Poor Old Scotland

[Patrick]

Almost a third of Scottish households are "breadline poor", according to research commissioned by the BBC.

Changing UK - a study conducted by Sheffield University - looked at how nations and regions within Britain have altered over the past four decades.

It said Scotland had the largest number of poor people in each of the last four decades, as well as the highest death rate of all 14 regions examined.

You wonder if we really are in the 21st Century. Another survey not long back said that Lancashire had one of the lowest age for dying in the UK - So, one wonders - by simply moving here did I automatically knock 15 years off my life?

Who makes this stuff up anyway!

Why isn't this front page news? Why isn't every area of the country that is lying derelict (and there's plenty of 'em!) on the front page of every National Paper saying "Britain? What Investment???"

[riotgrrl]

Dec 1, 2008 17:47:14 GMT Patrick said:

Almost a third of Scottish households are "breadline poor", according to research commissioned by the BBC.

Changing UK - a study conducted by Sheffield University - looked at how nations and regions within Britain have altered over the past four decades.

It said Scotland had the largest number of poor people in each of the last four decades, as well as the highest death rate of all 14 regions examined.

You wonder if we really are in the 21st Century. Another survey not long back said that Lancashire had one of the lowest age for dying in the UK - So, one wonders - by simply moving here did I automatically knock 15 years off my life?

Who makes this stuff up anyway!

Why isn't this front page news? Why isn't every area of the country that is lying derelict (and there's plenty of 'em!) on the front page of every National Paper saying "Britain? What Investment???"

They're only poor because they won't get off their arses and work.

I'm tired of hearing how 'poor' Glasgow is, and how bad the health of Weegies is, etc. etc. etc.

Glasgow is not a poor city. Scotland is not a poor country. This land is full of opportunity.

But if you're happy to spend your dole on some spliff and a few cans of lager, then sit watching Jeremy Kyle all day bemoaning your lot, none of these opportunities are going to be popping by.

[Patrick]

Did you see the link on the side of the page that sets out the statistics for Glasgow!? It's a shame. It's a shame that these "surveyors/researchers" just go out and find the "easy" targets - and I surmise myself here - based on stereotype (perhaps). Take some of the coastal towns. How many times over the years do you find front page surveys saying things like (I remember)"St Leonard's Hastings 'The suicide capital of Britain'" which was a favourite ten years ago. Or here in Morecambe, where ten years before the above headline, used to get loaded with every outcast that Manchester could throw at it and got called "The Dole Capital of Britain" Is it perhaps because we have too many Universities and they have too much time on their hands, so all they can think of doing is the same old research based on the same old research?

As for this article - why didn't Sheffield University study - well - Sheffield?? That's a dump!