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7 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

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He won't be left with anything, as he won't be the leader.  He will just have to console himself with his millions and his wife's billions. 

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UK officially in recession. How's that growth pledge going Sunak?

 

 


I've made the point before, but GDP is not the relevant indicator here, GDP per capita is (or should be). That's how the economy impacts on people. If you look at that, apparently we were in recession throughout the entirety of Sunak's tenure. 

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This is quite the take. We're in a recession but not really because other countries have different rules and it's all the junior doctors' fault.

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6 hours ago, RobinRobin said:

He won't be left with anything, as he won't be the leader.  He will just have to console himself with his millions and his wife's billions. 

 

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1 hour ago, ewerk said:

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This is quite the take. We're in a recession but not really because other countries have different rules and it's all the junior doctors' fault.

 

The BBC are repeatedly referring to it as a "technical recession". What does that mean? It's just a fucking recession, full stop. The BBC were also at paind to point out GDP is a lagging indicator, and we might not be in recession right now! As you say, quite the take.

 

We imported over half a million people ;ast year, mainly workers, and yet our GDP still decreased. That is a huge problem. 

 

Edit, James O'Brien just gave the figure of change in GDP per capita since just before covid:

UK -1.1%

US +6.0%

EU +2.7% 

 

The response from tories will be but Germany. Think it's true that Germany is doing quite badly right now. This is partly due to Ukraine, and partly because their energy policy is nuts and they have embraced austerity which is also nuts. But before we celebrate, consider that Germany is coming from a much higher base than us.

Germany GDP per capita: $53,945

UK GDP per capita: $46,428

I also suspect they don't have the same inequalities as us. 

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10 minutes ago, Alex said:

Technically it’s the mildest recession since the 70s 

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Good stuff. It's actually somewhat surprisingly only the 6th recession in modern histroy. 5/6 have come under tory governments. Remind me why people think they are good with the economy again?

As well, at least in the old tory days you got a boom before bust. Now it's just 14 years of bust.

 

1973: -1.3%, Tory government
1980: -3%, Tory government
1990: -1.6% Tory government
2008: -2% Labour government
2020: -22.5% Tory government
2024: -0.4% Tory government

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It’s about conning enough floating voters into thinking they are better off. They’re good at it and the press are largely on side and fptp facilitates it too. AKA our broken democratic system 

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It's fucking mental how the press have gone for Starmer over the Rochdale candidate thing over the past couple of days. Compare that to the non-reporting of some of the absolute fiddlers that the Tories have had as MPs who have triggered most of these by elections anyway. 

 

Labour are held to an entirely different standard by a lot of the press and the Tories just allowed to skate on loads of stuff. 

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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

It's fucking mental how the press have gone for Starmer over the Rochdale candidate thing over the past couple of days. Compare that to the non-reporting of some of the absolute differs that the Tories have had as MPs who have triggered most of these by elections anyway. 

 

Labour are held to an entirely different standard by a lot of the press and the Tories just allowed to skate on loads of stuff. 

Not just that but a Labour Party IN FUCKING OPPOSITION being held to entirely different standards to a government that’s completely fucked just about everything they’ve touched 

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Tory vote share has collapsed from 62% to 24% in Wellingborough, the biggest collapse in their vote share since WW2. 

 

Looking forward to them telling us how there's "no great love for Keir Starmer" as if losing that badly whilst no one likes Starmer is actually a good thing. 

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Helen Harrison, the Tory party candidate in Wellingborough (who also intends to stand at the general election), is Peter Bone’s partner :lol: :lol: :lol: 

Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? 

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Apparently Bone was threatening to stand as an independent and campaign against the Tories if they didn't make her the candidate. So they bottled it and still gave up the second biggest Labour swing ever.

 

I just love watching Sunak suffer. Hoping for plenty of that today and over the weekend.

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3 hours ago, Gemmill said:

Tory vote share has collapsed from 62% to 24% in Wellingborough, the biggest collapse in their vote share since WW2. 

 

Looking forward to them telling us how there's "no great love for Keir Starmer" as if losing that badly whilst no one likes Starmer is actually a good thing. 

 

According to Mogg, Kingsbury was a bad day for Labour as they didn't get 50%. I can't wait to see this cunt walk the distance. 

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3 minutes ago, Renton said:

 

According to Mogg, Kingsbury was a bad day for Labour as they didn't get 50%. I can't wait to see this cunt walk the distance. 

 

Aye. There in his capacity as a GB news presenter, opining on a constituency, half of which will be folded into his constituency at the next General election. Reeks.

 

Unfortunately he's too wealthy to have to actually worry about anything but I'd just like to see him out of public life.

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1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

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Rees-Mogg thinks the key to success is to just keep doing more of the shit that's set them on the road to electoral oblivion.

 

Yes please.

 

He's a bona fide moron if he thinks he can extrapolate the voting patterns of these country bumpkins nationally. Meanwhile, yes please. 

 

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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

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Rees-Mogg thinks the key to success is to just keep doing more of the shit that's set them on the road to electoral oblivion.

 

Yes please.

 

He's a bona fide moron if he thinks he can extrapolate the voting patterns of these country bumpkins nationally. Meanwhile, yes please. 

 

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