President Xi, my people yearn for freedom.
On a serious note, this is very saddening.
emerging market economy moment
very much hoping our comrades and the trade unions can make things better
Right now this government is attempting to limit the effectiveness of the unions. Last week I heard a group talking about the consideration of putting limits on how long you need to be in the job before you're allowed to join the union but I can't find anything about it online to do further research. Shit's real hard to learn about if you talk to people offline then try looking it up.
This difficulty of research probably also makes things hard for recruiting union members.
the trade unions can make things better
I'm sure the oligarchs will pay for any concessions won by the trade unions from the pockets of the working class.
I don't live there but it's been a downward spiral, gotta be worse
From what I understand Brexit fucked the economy hard in a wide variety of ways.
yep, we're fucked
i expect to end next year dead or in prison againSo at what point will the proverbial camel have it's back broken? Cuss to me it seems like a year or two from now will be enough to cause much of the UK to get to a complete breaking point that people will seek any alternative given.
Gordon Brown (cringe) said he thinks there'll be a national uprising if the planned cuts to benefits happen.
I'm not sure how cool that will be but it's becoming increasingly clear we're on the knife edge.
EDIT: lmao spoke in the other thread
Looking into Gordon Brown makes me feel that the statement may or may not be accurate (he gave the UK David Cameron after all), though I feel pensions just like social security in the US are th eone thing that would ignite a lot of the elderly and retired to get very mad since it impacts their own material reality.
Probably when Labour comes in and continues to do fuck all to help things other than the bare minimum to keep infrastructure running so rich people can keep usin it at earliest.
The current economic consensus won't improve anything. So there will be a change at some point. What that change will be for :shrug-outta-hecks:
English population is too bootlicking to rise up, so Scotland and Northern Ireland at most (and even that is unlikely).
I agree. The English will just sit and die in their freezing homes rather than revolting. Ironic, given how revolting the average Anglo is.
I'll take a united Ireland, that would at least line us up with Star Trek posadism
https://www.jrf.org.uk/data/overall-uk-poverty-rates
Edit - I got it from Twitter tho.
Children have had the highest poverty rates throughout the last 25 years. Twenty five years ago, a third of children lived in poverty. This fell to 28% by 2004/05 and reached its lowest level of 27% in 2010/11 to 2013/14. Since then, child poverty has been rising, reaching 31% in 2019/20. Families with children are more likely to be receiving benefits than families without children, so this pattern reflects changes in employment levels, earnings and benefits.
Damning
A poor country with a few very rich people. Hope that works out for them, long term 🙏
People love Downton Abbey so much they want to return to Victorian era levels of wealth inequality.
