Average Incomes in UK

Data from the Paris School of Economics show that average income for the lower 90% of Britons has stagnated in real terms for decades. Paris School of Economics http://g-mond.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/topincomes...

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Tax and Personal Allowances

Increases in Personal Allowances don't help those on the lowest wages: those who already earn less than the personal allowance....

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Unemployment and Jobs

The number of unemployed and underemployed in the UK is grossly understated by the top-level unemployment figures....

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Energy Prices - Retail and Wholesale

Energy companies have used 'wholesale price rises' as the standard excuse for hiking our fuel bills. Data released by OFGEM since late in 2013 reveals this to have been untrue. Finally, in 2013, NPower admitted as much in its annual report....

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CEO Bonuses

Bosses make a big thing about giving up their bonuses. The sight of them 'giving up' hundreds of thousands of pounds is meant to quell public anger at pay for failure. The reality is even these hundreds of thousands only make up a small fraction of these people's incomes....

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British Social Attitudes Survey shows fewer than one in ten actually want cuts to taxes and cuts to public spending

A graph from the 2013 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey shows fewer than 1 in 10 Britons have wanted this in the 30 years since 1983. More than 90% have consistently wanted the level of tax & spend to remain the same or to increase. Why does the Conservative Party campaign on lowering taxes and cutting public spending when fewer than 1 in 10 Britons want th...

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How to embed a picture in a comment

Go through the following helpful hints, and add a video comment to this post yourself: First, go down to the very bottom of this post and click on 'comments'.   Now you must copy the following html into the comment box: <img src="put the URL of the image here"> For example, to put the image from this URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/2010_age_distribution_graph-Windom.PNG ...

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How to embed a video in a comment

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How To Add A Poll In A Comment

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