Pars Today- British Retail Consortium reported that the shops in the UK are robbed 55,000 times every day and 1/4 of the population in the country has witnessed the scenes of theft.
The Friday report of British Retail Consortium, whose statistics have been produced by Opinium (Market Research Company), indicates that 1/4 of the British have seen the thieves stealing from shops and attacking the staffs of these whops. According to Pars Today, quoting from IRIB news agency, arms were used in 70 cases of these thefts.
Daily Guardian wrote that the high prices and inflation are among the causes of upsurge in stealing from shops.
Meanwhile, the representatives of the House of Commons, warned that the prisons of the country will be filled and there will be no room for imprisonment of new culprits.
Decrease of economic growth
Another piece of news reveals that in the brink of presenting the budget report to the House of Commons, and regarding the threats of the US president on increasing of tariffs for the UK, the British National Statistics Center announced that the country’s economic growth dropped to %0.1 in January.
Guardian adds that although the current British government keeps speaking about the need for economic growth, the highly low growth of the GDP was very desperate in the first month of the current year.
Around 9,000 jobless in one organization
In view of this, Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister, during the recent parliamentarian session, said that the way of running the National Health Service (NHS), as the greatest NGO in the world which uses governmental budget, should change. He added that dismantling this organization will save hundreds of millions of pound in governmental expenses of health and treatment of the country.
Daily Mail has also written on the issue that this measure of the British government will force half of the 18,600 health and medical staffs in Britain to lose their jobs. This decision has been castigated by these staffs.
Homelessness crisis in Britain
On the other hand, the house shortage, decrease of governmental aid, low wages, increase of inflation and skyrocketing housing prices and decrease of economic growth have given rise to homelessness in Britain. Sky News TV channel announced in a report that the number of the homeless in the rural and urban regions in Britain has increased more than %21 since 2018.
According to the latest report of Shelter Institute, over 354,000, including 161,000 children are living under bridges and alongside streets in the 6th biggest economy in the world.
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