Should the National Living Wage be tied more closely to the actual cost of living? Do you think it needs to be higher to better support workers?
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00:00No, because you have to think of tax as well, because they're only hurting you at all, because they want more tax off you.
00:10You're not going to get these more for the money you're going to work for. Most of that's going to go to tax.
00:18Well, it should, because you can't give people a wage and then put things up, gas, electricity, whatever it is, council tax, more than what they're earning.
00:31Oh, it's hard. Yeah, the food's gone up.
00:35Well, that's great news there, because I work as a zero-hour contract myself, and mine's obviously gone up by about five quid now, so I made up like...
00:46And then with the bills, like gas, you're not even afforded that. You need help with that from a government thing, or even if you're working, you're not going to afford it, and then you're out.