Why don't the British realise they are becoming poorer?

[pellinore]

....Much more worrying is how we compare to other countries we might assume to be peers. Canada, Australia, Germany, France: a recent report from the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics found that the UK’s recent economic performance has left us both poorer and more unequal than every one of them. The upside of these figures is that they go a long way to disproving the pernicious Truss-ite thesis that higher inequality is the price you pay for vibrant growth. The downside is we all have to live in this country. The same report found that a typical household in Britain today is 10 per cent poorer than their French counterparts; the poorest fifth are 20 per cent poorer. 

Why don’t we realise how screwed up the UK really is? - New Statesman (archive.is)

Edited March 25 by pellinore

[+Hammerclaw]

Bread and Circuses. Socialism insulates from the effects of poverty--no one goes hungry.

[L.A.T.1961]

2 hours ago, pellinore said:

. The same report found that a typical household in Britain today is 10 per cent poorer than their French counterparts; the poorest fifth are 20 per cent poorer. 

Why don’t we realise how screwed up the UK really is? - New Statesman (archive.is)

Is this before or after they have their pensions adjusted ? 

I think a general assessment of UK living conditions can be derived from the desire to move here.

And the stamped for a place in the UK can be heard from Mars. 

There were 331,233 work-related visas granted in the year ending June 2022 (including dependants). This was a 72% increase compared with 2019.

‘Worker’ visas (previously known as ‘skilled work’) accounted for two-thirds (67%) of all work-related visas granted with 216,450 grants. This is almost double (+96%) when compared to equivalent routes in 2019, with the growth driven by the introduction of the ‘Skilled Worker’ visa in 2020. Grants from ‘Temporary Worker’ routes have also increased by 67% to 72,526, following an increase in the number of visas available through the ‘Seasonal Worker’ route, from 2,500 in 2019 to 40,000 in 2022. 

All work visa categories saw an overall increase compared to 2019. This is the highest number of work visas issued in any 12-month period since the data series began in 2005.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2022/summary-of-latest-statistics