And then she said "you will see tomorrow they're going to tell us that £xbn were lost today because of the snow". And that is an aspect of the UK I really dislike, the gloomy media.
+1 these calculations of "cost" are such nonsense. They divide GDP by the population, estimate how many people didn't make it to work, and then multiply up. Most economic activity that didn't happen yesterday will happen today. When was the last time someone said "I was going to buy a new kitchen yesterday, but it was snowing, so now I'm not bothering".
+1 these calculations of "cost" are such nonsense. They divide GDP by the population, estimate how many people didn't make it to work, and then multiply up. Most economic activity that didn't happen yesterday will happen today. When was the last time someone said "I was going to buy a new kitchen yesterday, but it was snowing, so now I'm not bothering".