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The incoherence is the main thing for me. says she wants growth, presumably in but all her actual policy ideas would reduce that GDP.

GDP is made of consumer spending, government spending, investment and net exports.

Brexit destroys net exports, austerity/spending-cuts destroy government spending, consumer spending is all being sucked into inflated energy/housing/mortgage payments, and private enterprise won't invest unless they expect profit, which that falling consumer spending guarantees won't be there.

She is going to provoke a recession in the name of growth. It's insane.

Richard Murphy breaks it down:
nitter.net/RichardJMurphy/stat

NitterRichard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy)Liz Truss put growth at the epicentre of her policy and political narratives yesterday. It is the dividing line around which she will seek to differentiate the world between those who are for her and those who are opposed, in her view, to what she stands for. A thread…