Special report: Wage Wars as the UK's cost of living crisis bites 

She must do her shopping at Harrods

😂😂😂, good lord, I pity this future!

Nurses earning 35 grand a year and she can’t afford food where is she living in Buckingham Palace In my opinion anyone earning 35 grand a year are not struggling unless they want to live in Buckingham Palace

I love when government top officials are trying to persuade us they can't afford to help out as it their opinion it would just cost too much money. When it comes to wasting billions of pounds on something government believed it was the good but it turns out completely useless. when they were transferring huge amounts of money in form of business contracts to their peers it was alright. They pretended it never happened and when they were pushed hard enough they hid behind lame excuses. I think this is the time people need to get very vocal about it and if needs take to the streets. Enough is enough.

Bro our president gave the Taliban an unconditional surrender...!!! Do somthing

Test & trace! Where they paid £6K per day to each of an army of 'consultants' who did absolutely nothing. Yes! Get that money back! Plus scrap HS2 (£100Billion) as it's only the rich who will be able to pay those crazy fares. Then the deficit will look much better & then more help for the poorest is feasible.

Exactly dont forget the 70 billion pissed away on paying peiple not to work for 18 months

Track and no trace a survellence app

@fhweuenh not all

All ways remember ,labour tax workers to give to lazy sitting on back sides.

@fhweuenh being in politics as business man makes no sense for the long-term.

When a Socialist says "we need to think of the Taxpayer" they mean their union mates or friends on benefits, not people who actually believe they need to get out of bed and work for a living. Always remember that!

@@oldskoolrools3087 no I pay over a grand a month in tax . I would really like something for it. But Tories give it to there pedo mates.

Sadly people are stupid because they VOTE for the CULT called Government that shafts them. Voting = consent. No voting = Government Cult collapse and Revolution.

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"Rich" people don't just keep their money in the bank. Elon Musk "worth" 200 billion, simply in shares of Tesla. Tesla employs 100,000 people. He can't even sell it all if he wanted to , as that would drive the share price lower, and he would end up with 50-60 billions at most. then he would need to pay taxes on it, and he is really left with "only" 20 billion. So yes, its better for everyone for him to keep that money in business.

There’s the answer then, go out there and get rich …get yourself sorted and get out of this mess… gonna give it a go

Maybe it's me, but I haven't experienced any kind of change in my finances and I'm poor

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Question, as an American. That converts to $35.3k. Is a salary of 35k pound low, middle, or higher for the average UK citizen? I am curious because many people here make converted 21 pound an hour. Thanks!

I also work in retail and earn less then £14k a year. More than half my wage a month goes on rent alone after everything is paid I'm left with £80-200 depending on how many hours I've worked that month have no idea how I'm going to get through winter

@@djm2189 holy cow I would love to be making £21 per hour I'm on minimum wage which is £9.50 per hour

Why did they behave that way?

@@SamuelBlack84 Because they are content the way it is. All state they feel the plight many are enduring. When the very people they say they care about fight back workers become the villains, militant or worse barons. The workers have came out their box become strikers and must be put back in box. All fear people power or power from the people as all know it is a strong force however all workers have to stand together as one united together.

@@SamuelBlack84 The WEF own the UK government and the MSM. As conspiratorial as it sounds more people are looking into the WEF agenda 30, and the 4th industrial revolution. They fear the masses finding out the truth that our government and media do not really represent or work for us. I understand this sounds conspirorial but any one can look into the WEF and their anti human agenda. The escalation of energy bills the green levy, really means the eradication of the elderly and poor. We are the cabon they want to get rid of. Look at How to hack humans. Who klaus schwab is.

A week ago I cancelled my TV licence,I can't watch the bullshit anymore. It's a good feeling getting rid of that 'control'💚

“We are the many. They are the few.”

They simply won't do it as is too beneficial for people

yes

This government definitely won't ... but Labour might 👍👍

Am on side with that, the government can get the the "business" of those businesses, all they like. As long as they stay out of ours 👍

Neoliberal's aren't going to do such a thing ever. Both sides of UK politics are in the back pockets of the bourgeoise.

