BORIS JOHNSON: Hapless Starmer and Reeves are doing for Britain's economy what Harold Shipman did for gerontology. But at least young voters are learning about the Doom Loop of Socialism
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I have been struggling all morning to find reasons to be cheerful. I wanted to write one of those jolly, holly-sprigged columns about why it's a wonderful world, and why Britain is a wonderful country. My friends, it has not been easy. As this dank, dark December draws to a close, the economic data for the UK seems to be uniformly ghastly. The Bank of England has just downgraded its forecasts for our country: from an anaemic 0.3 per cent growth this autumn, to zero – I repeat, zero.
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Inflation is on the way up again. Interest rates are painfully high, and likely to remain so. Business confidence continues to plummet. Unemployment is climbing, wealth creators are fleeing the country, and investments are being cancelled or mothballed.
As the economy shrank in October, we are now officially teetering on the brink of a recession – and the extraordinary feature of this catastrophe is that it has been entirely generated in Downing Street. Together the hapless Starmer and Reeves are doing for the UK's economic prospects what the Luftwaffe did to London's skyline or Herod the Great did for childcare in Judaea.
No, wait – it's more sinister than that. In this case the very people who are meant to be promoting growth are in fact destroying it. They are doing for the UK economy what Harold Shipman did for gerontology in Manchester. With their hara-kiri fiscal policies they are setting new records for sheer blithering incompetence, and to judge by Starmer's insouciant performance before the Liaison Committee yesterday, they genuinely have no idea how badly they are stuffing it up.
