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If this is true then fuck MPs
yeah but if they took the mp salary increase... and spread amongst all nurses... theyd get about a three quid pay rise
which maybe they should do 😛
True
But MPs shouldn't get such a rise in the first place
They should get a rise in line with inflation
At most
that might not be far off inflation
Proportionately it's still a greater rise though?
Then NHS staff
Than*
according to inflation calculation MPs pay should have gone from 65738 to 84924.94 .. if it rose by inflation
so theyre under inflation
But then so are the NHS staff?
they should be on 27356.64
Otherwise the % of both would be the same
Yeah that's more like it
but thats regular inflation... not wage inflation
and I dont know how much they were rising when labour where in power.. they might be on target by like .. 80's standards or something
so in 1981 a nurses pay was 4,450 :/
So they're now over inflation?
17k is shit for a nurse
so basically they have been receiving above inflation pay rises .. probably between 2000-2008
which makes sense, labour basically threw money away during that time.. which is fine, we were in a boom... it just took 10yrs of austerity to fix it, thats all
Oh damn this is interesting
I'll take it with a pinch of salt.. since A) its sky news .. and B) he said US and germany are our biggest trading partners
our biggest trading partners for gold are canada and the US, germany is not even in the top 5
Twitter is such a shit platform for stuff like that
I think he just said
largest trade partners
wait, if I look at the latest data, germany comes into the top 5...
in which case US and germany is true
which appears to be a very recent thing
but the biggest is still canada
Huh
What?
So what's the upshot of it?
in 2018 its Canada, US, Germany, Kyrgyztan, Turkey