Eine Viertelmillion Menschen könnten bis Mitte 2027 ihren Arbeitsplatz verlieren, da Großbritannien „mit einer Rezession flirtet“, heißt es in einer Analyse

The UK is not flirting with recession, Trump is dragging the world down with him.

Why always us? The US and a few other countries are set for growth

Hanh on, didn’t we grow by 0.5% in February and climb back up to 5th strongest economy?

Both can’t be true!

Considering we never really recovered from the ’08 crash and economic performance has consistently underperformed since then, I would say we have been on the edge of recession the entire time. Wages and employment have failed to return to pre-2008 levels, inflation has been higher, trade has been lower, and that is before Brexit. The reality is we are not economically prepared to weather a single global or domestic financial problem. This is not due to Trump, even though the current shocks are. It is entirely down to every government since Thatcher doing their damnedest to erode every industry and put every egg in one basket of London based financial services.

Chronic under funding of public services, mass layoffs across what was a world leading university sector, lack of investment in a greener economy, Brexit, flirting constantly with AI. Successive governments are obsessed with cosplaying Thatcher to win favour with extremists rather than do anything significant to tackle the costly price of inequality and climate catastrophe.

Anecdotally, the government have pulled the purse strings on a number of nuclear related projects which has caused a couple of main nuclear companies (mostly public owned) to initiate redundancies due to financial pressure. It will knock on into the private sector as contracts get pulled or not renewed with the big contracting firms.

Not quite the same. „we predict it’ll get worse like we predicted it’d get worse when GDP grew by 0.5 and we said it’d stagnate“.

Quite a statement to make after the country had 0.6% GDP growth in the first two months of the year and we passed India to become the 5th larceny economy in the world and are on track to be the largest in Europe in 15-20 years

Trumps war will hit us hard, and global factors are having an effect, but the underlying economy is showing signs of improvement seems to be the best overall take

Was amazing the last budget and you can really simplify it down to this.

Do you work hard and have worked hard to get a decent position (you are a net contribute in taxes too) in life where your salary is now acceptable? 

Did you have to spend tens of thousands of pounds in education to even get a job in your field too whilst working a part time job to supplement yourself as you qualified for no help at all (as you where responsible earlier in life and didn’t stick your di*k into everything that moved? 

Right, fuck you, we are coming for more tax, salary sacrifice and we are going to drag the shit out of you with fiscal drag and we will come back for more next year. 

The other side: 
Do you do contribute little or nothing to society? 
Have you never tried to be responsible for any decision you make in your life? 
Do you just don’t want to work and have decided that your “self diagnosed ailments” prevent you from doing anything whatsoever? 
Do you want to have as many kids as you want with the government and tax payer fitting the bill? 

We have good news for you, we are increasing your payments and next year, because some arseholes will protest they don’t get enough money, that money will go up again. 

There IS a small minority of people who do need help as clearly can’t work, but the amount of people in North East who’s families have generationally took the piss out of the system is absolutely rife and now, they get paid more.

Fuck this country man. 

Can we stop with these stupid fear mongering posts. This sub is already a depressing pool of soreness as it is, without the need for even more fear and lies.

Another one…ffs I’m still recovering from the last two