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In article , Harold Walker
writes "Sacha" wrote in message o.uk... On 27/7/05 5:47 pm, in article , "Harold Walker" wrote: I don't know what your interest is in trying to show this country as some kind of hand-to-mouth world, composed almost entirely of impoverished stay-at-homes but your arguments are not exactly compelling and your information seems to be rooted in the 1920s or 30s Just for the hec of it did a bit of a research into the poverty level over their...phasebase reports it as being 17 percent or roughly 10 million......certainly not the 20's or 30's as you infer... Actually, I think it was you that did the inferring ;-) "what do you have in England now...around the 60 million or so.....betcha 30million + cannot afford those holidays you refer to." "the majority of the UK residents (English + permanent interlopers) see very little of the UK in a year...they just do not have the money.." yes, we do have poverty - but it is poverty relative to the general standard of living, and that standard of living has increased immensely over the last 50 years. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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