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that's what i earned in 1996 under the last conservative government. people have short memories!
I hope you didn't spend it all at once!
i put aside 3p per week for my holidaysOriginally Posted by Andehh
People do have short memories, but I earned almost £5 an hour in 1996 for putting sausage rolls into a packaging machine, so it depends on where you're coming from as to what you remember. I didn't see any real change in my earning power between about 1995 and 2000, despite the change of government, because actually the government doesn't have that much influence over individual employers.
That said, having grown up under Thatcher the thought of having the Conservatives back fills me with loathing. Sadly, so does the thought of being stuck with Labour...
+1 i am just praying for a hung parliament.People do have short memories, but I earned almost £5 an hour in 1996 for putting sausage rolls into a packaging machine, so it depends on where you're coming from as to what you remember. I didn't see any real change in my earning power between about 1995 and 2000, despite the change of government, because actually the government doesn't have that much influence over individual employers.
That said, having grown up under Thatcher the thought of having the Conservatives back fills me with loathing. Sadly, so does the thought of being stuck with Labour...
^ The odds are on your side (going by polls/bookies).
Just out of interest - what were you doing for £1.61 per hour
Overpaid even in 1996? You must love a conservative government.
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I'm wishing we actually had a Thatcher instead of a dickless twonk.That said, having grown up under Thatcher the thought of having the Conservatives back fills me with loathing. Sadly, so does the thought of being stuck with Labour...
Look at Greece. Labour have spent everything, they've sold all the assets we have, even the gold which backed up the pound (if you don't understand the significance of this, and your thinking of voting labour read up about bond crises & the long term effects of quantitative easing without a gold standard.). That is where we could be right now. As someone who isn't Greek its bloody easy to watch and laugh at them. They are striking about the austerity cuts which aren't actually going to be enough.
They are complaining that they will have to make do with only the 12 months state pension they are guaranteed and that the bonus 2 months might be removed. What they fail to realise is they are bankrupt. Why should a German who pays more in tax and earns less, pay even MORE in tax to prop up someone else's pension? Especially when as a nation they've been cooking the books and living beyond their means for so long..... That said it wouldn't be fun to tell a greek pensioner or civil servant any of this to their face, but its bloody obvious it needs to be done, why should we give foreign aid to a nation which has a very high quality of life, when people are still dieing for lack of access to clean water, they need some fricken perspective.
My dad lost his job, the only job he'd ever had, the job he knew he was going to have from an early age (Army) directly due to cuts of Thatchers (and the fall of a certain wall obviously), this of course had a massive impact on my family, and me as a young child been forced to move twice due to economic circumstances and ending up in the worst place I'd ever lived by a wide margin.
However I have an ability to work a spreadsheet and its obvious that these where the right calls, to spend your way out of a recession is quite simply reckless gambling that puts the future generations at risk.
To actually have the determination to cut, and tax, whilst providing less, that is a leader.
To mislead your voters about taxes, to spend recklessly, to borrow money without been honest (PPI) and to claim your prudent whilst abolishing boom and bust. That is a disaster.
By all means complain about Thatcher in many ways, but lets not remember the mess she had to clean up, it was not her who squandered all the cash.
But as an asside, wasn't the JSA then about £35 a week? With housing benefits thrown in, I'm amazed they where able to pay you so little! Was this a geographic thing? I didn't think we had such a monopsony even in the depths of the 90s recession.
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What were you doing and how old were you?
making double glassing units, with glass, silica gel, aluminium spacers and this horrible stuff called mastic
as for my age, i like to keep some anonymity on-line (my YOB is not 1979) but i was over 18,
What was the geographic local?
(if you don't mind disclosing, just a rough area would do!)
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Should of got a better job tbh?
We appear to be of a similar age, yet i remember 96/97 coining it in on a very tasty contract performing os/2 Warp and as400 AWD implementations for large insurance companies.
It is all relative no matter what era we are in, there is always opportunities and hence means to improve ones lot. People have short memories on how Labour has shafted us - really cant believe anyone can vote for them (bar those in public sector/ quango non jobs or career unemployed)
She was rather helped by a large amount of money from the North Sea oil coming online, sadly though we took the recommendation of the oil companies and pumped as fast as we could. (The government was adviced more and more oil would come on line so we should sell it while we could!) Dumb asses. Norway however did not and told them to get the most out of it, also they kept the money and used it to buy assists. Ok so that is in the past, what I hope is the next government, will NOT take the advice of bankers and sell the banks they now own for a knock down price to get our money back, these are very valuable things, and in a few years time will be worth a lot more. Hence why the city wants them back....
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I was on 1.90 an hour in 95 after i left school. I was putting holes in paper for 55 hours a week.
I operated a machine which made fan fold paper.
Anyone remember what year the minimum wage come in and how much it was?
What is a £1.61 per hour in real money?(Just kidding)
I used to operate a folding machine at a printing company that I worked at for a few years and I don't envy you having to do that all day, full time. It's a very loud and tiring job in my experience. I'm just as happy not to be working in the printing industry, frankly.
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