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Re:UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, pre... by tick_tock_tick on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:05PM (#35530740)
It doesn't appear to be? Or at-least plenty of the EU managed to do just as poorly without leaving?
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Re:UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, pre... by danieldk on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:21AM (#35536081)
No? British GDP is 0.8% lower than pre-pandemic, Eurozone 2.4% higher.

https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN02...

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Re:UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, pre... by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:48AM (#35536264)
"plenty of the EU" != Eurozone
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Re:UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, pre... by danieldk on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:06AM (#35537322)
Well, the whole EU did better than just the Eurozone, 2.8% GDP growth compared to pre-pandemic:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/16249744/2-0...

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Re:UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, pre... by tick_tock_tick on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:13PM (#35545144)
I'm trying to avoid accusing you of intentional misinterpreting my statements but you continue to try and use the whole EU or other groupings of counties to compare against the UK instead of against other individual nations that remained inside the EU which I very clearly stated.
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