Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[lenny]

UK cost of living statistics 2024

UK cost of living statistics 2022 | money.co.uk

We’ve pulled together the latest UK cost of living statistics and trends for 2022, covering inflation rates, average UK living costs, income, house prices, and more.

www.money.co.uk

 

[jamesporritt]

Certainly a lesson to be learned there.

He won't do it again.

 

[nigelbb]

Where does your income put you among Britain's earners?

Around 8.8m people had an income above £1,000 a week in the year to March 2022 and the average median real terms household income before housing costs was £565 a week in the period.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

The ONS data I linked to refers to household expenditure on goods & services whereas your graphs refer to house income. The £280 per year “hike” as a percentage of median household income of about £35,000 per year is just 0.008%.

 

[lenny]

The ONS data I linked to refers to household expenditure on goods & services whereas your graphs refer to house income. The £280 per year “hike” as a percentage of median household income of about £35,000 per year is just 0.008%.

Households Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2023

Households Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2023

www.gov.uk

 

[saneagle]

The ONS data I linked to refers to household expenditure on goods & services whereas your graphs refer to house income. The £280 per year “hike” as a percentage of median household income of about £35,000 per year is just 0.008%.

Your information doesn't tell the whole story and doesn't pass a basic plausibilty test. You've just picked out the minimum amount of data to suit your narrative. All businesses that employ people now have additional costs, which will cause them to increase prices. The big supermarkets have already explained that, but they're only a small proportion of what you spend on. The price of just about everything will go up to recover the lost profit caused by the additional employment costs, which would mean price rises of around 2% to 5%. Then there's National Insurance, which most employed people have to pay. For your average factory or warehouse worker on a salary of £25k, the increase would mean that they lose about 3.5% of their pay or £861. Your £280 doesn't seem to include that.

 

[lenny]

Number of people dying in poverty increases by 19% in four years

Number of people dying in poverty increases by 19% in four years

The number of people dying in poverty has increased by 19% in the past four years, according to a new report created by Loughborough University for the end of life charity Marie Curie.

www.lboro.ac.uk

 

[lenny]

 

[lenny]

"A shocking three-quarters of households in Bolton are struggling to pay their energy bills and manage travel costs, it has emerged."

King Charles champions food poverty project on working 76th birthday

The King is spending his 76th birthday opening new hubs to redistribute food which would otherwise be thrown away.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[lenny]

"The King is treating his birthday as a working day and travelled to Deptford on the first anniversary of the Coronation Food Project which aims to make better use of food that would otherwise be thrown away."

King Charles champions food poverty project on working 76th birthday

The King is spending his 76th birthday opening new hubs to redistribute food which would otherwise be thrown away.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[MikelBikel]

Where does your income put you among Britain's earners?

Around 8.8m people had an income above £1,000 a week in the year to March 2022 and the average median real terms household income before housing costs was £565 a week in the period.

www.thisismoney.co.uk

I wonder if the graph stopped at £1000 per week for a reason (they're shy?)

 

[MikelBikel]

This fish is a bit bigger than the petty tantrums of EU politics, I think.

If you want to know about the economics and the motivations behind the idea, I posted links, and google is getting better and better, now that they usually supply direct answers IF you ask a question in natural language.

I just think it is interesting how that submarine cable company got their fibre optics along Europe, and then *around Africa*. And NO pirates bothered them? No sabotage? No rooskis? No "accidents"? Isn't that interesting?

 

[MikelBikel]

Along with the poly tic shuns, the true believers FLY to Flop29. Sad. Meanwhile, in the Closed meetings... "money makes ze vorld go around..". Always liked that song!

 

[MikelBikel]

Has no-one told two tier and ded head that UK doesn't control a quarter of the world anymore? !