Labour's growth plan failing

They sound like a bunch of spastics. That report is utterly stupid and the remarks from so-called economists are like the comments at a dinner table in casual conversation. There is nothing analytical.

It's bollox though. The 0.7% is next to a minus 0.3 and a minus 0.1. You often get this in financial plots. If you get an unusual negative drop, then it is likely to be offset by a rise immediately after. The usual reasons is to do with people defer investment or spending for one reason or another. It matters little. What matters is the overall trend, which to me is flatlining. You won't see the effects of Labour's policy for another year, where you can get a trend estimate. The economy has a large inertia. The cow has no idea what she is doing and thinks all the job involves is shouting down to those below her to make it grow more, which is what she is doing.

They all think in the same stupid way because they have all been educated by the same stupid people. If you really want to  boost production efficiency then you must work out the fastest, cheapest, and easiest way to do something, or to put it another way you apply the minimalist philosophy. In this country we make everything as complicated as we can. I mean a typical example is the range of contracts one can have with the same fucking company for the same product. Look up the contracts for your average energy or telecoms supplier. It is just mental. I think it requires one to study the business methodology of successful countries. We teach error to our students. We are teaching them to be complete fuckwits.

Red Rackham 

I think it's an extremely safe bet to conclude our economic fortunes will be heading in a decidedly downward direction. I was recently reminded of the old saying 'Socialists never understand economics  .... if they did they wouldn't be Socialists !'. And of course more recently the Question Time panellist who asserted that thus far no nation had ever succeeded in an attempt to tax itself into prosperity, and that Britain's current attempt to buck that trend would result in the usual dismal failure.

Be fair Red. I wouldn't say a minority voted labour into power , more that they fell into power via the dodgy system because a large minority of people sat at home and let them instead of casting their vote.

Labour only win when we stay at home , as both blair and starmer have shown.

20% of the electorate as we know  , a third of one of the lowest turnouts in history , and they got awards anti democratically two thirds of the seats.

Ive been searching in my spare time to see anywhere in the western developed world where this sort of anti democratic result happens , and I cant see it  anywhere else .

I have to disagree. What you are seeing now though( which in part explains labours loveless landslide) is pr style voting for Westminster , ie multi party voting , while the system is geared up for the stale two auld parties. So it will throw up more and more of these crazy results as things continue to break down.

I would bet you anything you like if reform uk game the system in england like the snp did in scotland , and we see a reform uk government at Westminster , labour and tory will be running to change the uk voting system. Mark my words.