Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: Here's the BBC Verify team's take on Rachel Reeves assertion that this is the worst ...
Here's the BBC Verify team's take on Rachel Reeves assertion that this is the worst economic inheritance faced by an incoming govt. sine WW2.
The (downbeat) conclusion is that things are bad but not historically unprecedented....
Oh that's a relief.....
But perhaps the point the BBC team quietly ignore is how much of the situation we find ourselves in right now was self-inflicted, rather than part of a wider global context....
#economics #politics #recession
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68535073
The (downbeat) conclusion is that things are bad but not historically unprecedented....
Oh that's a relief.....
But perhaps the point the BBC team quietly ignore is how much of the situation we find ourselves in right now was self-inflicted, rather than part of a wider global context....
#economics #politics #recession
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68535073