Pay rises in the past

[FOMz]

Lets notforget the 'Irish pay rises of the late 80's... food accom etc all went up full whack on 01 Apr and the 'staged' 1.3% payrise of 0.6% on 01 Apr and the rest in November... That left you out of pocket after a payrise.

 

[firestorm]

Well in the Thatcher years the Tories were better governements for the armed forces. I joined in 1977 and saw my wages jump significantly in the following years through the 80s.

You forget options for change and other redundancies then?

 

[Realist78]

I remember when SACs got benefits back in the 70s.

It was after the Fireman strike of 77/78 that we got the big pay rise. As a JT my pay rise took me to above what my Chief was getting the day before the pay rise.

We also changed from Fitters to Technicians at the same time.

Granted by the Labour Party who implemented it as a full pay rise as it was planned to be staged under the Tories.

The big payrise (35%) was in 1979, implemented by the Tories. IIRC, it was a further 15% the year after.

 

[propersplitbrainme]

You forget options for change and other redundancies then?

No I haven't forgotten any of that, it was the start of the screw turning that hasn't stopped since. But overall, on the balance of plusses versus minuses, I still felt that the Tories served me better as a serviceman than the Labour governments that were in power during my time.

 

[J Y Kelly]

The big payrise (35%) was in 1979, implemented by the Tories. IIRC, it was a further 15% the year after.

April 1979. 24.2% from the Labour Government followed by 8.3% from the Tories at the end of May. The inflation rate at that time was horrendous.

 

[Tin basher]

Rudyard Kiplings take on the value of the serviceman in his day.

http://www.learnenglish.de/Level1/Poems/tommy.htm

The words would be more modern now but I reckon the sentiment remains unchanged.

 

[Stevienics]

April 1979. 24.2% from the Labour Government followed by 8.3% from the Tories at the end of May. The inflation rate at that time was horrendous.

As I recall........

Tech App salary Jan 1979 - £120/month

JT salary Nov 1979 - £430/month

Well, you can imagine.........

 

[justintime129]

The big payrise (35%) was in 1979, implemented by the Tories. IIRC, it was a further 15% the year after.

Why does everybody have this misconception about the Tories given us this big pay rise in 79. It was approved by the labour government. They then had a general election and the Tories got in and gave us what we would have got under labour.

 

[busby1971]

Why does everybody have this misconception about the Tories given us this big pay rise in 79. It was approved by the labour government. They then had a general election and the Tories got in and gave us what we would have got under labour.

Labour have a (very recent) history of committing to things when they know they don't have a chance of seeing them through. When the Labour government came to power they did a moratorium on spending, the tories could have done the same.

Don't be miserable

 

[justintime129]

Labour have a (very recent) history of committing to things when they know they don't have a chance of seeing them through. When the Labour government came to power they did a moratorium on spending, the tories could have done the same.

Don't be miserable

I'm not being miserable it just ****es me off that people won't take their rosé tinted specs off when it comes to the Tories

 

[metimmee]

I'm not being miserable it just ****es me off that people won't take their rosé tinted specs off when it comes to the Tories

The big one I mentioned earlier was the Tories iirc Major had just taken over as PM.

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[John Lloyd]

They are all Lizards, they just wear different rosettes, The Military are only appreciated when the enemy is at the gates, just accept it.

 

[Realist78]

Why does everybody have this misconception about the Tories given us this big pay rise in 79. It was approved by the labour government. They then had a general election and the Tories got in and gave us what we would have got under labour.

It wasn't a misconception, simply a fact that the Tories implemented it.

 

[stingray888]

No I haven't forgotten any of that, it was the start of the screw turning that hasn't stopped since. But overall, on the balance of plusses versus minuses, I still felt that the Tories served me better as a serviceman than the Labour governments that were in power during my time.

The Tories will do nothing right as far as a looney leftie like Firestorm is concerned. He's a one man propagander machine for the extremists on the left.

 

[firestorm]

So options for change and redundancies never happened then?

Nothing to see here....move along.

They keep smashing you and you keep voting for them! I'm a propagandist for no one. I despise Labour as much as I do the Tories.

 

[br9mp81]

So options for change and redundancies never happened then?

Nothing to see here....move along.

They keep smashing you and you keep voting for them! I'm a propagandist for no one. I despise Labour as much as I do the Tories.

thier all as bad as each other,people go into it these days as a get rich quick job,the liebour party died with john smith,the torys have never had a leader with balls since maggie and as for the libdems!,***** the lot of them if voting changed anything they would ban it.
the rich get richer,the work shy and EU scum freeloaders get richer,and its us daves alarm clock plebs that get shafted and taxed.

 

[Kryten]

thier all as bad as each other,people go into it these days as a get rich quick job,the liebour party died with john smith,the torys have never had a leader with balls since maggie and as for the libdems!,***** the lot of them if voting changed anything they would ban it.the rich get richer,the work shy and EU scum freeloaders get richer,and its us daves alarm clock plebs that get shafted and taxed.

100% agreement there, pal - I'm pretty sure that politicians is actually an ancient Gaelic word meaning "lying, cheating, dishonorable scrote sack with all the morals and empathy of my last wet fart"....

 

[FILTHYRIGGER]

I remember a pay rise in the 60s that put me (just) into a new tax bracket; I was worse off !
Then there was the famous devaluation by 'Arold Wislon: "This will not affect the pound in your pocket. . . "
I was in RAFG at the time and it bloody well DID.

It is, and has always been, impossible to get less money just because you move up a tax bracket. Any extra tax is only applicable to the amount of money earned above the new bracket entry.
That must have ben some pay rise!! In order to move up to the higher tax bracket in the 60s you would need promoting to an officer rank!

 

[busby1971]

It is, and has always been, impossible to get less money just because you move up a tax bracket. Any extra tax is only applicable to the amount of money earned above the new bracket entry.
That must have ben some pay rise!! In order to move up to the higher tax bracket in the 60s you would need promoting to an officer rank!

Never say never, with the current practice of lowering the higher tax bands, this year and last being an instance, you could be £1 under one year and a couple of £1000 the next with only a small annual rise and quite a bit less in your pocket, especially as NI payments continue a little bit too these days.

I'm sure I could find other instances such as when the 10p tax bracket was removed and people moved into normal tax.

 

[Soon To Leave]

It is, and has always been, impossible to get less money just because you move up a tax bracket. Any extra tax is only applicable to the amount of money earned above the new bracket entry.
That must have ben some pay rise!! In order to move up to the higher tax bracket in the 60s you would need promoting to an officer rank!

I seem to remember reading that there were more levels of taxation than there are now with the super rich paying up to 19 shillings in the pound in tax.