On 17/11/2017 14:05, JoeJoe wrote:
On 17/11/2017 13:52, Fredxxx wrote:
On 17/11/2017 13:40, JoeJoe wrote:
On 17/11/2017 11:58, Fredxxx wrote:
On 17/11/2017 11:42, bm wrote:
"tim..." wrote in message
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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Â*Â* tim... wrote:
1) Benefits on offer to the "wont work" are far too generous if an
unemployed person can say "I wouldn't get out of bed for 7.50 an
hour"
and/or "I rather spend the time at home with my girlfriend".Â* We
need to
systematically reduce benefits for the fit and healthy the
longer they
are on benefits.

I'd love to see the likes of you live on 7.50 an hour. But it
will be the
usual 'don't do as I do, but do as I say'.

1200 per month, perhaps 1000 after taxes

3-400 on a room in a shared house

6-700 for other expenses

seems perfectly adequate to me

When starting out in your career that's what you have to do

and yes it IS what I did

7.50? You don't know you're born.
I started on 2s 6d per hr.

How many loaves of bread would that have bought?

£7.50 can easily buy you at least 15 loaves nowadays.

Except you won't find the word 'bread' on the wrapper.

Ingredient including 'improvers' might be there.

Beggars can't be choosers. It fills you up, and is cheap.

Quite, but the article quoted prices for average prices.

The question I raised was a simple one, "How many loaves of bread would
that have bought?"

I put to you it is a number of times more than £7.50 will buy now, even
if as you claim, that would be 15 loaves.