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General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Aruntraveller on February 27, 2024, 04:46:16 PM

Title: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 27, 2024, 04:46:16 PM

I don't know whether this is worth a go but sometimes you come across a graphic that illustrates something well and subverts what some people want us to believe:

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: jeremyp on February 28, 2024, 10:12:43 AM

That's a pretty astonishing fall over the last twenty years.

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2024, 10:24:42 AM

Quote from: jeremyp on February 28, 2024, 10:12:43 AM

That's a pretty astonishing fall over the last twenty years.

And very little to do with the specific actions of the Mayors, I would suggest.

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2024, 10:39:00 AM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2024, 10:24:42 AM

And very little to do with the specific actions of the Mayors, I would suggest.

I'd agree. I posted it because of the difference between reality and perception.

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2024, 10:43:41 AM

Quote from: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2024, 10:39:00 AM

I'd agree. I posted it because of the difference between reality and perception.

I get that. That perception is created by politicians and media with an agenda which ignores both facts, and that the ups and mostly downs are not something that are easily attributable to actions of mayors. I suspect there's been very little concrete differences in policies in any of the mayors here that you could argue had an effect.

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2024, 10:48:19 AM

Here is another one this time on the issue of terrorism attacks in the UK:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/539190/incidences-of-terrorism-united-kingdom/

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 28, 2024, 11:28:40 AM

Quote from: Aruntraveller on February 28, 2024, 10:48:19 AM

Here is another one this time on the issue of terrorism attacks in the UK:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/539190/incidences-of-terrorism-united-kingdom/

I think that one is a bit more complex, since there has been a decline over time but a rise at one pount more recently that, thankfully, seems to be in current decline. Add to that much greater access to news about terrorist attacks worldwide, and that the 'deadliest' attacks are all this century, and I'd suggest this is a less egregious misrepresentation.


https://www.statista.com/statistics/1330395/deadliest-terrorist-attacks-worldwide-fatalities/

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Aruntraveller on February 29, 2024, 10:13:44 PM

And another one in this era of bankrupt councils:

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Aruntraveller on March 02, 2024, 09:41:15 AM

The Tories record in graphs since 2010:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/02/conservatives-economic-record-budget-deficit-gdp-tax-tory-budget

Title: Re: Interesting Graphics
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2024, 12:40:58 PM

Quote from: Aruntraveller on March 02, 2024, 09:41:15 AM

The Tories record in graphs since 2010:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/02/conservatives-economic-record-budget-deficit-gdp-tax-tory-budget

https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/06/09/britains-productivity-problem-is-long-standing-and-getting-worse