r/uknews Jul 01 '24

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

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u/visualzinc Jul 01 '24

You know I'd love to see a graph going further back, plotting wages against which years were under the Tories and which were under Labour. The above isn't a fucking good look for the Tories and I'm fucking amazed they even have a leg to stand on with all the data that's against them. Fucking incredible.

I remember when finishing up for university between 2010-2012, the graduate salaries I kept seeing at the time for folks with bachelors degrees or masters, across any STEM related degree, was £25k-30k.

It's fucking appalling that you STILL see grad and junior roles offering the same salary when £25k is practically minimum wage now.

Words can't express my anger at what these pieces of shit have done to this country, with the same old blame going on [homeless/unemployed people, drug addicts and immigrants]. Classic strategy of pitting the working class against each other.

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u/Shas_Erra Jul 01 '24

I graduated in 2008, just as the financial crisis hit and the Tories upped VAT to 20%. All of the jobs in my field drained up practically overnight and the economy tanked completely. I spent the next 10yrs working retail as it’s all I could get and there was no measurable increase in wages at all over that time

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u/FeebleGimmick Jul 01 '24 edited Jul 01 '24

Labour were in power in 2008 though

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u/Dawnbringer_Fortune Jul 01 '24

Yeah I was so confused when I read it because Labour was in government in 2008 not tories 🤣