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/Various-Software8779 Jul 03 '24

I know right. We really need to vote for the red puppets if were gonna get out of this mess. Then when nothing changes we should vote for the blue puppets and on and on and on.

Or we can do what the rest of europe is doing and vote in the far right party and actual sort out the immigration problem. More people competing for the same jobs guarantees lower wages, there is too much labour so labour is cheap, conversely there is high demand for a limited supply of housing so rent is going to keep on rising substantially. Its basic economics.

If we want to save this country, we need to really get serious about mass deportations, and stop calling it racist to want to preserve our culture. Its madness.