Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 an hour.
A Freddo cost 10p.
One hour of work bought you 50 Freddos.
In 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and a Freddo is 39p.
One hour of work now buys you just 32 Freddos.
So despite minimum wage more than doubling, your Freddo buying power has fallen by 36%.
If wages had actually kept pace with Freddo inflation, minimum wage would be £19.65 an hour today.
Forget economists. Forget politicians.
The Freddo has just delivered the most depressing cost of living graph you'll ever see.
Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.
During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.
But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.
No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.
And just like that, the very wealthiest party in the U.K. backed by foreign billionaires is supported by the very poorest members of society who dislike foreigners. You couldn’t make this shit up.
Brilliant, bold and challenging address by King Charles to the U.S. Congress which was (very unusually!) united in regular standing ovations. The best speech of his life, right when his country needed him to step up and repair the Special Relationship. Bravo, Your Majesty! 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
How the world works in a nutshell: giant corporations profit from an illegal war whilst the governments who wage them tell the rest of us to tighten our belts.
Everything rotten in Britain stems from this period. Everything.
Landlord rents. Shit in the rivers. Zero work hours. No British industry. Gas, electric bills through the roof,
No affordable housing.
All of it.
True to form, during yet another of his “scam” announcements, Farage’s famously paper‑thin skin disintegrates the moment anyone dares prod it, even when the prod comes from his pal Beth Rigby. The second she points out that he promised council tax cuts to win local elections and then delivered precisely nothing, he reacts like she’s committed treason. For a man who never stops lecturing the country about “accountability,” he folds spectacularly quickly when the accountability is aimed at him. #Farage #ReformUK
So Farage wants us to believe that Muslim women were desperate to vote for Matt Goodwin but were coerced by their husbands into voting for a party led by a gay Jew instead?
Fucking hilarious.
Yo @bet365@bet365help I’m struggling to see how the Macc Town heading it into his own net isn’t a header as the first goal method. Especially when OG wasn’t an option…!?
There’s not a single player born in 1976 who ever represented England.
This means there’s nobody turning or has turned 50 this year who can lay claim to having an appearance for England.
1976 is the only year in the entire 20th century to have nobody representing England.
It says so much about birth years.
One of the most interesting things I’ve read on @TheAthleticFC