Controversial, but Father’s Day is about celebrating dads/step dads only, yes I get there are single mums out there (huge respect btw) but you have your own day. Could you imagine the uproar if a single dad posted about himself on Mother’s Day??
In 2015 the UK started charging people 5p for plastic carrier bags. Minimum wage in 2015 was £6.70 which means you could buy 134 carrier bags with an hour's wage.
Fast forward to 2026, minimum wage is £12.71 and carrier bags are now around 40p meaning an hours wage would buy you 31 carrier bags.
That's 103 less carrier bags and a 700% increase on the original price.
But only a 89% increase in wages.
We're getting robbed in this country.
@archer_rs This happened to me. i gave the 24 hours then i was pulling out and i did pull out and deal collapsed. I had another buyer. But i took legal action against solicitors and estate agents as its their responsibility to do the due diligence to ensure funds are available
A £50k a year salarary in 1990 would be around £150k in today's money.
A £50k salary in 2026 would be around £17k in 1990.
Tell us again how we have it easy?
If you call off sick, you are not leaving your coworkers short staffed. Your boss did that. They refused to hire enough employees, refused to plan for sick days, and refused to account for basic human needs in their calculations. That is not your fault. You deserve sick days.
We've reached the point in the UK where working full time doesn't actually mean anything anymore.
It used to mean stability. It used to mean you could afford a home, eat properly, maybe go away once a year and not panic if your car made a weird noise.
Now it just means nothing.
You wake up early, work all day, come home tired, and still somehow sit there wondering how you're going afford everything.
Rent is ridiculous. Bills are constant. Food prices change depending on the mood of the supermarket.
And wages? Basically frozen in time.
You're not lazy. You're not bad with money. You're just trying to survive in a system where everything goes up except what you get paid.
No one wants to work anymore because the reward is gone. Half of us are living paycheck to paycheck, with no savings for retirement or a house. Two paychecks away from homelessness. This is not laziness, it is exhaustion.
Nobody warned me that working a 9-5 job basically means you cannot see the dentist, doctor, or handle any appointments, because you are at work when they are open, and when you get off work, they are closed.
The tax threshold should be increased as nobody on benefits should ever be better off than someone who gets out of bed every morning & works full time.