Businesses are struggling to pay fuel costs and if they can't import/export easily then this directly affects their income. If they can't get enough labour due to lack of workers from Europe then prices go up. Prices go up and people want higher wages to pay them. Honestly if people are struggling to understand basic concepts like this then it's no surprise that they voted leave in the first place.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I stand by my original post.... It's global! The rich have never been richer or taxes less for those with the influence in governments....I don't need a graph.....I just know it's a corrupted system kept in place by the corrupted...... While everyone votes for those that will make sure that the comfortable are kept that way, while the poor are blamed, shamed and spread so thinly they jump in front of trains and off bridges ashamed that they can't feed their families or keep them warm.... And then remember these are the working poor.... The bin men, nurses and carers that everyone clapped during COVID that ARE NOW RELYING ON FOOD BANKS.... Then worry about which home you should live in this week! The distance from reality in some makes me so ashamed to be human. I support the strikers wholeheartedly while our government scraps caps on bankers bonuses. Now you see why I'm ashamed.
@WonkyWomble a bin man earns more than my pension and a nurse earns an average of £35000 a year which is a lot more than my pension. I don't feel badly off and I don't need a food bank. I suppose there is one big difference though, my mortgage is paid off and I own my house.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I looked up French nurse salaries as I live a lot in France and that seemed a lot to me for UK nurses. Nurses in France have an average salary of roughly £20,000 a year, but housing is cheaper in France.
When I trained as a nurse, over 50 years ago, I earned £30 a month plus board and lodging in the nurses' home. I felt really well off after 50p a week pocket money! Nowadays nurses have to pay for their training - no wonder there is a shortage.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I stand by my original post.... It's global! The rich have never been richer or taxes less for those with the influence in governments....I don't need a graph.....I just know it's a corrupted system kept in place by the corrupted...... While everyone votes for those that will make sure that the comfortable are kept that way, while the poor are blamed, shamed and spread so thinly they jump in front of trains and off bridges ashamed that they can't feed their families or keep them warm.... And then remember these are the working poor.... The bin men, nurses and carers that everyone clapped during COVID that ARE NOW RELYING ON FOOD BANKS.... Then worry about which home you should live in this week! The distance from reality in some makes me so ashamed to be human. I support the strikers wholeheartedly while our government scraps caps on bankers bonuses. Now you see why I'm ashamed.
I looked up French nurse salaries as I live a lot in France and that seemed a lot to me for UK nurses. Nurses in France have an average salary of roughly £20,000 a year, but housing is cheaper in France.
When I trained as a nurse, over 50 years ago, I earned £30 a month plus board and lodging in the nurses' home. I felt really well off after 50p a week pocket money! Nowadays nurses have to pay for their training - no wonder there is a shortage.
and pay for constant training updates, ditto doctors
Money back in the 80s @Busy-Lizzie was a lot more useful than it is now ....I don't need to explain it to somebody as socially aware as you but to make my case, in the 80s one wage ran a house..... Now 2 doesn't....
Money back in the 80s @Busy-Lizzie was a lot more useful than it is now ....I don't need to explain it to somebody as socially aware as you but to make my case, in the 80s one wage ran a house..... Now 2 doesn't....
and one wage could get you on the property ladder. I bought my first flat ( a dump without a kitchen or bathroom , but grants were available back then )) on the wage of a 19 year old garden centre worker. We didn't leave Uni ( if we were lucky enough to go ) with £25,000 of tuition fee debt either.
I don't agree with tuition fees. Immoral. Just as cutting taxes is. The rich will benefit and the poor don't pay them anyway. The rich should pay more tax and the poor, the NHS and education should reap the benefit. Care homes should be owned by the State, not rich American companies.
But I think I'm getting off the subject of strikes.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
This is why I hate there word "should" @Busy-Lizzie... It's so full of promise but never delivers.... In an ideal, non greedy world everyone would see such sense 😏
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I support the strikers wholeheartedly while our government scraps caps on bankers bonuses. Now you see why I'm ashamed.
When I trained as a nurse, over 50 years ago, I earned £30 a month plus board and lodging in the nurses' home. I felt really well off after 50p a week pocket money! Nowadays nurses have to pay for their training - no wonder there is a shortage.
I bought my first flat ( a dump without a kitchen or bathroom , but grants were available back then )) on the wage of a 19 year old garden centre worker.
We didn't leave Uni ( if we were lucky enough to go ) with £25,000 of tuition fee debt either.
But I think I'm getting off the subject of strikes.