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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
First you claim your poll is going to tell us nothing, now you claim that it's those outside the UK. I have indulged you long enough. This is just one more way you engage in trolling by making things personal. Just like correlating those who rooted against the UK with being remainers. Give it up already. You're not fooling anybody. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
So you weren't blaming the rising price of housing on immigration? -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
===== These same four decades you used began with the end of a busy post-war building era, necessary to compensate for zero building through the WWII years and just after them. After that then the numbers of annual new builds were exceptionally high. The graph I posted indicates a recovery in recent years (increased house building) but that has not been enough to deal with new high demand, which is far higher than before 1997, with much of that difference due to an extra 200,000 people a year coming in to the UK, This is a major factor and should be acknowledged. Yes there has been high house price inflation, especially after 1997, all partly due to low interest rates, environmental protection laws, plus local areas resisting rising congestion. Yes, agree, lack of social (council) housing - the discounted sale of council houses to tenants worked well for many but the effect of that has dissipated and new build social housing has been inadequate From 2004 to 2021 the foreign born population in the UK increased by 4.2 million. In that same time period over 2 million new housing units were built in the uk. https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migrants-in-the-uk-an-overview/ From 2003 to 2019 over 2 million housing units were built https://www.statista.com/statistics/746101/completion-of-new-dwellings-uk/ So how is this rise in housing prices due to the increase in foreign residents in the UK? -
That you use phrases like "so many" in what should be a numbers based discussion demonstrates how little command you have of the basics of the issue. Without knowing the distribution of the vaccination by age and health status among the general population, it is impossible to draw the conclusions that you have done. Well, impossible to draw valid inclusions. You seem to have a gift for drawing the other kind.
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Covid is rife in China as the tourists set off !
placeholder replied to TorquayFan's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
What about the yellow cards? What does the British Health system have to do with this? Sinovac and Sinopharm weren't used in the UK. And even if they were, yellow cards are useless for determining effectiveness. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
And how will a poll answer that. question? You might just try asking them? -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
So why should we care about whether or not those living in the UK and post here tend to have a different opinion from those living outside the UK? -
Maybe you should read the forum rules about editing quotes to change their meaning. Here's the whole quote again "Vaccination status of cases admitted to hospital, admitted to ICU and those who die will no longer be reported. These data were included from 2021 when vaccines were first rolled out to monitor trends in the relationship between vaccination and outcomes. With most of the population having received at least two doses of vaccine and there being differences in timings of booster dosing across different age groups, the trends between vaccines and outcomes cannot be interpreted using these data" Clearly they are addressing the present situation and are retiring data that has outlived its usefulness. As for your assertions other assertions. Without knowing, among other things, the breakdown of vaccination rates in the total population by age, your assertions are worthless.
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Maybe you should have taken a glance at page 1 of that report: "Vaccination status of cases admitted to hospital, admitted to ICU and those who die will no longer be reported. These data were included from 2021 when vaccines were first rolled out to monitor trends in the relationship between vaccination and outcomes. With most of the population having received at least two doses of vaccine and there being differences in timings of booster dosing across different age groups, the trends between vaccines and outcomes cannot be interpreted using these data" https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/weekly-covid-overview-20221217.pdf
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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
You are making a common mistake in your analysis. It's not about who wins, it's about accuracy. How close did the polls come to getting it the numbers right. As an example: Which is a better poll? One that predicts Mr. A will win by 20 points but he wins by 2 or one that predicts he loses by 2 but he wins by 2? The polls showing remain were off but not by such a huge margin as is currently the case. It's extremely unlikely that a long series of polls that show such a huge gap now as there is between pro and anti Brexit opinion are going to be so extremely wrong. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
The polls fluctuated before the election and they were close. https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-poll/ -
Measles resurgent worldwide following lockdowns
placeholder replied to Eleftheros's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
In countries where parents hate their kids? -
Covid is rife in China as the tourists set off !
placeholder replied to TorquayFan's topic in COVID-19 Coronavirus
Not so hard. There were plenty of studies done when the Chinese vaccines were being widely used in countries outside China. It was effective against transmission and against hospitalization and death. Just not as effective as the mRNA vaccines or the Astra-Zeneca vaccine. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
"Any alleged factual claims must be supported by a valid link to an approved credible source." https://aseannow.com/forum/158-world-news/ -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Well, you previously claimed that the inflation situation in the USA was just as bad as in the UK. Which was false. -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
It took several engagements for you to disgorge that information. Why the wait? -
Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Just another attempt to make things personal. You gave the information. If there something there to rebut, that's what he should do. -
Any second thoughts you'd care to share with us?
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Why is the UK struggling more than other countries?
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
So, apparently, it's not the words you use that count, but what you meant. I guess I'm going to have to engage the services of a telepathist to get at the meaning of what you write. -
Trump calls for the termination of the Constitution in Truth Social post
placeholder replied to Scott's topic in World News
Links were given already as HappyExpat pointed out. If you have a problem with the validity of the links, you can either explain what in those articles is questionable or report those links to the mods. The same mods who made the rule that links should be supplied to back up assertions. But if you can't manage to do either, what that means is that you've got nothing.