@TheSecretAcct Missing family - watch some 'race across the world' see the countries where they have a lot less, but are a lot happier, one observation is that the family unit seems a lot more central than it does in the uk / the west. Could that be it?
@TheSecretAcct Minimum wage was 3.60 per hour when introduced. At that time you could buy .8 oz of gold per week from your earnings. To do the same today you would need about ยฃ120 before tax per hour. Inflation on one hand, reduced value on the other.
@TheSecretAcct@RachelReevesMP@ajbell Thats where you look at salary sacrifice for pensions. Or you can view it in the light that your spouse is earning 27k for childcare? Who wants the state raising their children anyway?
https://t.co/vMbQSCEC58,
UK-Ukraine 100 Year Partnership Declaration
Published 17 January 2025
Pursuant to Article 11, paragraph 3, of the One Hundred Year Partnership Agreement signed on 16 January 2025 between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, both sides have reached the following understandings: