kristinna retweeted
The new minimum wage in the UK is now £27,456 per year. Sounds good, right?
Not really. It's still nowhere near enough for a single person to cover the basics.
£27,456 a year works out at roughly £1,869 a month after tax, National Insurance and workplace pension contributions.
Now let's do the maths:
Rent: £900
Council Tax: £140
Utilities: £170
Fuel/car insurance/tax: £300
Monthly food shop: £300
Phone bill: £50
WiFi: £30
That leaves you £21 short every month, just to cover the basics. You're already in the red before you've even paid for toiletries, emergencies or anything resembling a social life.
Even if you get rid of your car and rely on public transport, costing around £200 a month, you'd have just £79 left to last you the entire month.
People will say get housemates, rent a room or budget better. But if you're working full time, your wages should cover the basics and leave you with something to save every month.
Nobody is asking for a luxury lifestyle. They're asking for a full-time job to provide a decent standard of living.
One of the richest countries in the world, where millions of people are working full time and still living payday to payday.
We're not living. We're just surving.
kristinna retweeted
In England, vaccine uptake landed around 70 percent, meaning 30 percent never took a single dose. Denmark came in the same. So did Finland. Africa was even lower. America lands in that same range, roughly 30 percent who never vaccinated.
That number is worth sitting with. Under the largest coordinated propaganda campaign I’ve ever seen, every government on earth, the WHO, the WEF, the UN, all working in lockstep with a twenty four hour news cycle, 30 percent of humanity still said no. Different countries, different media systems, and the number held steady everywhere.
We didn’t even know there were this many of us. People were too afraid to talk about it at work. When employers mandated vaccination to return, I told people to start talking to their coworkers. If the numbers held true in their own workplace, 30 percent of the room could have walked out together.
Thirty percent changes governments. This is an international movement, and we have to keep speaking up loudly, or we lose both free speech and the most powerful chance for change we’ve had in a generation.
kristinna retweeted
🔴@Helen_Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, has claimed £2 MILLION expenses in 10 years.
£300,000 relates to her own travel and accommodation - yet she only lives 50 miles from London.
Her boss, @KemiBadenoch has 3 children, claims £2.7K per month to rent a 6 bed farmhouse & tried to claim expenses for a family holiday.
The country can't afford these @Conservatives.
- @Heccles94
kristinna retweeted
Please read posts by the parents of unvaccinated children…👇
As a parent of 4 unvaccinated children:
We’ve been to the pediatrician no more than 10 times in total for all 4 children during their first 18 years of life.
It’s a similar story with my other unvaccinated friends.
Not at all normal for the vaccinated.
Less vaccines = better health outcomes.
#vaccines
kristinna retweeted
Do you think anyone in Britain wants to be reading this right now? We are all up to our necks suffering an unaffordable cost of living and you're quite literally bragging about all the billions our government is awarding you
I had a great conversation with the UK Prime Minister @AndyBurnham, and we are grateful to Britain for its unwavering, strong, and truly leading support. Today, Britain made a strong decision to provide an additional £10 billion in financial support – £7 billion in economic support over the next three years, and another £3 billion in British export support, primarily for the supply of much-needed weapons that will strengthen our protection of lives. This is on top of the annual support Britain already provides to Ukraine.
A truly strong and very timely step – coming right as Russia needs to see and feel that Ukraine will not be left alone to deal with the problems Russia is so eager to escalate. Every step to strengthen Ukraine brings Russia closer to realizing that it must end this war of its own making.
Of course, Andy and I also discussed sanctions policy, and Britain will remain principled on this – setting an example that matters globally.
I am grateful to Britain, to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his team, and to every person around the world who understands that standing with Ukraine is the right thing to do – that it means being on the right side of history.
🇺🇦🇬🇧
kristinna retweeted
We can’t help our elderly, we can’t afford police stations in our towns, we can’t afford to allow our armed forces to practice war game scenarios, we can’t afford new prisons or hospitals… and our taxes are at 85 year highs.
BUT £10 BILLION FOR UKRAINE -
F**K OFF
kristinna retweeted
Someone more intelligent than me please explain how the UK can be 3 trillion in debt, completely on our arse but still find 10 billion to fund a war that has fuck all to do with us ?
🚨 NEW: John Healey has announced Ukraine will receive £10bn in additional economic and military support
"We called him this morning... he told us we made his day"
#Budget
Meanwhile poverty in the UK increases and the general public believe disabled, sick & vulnerable people should not receive enough £ to survive …..
Seriously WAKE UP
There’s enough £
We just send it to other countries
kristinna retweeted
Tesco are making £4bn a year in profit.
About 50% of their staff are on Universal Credit.
Why don't we crackdown on this unneeded benefit for billionaires?
kristinna retweeted
Middle class being squeezed hard. Poor are better off, rich are better off, but any professional salaries job is screwed. Keep in mind as well a lot of those jobs require uni degrees with huge loans now required
kristinna retweeted
Mind boggling till you realise it's on purpose.
Min wage only started in 1999, but run it from there:
1999 → £3.60 an hour = £7,488 full-time. 40% kicked in at £32,335 → 4.3x
2027 → £27,456 vs £50,270 → 1.8x
They didn't make the min wage rich. They froze the line and dragged everyone up to it.
kristinna retweeted
After mortgage, council tax, gas, electric, fuel, insurance, road tax, maintenance, food & clothing £5.4k pm / £65k a year doesn’t go far.
HMRC takes £43k including employers ni plus any other consumption taxes like vat or tax on fuel.
we are taxed far too much.
kristinna retweeted
Minimum wage was £5.00 in 2005, & a first class stamp was 32p
20 years on & minimum wage is £12.21 & a 1st class stamp is £1.70!
So one hour of work got you 15 first class stamps
But now one hour of work will only get you 7 1st class stamps
That’s a 531% rise in stamps but only 142% rise in pay
If wages had kept up with the price of stamps, the minimum wage would be £26.55 an hour
This is NOT just inflation, this is worse
This is about much more than stamps. Food, electricity, travel are all similar
The hard working people are struggling to survive because costs are soaring far quicker than wages
Something needs to change, but will it?
kristinna retweeted
Sainsbury's has posted an annual profit of £1.02bn.
It current has 10,000 young people working for free, paid by you.
With £1.02bn it could hire 105,905 people aged 18-20 for 16 hours a week all year.
Why not MAKE the scumbags hire instead of giving them free workers?
Imagine being jealous of someone financially worse off or sick or disabled.
Seriously cannot make this up.
Go live their life sandy and see if you’re still jealous then.
