Besides inequality is a product of meritocracy.

No society that functions probably can have equality....it's a failure of logic to think it can.

All you can do is reduce inequality in ways that don't damage the meritocratic hierarchies.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

2018

the compensation culture

the having kids while long-term unemployed culture

the teenage 'baby-mummy' planned pregnancy status culture....for many urban yoof.

Today it can be a badge of honour in your gang to impregnate as many different girls as possible. In 1970 it was far less prestigious and often embarrassing to have 'gotten a young girl into trouble'. Poverty epidemic.

the culture of staying in places with no hope. Staying on the dole. Welsh valley towns, little villages in Northern Ireland, Glasgow, Stoke, Sunderland....villages and towns whose local employment is all a thing of the past.
By contrast, in the US when a town's employers fizzle out, so does the town. Detroit ? gold rush mining towns ? all empty. No dole, no incentive to sit on your a..rse eating crisps and watching jeremy kyle.

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Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

My god man. Are you 8 years old?

Britain is not poor relative to any previous century.

Yes, the wealthy elite keeps us poorer in relative terms than we should be but that is barely a party political issue.
Housing shortages are largely caused by immigration keeping prices and rents high and wages are suppressed by immigration.

Ironically, the 'Gammons' benefit most from high house prices and rents since a lot of them have already paid for theirs and some become landlords. Probably bought their houses nice and cheap too.

Yes, let's ignore the major causes and live in your idealistic delusion.

Ah the good old days when men were men eh? And even you were a young optimistic whippet. Well maybe that’s going too far.

Can I get some of those rose tinted glasses or do they only get handed out to bitter, dislllusioned and unfulfilled ethno nationalists.

Actually quite satisfying to see the oft dismissed reasoning behind such viewpoints qualified with such gumption.

Stirring stuff

Did you know? 98.0000001% of people are morons.

for asylum seekers its overwhelmingly male immigration.

it leads to a different type of poverty from money-poverty. Just look at village life in China today, GoldRush towns in the 1840's US,

a predominantly male society is often violent, macho and unpleasant.

Gender imbalance = a new poverty - very familiar in Calais. Going out to a nightclub there ?

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford