‘Hello’ readers considerably poorer than yow
Written by: silver
The ‘Hello magazine’ effect has been blamed for the perceived widening of the gap between Britain’s rich and poor.
Another pointless report commissioned by someone with nothing better to do said today, ‘The poor read about the super-rich getting richer and think they’re poorer. Or something. So they go out and comfort shop in Waitrose and designer retail outlets to make themselves feel better about being poor.’
In actual fact, the rich have been getting richer and the poor have been getting richer as well, but at a more rapid rate than the rich have been getting richer, though they still believe themselves to be poorer. ‘It appears that the Labour government’s attempts to redistribute wealth by stealth since 1996 may have actually worked,’ said a spokesman for the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), somewhat cautiously as he tried to understand the implications.
The report went on to say that the poor would get poorer again soon now that the UK is entering a recession, though they will all still own Gucci handbags and have a freezer full of lobster bisque.
