DWP failures and the real life costs

Pacifico

The poorest 20% of households have done better than the top 20%. Or any other quintile.

How is that money "flowing upwards"? Income inequality has fallen since 2010.

Trollslayer

Given the choice between someone as useless as May and Steptoe and the Semtex Kid, I'll take May any day even though she should be locked up for treason.

Derek S-H

What about the poorest 20% and the richest 1%?

Derek S-H

"Quintile" - I've learned a new word I'll never use. Thanks!

Here are some lovely stories to warm your heart about Tory economic policy:

A landmark study has linked Tory austerity to 120,000 deaths

Austerity really has hit poor people hardest – the figures prove it | Jonathan Portes

Austerity kills: this week’s figures show its devastating toll | Owen Jones

There's plenty more if you care to look, or maybe it's just easier to deny everything and carry on shopping?

Bl4ckGryph0n

Even Phil "The Kill" Hammond says it's not working.

So who's right, you or him? If it's you, one of you's in the wrong job!

Bl4ckGryph0n

What about them?

The top 1% have a lower share.

Household income inequality, UK - Office for National Statistics
New experimental statistics show the richest 1% of the population’s share of total household disposable income was 7.1% in FYE 2018, largely unchanged over the past seven years, and below the level seen in FYE 2008 before the economic downturn

Bl4ckGryph0n

I'll stick to facts and ignore dubious "reports" about austerity killing 120k if it's all the same.

Income inequality has fallen over the last ten years. Fact.

The poorest 20% have increased their disposable income more than the top 20%. Fact.

Toko Black

The top 1% of the top 1% perhaps has done well. But otherwise no, the biggest contributors have been milked more...Some of us know and it is sickening to see the amounts being deducted.

Trollslayer

One of the two has a reason to spin facts...guess who?

richp007

Don't know why @BobbyMac marks that post as sad. Are you saying the ONS is not correct? Have you got better information?