Comparing actual economic growth across UK cities with pre-2010 trends shows Aberdeen £45,000 poorer, with Burnley next at £28,000
    • Lad@reddthat.com
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      10 months ago

      This is how it always has been no matter how anyone tries to spin it. All the talk of economic growth means nothing to people who are going hungry.

    • jabjoe@feddit.uk
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      10 months ago

      Not so, the gini coefficient hasn't always been like now and isn't always worsening everywhere.

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/872472/gini-index-of-the-united-kingdom/

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/874070/gini-index-score-of-eu-countries/

      It's crappy government where inequality keeps getting worse.

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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      10 months ago

      Though Brexit is definitely part of it, this is the whole Tory austerity programme from the Tory/Libdem coalition onwards.

      Tory means Tory.

      Their repeated claim that their party is good for the economy, unlike "magic money tree looney lefty liberals", is about as believable as the scrawny kid who used to come in the pub and tell everyone "he could kill a tiger with one punch, and he'd got SAS training off of his dad, who was also a ninja".

  • LifeBandit666@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    I'm a lefty, so when I hear companies say "We're making a loss against our projected growth this year" (usually during pay negotiations) I think "So you made up some shit and it didn't work out, and now you're saying you're making a loss when in fact you still made a profit, just less of a profit than you imagined at the beginning of the year which is bullshit"

    If Aberdeen had kept growing the way it was then the average person would have £45 000 more disposable income. Like come on it's the same bullshit arguement. It didn't keep growing the same way, and now we're trying to say it should have done? But it didn't because of insert opinions here that suit an arguement you wanted to make about austerity and other things

    I don't like anything from think tanks because it's just a load of overpaid twats talking a load of old shitz then trying to convince me that they're worth their pay.

    I don't like the Conservative think tanks and I don't like the lefty ones either. It's all part of the brainwashing.