The Resolution Foundation says pay after inflation will take until 2026 to get back to its 2008 level.
  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    9 months ago

    But didn’t the BoE say that we were all very rude and uncouth for taking payrises while the economy was mending?

    It’s almost like they’re a bunch of self serving cantankerous old fucks with no grasp on how real people live or function in society.

    • MonsterMonster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      It’s almost like they’re a bunch of self serving cantankerous old fucks with no grasp on how real people live or function in society.

      That’s because they are.

      But yes you are right. Here’s a reminder.

      And more recently here.

  • Wanderer@lemm.eeEnglish
    311·
    9 months ago

    Maybe all those business that claim no one wants to work and that we need to get in low paid immigrants wasn’t good for society in the long term.

    • RobotToasterEnglish
      41·
      9 months ago

      This isn’t even anything new, Engels wrote about it in 1845.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    9 months ago

    Holy shit the BBC site had gone downhill just like the actual channel. What a cancerous site full of trackers and irrelevant shit.