The Anonymous Widower

Labour’s Four-Day Week ‘To Cost Taxpayers £27bn’

The title of this post, is the same as that as an article of the front page of The Times.

This is the introductory paragraph.

Jeremy Corbyn’s aim to introduce a four-day working week would cost the taxpayer at least £17 billion a year because of the impact on the public sector wage bill, a new analysis has shown.

Surely, if we go from a five to a four-day week , to do the same amount of work, you will need 25% more workers.

1. This would raise the wage bill by 25 %
2. It would also need more workers, so where will they come from?
3. The only place to get extra workers is through immigration, as in this country most who want to work are already employed.

As I edit this, I’m just hearing another giveaway policy from Labour on the television.

Let’s hope the good British public rumble Labour and realise that their promises don’t add up.

Remember, that my specialism was writing scheduling algorithms to build projects in the most efficient manner possible, using a limited pool of resources.

• Labour’s promises will need so much money, that international lenders will probably not be conned to lend it.
• Corbyn’s friends; the Russians and the Iranians might help.
• Labour’s promises will need lots more workers, which would need large amounts of immigration.

Just look at the arithmetic.

November 5, 2019 - Posted by AnonW | World | Employment, General Election 2019, Tax