Sounds Familiar , Big Troubles On The Horizon And Not A Truss In Sight

[life on mars]

From FT

Eurozone economy
Italy’s labour shortage puts post-pandemic recovery at risk

JUNE 12, 2023


https://www.theguardian.com/business...sis-takes-toll

Eurozone sinks into recession as cost of living crisis takes toll
GDP shrank 0.1% in first quarter of 2023 and final three months of 2022 after revisions to earlier estimates

[the other bob wilson]

From FT

Eurozone economy
Italy’s labour shortage puts post-pandemic recovery at risk

JUNE 12, 2023


https://www.theguardian.com/business...sis-takes-toll

Eurozone sinks into recession as cost of living crisis takes toll
GDP shrank 0.1% in first quarter of 2023 and final three months of 2022 after revisions to earlier estimates

You can just imagine some of the Tories on here casting about desperately every morning trying to find some evidence from abroad that they can attempt to cast the UK in a good light by comparison.

All anyone needs to do is look at stories like these to get a true idea as to why but what about the Germans, what about the Italians etc etc stuff should be treated with derision.

https://neweconomics.org/2020/02/the...it-was-in-2008

https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/n...able-countries

https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-o...y-were-in-2008

https://www.newstatesman.com/chart-o...ving-standards

NB The body of the last two stories are behind a pay wall, but the headlines make the point I wanted to make.