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[albie]

New data from the ONS out;
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/business-economics/tories-under-attack-as-ons-reveal-worst-uk-economic-performance-in-over-a-decade/10/12/

Not too clever that, given the time that the government have had to attend classes in Economics.
You'd be job centering them, if you had the chance!

[Axholme Lion]

If Comrade Corbyn gets in we'll all be at the Job Centre when most of business heads for the exit.

[BillyStubbsTears]

AL
I'll point out once again. Labour is the only party that actually understands how macroeconomics works.

They are NOT going to fleece business. They will put up Corporation Tax to less than it was in 2010. And 180 leading economists have signed a letter to the FT saying that Labour's policies are not only do-able but needed too.

[selby]

  Billy, I will point out that it is happening while we are still in the EU. and it is happening to Germany< France, and Holland worse than it is here, and forcast to get far worse over time.
  The Golden Goose is looking to be over cooked.

[SydneyRover]

Too right Selby, once were out of the EU with a smaller market, no trade deals, trade barriers ...... oh hang on a minute ?????

[BillyStubbsTears]

It doesn't work Sydney. Head and brick wall stuff. None of them believe the economic predictions.

[BobG]

Given my increasing years I sometimes fall victim to bouts of giggling when I see people refuse to even consider facts that conflict with their personal predilections and prejudices. We've all got 'em. All of us. But the mark of a properly grown up person is that he or she can accept alternative viewpoints, and even more, contradicting facts, as tools to help develop their own thinking.

We seem to have become a nation where a very large number of people not only cannot but actually will not even try to think. Cause and effect? Nope. Looking for, recognising patterns? Nope. Searching for motive? Nope. Following the money? Nope. Sceptical questioning? Nope. This is exactly the behaviour of the German people in the early and mid 1930's. And on that point, I see our wonderful government slipped out an announcement recently that would allow them, and any council, to perpetually hound specific minority groups without any right of redress or anyone being able to interfere. Britain - the home of Freedom?  Hardly. More surveillance than North Korea. More restrictive legislation than East Germany. Less workers rights than Brazil. As for the press... Read this. It won't take very long:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/break-embargo-expose-press-lies-labour

This is where rampant capitalism has brought us.

BobG