BBC News - UK economy suffers 0.5% contraction
The UK's economy suffered a shock contraction in the last three months of 2010, figures have shown.
The economy shrank by 0.5% in the October-to-December period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
My god, who could have foreseen this "shock" contraction of the doomed British economy? It's almost as if the coalition have done almost nothing since coming to power whilst the banks are left unchecked to gorge on cheap money as they always do.
The UK's economy suffered a shock contraction in the last three months of 2010, figures have shown.
The economy shrank by 0.5% in the October-to-December period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
My god, who could have foreseen this "shock" contraction of the doomed British economy? It's almost as if the coalition have done almost nothing since coming to power whilst the banks are left unchecked to gorge on cheap money as they always do.
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