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The UK paid in form of excess mortality. Nothing to be proud of. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-by-age?country
by lispm 4y ago
The UK paid in form of excess mortality. Nothing to be proud of.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline-by-age?country=DEU~GBR https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores...
> At least they don't have the immigration and poverty of the local population problem
UK? The UK had some of the regions with high poverty in the EU. Outside of London there are regions of high poverty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_Kingdom
Just three years ago: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/12/11/the-uks-poorest-regions-are-falling-behind-the-rest-of-europe/ https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/12/11/the-uks-poore...
Brexit makes it all only worse. Now you need to compare the UK with the poorer regions of the EU to look better. The UK itself has one extremely rich region (inner London) and a lot of medium to poor regions.
UK regions compared to the EU average in 2014:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/02/article-2617938-1D85574A00000578-913_634x397.jpg https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/02/article-2617938-1...
Where do people struggle to not hunger?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/map-reveals-uk-residents-struggling-21113886 https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/map-reveals-uk-re...
Immigration? That's on an all-time high in the UK:
https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2022/08/25/immigration-at-all-time-record-level-with-record-1-1-million-visas-issued-to-come-and-live-in-the-uk https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/news/2022/08/25/immigration...
Migrants are now coming from outside of the EU:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D09F/production/_127770435_migration_v3-nc.png.webp https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/D09F/production/...