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Originally Posted by claytonender

On the subject of the minimum wage - there was a private members bill (put forward by some Conservative MP's which included Nigel Evans the MP for Ribble Valley) to allow workers to opt out of the minimum wage - which was tantamount to abolishing it. Why did David Cameron allow any of his MP's to bring this bill forward if he is in favour of the Minimum Wage?

It was the publicity that the Unions gave to the bill that succeeded in getting it stopped - I don't remember David Cameron speaking against the bill.

Andrew, over the last 150 years, it has always been the Conservatives who have opposed legislation to improve the rights of workers. Before the minmum wage there were jobs advertised in Accrington Observer that were paying £1 an hour (for a 40 hour week). There was a public meeting in Accrington Town Hall, attended by all the parliamentary candidates, when asked about whether it was acceptable that some employers were paying £1 an hour - the only candidate who thought it was acceptable, was the Conservative candidate.

I do realise that in 1997 you were probably still at primary school and did not understand about the 'slave labour' wages people were expected to work for. However many of us, on this forum do remember the times before the minimum wage and will fight to make sure that it is not destroyed by David Cameron and his public school 'hooray henry' cronies.

andrew i'm sure is well aware of these facts claytonender, but refuses to acknowledge them.