Richard Hull

Excellent article by the ever wonderful @chakrabortty and what a clever use of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray to argue that successive governments have hidden the awful state of the UK economy - e.g. one in four employees are either low paid or not getting sufficient hours, and our five-year-old children are the shortest in Europe.
#Poverty
#Austerity
#FoodBanks
#NothingsWorking
#Mortgage

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/23/britain-dorian-gray-economy-tony-blair-george-osborne

Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed

Our rulers painted false pictures of success while real wealth and wages withered away, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian
Jun 23, 2023 at 11:21amWeb
Show threadRichard HullJun 23, 2023

@chakrabortty The article quotes from this excellent new book from the Foundational Economy Collective 'When Nothing Works: From cost of living to foundational liveability'

#NothingWorks
#FoundationalEconomy

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173713/

Manchester University Press - When nothing works

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Manchester University Press