Economy plunges 0.7% in Q2

[wurzel]

According to the Guardian

[BrilloPad]

According to the Guardian

No link - but looking at Shock figures show UK economy plunged 0.7% in second quarter | Business | guardian.co.uk

09:30 BST UK GDP FALLS BY 0.7% IN Q2

Here's a breakdown of the data:

Britain's service sector shrank by 0.1% in the quarter

Industrial output fell by 1.3%

Construction output fell by 5.2%.

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Expected fall was 0.2%. This could get interesting.

[wurzel]

No link - but looking at Shock figures show UK economy plunged 0.7% in second quarter | Business | guardian.co.uk

09:30 BST UK GDP FALLS BY 0.7% IN Q2

Here's a breakdown of the data:

Britain's service sector shrank by 0.1% in the quarter

Industrial output fell by 1.3%

Construction output fell by 5.2%.

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Expected fall was 0.2%. This could get interesting.

One of the "experts" in that link is blaming the fall in construction output on the weather. Sub zero temperatures I can understand, but a bit of rain?

[moggy]

One of the "experts" in that link is blaming the fall in construction output on the weather. Sub zero temperatures I can understand, but a bit of rain?

i think it was more than just a bit of rain.. on the plus side travel companies would of been booming because of it.

[TimberWolf]

So the recession picks up speed.

Maggie would have had interests rates in double digits and we would have had a proper recession and been lean an mean and hungry by now. Instead we get much more of the same that got us here.

[OwlHoot]

So the recession picks up speed.

Maggie would have had interests rates in double digits and we would have had a proper recession and be lean an mean and hungry by now. Instead we get much more of the same that got us here.

Unfortunately Cameron and his Lib Dem cronies are betwetting bottlers.

They missed their chance, or rather he did, a couple of years ago.

[BrilloPad]

They missed their chance, or rather he did, a couple of years ago.

+1. They should have just got on with it and blamed it on Labour.

Hard to see what they can do from here without looking stupid. I suppose they will wait for the next budget.

[SueEllen]

Unfortunately Cameron and his Lib Dem cronies are betwetting bottlers.

You can't compare "posh public school boys" to Thatcher.

One had proper political convictions she actually lived by the other lot are just.....

[OwlHoot]

You can't compare "posh public school boys" to Thatcher.

One had proper political convictions she actually lived by the other lot are just.....

The poshness is neither here nor there. Winston Churchill was "posh" and a public school boy.

It's the courage that is lacking. But then as Benjamin Disraeli said (and the quote is on that page), "You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men".

[sasguru]

Seems to me that the coalition have made a good, if not great, deficit reduction:

this from the BCC, not politicians:

http://www.britishchambers.org.uk/pr...bcc120124.html