really weird move... seems like everyone is a bit puzzled given the strength that came out after the election..

Honestly I spend less day to day now, I just aint interested in spending loads of money

There wasn’t strength

There was a little bounce

Which was then destroyed a week later

not really..

When boris went back to chatting about no deal brexit

services pmi that came out later was still much higher than expected

I mean, after the election was only a few weeks

Yea but the election was only a month ago

So you can’t really say it’s affected the figures that are out yet

It takes months and months to even accurately assess

and consumer confidence is higher... housing is up

What a quarters growth is

Consumer spending is low

its generally expected to be very good since the election

But it wasn’t

I dont know a single economist that doubts that

So now you trust economists

But not when they all say that brexit is not a good thing for the economy y

😛

I certainly trust them for short term

Sounds like cherry picking to me

I wouldnt trust anyone who speaks of certainty longer than 3yrs

maybe some things on the longer term... cant think of any of the top of my head, but Im sure theres some stuff can be predicted somewhat in the long term... but certainly not specifics

The thing is, all figures are worse now than they were before the 2016 ref

ehhh not really

Apart from unemployment, but our unemployment figures are bogus

Including 0 hours contracts lmao

you know inflation was really bad in 2014... way off target

theyve included 0 hours for years .. thats not particularly new... also the most increases are in full time now

0 hours are decreasing

Inflation is about the same as it was in 2014

2013-14 it was 5%

And worse than it was in 2016

its nowhere near that

No it wasn’t

It was 5 in 2011-2012

I’m looking at the chart now

I can’t take a photo causs this dumb discord

Won’t allow pictures