"The mugs of Europe" UK - HIGHEST PRICES, HIGHEST TAXES, HIGHEST INTEREST RATES, HIGHEST CRIME, MORE WORK UK - LOWEST PENSIONS, LEAST HOLIDAYS, WORST SERVICES, MOST CORRUPTION / BUREAUCRACY Britons work hardest, explains Jill Insley, yet other nations end up better off Jill Insley Sunday June 9, 2002 The Observer Survey for The MarketPlace, the independent advisory arm of Bradford & Bingley bank. It compared the finances of families in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK and found that: · We work the longest hours, but pay the most tax · Our homes cost twice as much . UK state pensions are by far the lowest. ------------------------------ Work and income We have the longest average working day - eight hours 42 minutes - compared with seven hours 42 minutes in Italy. The UK has more workers per family (Only Spain has more (1.16), but the average Spanish household is unusually big, at 3.1 people, compared with 2.3 in the UK) The British also have fewer holidays. We work an average of 240 days a year - two full working weeks more than the Germans, 12 days ahead of the Italians, 13 days in front of the Spanish, and a staggering three weeks more than the French. The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), which conducted the survey, says the average British family works 7 per cent more than the larger Spanish household, 22 per cent longer than the average German family, 26 per cent more than an Italian one and 32 per cent more than the French. The British advantage is whittled away again by higher prices - our money has to go further ------------------------------ Pensions UK state pensions are by far the lowest. A 1995 study by the International Monetary Fund found that while French pensioners could expect an average pension worth 60 per cent of their final gross pay, Italians 54 per cent and Germans 52 per cent, in Britain the average was only 18 per cent. Admittedly these figures are seven years old, but if anything the position for British pensioners has worsened since then. http://www.observer.co.uk/cash/story/0,6903,729740,00.html http://www.observer.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4429737,00.html (text only) ---------------------------------------------- `Perceptions' note - re: Interest Rates Do usurers (rich moneylenders using `law' for profit) own UK's politics & politicians? Or, why are UK's interest rates double (100% higher than) those of Europe and the USA? Reason? - Because, as Buckle first deduced, interest rates are inversely proportional to the amount of political (and geographical) freedom allowed by the ruling parasites who tend to control most states. I.e - least democracy = highest interest rates [Evolutionary data - and ancient laws - show that usurers degenerate over generations because they are parasitic and have no stake in a country or in the welfare of people. The "Bank of England" is a private organization dedicated to the profits of usurers.] ---------------------------------------------- Results for the Next Generation? Feb 2007 UN report consolidates multiple investigations - the total finding is:- UK has most child poverty, one of lowest educational standards, lowest childrens' health most unsafe children (through accidents / traffic), poorer family relations, least amount of `happiness' - of all western countries (and USA is next to bottom). www.perceptions.couk.com/sadukconfirmed.txt - details of that UN report; maybe www.perceptions.couk.com/cultques.html#flat - situation now, why politicians are lying when they claim to "want fairness"; and www.perceptions.couk.com/damned_lies.html - details of politicos' lying statistics. ---------------------------------------------- `Perceptions' note2 for tiresome detail on true extent of inefficiency & tax corruption now existing in Britain: www.perceptions.couk.com/agro-ind2.txt - for rich thieves www.perceptions.couk.com/reptiles.txt - for greed-crazed rulers www.perceptions.couk.com/fueltax.txt - for creepy czars & to how (prime) ministers can legally and illegally lie about tax rates www.perceptions.couk.com/taxone.html#liar ---------------------------------------------- Evidence page for : `Altruist Survivor' - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes1.html http://www.perceptions.couk.com/genes6.html `Deceitful media' - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/beeb2.html master-page - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/beebvbeeb.html `Law or Justice?' - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/laworjustice.html corrupt judiciary - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/nitwigs.txt Fake Charities - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/fakes.html - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/scam.txt - http://www.perceptions.couk.com/scam131.txt details of our parasitic `aristocrats' and other fake `charities'. --------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/scam6.txt