Funny thing is..I don't think it;s necessarily a bad idea in itself. The UK DOES have huge disparities of living costs within it's borders. In fact in the university debating society back in 99 I fell out with a fellow student of the conservative persuasion because I was advocating a policy of graduated minimum wages depending on where in the country you were. He claimed that to do so would "disrupt the operation of the free market, and no right thinking Tory would use standard of living as a yardstick to set pay by."
What irks me about the current proposals is the double standards. The Conservative party are now proposing JUST THAT, but of course rather than bringing the standard of living of the rich areas up to meet our (admittedly higher), we are probably going to be knocked down to theirs.
So it seems interference in the market is justified when it goes one way, but not when it goes the other.
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Date: 2012-03-21 06:44 pm (UTC)What irks me about the current proposals is the double standards. The Conservative party are now proposing JUST THAT, but of course rather than bringing the standard of living of the rich areas up to meet our (admittedly higher), we are probably going to be knocked down to theirs.
So it seems interference in the market is justified when it goes one way, but not when it goes the other.