Originally Posted by
Andy_Faber
I've really got to take you to task over the sh*t you're shovelling on GDP here Swale. I don't think you understand what the supposed 17% your possibly real contact gave you means, and whether you do or not, pitching it into a conversation with no context is just a Boy Scout version of project fear. It does nothing without context other than to spread uncertainty, so lets go back to basics and work out whether you mean 17 percentage POINTS ie the GDP rise would have been nearly 21% over ten quarters without Brexit (impossible), or 17% of the increase so 4.5% over the time period instead of 3.9 (possible, and yes sort of concerning, but also a bit lost in the rounding when the hot summer for instance had a significant impact on GDP too). Or something else