I'm a top 5% income household with a high saving rate and won't come close to £20k. It's ridiculously high. (View Post)

As we know from the polling ever since GE'24, most of Reform's vote is coming from their previous voters + former non-voters. As we have to constantly remind people on PB, just because one … (View Post)

That is a genuinely fascinating. Difficult to square with our exceptionally high rates of in-work poverty (even before housing costs), though my suspicion is that the high rate of increase of pension… (View Post)

I don't want to burst any balloons but there was actually an uptick in total hours worked when the minimum wage last went up: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employ… (View Post)

The era of cheap labour, high immigration and in-work poverty might be coming to a close. This is going to massively disruptive to the UK pyramid scheme economy. (View Post)