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Have we seen any significant growth since 2008? Are we still realistically in a recession

Have we seen any significant growth since 2008?

Yes.

2.73T in 2007 to 3.11T in 2021

(in 2015 USD, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?locations=GB)

A question that I assume is rhetorical...if not 😏

By jove, someone other than me has woken up it appears. 😵

It will make a difference . 1,2,3 green party councillors have achieved many things. The only way this messed up "country" is going to move forward from these failing corrupt tory losers is...😉

3 illegal / criminal clowns, yet some still

If this isn't sarcasm.

You believe a tory rag....

Because he is a tory slimy cretin.

Some?!?!

1 in 4 would still vote for them

Yeah, I'd love a green councillor, that would make a difference, but me voting for them doesn't make a difference because labour always walk it here, which is infinitely preferable to having Tories get in, they're thankfully right down the bottom fighting it out with communists and independents for last spot.

If it's researched properly then I'd be inclined to believe FT stats, I'd probably disagree with their position on what they think about them, but that doesn't make something false.

You believe a tory rag....

Firstly, have you ever read the FT? It's probably the third most government critical paper in the country behind the Guardian and Mirror right now.

Secondly, I don't disbelieve anything based on fallacy of origin.

I did however misrepresent what I read in the FT:

At the UK’s 2019 general election, 22mn votes were cast either for candidates who were not elected, or for those who had already won easily. Only 30 per cent of votes were decisive in the outcome.

You believe a tory rag....

Tell me you don't read the FT without telling me you don't read the FT

I remember a polling day when the FT told us to vote Labour. It's also well resourced. The journalists do their homework. A few of the columnists are barking, but most are moderate. Honest, neutral political coverage. All in all it's a better paper than any other broadsheet.

Better is a tough one. Id say it’s more politically neutral and therefore arguably a better source of impartial news.

Though I’m sure the right would grumble that the editor is married to a climate change scientist and the left would grumble that it’s literally called the Financial Times.

sports pages are shit though

Gina Miller has started a political party. A big, ambitious manifesto, aimed at taking corruption and imbalance and nonsense out of our political system. A ban on lobbying, amongst other things. She's got candidates in just a handful of seats, which sounds a bit pointless at first, but she thinks Labour might win the next GE without a majority and be looking for coalition partners. In which case she will join them on condition that PR is at the top of the agenda for the new parliament. After PR is in effect, all her other reforms become doable.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/gina-miller-launches-campaign-personally-28314478

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/uk-news/gina-miller-true-fair-taxes-b2209444.html

Edit: in person she's charming, charismatic, intelligent and impossible to dislike, IMO. She's having lots of smallish meetings in her target contituencies, and various other speaking engagements, so if you're curious it's easy to have a chat with her. Follow her on twitter for her schedule https://twitter.com/thatginamiller https://twitter.com/VoteTrueAndFair

Born on April Fool’s Day, Mr Grayling

Is this datative determinatism?

she thinks Labour might win the next GE without a majority and be looking for coalition partners

Coalition partners with seats in Parliament, is the reality she's missing.

A bit premature to make a judgement - campaigning in constituencies didn't start until a few days ago. And there may not be a GE til 2024.

I put this in Epic Fail, but it's not really that funny: a third of North Korea's missile programme is funded by stealing crypto. The irony if crypto bros buy the nuclear missile which drops on their heads! A pity that the rest of us wouldn't be in a position to enjoy the schadenfreude...

https://archive.ph/fRdum
https://www.ft.com/content/51ea4356-1e86-4a95-848c-83c49e1af5d4

Apparently a runaway Tesla has killed 2 people in China. https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1591903774062288897 Various people on twitter are complaining that their posts about it have been mysteriously deleted

The Left would grumble that it’s literally called the Financial Times

John McDonnell used to refer to it as the "mouthpiece of the enemy class"