UK drops down list of affluent nations after decade of stagnation. The UK has tumbled down the league of affluent nations after almost a decade of welfare cuts and stagnant incomes, according to a report that found the poorest districts now rank below the lowest-income areas of Slovenia and Malta.

by bottish

12 comments

  1. Come on people, just give the billionaires another few tax cuts and it will boost the economy and start trickling down any time now!!

  2. So we’re less affluent and people think taxing the little wealth we do have to depletion and ~~creating welfare queen’s~~ encouraging welfare fraud is what’s going to make us more affluent?

  3. We are just one more tax cut away from going back up right?

  5. Keeping ourselves hitched to this sinking ship was a sound decision and will make things better for us…right?

  6. The UK is a joke and has been for decades, this isn’t surprising.

  7. There are some pretty hopeless places in scotland i imagine they will be gentrified within the next ten year, ya gotta wonder where the last enclave will be

  10. Why is everyone talking about tax cuts? The king could wake up and change the country in the morning. He doesn’t. The greed of the monarchy is what is keeping people down. They ultimately have the final say in wars etc and are making us pay for them, even though they are rich beyond belief and could quite easily through sale of assets etc raise the money they want from the public. They don’t, and will quite happily take a helicopter across the country over the very estates people are desperately trying to survive in. They should be ashamed of themselves and want more for what is meant to be “their” country  

  11. Wow, it’s almost like leaving the biggest common market at the behest of disaster capitalists somehow wasn’t in our best interests.

  12. If trends continue in 4 years time Poland’s GDP is set to overtake the UK’s. Looks like no more G8 ‘jollies’ for future British Prime Ministers. 🙂

    We could’ve done better than this Westminster-controlled shit-show, instead we got fecking Brexit, 10 more years of vile Tory rule (including nearly 2 months of Truss and Kwarteng proving beyond any doubt that their even more right-wing idiocy is disastrous in practice) followed by a Labour Government nearly indistinguishable from the previous 14 years of Toryism.

    Still, on the bright side we still get the undying democratic splendour of the House of Lords, and to see His Royal Highness King Charles III and his horsey bint wear kilts when visiting their Highland estate whilst the ever grateful Scotch peasants wave their wee union jacks at them. Well worth it!

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