Healey gives households £100 to help navigate ‘global economic storms’
www.theguardian.com
Payments to 20m homes part of package to cut energy bills and ease cost of living crisis, paid for by bank windfall tax
  • Zombie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Oh thank you benevolent tax man for the equivalent of 8 hours on minimum wage. We’ll all make it through the winter now, thanks to m’lord’s kindness!

    (This gif is from 2009. £103 now is the equivalent of £61.86 then. Just to drive home how hopelessly pathetic Healey’s help is.)

  • SpaghettiMaster@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    11 days ago

    Maybe a combination of getting used to not spending money and things being increasingly shit, but I don’t know what I would want to bother spending this on.

    Even when I was earning £600 a month on apprentice wages in the late 2010s I don’t think this would have meaningfully changed my life.