Some Interesting Stats ....

[Canary42]

.... on UK personal expenditure. For example

"The most well off spend more per week on wine at £8.70 than the poorest spend on their water bills, at £6.90 per week."

The rich-poor gap so beloved by the Right.

https://www.lovemoney.com/news/49978/what-uk-households-spend-money-on-ons-survey?source=10000277&utm_source=newsletter

[Baldric]

Only £8.70???
;o)

[Zacs-Master]

What do the poorest spend on wine?

(Mme M Antoinette)

[hc4361]

How much does the well off spend on White Lightning and Red Stripe?

[Togo]

Then again I don't spend money on Tennants super strength or White Lightning cider.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Mark Twain

[Togo]

snap hc.

[Zacs-Master]

£12.30 a week on Alcohol. Some people just aren't doing their bit to keep this country's pubs afloat.

[mushroom25]

ZM, the figure of £12.30 is not just alcohol, it's alcohol, tobacco and narcotics.

it would be interesting to see the breakdown of expenditure for cocaine, cannabis and ecstacy, along with their demographics.

[woofgang]

yup thats a logical fallacy but I can’t remember which one......like how terrible it is that people spend more money on petfood than on baby food.

[VHG]

>>>The most well off

Define "most well off".

It is is millionaires then you would expect that.

Some people spend more on a car than others spend on a house.

There has always been rich and poor and there always will be.

However the "poor" are probably far better off now than the poor were 50 or 100 years ago.

What do you suggest, drag everyone down to the poor level?

That is a typical labour / socialist answer.

It is "the rich" that generate wealth and create and run the businesses that keep this country going.

[Togo]

The politics of envy. Your kids are clever so ruin the education system to make mine appear cleverer. Your wife is prettier than mine, so disfigure her to make mine appear prettier.

[Old_Geezer]

But the poor could pay more for water were they to buy it in bottles from the supermarket, as the well-off do with their wine.