Dodgy reference point

Doctors are claiming that their standard of living has dropped like a stone since 2008. Why pick that year? That’s when Prime Minister Gordon Brown let the banks go bust by failing to regulate them and leaving them in the hands of chumps who couldn’t spot an American “mortgages for people who couldn’t afford them” scam.    
    Which means that everyone else is in the hole in the ground and there’s no justification for letting greedy doctors claw their way out at everyone else’s expense.