what causes the disparity?

>>513946196 (OP)
They do all the actual work

>>513946196 (OP)
Kek
Nuclear power plant, if you're in Cumbria and don't work on site you're skint as fuck.

but why are the earnings so low for their work?

>>513946196 (OP)
blackpool remaining the shittest wahey, continue the fight against soufen civilisation

>>513946196 (OP)
>What do people in the GRAY regions of this Brit earnings map do?

I personally do nothing at all.

>>513946196 (OP)
lorry

>>513946985
uh but germ bros closes them all off? I thought they dont work, thats why they are being built all over US and china?

sausage factory engineer, tanning salon operator, betting shop worker, binman, you get the idea

>>513946196 (OP)
Have they not invented money yet in ireland?

>>513949276
we only accept trade in cattle and sheep.

>>513946196 (OP)
I live in the gray. I drive HGVs, I earn around 55k a year (I could earn more by doing long haul/euro hauls, but I don't want to). I'm doing OK.
King of the muck.

>>513949235
so the actual work?

>>513946196 (OP)
Wales? All too busy shagging sheep I imagine.

>>513949565
uncle mick did that, was a coke fiend, do you find it stressful as fuck driving on these roads due to the amount of mongs?

>>513950381
North Wales is just an enormous national park, with castles and rolling hills. Understandable why no one is earning.

>>513946196 (OP)
I'm from one of the medium grey regions. We're mostly fucked by being a region that people come to after retirement, which means that our councils are put under a lot of financial strain, thus wrecking the economy for everyone except for the retired. Also added to this is the fact that their constant flow causes housing prices to soar while pay remains unchanged.

And to answer your other question: bennies. If rich Londoners are going to come her to mooch off of bennies, then I'm certainly not going to work for nothing to support them. :^)

>>513950412
depends on the job, motorway/A road jobs to industrial estates out of town are the best.
Anything delivering inner-city can be a nightmare.

>>513947118
Retarded pic

>>513946196 (OP)

All the industry in those areas got shut down in favour of London and it's financial services. Those grey areas use to have all sorts of factories producing all kinds of goods, including things like steel and coal mines to power things.
The last steel plant in the UK was almost shut down a few months ago, and even now it's struggling to stay open and that is only because the government are basically paying out of the ass to do so.

>>513946196 (OP)
>what causes the disparity?
thatcher

>>513949117
The uk also abandoned some projects because the government couldn't afford the subsidies. Nuclear power doesn't work without subsidies.

>>513955780

The fact is this, most power generation does not work without government subsidies. Wind, solar, coal, gas, hydro, nuclear, it is all subsidised by governments and always has been.
It is all absurdly expensive to build, run and maintain and the profits from it aren't particularly big. No one has that kind of money to risk except governments.

If you want an example of how bad it is in the UK in particular (a country with lots of wind power), something like 70% of a persons energy bills are tax, and this tax is used to pay the subsidies needed to keep energy being generated.

>>513955780
In our case, it barely even works *with* subsidies - Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C are predicted to overrun cost of construction by at least 50% and take 10 years to get online.
They're absolutely massive plants (~3GWe) so you would think economies of scale work, but they have a strike price of £130 per MWH which is *more* than a CCGT gas power plant. Oh and by the way, taxpayer guarantees that price for 40 years.

Meanwhile, rolls-royce said "hey we make reactors for nuclear subs, we're pretty sure we can just slap them in containers and ship them down the M6 to wherever they're needed" and the government just completely ignored them.

>>513956169

Everything in the UK ends up massively overbudget and is never built to any sort of deadline. It's mostly due to massive over regulation. You just cannot get anything done in the UK without filling in all kinds of forms, having tons of surveys, assessments and town hall meetings.
Take a look at HS2, it is per mile one of, if not the most expensive railway line in the world. It's because of insane regulations like not disturbing the bats, or making sure the micro environment of the naked mole beaver is moved strand of grass at a time to protect them and other stupid shit.

>>513956072
>Wind, solar, nuclear
agred
>hydro
Private financing is possible, based on ROI.
>coal, gas
Construction costs are not that high and the ROI is very good. Gas, especially if they need backup power plants for their wind solar.

>>513946196 (OP)
I'm in one of the darkest grey areas and earn over £80k and work from home. It's fucking great living somewhere this cheap.

>>513946196 (OP)

>>513956169
If you want to see how bad nuclear power is for energy supply, you only have to look at france. Half of the plants are always offline for maintenance, and they're always just one step away from a blackout. And all this while their costs are exploding. Not even Germany, with its wind and solar crap is worse off.

>>513956169
Still, very interesting information. Thanks for that.

>>513956962

France has lower energy costs than both the UK and Germany.

>>513946196 (OP)
Someone needs to do a welfare check on the Isle of Man I'm worried

>>513957295
It depends on how you calculate it. Of course, if you only use the end-user price, you're right. Moreover, by worse off, I meant energy security.

>>513957538

The UK is at constant risk of rolling blackouts because it's energy supply consists of so much wind/solar which is naturally unpredictable.
If it's not windy enough in the UK they literally lack enough power and have to import it (ironically from France).

>>513946196 (OP)
money earnt in cash is not reported to comrade starmer simple as
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