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Riddle me this, then, because I sure as hell don't understand.

If economic growth is so beneficial to everyone, then how come hundreds of thousands of citizens are driven to food banks; how pay in real terms has fallen for the sixth successive year; how the ambitions of young people to own their own home has become an unfulfillable dream for most of them (particularly in the South).

Please don't think, anyone, ('specially Warbler) that this is just someone outside the UK criticising Britain for the sake of it. It is the same in the country in which I live. We are being told that the economy is growing, that the "markets are vibrant", that the international institutions are pleased with our progress. But all that I can see all around me are ordinary Joe's losing their homes, their jobs, and their dignity.