No, it's quite doable. Say median income is £30k (finger in air). 60% is £18k. If only the bottom 10% are at or below that and you raise all their incomes to £19k then you've eliminated rel… (View Post)

2023: the 50th centile is £28400; the 45th is £26500 - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-from-1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax (only for tax payers, other measur… (View Post)

What would be interesting (and probably political suicide) would be to have essentially an OAP budget per person and then acturial approach to dishing it out. So you can take it as soon as you like (… (View Post)

'Relative' is, I think you'll find, an important part of the term 'relative poverty'. (View Post)

Indeed - were you a SPAD in the late-Blair era governments by any chance? :wink: (View Post)