Dear Reader,
Revealed today: 85% of the United Kingdom's MPs don’t know where money comes from. This is pretty worrying considering money is central to every aspect of our lives. Every big political issue - from inequality, to the housing crisis, to the fight against climate change - is closely connected to the money system.
Our economy is not in a good place. People’s wages aren’t keeping up with the cost of living. Most of us haven’t had a pay rise in over a decade. [1] To understand what’s gone wrong, MPs need to grasp the basics of how our economy works, now more than ever.
If together, we expose this news, by each sharing it with our friends and family today, we can build pressure on our MPs to buck up and do their homework - before they fail to stop a financial crash. Please watch and share this 1 minute video now.
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Thanks for all you do,
Rachel, David, Fran and the rest of the Positive Money team
PS: In 2014 Positive Money commissioned a similar poll of UK MPs. The difference between the 2017 and 2014 results shows our work has had some impact in that time, but that we’ve still got lots to do to educate our MPs on how the money and banking system works. [4]
NOTES:
[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/quarter-of-young-people-in-constant-debt-as-prices-increase-and-wages-stagnate-finds-study-a7955176.html
[2] City AM article: http://www.cityam.com/274631/shocking-ignorance-mps-dont-know-money-actually-comes
[3] 2017 MP Poll results: http://positivemoney.org/2017/10/mp-poll/
[4] 2014 MP Poll results: http://positivemoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Positive-Money-Dods-Monitoring-Poll-of-MPs.pdf
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