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Poverty in Britain - Why are millions of Brits so broke? | DW Documentary (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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Documentary about the state in the UK. An interesting piece, albeit a bit depressing. Is it really this bad?

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[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

We've not really changed government though - we've just swapped right-wing Tories for further-right-wing Tories, with occasionally slightly-less-right-wing Tories. The same government has fundamentally been in power for 13 years. We've said "More of that please" twice.

The last Labour government (Tony & Gordon 1997-2010) was thought by some to be drifting a little close to the right

This is our national punishment for not electing Ed Milliband because he looked a bit funny and ate a sandwich wrong in a photograph.

We're sorry Ed and can we please have you back. Your policies were actually really good and Clegg was lying about the student loan thing :(