Wages Continue To Tumble In Con-Dem Britain

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Average worker has lost £1,600 a year since 2010, writes CONRAD LANDIN

WORKERS’ wages are still tumbling down the Con-Dem cliff even though dole queues are getting shorter, with experts warning yesterday that the coalition’s economic carve-up has made it more difficult than ever to make work pay.

The average worker is £1,600 a year worse off compared with before the 2010 general election.

That’s despite Office for National Statistics figures showing yesterday that fewer people are unemployed than at any time since 2008.

But more than a million people still have to claim jobseeker’s allowance to get by and there were actually increases in unemployment in Scotland and north-east and south-west England.

Official statistics showed that average earnings rose by a measly 0.7 per cent when bonuses were excluded — the lowest since 2001 and well below inflation.

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Wages Continue To Tumble In Con-Dem Britain