...If the South is spending €683 m. every three years on Housing Assistance Payment for 10 000-12 000 homeless and the North spends £20 m. over three years on 4 000-6 000,surely this calls into question the traded value of currencies,the real value of Britain's exports and the value of imports and, precisely, how currency markets estimate the value of Britain's currency...do we not have to reconsider that old unfashionable phrase of Chris Harman, namely,the "real economy"...
...Let us not forget that Chris Harman did not go to Germany to study political economy but,rather,that Karl Marx came to Britain...
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Once again,the phrase "purchasing power parities" which I may have coined in 1978 comes to mind.
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The fact of the matter is that social statistics only give proximate pictures of social problems not just in Northern Ireland but in the South.
However,not just because of corruption in the trade unions since the great nationalist turnout of 1918-21 but also because of chronic ignorance at many levels,the South has prejudiced it's international standing as a reasonably well society for the poor and indigent.
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