h/t James Delingpole – Britain’s Labour Opposition Party, which has a real chance of winning the next UK election, is seriously considering a think tank proposal to radically cut working hours and wages to reduce everyone’s carbon footprint.
Plan for 10-hour working week with 75% paycut under Labour
Martine Berg Olsen Monday 10 Jun 2019 7:54 am
The Labour Party is discussing plans to bring in a 10-hour working week and slash pay by 75 per cent to tackle climate change. The radical report titled The Ecological Limits of Work by the Autonomy Group states unless current carbon emissions are cut there would be an ‘unprecedented decrease in the economic activity’.It says the sustainable work week would likely be ‘well below 10 hours per week’.
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who has previously backed a four-day working week, said: ‘This is a vital contribution to the growing debate around free time and reducing the working week.’ Leo Murray, adviser to Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis, said: ‘I like this take a lot.’
Lewis has previously backed another controversial report from the group on reducing the working week.
Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/10/plan-10-hour-working-week-75-paycut-labour-9878450/
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The full report, “The Ecological Limits of Work”, is available here.
Under the topic “other considerations”, the report authors express concern that their proposed cut might not be deep enough, because people working shorter hours might be more productive during the time they do work, which would cancel some of the ecological “benefit” of a shorter working week.
This is not a fringe proposal. Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who praised the proposal, is a senior figure in the Labour Party, and has a real chance of being put in charge of Britain’s banking system and economy after the next election.
The report kind of skips over issues which might concern some workers, like how British workers already suffering fuel poverty are supposed to warm their homes and feed their families with 75% less money, and how they are supposed to pay their mortgages and bills (maybe all mortgages will be forgiven?), but I doubt the politicians considering this radical policy proposal have ever personally experienced real hunger, poverty or cold.
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Alternatively Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell could swim to Sierra Leone – the locals exhale about 37.5% less carbon dioxide during their life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Here’s how this “works”: eliminate cheap, reliable energy and the modern economy. Farmers can’t grow food at even 20th century levels of productivity, so everyone has to grow their own food. With everyone engaged in subsistence agriculture, no one can make more than 10 hours a week available to work for a third party. Therefore, no one works more than 10 hours per week, since we dont count subsistence agricultural activity as work.
I agree, we have always been at war with Eastasia.
As a retired professor I’d have to say that if you changed the work week to ten hours that would roughly double the amount of work a couple of my colleagues would have been required to do.
Hopefully, this loonie suggestion from the Labour Party in the UK will prevent the Labour Party being elected to power. The pursuit of Green Fantasies in Australia by the Labour Party there was enough to keep Labour out of office.
Not only “climate policy” it was also due to their tax policies which was just envy taxes dressed up as being fair tax policies. One ALP candidate, Chris Brown, said…
“If you don’t like it [Labor policy], don’t vote Labor”. Voters did exactly that and the ALP lost.
Sounds like a plan to convert England into a 3rd world impoverished country. Good luck with that!
Things always go through a curve. The renewable and climate change craze has arrived at the point where the majority of the people won’t be able to afford regular life anymore. Moaning about unreasonably high taxes and other costs but being able to make ends meet albeit under constant strain is one thing, taking peoples foundation for life away is a totally different scenario. Labor might win an election because of the horrible condition the competition is on. But with such proposals, they might face protests that will make extinctiin rebellion seem quaint in comparison real quick.
😂 😂 😂
There is more chance that I’ll become the next Queen than of Labour getting into power under Chairman Corbyn!
Not even lifelong Labour voters will vote for his party under him and they would usually vote for a chicken if it was wearing a Labour badge. If you think the Conservative party is in a mess, and it most definitely is, you’ve not seen anything yet, the knives will be lodged in his back before long, figuratively speaking of course.
The rising of the British Green party at the recent EU elections was testament to that, they picked up the Labour Remainers who want rid of Corbyn, just as the Brexit party picked up votes from the Leavers. The Greens were so excited that they’d done quite well that it was cringe worthy watching them speak on tv.
If more Leaver Conservatives had voted for the Brexit party instead of refusing to vote because ‘we shouldn’t be having this EU election’ it would have helped.
The irony is that Corbyn’s brother, Piers, is one of the countries leading climate change sceptics, I’m pretty sure he’s lurking on here somewhere, nice chap.
All debt has to be removed and I mean all!
The world has to scrap money completely.
A world wide work credit scheme would incentivise people to receive food proportionate to work performance.
The rich would be rich no more.The poor will be poor no more.
Land is to be allocated by birthright ie an acre a person,it can be traded or swapped but always returns after a period of time to its owner.
A common food supply chain regulated to feed every one world wide. All motorised vehicles to be recycled.
Air travel to be limited to essential traffic only ie medical etc.
Localised food production.
Local production for all products in work credit scheme.
90% of humanity thinks everything is ok today and all the above are insane.
90% of humanity are soon to discover food scarcity and the complete collapse of the world as they know it.
90% of humanity need to wake up and smell the coffee!
[??? The mods point out that if 90% of the world will discover food scarcity, 90% of the world can scarcely expect to wake up and smell the coffee. (They will be either dead from starvation, or have no fossil fuel energy to harvest, bake, separate and ship the coffee beans, much less brew the coffee in their dark, cold, waterless, insect-ridden hovels and sheds.) .mod]
Some people may not realise that, for British MPS, the thought of a ten hour week would make them break out into a cold sweat. Take Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East. Between 1 January this year and 25 January he held 3 surgeries (making himself available to his constituents) totalling 6 hours. All of the problems raised by these citizens were referred to someone else, so no actual work there. All the other “work” by Mr Vaz involved asking other politicians what they were doing about something or other. Stressful stuff.
The average working week for an MP comprises:
working out their expense claim for the month – a time consuming and stressful job as the MP has to remember even the smallest and often apparently trvial expense. One home secretary even felt that she had to incude a plug for her kitchen sink costing 8p and the £15 spent by her husband on watching blue movies (she was a very fat and ugly lady)
Locating Michelin star restaurants which will provide duplicate bills ( one for the person paying for lunch and the other for the MP’s expense claim).
Sorting through estate agents’ brochures to find luxury properties for the MP to buy and claim back the cost of buying on expenses to build their property portfolio
To be fair to MPs if they don’t put any effort into their expense claims, they have to struggle along on a pittance of only £78,000 a year and miss out on possibly the £250,000 a year of expense claims. So you can see that they would be quite content for the average person to live on £5,000 a year
Here would be a good start . Cut the number of elected politicians in half .
They act like jerks , don’t get anything of consequence done and are a massive waste of money .
The USA takes it to another level of twerps having a four year peeing contest .
All they do is rubber stamp $trillion dollar deficits and fatten their wallets .
Seriously there is no need for this many clowns in the show .
You have to realise that John McDonnell is completely insane, as are most of the leading members of the Labour Party. They want to nationalise all utility companies in the UK without paying any market level compensation to shareholders and they want to tax lifetime gifts (with a tax free lifetime allowance of £125,000). They want to raise income tax considerably because they actually believe that if you raise the tax rates you will receive more tax revenues. Oh, and they believe passionately in the theory of dangerous man made climate change.
So, what happened to 10-10 and the exploding people ?