> The UK refuses to accept reality, which is a poverty rate 12% higher than the US, I'm sorry but any US figure you use to support this allegation is probably

> The UK refuses to accept reality, which is a poverty rate 12% higher than the US, I'm sorry but any US figure you use to support this allegation is probably nonsense. US figures about joblessness and poverty are a joke, and typically in international comparisons they still use things like "access to air conditioning" as an indicator of poverty even though they are meaningless.