Left: Rachel Johnson and caller cannot believe that after his bills he only has £600 a week to live on Right: Wait till they find out about the 14 million people who have less than £294 a week to live on (Source: Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
@implausibleblog Imagine how these families feel. Destroyed by minimum income level By early 2025 only top 30% of earners can afford their foreign spouse to live in the UK - starts 11.04.24 Cross Party support growing against this #ToriesOut627 Sign and share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/6526…
@implausibleblog The denial of people like Rachel Johnson, is difficult to comprehend. They don't get the implications. That they are forcing people to live in austerity, that they and their social circle, think unbearable. They are devoid of empathy, and a moral compass. They're elitists.
@implausibleblog Postman in London area (1970): £20 16s per week. Gold was £15 an ounce, so 1.38 ounces of gold per week. Today, gold is £1720, £2373 per week, more than 100 times less than in 1970. The trick was to go off the Gold Standard ( temporarily), which is the source of wealth disparity.
@implausibleblog I thought my £500 weekly take home was comfortable. After bills it's probably £184 @ week and I can do it. £600 is luxury
@implausibleblog And now imagine what Rishi Sunak's idea of the typical average person's disposable income must be...
@implausibleblog wait until they find out that the average person on universal credit who lives with their parents with no dependents gets just over £300 a month
@implausibleblog Rachel Johnson is so wealthy, and so well paid, SHE is shocked. Tells you all you need to know about the political class in the UK.
@implausibleblog @Elemjay1 Why is she still on air
@implausibleblog I was driving and had to turn LBC off when I heard this call. Unbelievable to be complaining to have "only" £2400 per month after bills. I earn a little more than his disposable before bills/tax/etc and feel comfortable/lucky. The absolute brass neck to put on a woe is me act.
@implausibleblog £600 a week left over after all expenses is not poverty!
Actually I have to call 🐂 💩 on something . Everything you say is correct… but I’m tired of the housing market getting a free pass in every conversation on money? We seem to just accept that a studio flat cost £400k and average rent is £1200 a month… why? That’s where our money is going. We march and protest on the streets for every other topic . Why not the same for housing?
@implausibleblog Wait till @RachelSJohnson finds out that #50sWomen were forced by @Conservatives to live on £00.00 for SIX YEARS! No warning No impact assessment @LBC @LBCNews #50sWomenFullRestitution #50sWomenScandal
@implausibleblog £600 a week works out at £2,600 per month and £31,200 a year. That to live on each year AFTER BILLS is not far off the TOTAL MEDIAN SALARY of £33k per year earned by a full time UK worker!! What is wrong with these people when they don’t realise they’re the top 1% salary wise?!!!
@implausibleblog Some only have £600 a month for goodness sake. Wtf!
@implausibleblog £600 a week AFTER all Bills are paid? Fucking hell, I'm living on £5200 a year..................................................................................
@implausibleblog What about those on State Pension? £220 +/- .
@implausibleblog What about the millions of people who only have £600 to live on per week to INCLUDE bills - that’s an average salary of £40K!
@implausibleblog Lost my job in the first lockdown 2020 and as a single person with no children (& no savings) got just over £500 per month. I'm in shared ownership but that didn't cover my mortgage. Take mortgage out if it, didn't cover basic utilities. Lucky I had family or I'd be homeless now
@implausibleblog £600 a week - that's a lottery win for most people - I can't even imagine!
@implausibleblog Work as a delivery driver for Sainsburys.. I bring home £1400 a month after the mortgage and bills I’m left with £350 for the MONTH not week a Month! As well as racking up on my credit card because I run out of money before next pay. Go sit down with your whopping £600 a week..🫠
@implausibleblog We live on the same island, but each in different universes.
@implausibleblog £600 a week? I had that a month for myself and two children - after taxes. I am a qualified professional and it just wasn’t sustainable. The mental load of counting every penny is also exhausting.
@implausibleblog £600 after paying Bills??? I am left with just £46 which has to pay food, replacing anything that needs it such as household stuff, clothes etc. I pay utilities, internet, rent, council tax. Nothing left 4 xmas birthdays gor 5 g-kids, luxuries. Swapsies? I dare him!
@implausibleblog Carers get £74 a week. Even if you're caring for more than one disabled or ill person.
@implausibleblog Noticeably he says light & heat about £400/month - that's nearly £5,000/year, that strikes me as probably a very large house. These people really have no clue & I bet he would say junior doctors pay claims are unreasonable despite all their training, expertise & value to society.
@implausibleblog @guse_guse Why does she have a show? Why does she STILL have a show?
@implausibleblog Those 'ordinary' people aren't 'entitled' people like the Johnson family ..they are entitled to live well & to know when to buy houses on proposed HS2 line, have taxpayers pay their school fees & thump their spouses This is England where they are entitled !
@implausibleblog I think that £294 figure per week quoted by the JRF is before all bills. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
@implausibleblog Rachel Johnson makes me vomit 🤮
@implausibleblog How much of this is Rachel Johnson and the Tories not understanding that financial inequality in society with them on top might be a bad thing and that others might find this disagreeable?
@implausibleblog @littlemore20 I am on benefit. Not sure how much I will get on Universal Credit. Most of my benefit disappears on bills etc. Don't have a lot left for myself. Sorry.😢
@implausibleblog 'Only' £600...oh dear, just two new designer outfits a week, or a week's holiday in Britain, or a luxury weekend abroad every week, or dinner every day in a 3* Michelin restaurant. Poor chap.
@implausibleblog On the SP you only get just over £814 a month . After bills, food if you rent then it's all gone your in arrears. Month after month . Your lucky if you've paid debts off and mortgage, rent free ...
@implausibleblog I have the solution more immigration and send more weapons to Ukraine
