Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
No one is saying it's going fine. This isnt a thread about that. This is about how accurate people's guesses on economic or social statistics are. And I suspect that the people bearating others for getting things wrong are equally guilty of getting things wrong.
If someone can't work out a 5% increase of £1 it's fair to say they're thick, same as if someone thinks 20% of the population is transgender. If you don't know how much the FTSE has increased since 2016 (cherry picked this year by any chance?) then you wouldn't class them as thick.

This is an a false equivalence and you know this.

None of these questions on the link below link are the equivalent to most of the questions you've asked, maybe only the minimum wage one. People thinking crap like the below are the reason we had brexit and 13 years of tory.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-8697821.html