@KayBurley Cotswolds is the same thing. Live somewhere so expensive and so far from anything that you're not going to have the migrants or the crime you want everybody else to have to suffer. We call this the "Jacob Rees-Mogg Standard" and literally nobody is impressed.
Unfortunately Matthew will use 0.7% as spin without telling you the important details behind this.
Headline - itโs ugly.
Government consumption and investment was roughly 80% of the net increase:
- Government services: +ยฃ0.96bn
- Government investment: +ยฃ3.46bn
- Total GDP increase: ยฃ5.55bn
In the private sector computing grew 4.4%, but this is on the back of an AI and tech boom, in other words, it would have happened anyway.
Things that government policy directly impacts:
- Construction fell 0.7%
- Education fell 0.5%
- Food & beverage services fell 1.9%
Anyone with half a brain knows that GDP growth alone doesnโt prove higher productivity or better living standards.
We absolutely need sustained growth in the private sector and productivity.
Weโre fucked if we rely on increased state spending. This is how countries destroy themselves.
But this is what socialists want, an entirely managed economy and dependent class.
@MongolianMHound@SBarrettBar@UKLabour It's all built of government debt and spending - if you're working for the government or on benefits you're loving life. If you work for a living you're just taking another shafting.
@SBarrettBar We can just undo it all, punitively, when he's removed from office. They've set the benchmark now. We'll make it so the EU never wants anything to do with us ever again, which will serve them right for entertaining this stuff - they are an active part of the conspiracy.
@WyvernFellows Ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing. A crime so serious our laws covering are extraterritorial. That said parliamentary speech is privileged - it's outside statements that matter.
@DavidLammy@JoshBabarinde What do you imagine the consequences of this attempt to engage in ethnocide will be? There's English and NOT English.
You have repeatedly identified as Caribbean, not English. One can only have one ethnicity, and you planted your flag mate.
@Lord_Talbot64 My ancestors have been here for tens of thousands of years, not since รthelstan. You're describing a legal identity, not an ethnicity - like these people who are trying to eradicate us.