New data suggest dramatic decline in U.K living standard. They try to blame the data they've used for decades. RIP Western Europe.

[westwall]

Re-industrialisation is a difficult thing. If you want to do something better than Chinese, you need, at least, know how Chinese do this or that. Like, you know, reverse engineering. At the very least you should be able to read their tech manuals and ask them the questions (to find undocumented featured). Without it it might be more difficult.

You can start doing it youself. Buy parts for FPV UAVs, mount them together, make a gift to your closest Army unit. Write about it in the internet, ask people for money, buy more parts and hire more hands. Repeat. You need it. Typical Russian platoon has more UAVs than a typical British regiment. Your soldiers will earn experience in the flying modern UAVs, you'll get experience in the organisation of simple electronic production. And then, may be, you'll understand why do you need to know Chinese.

No it isn't. You just have to want to do it. With modern manufacturing technology you can build most factories in under a year.

 

[Zavulon]

No it isn't. You just have to want to do it. With modern manufacturing technology you can build most factories in under a year.

First - but do you really want to make, say, UAVs for the British Army? Second - no, only wish is not enough. Third - who is suppose work on those factories?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Amazing stuff. There are some reports suggesting by 2030, the U.K will no longer be in the same economic class as other Western nations.

Astounding collapse. China is eating everyones lunch and only one global leader is standing up to them and the global socialists.

The caste system fails everywhere it is applied


The latest official statistics on household incomes show dramatic falls, but there is reason to doubt their reliability.

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/new-data-suggest-dramatic-decline-living-standards-it-may-just-be-quality-data-has

• Today, the Department for Work and Pensions released the latest official statistics on UK household incomes (known as Households Below Average Income, or HBAI), covering the financial year 2023–24. These statistics show a substantial fall in incomes across the distribution. Median incomes are estimated to be down 2% on the previous year, and the falls are estimated to be even larger for the bottom 15% of the distribution (below the poverty line). Despite this, the estimated relative poverty rate (giving the proportion with household incomes below 60% of the median) was similar to the previous year, at 21%, as measured incomes close to the poverty line only fell slightly.
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• However, these statistics – while being the highest-quality data on disposable household incomes we have – are based on a survey of a sample of households (17,000 this year), and survey-based statistics can sometimes diverge from reality. This is always the case, but is a particular risk in the context of lower survey response rates since the pandemic (this year, 31% responded to the survey on which HBAI is based, compared with 49% in 2019–20).

I must be bucking the trend !!

 

[shockedcanadian]

I must be bucking the trend !!

Do you work for the government?

 

[Captain Caveman]

Do you work for the government?

I'm self employed. All I do is quote. I just simply quote high, work less, and earn more. My living standard has never suffered. Those who don't want to pay, go and find a cheap tradesman.

 

[shockedcanadian]

I'm self employed. All I do is quote. I just simply quote high, work less, and earn more. My living standard has never suffered. Those who don't want to pay, go and find a cheap tradesman.

Interesting....

 

[Captain Caveman]

Interesting....

I learnt if off an old guy. Quote more, work less, but you still earn more money. Why work 5 days a week when 3 brings in the same money, if not more. NEVER quote an hourly rate, quote the job.

 

[westwall]

First - but do you really want to make, say, UAVs for the British Army? Second - no, only wish is not enough. Third - who is suppose work on those factories?

What the fuck are you babbling about now?

I want the US to make stuff again.

Fuck China, and all you Chinese stooges trying to save them.