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Just a few more brief vignettes from Radio 4's coverage of the recovery yesterday:
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At 6.35am you would have heard Nils Blythe on the Today programme talking up expectations of 0.4% growth when the figure came. Well, not quite Nils.
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Both Nils (on PM) and Stephanie Flanders (on The World Tonight) were suggesting that a revision upwards of the 0.1% (rather than a revision downwards) was not unlikely. We'll see, and we'll remember these pronouncements if they're proved wrong yet again.
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The expert on Andrew Bomford's report on the recovery for PM was a Professor Paul Gregg of Bristol University (and a former advisor to James Purnell), who talked on the "lost generation" of the 1980s (Mrs Thatcher, booo!!) and said everything must be done to make sure that doesn't happen again.
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So, apart from Maggie, a Tory-free zone ?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the BBC fluffs up Stephanie Flanders opinions as "Stephanomics" says it all.
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Andy C
ReplyDeleteMy favourite Steph gaffe was when the possible takeover ( merger in Steph's words ) of BA by Iberia was announced some weeks ago.
She said that one of the problems could be BA's " £28 billion pension deficit " . Is that the same one as their £2.8 billion deficit or does Steph know something we
don't ?