The sixty-third weekly "No shit, Sherlock" award

This prize goes to the dynamic combination of Alistair Darling and the BBC for the BBC headline "Recession 'worse than estimated'" and the first lines of this report

"Chancellor Alistair Darling will say in his pre-Budget report that the economy performed worse in 2009 than he first predicted, Treasury sources have said.

Mr Darling is expected to say that the UK economy shrank by 4.75% this year - more than the 3.5% originally forecast in the Budget in March. "

Economy performed worse that the Chancellor predicted, wow who could have seen that coming? "No shit, Sherlock"


Of course as this is a BBC article they loyally report the Labour party line "he is likely to stick to 2010 forecasts of growth between 1-1.5%." Of course it is Alistair, of course it is.