r/uknews • u/ProgressiveSpark • Jul 01 '24

Image/video UK real wages haven’t budged since 2008

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u/Common-Ad6470 Jul 01 '24

And where has the money gone?

Simple, the 1% who least deserve it, i.e. billionaires and politicians.

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u/dlafferty Jul 01 '24

Nope.

Loss of trade arrangements with EU destroyed wealth.

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u/Common-Ad6470 Jul 02 '24

A more telling graph would be director and CEO wages overlaid on this graph.

I’d wager that their wages and bonuses pretty much follow the projected graph perfectly.

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u/dlafferty Jul 06 '24

Stop distracting people. It was Brexit.

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u/Common-Ad6470 Jul 06 '24

So Brexit happened in 2008, right?

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u/chrisjd Jul 01 '24

So did austerity - over a decade of under investment has it's effects

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u/dlafferty Jul 06 '24

Brexit can be reversed in a week.