Brexit blow...

[SirGalahad]

Who says I don’t criticise the Tories?

Here is something for you to chew on.

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

www.ft.com

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut.

 

[JohnD]

Here is something for you to chew on.

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people

When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut

www.ft.com

Britain and the US are poor societies with some very rich people When it comes to average household incomes, the UK may soon need to ask migrant labourers to take a pay cut.

For those careless enough not to be subscribers, it says, among other things:





"Starting at the top of the ladder, Britons enjoy very high living standards by virtually any benchmark. Last year the top-earning 3 per cent of UK households each took home about £84,000 after tax, equivalent to $125,000 after adjusting for price differences between countries. This puts Britain’s highest earners narrowly behind the wealthiest Germans and Norwegians and comfortably among the global elite.

So what happens when we move down the rungs? For Norway, it’s a consistently rosy picture. The top 10 per cent rank second for living standards among the top deciles in all countries; the median Norwegian household ranks second among all national averages, and all the way down at the other end, Norway’s poorest 5 per cent are the most prosperous bottom 5 per cent in the world. Norway is a good place to live, whether you are rich or poor.

Britain is a different story. While the top earners rank fifth, the average household ranks 12th and the poorest 5 per cent rank 15th. Far from simply losing touch with their western European peers, last year the lowest-earning bracket of British households had a standard of living that was 20 per cent weaker than their counterparts in Slovenia."

I suppose that's what living under a Conservative government can do to you.

"last year the lowest-earning bracket of British households had a standard of living that was 20 per cent weaker than their counterparts in Slovenia."

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Brexit has added 6% to Britons' food bills, new study finds

Brexit has boosted Britons' average food bills by £210 ($254), according to a new study.

www.cnbc.com

 

[JohnD]

It's lucky mottie doesn't care.

I wonder if Rees-Mogg does?

 

[Justin Passing]

It's lucky mottie doesn't care.

I wonder if Rees-Mogg does?

Care?
Of course they/we don't.
Let the government do it. It's not the the likes of you me and Mottie to do their job for them.

That £210 is over 2 years. 2 quid a week.

Anyone who claims to care and can afford it, give £2 a week to the poor.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Care?
Of course they/we don't.
Let the government do it. It's not the the likes of you me and Mottie to do their job for them.

That £210 is over 2 years. 2 quid a week.

Anyone who claims to care and can afford it, give £2 a week to the poor.

So no benefits then ?

 

[transam]

I am poor and no one has ever come around my place to help me out

 

[JohnD]

Let the government do it.

Remember poor children's food before Rashford exposed the Tory government?

 

[noseall]

I am poor and no one has ever come around my place to help me out

Get rid of some of the tat propped up on bricks on your front lawn, then you never know....?

 

[Justin Passing]

Remember poor children's food before Rashford exposed the Tory government?

Didn't he want schools to stay open during the holidays just to make meals for a few kids ? Bonkers.
Free things for poor people are a seriously bad thing. The step change in cost when pay creeps past a threshold makes a nonsense of it. put an allowance into the benefit.
Rashford's idea still running is it? Or is it gone?

 

[Justin Passing]

I am poor and no one has ever come around my place to help me out

Oh! Nice to meet you.
I didn't think I knew anyone poor. What's it like?

 

[JohnD]

Free things for poor people are a seriously bad thing.

Ebenezer Rees-Mogg?

 

[JohnD]

"In 2019, three years after the referendum, Jacob Rees-Mogg was very specific: “I can see the opportunities of cheaper food, clothing and footwear, helping most of all the incomes of the least well-off in our society.”

James O'Brien's Brexit Top 10: 2. His Unmissable Exchange With Jacob Rees-Mogg

James O'Brien's unmissable interview with Jacob Rees-Mogg about Brexit is at number two in the countdown of his top 10 clips.

www.lbc.co.uk

Never believe a Brexer.

 

[Justin Passing]

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No, it's just an incompetent way to do it. The income threshold for free school meals has been stuck at £7400 since 2018 and it's not set to rise. We've had something like 16% of inflation. Since then, something like 110,000 more kids should qualify for fsm but don't, because incomes crept over the threshold. You have to earn something over £3k to cover school meals. (iirc - that may have been for 2 kids)
Benefits are not just for the unemployed, 40% of those on UC are employed. When they work out the UC, why isn't school meal allowance put in there?
(I haven't rechecked the numbers, these are just what my memory tells me. You get the point anyway, it' a bad method.)

Kids are turning up at school not having had a breakfast, and/or not with a vaguely adequate lunch.

Now, (he said, warming to his theme) are these parents really that poor, or are they just incompetent to bring kids up?
100g of porridge oats is 13p. Whole milk, 70p/litre, cheap eggs 12p each.
Brekky well under 50p. Including cooking. Three for near a quid.
Questions are obvious. Maybe parents need educating - they don't get training?

 

[JohnD]

Now, (he said, warming to his theme) are these parents really that poor, or are they just incompetent to bring kids up?
100g of porridge oats is 13p. Whole milk, 70p/litre, cheap eggs 12p each.
Brekky well under 50p. Including cooking. Three for near a quid.
Questions are obvious. Maybe parents need educating - they don't get training?

You favour punishing children with hunger because you consider their parents "incompetent"

A true Tory.