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  Blimey - a few days break and this forum is full of threads!!!!
  
  Cant let a few of you get away with certain comments without challenge though.
  
  First of all Howard, the minimum wage policy is one based on excessively simplistic thinking and a lack of understanding of the markets. The minimum wage is not a boon to the low paid at all, if anything it has created a low pay norm that locks people into low pay by reducing pay competition, aided and abetted by Labour's immigration free for all. The government should get rid of the minimum wage and get on with clamping down hard on immigration if it wants to improve wages.
  
  Let us also be clear about something else. Businesses like mine want customers and that means people with the money to spend on their goods and services. The more people who have disposable cash the better. It is not in the interests of businesses to have a low wage economy and certainly not huge numbers of unemployed. Again it is simplistic short sighted thinking to suggest otherwise. There is a balance that must be struck that suits the needs of the economy, businesses and employees based on supply and demand.
  
  Yes, to the subject of this thread - the government does need to clamp down on those who scrounge off the system and to also address our dreadfully unbalanced benefits system that makes living on benefit a lifestyle choice for some.

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