UK Politics VI - Will Britain Steir to Karmer Waters?

[Kyriakos]

Pretty impressive, considering also how populous the UK is.
The almost entirely deep blue area in the north is Manchester?
At least Essex remains white chav

 

[Takhisis]

Well, immigrants and the poor usually have higher reproduction rates than natives and the rich and Muslims happen to be both.

 

[danjuno]

Having different results all be shades of the same color is annoying.

 

[Snowygerry]

Yes, I think most Muslims call their first born boy Muhammad. If all the non-Muslim Brits picked Leo for the first, the map might look different.

 

[Takhisis]

Or Archie, or Thomas.

 

[Arakhor]

The sorts of people who still call their children Archie or Aubrey or Arthur (etc.) are either very rich, eccentric or both.

 

[Citron]

Why is most of the map grey?

 

[Gorbles]

Why is most of the map grey?

Either no / insufficient data or no clear 1st position, would be my guess.

 

[Kaushad]

Arthur

Considering that Arthur is the name of the most famous character from some of Britain's oldest preserved stories, I'm surprised that it isn't more common when I think about it.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Archie is historically short for Archibald.

 

[Gorbles]

Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag

Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November

www.theguardian.com

Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag

Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November

This stood out to me:

Several months after she was jailed for the Just Stop Oil protests, she was let out after being told she qualified to serve the rest of her sentence under a home detention curfew.

But the company contracted to fit the tag to Delap was unable to attach one to her ankle because of a health condition, and there are no devices available small enough to fit wrists her size.

Now there is a warrant for her arrest after the company contacted the prison authorities to tell them she “could not be monitored”.

Quite the interpretation by the company there.

 

[Gorbles]

Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS

Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price

www.theguardian.com

Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS

Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price

 

[Zardnaar]

Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS

Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price

www.theguardian.com

Cheap housing. We hit that figure years ago.

Your national average is cheaper than my city. I live in our poorest city.

 

[Senethro]

Cheap housing. We hit that figure years ago.

Your national average is cheaper than my city. I live in our poorest city.

Therefore?

 

[Zardnaar]

Therefore?

Gorbles lectured me when I said cutting immigration was a good idea.

50% reduction per capita still higher than UK few years back.

Supply and demand. Can't build more (at least here/then) full capacity. Touch can only reduce demand.

Similar situation in Australia and Canada.

Even if you changed the economic structure (eg communism) you either reduce deman shot term or increase supply (which was essentially impossible).

 

[Gorbles]

Cheap housing. We hit that figure years ago.

Your national average is cheaper than my city. I live in our poorest city.

New Zealand isn't England, and this isn't the flex you think it is.

Gorbles lectured me when I said cutting immigration was a good idea.

Has basically nothing to do with the price of housing here, but good to see that you're still upset about something I said sometime, somewhere.

(the issue is a lack of housing combined with the increasing share of rented properties)

 

[Senethro]

Gorbles lectured me when I said cutting immigration was a good idea.

50% reduction per capita still higher than UK few years back.

Supply and demand. Can't build more (at least here/then) full capacity. Touch can only reduce demand.

Similar situation in Australia and Canada.

Even if you changed the economic structure (eg communism) you either reduce deman shot term or increase supply (which was essentially impossible).

And what if rental prices mysteriously never come down under any circumstances? What then?

 

[EnglishEdward]

Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag

Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November

www.theguardian.com

This stood out to me:

Quite the interpretation by the company there.

One wonders if they have one large enough to fit around her neck ?

Thoughts of awful movies with exploding collars.

But the UK is probably to incompetent to build that type of dystopian future.

It would likely have to rely on Chinese outsourcing.

 

[Nick723]

Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS

Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price

www.theguardian.com

I think the conclusion is likely valid, but the methodology here is very strange.
- they look at the number of years it would take to save to buy the house outright. No one does that! (Rather take a mortgage)
- on the flip side, most of the people in the top 10% of earners probably already own houses, so this isn’t relevant for them…

 

[Arakhor]

A reputable mortgage lender is not going to give you a 90% mortgage, though, which is what you're going to need if those statistics are accurate.