Twig to UK [email protected]English • 8 months agoWaitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls showwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkWaitrose only major supermarket with majority Tory customers, polls showwww.theguardian.comTwig to UK [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-square@MrNesserlink21•8 months agoThis might have more to do with where they built their shops & the target £ bracket for their goods than anything sinister as the headline suggests.
minus-squareGreatAlbatrossMlinkfedilinkEnglish21•8 months ago“Waitrose customers found to be older and richer than average”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•edit-28 months agoI get the old adage: the older you get the more right you are. But, the richer?
minus-square@Famkolink6•8 months agoThat’s definitely true as you would want to conserve the wealth that you currently have, which right wing policies usually help with.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•8 months agoI’m not so sure about that. That framing hazardously to the stereotype that the right are fiscally responsible as opposed to the spend crazy left.
minus-square@Famkolink3•8 months agoI meant more in the sense that rich people usually get tax benefits and failing big businesses get bailouts.
minus-squareODuffer linkEnglish1•8 months agoYou hit peak earnings by age at around 40-49. https://www.statista.com/statistics/802183/annual-pay-employees-in-the-uk/ As mentioned, you generally have assets and savings as well.
This might have more to do with where they built their shops & the target £ bracket for their goods than anything sinister as the headline suggests.
“Waitrose customers found to be older and richer than average”
Yep, in other news, water is wet and the sky is blue…
Research shows water now wet.
I get the old adage: the older you get the more right you are. But, the richer?
That’s definitely true as you would want to conserve the wealth that you currently have, which right wing policies usually help with.
I’m not so sure about that. That framing hazardously to the stereotype that the right are fiscally responsible as opposed to the spend crazy left.
I meant more in the sense that rich people usually get tax benefits and failing big businesses get bailouts.
You hit peak earnings by age at around 40-49. https://www.statista.com/statistics/802183/annual-pay-employees-in-the-uk/ As mentioned, you generally have assets and savings as well.