SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
Presumably the populations of the US and EU have shrunk on that time scale?
Because if they hadn't, his last sentence there would have nothing at all to do with the evidence presented.
The UK Economy & the 2023/24 recession
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Presumably the populations of the US and EU have shrunk on that time scale?
Because if they hadn't, his last sentence there would have nothing at all to do with the evidence presented.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
I think it relates to the fact that the vermin are clinging on to 0.1% "increase" in GDP over the whole 4 Qs of 2023 to mask the real fall in living standards.
e2a" Hills probably should have included the word "simply" between "by" and "growing", tbh
SpookyFrank
Float like a caterpillar, sting like a tree
He probably should've said that then, not some bollocks which looks exactly like a NATO standard right wing dog whistle.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
agreed; clumsy and detracts from his valid comparisons
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
This is odd. I thought the plan was working.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
It doesn’t read that way to me. He's making the entirely valid point that it is only by increasing the population by 750,000 per year that 'growth' has been achieved, and that the real story here not the effect of historically highl levels of immigration but a) the long run structural weakness of the UK economy (collapse of our manufacturing/productive base, low levels of investment, lack of economic democracy, obsessive fetishisation of neo-liberal orthodoxy in economic decision making, lack of an industrial strategy etc etc and b) the concomitant fall in wages and living standards.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Not really because he's comparing GDP per head stats not GDP overall. That implies population change has already been accounted for.
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