So what you are saying is, if it weren't for cultural enrichment, levels of Scandinavian unhappiness would be far, far worse?
i think he is saying, try visiting Alaska during winter, in the land of the free. when you visit a mate and he hands you a rifle, its not for the bears, its protection from the locals that go doolally when the sun disappears.
For those who have not heard of it The 2018 iteration was released on 20 March and focused on the relation between happiness and migration. As per 2019 Happiness Report, Finland is the happiest country in the world,[23] with Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and the Netherlands holding the next top positions. The World Happiness Report 2018 ranks 156 countries by their happiness levels, and 117 countries by the happiness of their immigrants. The main focus of this year's report, in addition to its usual ranking of the levels and changes in happiness around the world, is on migration within and between countries. The overall rankings of country happiness are based on the pooled results from Gallup World Poll surveys from 2015–2017, and show both change and stability. Four countries have held the top spot in the last four reports: Denmark, Switzerland, Norway and now Finland. All the top countries tend to have high values for all six of the key variables that have been found to support well-being: income, healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust and generosity. Among the top countries, differences are small enough that year-to-year changes in the rankings are to be expected. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report
naw, but the revolution will be pasteurized... i guess it will need to be semi skimmed too. if you want to keep the UK the UK that is.
I must admit it'd be quite interesting to see how indi pans out for Scotland, I wish you all well. Ideally if you could get there without voting in Boris, or Corbyn, that'd grand
i think i will go full tory (in a pre thatcher traditional conservative styli) if the people dont get behind it by 2021. i think 8years doing my bit will be enough. i'l always vote for it, its the self employed in me. but i will be dingying anybody that opens their mouth to moan about the UK for evermore.
It's also noticeable they have some of the highest taxes and not one exceeds the 10 million population mark
they have higher taxes to controle inflation. norway in particular. there are many upshots to having higher tax
So what your saying is that bigger is not necessarily better, surely that supports us leaving the eu yes?
But less vat on everyday goods and living expenses, and 8.2% of the personal tax is a pension and higher wages too
Spending of money is essential: it provides employment. It also gets very untidy having cash all over the house now that we don’t have coffers to keep it in. The political question is whether you trust people to spend their own money on things they think important, or whether the spending of money should be Nationalised so that it can all be spent as quickly as possible for the benefit of ‘The Many, not The Few’.
What did he damage? I would assume that he, not being part of the political elite, he buys his suits in Marks and Spencer’s like I do and that it’s easily dry cleaned