On the 100, 000 jobs in 12 months

Forget the living wage. I have said before that that is all nonsensical sloganeering. There would be living wage after the living wage because people would be in the streets retrenched.

There would be more poverty and more suffering. A seasonable, incentivised adjustment of the minimum wage would be more realistic.

And then there is the twin Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) issue of the one 100, 000 jobs in 12 months.

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