United Kingdom

Posted by: John Phoenix Britain’s economy is in the world’s largest top ten.  Its GDP is about £3,22tn, amounting to about £48,000 per capita.  There are estimated to be 31.5 million households in the UK, meaning that GDP per household would amount to some £122,000.    Average income per household is in the region of £40,000. It sounds very comfortable, but of course the reality is very different. Inequality of distribution The inequality inherent in the way Britain’s national income is distributed, as evidenced by Britain’s gini coefficient standing (officially) at 0.36, is startling. If wealth distribution were perfectly equal the gini coefficient would be 0, and if all the country’s wealth belonged to a single person it would be 1.  The to...

Posted by: John Phoenix As British imperialism slides further into crisis, its political leaders try to cover up this decline by making ever more grandiose pronouncements as to their ability to still “project power” into the world. The declarations made by Sir Keir Starmer regarding his willingness to send British forces to Ukraine should be seen in this light. Since it became clear that the Ukraine war was sliding towards an ignominious defeat for the Nato-backed forces of the Kiev regime, the US under the Trump administration has been trying to play a double game. On the one hand it has been engaging the Russians in negotiations and talking about ‘restoring relations’ with them. On the other it has been pushing the Europeans to (effectively) carry on with the ever-escalating ...

Posted by: John Phoenix The British government is holding both patients and staff to ransom. Subscribe to our  channel NHS doctors are on strike, demanding a pay rise that addresses the huge real-terms cuts they have been bearing since 2008. The massive debt levels and declining pay for new doctors means that increasing numbers are travelling abroad to work, fuelling an already calamitous staffing shortfall. Download this leaflet as a pdf. ***** Government holding patients and staff to ransom British workers are being bombarded with propaganda demanding that we take a pay cut. We are told we ‘must’ do this in a ‘difficult international economic situation’, and that wage rises will simply lead to ‘more inflation’, so ‘more’ will really be less. R...