Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
It's always interesting when you move away from your trusted Trading Economics website. Perhaps in this instance the first quarter 2022 growth for the UK of 10.6% that was the residue of the recovery from the biggest slide in the G7 being stripped out of the Year on Year GDP figures didn't paint quite the picture you wanted. A bit like looking at the league table at Christmas instead of the end of March.

And as facts go. We are still the only G7 country still to recover our GDP to a position it was pre-pandemic aren't we?

https://tradingeconomics.com/
Why wouldnt we trust a website that collects and presents official statistics? Seems a better basis for a debate than an interview with Nigel Farage (that also misrepresented what he said) doesn't it?

I have quite clearly stated that 2020, 2021 and 2022 data is beset by the problems caused by Covid and Ukraine. Do you want me to say that again? When I did say that, I was asked what is wrong with existing data (presumably for 2022, I guess?) so I presented that and provided a link to an IMF report and then others moan about that!

None of this stuff, however you look at it, points to the abject failure and disaster that you want to think is happening, although yes, due to a much larger collapse in 2020 we are, I believe the only G7 country not to rise above our GDP from before the pandemic.

Do you agree that notwithstanding another year like the last three, that 2023 may prove to be the first year since leaving the EU that starts to provide a better picture of things?