flexible market edge" read The poorest shouldering the most weight.
  
  What would make things worse is voting Conservative (or UKIP) come the next election. I am none too sure that voting for New Labour would be that much better, but it would be no worse.

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