"The UK economy contracted 1% between September and November, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has estimated.Will Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown now adjust downwards their ludicrously optimistic economic forecasts or will they prefer to continue to live in economic cloud-cuckoo land?
This fall followed after a 0.8% drop in the three months to the end of October, said the think tank.
Indicating that the rate of output decline is "accelerating", the NIESR now expects a fall of more than 1% in the last three months of the year.
Official data showed that the economy shrank 0.5% from July to September. "
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Whilst we are still allowed the remnants of free speech,
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Wednesday 10 December 2008
Recession in the UK
The BBC report that:
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