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Kwarteng car crash interview on workers rights.

On 16 May 2017 at 1:42pm Despairing Tory wrote:

If this goes on much longer the electorate will wake up to the fact that we are all con men.Could we please have some more professional sounding liars please?

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On 16 May 2017 at 2:18pm Spelling Bee wrote:

Kwarteng is spelt CONMAN.

On 16 May 2017 at 2:25pm Carer wrote:

He says that he doesn't know how many people will take up the right to have an unpaid year off work to look after a dependant who needs care
I know.
It will be everyone who can afford to spend a year without an income. Approximately ... no-one.
This is a Tory "policy" that will cost nothing. And achieve nothing.

On 16 May 2017 at 3:06pm Just me wrote:

I am not a Tory voter (so not sticking up for them in anyway) but having the option there where you will be able to go back to your current job is better than nothing.
I certainly cannot afford to do it (at the moment anyway, who knows about the future) but I do know people who could. Many older people have got the income/equity to support the person financially - ie, a grandparent who bought a house for a low price and is now worth more, could, sell their house to live with the person caring for them.
I haven't looked into the new potential policy though so I am say the above quite blindly.

On 16 May 2017 at 4:45pm Annette Curtin-Twitcher wrote:

The best way to help people who have to care for family members who are ill or disabled would be to increase carer's allowance to a decent level, so that they could afford to take a year off work.

On 16 May 2017 at 9:22pm Dfl wrote:

Having had personal experience of being a sole carer, I would ask for more and better joined up health and social care support - but thanks to the selfservatives it's got even worse