NY Times: ‘This Is All We Can Afford’: Shrinking Lives in the English Countryside
In Cumbria, a bucolic landscape masks growing poverty and isolation.
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Poor Unjolly Old England. It wasn't all that long ago that this island seat of a vast global empire -- upon which "the sun never set" -- for all its heavy handedness and exploitation -- brought stability, civilization and progress to much of the Turd World. But today, the conquerer is now the conquered -- a pathetic captive province of the communistic European Union (three bloody long years since the "Brexit" vote and still no action!) mired in moral degeneracy, weighed down with crushing levels of debt; taxation and regulation: and, as a result, plagued with deepening poverty rates for many of its Aryan natives.
Of course, the article blames the despair of the featured English townspeople as the result of "austerity" budget cuts put in place by England's "Conservative" Party. But a close reading between the lines of this sad story about the sad lives of the mostly older rural residents of the northwest county of Cumbria offers us a hint of the related true "root causes" of the decline of Cumbria and