Thread by @MarcusFitzsimon

next time you see a tweet from an MP boasting about wage growth, and employment rates and GDP, here's a little thread of charts to dispel their lies:

a chart that shows employment rates

@LindsayHoyle_MP is there nothing you can do about the constant lying?

we have the *weakest* recovery, NOT the best

just look at this real fall

and look what has happened to all our lives and levels of income / life improvement since #Brexshit

and when the DUP complain about the NIP:

everywhere I look, other than at RW media and govt propaganda and lies, the Economist here:

Wage growth, my fecking arse @BorisJohnson

wages are falling as inflation rises, food & energy prices increase, Boris you're cutting real wages in April with the NIC 10.4% increase

UK exports to EU fell by £20bn last year, new ONS data shows

Figures show Brexit compounding Covid disruption, with clothing exports plunging 60%, vegetables down 40% and cars 25%

theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

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even CNN reports on the issue!

and Sky News reports:

this is a blinding description of tory lies:
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

https://twitter.com/TUCeconomics/status/1493497344293314565?s=20&t=-u2aTk2VyenMK2UP6zC1QA

just look at the state of this:

and manufacturing compared to other countries & the EU

and exports are SERIOUSLY DOWN

AND ANOTHER TORY OFT REPEATED LIE: "Inwards Investment is off the charts" oh yer????

and the Financial Times: