Consumer spending helps UK economy surprise and grows faster than expected in 2016

Saturday, January 28th 2017 - 12:00 UTC

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Strong consumer spending helped the UK's economy to grow faster than expected at the end of last year. The economy grew by 0.6% in the October-to-December period, the same rate as in the previous two quarters, according to an initial estimate from the Office for National Statistics. Read full article

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Vaca_Muerta_peTroLLium
K-INDEC would be proud of these numbers.

Placing bets that all these figures will proved cooked in the next corruption scandal...
Jan 28th, 2017 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
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Marti Llazo
@fidelito

Corruption index: smaller number is less-corrupt

Singapore = 7
UK = 10
USA = 18
Chile = 24

Senegal = 64

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Ghana = 70
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Argentina = 95 ( ¡ seguimos ganando !!!! )
Jan 28th, 2017 - 01:25 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
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Vaca_Muerta_peTroLLium
Numbers are still fake. No matter how you try to change the subject.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -3
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golfcronie
Oh no! another stupid troll.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 02:28 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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darragh
Golfcronie

Not another stupid troll, the same old stupid troll with yet another variation on his ridiculous name.

“Numbers are still fake” - ha ha ha ha ha ha - he gets funnier as well as stupider with every incarnation.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Marti Llazo
@golfie

It's the same fidelito. Anything that exposes Argentine corruption and ineptitude is of course faked, because the country has the cleanest government and largest economy in the world, all their children are above average, and their shite doesn't stink.

The “seguimos ganando ” is an ironic expression here that became popular after the Falklands war in 1982 , when the argie magazine Gente used that entirely false/propaganda headline (“we're still winning ! ”) even though at the time in the real world Argentine forces were crumbling and their decisive defeat was imminent.

Fidelito, by any other name, is still the perfect spokesman for Argentina.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 04:05 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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Vaca_Muerta_peTroLLium
Oh no, the corruption ranks are not faked, they are merely surveys on the perception of corruption by the citizens of that country.

So we know we are corrupt, and it is a terrible flaw. But at least we see it and acknowledge it.

UnliKe the UK, where the population is so ignorant, daft, blinded with jingoism, and just plain so apathetic that they think they have little or no corruption, thus their “high” level in the survey.

Then they get dragged into yet another war of aggression through lies and putrid corruption, or get their interest rates rigged for years with billions siphened out, or are led by their banks to yet another financial crisis, are are hoodwinked time and time again by their FA into thinking they will finally march to a world cup, only to every time have disastrous exit after disastrous exit.

How dumber can you get. That's how they got to Brexit, by being fooled by BOTH sides. The corruption ranking reflects corruption as much as it also reflects how stupid the population is in believe their country has none.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse -4
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Marti Llazo
Fidelito, you look into the mirror and think you see all of humankind, being something similar to the sort of argentines who believe their malvinas mythologies and peronismo and all that silliness. But just for the record, there are places far beyond your wildest imagination, and their people are nowhere near as stoooopid as argentines when it comes to selecting really bad governments. You do understand that argentine economic failure is almost entirely the result of corrupt argentine government and cultural proclivities, don't you? That, and the devious interference of the Latvian Masons and their extraterrestrial allies at secret bases in Jujuy.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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darragh
Like I said old fiddle-de-dee just gets funnier as well as stupider with every incarnation ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Jan 28th, 2017 - 11:29 pm - Link - Report abuse +2
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downunder
Vaca_Muerta_peTroLLium

Another boring iteration of a Muppet who, six months ago, was salivating over the demise of the UK economy. But now when presented with evidence that the predicted demise of the UK is not happening, he blames the numbers and claims that they are cooked!

Of course they are petrollium head, of course they are.
Jan 29th, 2017 - 02:54 am - Link - Report abuse +3
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Marti Llazo
@downunder

Fidelito is argie. He can't be expected to reason and breathe at the same time.
Jan 29th, 2017 - 03:13 am - Link - Report abuse +3
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imoyaro
@MT

You are perhaps unaware that he is not exactly human, more of a hybrid with the Ucumar. He has always complained of being unable to find shoes in Argentina that fit, and during the food riots a couple of years ago, I was concerned he might get shot for his shoes, boiled shoe leather being a staple for starving humans...
Jan 29th, 2017 - 03:29 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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Vaca_Muerta_peTroLLium
So much resentment, the truth hurts right?
Jan 29th, 2017 - 03:44 am - Link - Report abuse -5
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imoyaro
No but your shoes do... ;)
Jan 29th, 2017 - 03:55 am - Link - Report abuse +3
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DemonTree
@Trollboy
The number is an estimate, but if it was way off it would be obvious, just like it was with Argentina's INDEC.
Jan 29th, 2017 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse +2
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Marti Llazo
@ fidelito

Here are some of those fake numbers to think about, fidelito.

Using even the badly inflated INDEC numbers, and the exquisitely accurate data from a Singapore that allows very little corruption or other argentinisms, the per-capita national product of the tiny little dot of an island too small to be a country but it is anyway, is about four times that of Resource-Rich But Permanently Dysfunctional Third World Argentina. Léalo y llore, pibe.
Jan 29th, 2017 - 12:17 pm - Link - Report abuse +5
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Voice
Yay wonderful news...apart from seeing petrol at £121.99 a litre and rising on a weekly basis..
Jan 29th, 2017 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse -5
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gordo1
Voice - petrol? I thought you argentine trolls would use the word “gasoline” or even “nafta”!
Jan 29th, 2017 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse +4
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Voice
Argentine Troll...?
Got any evidence to substantiate that claim...?
I usually just call it fuel as I have vehicles that run on Diesel as well as an Unleaded...Two Stroke and Lead additive...
So there...
Jan 30th, 2017 - 12:19 am - Link - Report abuse -2
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gordo1
Not Argentine? Then you are even more ridiculous than ever!
Jan 30th, 2017 - 07:07 am - Link - Report abuse +4
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Voice
Not Argentine...?
Got any evidence to substantiate that claim...?

One day you just might get it...
...though I doubt it..
Jan 30th, 2017 - 10:56 am - Link - Report abuse -3
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Marti Llazo
gordo, “argentine” is not just a nationality, but a chronic behaviourial disorder.
Jan 30th, 2017 - 03:41 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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