Britain poorer than Mississippi

It doesn’t surprise me.
It is awful that there has been a massive lack of investment in many areas, then writing the people off as lazy when there are no manufacturing roles or jobs available in the areas.

Ha ha - yeah. Good luck gvt getting taxes from big companies to pay people benefits

Yes yes that stat is brought out a lot but it’s meaningless. It ignores the massive wealth inequality of the state, cost of living differences ,and UK’s massive social safety nets (NHS, for example.
The exact same thing can be said of Germany, France and even Japan. All have GDP per capita less than Mississippi.

I'm not sure why people keep going on about brexit and the tories. Well i am sure actually, but it's erroneous to do so in this case (and others but now isn't the time or place). If we look at the rest of Europe GDP it wouldn't be Much different, Germany, Italy, France etc they're going through the same things as the UK, it's not just the UK (no surprises why). How do They compare to Mississippi? I don't know. They didn't look at life quality at all.. pretty sure the UK and rest of Europe has a higher Quality of life than Mississippi. Which for eg. leads the USA in gun deaths (that's the usa where the most likely cause of death for a person under 19 is guns). The Atlantic loves slating GB..

In Britain ours is shocking!!

Education in its knees (im
a state school teacher / it’s horrendous)

Zero public services/ long ambulance waits, no nhs dentist. Hard to see a doctor

Prison population full and it doesn’t work

england is not a good country to live in at the moment. It’s been run to the ground. Taxes to the max , poverty is increasing . A lot of people are suffering from the cost of living.

Taxes would have to be raised differently. If AI replaced human jobs taxation would have to be reengineered so the companies benefiting from having little or no wage bill were more heavily taxed on their profits.

And soon there won't Be m/any benefits. Benefits need working people - no jobs no taxes not benefits. Then what? I don't know.

The poster even said we had been in a downwards spiral for 20 years. 24 of those Tory. Including Brexit. Try again.

This is I think the future. Employment royalty will be people with jobs that can only be done by humans.

Not if they can cut hair or build a wall.

Serco certainly does well out of them.

You should have been born 200 years ago, you’d have felt completely at home.

State benefits need to be wound down and eventually abolished.

Exactly. There are now more than 9 million workless adults aged 18-64 in the U.K. Source : ONS.

That is completely unsustainable. The policies of successive governments have made a life on benefits a viable alternative to working for a living & contributing to the economy. People being allowed to claim long-term sickness & disability benefits for mostly spurious reasons of anxiety, depression etc is a racket which is bankrupting the country. It also creates gaps in the labour market which governments have addressed by allowing uncontrolled mass immigration of unskilled workers & their dependents from third world countries. This has created the social tensions which we can all see are incubating extremism & tearing this country apart.

It is inevitable that the government will be forced to take real action to tackle these issues soon. The alternative is that the financial markets will do it for them, the consequences of which don’t bear thinking about.

Elon Musk is the modern-day equivalent of Henry Ford.

Hating on Elon Musk is pretty ridiculous. As another poster has said he has started unique businesses from scratch. He’s not some oligarch that’s robbed from
the state.

Yep that’s really bad, Labour seem silent on this. After hitting the labour market already.

Watch turd towns on YouTube. Its been going on far longer than Brexit

Who do you think is staffing the NHS, care homes, working as home carers, working in fields picking your fruit and veg, delivering your fast food and Amazon parcels?

What on earth are you talking about?

The Gini Coefficient has the USA 25th highest (higher the less even wealth distribution) in the world on wealth inequality and UK is 140. Nothing to do with how much wealth per Country but how it is distributed within the Country. So despite what we may think, the wealth we create is fairly evenly distributed compared to the rest of the world. Which is why you need to look at the whole picture.
Worst European Country is Sweden and best European Country is North Macedonia.

As the Newsweek article quoted above explains, GDP is not the whole picture:

"The 'perception' of higher disposable income comes from the way Americans are forced to spend money out-of-pocket on things those other countries fund through taxes and social programs. If I'm paying 50 percent in taxes elsewhere but get real benefits like public transportation through infrastructure spending, pensions for retirement and universal healthcare, then sure, it looks like taxes are higher, but the costs are bundled differently."

The fact is that, in most European countries including the UK, people generally have a better overall quality of life than Americans. Also, one really needs to visit Mississippi - or many of the poorer US states like West Virginia or Alabama, to see what real, abject poverty looks like.

As for the UK, until we come to an agreement to rejoin the single market, Brexit will continue to slow us down. It’ll probably take well over ten years to rejoin the EU, but ultimately that is the only sensible solution. Of course we’ll never regain the very favourable terms we had before we left.

The only polarisation is in your post. All I've done is post bare facts.

We were mislead on Brexit

I wasn't. I did my own thinking which obviously led me to know that it would be a disaster. From the tone of your post I assume you're one of the delusional fantasists who voted for it, and are angry on being called out for what you have done to this country.

Well, tough luck. I know it's difficult to accept that you were fooled, that you're a mug, and that's why you're lashing out at me for pointing out the truth, but that's not my problem.

10 years is nothing. You don't get to handwave this away because it's been that long. The cost is HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF POUNDS and continues to cost us, as it will for DECADES.

Every one of the points on my list is the fault of Tory/Reform/Brexit supporters/the right wing/whatever you want to call them. And now those people have the absolute nerve to say that the solution is more of the same.

You won. Get over it.

I'm no statistician and I admit to not having much knowledge about GDP etc., however would a better comparator be a similar sized country in the EU? For example, France, Germany, Sweden or wherever. Countries that have plenty of immigration both visa led and asylum seeker, have very generous social supports and benefits, have affordable and efficient health care.

The result might be even worse than comparing UK with Mississippi!

My point is that leaving the EU was catastrophic. UK is the very epitome of an isolated island now.