£100k a year doesn’t go far you know

He's right.
£100k single income isn't that much, when
- a £100k gross is £69k take home pay, "the highest tax take for 70 years"
- average house prices near to you are 10x your take home pay due to the Conservative Government continually failing to meet its housebuilding targets,
- you feel you've got to educate your children privately as the local schools are really suffering after 14 years of underfunding by the tories,
- you can't take the kids to the public library or pool as the council closed them so it wouldn't go bankrupt
- you've got private healthcare due to the state of the NHS
- your dentist has gone private,
- fuel, car insurance, car tax costs are through the roof but there's no public transport nearby so you've no choice but to drive everywhere
- holiday costs have gone through the roof
etc.
 
Good news for junior doctors and all other public sector workers. Looking forward to a bumper pay award this year now👍

This is really going to help those union negotiations. The feckin idiot (not that he, or the tories care of course).
 
Angus said:
Average house price 670 K according to him. If you have to live there and try to buy or rent it must be a massive struggle particularly if you are just starting out.
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Absolutely. House prices are insane in Surrey and West london
 
ThePrisoner said:
Hunt is a landlord, so it is in his interest to keep house supply restricted.
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This government's housing policy has been a stitch-up for the building companies for far too long.

It lacks regulation, both in terms of quality and the frequency that new housing is built, meaning that new properties are only built at a very slow pace, choking the market which raises prices and impacts on the renatl market.

There's actually an abundance of land for new builds to satisfy demand, but this would create too much competition and lower prices.

And that's before you even consider the lack of affordable or social housing.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
How many people on £100k are making sacrifices to earn that much?
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Some people will have worked very hard to get to a position to earn that much.

Plenty of others will earn that much thanks to being lucky what career they chose, who they know, who they went to school with or who their parents are (amongst plenty of other reasons that have nothing to do with making sacrifices).

Plenty earning a lot less than that will have made just as many sacrifices to be successful in their field.

How much you earn always being directly proportional to how hard you work is a myth. One the tories are big fans of.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
How many people on £100k are making sacrifices to earn that much?
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Plenty in the oil & gas sector as you know, not being home every night to see kids grow up, missing chrismas, birthdays etc. risking helicopter flights in storms etc all to try and provide a better life for your family. Then you have the government picking away at your earnings whilst millionaires get richer and pay even less tax.

As for the comment above about ‘im on the minimum wage’, how old are you, what are you doing to further your education / qualifications to climb the ladder, find better employment?
 
Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants said:
Plenty in the oil & gas sector as you know, not being home every night to see kids grow up, missing chrismas, birthdays etc. risking helicopter flights in storms etc all to try and provide a better life for your family. Then you have the government picking away at your earnings whilst millionaires get richer and pay even less tax.

As for the comment above about ‘im on the minimum wage’, how old are you, what are you doing to further your education / qualifications to climb the ladder, find better employment?
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You’re coming off a bit patronising here and out of touch. It’s not a case of simply “working harder” for everyone. Some people are in circumstances and situations that we can’t even comprehend.
 
Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants said:
Plenty in the oil & gas sector as you know, not being home every night to see kids grow up, missing chrismas, birthdays etc. risking helicopter flights in storms etc all to try and provide a better life for your family. Then you have the government picking away at your earnings whilst millionaires get richer and pay even less tax.

As for the comment above about ‘im on the minimum wage’, how old are you, what are you doing to further your education / qualifications to climb the ladder, find better employment?
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There's also plenty across the south east who don't make the same sacrifices, they're earning at home what we work away for. They're also in the oil and gas game.

Not everyone in the sector works offshore.
 
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