Facts continue to make fools of all those talking down Britain… growth in first half of 2024 was healthiest in years

Grow for it

FACTS continue to make fools of all those determined to talk down Britain.

Our GDP growth in the first half of 2024 was the healthiest in seven years and the fastest of all G7 economies.

Faster even than the US.

Twice as fast as France.

Germany is in reverse.

And these figures cover the last six months of Tory rule, as they simultaneously got inflation back down to two per cent.

So much for “crashing the economy”.

So much too for Remainer blowhards still tediously claiming, with zero ­evidence, that Brexit has been “a disaster”.

Their long-term aim is to relentlessly propagandise voters into wanting to rejoin the EU.

But even any economic case has collapsed.

It is vital that Labour keeps our flourishing growth going.

Commendably, that is their stated priority.

Which is why it is disheartening to see policies likely to thwart it.

Take Ed Miliband’s deranged haste for Net Zero and his abandonment of new North Sea oil and gas.

Take the rapid capitulation to the unions on pay.

Labour wants to end the damaging and costly strikes rife under the Tories.

Quite right.

Except handing Aslef’s militant train drivers nearly £70,000 for a four-day week, no questions asked — after stripping OAPs of their winter heating payments — is a staggering price.

So is offering the junior doctors 22 per cent, only to hear they are likely to strike for more next year.

The new Government must be alive to the peril of triggering a public sector wage spiral.

That will not just fuel the inflation Britain has only just tamed. It will crush this boom in growth too.

Union’s shame

THE junior doctors’ incessant strikes were bound to inflict suffering and death on NHS patients.

We now have proof.

How do the Marxists running their BMA union sleep at night after a coroner blamed the walkouts they orchestrated for the neglect which left 71-year-old Daphne Austin to die of sepsis?

Incredibly the union passes the buck, claiming the NHS trust should somehow have ensured safe staffing levels.

How, when scores of its medics walked off the job?

Has this union no shame? No remorse?

Golden ticket

HEARTY congrats to our A-level kids on their fantastic, record-breaking results.

Their hard work has triumphed, even despite curbs on grade inflation.

Well done to all those off to uni, or whatever they’ve chosen next.

But don’t despair if you haven’t got the grades.

There are many alternative routes to happiness and wealth.

Train driving, to name one.