It was a deliberate conservative policy to drive down pay in the name of austerity. And the UK populace has meekly accepted it – ‘Don’t complain about your pay and conditions, instead direct your ire at them over there. Why should they get a pay rise if you aren’t.’ It’s not sustainable and we need to get out this race to the bottom mindset.
Successive worse Tory governments have rinsed us mercilessly and most people would rather blame poor people or immigrants for our problems…
And what’s worse is it seems to get more extreme as you go into most skilled professional jobs. Anything that involves doing or making something in this country seems to pay like 50% or less compared to most of our competitors it seems.
Nice to know my payrise put me on even less pay than i was before it 🙃
Now we pay for quantitative easing (bond losses) and covid (principal and interest).
Hurray we have more control now! I miss Nigel on TV
We had nearly 5 decades of prosperity in the EU – a period unrivalled since the heydays of the Empire.
But people voted to leave the EU and insisted on a Conservative government. This is the result.
Yep, got my date to move country, I’m out. Being a public sector worker isn’t worth it.
People need to ask themselves why our living conditions are getting worse in 2023. We’re all in this system to better our lives and earn a *living*, not survival. It won’t stop until everyone makes a collective effort to say enough is enough.
The phrase ‘cost of living crisis’ is nauseating. Because it’s like “oooh crisis we’re all in it together’ and implies there will be an ‘end’ to the ‘crisis’. There won’t be. You’ve just took a massive hit to your standard of living, and nobody seems bothered.
I am well above what i was paid as a student and even then 10 years ago i was soo much closer to affording and owning everything i need to start an adult life.
At least we’ve got our sovereignty back? Right? Fucking Brexit twats.
I work for an international company, and following 2016 I was convinced things would go to shit here, so I deliberately maneuvered myself into a global role that isn’t directly linked to the state of the UK economy. Probably the only smart decision I’ve ever made.
Classic British politics, don’t look at your own situation and what we did to you, instead let’s blame someone!!!!.
Fucking insane levels of taxation on our skilled workers doesn’t help. If something takes 10 years to learn and you lose over half your pay in tax people won’t bother trying to learn it. We will end up importing the majority of our professional workforce through immigration.
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It was a deliberate conservative policy to drive down pay in the name of austerity. And the UK populace has meekly accepted it – ‘Don’t complain about your pay and conditions, instead direct your ire at them over there. Why should they get a pay rise if you aren’t.’ It’s not sustainable and we need to get out this race to the bottom mindset.
Successive worse Tory governments have rinsed us mercilessly and most people would rather blame poor people or immigrants for our problems…
And what’s worse is it seems to get more extreme as you go into most skilled professional jobs. Anything that involves doing or making something in this country seems to pay like 50% or less compared to most of our competitors it seems.
Nice to know my payrise put me on even less pay than i was before it 🙃
Now we pay for quantitative easing (bond losses) and covid (principal and interest).
Hurray we have more control now! I miss Nigel on TV
We had nearly 5 decades of prosperity in the EU – a period unrivalled since the heydays of the Empire.
But people voted to leave the EU and insisted on a Conservative government. This is the result.
Yep, got my date to move country, I’m out. Being a public sector worker isn’t worth it.
People need to ask themselves why our living conditions are getting worse in 2023. We’re all in this system to better our lives and earn a *living*, not survival. It won’t stop until everyone makes a collective effort to say enough is enough.
The phrase ‘cost of living crisis’ is nauseating. Because it’s like “oooh crisis we’re all in it together’ and implies there will be an ‘end’ to the ‘crisis’. There won’t be. You’ve just took a massive hit to your standard of living, and nobody seems bothered.
I am well above what i was paid as a student and even then 10 years ago i was soo much closer to affording and owning everything i need to start an adult life.
At least we’ve got our sovereignty back? Right? Fucking Brexit twats.
I work for an international company, and following 2016 I was convinced things would go to shit here, so I deliberately maneuvered myself into a global role that isn’t directly linked to the state of the UK economy. Probably the only smart decision I’ve ever made.
Classic British politics, don’t look at your own situation and what we did to you, instead let’s blame someone!!!!.
Fucking insane levels of taxation on our skilled workers doesn’t help. If something takes 10 years to learn and you lose over half your pay in tax people won’t bother trying to learn it. We will end up importing the majority of our professional workforce through immigration.