Why Britain is so much poorer than you think
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Is It Necessary?
There was a compensation factor, so we were falling gradually behind. People didn't really notice during the tens because there was basically just a wall of cheap credit. So it really matters and that is what economic failure looks like over decades. There's this stat where if Poland continues on its growth trajectory, Poland could sort of want to per capita, overtake the UK by 2030 or so. I mean, that would be staggering in relative terms. In some ways, there's quite a sort of Leninist approach that you need to get worse before they can get better. Like we do need a sort of shock to realise that we are in a very, very bad...
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