Rudeness Could Cost Us Billions
A Report Published today by the UK Kindness Movement suggest good manners alone could boost the real economy

London, UK, 20th April 2012—Not only is Britain at risk of losing its age-old reputation for kindness and civility but rudeness across the nation could be costing us billions.

A report published today by the UK Kindness Movement warns that lack of consideration for others in the community could be the cause of spiralling costs of mental illness, a decrease in revenue from tourism and an increase in the cost of policing anti-social behaviour.

The author of the report, Louise Burfitt-Dons says, `it is clear there’s been a decline in standards of consideration over the past fifty years. The fact it could also be costing us in hard revenue is worrying.’
Burfitt-Dons, who founded the UK Kindness Movement and is co-founder of Kindness Day UK has been researching the subject of kindness in the community since 2005.

Recommendations for improvement include teaching likeability skills in schools, more efficiency systems in place to counter the negative effects of the `hurried society’ and more positive and helpful signs in public places.

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