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[RedPanda97 @Bagoas1997]

@maiab Today's white baby boomers are more responsible for the US's rightward drift than saving the environment, where the US has a terrible record, with per capita carbon emissions 2/3 times European levels.

Trump won this group by 16 pts

Obviously SF itself is more liberal though.

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@uncreativetom Focussed in terms of extracting tax, not otherwise. London's the only region that makes a net contribution

Johnson won power with his "levelling up" pledge

Labour policy, for e.g. on immigration has been shaped by its need to hold onto Northern and Midland seats

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@Romy_Holland The young never inherit it though. In the US these days the elderly cling on to power until death or near death, then it passes to the 70 year olds

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@moanaparte Sounds like a lovely day. A train journey, a football match, eating out, the cinema, drinking.

All for less than the price of 4 grams

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@brianluidog It's meaningless to draw conclusions about Brits in particular without any data on how people in other nations would respond

As for median average wealth in the UK, it's a lot higher than in the USA — $152k vs $108k

The UK is ranked 9th globally

https://t.co/Cwgfx6z4gq

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@Jon16066217755 @Bren4Bassetlaw The "austerity years" when annual government spending leapt by £500 billion under the Tories, the UK ran the largest program of deficit spending in Europe, and in Britain's peacetime history? And borrowed £1,900 billion.

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@NJM71 In terms of the economy, London generates 25% of UK GDP and Manchester 1.4%

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@NJM71 Manchester's not "major" compared to London

It's 1/16th of the size

Manchester is 1.8 Tower Hamlets (one of London's 32 boroughs)

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@United053651221 @MrReeceballa Who says they've done "everything right in their life"?

They might just have inherited a ton of money themselves

Like the current Duke of Grovesnor, who inherited £9,000,000,000 at age 25

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@MrReeceballa Probably completely made up — what's the source? None is given

Would be terrible politics for Labour

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@CWAFC7 @studioghibliiii @DJpastawater New York is about 30% more expensive than London now

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@CaoCaoTrapHouse @DAlperovitch It's not so strange. It's when China's share of world GDP peaked after rising for 30 years, so it marks a turning point.

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@scandlenjosh @byHeatherLong @EricBoehm87 By the fact the US now has to pay 10 times more to borrow than Switzerland. Clock is ticking....

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@jakesgoodopines Because it's a leading American politician giving a public address — in the style of a President, with the desk & the flags —calling the Israeli leader a war criminal and the country guilty of genocide

This is very different from what the public has seen for the past 70 years

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@iliketowin_ @alexanderrX_ Actually the UK is the 9th richest in the world by median wealth per adult (and far above the USA - $152k vs $108k)

Largest nation to make the top 10 too (most of the others are small)

https://t.co/Cwgfx6z4gq

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@AdamSykesWirral @alexanderrX_ Is it? How do we know with zero data on how people in other nations would respond?

In terms of median wealth per adult, the UK ranks 9th in the world (well ahead of the USA - $152k vs $108k).
It's also the largest nation in the top 10 (most are small)

https://t.co/Cwgfx6z4gq

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@TobyWoody Or you could mind your own business and stop trying to dictate other people's choices

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@ariesbbz "mass-produced factory couches" are 99.9% of couches

Most people don't have £10,000 to spend on a bespoke sofa produced in an artisan's workshop in Milan

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@DoomSpiralpod @Ameer_Kotecha For context on their relative national importance, London provides 25% of the UK economy and Manchester 1%

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@DoomSpiralpod @Ameer_Kotecha London is where Parliament, the Sovereign, most of the senior civil service, the media, the world's diplomats and embassies, the HQs of most large businesses, the HQs of most national organisations all are

What's in Manchester? It's a regional city 1/16th of the size of London