An extra thousand pound per year during your working life would be more useful than a big lump sum of inheritance in your 60s. (View Post)

Mortgage rates fell rapidly after Black Wednesday in 1993. In fact they had been falling for nearly two years before Black Wednesday: https://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/analysis/historical-interest-r… (View Post)

Does Philip Hammond approve of wages being kept down in this manner: A South African woman has described working as a fruit picker on farms in the south of England as "slave labour". "… (View Post)

Are you sure nobody will be expecting much ? I don't see how the public sector unions don't demand a lot and very quickly. (View Post)

True. But doctors didn't demand a 35% pay increase in 1997. I doubt they'll demand a 35% pay increase from PM Starmer either - more likely to be 50% by then. And every other public sector u… (View Post)