From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com
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"What we always forget is that the overwhelming bulk of the British
proletariat does not live in Britain, but in Asia and Africa. It is not
in Hitler's power, for instance, to make a penny an hour a normal
industrial wage; it is perfectly normal in India, and we are at great
pains to keep it so. One gets some idea of the real relationship of
England and India when one reflects that the per capita annual income
in England is something over £80, and in India about £7. It is quite
common for an Indian coolie's leg to be thinner than the average
Englishman's arm. And there is nothing racial in this, for well-fed
members of the same races are of normal physique; it is due to simple
starvation." (Not Counting Niggers, 1939).
When I get a spare minute I'm going to write a similar essay about the
smugness of people like you and the people who run Britain called 'Not
Counting Chavs' - because you see I live in England 2006 not 1939.
>Of course now the empire has come home to roost
I'm surprised you see that way. The situation we have now is the upshot of a
double whammy: the greed of the mercantile Right and the self-loathing,
self-destructiveness of the middle-class Left.
and there is a distinct
shortage of lebensraum in Britain, and in the UK the average coolie's
leg is now no thinner than the curry-and-lager fed haunch of the modern
John Bull.
Ah; here comes the hostile snobism that lurks under your outlook. Why is it
that underneath the most noisily pious there lurks titanic misanthropy? True
in every case from St Paul to George Harrison.
Although there is a great deal of talk, in this green age, of
overpopulation causing a drain on natural resources like water in the
United States, the situation is totally different from the UK.
In the US developers can, almost at will, purchase large tracts of
more-or-less virgin land and build large numbers of homes, shopping
malls, gas stations etc., making huge economies of scale, and thus
making affordable housing available. At least it has been that way
until relatively recently, though starter home prices relative to wages
have escalated alarmingly since the coup d'etat of six years ago.
In the UK, there is very little land available for building, and when
it does become available, then it comes in small parcels, which makes
economies of scale impossible. The cost of homes in the UK seems to
bear very little relation to the cost of construction and materials, so
I imagine that there must be very fat profit margins, especially since
sales commissions are tiny compared to the United States--about 1% vs
7%.
>The good news is that New Zealand is about the same size as the UK, but
has a population about the size of that of Manchester, so those who
>want space can always ship out.
So your usual crass non-answer then? Hey ho. By the way, sort your
attribution carets out.
ROBBIE
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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