We aren't

Also, a lot of those striking are on less than 25k a year.

We should work together to elevate everyone. A rising tide lifts all boats. Don't let the elites divide and rule as they always do.

Question as an American, is 36k pound considered low, average, or slightly higher for the average UK citizen?? Thanks!

@@djm2189 minimum wage in uk is £9.50 an hour. 36k a year would be on the higher side and that's unaffordable. Most people are on half that.

I don’t earn £35k year and I can still manage to live. I don’t understand how she is straggling.

This is what I don't understand. There's even people in these comments, stupid enough to admit that they earn close to 60 grand a year between them and their partner, and they claim they are struggling? What? I'm a warehouse production operative, on about £1360 a month after tax, and i'm doing ok.

Wow I should marry a soldier then, I'd treat em real well. Converted i make 93.2k alone.

@@mertonsardeen2242 it's tax deductible for them

@@mertonsardeen2242 So because some careless idiot left a heater switch on it means it's all fine for that no doubt struggling business

Because everyone in the UK would need an accountant or be able to calculate their own tax. Something that would end up losing billions in revenue for the government as most people Inc myself would declare absolute minimum

Capitalism

Because then the exchequer would be getting less light 💡

Exactly, no one speaks about greedy shareholders getting excited about being able to buy a bigger yacht than their peer, at the expense of their workforce. Instead people turn on their fellow workers who earn a little more than them.

I agree. Those at the top benefit whilst those at the bottom doing all the leg work get paid the minimum. It's disgusting! I grew up in the 1970's and remember all the strikes and power cuts. We used to have an emergency draw for candles and a box of matches. These days people will need to have an emergency cupboard with more than just candles and matches.

This is where the focus needs to be

Yeah ... but to be fair, many companies aren't taking ridiculous profits. In fact, nowadays many aren't making any profit at all...

@@tobymaltby6036 Small businesses are not making huge profits but the big ones are.

Well she is right they are . The standards have gone right down.

Over generalisation many workers have been having extra tasks added to their role with no reevaluation of wage for years as companies aim for lean structures

@@jameshutton3960 Yes I know I was employed by a pharmaceutical company who outsourced a small department and I was worked to death until I physically could not do the work no one could the doctor signed me off sick and guess what after 25 years doing that job the arseholes dismissed me on grounds of in capability!! When in reality they knew nothing about the job whatsoever. It’s the greedy corporate fat cats who want to make a profit from decent hard working folk .

​@@spellbound4383 Not everyone fool. Trust u to judge everyone.

@@wilmaflinstone7650 who said I meant all

It took Labour to bring the minimum wage in, the Tories are the party of the rich and big business why would they care.

or carers maybe in "private" homes in various situations and illnesses etc........these people are not part of the NHS or a care/nursing home..........so they have no training have to be great at various different jobs and only get maybe £67 a week.................

They always talk about people struggling on 35,000 most are on incredibly less. The average wage takes into consideration the highest paid as well if one person make 100,000 and three make 20,000 The average would be 35,000 that makes 2/3 Of people and 20,000

I'm on £14k per year and living pay check to check I can't save

She is on LOADS. There are millions earning half what she does.

I have to agree i earn much less than that and I still get by

i was thinking the same thing, that's like almost 3 grand a month what the hell is she spending it on if she can't manage on that? i mean where does personal responsibility kick in?

@@antonichristian5845 35k is about 2200 after paying pension, NI and tax. Everyone has different circumstances for what the money might be needed for.

Tell em to unionise...

then unionise

Exactly. And that shake powder is well expensive.

@@joshnicholson2934 That’s what I thought.

Her home looks like a dump, so the money obviously does t go on interior design

Yeah something is definitely not adding up with her. She doesn’t need a pay rise she needs some financial education.

she certainly doesn't look like the type to be super responsible with her money...

I was wondering that myself. I'm also a band 6 NHS worker and definitely not struggling the way she is. Though, admittedly I do have a partner to help bills

Net income of around £2300 even with a £150K mortgage she shouldn't need to resort to having shakes

It's always highest under their rule.

