The latest Social Progress Index (2020) report is published.

Why care?

SPI tracks quality of life INDEPENDENT of wealth.
A perfect Levelling Up Report.

In one year the UK fell 7 places on the report from 13 - 20. The worst fall of any state not at war in the index' history
The common factor in the calamitous decline of the UK is the language of and policy of bias

Simply, it seems bias and lies perform less well than evidence and honesty.

Maybe Conservative MPs refusing to take unconscious bias training should reconsider.

Bias is not working.
The Summary

This report excludes wealth factors (eg. Trade and wealth gap). It asks "what else" caused UK Decline

1. Threat of political violence undermines democracy (and debate)

2. Pollution related death hurts the poor most

3. Shift of political power to wealthy elites.
More detail?

1. Politically motivated Killing or Torture/Attacks.

The UK has slipped from 28 to 52 in the world as a direct result of the Politics of Hate. Remember the example Johnson personally set in Parliament regarding the killing of Jo Cox?
2 Backsliding on the Environment.

This Gov is backsliding on almost every goal from previous Governments. You may know food quality promises are going.

You may not know that deaths due to air pollution are increasing and biome (quality of countryside) is rapidly decreasing.
3. Inclusiveness

Windrush, Grenfell, and general immigrant blame obviously hurts cohesion

Less obviously all of this is shifting political power further towards higher social groups and socioeconomic position. Why?

Maths. The attacked groups are poorer and are less privileged.
If you're to level up a society, presumably that means those who are poorest with least agency and privilege must do better faster?

If pollution kills them, debate about them is violently suppressed and they're less able to influence politics, this may hurt reelection plans.
Postscript 1.
Political Violence?
Really?

If the ERG had not been able to hide behind Parliamentary Privilege they would have contravened the 2006 terrorism act on multiple occasions. https://twitter.com/atatimelikethis/status/1188067499516059648?s=19
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