all it was wage growth compared to the depression of the previous periods of time under covert lockdown that's not where the base is if you're going to talk about wage growth your base is when your party took power it's not even like he'd do well to try and claim that his predecessors were cracked he did that in the election oh yeah i know cameron may have a bit rubbish but i'm brilliant i'm doing the job no no you're not he he he if he's gonna try and point at this year's figures he'd it'd be a false errand very foolish because if i were the interviewer i would point out well actually the average weekly income in this year so far is less than it was in NUMBER_TOKEN and not just in real terms actually less but then of course it's less because weekly incomes are higher towards the end of the year so i don't expect that to be the case at the end of the year at the end of the year i would expect the uh the average NUMBER_TOKEN figures to be higher than they are now but what i'm the point i'm trying to make is no matter how he tries to use the stats on this one there is no way of presenting his government as generating wage growth if he was to try and sit down and try and prove to me that he was growing wages he would be unable to do it without outright lying or pressing the wrong button on the calculator for which i would correct him you know so it's not just that there's uh there's less growth there's no growth at all it's shrinkage what is that to boast about people's incomes are coming down i saw someone on social media say that although some wages were going up the benefit was being wiped out by the higher costs of petrol energy food and so on and absolutely you can put it like that in a nice simple way that is easily understood you don't have to show people a spreadsheet but i still favor the cold hard maths on this because in theory someone could say oh yeah you know where you know petrol is going up and energy is going up it's going up a lot and uh you know and food's going up but our wages are going up so it'll all be fine it all work out it's like no you need to actually know what the values are here um they're not but they could be in some people's minds but no if you want to take the prime minister's advice and judge him on the metric of wage growth go ahead because that metric shows a NUMBER_TOKEN increase to wages for the last NUMBER_TOKEN years of the last conservative government a NUMBER_TOKEN increase to wages for labour and a NUMBER_TOKEN wage cut during the conservatives timing power and when i do this figure next year be even worse and it will just carry on getting worse if he wants to stick that on the campaign leaflets he can be my guest i somehow i don't think he'll want to but if i were labour on the other hand i'd absolutely be sticking NUMBER_TOKEN wage growth in real terms under the last labour government NUMBER_TOKEN wage cuts in real terms under the tories which do you want to vote for bang that on a leaflet and stick it through the door but those are my thoughts let me know
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