Yip they're the party who routinely trash the economy and decimate entire communities. Unfortunately they have the backing of the majority of media convincing enough folk that it's the fault of a different government from days gone by, or migrants or benefit claimants. Will never change.

"Low taxation", surely? Inflation is the remit of the BoE.

Everything the Tories have ever said has been proven a lie.

The Tories have now run out of the last excuse for their flawed ideology!

Nothing to do with brexit, all to do with the stupid covid restrictions and pure greed from the top

Conservatives party was against brexit

@@mu6qy Boris was against Brexit?

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@@SakBoyyy the lad is a bit lost

The RMT have not had a strike for 30 years,

@@johnrussell3961 the RMT were striking 6 years ago over the switch to driver only operated trains with ominous passenger safety claims.

That's false....they go on strike when Labour are in power....as they know Labour will roll over....

@@johnrussell3961 The Tories love voters with very short memories, RMT 6 years ago ring any bells.

Not that much power these days . Tories just change the rules .

Takin the piss.. yes change will happen.

its a disgrace considering the also get everything paid for by the tax payer. these skilled workers but live in London. My sister is a nurse and more tgan manages. she averages £33000 with overtime a year. I feel sorry for the minium wage staff they are gonna struggle even withthe little help they get

@Topper Rune No No there's no ignoring, Those who are brought forward for us to vote for are to blame just as much as the whole system behind them that none of us have a say in.

Wow I make more than an MP. Cool! Granted that's just their base pay, bet they get extras. My base pay converted to pounds is 93.2k. thought they'd make so much more.

@Topper Rune Well said. Evil only exists when good men do nothing, which includes continuing to vote for a corrupt, cult system called 'government' that has never served the good men and never will.

Living thier lives obviously, rising prices are making things more expensive and that 35k pretty much small amount.

I thought that.. if I was on over 30k I'd be pretty comfortable.

Depends on where she lives. In central london, £35k doesn't go far.... ...in Cumbria she should get by.

Hmm does that 1.79 include the cost of energy if cooking etc

@@tobymaltby6036 I lived in South London for many years before moving East, and my salary at the time was £30k and I still managed to get by without having milkshakes as a meal replacement.

@@Andy-lu3bd or reheat in microwave at work as I did for many years. I lived on £20 per week for many years and on a salary £25k or less so know what it's like from personal experience. £35k is an okay salary even for London.

He needs that money to supplement his basic diet of berries and water cress.

@@peterlangbridge4628 more like caviar & fine wine

Yes but she does need to learn to cook. I earn 150k plus and I'm able to still make meals for less than 2 quid. Making a big dinner that can be used for lunch the following day and I promise it's less than 2 quid and better than some protein shake

@@richardt6347 actually huel shakes are probably healthier than most meals. But very depressing to swing back shakes instead of tucking into real hot food.

I'm content with a pizza

It’s banks they are the culprits! There is no money.

It'll get even worse.... This is just the start

I'm curious to see what would happen if the whole country collapses

@@SamuelBlack84 no it wont just suffer

@@muttley1423 Remember it would be worse under Labour! and we have taking back control! in 50 years time probably after even more years of the Toff Tories! Great Britain will be back!!! no wonder Scotland still wants out of the union.

@@muttley1423 Me too.

I'd really enjoy watching old lizzie working her arse off for £9.50 an hour.. I'm sure she'd be incredibly pro active and meet the impossible demands of her company!

The public blaming the state for their poor choices?

Yes

@@tla2119 We don't make anything anymore. It's that simple. We used to be an industry powerhouse. Now we only care about share prices. The problem with that is the share market is extremely temperamental. Where is everything made nowadays? China. Who's the global powerhouse these days? China.

