(1) It is bad enough that the minimum wage required by law is hardly generous, yet there we were again last week confronted with reports of delivery company Hermes exploiting workers , HM Revenue & Customs widening its investigation into the notorious wages shirker Sports Direct and a challenge to Uber’s employment practices.
(2) Only those with very long memories could recall the former Labour health minister’s call in 2013 for the coalition government to drop “the strivers versus shirkers rhetoric” .
(3) We urge all party leaders to tackle the deficit fairly, to repair the recent damage to the social security system and to cease misleading, and divisive, rhetoric such as “strivers” and “shirkers”.
(4) In other words – and ironically in view of the coalition’s rhetoric – many of those forced to claim the working-age benefits targeted for further cuts are not what the prime minister calls “shirkers” but, in fact, “hard working families”.
(5) The stories of the "rotten shirker" butcher of Finchley, of the German baker whose shop was destroyed by crowds shouting anti-German abuse, and of the last son at home whose four brothers had already died in the first world war are revealed in records released online by the National Archives at Kew .
(6) But such is the toxicity of the shirkers-versus-strivers message, delivered by all the leading political parties, that facts are no longer believed.
(7) Osborne gloried in his depiction of his actions in support of the nation's "strivers" and attack on the shirkers.
(8) He loathed the way the chancellor framed arguments about benefits as “strivers versus shirkers”.
(9) Having waged war on shirkers – be they old, disabled, single parents – all now scrabble to be on the side of "workers".
(10) Meanwhile, at the launch of a report on poverty published by the Church in Wales and Oxfam Cymru on Tuesday, the archbishop led calls for citizens to question false stereotypes of those in poverty as shirkers and skivers.
(11) The Tories need to promise something for ordinary voters but Labour has also been busy talking about itself as the party "of work", for no one wants to be seen as the shirkers' party, though globalisation means the world of work is a deeply insecure place.
(12) Miliband’s “zero-zero” was a rhetorical flourish, calling for better pay and clawing back the £34bn (some say much more) from the evaders and avoiders and the Luxembourg shirkers, from Dyson to Amazon.
(13) They play a trio of shirkers dodging trench service during the First World War.
(14) As in our previous communication, we continue to be worried by grossly misleading rhetoric concerning those who have to seek support from the welfare state, such as the contrast between “strivers” and “shirkers” , which risks undermining trust not only among different sections of society but also across generations.
(15) To be sure, some countries are worse than others, with the United States topping the list of responsibility shirkers.
(16) He said Osborne had set out a false choice between strivers in work and shirkers out of work and on benefit, saying 60% of families hit by the tax and benefit changes set out in the chancellor's autumn statement last week were in work.
(17) When the coalition capped benefit rises at 1%, it was not, in the main, the jobless “shirker” who suffered.
(18) Any genuinely progressive LGBT activism would challenge the divisive narrative of workers and shirkers, strivers and scroungers, and address the growing social and economic inequalities that leave vulnerable LGBT people prey to poverty, violence and discrimination.
(19) Harvey is a telling target: a fitting symbol of the myth that it is the shirkers and spongers around us who are to blame for our ills.
(20) To recap: as a desperate Conservative party scrabbles around for anything approaching a sense of purpose, David Cameron and George Osborne are sounding ever more shrill about the supposed divide between "workers" and "shirkers", or "strivers" and "skivers"; and this latest proposal is aimed at alchemising popularity from prejudice by capping most working-age benefits – including tax credits – at 1% a year until 2015, severing the link between social security (can we use that term, rather than that ideologically loaded US import "welfare"?)
Wither
Definition:
(n.) To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up.
(n.) To lose or want animal moisture; to waste; to pin/ away, as animal bodies.
(n.) To lose vigor or power; to languish; to pass away.
(v. t.) To cause to fade, and become dry.
(v. t.) To cause to shrink, wrinkle, or decay, for want of animal moisture.
(v. t.) To cause to languish, perish, or pass away; to blight; as, a reputation withered by calumny.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ended with a withering putdown: “I’m leaving Downing Street 10 times more sceptical than I was before ,” Juncker told his host.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest José Mourinho launched a withering attack on the lack of atmosphere generated by Chelsea’s home supporters after their 2-1 victory against QPR , saying it felt like his side were playing at an “empty stadium”.
(3) Though intraspinal narcotic analgesia is associated with a number of side effects, with proper knowledge these adverse reactions are wither preventable or can be greatly reduced.
(4) An obese man with a withered leg limps down Tollcross Road, eating pizza from a cardboard box.
(5) They may be in power, but institutional support is withering away.
(6) We’d been working in Atlantic City, four in the afternoon to four in the morning, six sets, opening for everybody that came through – the Emotions, Bill Withers, the Pointer Sisters – and they were all really encouraging: “You girls are really good, you should stick with it.” That kind of solidified our desire to continue, but our record company, Atlantic, didn’t quite know what to do with us.
(7) But if the coalition does keep together for four more years, then that's four more years of Lib Dem withering and four more years to gather a treasure chest to reward Tory voters.
(8) "Great Yuletide fun on ITV now: hilarious reparations as Dannii Minogue performs a selection of the biblical world's most hideous acts of penance in front of a panel of witheringly critical bisexual judges."
(9) Anyone who stands in his way, from the prime minister to the Labour leader Ed Miliband and grandees in his own party such as the former leader Lord Steel of Aikwood, can expect a withering rebuke from Clegg.
(10) There is a brief compensatory detour into the wonders Blair worked in Northern Ireland, but the essential verdict remains withering.
(11) Her original concept was that he might shed the kingly mantle, be just a poor player strutting, but he couldn’t get out fast enough from his prosthetic withered arm.
(12) Faced with the audience, some of the candidates flourished; others withered.
(13) Covers followed including versions of Bill Withers's Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)
(14) Katya Gorchinskaya, deputy editor of the Kyiv Post, said that after years of corruption and budget starvation, Ukraine's army resembled a "withered muscle".
(15) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(16) Capital was more rewarded than labour, regions withered and exports and manufacturing suffered.
(17) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
(18) Press lobbying On the press lobbying for self-regulation, Leveson is withering, saying he does not find "the self-interested lobbying of the press to be an appropriate matter for press regulation".
(19) The major component of vitellogenin labeled wither in vivo or in culture has a molecular weight of approximately 180,000 as shown by sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A review of chloroquine and sulfa-antifol combination treated falciparum malaria patients revealed a high incidence of chloroquine-resistance, wither R1 or R2, in patients infected in Southeast Asia or Oceania.