Chomper Higgot

Somebody else who doesn’t understand economics. The rise in median income is meaningless without including the rise in the costs of essential goods and services; housing, health insurance, education, transport, food etc. The wealth of the working and middle classes is being hollowed out. By example, some facts: https://www.nationalworld.com/money/first-homes-1970s-ps52k-2024-ps200k-yorkshire-building-society-4723285#:~:text=By Jamie Jones,in the last six decades.

Opinions differ.

“Since 2007, income per capita in the US has surged by 72%, while in the UK, it has actually declined by 2% in dollar terms.” The devil is in the detail. Per capita income tells us nothing about the incomes of the blue collar, working class/middle class, whose wealth has been progressively hollowed out since the late 1970s. You might recall we had a thread on this a few weeks back. Macro economic data tells us nothing about the struggles of people on low and middle incomes. I recommend Gary Stevenson as an alternative economic view to that of the rightwing ‘Adam Smith Institute’. Stevenson explains how it is economic inequality that is destroying the Uk economy, the Adam Smith Institute are peddling more of the failed ‘trickle down economics’ that is driving that inequality. Look him up before the rightwing press tell you what to think about him.

Forgive me, I wasn’t talking about you personally.

Years spent undermining vaccination programs is not going to be reversed by wormhead making any comments. Tragically more deaths and injuries might be the only way the message gets through, and that’s only a ‘might’.

Technology has found a possible fix for the Incels. Will we see less angst, anger and hate mongering on the Internet I wonder? Or are the words of Hawkins ‘Spirit of the age’ going to turn out to be prophetic. ’Your android replica is playing up again It's no joke When she comes she moans another's name But that's the spirit of the age…..’

Careful with that Brit Bashing, you’ll upset the locals.

Except: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7435pnle0go

Is that the rightwing modern equivalent of ‘the dog ate my homework’?

Making stuff up?!

You picked the wrong data to try and make a point. The issue is funding to the defense of Ukraine. Try this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crew8y7pwd5o.amp

At the moment. That can change.

He wants the return of Russian imperialism and the end of Ukraine as an independent state. He wants the dismantling of NATO and the dissolution of the EU. All the stuff that you shill on.

I know you’ve surrendered to Putin’s propaganda, but Ukraine is not Russia, troops on the ground in Ukraine are not in Russia. If the loan isn’t repaid it comes out of seized Russian assets.

It’s not theft. The aggressor pays the damages.

The UK/EU are not planning on invading Russia. But how about this: In 1938 Neville Chamberlain capitulated and the UK ‘found out’.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer does not send anyone to war.

I British lives have been sacrificed and the loan to Ukraine is backed by seized Russian assets, refer OP for facts on the matter.

Double congratulations you’ve won the thread’s Godwin Gong and your introspection is improving.

Oh look, a pejorative generalization with the customary bigotry.

Trump’s support is dropping off a cliff, Republican Congressmen and Senators are being screamed at in tow halls across the nation. His ‘performance to camera’ humiliating himself and the U.S. is getting the response it deserves. The GOP will real him in or suffer the consequences in the midterms.

At least you admit you are guessing and estimating. Full of it even.

Propaganda you say.

Utilizing the frozen Russian assets is smart. The aggressor gets to pay and nobody in the UK loses out.

It’s a loan. No pensioners froze as a result of any of Reeve’s budget. The UK’s profile on the world stage has just gone up in a very positive way.