Sun Jan 13, 2013, 05:37 AM

HiPointDem (17,218 posts)

Triple-dip recession in britain?

"Horrible" setbacks for Britain's builders and manufacturers shook the City yesterday as a leading forecaster's warning of a winter slump heightened fears of a triple-dip recession.

Manufacturing output slipped by 0.3 per cent in November, confounding hopes of a 0.5 per cent bounceback from a dreadful October, the Office for National Statistics said. Construction firms saw output fall 3.4 per cent.

The National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) warned of a 0.3 per cent dip for the wider economy between October and December.

Although NIESR believes underlying growth is flat, a negative result would mean the economy has shrunk for four of the last five quarters.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tripledip-looms-for-uk-after-horrible-setbacks-8448808.html

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6 replies	Author	Time	Post
Triple-dip recession in britain? (Original post)	HiPointDem	Jan 2013	OP
it looks more like it than not. nt	xchrom	Jan 2013	#1
Who would have thought that would happen?	Downwinder	Jan 2013	#2
Will the British people wise up and toss the conservatives out?	n2doc	Jan 2013	#3
We have to wait until 2015	Londoncalling	Jan 2013	#4
What a bloody shame. I lived in London pre-Thatcher	pink-o	Jan 2013	#5
Austerity is the name of the game and it always fails.	jwirr	Jan 2013	#6

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 06:18 AM

xchrom (90,676 posts)

1. it looks more like it than not. nt

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 08:37 AM

Downwinder (7,135 posts)

2. Who would have thought that would happen?

Well, other than the Geeks, Spanish, Portuguese, and Irish.

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 10:24 AM

n2doc (26,140 posts)

3. Will the British people wise up and toss the conservatives out?

Austerians need to go.

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 10:28 AM

Londoncalling (66 posts)

4. We have to wait until 2015

This is going to be tough year as it is in the UK....The Conservatives are hated and losing to UKIP which is
becoming more and more like the Tea Party.

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 10:43 AM

pink-o (3,683 posts)

5. What a bloody shame. I lived in London pre-Thatcher

And it was easy for a young girl to make a living wage and have a good life. My flat in Marleybone was £35 a month! Nowadays it costs that much for a quarter of an hour.

I truly believe Thatcher ruined my beloved Britain. Just like Nixon and Reagan destroyed us here. We've been trying to recover from their policies for the last 3 decades.

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Sun Jan 13, 2013, 11:58 AM

jwirr (20,914 posts)

6. Austerity is the name of the game and it always fails.

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