TonkaBoy:
Members of Parliament (MPs):
1980 Salary: £11,000 to £13,000
Current Salary (2023): £81,932
Percentage Increase: Approximately 529% to 646%Initial NMW (1999): £3.60 per hour
Current NMW (2023):
Workers aged 23 and over: £9.50 per hour
Percentage Increase: Approximately 164%Says everything about why its all going wrong in UK…
What is wrong is comparing starting points nearly twenty years apart. Why?
MP salary (1999) was £47k which means a less than 100% increase to 2023.
Lots of arguments to be made without using grossly misleading figures.