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Originally Posted by Pierre
Less than what a tube driver earns
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Indeed. And drivers on national rail routes are all on at least £50k, with some on more than £70k. Many of them have been on strike over pay recently and are due to do so again.
The idea that everyone on £45k can easily just cancel a couple of streaming tv subscriptions and ride it out is mule-headed classism. A great many people in this bracket are stuck in expensive rented accommodation because the last financial crisis in this country more or less permanently ended their hopes of ever getting a mortgage. Those who do have mortgages are finding them rapidly becoming expensive, with worse to come.
A repossession/homelessness crisis with the inevitable knock-on effects on the state benefits bill profits nobody.