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.
She’s a domestic violence survivor who thought her neighbor was being hurt when she heard the screams, repeatedly tried to get her attention, and called the cops as a last resort. The fault is with the cops. Not someone who tried to do what they thought was saving their neighbor
🚨🇬🇧 Bro cleaned all of this rubbish near London voluntarily & faces up to 2 years in prison
"He was operating heavy machinery and modifying a waterway without a permit" — UK police
‼️But, I guess, the real reason for his arrest was this statement:
"This river's been left to rot by the authorities, filling up with silt and rubbish and covered in knotweed. We removed decades of filth, silt, rubbish, and invasive species. We've got a message to the Environment Agency: COME HERE & DO YOUR JOB!"
Britain produces so much surplus electricity it pays France £770 million a year to take it off our hands, and households are still being told to brace for higher bills.
If you want to summarise just how messed up the United Kingdom is in a single sentence:
The UK government believes that 11 year olds are too young to watch YouTube but old enough to block their puberty and render themselves infertile.
Emiliano Martínez: "I want to win it for Messi more than for myself. I’d give my life for him."
Joao Neves: "Ronaldo is no different from anyone else. He's just another player here to help the team
I'm so grateful that Ronaldo won the euros with the generation that he won it with. Those players were not as talented as the current squad, but they played their hearts out on the pitch. These entitled brats of today don't deserve anything.