• eleitl@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Minus London the average UK wealth is below that of Mississippi. The poorest US state.

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      8 months ago

      Ouch. I certainly got that impression from reading Consciousness of Sheep though. Watkins is one of the few who doesn’t sugarcoat the UK’s condition. Unfortunately there are few journalists here in the USA of whom the same could be said. Progress ideology is nowhere stronger than here.