I had a sudden vision of the future, listening to Boris and Richi last week, talking about Building Back Better with Fair Pay for All. We’re going to become Scandiwegian. We’ve tried being Continental, and we’ve tried getting Continentals to do our dirty work on the cheap. In Norway, Sweden et al, everyone is paid well but everyone pays lots of tax and everything costs a lot. Is that what all that stuff about a Norway Deal during the Brexit talks meant? And maybe why we’re suddenly hearing new Abba songs on Radio 2? I can feel a conspiracy theory coming on…
“UK slips into recession as economy contracts 0.1% in December”
This week’s big economic and bad election news is that we are, or certainly have been, officially in a recession. You may not have thought you were, or you may have thought you have been for some time, as we and its effects are all different.