{"id":34079,"date":"2016-07-15T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T10:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=34079"},"modified":"2016-07-15T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T10:04:47","slug":"divided-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/15\/divided-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Divided Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These two charts come from the appendix to a speech by Andy Haldane of the Bank of England in port Talbot on 30 June <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofengland.co.uk\/publications\/Pages\/speeches\/2016\/916.aspx\">that has just been published<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The speech is well worth reading. The charts are invaluable:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/15\/divided-britain\/screen-shot-2016-07-15-at-11-00-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34080\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34080\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15-454x1024.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-07-15 at 11.00.15\" width=\"454\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15-454x1024.png 454w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15-133x300.png 133w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15-100x225.png 100w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15-59x132.png 59w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screen-Shot-2016-07-15-at-11.00.15.png 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The message is clear: those with wealth have done well in the UK over the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have to work to survive have not: for them the last decade has been 'lost', in the economic jargon.<\/p>\n<p>It's s story of a deeply divided Britain.<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why people are angry?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two charts come from the appendix to a speech by Andy Haldane of the Bank of England in port Talbot on 30 June that<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/07\/15\/divided-britain\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}