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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, one of the worst. I agree that they did beat Japan.

However, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Brazil, South Korea, United States, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and Australia all did better.

The UK hasn't done so well just lately, but don't forget that we are in the EU stranglehold that we are prising ourselves free from, and our economic growth will go from strength to strength when we leave and put the Brexit uncertainties behind us.

Any evidence to support that growth comparison? Reality is that the Eurozone has outperformed the USA for the last 2.5 years!

Largely unnoticed, the eurozone economy’s outperformance of the US stretches significantly further back than the most recent quarter of gross domestic product figures. Despite the 2015 Greek crisis, total growth in the single currency area has exceeded that in the US for the past two-and-a-half years, with the eurozone expanding 5.1 per cent over the period compared with 4.6 per cent for the US.

https://www.ft.com/content/8db37b0a-...9-9f94ee97d996

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Originally Posted by Dave42

fantasy island there OB

Nail on the head, Dave! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZWErZjFzM

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Meanwhile, Theresa May suggested today that the Irish border could be modelled on the US-Canadian one. Only problem - Ireland rejected this model six months ago as it's a hard border with armed guards. Doh!

Bloomberg Theresa May said she was looking at the border between the U.S. and Canada as a possible model for the frontier between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit. There’s only one problem: Ireland’s prime minister rejected that idea six months ago.
Taking questions on her Brexit strategy in Parliament on Monday, May was asked by Labour lawmaker Emma Reynolds to name “an international border between two countries who are not in a customs union, who have different external tariffs, where there are no checks on lorries carrying goods at the border.”
May was dismissive. “There are many examples of different arrangements for customs around the rest of the world,” she said. “And indeed we are looking at those, including, for example, the border between the U.S. and Canada.”
Unfortunately for May, her Irish counterpart Leo Varadkar has already looked into that option, visiting the border last August. “Just visited Canada-US border,” he tweeted. “It’s high tech and highly efficient, but make no mistake -- it’s a hard border.” The frontier, he told reporters, features “armed guards, dogs, flags and checkpoints.”
May’s government continues to struggle to explain how it will deliver the three things it is committed to: no border checkpoints in Ireland, no checkpoints between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K., and no customs union between the European Union and the U.K.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...a-border-model