[jhoelzel]

What kind of article is this? So in 30 years we where not supposed to equalize the country?

And from England nonetheless?

Apart from the recruiting and financial circles England is more on par with Poland that it is with any real western country...

This literally has been this way for more than 20 years now, we are even closing hospitals and banks because we have to many.

Finally this article has shown that even the level of cambridge has sunk, so maybe the title should read "how england has fallen constantly for the last 200 years". Real household income hasn’t increased For the past 15 years. The average UK household is 20% poorer than may others in northwestern Europe.

[pharmakom]

You must understand, for your average wealthy SE UK voter, the UK is still a dominant world force, a peer to China and the United States. Brexit was quite popular down there, despite not being the majority. Of course, their worldview is about 30 years out of date, so they need comparisons to East Germany or Poland to shake them out of it.

[jhoelzel]

I understand! Henceforth I will compare my style of living to Nottingham and from that point of view everything is awesome. :D