Money Isn't Everything

As has been demonstrated by the vote for independence from the beastly Euro-wogs, and the continuing disinclination to resume even a modified market share of the Strasbrussels yoke, there are few financial sacrifices the great British nation will not make on a point of principle. This precious cultural virtue is once more apparent in a report which observes that £19,000 million in economic growth is being lost through lack of social mobility. The lower orders are finding it increasingly difficult to avail themselves of university education, while apprenticeships remain under-funded so as not to promote laziness; hence people from less wealthy backgrounds are earning thousands a year less than hard-working families and are correspondingly less likely to sully decent neighbourhoods by crawling too high on the property ladder. Strangely enough, the compilers of the report seem to think there is something in this situation that ought to be changed. The country that voted to knock half a dozen percentage points off its GDP in order to show Johnny Foreigner what's what is hardly likely to begrudge a few thousands of millions to keep the rabble in their place.