UK Is on Course for the Longest Fall in Living Standards Since Records Began
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By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead,
Occupy.com
It felt like a long time to go when, in 2012, then-Chancellor George Osborne meekly warned that the economy was "healing" more slowly than anticipated and that austerity may last until 2018.
Now 2018 is around the corner and instead of Britain seeing light at the end of the long and painful austerity tunnel, it's clear following the Conservative government's Autumn Budget that the age of austerity is far from over -- and that the inequality gap in the world's sixth richest country is widening.
Far from achieving Prime Minister Theresa May's promises to tackle Britain's "burning injustices", several key members of her Social Mobility Commission (SMC) recently resigned in protest over the lack of progress towards "making Britain ...