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'attitudes to welfare recipients have hardened'? um, they've stayed broadly the same / changed w/job availability

I'd say most interesting thing shown in this graph was recent decline in %Tory voters blaming laziness for poverty

In past 5 years, % of Labour voters blaming 'injustice' for poverty has increased-hidden in press release/coverage

hmmm. so, actually, the percentage of people saying 'laziness' was a cause of poverty went DOWN between 2002-2010

@frances_coppola summary of britannia data 2003-2008 in chart form:

@Frances_Coppola just looked back at my data on Britannia. Here's the Profits/Mean Total Assets trend (1 is 2003)

Average Mortgage Loan to income ratio, UK 1980-2010. #housing #debt #housingcrisis

UK GDP per capita decline from peak/recovery in 1970s, 80s, 90s and current

Adult Male Avg FT Earnings, 1755-1851. oddly familiar trends of growing income inequality #modeofproduction

rebalancing: GDP and main components (production/services/construction), index 2009, via ONS

Trends in Lending (uk real estate and other businesses) #contractionarycontraction

Alternatively, average weekly wages in 2000 prices are now £298.07. In 13 years one month, up by 7p! Chart:

By my calculations, avg weekly wages Feb 2013 (£443) lowest since December 2000 (£442.86 in today's prices).Chart:

quickest way to compare growth in average weekly wages and inflation is screencapture from ONS video:

ONS: Lowest growth in regular pay (excluding bonuses) since records began in 2001, year-on-year chart by month:

#thatcherlegacy: % of popn living in private rental soon to exceed share in social rental for 1st time since 1960s

so I looked up the BoE data. housing equity withdrawal, £ & % post-tax income 1970-2012,inc Thatcher & Blair booms

self-employment up ~500,000 since '08. self-employed hourly wages... down ~1/3rd since '08

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Peter Pannier