Does he suggest how the young are supposed to support themselves whiile earning less than the minimum wage? He does not.

BB

ok if we do away with the minimum wage, to get people on the ladder of work pay structures, lets have a cap at the upper end aswell, somebody starting out in life, off on £6 ahour can aspire in life to earn an accrued increase every year during the working life, then reach a upper tier that is capped for everyone, lets say £ 52,000 per year, thats the maximum earning rate, we would soon here certain factions calling for an increase starting point fot the minimum wage

Another "Bright Idea" But seriously whats really wrong is we have lost our creativeness,We need to go back to what we do best "Inventing" I read recently 48% of the worlds most common inventions were invented in these islands,Now that either means a lot of people got "Lucky" or there was a time when we were not glued to computers,Ipods,Xboxes etc etc and our imagination allowed us to "go create" more things............so logic tells us we need to get more creative and let our imagination take over our brains...........

I've a better idea. Lets cut the excessive wages of those supposedly highly qualified to run the country and big financial businesses, both types have proved to be inadequate to the task. Also lets stop paying either of those types excessive pay off money including abusive pension bonuses when clearly they are incapable of running ahything more than a failed chip shop!

The reason for the minimum age is simple. Those working at that rate cannot afford to work for any less. Most cannot afford a mortgage and many cannot afford to pay rent at that income level. MPs probable dont understand this but the bottom end of the market do not have expense accounts to use and abuse to avoid paying bills themselves.

Why don't you donate some of your £65000 plus fiddles to youth unemployment?? For all of your rhetoric on transparency, there has never been a better class of criminals in Parliament.

Oh its Ok for MP's to have more expenses because they are struggling to make ends meet Huh.... while our young people struggle on less than minimum wage.. appalling slave labour

I've always maintained that all MP's shouldn't be paid a wage, then you'd see how many were genuine in wanting to voice their constituants needs and views, very few I think.

Its absolutely ridiculous what these self serving MP's do for a living: rip off the taxpayer with their expenses, slag off whoever, kiss children, and open their big gobs. Anyone could do that.

I suggest that all MP's should be sacked without compensation.

Lets start with all the big money earners and introduce a maximum wage so then there would be more to share out with the workers who create the wealth in the first place no workforce means
nothing produced and all the so called Captains of industry would then be on the UK Titanic
Along with the CONDEM Goverment. With there snouts in the trough were all in it together.

I'm sorry, I couln't believe the headline so read this article hoping AOL had misrepresented the story but it appears genuine! I feel truly sick at this - yes I know it would be "good" for small businesses to employ young people at a lower wage but you only get the full minimum wage after 21 anyway - there's about a 50p difference between 18 to 21 and 16 to 18. It is already cheaper to employ 16-year olds! Besides, as a tempting financial incentive they may then go on to offer the same rates of pay to illegal workers who will snap it up. This exploitation of the young and illegal workforce will result in the redundancies of many hard-working over-21 employees as they employers will be getting the same work done for half the cost, probably less if there is no mimimum! Then there is the fact that a mimimum wage was introduced as a counter to any possible (and now probable) slave-wages being offered by employers rather than give a decent, living wage - after all not every 16-year old lives with parents as it the age you can legally start living on your own and I certainly would not have been parentally supported had I moved out then just as I am not now (I am 20).

We have only recently got worker's rights, don't let them be taken away again!

The minimum wage is essential in stopping greedy employers profiteering at their employees expense. A large section of businesses already regard the minimum wage as all they need to pay to employ someone, irrespective of age, qualification or experience. Millions are caught in the poverty trap of this minimum wage culture already, and to abolish it would be to bring back slave labour.

Let's take advantage of those who can't afford not to work. Same old tories. I have told my 2 children who are looking for work to just simply remember who it was that got us into this mess and what the politicians do to try and get us out. The tories are low so low they are set to lower the tax rate for the highest earners and lower the wages of the lowest earners. Remember kids who did what to you.