March 24, 201510 yr Inflation: 0.0% (CPIH - +0.3%) At last - wages are growing in REAL terms for the first time in about 6 years, and it's all thank to the Tories... I mean oil prices... I mean worldwide depression and economic slowdown.
March 24, 201510 yr There's something wrong with your long term economic plan when the only way for wages to outstrip inflation is for inflation to literally hit 0%
March 24, 201510 yr I wouldn't call it long term, nor a plan. Short term bluster is a good way of summing it up. An inconvenient truth for UKIP and certain parts of the Labour and Conservative parties are that a good proportion of growth in the past year has been due to migration labour. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/...omeback-country Edited March 24, 201510 yr by Doctor Blind
April 13, 201510 yr Figures released at 0930 tomorrow are expected to show the UK in deflation for the first time since 1960.
April 13, 201510 yr This Long Term Economic Plan is really going super well. At least Wages are finally outstripping inflation though, just in time for the election! That'll remove one of the bullets from the oppositions guns.
April 16, 201510 yr It's kind of counterproductive to the whole cost-of-living crisis thing though...
April 17, 201510 yr I think it's like -0.01% so slightly falling but the rounding to 1dp makes it look zero.
September 4, 20159 yr http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...008-crisis.html Britain’s retailers suffered a wash-out in August after recording the worst slump in sales since November 2008, when consumers reacted to the financial crisis by clamping their wallets shut Despite widespread enthusiasm for a return in consumer confidence, retail sales dropped by 4.3pc in August compared to the same month last year, according to figures from BDO’s high street sales tracker. The drop is even steeper than the 1.1pc fall in July and means that sales have fallen every month since May for the first time since 2009. Oops! Looks like the sun has gone in...
June 2, 20169 yr http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36437445 BHS is no more. 11,000 jobs gone. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/m...recession-steel We are back in a manufacturing recession (were we ever out of one) But don't worry because there is a long term economic plan...
June 2, 20169 yr BHS omg!! Are there sales at least?? It has great Xmas decorations and has cheapish school clothes eh. The jobs!! 11 000 wow. Wow. I passed it the other day and it had some sign that I thought looked weird, something about save British ... something or other.
June 2, 20169 yr Is there a question to which the answer is "The best place to go is BHS"? If you can't think of one, that's why they are going down the tubes.
June 2, 20169 yr If you want to look like you're so old that you predated the dinosaurs then that is the answer. Otherwise BHS fell into the M&S trap but didn't have food to save it
June 2, 20169 yr I think it was more the fact that Philip Green was taking a FUCK load of money out of the company.
June 4, 20169 yr Author That's capitalism for you! Is "That's capitalism for you" the left's version of "Thanks, Obama"?
June 4, 20169 yr That's capitalism for you! Well without capitalism BHS wouldn't have existed in the first place, so it feels a bit churlish to blame it for going under...
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