Low IQ, lazy bored poors love fake fighting
>Britain has some of the lowest productivity in the developed world, meaning that we generate less stuff per hour. Slovenes are overtaking us now, and Poles are on course to do so in the mid-2030s. South Koreans, who had a third of our income per head as recently as 1985, have already surpassed us. Yet we refuse to acknowledge, let alone address, the causes of our decline.
>The average American is 39 per cent wealthier and 38 per cent more productive than the average Brit. Housing is also much cheaper in the US, as was energy even before the Ukraine war.
>If Britain were a US state, it would languish at the bottom of the league. When my friend Douglas Carswell, the former Conservative and Ukip MP, emigrated in despair at our lockdown, he chose Mississippi, where he now runs a think tank. He picked that state because it ranked 50th out of 50, and he believed that, if school choice and tax cuts could be made to work in Mississippi, they would work anywhere. What he found, to his surprise, was a higher standard of living than he had left behind.
