OECD Engages in Crap Talk! Britons Happier Than Before Financial Crisis as Contentment Plummets in Europe – OECD

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: OECD says quality of life in the UK has been only “modestly affected” by the global financial crisis with happiness and even trust in government rising – in marked contrast with its neighbours in the Eurozone

British people have emerged from global financial crisis happier than before in stark contrast with their counterparts in most other European countries, a major international study shows.

Levels of general satisfaction with life have also edged upwards in the UK, bucking the trend in much of the rest of the developed world, a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found.

Even trust in government, which has tumbled in many Eurozone countries in particular in the last five years, has risen in the UK over the same period.

Although the recession sent unemployment rising and put a squeeze on living standards in Britain as elsewhere, the drop in national morale seen in other countries is simply “not visible” in the UK, according to the OECD. » | John Bingham, Social Affairs Editor | Tuesday, November 05, 2013