I have already explained where at least some of it should come from as well as the reasons it is desirable. £15 may or may not be the correct figure but there is no doubt that the current rate leaves many hard working families in poverty.
Why? What are you going to do? Quit your job and work in a care home? Maybe that would be a good thing. Wouldn't it be a good thing to reduce inequality in society?
Why would it be a good thing that a very experienced clinician senior manager, running a team delivering the largest public health programme in history, went to work in a care home?
Presumably there will inevitably be adjustments, but if you double the minimum wage, it doesn't follow that everyone else needs to have their wage doubled, and senior staff probably wouldn't need a raise at all.
And here is the problem.
Likewise, late 80s and early 90s for me, paid off early with a redundancy pay out.I. was, but, it may have been the 80's by the time I took out that mortgage, it did not end well
But still no idea at all, even in the slightest, how this ludicrous policy would ever be paid for.
*There you go, keep the poorest down... where they belong... Perhaps if those who can all give, do, then everyone benefits from not spending millions on means testing and administering benefits. People then can afford better diets, and better life balance so are healthier reducing the long term burden on the NHS.
I have never said don't raise the minimum wage, but where did £15 come from, what is it based on, how will it be paid for, and what happens when the experienced graduate realises that they earn the same by taking up an entry level job with zero responsibility against the level of responsibility they have now? Or do we raise their wages, and to what level, and what about the more senior people who are now being paid less than their team members, or do we raise their wages too?
This is the fairest way to do it.
