Comment on Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

• GardenGeek@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes it’s normal and usually makes sense. In this particular case, however, it distorts the data basis, as the UK GDP is valued higher than the two eurozone countries due to the very high reference exchange rate.

  And I said ‘you’ because you could have chosen other normalizations as well… yielding a different picture.

  For example you could normalize by annual % growth of GDP.

  data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?en…

  (Side note: Thanks for the source, this database is amazing!)

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Unfortunately that’s the only date the source provides on a constant dollar basis.

    Using today’s dollar shows the same thing, the UK is not performing any worse than its near peers.

    data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locat…

    To be clear, I’m not suggesting Brexit has been an economic success, it wasn’t an economic decision, it was a political one.

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    • GardenGeek@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Makes sense. If nothing else is available, we have to work with what we have.

      And thank you for the clarification. To clarify my point: I am not saying that Brexit was an absolute economic disaster… but that some wealthy Brexit supporters benefited disproportionately compared to the average citizen and therefore pus

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      • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, the bets were in on the £ already as it was way overvalued.

        The seeds of Brexit were sown when we didn’t get a referendum on Maastricht. That changed the game considerably and even further with Nice and Lisbon. It meant that regulating with common law would be replaced with Roman civil law, which is much more prescriptive and is unable to be changed by precedent.

        I’m just in favour of decentralisation, every time power has been centralised in Europe it has ended badly.

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