> The number of billionaires in the UK has grown sharply – from 15 in 1990 to 165 in 2024 – at the same time as inequality in the UK’s overall wealth distribution has dramatically increased, analysis has found.
> Timed to coincide with the Sunday Times’ rich list, the Equality Trust’s investigation also found that billionaires have become “ludicrously” more wealthy, with their average wealth rocketing by more than 1,000% over the same period.
Gonna think about articles like this every time someone asks ‘how are we going to pay’ for vital public services.
The money’s still there. It’s just being increasingly hoarded by a tiny number of people at the very top. The richest people in society have become 1000% more richer over the past 35 years, can the average person in this country claim anything close to that?
TanteJu5 on
That’s how this economic system works. It seems that the majority don’t care about these disparities as long as there is food on the table.
Extreme_Kale_6446 on
Some of these families have been wealthy since Norman invasion when they took power with brute force, yet they get special treatment and deference on top of wealth and inherent privilege
Plane-Physics2653 on
But don’t you know they already pay 99% of all taxes!
No-Succotash8047 on
Look over there laddie…. That immigrant wants your biscuit!
Fenton-227 on
But yes, the average little Englander will bellow that migrants having a place to sleep is the main cause of their ever-worsening livelihoods.
hudibrastic on
And all the people who never took any risks, who never produced anything useful, who never invested in the long term, are crying envying and requesting redistribution
OldSchoolRollie62 on
No it’s actually Rashid and his family coming over on all those boats that are withholding the country’s wealth. Nigel Farage said so!!!!!
SuspiciousAgency5025 on
Sad thing is, Reform UK LTD PLC INC voter “Steve from Blackburn” thinks that, by voting Reform UK LTD PLC INC, he may just one day also become a billionaire, despite dropping out of school at 4, having 473 criminal convictions, not a single qualification, and can barely speak his own language.
Agile-Day-2103 on
And this is BY FAR the single biggest reason why this country is going to shit. This is why your living standards are falling year after year.
Their wealth is growing by 1000%, whilst the total is barely growing at all. Guess where they’re getting the rest from?
We seriously need to do something about this. These people have sold to and profited from British people without giving their fair share back for far too long.
I’d truly like this to end fairly and peacefully, but there are other ways if that doesn’t work.
Electronic_Cream_780 on
But remember, it’s still the sick and disabled who are making your lives a misery. That is the official party line
Peach_Royal111 on
This should be common knowledge for everyone, but the billionaire backed daily mail has been corroding the minds of the British lower class who think the problem are the people who come in boats, not the ones who fly 20 minutes in private jets.
andymaclean19 on
They lied, there *is* a magic money tree.
Make a tax on people moving their money abroad first before doing anything else this time …
StacieHous on
Can we send them all on a one way holiday trip to Mars?
Huge___Milkers on
But I thought all of my issues were the fault of a refugee escaping a war we created in their country decades ago
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> The number of billionaires in the UK has grown sharply – from 15 in 1990 to 165 in 2024 – at the same time as inequality in the UK’s overall wealth distribution has dramatically increased, analysis has found.
> Timed to coincide with the Sunday Times’ rich list, the Equality Trust’s investigation also found that billionaires have become “ludicrously” more wealthy, with their average wealth rocketing by more than 1,000% over the same period.
Gonna think about articles like this every time someone asks ‘how are we going to pay’ for vital public services.
The money’s still there. It’s just being increasingly hoarded by a tiny number of people at the very top. The richest people in society have become 1000% more richer over the past 35 years, can the average person in this country claim anything close to that?
That’s how this economic system works. It seems that the majority don’t care about these disparities as long as there is food on the table.
Some of these families have been wealthy since Norman invasion when they took power with brute force, yet they get special treatment and deference on top of wealth and inherent privilege
But don’t you know they already pay 99% of all taxes!
Look over there laddie…. That immigrant wants your biscuit!
But yes, the average little Englander will bellow that migrants having a place to sleep is the main cause of their ever-worsening livelihoods.
And all the people who never took any risks, who never produced anything useful, who never invested in the long term, are crying envying and requesting redistribution
No it’s actually Rashid and his family coming over on all those boats that are withholding the country’s wealth. Nigel Farage said so!!!!!
Sad thing is, Reform UK LTD PLC INC voter “Steve from Blackburn” thinks that, by voting Reform UK LTD PLC INC, he may just one day also become a billionaire, despite dropping out of school at 4, having 473 criminal convictions, not a single qualification, and can barely speak his own language.
And this is BY FAR the single biggest reason why this country is going to shit. This is why your living standards are falling year after year.
Their wealth is growing by 1000%, whilst the total is barely growing at all. Guess where they’re getting the rest from?
We seriously need to do something about this. These people have sold to and profited from British people without giving their fair share back for far too long.
I’d truly like this to end fairly and peacefully, but there are other ways if that doesn’t work.
But remember, it’s still the sick and disabled who are making your lives a misery. That is the official party line
This should be common knowledge for everyone, but the billionaire backed daily mail has been corroding the minds of the British lower class who think the problem are the people who come in boats, not the ones who fly 20 minutes in private jets.
They lied, there *is* a magic money tree.
Make a tax on people moving their money abroad first before doing anything else this time …
Can we send them all on a one way holiday trip to Mars?
But I thought all of my issues were the fault of a refugee escaping a war we created in their country decades ago