#britain

Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#balance #before #britain #cards #case

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts of the media will continue to attack public service pensions, as if school meals staff, refuse collectors and healthcare workers have no right to a decent retirement. ↗

— Frances O'Grady

#already #among #attack #britain #collectors

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#apt #britain #conversation #extension #history

I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can. ↗

— William H. Seward

#because #britain #consideration #due #european

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. ↗

— Nigel Short

#britain #british #comes #compulsory #education

The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department. ↗

— Harold Edward Holt

#britain #cooperation #degree #department #dominions

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#be happy #britain #germany #handling #happy

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#britain #else #i #i do #more

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#another #australia #britain #california #connects

There is a danger for Britain as we perceive ourselves, or as we are - less wealthy, facing economic austerity - that we essentially draw back. I think there is a recoil in parts of the country, and in parts of the government actually, from the multilateral system, and I think that's dangerous and wrong. ↗

— David Miliband

#austerity #back #britain #country #danger