Uk Growth Continues.......

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42831655
No doubt there will be all sorts of explanations from the usual suspects.

[Mamyalynne]

Excellent.

[Gromit]

Oh dear TTT, you must learn to read past the headline.

// However, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the broader picture was "slower and more uneven" growth.
In 2017 as a whole, growth was 1.8% compared with 1.9% in 2016 - the slowest since 2012, the ONS said. //

Don’t sound too great does it.

[ToraToraTora]

well it's better than what you and project fear were predicting gromit.

[Gromit]

1.8% is pretty feeble. Ireland managed 4.2%.

[Togo]

4.2% of very little is a lot less that 1.8% of a lot.

[Gromit]

TTT

// it's better than what you and were predicting gromit. //

I don’t believe I made a projection on economic growth. I would be the first to admit that I am not qualified to do so.
As we have not yet left the EU, any comparisions to predictions by project fear are rather pointless.

[Old_Geezer]

True, but an exceeded forecast is still an exceeded forecast. An a pessimistic forecast in the near future may prove just as far off. Not gone to Hell in a handbasket yet then.

[Gromit]

Togo

Growth is an economic indicator and comparisons with other countries are a level playing field. Of course our economy is bigger than Ireland’s so the financial take will be bigger. Germany is a similar size economy and their growth rate is higher than ours.

[Old_Geezer]

Seemingly in control of the EU's economic decisions, and those decisions apparently set to benefit themselves more often than not, they should be doing better.

[Gromit]

// an exceeded forecast is still an exceeded forecast. //

Except when it wasn’t exceeded. Around election time they were saying 2%


From March 2017.
// The government’s independent forecaster said that the economy had performed better than expected and it raised its forecast for economic growth this year [2017]to 2%. //

[ToraToraTora]

"1.8% is pretty feeble. Ireland managed 4.2%. " - yeah but you had us going down the kazi.

[Spicerack]

Ireland have fallen foul of EU tax regulations. Their economy will go down the pan when they, inevitably, are forced to comply.

[ToraToraTora]

according to project fear if we left the EU we'd by now be reduced to thread bare beggars shuffling round the slums of Brussels for scraps. PMSL!

[Gromit]

TTT,
I repeat. I made not growth forecast for 2017 and we have not left the EU yet.

[emmie]

saw this on the news, good...

[Togo]

//I repeat. I made not growth forecast for 2017//

That is what TTT is saying....you, made "not growth forecast for 2017", and are wrong. Is Germany heading for boom and bust then?

[Zacs-Master]

Can I just remind everyone that the rotund female hasn’t finished warbling yet.

[sapelesam]

Rotund opera singer, no gender allowed.