British people need "to accept that they're worse off"

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No surprise there, then — it's about on a par with most of your comments.

Any thoughts on UK poverty and economic failings...?

Frankly after 13 years of tory austerity, massive and ongoing rises in the cost of living and millions of people going from just managing to being in deep financial excrement that man is an insult.

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Huw Pill is on a massive salary, so my message to him is:-

No surprise there, then — it's about on a par with most of your comments.

Any thoughts on UK poverty and economic failings...?

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When Huw Pill said, in a recent Columbia University podcast, that British people need "to accept that they're worse off" the comments understandably hit a raw nerve.

Huw Pill is on a massive salary, so my message to him is:-

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If we learn that the rate of inflation is falling from 10.4% to 10%, then 9%, are we really duped by the political bollocks that it means everything is under control — or do we realise it just mean that prices and the cost of living are rising less quickly but prices still tens of %age points above what they started at...?

When Huw Pill said, in a recent Columbia University podcast, that British people need "to accept that they're worse off" the comments understandably hit a raw nerve.
https://news.sky.com/story/its-true-to-say-the-uk-has-become-worse-off-but-some-have-felt-the-brunt-more-than-others-12866738

Nobody wants to confront the truth: Britain is becoming a poor country
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/01/04/nobody-wants-confront-truth-britain-becoming-poor-country/

The UK is becoming a poor country – so get used to it, or leave

IRELAND, which used to be regarded as a backward country whose main function was to provide cheap labour for the UK economy, now has a GDP per head that is twice that of the UK: $99,000 v $48,000 according to the OECD.

People in Northern Ireland are beginning to wonder if they might be better off being part of Ireland in the EU single market, than in the UK out of it.

Brexit is one of the UK's more spectacular own goals of the last 20 years. The SNP say that Scotland could have been where Ireland is today had we not been umbilically linked to the UK. They have a point. It couldn't be much worse.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20606107.iain-macwhirter-uk-becoming-poor-country---get-used-leave/

How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe:
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over an open and richer one. The predictable results are falling wages and stunningly low productivity growth. Although British media worry about robots taking everybody's jobs, the reality is closer to the opposite. "Between 2003 and 2018, the number of automatic-roller car washes (that is, robots washing your car) declined by 50 percent, while the number of hand car washes (that is, men with buckets) increased by 50 percent," the economist commentator Duncan Weldon told me in an interview for my podcast, "It's more like the people are taking the robots' jobs."
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/