UK Heading for Triple Dip with Debt Reduction First Program

[RayClay]

This is exactly what many propose to "grow" the economy. Debt reduction first, tax cuts for "job creators" and tax increases and benefit cuts for everyone else.

As they might say in merry old England, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

The official figures were the fourth quarter of negative growth in the last five and mean that the UK flatlined for last year as a whole – posting zero growth.

The economy is smaller than it was in September 2011 and still 3.3pc below its pre-crisis peak.

Making matters worse, there was scant evidence in the data that the economy is rebalancing from consumption to manufacturing. Output by Britain’s factories fell by 1.5pc in the quarter and by 1.8pc for the year as a whole – the first annual decline since 2009.

Howard Archer, economist at IHS Global Insight, described the situation as “dire” and added: “We believe the economy is essentially flat at the moment. We suspect that GDP will not return to the level seen in the first quarter of 2008 until the first half of 2015 – a gap of seven years.”

[RayClay]

Keep a stiff upper lip, old chap.

[Wounded Bear]

Only proving what we already found out in the 1930's......but this is the art of politics rather than science.

[RayClay]

It's amazing how many posts have the "everybody knows" "free the job creators" "leaving debt to our grandchildren" arguments and others like these conservative Brits,...

yet they stay away from a simple news based post and a video of those arguments as if it caused rectal cancer.


Not so amazing, I guess.