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On the subject again of Poland, its budget deficit is 50% of its revenue. The UK deficit on the other hand is only a mere 5% of its revenue. I'm glad you've finally agreed Mucca that deficit spending isn't a problem per se and can help to drive economic growth.

How does it stretch the NHS further? The social care sector being nationalised does not mean it is absorbed by the current NHS.

PWC seems to suggest that it is national insurance and payable by both employer and employee: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/poland/individual/other-taxes

that's still better than 75% of the teams in the Premier League

Domestically yes but they usually play in Europe

One good thing about Poland is that it taxes capital gains significantly higher than it does income.

Poland is an EU member, how can you say it is relatively deregulated compared to the UK?

Most probably, I did mention that in my post. Though to a certain extent the cost of living is greater in some places rather than others to sit alongside the higher pay.

That data is not accurate, it would have the average UK salary at £44k when the ONS says it is more like £37k https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/annualsurveyofhoursandearnings/2024 However, even with that, average pay is not...

Somebody who lives near me has got one of those, I laugh every time I see it. "Start you vicious bastard!"

I've seen a replay of it and it is Wright

Yes, it was very successful for them for a while

But it wouldn't be a necessity, would it?

The alternative is that somebody is released without a penny so their first resort is further crime.

How on earth does that happen? The almost exponential growth is amazing, be interesting to see if it has grown as a proportion of the total number released or whether it just looks inflated because a lot more prisoners were released 24/25 in the early release scheme.

Where have you got that stat on London's social housing population? https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-does/questions-mayor/find-an-answer/social-housing-17

What is 'welfare'?

I know it's not but there are times when he needs it, having used his ability to turn a player he then doesn't get away from him.

I do wonder whether he's fully fit, he just doesn't seem to have that burst of acceleration to beat his man. Unless he just doesn't have it at all.

In fairness to the council, energy costs are >60% higher than when it was planned, which impacts both the cost of running it and the ability of people to afford to attend. Successive UK government's failure to address this is catastrophic for the UK economy.