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Thread #162855   Message #3896387
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
29-Dec-17 - 08:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: DMcG
Date: 26 Dec 17 - 04:58 PM
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

So let's not worry too much about the actual figure, Nigel. To the best of your understanding are people on median salaries the same, better off or worse off since the EU vote?


Probably worse off. I know that I am.
But I cannot say that it is attributable to the Brexit vote.
Civil service pay rises have now been capped to 1% for several years, as shown in The Guardian. this pre-dates the Brexit vote. (by a considerable margin)

So my position is more due to the Conservative Party's 'austerity' measures. Which, in turn, are due to the profligate spending of the last Labour government.