“UNAFFORDABLE!” | NHS Doctor Claims He “Skips Meals Between Surgeries” on £110K
 

Him and his wife on a minimum of £110,000 per annum

if they maxed themselves out when interest rates were low, it can affect anyone. It doesn't matter what you earn

he failed to mention his mortgage in the interview

Correct absolutely.

Although I'd question his wisdom on going on the truly awful TALKTV.
However to counteract that, I'm both surprised and a bit pleased to see Julia Hartley-Brewer at least try to conduct the interview reasonably fairly.

Similar to the actors' strike; people live to their means, and getting less money - either literally less, or effectively less through not getting proportionate pay rises - can hit anyone.

Assuming all actors and doctors are incredibly rich is foolish, when most will probably be in the "upper middle". That bracket is most likely to be hurt by that sort of thing, as they'd probably be living beyond what they came from, but won't be rich enough to weather all storms.

^ stereotyping and broad-brushing, obvs.

Actors strikes are slightly different - the issue is that most actors are "job to job" actors and actually make very little. The bigger names are on strike in support of their unknown colleagues rather than for more money for themselves, which I find quite admirable.

The same I would say GENERALLY applies to the higher paid people in the NHS... They're not being greedy and striking for more money when they're already on £75k+, they're acknowledging that most staff are on nothing even close to that.