This is much better than expected and puts growth at 1% for the first 6 months of the year
limeflavoured on
Funny how the headline spins a higher than expected growth figure as bad news. Almost surprised they didnt say “in a blow to Rachel Reeves”.
Edit to add that apparently The Times version of this headline *did* say “in a blow to Rachel Reeves”!
Sickinmytechchunk on
Won’t anyone think of those poor shareholders? How will they feed themselves.
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Theodin_King on
Huh? It grew by more than expected. What a garbage headline by Sky (and the BBC)
CarlxtosWay on
Here before the doom mongers arrive to tell us that having the joint-second fastest growth in the G7 (with France) is a catastrophe.
g105b on
There were 26 delivery bikes riders waiting outside a small McDonald’s near me this morning. I use this as my barometer of the UK’s economic status.
Quiet-Math-7841 on
It’s literally a higher growth than expected, the media has genuinely destroyed this country.
Cielo11 on
I’m sick of how negative the UK and it’s media is.
They are desperate to erase everyone’s memory of 2010-2024. Softening the UK opinion so it goes back to liking the idea of Tories or Reform.
I’m not trying to defend Labour, I don’t think they’ve had a great start myself, but it doesn’t matter who is in charge today. Whoever won the last election has an impossible job of fixing the mess the country is in.
They got handed a single bucket of water to put out a house fire. The bucket has holes and the source of water is a mile away. Yet everyone’s lining up to boot Labour and blame them for all the shit they inherited from the Tories.
Substantial-Elk-9568 on
Have fun dealing with all the room temperature IQ brainworms in your life telling you for the umpteenth time that reform is the economic answer, because SKY thinks its acceptable to have that as a headline for better than expected economic growth.
merryman1 on
I like the casual skipping of any description of their own graph there showing there was an even stronger drop between Q2 and Q3 in 2024.
Also that headline contrasted against the text “It could mean the UK has the strongest-performing economy of the G7 club of wealthy nations for the first half of 2025”. Its no fucking wonder people are confused and hysterical when this is the kind of coverage of our economy and politics they have available.
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This is much better than expected and puts growth at 1% for the first 6 months of the year
Funny how the headline spins a higher than expected growth figure as bad news. Almost surprised they didnt say “in a blow to Rachel Reeves”.
Edit to add that apparently The Times version of this headline *did* say “in a blow to Rachel Reeves”!
Won’t anyone think of those poor shareholders? How will they feed themselves.
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Huh? It grew by more than expected. What a garbage headline by Sky (and the BBC)
Here before the doom mongers arrive to tell us that having the joint-second fastest growth in the G7 (with France) is a catastrophe.
There were 26 delivery bikes riders waiting outside a small McDonald’s near me this morning. I use this as my barometer of the UK’s economic status.
It’s literally a higher growth than expected, the media has genuinely destroyed this country.
I’m sick of how negative the UK and it’s media is.
They are desperate to erase everyone’s memory of 2010-2024. Softening the UK opinion so it goes back to liking the idea of Tories or Reform.
I’m not trying to defend Labour, I don’t think they’ve had a great start myself, but it doesn’t matter who is in charge today. Whoever won the last election has an impossible job of fixing the mess the country is in.
They got handed a single bucket of water to put out a house fire. The bucket has holes and the source of water is a mile away. Yet everyone’s lining up to boot Labour and blame them for all the shit they inherited from the Tories.
Have fun dealing with all the room temperature IQ brainworms in your life telling you for the umpteenth time that reform is the economic answer, because SKY thinks its acceptable to have that as a headline for better than expected economic growth.
I like the casual skipping of any description of their own graph there showing there was an even stronger drop between Q2 and Q3 in 2024.
Also that headline contrasted against the text “It could mean the UK has the strongest-performing economy of the G7 club of wealthy nations for the first half of 2025”. Its no fucking wonder people are confused and hysterical when this is the kind of coverage of our economy and politics they have available.