La Gran Bretagna “non è più un paese ricco” dopo che gli standard vivi si tuffano – parti del Regno Unito ora stanno peggio delle regioni più povere della Slovenia e della Lituania
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/03/12/britain-no-longer-rich-country-after-living-standard-plunge/
di ByGollie
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Rather rich of the Telegraph to report this with an air of moral superiority when it spent the last 15 years enabling those right-wingers who are responsible for it.
I mean, this is no suprise with business investment dropping through the floor. We voted brexit to flirt with America. They never put out, and now they are orange and nazi.
The slowdown due to brexit hits in an interesting way, it’s not the people in work who really suffer. It’s the young looking for jobs, especially in the less productive parts of Britian.
My big prediction is that Britain will become a little like eastern Europe 20 years ago, where a larger section of the young emigrate for opportunities.
People really underestimate Slovenia.
Well done the Tories….and the people who voted for that rubbish…..
My UK friends always said UK is London with Bulgaria slapped to it
Housing. The issue is housing
I mean, I remember growing up in cornwall and being informed that my county was on the same poverty index as Lithuania. What’s changed?
Slovenia Is really well off. Categorizing them as some Slavic middle of nowhere is racist/xenophobic as fuck lol
Most Brits never had a high standard of living, even in their best days of colonial drainage of other nations. Money went to the richest.
“Sounds like Stevenage.”
Isn’t the guy who made brexit happen and caused this mess now, the leader of the second or third biggest party on paper?
The idea that Slovenia and Lithuania could be use as a standard for ‘poor countries’ is pretty obtuse.
Are things really that bad in Slovenia? I haven’t noticed.
Putin probably danced in his underwear the day you guys left us. You were all taken in by a stooge.
One of Brexit’s slogans was “Singapore-on-Thames”. How could people outside London vote for that? Unbelievable…
Turns out putting all the economic and political focus in one city (London) for fifty years isn’t great for the country.
Move parliament out of London. That’s critical.
I’ve been visiting Lithuania for the last 16 years. In that time, the country has come along massively in terms of infrastructure and built environment. There’s a real sense of progress and achievement. At the same time, I’ve been seeing my own country, Britain, go in the opposite direction.
The area I come from is becoming almost unrecognisable from how it used to be: closed shops everywhere, mounting rubbish on the streets, public services cut to the bone, rising crime/antisocial behaviour, local councils going bankrupt, visible poverty – a general sense of social decline and polarisation. We don’t take holidays in England anymore, going by the sea in Lithuania is cheaper, safer and more enjoyable. Even the shopping centres in Lithuania in the regions are better than what one finds in England.
I do love when they take snippets of information to form a narrative.
Slovenia has been a better place for living than the UK for quite some time.
Lithuania is actually a pretty nice place.
Nearly 15 years of Tory stewardship will do that to the UK.
The key here is “parts of”. UK has always had badly neglected areas (for which they received a lot of EU subsidies, lol).
Wow who thought that given tax cuts to the rich and fucking over even one else was bad for the economy
No biggie, UK gov did it’s part in accelerating shitholisation process, don’t act surprised now
Phew. At least they didn’t mention “worst than para of
Romania”
What’s wrong with Slovenia?
Slovenia is quite a rich country.
People say that the only thing that changes while crossing the border between Austria and Slovenia, is the language
Vast amount of assets are owned by extremely rich people here and elsewhere. Those assets are barely taxed, they can sit in the Caymen islands, or China or wherever soaking up wealth from the UK while government revenues are getting less and less able to provide services. Taxes from salaries are not cutting it anymore.
Meanwhile our energy costs are some of the most expensive anywhere and we’ve allowed our manufacturing base, which existed largely in those now less affluent areas , to be squandered. We continually base all of our decisions on whatever is cheaper in the short term, allowing swathes of our critical infrastructure to be bought up, loaded with debt and under invested in. Generally by companies from countries that just would not allow the same thing to happen at home.
We can cry about Brexit all we want, I voted against it for a reason. I get it, it makes everyone feel face eating leopard smug, and it’s the reason most people are here to discuss, but there are way bigger, more fundamental problems in the UK than that.
ITT; Nobody reading the article.
This isn’t really to do with Brexit. It’s a lack of recovery from the 2008 financial crash. We’ve flatlined since then. It was the same when we were in the EU. You can see the chart in the article.
GDP growth has been sustained by population growth, though at a lesser rate than that population growth, which has meant less per capita. Leaving the EU didn’t change any of these trajectories.
The problems with the UK economy go beyond Brexit and membership or lack thereof in the EU is comparatively trivial to the structural problems facing it.
Haven’t been to the UK since before Brexit but have friends living there. One was talking to us last night and mentioned how their local food banks are all out of food! These aren’t even only used for homeless people, working people in low paid jobs are using them just to survive apparently.
The entire political and economic system has been allowed fail being run for the benefit of a tiny minority while society collapses around them. No good will come of this in the long term unless the UK and the west in general gets a handle on it before more populists step in selling false hope.
Slovenia is not a poor country at all
Sadly, not a surprise.
Brexit, economic crisis, and so on.
However lifestyle in Lithuania and Slovenia is not as poor as the title seems to indicate.
It is a bit bad as title … no?
Once again the usual stupidity in the comments.
No this isn’t all because brexit, brexit was another nail in the coffin.
Decades of focusing on London and the surrounding regions is the problem. Decades of neglecting the rest of the nation but instead of seeing the problem people just get an easy answer to distract them.
What we need is actual change not another easy way for labour tory or whoever else gets in power to shirk responsibility. But as per usual people can be easily misdirected with a single sodding word.
Thanks to conservative ideologies and policy enacted 15 years ago.
This has not been news for at least 12 years.
I have regularly visited Britain and Poland, over the course of many years. Ever since about 2000, it was not clear to me why it was a thing to move from Poland (and probably anywhere in Central/Eastern Europe as well) to Britain, as the standard of living for the average citizen seemed so much better in Poland; and infrastructure was improving at a much faster pace.
What did Lithuania do 😭
Brexit still paying off eh? Whoops maybe that was a mistake?
Just come back to the EU, we miss you.
As a Croatian I cant stand Slovenia but maaan thats nice country to live in, really stupid article
Thanks to 14 years of a far right government, austerity, and Brexit.
The centralization of immense wealth into a tinier and tinier % of the population will do that.
Reaping the benefits of Brexit.
Oh no, not slovenia, a prosperous eu country with incredible preserved nature and food resourceees….
still a rich country, just astoundingly unequal, result of 40 years of neoliberalism, funneling more and more money in the pockets of a few people
Slovenia is absolutely amazing. Loved my holidays there. So pretty!
I mean Slovenia is not poor…
Lol, picking 2 countries that are in the top 5 economically in the Eastern bloc is quite funny
Slovenia and Latvia catching strays out of nowhere. Hah!
It’s back to the Charles Dickens era for the UK. Then they will learn why they had high taxes on the rich in the first place.