Here are some GDP per capita, adjusted for inflation, in 2013 GBP: 1929 £5,516 1939 £6,435 +16% 1949 £7,098 +10% 1959 £9,350 +31% 1969 £12,225 +30% 1979 £15,323 +25% 1989 £19,863 +29% 1999 £23,754 +1… (View Post)

Means testing results in the transfer in wealth from those who worked and paid taxes and saved into their own pensions to those who didn't and didn't and didn't. With pension auto enro… (View Post)

BBC makes itself look stupid in its rush to prove Ratcliffe wrong. Apparently the UK population isn't 70m it was only 69.4m last year. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglv1n4dzeo Plus how m… (View Post)

Ratcliffe is wrong in saying that the population was 58m in 2020 but Ratcliffe is of that generation which experienced a stable UK population varying between 56m in 1972 to 58m in 2000. https://www.m… (View Post)

Life expectancy increased in the 1970s, the 1980s and the 1990s yet the population only rose by 2m. Now we can talk about worker/dependent ratios but that's another issue and also with other pos… (View Post)