MSE News: GDP up 0.3% as UK avoids triple-dip recession

Pincher

Double dipping is rude, triple dipping will get you barred from the dipping bowl. Am I talking celery, or am I talking low interest rate loans?

Thrugelmir

woodbine wrote: »

despite avoiding a TDR we are still bumping alone the bottom with just about 1.2% in growth since these numpties staged a political coup in may 2010

Rebalancing the economy will incur gains and losses. Providing the net effect is positive. Then the economy will become increasingly resilient to future shocks.

The decrease in public sector employment has been a major shift. In achieving the target of balancing the books fiscally.

temporary1

'A decrease in public employment being good for a country's economy.' Who'd have thought! What a well-spun world we've been manipulated into.

Thrugelmir

temporary1 wrote: »

'A decrease in public employment being good for a country's economy.' Who'd have thought! What a well-spun world we've been manipulated into.

Merely reverses the vast increase under the previous administration.

antrobus

woodbine wrote: »

... since these numpties staged a political coup in may 2010

Is that the current PC term for 'losing a general election'

Just asking, I'm not as up on these things as I used to be, you understand.

grizzly1911

antrobus wrote: »

Is that the current PC term for 'losing a general election'

Just asking, I'm not as up on these things as I used to be, you understand.

Sadly we seem to ping pong between numpties.

Sibley

Fantastic news for everyone

Pincher

It's Japan all over again. We are just flat lining.

If we legalise planned euthanasia, we can start a new service industry. Instead of buying an annuity, you use your pension pot to buy an EXIT PLAN. Think Ricardo Montalban and Fantasy Island, except you die at the end. E.g £100k might buy you two years on tropical island in 5 star luxury in Thailand. Cremation included.

Instead of releasing the pension money slowly, this is injecting money directly into the economy quick. Think about all the jobs in catering, physio-therapy, hairdressing. Constructing these Paradises on Earth will boost the building industry.

Getting people to move on will release housing stock, which relieves the housing crisis.

For solving the country's big problems, I would like a knighthood, a country mansion with 100 acres, and a complementary 1,000 day exit plan with a selection of beautiful women from all over the world. None of that blondes for Monday, blondes for Tuesday, and blondes every day thing Hugh Heffner seems to go for. Wait, we could call that the Heffner Special, £9,999 a day!

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Thrugelmir wrote: »

Rebalancing the economy will incur gains and losses. Providing the net effect is positive. Then the economy will become increasingly resilient to future shocks.

The decrease in public sector employment has been a major shift. In achieving the target of balancing the books fiscally.

oh please dont make me laugh,alot of the public sector jobs have been "balanced"to the private sector,the only difference?they cost us more
as for balancing the books this lot make even austerity cost us billions

Thrugelmir

woodbine wrote: »

oh please dont make me laugh,alot of the public sector jobs have been "balanced"to the private sector,the only difference?they cost us more
as for balancing the books this lot make even austerity cost us billions

Many public sector jobs have been culled as excess to requirements. Compared to the private sector much of the public sector is bloated and inefficient. Particularly in administration functions such as HR, Payroll, Finance and Procurement. So there'll be significant changes over the next decade. First stage will be to get different organisations onto common platforms. Then technology can really kick in hard.