GDP collapses

Gwendo40

GreatApe wrote: »

Yeah if only they had listened to you we wouldn't be in this mess of being one of the worlds richest and most productive nations a great place to live and be free.

Good to see our resident govt propaganda bot has discovered this thread.

I genuinely can't tell if your deluded to the point of requiring some kind of counselling or if you just have a wickedly ironic sense of humour.

System

"f*cking up the country causes GDP decline shocker"

The Express, probably.

GreatApe

Gwendo40 wrote: »

Good to see our resident govt propaganda bot has discovered this thread.

I genuinely can't tell if your deluded to the point of requiring some kind of counselling or if you just have a wickedly ironic sense of humour.

By any real metric this is a great country and the world is moving to a better and better place. Most the problems we face are manufactured propaganda by fear mongers who are either stupid or want to paint a false picture for their own ends

The UK is a great nation with high wages full employment and lots of freedom an opportunity.
What more the future is looking like its going to be even better still

Don't be a pawn in other peoples propaganda wars things are good things are very very good

triathlon

venison wrote: »

GDP has collapsed in Q1 2018 to just 0.1%, poor performance in the construction side being one of the excuses peddled out.
The B of E had pencilled in 0.3% in its inflation forecast.

For goodness sake the GDP has not collapsed, and when it is revised it will no doubt be a rise. And regardless, everyone I know is flourishing, work coming in and rents are being paid, even increased. So please do not start wishing for a recession just because some of you are just not savvy or clever enough to buy your own home and bitterness has made you want ill and misfortune of your betters.

[Deleted User]

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

If Corbyn becomes PM, God forbid, we will see exactly what a GDP collapse looks like. And a sterling collapse to boot.

And the tories grand idea of a referendum didn't cause a massive fall in sterling?

Fella

Project Fear really is a miserable collection of bottom-feeders who can't bear losing.

It's such fun that they did.

You know they're desperate when the best they can come up with is that preliminary GDP figures "only rose a bit". Lawksamussy! The sky's falling on my head! and other garbage that such characters trot out whilst they run around skwarking mindlessly.

[Deleted User]

Or could it be that 8 years of austerity are now coming back to bite the tories on the rear end?

Crashy_Time

Gwendo40 wrote: »

Did try to warn them of what?... That printing hundreds of billions of pounds, slashing IR's and then holding them at ''emergency levels'' for a decade, creating record levels of all forms of debt, all in order to prop up and further inflate a property bubble, might not necessarily be a great idea?

Yes, you're quite right, we DID try to warn them.:rotfl:

Hamish wasn`t too bothered by all that, until the Aberdeen property market went pop :rotfl:

Fella

venison wrote: »

Or could it be that 8 years of austerity are now coming back to bite the tories on the rear end?

8 years of trying to spend something a little closer to what we actually have to spend you mean? Yeah sounds like a terrible idea.

Last time I looked MoneySavingExpert didn't recommend wildly overspending until you're massively in debt you can't afford to pay back.

corf999

Did we really have Austerity? We are still spending more than we earn. We are still not in a sustainable position thanks to the mess that Gordon Brown left with a yearly overspend of £100b+