Britain - worst quality of life in Europe

marklv

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219743/Britain-worst-place-live-Europe-despite-big-pay-packets.html

Only proves what I've always known. One more thing: we also get one of the lowest state pensions in Europe.

The rich and the subsidised poor are doing well while the working middle class gets squeezed until the pips come out. 41 days of leave in Spain plus another 12 bank holidays a year or so - and they are still more productive than us. I guess it proves that the British office culture is so dominated by pointless meetings that nothing ever gets done!

dunstonh

Only proves what I've always known......

....that reading the Daily Mail is going to give you a distorted view of the facts.

marklv

dunstonh wrote: »

....that reading the Daily Mail is going to give you a distorted view of the facts.

It's also on the BBC, Press Association, Guardian, Telegraph, etc. Distorted view of the facts? The only distortion is from those who seek to deny what a crap situation we are all in.

kennyboy66_2

It must be a slow news day for the Daily Mail when they have to dredge up stories that are a mere 15 months old !

How hard can it be to work as a journalist there.

I also see that the number of days holiday in UK is 28. As that is the statutory minimum now, it would seem somewhat improbable that its also the average.

Unleaded petrol is now also more expensive in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy than the UK. Does this mean that the UK is better off.

marklv

kennyboy66 wrote: »

It must be a slow news day for the Daily Mail when they have to dredge up stories that are a mere 15 months old !

How hard can it be to work as a journalist there.

I also see that the number of days holiday in UK is 28. As that is the statutory minimum now, it would seem somewhat improbable that its also the average.

Unleaded petrol is now also more expensive in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Ireland and Italy than the UK. Does this mean that the UK is better off.

Not just the Daily Mail, as it has been reported by other media as I stated earlier.

You are wrong about the average number of days of holiday - the 28 exclude bank holidays! The statutory minimum is 28 including bank holidays.

Milarky

marklv wrote: »

You are wrong about the average number of days of holiday - the 28 exclude bank holidays! The statutory minimum is 28 including bank holidays.

It's not even that. If you work part time (eg 2.5 days per week) you'd get '4 weeks' (10 days paid) annual leave plus (pro-rata) just half the number of bank holidays paid ('4' rather than '8' on Mainland UK) The 28 days is 'full-time equivalent' only - so it's more correct to say that each woker receives 5.6 'work-weeks' annual paid leave as a minimum entitlement.

dzug1

Off to live in Europe with you then.

Oh sorry I forgot - Europe is the antichrist to Daily Wail readers.

More seriously, much of eastern Europe (and Russia - of which a significant part is in Europe) have a very much worse standard of living than here.

marklv

Milarky wrote: »

It's not even that. If you work part time (eg 2.5 days per week) you'd get '4 weeks' (10 days paid) annual leave plus (pro-rata) just half the number of bank holidays paid ('4' rather than '8' on Mainland UK) The 28 days is 'full-time equivalent' only - so it's more correct to say that each woker receives 5.6 'work-weeks' annual paid leave as a minimum entitlement.

I don't have a clue as to what you're on about!

marklv

dzug1 wrote: »

Off to live in Europe with you then.

Oh sorry I forgot - Europe is the antichrist to Daily Wail readers.

More seriously, much of eastern Europe (and Russia - of which a significant part is in Europe) have a very much worse standard of living than here.

Who cares about the east - the east is the Mongol steppe as far as I'm concerned. We have to compare ourselves with France, Germany, Italy and Spain, not the 'east'. And I'm not a Daily Wail reader - can't stand this evil rag. I just used it as an example; other papers report the same.

kennyboy66_2

marklv wrote: »

Not just the Daily Mail, as it has been reported by other media as I stated earlier.

You are wrong about the average number of days of holiday - the 28 exclude bank holidays! The statutory minimum is 28 including bank holidays.

And you point is ?

The table for all of Europe included bank holidays.

If the minimum in the UK is 28 (inc bank holidays) then how can the average by 28 ?

kennyboy66_2

marklv wrote: »

Italy and Spain, not the 'east'. And I'm not a Daily Wail reader - can't stand this evil rag. I just used it as an example; other papers report the same.

So you spend you time trawling the Daily Mail website to then link a story to here ?

Methinks you doth protest too much.