Average Brit has more income now than the average American

This would have to come from the BBC, because the American news media does not tell Americans they are no longer "number one."

The average UK person will this year have a greater income than their US counterpart for the first time since the 19th Century, figures suggest.

Here's the details:

Analyst Oxford Economics said the UK's GDP per head of population will reach £23,500 - £250 higher than in the US.

However, because goods and services are cheaper in the US, Americans will have stronger purchasing power, it added.

UK GDP per capita will also be higher than in Germany (£21,665) and France (£21,700), Oxford Economics calculated.

Managing director Adrian Cooper said: "The last 15 years have seen a dramatic change in the UK's economic performance and its position in the world economy. [Snip]

Oxford Economics said that in 1993, following the last major recession and the UK's ejection from the ERM, GDP per capita in the UK was 34% lower than in the US, 33% lower than in Germany and 26% lower than in France.

It said the improved UK position reflected the sustained strong growth it has enjoyed since then and the recent strength of sterling.

Mr Cooper said: "The UK has been catching up steadily with living standards in the US since 2001, so it is a well-established trend rather than simply the result of currency fluctuations."

Remember when Reaganomics were going to make all Americans rich? Guess what? The Labor Party in the UK has been in control since 1997, and the 1997 defeat of the conservatives resulted largely from the disasters that Thatcherism caused, leading to sharply increased unemployment and the eviction of a million householders from their homes.

The UK has demonstrated that a modern government run by the Labor Party is more effective than one run on Monarchical principles by corporate leaders. We've seen in America that a government run by corporate leaders is a disaster. The Progressives and union leaders can't possibly be as bad and the Republicans and their fellow-traveler corporatist Democrats.

Ex-Brit Captain hits war in Iraq, Afghanistan. War to continue without end.

From the The Independent. April 8, 2007.

Leo Docherty, age 30, has a low opinion of what is being done in both Iraq and afghanistan. He has served in the Scots Guards in both theaters of war and speaks speaks Arabic and Pashto plus three other languages. He considers that what is being done in both theaters to be ineffective, counterproductive and has without purpose.

Mr Docherty began to feel that Operation Telic was causing as many problems for the population as it solved.

"There are nearly 10,000 British troops there just getting on with the job, taking terrible risks and dying for the sake of a doomed project, and yet they crack on like it's inevitable, reasonable and sensible to be there," he said. "A lot of what you're doing is often counterproductive, in the sense that it's damaging relations with local people." [Snip]

Mr Docherty resigned his commission last autumn, but not before attacking those who sent him to Iraq and Afghanistan in the press. His comments earned him a formal reprimand for speaking out without clearance from his superiors.

"I came out of the Army fucking angry - I felt I had a right to come out and say something," he said. "My friends had been killed, so I thought: 'I'm not going quietly.'"

His soon-to-be-published book, Desert of Death, is available for pre-order through Amazon UK.

With such clear levels of success and promise of future success, the Telegraph April 8, 2007 reports that the Ministry of Defense has plans to continue operations through at least 2012. The current (confidential) Ministry of Defense planning document is called the Operational Tour Plot. It shows that the plans include operations as far in the future ad 2012. This runs contrary to the impression given by Tony Blair that the British were planning to leave Iraq within the next two years.

Almost 100,000 of the 180,000 members of the country's armed services have now served in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.

Two of the four provinces in southern Iraq are now under the control of official Iraqi forces. Maysan province is due to be handed over later this month and the Iraqi military should take official control of Basra province later this summer. But British troops will remain for at least another five years, the government documents reveal. [Snip]

Patrick Mercer, a former infantry colonel and former Tory homeland security spokesman, said: "The reality is that many troops will remain in Iraq for the foreseeable future and continue to take casualties."

Senior commanders also revealed the number of troops committed to Afghanistan is likely to increase over the next two years.

So much for democracy. The elites want war, and war they will get. Lies started the war, lies of its end soon keep it going. Is America any different from the UK?