In its mad scambling for money (lest the UK ends up with a begging bowl at the IMF door), the labour government is ready to confiscate anything and everything. And to think this country was richer than the US till about 2007 and a pound was about $2...
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h
I don't think they were richer than the US until 2007. Perhaps America fell below them during the financial crash, but America was considerably more prosperous than the UK already.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @spiderman OP 4h
Measured in gdp per capita, the UK was neck to neck with the US from the dawn of the millennium and at its peak was ahead of the US.
Weird enough, the brits seem to worry more about whatever Trump is doing than whatever happens in their own charming island.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 4h
Non-tradeable goods were more expensive in the UK though, which makes GDP per capita the wrong metric. You have to make an adjustment for purchasing power parity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fd055dcc2f 2h
ukraine won't kill itself without your help
more monies to ukraine
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