[jambutty]

It has just been announced that as from the 1st September 2008 the minimum wage will go up by 21p to £5.73 per hour.

That’s a rise of a smidgin over 3.8%.

It was also recently reported that if a household income is below £16.5k pa that household is living in POVERTY.

At 40 hours per week the minimum wage equates to £11,918.40 pa on which Income Tax is paid.

Verb sap!

Better than a kick in the teeth but as Mahatma Ghandi put it:
The world has enough for every man's need, but not enough for every man's greed.