@@BD-vu9bv Our economic philosophy in the West is neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is bailouts/subsudies/tax cuts/welfare for THE RICH, CORPORATIONS AND WALL-STREET, Late Stage Capitalism and austerity FOR THE REST OF US AND MAIN-STREET. Its a complete scam. They've rigged all neoliberal economies, democracies, governments and media in their favour and are slowly sucking the wealth from our nations and putting it into their off shore havens. The free market no longer exists because of neoliberalism, corporations and Wall-Street dont play by the same ruled the rest of us have to abide by. Remember 2008? WALL-STREET got bailed out via our tax money and regular people were left to fail and lose their homes. This is why the mega corps are monopolising the market, because they enjoy corporate socialism, whilst the rest of us have to suffer through late stage capitalism. When they fail they get help. Thsts not free market capitalism It is our oligarchs who sold off these industries to China, dont blame China for Western corruption. China just did what any other country in that position would do. The US and UK empire's are being run by legit criminals who do not care about the long term sustainability of our economies or nations. They only care about making as much money as they can as fast as they can. If these corporate monopolies are propped up by our tax money for any longer, we will end up with one world corporations and no democracies. Everyone warned of one world governments for so long they didn't realise it was a smoke screen. They dont want one world governments. They want rid of our governments which is why they undermine them from within. They want one world corporations aka King Gates and Co. Corporations are run like dictatorships, there's no democracy, just one CEO and shareholders making the decisions. We must avoid going down this dystopian path. We're all being lied to en mass and scammed. Working classes aren't being represented globally by their corporate owned governments because these corporations plan on replacing the entire working class with automation in the next 20 years, everyone MUST research the coming 4th industrial revolution. Here's a list of words to research. People in the western NEED to understand neoliberalism etc. People in the UK not understanding neoliberalism is the same as the Soviets not knowing the word communism! Neoliberalism Corporate feudalism The 4th industrial revolution Corporatism They manage to manipulate everyone who doesn't understand neoliberalism

@D C Things are expensive now, and rising. And wages have not risen accordingly, so that argument doesn't work.

@D C Not _everyone_ - people on 80k can cope with a pay freeze for a bit, people on 500k could cope on a pay cut I'm no commie demanding everyone gets the same, but is a CEO really over 150 times more important than a nurse?

Worker....liz

I like the cold

I'm afraid it's pull the ladder up Jack attitude,these days. Pall.

Only way I can justify their struggle is if they live in or very close to central London, nurses are still very much needed (or maybe she is bad with money and has lots of debts)

They may have more expensive rent or landlord may have put their rent up (has happened to me gone up by 14%), nurses also pay student loan back monthly which is a big chunk of money, they may live in London or more expensive city. Many factors…

@@Chadgigington they obviously live in london. News doesn't report anywhere else. Government nor media cares for the rest of the UK.

We need to make our voices heard in other ways. Together we are stronger and they know it. I've re negotiated my energy bill payments to a more manageable amount in the mean time..

My partner does security...worked the entire pandemic and earns 10,000 plus some less than these ppl

We shouldn't be angry at the professionals who earn more than us. That anger is miss directed and is exactly what 'THEY' want. To pit us all against each other. These firemen/women,teachers and nurses are not the problem. I've worked in the educ6sector dor a long time. Teachers earn their money, as do the support staff. Everyone works hard and has very little to show for it. It's disgraceful

@@sarahdrew5013 I am not 'angry at people who earn more' or questioning whether they deserve their wages. I pose a serious question: where is the highlight on people struggling to get by on 5, 10 or 15k less than these people?

@@kp361 These poor people are only mentioned in media when it degrades them. Like a bear on a chain dancing for food in the circus. The stigma of being poor and the class divide need to weaken or we shall be stuck in this mess of hatred and ignorance till our dying days, that for the meek, may come sooner rather than later this winter.

Liz truss wants her to work harder. This is who she thinks needs to graft harder.

@@TSINIproductions 😂 yeah how dare she not work hard enough Liz needs her tax money

Shes on 35 grand a year sounds more like she has money management problems then anything else.

She’s obviously going wrong somewhere though, earning £2106 take home pay per month, she should be living comfortably, i think she needs to do an income expenditure

​@@tvrtvr6984 well said. finally someone spoke sensible stuff most people shown in this video earn above 35000 GBP and that's more than enough for a single person to pay their essential bills and buy food

That call out probably cost more than if the person just went to a hospital...

Perhaps it's because it's cost effective to pay the fireman to do the removeal of the ring instead of tying up a paramedic or A+E nurse in the over loaded NHS.

