GDP

This week both the OECD and IMF forecast low growth for Great Britain’s economy over the next year, with the expected figures the lowest of any developed nation, bar sanction-hit Russia.

I imagine there was a collective slumping of shoulders following the First Minister’s announcement last Tuesday. Understandable caution regarding health and saving lives, but at what price to wellbeing and the economy? The very people this government want to protect are the one’s losing jobs and livelihoods and will be hardest hit by prolonged lockdown that lags behind our neighbours south of the border.