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re: How the UK would rank as a 51st state
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:53 pm to bad93ex
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:53 pm to bad93ex
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Wouldn't that make them experts on dysfunction and easily able to point it out?
Given the sundry expertise of this board and some of the comments in this thread, I don't think many of them are experts on anything.
They are mostly feckless and completely unable to affect politics in the states and cities where they live. Why would anyone think they would know what to do about the UK, which has to deal with the exceedingly difficult scenario of being a former superpower?
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Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:54 pm to VooDude
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Bunch a wankers who only work 35 hours a week and take 2 months of holidays a year. Lazy bums!
This would bother you?
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:54 pm to DesScorp
quote:This is definitely true. I'd like to re-run the numbers - UK loses London and US loses NYC. It would then be first world vs virtual third world.
As a British podcaster I watch puts it, “Britain is not a rich country. London is a rich city with a poor country attached to it”. All of the nations wealth is finance, and unlike the US , all of its financial interests are packed into one place.
Or maybe take their poorest five "states" (counties they call them) and compare them to our 5 poorest. You might be stunned at how poor their poor are.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 1:57 pm to nola tiger lsu
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This would bother you?
Gotta sacrifice the mind and body for those GDP numbers
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:10 pm to Galloglaich
We beat that arse already, why would we even want them? They are weak and they owe us a debt a gratitude that they are not speaking German.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:11 pm to Galloglaich
Combining the monarchy/parliamentary system with our democratic system is a no-go, oil and water situation.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:16 pm to Big Scrub TX
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This is definitely true. I'd like to re-run the numbers - UK loses London and US loses NYC. It would then be first world vs virtual third world.
Or maybe take their poorest five "states" (counties they call them) and compare them to our 5 poorest. You might be stunned at how poor their poor are.
You understand why this is stupid?
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:17 pm to Galloglaich
Teeth=51st
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:20 pm to Galloglaich
Hey baw. I found the updated rankings. Yours was from 2022-2024.
This post was edited on 4/24/26 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 4/24/26 at 2:42 pm to FearTheFish
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Why people are entertaining this is evidence of a failed school system.
OP obviously did not notice the cherry-picked categories.
He left out median and mean income. UK would obviously be dead last.
All 50 states also exceed UK in average household wealth.
Also average living space
Posted on 4/24/26 at 3:00 pm to Galloglaich
"Environmental Performance"
Weird that something like "3rd world refugees" or "percentage of earnings paid in taxes" arent among the cherry picked "stats".
Weird that something like "3rd world refugees" or "percentage of earnings paid in taxes" arent among the cherry picked "stats".
Posted on 4/24/26 at 3:31 pm to Galloglaich
For all of you scholars out there, the UK consists of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Most (not all) of the schlock videos that you see of Muslims doing bad things are from the boroughs surrounding or close to London. Most Muslims in the UK live in urban areas, heavily concentrated in London. They ain't many Ali Akbars running around the Scottish Highlands.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 3:38 pm to crazy4lsu
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Why would anyone think they would know what to do about the UK, which has to deal with the exceedingly difficult scenario of being a former superpower?
Pattern recognition and compare/contrast prominent UK cities over a period of 20-30 years?
Posted on 4/24/26 at 3:50 pm to bad93ex
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Pattern recognition
What? What pattern recognition could you possibly have with respect to the problems of a declining superpower?
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compare/contrast prominent UK cities over a period of 20-30 years?
Bud, prominent UK cities are far better off now than they were in the 80's, for example. I just don't think you have the requisite knowledge to make this determination, to be real. Maybe you might impress me and cite My Beautiful Launderette or something.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 3:56 pm to crazy4lsu
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Bud their GDP is not shrinking.
Apologies. Their "stagnant GDP", which was basically flat from 2007-2022. I see it was up in 2023 but haven't found more recent data.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 4:02 pm to Chucktown_Badger
Yeah austerity was a bad decision on their part. It did not work in any respect.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 4:07 pm to Galloglaich
The secondary school education and university are not even comparable as a person who lived and wnt to school in London and in the states. The US tells everyone to go to college in England they do not ! They teach trades and place students that are not college track to trades and other fields. The university system is completely streamlined. You go to school for accounting you learn accounting not a 2 years of bullshite and 2 years if accounting.
Also I would like to know when this was done because the immigrants will kill the health system
Also I would like to know when this was done because the immigrants will kill the health system
This post was edited on 4/24/26 at 4:19 pm
Posted on 4/24/26 at 4:23 pm to crazy4lsu
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Bud, prominent UK cities are far better off now than they were in the 80's
80s were how long ago?
So much better off in fact that they’re no longer considered a world superpower.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 4:29 pm to bad93ex
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So much better off in fact that they’re no longer considered a world superpower.
He's definitely talking out of both sides of his mouth for sure...
"The cities in the UK are all better off now" (debatable)
but also
"They're dealing with being a declining superpower" (accurate)
Those things are kinda mutually exclusive.
Posted on 4/24/26 at 4:30 pm to bad93ex
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80s were how long ago?
It's also true of the 90's, but believe as you want.
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So much better off in fact that they’re no longer considered a world superpower.
Man, for being such an expert, you don't appear to be able to connect the dots. Figures.
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