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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 20, 2023 9:58:33 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64970708Fifteen years of wage stagnation has left British workers £11,000 worse off per year, according to research shared exclusively with BBC Panorama. The figures come from the Resolution Foundation think tank, which focuses on low-to-middle income households. It also found typical UK household incomes have fallen further behind those in Germany. In 2008, the gap was over £500 a year, now it is £4,000.
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Mar 20, 2023 10:03:23 GMT
What do you expect if you import cheap labour?
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 20, 2023 12:07:10 GMT
More people depresses wages and drives up housing costs.
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Post by mowlick on Mar 20, 2023 12:12:29 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64970708Fifteen years of wage stagnation has left British workers £11,000 worse off per year, according to research shared exclusively with BBC Panorama. The figures come from the Resolution Foundation think tank, which focuses on low-to-middle income households. It also found typical UK household incomes have fallen further behind those in Germany. In 2008, the gap was over £500 a year, now it is £4,000. Thank God.
I can barely manage to spend the money I have.
And does the British worker deserve any more cash?
I went up to my allotment yesterday and found my gardener sitting around doing nothing.
"Come on my dear," I said. "Spring is just around the corner. The beds won't clear themselves."
"But it is raining," she whimpered.
"Your skin is waterproof," I replied cheerily."Now crack on"
Which she did, but without much in the way of enthusiasm
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Mar 20, 2023 13:26:06 GMT
More people depresses wages and drives up housing costs. Nonsense. Here is mathematical proof: If:Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Q: What is the average household income? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100) ---------------------------- 4 = 100 Now, if we import a low paid family so we have: Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Household 5 income = 50 Q: What is the average household income now? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100 + 50) ----------------------------------- 5 = 100 So, as you can see, the average household income has not changed. We can therefore conclude from the science that immigration does NOT depress wages and that such notions are complete fallacies. The only explanation is Tories. |
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 20, 2023 13:50:43 GMT
More people depresses wages and drives up housing costs. Nonsense. Here is mathematical proof: If:Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Q: What is the average household income? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100) ---------------------------- 4 = 100 Now, if we import a low paid family so we have: Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Household 5 income = 50 Q: What is the average household income now? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100 + 50) ----------------------------------- 5 = 100 So, as you can see, the average household income has not changed. We can therefore conclude from the science that immigration does NOT depress wages and that such notions are complete fallacies. The only explanation is Tories. That's all reasonable, except Trump isn't a Tory. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Mar 20, 2023 14:40:23 GMT
What do you expect if you import cheap labour? But you are against higher pay, you bitch every time someone strikes for it. |
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Post by mowlick on Mar 20, 2023 14:49:08 GMT
Nonsense. Here is mathematical proof: If:Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Q: What is the average household income? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100) ---------------------------- 4 = 100 Now, if we import a low paid family so we have: Household 1 income = 100 Household 2 income = 100 Household 3 income = 100 Household 4 income = 100 Household 5 income = 50 Q: What is the average household income now? Solution: The average is calculated as follows: Average = (100 + 100 + 100 + 100 + 50) ----------------------------------- 5 = 100 So, as you can see, the average household income has not changed. We can therefore conclude from the science that immigration does NOT depress wages and that such notions are complete fallacies. The only explanation is Tories. That's all reasonable, except Trump isn't a Tory. Nor is Trump British, so he does not appear in calculations as to the well being or lack thereof the UK workforce.
Anyway, whenever I employ an immigrant I pay them in cash and I doubt that they feel the need to bother HMRC with details of their income, so where these figures come from is beyond me.
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 20, 2023 14:51:21 GMT
That's all reasonable, except Trump isn't a Tory. Nor is Trump British, so he does not appear in calculations as to the well being or lack thereof the UK workforce.
Anyway, whenever I employ an immigrant I pay them in cash and I doubt that they feel the need to bother HMRC with details of their income, so where these figures come from is beyond me.
Those immigrants vote mostly for parties that will take your money. You're sawing thru the branch you're sitting on. |
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Post by mowlick on Mar 20, 2023 15:09:57 GMT
Nor is Trump British, so he does not appear in calculations as to the well being or lack thereof the UK workforce.
Anyway, whenever I employ an immigrant I pay them in cash and I doubt that they feel the need to bother HMRC with details of their income, so where these figures come from is beyond me.
Those immigrants vote mostly for parties that will take your money. You're sawing thru the branch you're sitting on. Possibly in the US, where they appear to have replaced politics with public hysteria, but in my experience the first generation of immigrants vote for left wing parties and then after that say sod it, I have worked hard to build a life here and I am buggered if I am going to give any of my money to a bunch of arseless foreigners whose only contribution to the nation's well being is to float across the Channel on a tractor tyre. You should hear Suella Braverman on the subject. Splendid girl, but she gets a bit over excited on the matter
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Mar 20, 2023 15:31:35 GMT
That's all reasonable, except Trump isn't a Tory. Note which board we are on! |
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 20, 2023 17:46:36 GMT
That's all reasonable, except Trump isn't a Tory. Note which board we are on! If it wasn't for Brexit then he'd definitely be the cause of your stagnant wages. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Mar 20, 2023 19:12:38 GMT
Note which board we are on! If it wasn't for Brexit then he'd definitely be the cause of your stagnant wages. So the rest of Europe brexited as well?? |
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Post by ayatollah on Mar 20, 2023 20:29:35 GMT
If it wasn't for Brexit then he'd definitely be the cause of your stagnant wages. So the rest of Europe brexited as well?? They were on the receiving end of it. |
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Post by Flying Monkeys (Flying/Monkeys on Mar 20, 2023 20:40:22 GMT
So the rest of Europe brexited as well?? They were on the receiving end of it. And brexit happened in 2008, it seems. |
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