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Post by racingteatray on May 22, 2019 13:06:00 GMT
Just read this article with a sense of disbelief:
www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/22/londoners-have-8000-more-to-spend-or-save-than-uk-average
If you read it quickly, you'd come away (as doubtless many will) with the impression that the average Londoner has £8k more spare cash compared to the UK average. Boo hiss, let's talk about the "have yachts and have nots" as the article then references.
But when you read carefully, there is zero attempt to equalise for cost of living (it's only the amount available after tax and benefits), rendering it immediately a completely meaningless number.
Housing in London is eye-wateringly expensive to an extent scarcely imaginable to those not acquainted with it. I should think it easily renders that £8k difference non-existent.
Disappointingly shoddy and biased journalism.
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Post by scouse on May 22, 2019 13:09:15 GMT
Typical leftist bollocks from the Guardian.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2019 13:17:55 GMT
Lies, damn lies and statistics. Piss poor journalism with a hint of paranoia about it. London has long been more expensive so how they can omit that I just do not know.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 22, 2019 13:34:29 GMT
It's almost as if no-one had ever heard of "London Weighting".
Of more concern is the amount of money Londoners have spent on them compared to the regions.
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Post by bryan on May 23, 2019 6:26:57 GMT
My sister in law posted a picture the other day of a vegan donughts.....not one mention to the fact it was £3.10 for a fucking doughnut! There's your £8k gone already
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Post by PG on May 23, 2019 6:33:24 GMT
... £3.10 for a fucking doughnut! ... The world has definitely gone mad. |
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on May 24, 2019 9:32:52 GMT
Can you imagine what it would have cost if it didn't have the hole in the middle!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 15:11:33 GMT
I did hear they tried to sell that though......
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Post by Roadsterstu on May 24, 2019 21:20:27 GMT
I'm spending two days in that there fancy London village next week. I'm already worrying at the price of beer!
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