Poor Britain ...

[JP_]

Just saw this, and thought, really?

Poverty rate, 2018.
Romania: 25.3%
UK: 23.2%
Spain: 22.3%
Greece: 21.2%
Italy: 20.6%
Portugal: 19.0%
Poland: 17.3%
We're about here really 17%
Ireland: 16.6%
Germany: 16.5%
Sweden: 16.2%
Belgium: 15.5%
France: 13.6%
Norway: 12.3%
Denmark: 11.9%
Finland: 11.7%
https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-poverty-rate-around-average-eu/

UK is one of the poorest countries in the EU.

But not believing that, searched a bit more ...

According to this page, 0.7% of Brits are living on less than $5.50 per day. While not the worse in Europe, still worse than Denmark, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovenia, Malta, Switzerland.

No wonder the EU is not fighting to keep the UK!

Hopefully, soon, people in government will start asking some serious questions about how and why the UK has fallen so far, and what can be done to reverse this.

 

[Vinty]

Just saw this, and thought, really?

Poverty rate, 2018.
Romania: 25.3%
UK: 23.2%
Spain: 22.3%
Greece: 21.2%
Italy: 20.6%
Portugal: 19.0%
Poland: 17.3%
Ireland: 16.6%
Germany: 16.5%
Sweden: 16.2%
Belgium: 15.5%
France: 13.6%
Norway: 12.3%
Denmark: 11.9%
Finland: 11.7%
https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-poverty-rate-around-average-eu/

UK is one of the poorest countries in the EU.

But not believing that, searched a bit more ...

According to this page, 0.7% of Brits are living on less than $5.50 per day. While not the worse in Europe, still worse than Denmark, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovenia, Malta, Switzerland.

No wonder the EU is not fighting to keep the UK!

Hopefully, soon, people in government will start asking some serious questions about how and why the UK has fallen so far, and what can be done to reverse this.

Could be that a lot of these countries have dumped their poor in Britain.
Britain sends billions to EU and in return the EU sends their unemployed ,drunk drivers and pickpockets to the UK.
That's why a lot of people want out of the EU.
Anyways the source you quote has given incorrect figures, lies, damned lies and Google.

 

[motorbiking]

I read the headline and then the definition and didn't find a connection.

 

[wobs]

Just saw this, and thought, really?

Poverty rate, 2018.
Romania: 25.3%
UK: 23.2%
Spain: 22.3%
Greece: 21.2%
Italy: 20.6%
Portugal: 19.0%
Poland: 17.3%
Ireland: 16.6%
Germany: 16.5%
Sweden: 16.2%
Belgium: 15.5%
France: 13.6%
Norway: 12.3%
Denmark: 11.9%
Finland: 11.7%
https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-poverty-rate-around-average-eu/

UK is one of the poorest countries in the EU.

But not believing that, searched a bit more ...

Fullfact says this is a myth in your link.

 

[JP_]

Yes, it does!
Ignore me!

 

[EFLImpudence]

Hopefully, soon, people in government will start asking some serious questions about how and why the UK has fallen so far, and what can be done to reverse this.

I thought it was policy.

 

[Bodd]

Just saw this, and thought, really?

Poverty rate, 2018.
Romania: 25.3%
UK: 23.2%
Spain: 22.3%
Greece: 21.2%
Italy: 20.6%
Portugal: 19.0%
Poland: 17.3%
We're about here really 17%
Ireland: 16.6%
Germany: 16.5%
Sweden: 16.2%
Belgium: 15.5%
France: 13.6%
Norway: 12.3%
Denmark: 11.9%
Finland: 11.7%
https://fullfact.org/economy/uks-poverty-rate-around-average-eu/

UK is one of the poorest countries in the EU.

But not believing that, searched a bit more ...

According to this page, 0.7% of Brits are living on less than $5.50 per day. While not the worse in Europe, still worse than Denmark, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, Slovenia, Malta, Switzerland.

No wonder the EU is not fighting to keep the UK!

Hopefully, soon, people in government will start asking some serious questions about how and why the UK has fallen so far, and what can be done to reverse this.

I can answer this Jon

If your getting the poorest people coming from across Europe to the UK , their % of poor will go down.

Ours will go up.


It's a bit like a Manometer. The levels will change due to pressure..

 

[Notch7]

The figures show the poverty risk rate of the UK is almost exactly in line with the EU average and slightly higher than Germany.

UK is one of the poorest countries in the EU.

not the poorest, its one of the richest.
I guess you mean disparity between poor and rich or the amount of those living in food poverty -Gini coefficient is a good comparison.

If you look at GDP per capita, then UK is higher than France and Japan.

 

[SirGalahad]

There are many measures of poverty a better indicator is the gini coefficient and palma ratio on inequality.

 

[ellal]

If your getting the poorest people coming from across Europe to the UK , their % of poor will go down.

Ours will go up.

A bit like the 'auf wiedersehn' generation, but in reverse!

However the UK ranks low down on state welfare/pension provisions whilst having some of the lowest tax rates for high earners and corporations...

And the proportion of the population on low wages/corporate welfare and zero hours contracts is also around the top of the charts...

Spot the links yet?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

If you look at GDP per capita, then UK is higher than France and Japan.

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2016/05/08/why-gdp-is-a-poor-measure-of-progress

 

[ban-all-sheds]

A bit like the 'auf wiedersehn' generation, but in reverse!

However the UK ranks low down on state welfare/pension provisions whilst having some of the lowest tax rates for high earners and corporations...

And the proportion of the population on low wages/corporate welfare and zero hours contracts is also around the top of the charts...

Spot the links yet?

How long do we have to wait for the money from reduced CT to be used for the investments and job creation cited as their justification instead of higher executive pay and bigger shareholder dividends?

 

[SirGalahad]

I can answer this Jon

If your getting the poorest people coming from across Europe to the UK , their % of poor will go down.

Ours will go up.


It's a bit like a Manometer. The levels will change due to pressure..

If they are poor then will they be on benefits? If they are then why do we have a low unemployment rate? What you think isn't supported by facts.

Don't confuse economics or the economy with reading a pressure gauge.

 

[ellal]

How long do we have to wait for the money from reduced CT to be used for the investments and job creation cited as their justification instead of higher executive pay and bigger shareholder dividends?

A hell of a lot longer than it takes for a quitter to realise they were aiming at the wrong target!

 

[Bodd]

If they are poor then will they be on benefits? If they are then why do we have a low unemployment rate? What you think isn't supported by facts.

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Who said benifits in the same sentence as migrants?