Minumum living standard UK


	Minumum living standard UK

montypaul

7-5-2008 12:05 PM

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uk, greed, meanness, poverty, minimum living standard

montypaul says:

The UK s judged the most punitive and ungenerous country in Europe with respect to what it regards as the minimum acceptable standard of living.

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