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HAVE YOUR SAY

ARE YOU WORSE OFF UNDER LABOUR?

Has Labour left you broke?

Monday March 10,2008

Comment Speech Bubble Have your say(29)

STEEP hikes in the cost of living have far outstripped wage rises, leaving families struggling to make ends meet, figures show today.

Research reveals that after this year’s pay rises, British workers will take home an extra £44 a month on average.

But families are already facing an average £148-a-month hike in essential living costs, leaving the nation as a whole £21billion out of pocket.

The calculations are based on the rocketing price of household bills, including petrol, energy, food, mortgages, car insurance and council tax – and lower-than expected pay rises already received or anticipated.

So do you think you are worse off under Labour? Has Gordon Brown made you broke?

** HAVE YOUR SAY! **

YES

30.03.08, 10:52pm

i am

• Posted by: jessica • Report Comment

ARE YOU WORSE OFF UNDER LABOUR?

30.03.08, 8:39pm

Skint again from the day they went in to office

• Posted by: Flyer • Report Comment

IF YOUR RICH ITS OK

19.03.08, 11:07pm

The CPI is a fiction. To begin with the components for food and fuel are not as heavily represented as they should be. Add to this the fact that for the low paid and the vast majority of pensioners in this country, where most of their disposable income goes on food, fuel and council tax the true rate of inflation is now more like 10% and counting. Add to this the obscenity of the scrapping of the 10P tax band, meaning that these groups are now paying more tax and you have yourself a Labour party that has truly lost its reason to exist.

• Posted by: figurewizard • Report Comment

I AGREE WITH PANDA

17.03.08, 4:21pm

Does anyone have a boat we can borrow ?

• Posted by: abuela • Report Comment

WORSE OFF "YES" ALL

17.03.08, 11:27am

All of us like me who at 53 has worked all his life and feel totally betrayed by this lets invent another tax gordon labour government my posterior.
You have driven the likes of me middle of the road labour voters to the point of extremism.
I IM going to row a boat out of Sunderland and come back as an Assylum seeker and i will be welcomed with open arms.
Lets all just capitulate and sing were going down the swanny river without any oars!!! Please can anyone save us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Help

• Posted by: panda • Report Comment

NEVER HAD IT SO BAD

16.03.08, 7:05pm

Labours moto should be you have never had it so bad.
The labour goverment seems hell bent on bankruoting this country, I have advised all my kids to emigrate, they will be far better off, and appreciated for thier skills in any other country except thier own.
My salarie now only just covers my expenditure,
compared with four years ago when I could save each month.

• Posted by: mike1951 • Report Comment