£35,000 a year in the UK in 2026 puts you in the lower class.
15 years ago it was a comfortable graduate salary that bought you a decent flat, a few holidays a year, a savings habit, and the realistic prospect of a house.
Today it gives you take-home of about £2,200 a month. Rent on a one-bed in any city worth living in starts at £1,200. Council tax £170. Energy and bills £300. Food £400. Travel £200. That's £2,270, before you've bought a single thing for pleasure.
You're behind on day one of every month.
The wage hasn't moved much in real terms in 15 years. The cost of everything around it has roughly doubled.
Every wage bracket has shifted up by one rung — the £35K that put you firmly in the middle class 15 years ago barely keeps you afloat now, and the salaries that used to count as struggling are quietly slipping into poverty.
The official conversation hasn't caught up.
Anyone calling this an 'economy that works for ordinary people' isn't talking to many ordinary people.
Yes I know you gangraped a child but you've been Very Good Boys during your trial for gangrape and so despite the fact that you are too stupid to understand consent I will reintegrate you into society
We are such a miserable fucking nation. Let kids have free travel during the holidays to see their mates, go into town, go swimming, cinema etc.
Our taxes also pay for pensioners to keep warm, shall we stop that as well?
And so it begins.. The UK Media PR campaign to sell you a Mandelson trained, Palantir owned, backstabbing, pet shop burning, Israeli dickrider, by trying to allude that he’s a ‘working class’, man of the people & none of the things you’ve seen with your own fucking eyes.
So if you suggest black people should be "melted down and used to fill potholes" you get elected a Reform councillor, but if you say "please stop killing Palestinians" you get called antisemitic and the government calls a cobra meeting. 🫠
Una generación entera tuvimos que renunciar a eventos como nuestra graduación para que estos viejos hijos de puta pudieran vivir un par de años más y así lo pagan
The feed killed Instagram. Why would you show me people I don’t follow more than I do follow? The whole point in a follow button is I want to see that persons post. The explore page is to find people you might want to follow.
Most pointless app. It’s only useful for content creators and meme accounts now.
The feed killed Instagram. Why would you show me people I don’t follow more than I do follow? The whole point in a follow button is I want to see that persons post. The explore page is to find people you might want to follow.
Most pointless app. It’s only useful for content creators and meme accounts now.
"buying your votes" is when they give kids (who cant vote) school meals.
But not when retirees get:
* "free" prescriptions
* "free" buses
* "free" local trains
* endless pension increases
* up till recently free cash for heating
* up till recently free uk tv license