Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississippi

spectator.co.uk ^ | 22 August 2014 10:41 | By Fraser Nelson

[Red Badger]

Charts and Figures at link...................

[Red Badger]

WaPo story :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/08/26/if-the-uk-was-a-u-s-state-it-would-be-the-second-poorest-behind-alabama-and-before-mississippi/?tid=clavis_1.0_strip_2

[Vigilanteman]

An easier way to explain this is because too many people in Britain adhere to a religion which starts with an “I” and ends with an “M”.

[agere_contra]

Brits may be appalled at America’s gap in black-white life expectancy.

We're not. The toxic AA culture with its drugs, rap and black-on-black genocide speaks for itself.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Brits may be appalled at America’s gap in black-white life expectancy.

Whereas in Britain the NHS manages to kill them both off at around the same time.

[Viennacon]

A decrepit nation with a massive overpowering central government, full of individuals with little to live for who refuse to reproduce, being beset upon by a vicious gang of foreign Muslims hellbent on ‘culturally enriching’ them.

[cuban leaf]

Whenever a TV show or movie depicts british middle class life, I’m always amazed how everything is so small and, well, plain. I used to watch Monty Python reruns and marvel at the camper oven/stove in most homes. And the tiny refrigerator.

I even remember in the 70’s I was in hi-fi sales and Philips had this amazing speaker that was pretty small but sounded really big - with a price to match. They didn’t catch on in the US. The theory was that americans didn’t have to worry about how big their speakers were because, relatively speaking, the average home has much more room than the average european home. And since space is at a premium in europe, you pay a premium to get a good sounding speaker in a small package.

[agere_contra]

A white police offer shoots dead a black man, after having stopped him for jaywalking.

Awful cryptomarxist commentary. This is why I stopped my subscription to the Spectator - after they fired Mark Steyn they turned into a more expensive version of the Guardian.

[KC_Lion]

The answer is that we’d be the 2nd-poorest state in the union, poorer than Missouri. Poorer than the much-maligned Kansas and Alabama. Poorer than any state other than Mississippi, and if you take out the south east we’d be poorer than that too.

Fraser Nelson... SOD OFF!

You almost make me ashamed my Mother is from the U.K. she hasn't stepped foot back there in over 20 years and she traded Kansas for country of her birth >:(

[KC_Lion]

This putz wants to malign Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri. Calls us "Much Maligned" >:(

but doesn't say anything about the skyrocketing gun crime in the U.K. or prosecuting legal guns owners who defend themselves.

[smokingfrog]

Britian's police don't have guns...

You don't say?

[GeronL]

bump

[Beagle8U]

In England 5 acres is a farm, a sprawling country estate.

Where I’m at it is about the minimum you are allowed to build on. Only the very wealthy can afford to go hunting in England.

[TADSLOS]

I’m willing to bet ol’ Fraser has never spent much time in the US, much less the states he’s comparing his country to. I agree with his assessment of Great Britain, though. It slid into socialism many decades ago and is well on its way to becoming a defacto islamic state.

[Red Badger]

She’s beauty..........and so’s the cop......

[Buckeye McFrog]

Outside of the posh areas of London most Brit cities are like a combination of Detroit and Gary, Indiana.

[WayneS]

I wonder what this person is talking about.

In what way is Kansas "much-maligned".

Truth be told, I don't think I've ever heard anyone malign Kansas.

[WayneS]

Wow.

That bad, eh?

[KC_Lion]

Truth be told, I don't think I've ever heard anyone malign Kansas.

Yep, he acts like he is from MISSOURI or something! ;)

[RegulatorCountry]

The sum total of the witer's exposure to Kansas is probably The Wizard Of Oz.. Looks sort of bleak, and all those scary tornadoes.

Welcome to the club, Kansans. Southerners have been dealing with "experts" on the south who have watched Gone With The Wind for the better part of a century.

Irritating, ain't it?