THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Iain Macwhirter) - The English Economic Muddle
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UK Special Coverage The English Economic Muddle The UK economy lags America’s poorest state, and the IMF says it’s going to get much worse. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Andy Barton/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) If you really want to start an argument with a Labour politician, just ask them why Britain is now poorer than the poorest state in America, Mississippi. “Nonsense,” they would say. “That is a right-wing trope debunked by fact-checks.” Crude comparisons, they’d insist, ignore social transfers and how much Americans spend on health without the beneficence of the NHS. They would…Open