NEW Chart of the Week from RF.
If the Government uprates benefits by earnings rather than prices in April 2023, here's the overall impact of tax and benefit policies taking effect next year:
- Richest 5% get a 5.5% (£9,200) income boost
- Poorest 20% take a 2% (£300) income hit
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In the decade 2010 on, government policy made poor people's lives harder, with little improvement for those in the middle. It is hardly a surprise that health inequalities increased and life expectancy for people in the most deprived areas went down. https://t.co/hPX3ReeNeY
Quite the day, when you think about it. Stroke & heart attack victims now waiting two hours for an ambulance, people unable to afford food, and the UK pulling apart as never before. But, you know, the leader of the opposition ate a meal.