Posted by Jake on Tuesday, September 02, 2014 with 7 comments | Labels: Article, Austerity, Big Society, Guest, inequality
You can access their briefing paper by clicking here (and the graphic here), in which they state:
"the poorest UK regions are by far the poorest in Northern Europe. This is because the UK is much more unequal than other countries, where there is nowhere as rich as London, but nowhere as poor as our poorest regions."
If Viena is Northern Europe?????? Then Czech Rep. should have been included too.
ReplyDeleteThe point here is to compare UK performance with similar economies, commonly described as "Northern Europe". Sure, there are plenty of other reasons to compare with all EU - but not in this report.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine Lancashire is any poorer than Connacht is in the Republic of Ireland on a per-capita basis, but I'd be willing to be surprised.
ReplyDeleteThe source data, which includes all EU countries, is from Eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/5173650/1-27022014-AP-EN.PDF/a46ded44-83cf-4368-9315-27f96bcc3a0e?version=1.0
ReplyDeleteMore background here http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/GDP_at_regional_level#Regional_GDP_per_inhabitant
DeleteWorth remembering this report was written in 2011 with data from 2009-2010. So this is after 13 years of labour government & their London Centric bias
ReplyDeleteVery true. Hence the Corbyn phenomenon
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