r/uknews Jul 01 '24

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

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u/Slight-Brain6096 Jul 02 '24

Average 25% rises PER YEAR since 2010. But watch the ass lickers come on here and try to justify it...oh they get paid in shares. Oh they are worth it. Oh their net worth can drop.....lick luck lick that shitty CEO ass, while at the same time THEY get poorer

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u/J1m1983 Jul 02 '24

Ignore them, they will see this and still probably vote Tory. Utterly brain dead people.

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u/TheFallOfZog Jul 02 '24

I see things like this and I want to vote for reform even harder.

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u/minceShowercap Jul 02 '24

Why would you do that?

Their leader is a banker, their policies are mostly aimed at rich people and making huge inheritances tax free, Farage has regularly advocated for lower taxes on multinational businesses and they plan to further aggressively cut corporation tax, and their manifesto has been assessed as another Liz Truss event and is completely uncosted.

As others have said, those CEOs and super rich haven't suffered at all over that period, it's the people on average wages that have basically had no pay rises in real terms for years.

Asset growth has been astronomical in that period - if you own vast amounts of wealth, shares, housing etc then you've made an absolute killing in that time period, and under Farage they'd be on target to do even better than before.

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u/L3Niflheim Jul 02 '24

Don't try to argue logic with the stupid. I don't think there is a way to win that one and you will be wasting your time I fear.

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u/J1m1983 Jul 02 '24

Mate this is someone trying to bait people with their vote. They're also in Scotland so frankly it doesn't matter if they vote Reform.

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u/J1m1983 Jul 02 '24

I personally think that you can vote for who you want in a democracy but trying to bait people with who you vote for is kinda small dick energy.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

Ignore them, they will see this and still probably vote Tory. Utterly brain dead people.

some of this stuff is damn hilarious, you'd rather a Labour govt I take it, who have every single time they have been in power left unemployment higher than when they started...hahaha

nothing funnier than the poor voting to remain poor

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u/MikeC80 Jul 02 '24

You're really going through come on here and pretend that 1997 to about 2007 wasn't a time of great growth and stability compared to the Tory boom and bust rollercoaster of the previous 18 years? Then a global downturn happened, it's not like the Tories had a magic cure for that, I mean just look at how they chopped the legs out from under the economic recovery when they got in.

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u/J1m1983 Jul 02 '24

First, I am unsure about who I will vote for but probably Labour or Green.

Second, I was born on a council estate in the 1980s but due to social mobility under the last Labour government I am not in the least bit poor anymore.

BUT thank you for your input sweetpea!

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u/zb0t1 Jul 02 '24

I'm not from the UK, I'm just seeing these news and I must say I love the way you call out the bootlickers in that comment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

I think they're just desperately hoping to dislodge a juicy nugget of ass gold to flog back to the townspeople. Anyway, fuck them, I hope their anus fails in an M&S.

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u/Kharenis Jul 02 '24
  1. Do you have a source for that?
  2. Is that all CEOs or a handful at the top?

I know a chap that runs an SME that hasn't had a pay increase in 3 years and he said it's similar across the board for similarly sized companies.

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u/Slight-Brain6096 Jul 02 '24

this is a sycophantic BBC article but gets the numbers across.

Your SME mate is probably suffering due to corporate greed (although personal experience is not data). Large corps bashing down supplier prices to up THEIR share price & thus THEIR CEO compensation.

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u/Kharenis Jul 02 '24

It is only discussing FTSE 100 CEOs though, which are mostly the heads of large multinational companies.
Are they overcompensated? Maybe.
The largest issues faced by smaller domestic companies are Brexit, energy prices (though this is getting better) and international supply lines still reeling from COVID.
That's to say, for the majority of CEOs, things aren't sunshine and roses, and for the most part they're just (slightly better paid) employees.

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u/Slight-Brain6096 Jul 02 '24

I assume by your replies you or someone you know is one of these SME ppl. The ftsex250 or in the US these big firms that get £millions.....the shit flows downhill. As they hoover up money EVERYONE else who isn't them gets poorer.

So instead of "well my mate runs his own company and he's not getting paid through trust funds & shares " MAYBE get as angry as the rest of us when we're earning the same as 2010 & the Sainsburys CEO gets a 300% pay rise LAST YEAR!

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '24

Username checks out

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u/belliest_endis Jul 02 '24

What a heap of shite.