I can't read what you've posted, Nut, because your quoted text doesn't show. Though it is touching that you continually seek my attention and approval I will, alas, be leaving you on my ignore list for the time being. Have a nice weekend.
What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain?
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Have you ever actually looked at what the "happiness survey" uses as its metrics?
Or considered that the authors and researchers actually put a bit more thought into it, than "what side of the bed did you get out of this morning?"................
I have and it is utter piffle.
Happiness isn't even a normal mental state. Anybody who is walking around "happy" most of the time isn't normal. What most people mean by happiness is contentment.
Then the other considerations like... one country has half of its population on happy pills, drugs and alcohol - are you going to compare this to another country where it is not so?
And those thar are in more northern areas rather than near the equator.
It is garbage. Doesn't tell us anything useful.
Much more useful to consider: crime rates (safety), wealth per capita, longevity, rates of vice, levels of trust.
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bled us for everything we had... and our fathers... and our father's fathers.
You do post some ******.
Quibbling about whether it's "happiness" or "contentment"; that's semantics at best, scraping the barrel - to support your position, at worst.
"Happiness" was measured on a "ladder" or scale: 0 at the bottom, 10 at the top.
Metrics actually used in the Report:
GDP
Healthy Life Expectancy
Presence of Support Network
Generosity ("do you give to charity?")
Corruption perception
If you have ever read it, you clearly didn't understand any of it.
Didn’t take me long to realise the Conservatives has lost the economy in 2020
It is meaningless dross.
Mainly used by some with political motives to say: "look! The Scandinavians are happiest, so we should have a society like theirs with extremely high taxes and an overbearing welfare state".
If they ever were happiest it was likely for living in uncrowded, homogenous societies with shared values and high trust. Not that these garbage surveys give you these answers, people just pick out the bits they like.
As Sweden has decided, like other western countries, to destroy itself and is now - after a very short space of time - the rape and grenade capital of the northern hemisphere, then I would expect it to have plummeted down the rankings. It hasn't though. Which proves there's something fishy about these surveys.
Mainly used by some with political motives to say: "look! The Scandinavians are happiest, so we should have a society like theirs with extremely high taxes and an overbearing welfare state".
If they ever were happiest it was likely for living in uncrowded, homogenous societies with shared values and high trust. Not that these garbage surveys give you these answers, people just pick out the bits they like.
As Sweden has decided, like other western countries, to destroy itself and is now - after a very short space of time - the rape and grenade capital of the northern hemisphere, then I would expect it to have plummeted down the rankings. It hasn't though. Which proves there's something fishy about these surveys.
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You'll miss them when Labour are in power.
Here's Starmer defining working class
Here's Starmer defining working class
Have you ever lived in a society with a declining population AND an increasing proportion of old people? It's bad news on numerous levels.
Declining innovation, less risk taking, more fearfulness, less productivity, declining wealth... and more besides. We are already suffering with these stifling trends. At some points in history it will mean being vulnerable to invasion by foreign oppressors.
Either the natives have more children or you get the above. The third way is to plug the gap with massive numbers of culturally unsuitable, low skill, low IQ, low wage foreigners who will, naturally, result in the balkanisation of society and all other sorts of problems.
*not criticising immigrants per se by the way. Some are wealthy, some are skilled, some will make a positive contribution in net terms. And even the low skill and low wage ones will often be decent enough people who mean no harm. However, people gravitate towards those who are like them and separate communities and ultimately, nations, are created. The end product is division and conflict. And that's before we even consider the substantial numbers who are aggressive negatives since our useless elites don't know how to be selective.
So... which one do you want? The Peter Pan option or growing a pair and taking responsibility?
That ain't alt right propaganda, it is age old wisdom. It's all in the history books.
A significant percentage of those 750,000 that came last year were foreign students going to university.
Low IQ huh
Rather well when middle class gets a mention. Even better if the upper class gets a mention.
We all know what the terms mean - even you. Says a lot about your reason for posting it.
Quick edit, It's not all that unusual for working class people to see themselves as middle. The term lower working class is needed.
You have identified many issues about which you are not content. What would your policy prescription be for solving these?
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Funny, but the actual statistics don't agree with your feeling.
FactCheck Q&A: Which party has a better track record on the economy?
Who has the better record on managing the economy: Labour or the Conservatives?
www.channel4.com
Things were going pretty well until the global recession.
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