General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Peter Israel

The operative year for me is actually 1980 and the amount was £42 so yoo should've gone to Specsavers, or the Israeli equivalent, when according to those statistics £42 was worth 225.71 it should be remembered that inflation was very high in the late 1970s LINK

However, how do you compare the spending power of then to now and come up with a figure, because people spend money in different ways, and today we pay for a lot more goods and services than we did in 1980, so I think it is impossible to make a comparison, and I don't believe in a lot of these 'statistics' anyway.