Does it matter if Poland overtakes Britain, if both our populations are able to survive and prosper? The phrasing has a racist and geopolitical element to it, which superceeds the issues around UK government's lack of investment in R&D and destruction of the welfare state. This is not a zero sum game.
Labour campaigned and voted against Brexit shouting this would happen. "Project Fear" as it was called. But now they pretend like Brexit has nothing to do with it... it's just the torries fault apparently.
Oh no - what if the line doesn't go up? The line. It has to go up. It has to. We'll do anything - any-thing. Please. Oh please. Just let the line go up!
The numbers the article quotes are not the current US dollar GDP, but PPP (i.e. GDP adjusted to local prices) per capita. The 2021 current US dollar GDP numbers are rather far appart:<p><pre><code> UK $47,334.36
Poland $17,840.92
Romania $14,861.91
Hungary $18,772.67
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Source:<p><a href="https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_current_dollars/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_cur...</a><p><a href="https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/GDP_per_capita_PPP...</a>