On the bbc news, and it must be right because the bbc said so? we are all twenty pounds a week worse off than at the start of the banking quesis in 2008, so i ask are the doctors worse off are the chairmen or women of footsie 100 companies worse off, or dare i say are the likes of gary lineker or anyone else who works for the bbc worse off, that is the question, who are worse off? so the very well paid in our society get even more richer? and i thought we were all in it together and all had to tighten our belts?
Are You £20 A Week Worse Off?
- Thread starter bluebell
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- Location
- South Wales UK
Bottom feeders like us are always worst off!
- Location
- North Hampshire
Yet the population is getting fatter ....
Courier
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- Location
- M62 - M1 - M18 triangle
I’m better off - I’m drawing my State
pension - Bit miffed that a guy who drives for us gets the New State Pension which is £38.40 a week more.
pension - Bit miffed that a guy who drives for us gets the New State Pension which is £38.40 a week more.
Don't know how much I'm worse off per week......but council tax up. Leccy/ water / phone bill up. Insurance up. Professional fees up. Heating oil up. Seed /chems / fert up. At least grain prices are up this year. Pity it won't be an uphill spiral like everything else...........
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- Limousin/Charentes toad land
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Every normal person has not benefited from the growth in the economy that we had become used to before the banking crisis. So yes
Now globalisation, creating private monopolies, the use of transfer pricing for multinationals to avoid tax have all had their effect too
Now globalisation, creating private monopolies, the use of transfer pricing for multinationals to avoid tax have all had their effect too
Agent's putting the rent up next year, but it's a double edged sword. Higher rents could mean less bookings overall.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I wouldn't say I felt poor, but a lot of items have become too expensive to even consider buying, such as brand new vehicles, equipment, machinery etc.
I'd say our standard of living is getting back to the 1970's. Two cars per household out of the question. When my runabout fails its MOT it won't be replaced. That kind of thing.
I don't really mind as long as we get by.
Makes you pleased when somebody drops a pheasant in.
A lot of the stuff I sell such as beet is at 1970s prices so it's hardly surprising.
I'd say our standard of living is getting back to the 1970's. Two cars per household out of the question. When my runabout fails its MOT it won't be replaced. That kind of thing.
I don't really mind as long as we get by.
Makes you pleased when somebody drops a pheasant in.
A lot of the stuff I sell such as beet is at 1970s prices so it's hardly surprising.
I will tell you one person whos not 20 pound a week worse off, the police and crime commisoner for essex, the position didnt exist 10years ago, 1500 pounds aweek and for wot? also we have a new industry developed recently called consultants? have you ever had to use one? then you will know what i imean? apparently our parish councill has been given a grant of up to 17 thousand pounds to spend with the parasites, if its anything like the crowd we had the misfourtine to use you get a load of bumff printed off a computer that a child could have downloaded that is totally meaningless?
Anyone else on here from essex, while im on the subject of essex police, well well well, a year ago the local police station was put up for sale by tender, anyone could place a tender with the price they would pay and a letter from your bank saying you had the funds if your tender was sucessful, well we as a family decided to tender so we filled the form in with our offer and got a letter from our bank to say we had the funds, my brother took over to the estate agents by the deadline, we wernt sucessful, welll surprise suprise a year later got an e mail from agent to say they are remarketing the police station? What in the hell would you make of that isnt it public money?
yellow belly
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- Location
- south west lincolnshire
Farming prices are higher due to lower value of the £
So output prices are higher this may translate into higher profits provided costs have been kept under control
Bps is higher than when the £ was stronger
This will continue as the government is having to borrow a lot of money
High government borrowing leads to weaker currency
So output prices are higher this may translate into higher profits provided costs have been kept under control
Bps is higher than when the £ was stronger
This will continue as the government is having to borrow a lot of money
High government borrowing leads to weaker currency
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Crime commissioners have sprouted up everywhere. Didn't used to be needed but now they are, apparently. Another job for a useless politician. And as soon as they are elected they appoint an old mate as their deputy, usually the bloke that ran their election campaign. Hundreds of thousands for nothing as far as I can see.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
We are all equal but some are more equal than others.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Go on your own maybe ?
kiwi pom
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- Location
- canterbury NZ
What's a consultant though? You consult a doctor and a solicitor don't you? (perhaps they're parasites) Who are these consultants you dislike so much?
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Ive been farming thirty years and could never afford anything new
- Location
- Huntingdon
Too many folk slave away tractor driving or doing menial work, that they could get someone in to do for say £15/hr. but do it themselves and therefore don't have the time/inclination to do the paperwork that they then have to pay someone £100+/hr for, despite being more than capable of doing it themselves.
I admit the above is a rather simplistic version but I see it all the time, especially when I heard someone paid £250 for an agent to submit their small grant application for them. FFS it was a 15 min click box exercise.
Some things money is well spent on getting expert advise/work done, the art is know what and when.
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