This article compared market exchange rates rather than living standards. Elementary economics teaches this is wrong.
Male life expectancy in MI is 67. In the UK it’s 78. For women the figures are 74 and 83.
Finally the police and intelligence services need the resources to deal with right wing extremism in both Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Unfortunately they have a lot on their plate - including Russian, Iranian, and Islamist operations, but that’s the world in which we live.
This is sufficiently serious that the Prime Minister needs to address it. He must make clear that incitement and racist violence are unacceptable and will be dealt with using the full force of the law (the law itself is more than adequate - it needs to be enforced.
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