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(not satire – no really, it’s not!)
The government’s thought of a sure-fire way to boost the economy.
The Office for National Statistics has decided to include prostitution and sales of heroin in its assessments of the UK economy – adding 5 per cent to the UK’s gross domestic product at a stroke;
Drugs and prostitution add £10bn to UK economy
Now we know why George Osborne was chosen to run the economy.
He might only have worked as a towel folder in Selfridges before becoming chancellor but he’s a real expert on prostitutes and illegal drugs.
Allegedly.
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Please feel free to comment.
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Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on chunkyfunkymunky.
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I love that word allegedly.
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Oh, for goodness sake, why not go the whole hog and include crime as well. Oops! Is that a govt confession that they are now the Mafia?
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Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs and commented:
Not a joke – they are serious. Does that mean the govt will throw their weight behind human trafficking/slavery, to increase GDP?
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I was reading the report in the “Grauniad” on my way to a pointless and tedious editorial meeting. I especially liked the ONS suggestion that in the future these figures would be included in the broad category of household spending on “miscellaneous goods and services”. Quite so. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink.
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oh – i thought it was another of those universal jobmatch things.
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Completely speechless…
Only in the UK.
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
This is true, you have to read it………..
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Are these among the forms of “self-employment” that the DWP are hounding the unemployed, disabled and single mothers towards? I was naïve to think they meant ebay trading, window cleaning and Avon Ladies.
Apparently 1 in 6 women in London were prostitutes in the 18th & 19th century. They really are moving us back in time, in terms of employment, inequality and human rights. Is this how they want the working class to be accounted for in the economy rather than the current definition of “economically inactive”?
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On the matter of growth figures; i heard that GDP was already being massaged by food inflation being understated by the ONS. The story is that they take food inflation as 2% whereas it is running at 10% and, when the right figure is factored-in, we are in a recession.
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Probably true. The fact that we expect the government to be massaging the figures is supported by the habitual, illegal, and unchallenged distortion (lying) by the government and their minions especially in the Houses of Parliament..
It still feels like a recession whatever the figures say. Including sex & drugs in GDP may have Osborne feeing smug (or smugger than usual, perhaps) but it fools no-one. Next he’ll be claiming that the head-count of dealers, pimps, rent-boys and prostitutes are new private sector entrepreneur jobs he’s helped create through his economic genius. Well, that’s one way of looking at it.
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This reminds me of an item on the news when Thatcher was in power. The police had arrested a gang producing or distributing illegal porn. It was clearly nasty stuff, so what the defence of these crims as they were hauled off by the rozzers in front of the camera? They pleaded they were just Thatcherite entrepreneurs. ‘We’re making money for Britain!’, one shouted as he was bundled away. It seems the mentality has returned, and is now firmly in Osbo’s treasury.
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Doh! They’re trying to keep that under the radar any minute now you’ll be charged with treason 🙂
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Just to be pernickety I would have to ask if you no longer have a country treason, along with a Sovereign, are logically redundant.
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