Didn't know it was usual in the UK to have such huge car loans
Now I see that many people are living above and beyond their possibilities.
I thought the population there actually had quite a bit more money than the average european person, but I guess that's just hear say.
It is prosperous in parts, especially London of course. The South East sucks a vast amount of life from the rest of the country. Loads of Europeans come there because there's more money to be made and it's far easier and more lucrative to set up a business there than elsewhere in Europe.
There's something like 300,000 French folks in London alone, so many that they might get their own MP in the French parliament.
One thing that does unify Brits is their love of suicidal quantities of credit.
In France you have to fellate your bank manager to get the tiniest of mortgages. In the UK they were doling out 125% mortgages to any old psycho with 'self certification' ie you just told them you were earning enough and they'd gaily hand over the cash.
There's loads of money sloshing around. Not a great deal of it was actually earned.