This is from the High Pay Centre:
The change in the UK looks like this:
The sixth richest country in the world has the seven poorest regions in North West Europe.
That's a measure of the failure of neoliberal financial capitalism that has cursed this country more than most in Europe.
And the response is Brexit. And a deeply divided community. And people who are putting their hope in the people who guarantee to perpetuate this mess, because those people have the funds to spend to persuade them that those who have their interests at heart are a threat to them.
This is why this country is the breeding ground of populism.
This is why fascism is growing.
And this is why we need a Green New Deal that would create jobs in every constituency of the UK.
I still have hope we might get it.
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Entirely agree with your post. But please don’t say things like this “The sixth richest country in the world has the seven poorest regions in North West Europe.” They measure completely different things (and almost orthogonal given dependence of first on national population). The correct statement is “The twenty sixth richest country in the world has the seven poorest regions in North West Europe.” (not that I’m vouching for the absolute precision of the figures in https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-per-capita/, but order of magnitude…)
We’re not the twenty sixth richest country in the world
Exactly I’m afraid. All of it. Good stuff.
GDP per-capita, we rank 27th….. https://www.businessinsider.com/the-richest-countries-in-the-world-2017-3?r=US&IR=T#28-france-gdp-per-capita-42384-34581-3
OK
But that was not the point I was making
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Dr Moderate has been writing some good posts on twitter. He says there is a 45% of lab minority government, 10% conservative government. Basically his argument goes like this Yougov and all other polls have got it badly wrong. His made aim of fire is yougov, because they are ignoring the Youthquake vote of 2017 General Election by relying on the British Election Survey study. So You gov has gone back to the 2015 youth tun out and reduce they youth turn out to about 52% et al. Basically they are falling the BES line, though other reports have disagreed with BES view on their being no Youthquake. Dr Moderate puts labour 5.5 % higher than all report polls. Which is where i put them as well, so it is 38%. Of course it could be all wrong and labour is on the low 30s or high 20s but i really do not think so.
As for GDP the UK is 6th richest in the world, so Richard is right.
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/countries-by-gdp/
I think if Bojo gets in with a small majority we will have another election very soon. What do i mean? If Bojo ges between +1 and to 10 a new election. All it needs to defeat bojo is to get some tory mps on the opposition’s side and by past accounts that can be done. Alternatively bi – elections over time will eat into his majority and make it worst. Of course if bojo wins a good majority +50 plus he will dump the ERG, and extend the transition period indefinitely . If he gets -+ 20 he will keep the ERG on side and hope to persuade them to support him, possibly extending transition once. Though this is not certain and they could baulk at what his offering and demand the UK leave the EU in Dec 2020, or bring him down
Then of course you have tory voters and the public who voted for him to get “breixt down”. How are they going react when they find out it is not done? Some will side with Bojo no matter what and say well it was better him that that commie Corbyn. Others will undoubtedly feel massively betrayed and vote accordingly. Then of course you have tories who hate bojo and his ilk who would rather vote for Corbyn or another labour leader similar to him than have Bojo in power. I think we are in for more unstable times and it will get worse and worse
Remember the Pitchforks are coming if Corbyh does not get in.
I only believe in peaceful protest
No pitchforks, please
Perfectly put. Thank you.
And no, no pitchforks, but streets after streets full of ordinary people, and other more imaginative protests. Some specialise in that, they could inspire us.
Even the Murdochs,Barclays and Rothemeres of this world wouldn’t be able to blank that.