35000????? i earn 25000

That "nurse" (if she is indeed one) must be a trojan horse they put in there. That protein-shake thing is also such a blatantly silly thing to do... not real.

Exactly, I thought that would be a good wage.

@@kevinwong1090 I definitely couldn’t live on that, not the way my expenses have gone up

If she's on 35 and can't afford to live she's either, A: Living in london the solution to which is.... leave or B: Living way outside her means - eating meals she can't afford and generally living like she see's people living on instagram.

Never happen

The public sector workers are fine, most of them have more than enough

Let's hope, but people have short memories. Tories will just dangle a carrot ...and follow like sheep.

But a nurse has student loan debts and has trained for years. Someone on 15k likely hasn't... although I think both should have an increase.

then why don't them 15 grand a year workers go on strike too?

@@leeatkinson1582 She takes home 2k a month once student loans taxes and NI are taken into account.

@@tvrtvr6984 it's bot all though really: should be way more given the cost and hard work to achieve her education and training 💪 or else what is the point in trying to get an education and career? Same with teachers and doctors etc. They should be paid waaaaaay more than a person on 15k 🤷‍♂️ a 15k job will not require advanced qualifications (although there may be the odd one). And let's not forget that a professional on this kind of wage will pay approx 300 quid in student loan repayment, so more like 1700-1800 per month.

@@leeatkinson1582 its 2 grand after all taxes, basic pension, NI and student loans. She has a serious money management problem.

Univeesity debts ...other responsebilities

@@mohamoudmohamoud3393 she still pockets 2k a month after that and taxes.

@@mohamoudmohamoud3393 that's only around 90 pounds a month, In reality she just mismanaged her money and most likely gamble from time to time as well as every other thing like drinking and smoking.

Vote reform Party. Stop supporting the Labour/tory power monopoly

Jeremy Corbyn 🤣🤣🤣

starmariods israelie handler would be so pissed at him if he does not support the tory.

Both Jeremy and kier are spineless underachievers.

@@andrewwilkins1707 Bozo the criminal clown 🤣🤣🤣

Middle-class families seem to get all the attention. What about us single people?

@Topper Rune that's nonsense. Governments are supposed to deliver upon the will of the people.

@@hohohohehehe6910 Except, they don't

I never vote

Yes, Angela Raynor is working on a strategy now....she just needs some help with some of the spelling and grammar....LOL

@@oldskoolrools3087 ........and Diane Abacus. now there's 2 even worse than Dizzy Lizzy, the ill educated Comp girl

@@christophermaley6822 There's so many on Labour's benches to choose from....LOL

Two sides of the same coin. Red = blue

Don't worry Tories will not be in government for 2 years not with Liz Truss. More to the point the people will put them out. Citizens will boot them out before end of this year.. Great unrest is on its way. Plus Liz Truss 4th PM elected by 160 Torie members. 50 million not going to settle for that. Tick tock

I just wish they would admit it

Sweet heart the costs are the same as most work from home now thank god. No one pays for our pc and heating on all day

Single people never get interviewed

@@SamuelBlack84 true!!! That's me

But first...tell everyone on here a time in history when people stood together & didn't think selfishly about themselves? It's never happened & will never happen! If this was the case we'd never need the police or a military of any sort. But fully agree with your sentiment!

I would prefer not to stand with the human race

How they can afford housing in London with 10,000 pounds a year?

@D C well she definitely deserves a grand or 2 payrise imo, but they've gotta be realistic

Exactly

The public sector has always had it better - many more sick days, longer holidays, better redundancy package, employer never go's out of business & gold plated pensions! Not to mention never doing your job properly!!!!!

Funny how people turn to jealous and envious comments when they themselves are remaining in jobs they don't like.

@@philipjohnkaye8890 It's only funny for the public sector! The private sector has to work hard & efficiently for their salary & can't go striking for higher pay because there'd be no job to go back to. Damn the lazy public sector! Million pound a year barristers are on strike! Get real!

The cose WEF great reset. Research it. By 2030 the economy goes bust and they reset it digitally.

They're whinging because they won't get their fifth holiday this year