Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
labour wouldn't have brought in the £18k6 minimum, supposedly the tories wanted to put the figure to over £25k a year but the libs wouldn't support the gov unless they used the lower figure of £18k6.

the Tories brought in a nasty law in the past The Primary Purpose rule and its one of the first things labour scrapped.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/po...05/straw.shtml
£18600 may be ok in other parts of the uk but as for here in London its simply not enough

A sliding scale on where you actually live might be a better idea

Living in London i would put it at around £30k to comfortably support 2 people